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  • Poéticas, archivos y apuestas

    Oct

    22

    "Poéticas, archivos y apuestas: estudios del Caribe"

    Monday, October 22, 2018
     4:15PM to 6:00PM
    Bryn Mawr Room, Dining Center

    Visiting Assistant Professors of Spanish Lina Martinez Hernandez and Giselle Roman Medina will give a faculty publication talk. The essays selected in Poéticas, archivos y apuestas reveal the threads behind constructs that try to reduce the Caribbean to either paradise or hell. Join the editors, Lina and Giselle, in a bilingual conversation about the reasons behind editing this anthology.

  • Members of The Brass Project pose with their instruments

    Oct

    23

    Music & Conversation with THE BRASS PROJECT

    Tuesday, October 23, 2018
     8:00PM to 9:00PM
    Marshall Auditorium

    The Brass Project is a brass sextet formed by leading players from the Curtis Institute of Music. These brass players united around a shared set of multifaceted goals: to expand the repertoire for chamber brass, to record and distribute new works, and to engage with a wide community through outreach and educational programs.

  • A busy London street, circa early 1900s.

    Oct

    24

    "Whitechapel Noise: Sex, Politics, and Religion on the Streets of London’s East End 1884-1914"

    Wednesday, October 24, 2018
     7:30PM to 9:30PM
    Chase Auditorium

    This talk with song by Vivi Lachs, Yiddishist, historian and performer from London, explores the abundance of Yiddish kupletn written by songwriters and poets in pre-World War I London. Penned by the famous and the unknown, they tell tales of an immigrant culture in flux. Part of the Yiddish Culture Festival.

  • Kelly Hess

    Oct

    25

    Hot and Cold Gas in Galaxy Groups

    Thursday, October 25, 2018
     4:30PM to 6:00PM
    Hilles 109

    Distinguished Visitor Kelley Hess will talk about her research using radio telescopes to understand the hot and cold gas content of groups of galaxies in the nearby and distant Universe. Tea at 4:15 p.m.

  • A fist clutching a tomato in revolutionary fashion with fields in the background

    Oct

    25

    CPGC Social Justice Film Series: "Food Chains"

    Thursday, October 25, 2018
     5:00PM to 8:00PM
    Stokes Auditorium

    Food Chains focuses on an intrepid and highly lauded group of tomato pickers from Southern Florida who are revolutionizing farm labor. Their story is one of hope and promise for the triumph of morality over corporate greed–to ensure a dignified life for farm workers and a more humane, transparent food chain. Join us for a shortened version of the film (run time: 35 minutes) followed by a conversation with invited panelists.

  • Family & Friends Weekend

    Oct

    26

    Family & Friends Weekend

    Friday, October 26, 2018
     9:00AM to 10:00PM
    Entire Campus

    Join us for Family & Friends Weekend. Visit hav.to/family to view the complete schedule of events.

  • Close up photo of older hands holding younger hands

    Oct

    26

    "Death, Dying, Spiritual Health, and Migrant Communities in México"

    Friday, October 26, 2018
     1:00PM to 2:45PM
    Chase Auditorium

    M. Antonio López Galicia, this semester's Friend in Residence, will present his proposal for a spiritual humanistic framework for working with issues on death and dying rising out of his work with migrant communities as the director of the Casa de los Amigos in Mexico City.

  • The Legacy of Lynching

    Oct

    26

    "The Legacy of Lynching: Confronting Racial Terror in America" Opening Reception

    Friday, October 26, 2018
     4:30PM to 5:30PM
    Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery Lounge

    Opening Reception begins at 4:30 p.m. with introduction from Assistant Professor Lindsay Reckson. The Legacy of Lynching: Confronting Racial Terror in America, which runs through Dec. 16, presents the Equal Justice Initiative's groundbreaking research into the history of lynchings and connects it to digital media, documentary film, contemporary artworks, and archival materials.

  • Border wall in Mexico

    Oct

    26

    "Radical Hospitality Across Culture: Migration, the Border, and the Casa de los Amigos in Mexico City"

    Friday, October 26, 2018
     5:00PM to 6:30PM
    Stokes 102

    How do we welcome other people and talk about challenging issues across cultural and philosophical difference? Come hear from Friend in Residence M. Antonio López Galicia, the executive director of Casa de los Amigos, about their timely work.

  • Edna Lewis picking tomatoes

    Oct

    26

    "Edna Lewis: Chef and Humanitarian" Opening Reception

    Friday, October 26, 2018
     5:00PM to 7:00PM
    Atrium Gallery, Marshall Fine Art Center

    Edna Lewis was a leader of the revival and rediscovery of the regional culinary delights of the South. Haverford College celebrates Lewis’ legacy with an exhibit of 40 black-and-white and color photos of Lewis by John T. Hill, a close friend and photographer who made the portrait that adorns her first cookbook, alongside Lewis’ own family photographs, articles on southern cooking, and her books.

  • Public observing of the night sky

    Oct

    26

    Public Observing

    Friday, October 26, 2018
     8:00PM to 10:00PM
    Strawbridge Observatory

    This free community event will include hands-on astronomy activities, student talks, and telescope observing. Student volunteers will be present to answer astronomy questions. This event takes place weather permitting. Rain Date: Friday, November 2.

  • Sheet music for the Haverford Harmony Song

    Oct

    26

    Family & Friends Weekend Annual Ensembles Concert

    Friday, October 26, 2018
     8:30PM to 10:00PM
    Marshall Auditorium

    The Department of Music at Haverford College presents the Family & Friends Weekend Annual Ensembles Concert, featuring student chamber music groups and favorite a cappella groups.

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