Laura Kelly – HE 330 01
Mary Goss, from the Diocese of Trenton, has traveled numerous times to Kasana-Luweero and has set up numerous initiatives in her own parish to improve the care for women and infants in Kasana-Luweero.
2007 CONVENTION SCHEDULE
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
8:30
– 9:45 a.m.
– 9:45 a.m.
McAllan Hall
328
328
Prenatal Care and the Babies Of Kasana-Luweero, Uganda
Laura Kelly – HE 330 01
Laura Kelly – HE 330 01
10 – 11:15 a.m.
Student Center
-Anacon A
-Anacon A
‘Our Daily Bread’: Using the ‘Hunger Banquet’ to Learn, Share, and Shape Our Future – Rekha Datta
Sponsored by PS 377- Women in the World Class, Poli Sci Club, Political Science Department, and MSW students.
Sponsored by PS 377- Women in the World Class, Poli Sci Club, Political Science Department, and MSW students.
Food is one area where we see global inequalities at their greatest. While food is wasted in many parts of the world, thousands die every year of hunger and malnutrition. Following the UNICEF ‘Hunger Banquet’ model, this program will focus on world hunger by emphasizing resource distribution and the realities of world hunger in terms of poverty and how it affects men, women, and children.
Poster Exhibits: Hunger Around the World—PS 377
Poster Exhibits: Hunger Around the World—PS 377
10 a.m.
– 2 p.m.
– 2 p.m.
Student Center Cafeteria
Silent Auction
Mike Patterson and Katie Field
Mike Patterson and Katie Field
Take this opportunity to win great prizes by bidding on the baskets. These baskets were donated from offices and clubs from across campus. Get a sneak peak by checking them out Monday and Tuesday in the Student Center Information Desk lobby!!
10:45 a.m.
– 12:15 p.m.
– 12:15 p.m.
AR 801
Graphic Design and Social Awareness and Communication
Pat Cresson with Luba Lukova – AR 317 01
Pat Cresson with Luba Lukova – AR 317 01
Luba Lukova, an internationally known graphic designer,
who is noted for her strong work depicting both social injustice and freedom and peace will give a slide
lecture. After the lecture, she will respond to questions and will do a brief
critique of student GUC posters.
11:30 a.m.
– 12:45 p.m.
– 12:45 p.m.
Bey Hall 226
The Role of the Anti-War Movement in the Vietnam War
The Vietnam Era - Susan Douglass - HS 385 01
The Vietnam Era - Susan Douglass - HS 385 01
This panel discussion will focus on the Anti-War Movement on the university campus during this turbulent era. Stanton Green and Bill Mitchell will discuss their experiences with special attention to the role the individual can play in influencing government policy in a democratic society.
1 – 2:30 p.m.
Wilson Auditorium
Global Climate Change: Impacts and Implications
Panel Discussion
Panel Discussion
Moderator: Tony MacDonald, Director, Urban Coast Institute. Panelists: D. James Baker, former Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
and author of the book, Planet Earth – The View from Space. He will address Global Climate Change:
A Time of Reckoning. Monmouth University President, Paul G. Gaffney II,
former President of The Naval Defense University and Chief of Naval Research,
will address the Security Implications of Climate Change, and Steve Ramburg,
former Director NATO Undersea Research Center will address Citizen’s
Challenges Amidst Science, Politics and the Media.
2:30
– 3:30 p.m.
– 3:30 p.m.
Front of Wilson Hall
Blessing of the Earth (Bhûmi-pûja)
Pasquale Simonelli
Pasquale Simonelli
Hindu ceremony performed by a Priest from the Hindu American Temple and
Cultural Center (HATCC) of Morganville, NJ. The ceremony will be explained by
Scientist Raghavan Pratiwadi (Sanskrit scholar, teacher, founder, secretary of HATCC
and computer scientist at AT&T) and by M.G. Prasad (author, speaker, teacher of Sanskrit
and Hindu Scriptures, and professor of mechanical engineering at the Stevens Institute of Technology,
Hoboken, NJ). The Ceremony will be concluded with the planting of a tree, as a memento of the event, invoking Peace, Peace, Peace (Shanti, Shanti, Shanti) for the entire Planet.
2:30
– 4 p.m.
– 4 p.m.
Club 108-109
Shared History Project with Two Fulbright Scholars
Susan Douglass
Susan Douglass
Dan Bar-On of Ben Gurion University in Israel and Sami Adwan of Bethlehem University
in Palestine are the co-directors of the Peace Research Institute in the Middle East
(PRIME) and Scholars-in-Residence at Monmouth University during Spring 2007.
At the workshop, Dan Bar-On and Sami Adwan will present their experiences and the
experiences of Palestinian and Israeli history teachers in developing and teaching the
Dual Historical Narrative booklets to their pupils. The project has existed since 2001.
4:30
– 5:30 p.m.
– 5:30 p.m.
Wilson Hall
Front Stairway
Front Stairway
Diversity Stride
Heather Kelly and Brad Bennett
Heather Kelly and Brad Bennett
The Diversity Stride is a rally and a symbolic walk through campus to help raise
awareness about diversity at Monmouth University. It may also help raise money for an organization (The American Conference on Diversity) that often partners with Monmouth University in our efforts to create a society that embraces
social justice for all. Walkers may donate $1 or $2 to have their name posted
at the Student Center as a benefactor and receive a number for the symbolic walk.
6 – 7: 15 p.m.
The Great Hall
Featured Speaker: Rajiv Chandrasekaran – Author of Imperial Life in the Emerald City - Introduction by Dr. Thomas Pearson, Provost and
Vice President for Academic Affairs, Monmouth University
R. Datta—MA-PP Colloquium Series and PS 222
R. Datta—MA-PP Colloquium Series and PS 222
Rajiv Chandrasekharan,
the author of the national best seller, Imperial Life in the Emerald City (finalist for National Book Award, 2006) and the Washington Post’s former bureau chief in Baghdad, will provide a first-hand account of life inside Baghdad’s Green Zone, a walled-off ‘little America’. Drawing on hundreds of interviews and internal documents, Rajiv Chandrasekaran will discuss America’s
attempt to build a Jeffersonian democracy in an embattled Middle Eastern states.
Sponsored by the Global Understanding Project, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Graduate School and Departments of Communication, History
and Anthropology, and Political Science. A book-signing will follow.
Poster Exhibit: Making War, Keeping Peace: A Journey through Iraq—PS 222
Poster Exhibit: Making War, Keeping Peace: A Journey through Iraq—PS 222
7:30
— 9 p.m.
— 9 p.m.
Student Center
- Anacon A
- Anacon A
DreamWorlds 3
The highly anticipated update of Sut Jhally's groundbreaking Dreamworlds 2(1995), examines the stories contemporary music videos tell about girls and women, and encourages viewers to consider how these narratives shape
individual and cultural attitudes about sexuality.
7:30
– 8:45 p.m.
– 8:45 p.m.
HR Young Auditorium
What the U.S.
Can Learn From a Third World Nation about Biofuels
Roy Nersesian and Subrina Mahmood
BM 556 50
Roy Nersesian and Subrina Mahmood
BM 556 50
As fossil fuel prices increase, biomass promises to play a more active role primarily as a motor vehicle fuel. However, fossil fuels can never be replaced,
although their dominance can be reduced. The role of biofuels in Brazil is quite unlike that of the United States. What can we learn from Brazil in utilizing biofuels as a motor vehicle fuel?
