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

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.

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Join the 2022-23 Faculty Seminar: “Exclusion, Inclusion, and the U. S. Academy”

When colleges and universities talk about “inclusion,”—especially “elite” ones, which simultaneously tout their exclusivity—what do they mean? This seminar is an interdisciplinary examination of how the ideal of inclusion functions alongside the foundational exclusions on which “elite” educational institutions are built. Apply to Join by November 1.

DocuLab 2021 Presents The Raw Red Onions: Sliced, Diced, Crying

Virtual & In-Person Hybrid Event! Thursday, October 21, 2021. 4:30 p.m. Opening Reception & 5:00 p.m. Screening. The evening will begin with the opening of Lexie Iglesia’s solo exhibition What I’ve Become at 4:30 p.m. in the Upper Create Space VCAM 206. Then at 5 p.m. there will be a screening event in the Cinema, VCAM 001: first, a presentation detailing the experiences and achievements of DocuLab 2021, followed immediately by works created by the Fellows. Q&A with the artists after. Note: To receive the Zoom link for the screening, please RSVP at hav.to/onions.

Professor Zain Abdullah on stage during a presentation

The Contest of the Fruits: Red-Black Thread Lecture-Performance with Slavs and Tatars and Professor Zain Abdullah

Wednesday, October 27, 2021, 4:30PM: Red-Black Thread explores the construction of black identity not from the traditional Anglophone and Francophone worlds of the Atlantic but rather from the Russophone idiom of imperial Russia and the Soviet Union. RSVP to Attend Virtually!

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.

Black Ecologies Workshop Series

Fall 2021: Organized by Tajah Ebram, Visiting Assistant Professor of Writing & Writing Fellow at Haverford College, the four part Black Ecologies Workshop Series centers the knowledge, traditions and practices of local Black land and nature based practitioners, organizers and scholars.

The summer Doculab fellows with friends: (From left) Sofia Mondragon BMC ’22, Lexie Iglesia ’21, Liz Burke BMC ’23, guest artist Pamela Z, Jixin Jia ’21, Bilge Nur Yilmaz ’21, Alice Hu ’21, and Bilikisu Hanidu '23.

Summer Centered: Fords Bring Showtime to Haverford

Bilge Nur Yilmaz ‘21, Liz Burke BMC ‘23, Sofia Mondragon BMC ‘22, Alexandra Iglesia ‘21, and Alice Hu '21 spent the summer documenting the work of performance artists from across the country as part of the Summer Doculab Program.

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