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Winter Break

December 20, 2019—January 20, 2020

Our Featured Events will return after Winter Break.

  • Jan

    23

    Faculty Scholarship Day Reception

    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.

  • collage of simple illustrations of the liberty bell

    Jan

    24

    "Bicentennial City" Artist Talk & Opening Reception

    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.

  • Curt Cacioppo

    Jan

    26

    Concert Artist Series: Curt Cacioppo: VIVA VOCE!

    Sunday, January 26, 2020
     3:00PM to 5:00PM
    Marshall Auditorium

    This concert features premieres of Curt Cacioppo’s arias, monodrama, and motets on verses by the esteemed contemporary Venetian poet Luigi Cerantola. This program also 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 members of the Tri-College community. Tickets can be purchased in advance through Brown Paper Tickets.

  • Jan

    31

    Conifers: A Tour of Haverford's Pinetum

    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 at 11:00 a.m. Registration is required. Members, students, staff, and faculty are welcome to attend for free. Tickets are $5 for non-members.

  • Sunset seen from a rocky shore

    Jan

    31

    "Theo Anderson Photographs: The Great Lakes Landscape 2010 to 2016" Opening Reception

    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 his larger American Episodes series, as a subject commensurate with his capacity for wonder.

  • Feb

    4

    Researching Quakers and Slavery at Haverford Library

    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

    Quakers and Slavery in the Seventeenth Century

    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.

  • Benjamin Safran '13 with his clarinet

    Feb

    5

    “A Gentle, Angry People:” Music in a Quaker Nonviolent Direct-Action Campaign to Power Local Green Jobs

    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

    Nature Book Club | The Botany of Desire

    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

    Ritual Injustice

    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.

  • Theodore Bikel

    Feb

    12

    Theodore Bikel: In the Shoes of Sholom Aleichem (2014)

    Wednesday, February 12, 2020
     7:30PM to 10:00PM
    Chase Auditorium

    The Yiddish Culture Festival presents a documentary directed by John Lollos and narrated by Alan Alda. Portraits of two beloved icons, Sholom Aleichem and Theodore Bikel, are woven together in this enchanting documentary. The two men have much in common: wit, wisdom and talent, all shot through with deep humanity and Yiddishkeit. Film provided by The National Center for Jewish Film. In English.

  • Feb

    13

    Spotted Lanternfly Workshop

    Thursday, February 13, 2020
     7:00PM to 8:30PM
    Lutnick Library 200

    Haverford College Arboretum will host a briefing on what you can do to minimize the insect's impact on your property and the environment. Penn State Master Gardener, Sam Barnett will describe the nature of this insect, how you can identify it, and what you can do to help control its spread. This event is free for all participants, but registration is required.

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