John B. Hurford '60 Center for the Arts and Humanities | Haverford College

The John B. Hurford ’60 Center for the Arts and Humanities provides a place for inclusive and interdisciplinary programming by promoting collaborative engagement with the intellectual and artistic ambitions of Haverford College and broader communities.

Get Started

Learn more about how you can apply for Hurford Center grants, fellowships, internships, and other programs.

News & Updates

A-DOC

Call For Applications: Haverford A-Doc Impact Lab Coordinator

HCAH and VCAM in partnership with the Asian American Documentary Network (A-DOC) invite applications for the position of Impact Lab Coordinator for the Summer 2022 DocuLab project, “Haverford A-DOC Impact Lab.” Deadline: Feb. 11, 2022.

William Powhida

Condition Report: A Virtual Artist Talk by William Powhida

Thursday, February 3, 2022, 4:30 PM: This talk will provide a closer look at Powhida’s work from 2012 to the present featured in the exhibition Condition Report on view at The Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery January 28–March 4, 2022 and a discussion of the accompanying publication. Register to attend via Zoom.

COOL CLASSES: “Sensing Beyond the Human”

This anthropology course explores human attempts to extend sensory capacities through robots, sensors, nonhuman animals, and plants, considering how colonialism, race, disability, gender, and surveillance shape the desire to sense beyond the human.

Photo of Henry Morales in a flannel shirt in front of some Haverford greenery

Meet Henry Morales

The new Hurford Center post-baccalaureate fellow tells Jalen Martin ‘23 about his art, his journey to Haverford, and his goals in his new position.

COOL CLASSES: “Cancer Narratives”

This health studies course explores the human experience of cancer patients and their families to provide a lens to critically examine the healthcare system and sociopolitical conditions of their societies.

Slavs and Tatars Compares Apples to Oranges

“The Contest in the Fruits” exhibition in the Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery puts a modern, hip-hop spin on an ancient Uyghur poem.

Join the Hurford Center Reading Group on Hegel’s

Join the Hurford Center Reading Group on Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit
Spring 2022

Organized by Molly Farneth, Department of Religion, and Benjamin Berger, Department of Philosophy

Deadline to join: January 28, 2022

In this reading group, we’ll confront key themes in G. W. F. Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit (in English translation). We will hold five 90-minute meetings to discuss five essential passages in Hegel’s text, each of which considers the contemporary relevance of his ideas.

Molly Farneth (Religion) and Benjamin Berger (Philosophy) will introduce the weekly material during the first 15 minutes of each meeting. The reading group will be interdisciplinary and is open to all students. It will not presuppose any background in Hegel, philosophy, or religion. The passages we will read are challenging, but they are also brief and manageable.

Schedule:

The reading group will meet on Friday mornings from 10:00am to 11:30am during Spring Term 2022.

Dates | Themes of Discussion
Friday, February 4 | Domination and the Struggle for Recognition
Friday, February 18 | The Nature of the Mind
Friday, March 4 | Gender, Tragedy, and Ethical Life
Friday, March 25 | Religion, Philosophy, and the Search for Truth
Friday, April 8 | “The Path of Despair” (or, What is Phenomenology, Anyway?)

To join, please email: bberger1@haverford.edu + mfarneth@haverford.edu

Sponsored by the Hurford Center for the Arts and Humanities

Fords on Friday: James Akinaka '16 English Major

Fords on Friday: James Akinaka '16
English Major
Digital Marketing Coordinator at Penguin Young Readers

Fri, Jan 21
12:00 pm EST - 1:00 pm EST

Interested in a career in publishing or digital marketing?

James Akinaka '16, will speak on Zoom Friday 1/21 at Noon to talk about his role as the Digital Marketing Coordinator for Penguin Young Readers, a division of Penguin Random House.

As a children’s book marketer, he works on influencer marketing and social media campaigns for Penguin Young Reader’s Young Adult publishing list, including authors like Sabaa Tahir, Renée Ahdieh, and John Green. He is a board member for the POC@PRH Employee Resource Group and a member of the cross-publisher community group People of Color in Publishing.

RSVP via link in bio!

Co-sponsored by the English Department, Hurford Center for the Arts and Humanities, Jolt Magazine, Milkweed Magazine, and the Writing Center.

All class years and majors are welcome!

Questions? Email sabbazia@haverford.edu

January 28 - March 4, 2022 Condition Report, the

January 28 - March 4, 2022

Condition Report, the latest exhibition from artist William Powhida, is a close examination of the often unobservable phenomena at play in American finance, culture, and politics. Through works from 2012 to the present including prints, drawings, paintings, and an updated version of the artist’s evolving Possibilities for Representation installation, Powhida maps the current condition and possible futures of the American project. Accompanied by a small publication capturing a recent conversation between William Powhida and artist Mark Thomas Gibson, the exhibition offers insights, warnings, and inspirations for what was, what is, and what could possibly be.

