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") Skip to main content Haverford and the COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) More information Primary Menu Search Menu Log in Log in HC Gmail Moodle Bionic Human Resources Workday Sustainability As a core institutional principle, sustainability animates ​Haverford's broad mission of stewarding ​its​ financial, ethical, and curricular endowments in the interest of educating principled global citizens while safeguarding intergenerational equity as a perpetual institution. Dining Services uses an aerobic digester (named "Munchy Crunchy, Grinds Up Your Lunchy" by students via an Instagram poll) to process pre- and post-consumer food waste from the Dining Center, as well as pre-consumer food waste from the Coop. The digester is one of the new fun GIFs and stickers on Haverford's official GIPHY account . Photo: Patrick Montero. Pages Mar 2 Sustainability Feb 28 Plenary Feb 27 Astronomy at Haverford Feb 26 Coaching a Championship Team Character Haverford attracts intellectually curious, independent learners who value honesty, collaboration, and above all, new ways of seeing and improving the world. About Mind 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. Academics Squirrels 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. Admission Haverford Headlines Arts Centers Students “The Local Story is the Larger Story” and the Bicentennial in Philadelphia A new exhibit in the Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery explores the summer of 1976 in Philadelphia through a documentary created by the 2019 Summer Doculab Fellows. Arts Campus Centers New Exhibit Curated By Courtney Lynne Carter ’17 Takes a Long, Hard Look at Material Culture WE’RE SORRY THIS ITEM IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE, up through March 6 in VCAM, finds comedic value in a serious subject. Campus Faculty COOL CLASSES: “After the Sunset: Lessons in Transition to Peace: The South African Example” This anthropology course, co-taught by this semester’s Friend in Residence, engages with issues, theories, and methodologies of nonviolent and violent struggles, peace negotiations, transitional justice, post-conflict reconstruction, and peacebuilding by looking at South Africa as a case study. Arts Centers gallery Students VCAM Hosts 20/20 VISION Exhibit A collection of creative work from 20 student artists was displayed in VCAM after an open-call search across campus. Students Club Life: FUCS Brings the Music to You The Federation United Concert Series is a group committed to bringing an eclectic range of musical acts right to your doorstep. Campus Students Spring Plenary Celebrates Community Values This semester’s iteration of Haverford’s long-standing tradition celebrating self-governance focused on resolutions addressing sustainability, environmental justice, and student agency. Campus Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge is Haverford's New Friend in Residence The Quaker South African politician and activist will be on campus all semester long, teaching a class and offering several public talks. Arts Campus Strange Truth 2020 Broaches Contemporary Issues Through International Film With two screenings and an exhibition planned for this semester, the ninth year of the Strange Truth series will examine themes of gender, justice, and historical memory across modern media. Faculty Campus Shoshana Zuboff Talks Surveillance Capitalism The talk was the latest in the yearlong Technology and Justice Series, sponsored by the President’s Initiative for Ethical Engagement and Leadership, which aims to help the Haverford community grapple with issues in the intersection of technology, equity, privacy, surveillance, sustainability, and more. Faculty COOL CLASSES: “Quakers, War, and Slavery 1646-1723” This seminar encourages students to analyze primary sources and secondary works to explore how and why early Friends came to see both war and slavery as immoral. Upcoming Events Mar 2 "(Re)programming cell identity and function in plants" Monday, March 2, 2020 2:30PM to 4:00PM Sharpless Auditorium Doris Wagner is a Robert I. Williams Term Professor of Biology at the University of Pennsylvania. Wagner's research focuses on the reprogramming of cell identity and function during developmental transitions and in response to environmental inputs in plants. Map Details Mar 3 "Crossing Borders: From Slavery to Abolition, 1670-1865" Opening Talk and Reception Tuesday, March 3, 2020 4:30PM to 6:00PM Lutnick Library 200 Join us for a reception and talk celebrating the opening of "Crossing Borders," curated by Sarah Wilma Watson and the students of the Fall 2019 Crossing Borders writing seminar. This exhibit explores the themes of authorship, perspective, and abolitionism in a global context through engagement with Aphra Behn’s 1688 novel Oroonoko and Haverford’s collection of rare books, manuscripts, and maps related to transatlantic travel, the slave trade, and abolition. Map Details Mar 4 Strange Truth: "Shusenjo" Wednesday, March 4, 2020 7:00PM to 9:30PM Bryn Mawr Film Institute This film, part of Strange Truth 2020 , delves deep into the most contentious debates and uncovers the hidden intentions of the supporters and detractors of comfort women. Most importantly it finds answers to some of the biggest questions for Japanese and Koreans: Were comfort women prostitutes or sex slaves? Were they coercively recruited? And, does Japan have a legal responsibility to apologize to the former comfort women? A conversation with filmmaker Miki Dezaki will follow the screening. Screenings at Bryn Mawr Film Institute are free for all Tri-Co students, staff, and faculty. Map Details Mar 18 Music & Conversation with andPLAY DUO Wednesday, March 18, 2020 4:15PM to 6:00PM Founders Great Hall andPlay DUO's program presents adventurous new works for violin and viola, including music by Philadelphia-area composers Ingrid Arauco, Richard Belcastro, Richard Brodhead, and Suzanne Sorkin. Map Details Mar 18 Yiddish Culture Festival: Richard Lenatsky Wednesday, March 18, 2020 7:30PM to 10:00PM Chase Auditorium Richard Lenatsky returns with a stirring program of Yiddish songs, accompanied by Sender Botwinik on the keyboard. Richard always provides rich details of the history and meaning of each musical piece, as he weaves them into an intriguing story. English translations provided. Map Details Mar 20 "Moving Black Women from the Margin to the Center of the #MeToo Movement" Friday, March 20, 2020 1:15PM to 2:30PM VCAM 201 The Early Career Scholar Fund presents a talk by Shaeeda Mensah, assistant professor of philosophy, Franklin & Marshall College. Her areas of research specialization include black feminisms, social and political philosophy, philosophy of race, and feminist philosophy. Her current research focuses on Black women’s experiences with police violence and mass incarceration. More specifically, her research centers Black women as victims of police violence and mass incarceration, and considers the social, political, and epistemological implications of centering Black men and boys as the near exclusive targets of such practices. 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