Taught by Assistant Professor of Computer Science Sara Mathieson, this computer science course explores both classical and modern approaches to machine learning, with an emphasis on theoretical understanding.
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Photo: Ruiming Li '22.
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Mary Ceruti ’87 is prioritizing accessibility in art as the new executive director at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota
The band, which is composed of Jay Carlis ’99, Mike Kay ’00, and Josh Meyer ’98, released a new EP that combines a lighthearted rock sound with politically charged lyrics.
In the roles he plays and now with his own production company, Daniel Dae Kim '90 is working to bring more diversity to the screen.
Yngvild Olsen ’91, a physician specializing in addiction medicine, has recently published a book meant to “clarify and demystify” the national health emergency.
Harlem Lacrosse puts coaches in schools to help at-risk students achieve. The skills and lessons taught by team sports, says Joel Censer ’08, “couldn’t be more transferable.”
Earlier this month, poet Eileen Myles and Haverford’s Visiting Professor of English Thomas Devaney read their poems in Lutnick Library at a joint event.
This computer science course explores both classical and modern approaches to machine learning, with an emphasis on theoretical understanding.
This visual studies course is an introduction to theories of work, thinking critically and historically about the role of work in society, the promise of art as an ideal form of work, and the structural persistence of gendered, classed, and racial divisions of labor.
Students in six courses from across disciplines produced five exhibitions in VCAM and Lutnick Library expressing their learning through visual art.
This anthropology course explores visual representations of the border, including film and photography, but also text and sound.
Jan
23
Thursday, January 23, 2020
6:00PM to 7:30PM
Lutnick 203A Vestibule
Join us for a reception to celebrate faculty scholarship and the start of the Spring semester. Recent publications and other items showcasing faculty work will be on display in Lutnick Library throughout the day.
Jan
24
Friday, January 24, 2020
4:30PM to 7:30PM
Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery
The Bicentennial in Philadelphia laid bare some of the most pressing questions of America’s national identity. Five Haverford and Bryn Mawr College students collaborated with poet Thomas Devaney and Greenhouse Media to explore this surreal moment in Philadelphia and national history through an experimental documentary film. The exhibition Bicentennial City continues that project as an interactive installation with multi-channel projections, sculptures, and Bicentennial ephemera, seeking to explore the many roles myth and memory play in the psyche of a city.
Jan
26
Sunday, January 26, 2020
3:00PM to 5:00PM
Marshall Auditorium
Featuring premieres of Curt Cacioppo’s arias, monodrama and motets on verses by the esteemed contemporary Venetian poet Luigi Cerantola. This program marks the Philadelphia area recital debut of Marlboro Festival soprano Kristina Bachrach, and the ensemble debut of the Viva Voce Chamber Singers under the direction of Nathan Zullinger in Cacioppo’s motet cycle Women of Ancient Greek Myth for a cappella choir. Ticket prices are $20 (adult), $15 (senior), $10 (student) $5 (child age 7-17), and free to the Tri-College community. Tickets can be purchased in advance through Brown Paper Tickets.
Jan
31
Friday, January 31, 2020
11:00AM to 12:00PM
Pinetum
The Ryan Pinetum is the area's largest and finest collection of mature conifers. Haverford College horticulturist Charles Bone will lead the way in exploring this diverse educational resource. Wear good walking shoes, dress for the weather, and meet for the tour in front of the Facilities Management Building. In the case of inclement weather, this tour will be moved to Friday, February 7 from 11:00 a.m. Registration is required. Members, Students, Staff, and Faculty: Free | Non-members: $5.00.
Jan
31
Friday, January 31, 2020
5:00PM to 7:00PM
Atrium Gallery
This exhibit gathers 30 of Pennsylvanian photographer Theo Anderson's large-format color-pigment photographs of the Great Lakes, part of a larger American Episodes series, as a subject commensurate with his capacity for wonder.
Feb
4
Tuesday, February 4, 2020
12:00PM to 1:30PM
Lutnick 200
Ten years ago, Katherine Gerbner was fortunate enough to hold the Gest Fellowship, which provided funding for a month of research at Haverford Quaker & Special Collections. She spent the month scouring 17th century Meeting records to try to understand better how Friends integrated slave-holding into their religious practice. She'll talk about what she found—and what she didn't find—during this informal discussion.
Feb
4
Tuesday, February 4, 2020
4:30PM to 6:00PM
Chase Auditorium
Eighteenth-century Quakers were leaders of the abolitionist movement, but many seventeenth-century Quakers were slave owners. In Pennsylvania, William Penn was a slave-holder and leading English Quakers used their connections to Friends in Barbados to import enslaved men and women. Distinguished Visitor Katharine Gerbner will examine how these seventeenth-century Quakers reconciled slavery with their peace testimony and ask what it means to truly reckon with the history of Quaker slave-holding today.
Feb
5
Wednesday, February 5, 2020
4:15PM to 6:00PM
Lutnick 200
While the use of spiritual music in non-violent resistance has been noted by music scholars, one might still be surprised by the sheer amount of music with Philadelphia-based activist group Earth Quaker Action Team (EQAT). In this Young Academic Alumni Lecture, Benjamin Safran '13 argues that Quakerism's historical values have actually fostered the robust musical culture within EQAT and shaped its ability to function effectively as a "rebel" non-violent direct action group. Music is used to summon courage and unity within scary actions. The “gentle” Quaker aesthetic may meanwhile partially mask or even cap the movement’s rebelliousness.
Feb
7
Friday, February 7, 2020
7:00PM to 8:00PM
Woodside Cottage
Discuss how human desires are reflected in the way we grow, breed, and genetically engineer our plants in our book club focusing on The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan. Light refreshments included. Registration is required. Members, Students, Staff, and Faculty: Free | Non-members: $5.00.
Feb
10
Monday, February 10, 2020
12:00PM to 1:30PM
Lutnick 200
In this Faculty Scholarship Talk, Assistant Professor of Religion Molly Farneth argues that people create, maintain, and transform boundaries around and within their communities through rituals. In doing so, people both recognize the salience of certain social roles and identities within their communities and distribute social goods and normative statuses in accordance with those roles and identities. This means that the presence or absence of rituals can be a matter of recognitive and distributive justice, whether a person or a group of people are recognized and given the goods and statuses that are their due. Through examples and theoretical analysis, Farneth suggests that the lack of ritual can be a form of injustice.
*We have a very tiny magic 8 ball.