Program Schedule

Thursday, April 5, 2012

This presentation illuminates the problem of pollution and waste associated with technological products. Students will define e-waste, its origins, and its effects on the planet. Students will also describe “The Great PacificGarbage Patch.” A slideshow and video will reveal the extent of the problem, and students will provide ways to address the problem of e-waste.

This class will look at the rise and development of the modern international system. It will examine the ways international relations were conducted in the time following the Congress of Vienna in 1814-15 to the outbreak of World War I.

Join Peter Reinhart, Director of the Kislak Real Estate Institute, Tony MacDonald, Director of the Urban Coast Institute, John Tiedemann, Assistant Dean of the School of Science and Director of the Marine and Environmental Biology Policy Program, and other Monmouth University faculty for a discussion of critical Global Sustainability issues, and the University Global Sustainability Minor.

Find your inner child by gliding down a 22-foot inflatable slide! Purchase individual, multiple, or unlimited rides for the day. The proceeds for this fundraiser will benefit the Inside Out Project. "Inside Out is a large-scale participatory art project that transforms messages of personal identity into pieces of artistic work. Everyone is challenged to use black and white photographic portraits to discover, reveal and share the untold stories and images of people around the world” (www.insideoutproject.net). And when you are done having fun, go visit the exhibit in Anacon A and B to see the Inside Out photographs taken by MU students. Rain date will be Friday, April 6 from 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.

The balance between a society’s right to be informed through the channels of the mass media often collide with those of a defendant in a criminal trial. This presentation addresses these constraints in a comparative context, focusing on case studies from particular countries as well as proceedings happening before supranational judicial bodies. Media access to judicial proceedings as well as extent of coverage as it affects defendant fairness and due process protections will be analyzed.

The first project of Graphic Design 2 is a redesign of the American Flag. Rather than attempt to make a flag that will be universally accepted, students were asked to create designs that reflect their own views of the United States of America. It is a very challenging design project to create a flag design that reflects an entire set of ideas using only simple shapes such as rectangles and stars and a limited color palette. In order to explain and display these flag ideas, students also designed posters.

“Here, There, Then, Now” is a site-specific installation chronicling how public histories and private narratives temporarily attach to landscape, specifically to bodies of water. Prof. Elsayed will collaborate with students from various departments to create a cross-disciplinary project of video and performance exploring ideas of semi-permanence, traces, and cyclical erasures relating to the ocean with all its implications as life sustaining, transporting, cleansing, and deadly.

This panel looks at two distinct yet interconnected global social phenomena that disproportionately and negatively affect the lives of women and girls, from the private spaces of our bedrooms to the public spaces of city streets. Paper #1 examines how sexual behaviors and gender differences increase a person’s vulnerability to sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and offers evidence to support the need for a global and inclusive strategy that can help create an interconnected approach to preventing, treating, and living with STIs. Paper #2 analyzes the worldwide use of mobile technology in Hollaback!, which is an international campaign to end street harassment against women.

This classroom colloquium will first show clips of Carbon Nation, a documentary film about climate change solutions. We will then discuss the role of managerial accounting in supporting sustainability. Particularly, we will relate sustainability issues to the managerial accounting topics of job costing, activity-based costing, and CVP analysis, among others.

A new management case study titled “The Macheke Sustainability Project” has been written by Dr. Stuart Rosenberg and Dr. Susan Gupta of the Leon Hess Business School, along with Ms. Moleen Madziva, a Monmouth alumnus and the project’s director. The case study will be discussed in both sections of Dr. Rosenberg’s Strategic Management course. This is the first time that the case study will be classroom tested.

This program is designed to introduce individuals to information regarding the GLBT population. Participants will additionally be provided with information on how to be an ally to someone who is GLBT and how to provide a safe and inclusive campus for all.

Over the course of her artistic career, artist Brooke White has created work about the landscape and our connection to it. She sees the landscape and nature as a barometer for all that is taking place within the world. Through video and photography, her most current work investigates the ways in which landscape and place are altered and defined by disease, tourism, agriculture, and politics. Two specific projects, Delta Constant and Commuters, deal with global agricultural practices and the effects of war on landscapes in Uganda. Both projects analyze the ways that modern day war and agricultural practices come to shape our sense of place and ultimately identities.

In this classroom colloquium, students will share presentations on current events that had a global impact due to access and use of new media and/or due to the unprecedented reach of global media networks. Presentations will explore ideas such as: what is the new responsibility of reporters in the global environment where news and information cross borders much faster than ever before in world history?

In response to the Invisible Children video concerning the Lord’s Resistance Army and Joseph Kony, students from around campus are raising awareness about the use of children in armed conflict. Students will be reading testimonies by child soldiers, naming governments and rebel leaders who use children in armed conflict, and presenting photos of the faces of those affected by such conflict around the world. The rally will also include a letter-writing initiative to a variety of organizations encouraging them to support the ending of the use of children in armed conflict. Come lend your voice to this speak out and rally against the use of child soldiers. This event is co-sponsored by the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, the Sociology Club, the Social Work Society, the Institute for Global Understanding, and is part of the United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI) initiative.

“This exhibit is a series of prints that explore and affirm the human in all its dimensions. From a portrait of Einstein, which incorporates one of his observations on the human predicament, to a rollicking parade of fabulous figures from the human imagination, Laudau’s images deepen and broaden our sense of the human.” This session will serve as the opening ceremony for the exhibit and will include remarks by Dr. David Herrstrom. This exhibit will be at the Monmouth Univiersity Library until April 19, 2012. A schedule of guided tours is available on the MU library Web site. This exhibit is co-sponsored by the Jewish Culture Studies Program, Honors School, History and Anthropology Department, and the Library.

Often theory is seen as an abstract and dry exercise. The students of the course in Sociological Theory will illustrate how art can bring sociology “down to earth.” Based on experience at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in NYC, each student will illustrate one or more sociological concepts used by the major classical and contemporary sociologists to describe modernity (e.g., alienation, rationalization, bureaucracy, conspicuous consumption) through one or more works of art. This exercise will help us to visualize how modernity affects our everyday life.

Come and learn about the educational issues faced by developing countries and the methods we can use to overcome these obstacles. To Kenya With Love is an organization dedicated to educational development throughout Kenya. We believe that with the right education anyone can change his or her life for the better. See how education can change the lives of children and women and create brighter futures for not only them, but also the communities in which they live. Also find information on our current projects and volunteer opportunities.

In the wake of Israel’s 2006 bombardment of Lebanon, a determined woman finds her way into the country convincing a taxi cab driver to take a risky journey around the scarred region in search of her sister and her son. Plot summaries are based on the IMDb Web site.

Ocean Frontiers takes us on an inspiring, 80-minute voyage to seaports and watersheds across the country - from the busy shipping lanes of Boston Harbor to the small fishing community of Port Orford, Oregon; from the coral reefs in the Florida Keys, to the nation’s premier seafood nursery in the Mississippi Delta and the cornfields of Iowa. Here we meet an intermingling of unlikely allies of industrial shippers and whale biologists, pig farmers and wetland ecologists, sport and commercial fishermenand snorkelers, and many more, all of them embarking on a new course of cooperation. A discussion panel will follow the film.

• Doors open: 5:45 p.m.
• 6:30 p.m: Welcome by President Paul G. Gaffney II and U.S. Representative Frank Pallone
• 6:45 p.m: Film screening
• 7:45 p.m: Panel Discussion