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SUMMARY:Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier
DESCRIPTION:Join us for Tuesday Night Book Club! Hosted by Monmouth University’s Ken Womack\, each month we’ll explore a different novel. All you have to do is Zoom in and join the discussion! \nThis month’s novel is Ford Madox Ford’ The Good Soldier. \nOne of the most important works of twentieth-century British literature\, The Good Soldier addresses the lives and interrelationships between two couples: one American\, one British. A tragicomic novel of manners\, in which John Dowell narrates the disintegration of both his own and another marriage\, the work’s depiction of passion and intrigue offers an ironic reading of Edwardian-era values. \n“One of the finest novels of our century.” –Graham Greene \nWhen you register you will be provided the meeting link to join the conversation. 

URL:https://www.monmouth.edu/events/event/ford-madox-fords-the-good-soldier/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Arts at Monmouth,English,Free,Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220510T193000
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SUMMARY:Tuesday Night Book Club: Jonathan Franzen\, Freedom
DESCRIPTION:Join us for Tuesday Night Book Club! Hosted by Monmouth University’s Ken Womack\, each month we’ll explore a different novel. All you have to do is Zoom in and join the discussion! \nThis month’s novel is Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom. \nFreedom\, by the New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Franzen\, is a masterly novel of contemporary love and marriage\, a brilliant charting of the temptations and burdens of liberty: the thrills of teenage lust\, the shaken compromises of middle age\, the wages of suburban sprawl\, and the heavy weight of empire. \nPatty and Walter Berglund were the pioneers of old St. Paul—the gentrifiers\, the hands-on parents\, the avant garde of the Whole Foods generation. But now\, in the new millennium\, they have become a mystery. Why has their teenage son moved in with the aggressively Republican family next door? Why has Walter\, once an environmental lawyer\, taken a job working with Big Coal? Most startling of all\, why has Patty\, the perfect neighbor\, turned into the local Fury? Patty and Walter Berglund are indelible characters\, and their mistakes and joys\, as they struggle to learn how to live in an ever more confusing world\, have become touchstones of contemporary American reality. \nWe are still waiting for more information about whether we will be able to hold this event in person. However\, we are also committed to continuing offering access virtually to Tuesday Night Book Club for all our new audiences! You can register now for Zoom access to the event. When you register you will be provided the meeting link to join the conversation. 
\n\nPlease stay tuned for more details about an in-person location for this event when more information becomes available. 
URL:https://www.monmouth.edu/events/event/tuesday-night-book-club-jonathan-franzen-freedom/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Alumni,Alumni Affairs,Alumni Events,Arts at Monmouth,English,Free,Lectures,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220412T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220412T210000
DTSTAMP:20260511T195146
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SUMMARY:Tuesday Night Book Club: Maggie O’Farrell\, Hamnet
DESCRIPTION:Join us for Tuesday Night Book Club! Hosted by Monmouth University’s Ken Womack\, each month we’ll explore a different novel. All you have to do is Zoom in and join the discussion! \nThis month’s novel is Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet. On a summer’s day in 1596\, a young girl in Stratford-upon-Avon takes to her bed with a sudden fever. Her twin brother\, Hamnet\, searches everywhere for help. Why is nobody at home? \nTheir mother\, Agnes\, is over a mile away\, in the garden where she grows medicinal herbs. Their father is working in London. Neither parent knows that Hamnet will not survive the week. Hamnet is a novel inspired by the son of a famous playwright: a boy whose life has been all but forgotten\, but whose name was given to one of the most celebrated plays ever written. \nWe are still waiting for more information about whether we will be able to hold this event in person. However\, we are also committed to continuing offering access virtually to Tuesday Night Book Club for all our new audiences! You can register now for Zoom access to the event. When you register you will be provided the meeting link to join the conversation. 
  \nPlease stay tuned for more details about an in-person location for this event when more information becomes available. 
