Founders Great Hall served as the College’s dining hall for more than 60 years, until the Dining Center opened in 1969. Since then, the majestic room has been a busy special events space, hosting invited speakers, student dances, alumni weddings, and concerts.
Come back tomorrow to see the Great Hall "Now."
A 2016 performance by the Chamber Singers of Haverford and Bryn Mawr Colleges. Photo: Rae Yuan '19
Haverford attracts intellectually curious, independent learners who value honesty, collaboration, and above all, new ways of seeing and improving the world.
As you perform real-world research and immerse yourself in hands-on learning, you'll work side-by-side with professors who are at the top of their fields.
Our mascot—the Black Squirrel—has a genetic adaptation that gives it a bold, black coat. Join our distinctive community and stand out from the pack with your fellow Haverfordians.
Smith, one of three Nobel laureates in chemistry this year, is the fourth Haverford College alum to win a Nobel Prize and the second—after Joseph Taylor Jr.—from the Class of 1963.
A recent party celebrated the relaunch of the College’s literary magazine as “Milkweed,” as well as the release of its spring 2018 issue.
A Haverford alum, Gerber is widely regarded as a major influencer of the modern classical music scene. Thanks to summer work with the Haverford Libraries by Alice Berry BMC ’19, his compositions have been given new life online.
This history course examines the history of the United States through its built environment—the physical spaces and landscapes through which Americans have constructed their habits, hopes and divisions in the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries.
Haverford alumni are stepping up as first-time political candidates, boldly challenging longtime incumbents and the political “machine” in their communities. For all, the decision to seek office is an effort to live their values. “If you feel something, don’t just throw your shoe at the TV,” says one. “Do something.”
The sculptor and animator works with found objects to turn the everyday into the masterful.
The Haverford Innovations Program held a panel devoted to the achievements of female entrepreneurs, two Bi-Co alumni among them.
Members of the Haverford community celebrated the publication of the first English-language translation of the Odyssey by a woman with a 10-hour-long public reading.
Organized by the Multicultural Alumni Action Group in partnership with student organization Haverford Votes, the panel featured alumni with diverse political backgrounds sharing the importance of next month’s elections.
On Sunday, the student body gathered in the GIAC to discuss relevant campus matters and to raise their packets high to ratify the alcohol policy.
Oct
22
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.
Oct
23
Tuesday, October 23, 2018
7:30PM to 8:30PM
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.
Oct
24
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.
Oct
25
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.
Oct
25
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.
Oct
26
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.
Oct
26
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.
Oct
26
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.
Oct
26
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.
Oct
26
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.
*We have a very tiny magic 8 ball.