More information at exhibits.haverford.edu/conditionreport (link in bio). Programming announcement coming soon!

Image: George Washington (Federalist), 2020. Watercolor and gouache on paper mounted on panel. 5 x 5 in. © William Powhida.

Great courses @haverfordedu this spring co-sponsor

Great courses @haverfordedu this spring co-sponsored by the Hurford Center with @raegan.truax + Jia Hui Lee + Young Su Park!

Spring 2022 Race and Political Economy of Infectio

Spring 2022
Race and Political Economy of Infectious Diseases
Fridays 11:00AM – 1:30 PM

Young Su Park, MD, PhD (Anthropology), ACLS Postdoctoral Fellow in Medical
Humanities (Assistant Professor in Health Studies upon review from Fall 2022)
ypark3@haverford.edu

This course explores how race is intertwined with infectious diseases in producing persistent
social and health inequalities in the U.S. and abroad. It will examine how human group difference is understood as a given and natural condition despite sociocultural, historical, political, economic, scientific and material contexts that shape it. It will deal with various debates and incidents that demonstrated racialized understanding of the body and racial discrimination and social inequalities perpetuated in the context of HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, Ebola, and Covid 19.

300-level seminar with enrollment cap of 15
Lottery preference: declared Health Studies minors, then African and Africana Studies minors or
Anthropology majors.

Image: Black Doctors Covid Consortium, WHYY.

NEW COURSE: Spring 2022 Critiques of the Human fro

NEW COURSE: Spring 2022
Critiques of the Human from Africa
Mondays, 1.30-4PM

Jia Hui Lee
Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow
Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Questions? jlee2@haverford.edu

Changes in science and technology, political crises, the Fourth Industrial Revolution, and the Anthropocene have increasingly questioned what it means to be human. This advanced seminar focuses on approaches from Africa and the diaspora that consider the category, experience, and radical potential of being (post/non)human. We read works by anti-colonial writers, postcolonial leaders, Black feminists, storytellers, scholars, and artists in Africa and beyond, who challenge and reframe desires to transcend or go beyond the bodily, psychological, and technological limits of being human as part of larger struggles against colonialism, anti-Black racism, capitalist development, climate change, and global inequality.

Image: Still from Letu, Arafa C. Hamadi (2020). @arafa.builds

THIS SEMESTER! Spring 2022 Untimely Art & Perfor

THIS SEMESTER!

Spring 2022
Untimely Art & Performance
Mondays, 1:30pm - 4pm
In-Person

Raegan Truax
Mellon Post- Doctoral Fellow in the John B. Hurford ‘60 Center for the Arts and Humanities & Visiting Assistant Professor of Visual Studies

This course is a creative lab focused on exploring and becoming untimely. We will time travel, suspend time, bend time, forget time, find time and critically waste time.

We will read texts that engage feminist, queer, and disability studies at the intersection of science fiction, afrofuturism, art history, and philosophy.

We will also experiment with sound, movement, memory, imagination, voice, and performance.

Prerequisites: Any course in Visual Studies, History of Art, Fine Art, Philosophy, or Gender and Sexuality Studies

Info: rtruax@haverford.edu

Image: Timeless Degrees of Freedom, Black Quantum Futurism (2019)

NEXT WEEK! Funded Internships Mega Session Wednes

NEXT WEEK!

Funded Internships Mega Session
Wednesday, January 12, 2022 2:00pm - 3:00pm EST
Zoom

RSVP via the link in our bio for the Zoom link!

Learn about various College funded internships from the staff who oversee the funds.

https://www.haverford.edu/career-and-professional-advising/jobs-and-internships/college-sponsored-internships

Each fund will discuss their opportunities for a few minutes, followed by a Q&A with fund managers.

Departments and funds represented will include:
- Andrew Silk Summer Journalism Fund
- Deborah Lafer-Scher International Internship
- Gertrude Heller Memorial Fund (working with developmental disabilities)
- Kevin R. Jones Career Development Internship Fund (commitment to social justice issues and care for their communities)
- Primary Care Pre-Medical Fellowship provided by Dr. Steven Jaharis
- Summer Serve
- Whitehead Internship Program
- CPGC domestic and international summer internships
- Hurford Center for Arts and Humanities
- VCAM Maker Arts Space Summer Fellowship
- KINSC Summer Scholars
- The Libraries
- The Haverford Innovations Program (HIP)
- The Haverford MI3_SVC Philadelphia Internship Program, and more!

Events

Thursday, January 27th, 2022

4:30PM

VCAM Maker Arts Space / Haverford Innovations Program (HIP) / Hurford Center Summer Virtual Info Session

Contact

VCAM building exterior
View Map
VCAM

John B. Hurford '60 Center for the Arts and Humanities
Haverford College
370 Lancaster Ave
Haverford, PA 19041

(610) 896-1336
hcah [at] haverford.edu