URL:https://www.monmouth.edu/events/event/tuesday-night-book-club-maggie-ofarrell-hamnet/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Alumni,Alumni Affairs,Alumni Events,Arts at Monmouth,English,Free,Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220322T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220322T210000
DTSTAMP:20260511T195146
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SUMMARY:Tuesday Night Book Club: Patti Smith\, Just Kids
DESCRIPTION:Join us for Tuesday Night Book Club! Hosted by Monmouth University’s Ken Womack\, each month we’ll explore a different novel. All you have to do is Zoom in and join the discussion! \nThis month’s novel is Patti Smith\, Just Kids.\n \nPatti Smith’s definitive memoir: an evocative\, honest and moving coming-of-age story of her extraordinary relationship with the artist Robert Mapplethorpe. In 1967\, a chance meeting between two young people led to a romance and a lifelong friendship that would carry each to international success never dreamed of. The backdrop is Brooklyn\, Chelsea Hotel\, Max’s Kansas City\, Scribner’s Bookstore\, Coney Island\, Warhol’s Factory and the whole city resplendent. Among their friends\, literary lights\, musicians and artists such as Harry Smith\, Bobby Neuwirth\, Allen Ginsberg\, Sandy Daley\, Sam Shepherd\, William Burroughs\, etc. It was a heightened time politically and culturally; the art and music worlds exploding and colliding. In the midst of all this two kids made a pact to always care for one another. Scrappy\, romantic\, committed to making art\, they prodded and provided each other with faith and confidence during the hungry years–the days of cous-cous and lettuce soup. \nJust Kids begins as a love story and ends as an elegy. Beautifully written\, this is a profound portrait of two young artists\, often hungry\, sated only by art and experience. And an unforgettable portrait of New York\, her rich and poor\, hustlers and hellions\, those who made it and those whose memory lingers near. \nWe are still waiting for more information about whether we will be able to hold this event in person. However\, we are also committed to continuing offering access virtually to Tuesday Night Book Club for all our new audiences! You can register now for Zoom access to the event. When you register you will be provided the meeting link to join the conversation. 
 \nPlease stay tuned for more details about an in-person location for this event when more information becomes available. 
URL:https://www.monmouth.edu/events/event/tuesday-night-book-club-patti-smith-just-kids/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Alumni,Alumni Affairs,Alumni Events,Arts at Monmouth,English,Free,Lectures
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220222T210000
DTSTAMP:20260511T195146
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SUMMARY:Tuesday Night Book Club: Toni Morrison\, Beloved
DESCRIPTION:Join us for Tuesday Night Book Club! Hosted by Monmouth University’s Ken Womack\, each month we’ll explore a different novel. All you have to do is Zoom in and join the discussion! \nThis month’s novel is Toni Morrison’s Beloved. The magnificent Pulitzer Prize–winning work that brought the wrenching experience of slavery into the literature of our time\, enlarging our comprehension of America’s original sin.  Upon the original publication of Beloved in 1987\, John Leonard wrote in the Los Angeles Times: “I can’t imagine American literature without it.” Nearly two decades later\, The New York Times chose Beloved as the best American novel of the previous fifty years. \nSet in post–Civil War Ohio\, it is the story of Sethe\, an escaped slave who has lost a husband and buried a child; who has withstood savagery and not gone mad. Sethe\, who now lives in a small house on the edge of town with her daughter\, Denver\, her mother-in-law\, Baby Suggs\, and a disturbing\, mesmerizing apparition who calls herself Beloved. Sethe works at “beating back the past\,” but it makes itself heard and felt incessantly: in her memory; in Denver’s fear of the world outside the house; in the sadness that consumes Baby Suggs; in the arrival of Paul D\, a fellow former slave; and\, most powerfully\, in Beloved\, whose childhood belongs to the hideous logic of slavery and who has now come from the “place over there” to claim retribution for what she lost and for what was taken from her. \nWe are still waiting for more information about whether we will be able to hold this event in person. However\, we are also committed to continuing offering access virtually to Tuesday Night Book Club for all our new audiences! You can register now for Zoom access to the event. When you register you will be provided the meeting link to join the conversation. 
