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TOMORROW from 4:30-6pm in Lutnick 200, stop by the Faculty Scholarship Celebration and enjoy refreshments and displays of faculty work from 2024! #events
Twenty book covers arranged in five rows over a white and red background, with text at the bottom reading Haverford College Faculty Scholarship 2024: Spring, Summer, Fall

ALT Twenty book covers arranged in five rows over a white and red background, with text at the bottom reading Haverford College Faculty Scholarship 2024: Spring, Summer, Fall

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Don't miss "How to Laugh Yourself to Death" with Matthew Farmer, TOMORROW at 4:30pm in Lutnick 200, and learn how scholars recover the laughter of classical Greek comedy that is now twenty-five hundred years out of date. More info: hav.to/nc3 #events
Photo of Matthew Farmer, smiling at the camera, with greenery in the background.

ALT Photo of Matthew Farmer, smiling at the camera, with greenery in the background.

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TOMORROW evening, don't miss an opening walkthrough of "Palissy's Lost Grotto From the Archive to the Virtual: Imagining the Grotto," w/ curator Luis Rodriguez-Rincon! 2/25 at 4:30pm in the Rebecca & Rick White Gallery. More info: hav.to/nzq #events
Image of a humanoid bust with hair, entirely made up of white and cream and brown seashells of various shapes and sizes against a gray base.

ALT Image of a humanoid bust with hair, entirely made up of white and cream and brown seashells of various shapes and sizes against a gray base.

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Find out what faculty were working on in 2024, next week at the Faculty Scholarship Celebration! Stop by Lutnick 200 on 2/27 from 4:30-6pm for refreshments, mingling, and displays of publications, art, and music from the past year. #events
Graphic of a green and purple checkerboard pattern with line drawings of educational materials in each square. At the top is a stylized firework graphic with the text Faculty Scholarship Celebration.

ALT Graphic of a green and purple checkerboard pattern with line drawings of educational materials in each square. At the top is a stylized firework graphic with the text Faculty Scholarship Celebration.

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Next week: how do you interpret comedy that's 2500 years old? Find out at a Faculty Scholarship Talk by Matthew Farmer, "How to Laugh Yourself to Death," 2/26 at 4:30pm in Lutnick 200! More info: hav.to/nc3 #events
Photo of a small statue of a figure with a comedy face mask and a beard and a big belly. The figure has one arm raised and the other hand on their hip, and faded blue paint has chipped off to show reddish material underneath.

ALT Photo of a small statue of a figure with a comedy face mask and a beard and a big belly. The figure has one arm raised and the other hand on their hip, and faded blue paint has chipped off to show reddish material underneath.

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Take a walkthrough of our latest exhibit, "Palissy's Lost Grotto From the Archive to the Virtual: Imagining the Grotto," w/ curator & Assistant Professor of Spanish Luis Rodriguez-Rincon! 2/25 at 4:30pm in Rebecca & Rick White Gallery. More info: hav.to/nzq #events
Photo of a piece of ceramic art: an oval dish in dark blue studded with white and cream seashells, decorated with brown ceramic snakes, crabs, and fish, and green ceramic lizards and frogs.

ALT Photo of a piece of ceramic art: an oval dish in dark blue studded with white and cream seashells, decorated with brown ceramic snakes, crabs, and fish, and green ceramic lizards and frogs.

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TOMORROW at 4:30pm in Lutnick 200: "A Different Type of Time: Power and Performance at the Penn Relays Carnival" with Maurice Rippel '19, visiting instructor of gender and sexuality studies! More info: hav.to/n5o #events
photo of five sets of relay runners on a track, all Black women in different countries' colors, passing their batons

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Next week: the first Young Academic Alumni Lecture of 2025! "A Different Type of Time: Power and Performance at the Penn Relays Carnival" w/ Maurice Rippel '19, visiting instructor of gender & sexuality studies, 2/19 at 4:30pm in Lutnick 200. More: hav.to/n5o #events
photo of Maurice Rippel, smiling at the camera with greenery in the background

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Music has been part of war since time immemorial, but what is the relationship between music-making and war-making? Tomorrow: "Instrument of War: Music and the Making of America's Soldiers" with David Suisman, 4:30pm in Lutnick 200. More info: hav.to/n17 #events
Cover of Instrument of War by David Suisman, featuring three monochrome photos of soldiers of different eras playing instruments, overlaid with blocks of color.

ALT Cover of Instrument of War by David Suisman, featuring three monochrome photos of soldiers of different eras playing instruments, overlaid with blocks of color.

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Celebrate Frederick Douglass' birthday at the Douglass Day Transcribe-a-Thon, transcribing materials from the Library of Congress African American Perspectives Collection. Bring a laptop or join using the flip boards, no experience necessary! 2/14, 12:30-3:30pm in the DS Commons.
Graphic featuring a collage of sepia photos of Black subjects, with red and black shapes and text reading "You make history. Douglass Day 2025" and date and time information.

ALT Graphic featuring a collage of sepia photos of Black subjects, with red and black shapes and text reading "You make history. Douglass Day 2025" and date and time information.

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Next week: "Instrument of War: Music and the Making of America's Soldiers" w/ David Suisman, Assoc Prof of History at UDel! Uncover how music has enabled more than a century and a half of state violence. 2/13 at 4:30pm in Lutnick 200. More info: hav.to/n17 #events
Grayscale photo of David Suisman against a studio background, arms folded and smiling at the camera.

ALT Grayscale photo of David Suisman against a studio background, arms folded and smiling at the camera.

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