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Haverford Libraries@HCLibraries
27 Mar 2025
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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200, and learn how scholars recover the laughter of classical Greek comedy that is now twenty-five hundred years out of date.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

ALT 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

ALT 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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OK but really—what are LMMs? Find out TOMORROW at 4:30pm in Lutnick 200 at "Demystifying Large Language Models: What They Are and Why I Rarely Use Them" with Alvin Grissom! More info: hav.to/n7v #events
Graphic of blue and white circuitry in the shape of a human brain.

ALT Graphic of blue and white circuitry in the shape of a human brain.
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Next week in Lutnick 200, don't miss "Demystifying Large Language Models: What They Are and Why I Rarely Use Them" with Alvin Grissom! 2/5/25 at 4:30pm. More info: hav.to/n7v #events
Photo of Alvin Grissom looking seriously at the camera with greenery in the background.

ALT Photo of Alvin Grissom looking seriously at the camera with greenery in the background.
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Don't miss the first Faculty Scholarship Talk of 2025, "Modeling Quantum Behavior in Classical Simulations: The Case of Terminal Alkynes" with Clyde Daly. TOMORROW at 4:30pm in Lutnick 200! More info: hav.to/n4s #events
graphic of a molecule diagram with directional arrows, dashed wavy lines in rainbow colors, and a curved line outlining the wavy areas of the dashed lines.

ALT graphic of a molecule diagram with directional arrows, dashed wavy lines in rainbow colors, and a curved line outlining the wavy areas of the dashed lines.
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Next week: our first Faculty Scholarship Talk of 2025! Hear about what's happening in the Daly Lab at "Modeling Quantum Behavior in Classical Simulations: The Case of Terminal Alkynes" with Clyde Daly, 1/29 at 4:30pm in Lutnick 200. More info: hav.to/n4s #events
photo of Clyde Daly, smiling at the camera in front of an outdoor wall

ALT photo of Clyde Daly, smiling at the camera in front of an outdoor wall
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Next week on Zoom: "'Cultivated exclusively by the hands of free men': Cotton, Slavery, and the Textiles of Free Labor" with Gest Fellow @MariahKupfner. Zoom link and info: hav.to/mny #events #QuakerandSpecialCollections
Close up photo of a cream and white patchwork fabric item, made up of alternating triangles that meet in the upper center of the image. Printed or stamped on the bottom cream triangle is a Black figure in chains, with text reading "Deliver me from the oppression of man."

ALT Close up photo of a cream and white patchwork fabric item, made up of alternating triangles that meet in the upper center of the image. Printed or stamped on the bottom cream triangle is a Black figure in chains, with text reading "Deliver me from the oppression of man."
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TOMORROW at 4:30pm in Lutnick 200 and on Zoom, don't miss "Recognizing 'Camera Cues': Policing, Cellphones, and Citizen Countersurveillance" with Brandon Alston '14! More info: hav.to/mp4 #events
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ALT Image of the back of a smartphone with four cameras in a square in the top right corner.
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Next week: join the Libraries & the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program for a talk by Brandon Alston '14, "Recognizing 'Camera Cues': Policing, Cellphones, and Citizen Countersurveillance." 10/31 at 4:30pm in Lutnick 200 & Zoom. More info: hav.to/mp4 #events
Photo of Brandon Alston smiling at the camera.

ALT Photo of Brandon Alston smiling at the camera.
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TOMORROW, don't miss “Haverford College and the Early History of College Radio” with Gest Fellow Jennifer Waits '89 at 2:30pm in Lutnick 232! More info: hav.to/ml1 #events
Black and white photo in The Record of 1924 (Haverford's yearbook) of 13 young men sitting on steps in a group, with the caption "Radio Club"

ALT Black and white photo in The Record of 1924 (Haverford's yearbook) of 13 young men sitting on steps in a group, with the caption "Radio Club"
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