 \nPlease stay tuned for more details about an in-person location for this event when more information becomes available. 
URL:https://www.monmouth.edu/events/event/tuesday-night-book-club-toni-morrison-beloved/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Alumni,Alumni Affairs,Alumni Events,Arts at Monmouth,English,Free,Lectures
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220218T161000
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SUMMARY:3rd Annual Toni Morrison Day Celebration
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URL:https://www.monmouth.edu/events/event/3rd-annual-toni-morrison-day-celebration/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:English,Featured,School of Humanities and Social Sciences
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220118T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220118T210000
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SUMMARY:Tuesday Night Book Club: Thomas Pynchon\, The Crying of Lot 49
DESCRIPTION:Join us for Tuesday Night Book Club! Hosted by Monmouth University’s Ken Womack\, each month we’ll explore a different novel. All you have to do is Zoom in and join the discussion! \nThis month’s novel is Thomas Pynchon\, The Crying of Lot 49. The Crying of Lot 49 is Thomas Pynchon’s classic satire of modern America\, about Oedipa Maas\, a woman who finds herself enmeshed in what would appear to be an international conspiracy. When her ex-lover\, wealthy real-estate tycoon Pierce Inverarity\, dies and designates her the coexecutor of his estate\, California housewife Oedipa Maas is thrust into a paranoid mystery of metaphors\, symbols\, and the United States Postal Service. Traveling across Southern California\, she meets some extremely interesting characters\, and attains a not inconsiderable amount of self-knowledge. \nWe are still waiting for more information about whether we will be able to hold this event in person. However\, we are also committed to continuing offering access virtually to Tuesday Night Book Club for all our new audiences! You can register now for Zoom access to the event. When you register you will be provided the meeting link to join the conversation. 
 \nPlease stay tuned for more details about an in-person location for this event when more information becomes available. 
URL:https://www.monmouth.edu/events/event/tuesday-night-book-club-thomas-pynchon-the-crying-of-lot-49/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Alumni,Alumni Affairs,Alumni Events,Arts at Monmouth,English,Free,Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211214T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211214T210000
DTSTAMP:20260511T195146
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LAST-MODIFIED:20221004T181955Z
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SUMMARY:Tuesday Night Book Club: Bruce Springsteen\, Born to Run
DESCRIPTION:Join us for Tuesday Night Book Club! Hosted by Monmouth University’s Ken Womack\, each month we’ll explore a different novel. All you have to do is Zoom in and join the discussion! \nThis month’s novel is Bruce Springsteen\, Born to Run. \nIn 2009\, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band performed at the Super Bowl’s halftime show. The experience was so exhilarating that Bruce decided to write about it. That’s how this extraordinary autobiography began. Over the past seven years\, Bruce Springsteen has privately devoted himself to writing the story of his life\, bringing to these pages the same honesty\, humour and originality found in his songs.\n\nBorn to Run will be revelatory for anyone who has ever enjoyed Bruce Springsteen\, but this book is much more than a legendary rock star’s memoir. This is a book for workers and dreamers\, parents and children\, lovers and loners\, artists\, freaks or anyone who has ever wanted to be baptized in the holy river of rock and roll. Rarely has a performer told his own story with such force and sweep. Like many of his songs (‘Thunder Road’\, ‘Badlands’\, ‘Darkness on the Edge of Town’\, ‘The River’\, ‘Born in the U.S.A.’\, ‘The Rising’\, and ‘The Ghost of Tom Joad’\, to name just a few)\, Bruce Springsteen’s autobiography is written with the lyricism of a singular songwriter and the wisdom of a man who has thought deeply about his experiences. \nWe are still waiting for more information about whether we will be able to hold this event in person. However\, we are also committed to continuing offering access virtually to Tuesday Night Book Club for all our new audiences! You can register now for Zoom access to the event. When you register you will be provided the meeting link to join the conversation. 
 \nPlease stay tuned for more details about an in-person location for this event when more information becomes available. 
