Campus and the Nature Trail are closed to outside visitors.
We look forward to welcoming neighbors back as soon as it is safe to do so.
To minimize the potential for vectoring and to support the health of the Haverford community and those with whom our community members interact, visitors to campus will be permitted on the Haverford College campus only as authorized guests. Download the Campus Access and Guest Policy (PDF)
Virtual Events
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Sep
24
The Contest in Context: Uyghur and Urdu Poetry Reading and Discussion
Thursday, September 24, 2020
5:00PM to 6:30PM
Zoom (Virtual)Join the Hurford Center for the Arts and Humanities, Twelve Gates Arts, and the Philadelphia chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Philadelphia) for a Uyghur and Urdu Poetry Reading (5-6pm EST) followed by a Discussion and Q&A (6-6:30pm EST). All events are free to attend and require advanced registration. This event is part of the The Contest in Context event series.
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Sep
25
What NOT to Restart, and Opportunities Moving Forward: Global Engagement Post-COVID
Friday, September 25, 2020
9:00AM to 10:30AM
Zoom (Virtual)Since the turn of the last century, higher education institutions have been touting global engagement and global experiences as important institutional offerings that build 21st Century skills. As the COVID-19 pandemic slows international trade and travel around the world, global educators must pause to ask: What have we learned and what should we avoid moving forward? Finally, how might we build better structures and programs toward the communities and the world we aim to co-construct in the years to come? RSVP required by Monday, September 21.
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Sep
29
Laɣim Tehi Tuma: Inquiries into Black Study/ies
Tuesday, September 29, 2020
12:00PM to 1:30PM
Zoom (Virtual)Laɣim Tehi Tuma (LTT) 2020 Fellows Lauren Lattimore (BMC ‘21), Lisa Adanye (BMC ‘23), and Ibrahim Zengbang Muta-Ali (UDS ‘21) will share a combined reflection of their experiences with their internships, Dagomba language and cultural learning, and work together on LTT’s Research Committee. They will also share vignettes of their individual inquiry projects, followed by small group discussions based on the topics they researched. The Fellows will then facilitate a larger discussion on the current political and personal relevance of Black Study/ies and how to protect it from career and media commodification. RSVP required by Wednesday, September 23.
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Oct
1
Artist Talk: Ying Li in Conversation with Curator Andrea Packard
Thursday, October 1, 2020
4:30PM to 5:30PM
Zoom (Virtual)Join us on Thursday, October 1, 2020 at 4:30 p.m. via Zoom for a talk with artist Ying Li and curator Andrea Packard. Part of Ying Li: Blossoms In A Sudden Strangeness. Registration Required.
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Oct
1
Music and Conversation with andPlay Duo
Thursday, October 1, 2020
7:00PM to 8:00PM
Live StreamThis New York City-based duo of Maya Bennardo, violin, and Hannah Levinson, viola, will present premieres by Philadelphia and LA-based composers Carolyn Chen, Suzanne Sorkin, Ingrid Arauco, Richard Belcastro, and Richard Brodhead. This concert will be live-streamed from Mise-en Place in Brooklyn, NY, and is free and open to the public. Please contact hc-concerts@haverford.edu for a link to the concert.
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Oct
5
Music & Conversation with James Nyoraku Schlefer, shakuhachi
Monday, October 5, 2020
7:00PM to 9:00PM
Live Stream“Breathing Peace IV” is devoted to the traditional shakuhachi honkyoku. Take one hour to contemplate the sounds and silences of classic shakuhachi music. Breathe, unwind, find peace inside and outside. This performance will be live streamed from the Soapbox Art Gallery in Brooklyn, NY. For more information, email hc-concerts@haverford.edu.
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Oct
6
Why Found and Fund a Center for Peace and Global Citizenship?
Tuesday, October 6, 2020
11:00AM to 12:15PM
Zoom (Virtual)As alumni look back on their College experiences, and compare and contrast those experiences with their peers, they gain new perspective. Alumni voices from across the twenty years of CPGC's existence will join us in dialogue with one of CPGC's co-founders to consider the CPGC's impact and opportunities moving forward. RSVP required by Wednesday, September 30.
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Oct
16
Global-Local Curricular Connections and Experiential Education
Friday, October 16, 2020
2:00PM to 4:00PM
Zoom (Virtual)In the name of education that is enriching, engaging and relevant both with respect to students’ trajectories and in terms of understanding and addressing 21st Century Challenges, faculty, staff, students and community partners have worked to better align interdisciplinary global engagement programs. During this opportunity for connection and conversation we will hear from a range of faculty, staff, and administrative voices who have made progress on these efforts at selective liberal arts institutions. RSVP required by Monday, October 12.
Exhibits
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Crossing Borders: From Slavery to Abolition, 1670-1865
August 30, 2020—September 30, 2020
Rebecca and Rick White Gallery, Lutnick LibraryOn view again this fall after shutting down due to COVID-19, the exhibit grew out of a fall 2019 writing seminar which explored geographic, linguistic, social, and racial border crossing through literature. See it in Lutnick Library's Rebecca and Rick White Gallery, or view the exhibit remotely if you're off-campus.
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Ying Li: Blossoms in a Sudden Strangeness
September 22, 2020—November 13, 2020
Cantor Fitzgerald Art GalleryFaced with time during the COVID-19 lockdown and a campus blossoming from winter to spring and spring to fall, Ying Li did what any artist would do and went to work, painting each day en plein air. The result captures the abstract beauty of Li’s creative output from March – August 2020.