Round Two: SoHo Helps Peers Navigate a Second Year at the Ford
With the establishment of Sophomore House, Haverford is refocusing on the sophomore experience through yearlong events, discussions, and the formation of an intentional living community.
COOL CLASSES: “Performance, Literature, and the Archive”
This comparative literature course explores the “archive,” as both an institutional and performance practice and a theoretical concept.
COOL CLASSES: “Third World Cinema: Desiring Freedom, Freeing Desires”
This course, which falls at the crossroads of English, visual studies, and comparative literature, explores the central role of film in imagining decolonization and desire as entangled narratives in the Third World.
First CPGC Film Series Comes to a Close
The film series is an initiative by the Center to “find new and creative ways to offer opportunities for shared learning and dialogue for the Haverford community and the communities we’re connected to.”
Lloyd Gets Festive
In a continuation of hallowed campus wintertime tradition, Lloyd residents have decked their halls in a competition for best holiday display.
Yuying Rong ’20 Narrates Stories of Science through Comics
The biology major combined her passion for drawing comics and experience in science with an exhibition of autobiographical comics in the Marian E. Koshland Integrated Natural Sciences Center (KINSC).
Beyond Language: Indigo-Dyeing Exhibit Highlights Traditional Japanese Technique
Students in Kimiko Suzuki’s “Advanced Japanese” course took their learning beyond the classroom by collaborating with Philadelphia artists to produce the dyed textiles on display in VCAM.
Symposium Delves into “The Legacy of Lynching”
A recent symposium related to the current Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery exhibit united scholars, artists, activists, and curators in a discussion of the history of lynching, antiracist activism, and the role of contemporary art in visualizing and confronting racial violence.
COOL CLASSES: “Introduction to Science and Technology Studies: Fridges, fMRIs, and ‘Finstas’ in Social Context”
This sociology class introduces students to the social forces that shape the production of scientific knowledge and technological devices.
COOL CLASSES: “The Viet Nam Wars”
This history class is an in-depth analysis of Vietnamese history and the country’s struggles for independence and national unification from antiquity to the present day, and it includes an oral history project with members of the “Viet Nam Generation” as a core component.
Global China Connection Offers A Taste of Xi’an
Following the success of last year’s “Taste of Guangdong,” the student-run club continues to celebrate different Chinese cuisine traditions via annual dinners.
COOL CLASSES: “Warriors and Outlaws in China and England”
In this East Asian Languages and Cultures course students read and compare the two most iconic outlaw epics of England and China: Water Margin, about Song Jiang’s band of brothers in Shandong Province, and the many ballads about Robin Hood and his band of merry men in Sherwood Forest.
54 Hours, One Idea
Three Haverford students quickly pitched and developed entrepreneurial ideas in one weekend with a team of collaborators at the TechStars Startup Weekend Philadelphia.
Hearing and Seeing Street Art
A multimedia exhibition curated by three Haverford students in the VCAM builds on their summer work on oral history and public art.
Zapotec on the Big Screen
Collaborators on “Dizhsa Nabani,” the result of last summer’s first DocuLab outing, presented their documentary on Zapotec language and culture preservation in Oaxaca, Mexico.
Elegance Bratton Talks TV and Identity
The Viceland executive producer, most known for his work on the docuseries “My House,” visited campus to discuss the show.
DIY For All: Innovation and Inclusivity in the Maker Movement with Prototype
Prototype, a Pittsburgh-based feminist maker collective, illuminated conversations about accessibility and identity in the Maker Arts Space during their visit to campus.
COOL CLASSES: “Waves and Optics”
This physics course is about everything that oscillates—vibrations and waves in mechanical, electronic, and optical systems—and introduces related mathematical methods, such as functions of a complex variable and Fourier analysis.