Program Schedule

Weeklong Events, April 2-6

Over the course of her artistic career, the artist, Brooke White, has made 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.

The International Reading Association (IRA) Student Organization provides rich literacy experiences for children in our community. IRA members volunteer off-campus at Red Bank Head Start, local after-school programs in several school districts, Read Across America-Dr. Seuss Day activities, the National African American Read-in Chain, and a local food pantry. Also, IRA members volunteer annually for the Martin Luther King celebration and the Big Event.

As part of their coursework, students in Graphic Design 2 were asked to create posters for the Global Understanding Conference. They were presented with a difficult problem to solve: create a moving and informative poster that highlights global issues. Aside from this charge, they were given complete freedom. The results are as unique as the students themselves.

This poster display will address the issue of violence, physical and structural, through images of original art. This project will raise awareness about the various types of violence and how they can be addressed individually or as a community.

Students from the course on AIDS and the Global Society will present their posters to provide information about social, political, and scientific issues surrounding the HIV/AIDS pandemic in vulnerable populations, including children, adolescents, prisoners, gay men, bi-sexual men and women, hemophiliacs, and older populations.

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. It believes 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 about the organization's current projects and volunteer opportunities.

The Monmouth University Library hosts an exhibit of books and other media on the recent revolution in Egypt and its impact on other nations striving for democracy. A selective bibliography of books and electronic resources is available.

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.

Introductory Sociology and Communication students are joining together to participate in an international visual art project called Inside Out. “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) Come see these photos and learn more about the MU community.

Red Bank Regional High School students from the International and Cultural Studies Academy’s Human Geography keystone course will be displaying posters on sustainable practices around the globe. Students will display their research on sustainable resources that improve the quality of lives of the community. They will link these practices to particular countries, such as a grassroots recycling enterprise in Peru and the development of “green cities” like the one in Curitiba, Brazil. Additionally, students will explore the forefront of global research and technology in such fields as wind and solar energies