URL:https://www.monmouth.edu/events/event/tuesday-night-book-club-bruce-springsteen-born-to-run/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Alumni,Alumni Affairs,Alumni Events,Arts at Monmouth,English,Free,Lectures,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211202T200000
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SUMMARY:Supporting Systems and Communities in Achieving Racial Equality: A Groundwater Analysis - presented by Joyce James
DESCRIPTION:Voices for Change: Voting\, Advocacy\, and Action\nIn this presentation\, Ms. James will share her journey in developing the Texas Model for addressing Disproportionality and Disparities and the Groundwater Analysis for Addressing Racial Inequities© as the foundation for creating antiracist organizational cultures for undoing institutional and structural racism and improving outcomes for all populations. Participants will gain an increased understanding of the importance of cross systems collaborations and building partnerships with poor communities of color to remove the barriers that contribute to racial inequities. The session will include discussion of the pitfalls of well-meaning and well-intentioned leaders\, who in isolation of an analysis of institutional and structural racism\, and a racial equity lens\, continue to unconsciously contribute to sustaining and often perpetuating racial inequities in the design and delivery of programs and services.
URL:https://www.monmouth.edu/events/event/supporting-systems-and-communities-in-achieving-racial-equality-a-groundwater-analysis-presented-by-joyce-james/
CATEGORIES:Alumni,Criminal Justice,Educational Leadership,English,History + Anthropology,Honors School,Institute for Global Understanding,Lectures,Professional Counseling,Psychological Counseling,School of Humanities and Social Sciences,School of Nursing and Health Studies,School of Science
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211116T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211116T183000
DTSTAMP:20260511T195146
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SUMMARY:The Strengths of Black Families\, presented by Denise McLane-Davison
DESCRIPTION:Voices for Change: Voting\, Advocacy\, and Action\nThe political era of the Civil Rights\, Women’s Rights\, Gay Rights\, and The Black Power Movement demanded the inclusion of rigorous research that centered racial and gender identity as significant narratives. The emergence of Black Studies and Women’s Studies\, along with student-led and national organizations incorporating the same identity politics also demanded inclusion in intellectual landscapes. During this era Black social scientists blanketed the scholarship\, theory\, and treatment research that anchored African cultural values\, traditions\, knowledge\, and generational behaviors as disruptive characteristics of pathologized Black family rhetoric. Collectively\, cultural scholarship named the impact of adapting Black life to oppression and anti-Blackness policy. They declared the Black family as the fundamental source of strength of the Black community and as the defense for Black life from external threats. This session provides a historical and contemporary alignment on the Black strength perspective through racial pride\, resistance\, and resilience.
URL:https://www.monmouth.edu/events/event/the-strengths-of-black-families-presented-by-denise-mclane-davison/
CATEGORIES:Alumni,Criminal Justice,Current Student,Educational Leadership,English,Faculty,History + Anthropology,Honors School,Institute for Global Understanding,Lectures,Media,Professional Counseling,Prospective Undergraduate Student,School of Humanities and Social Sciences,School of Nursing and Health Studies,Undergraduate Student,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211102T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211102T210000
DTSTAMP:20260511T195146
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SUMMARY:Tuesday Night Book Club: Octavia E. Butler\, Parable of the Sower
DESCRIPTION:Join us for Tuesday Night Book Club! Hosted by Monmouth University’s Ken Womack and Michael Thomas\, each month we’ll explore a different novel. All you have to do is Zoom in and join the discussion! \nThis month’s novel is Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower. \nThis acclaimed post-apocalyptic novel of hope and terror from an award-winning author “pairs well with 1984 or The Handmaid’s Tale” and includes a foreword by N. K. Jemisin (John Green\, New York Times). \nWhen global climate change and economic crises lead to social chaos in the early 2020s\, California becomes full of dangers\, from pervasive water shortage to masses of vagabonds who will do anything to live to see another day. Fifteen-year-old Lauren Olamina lives inside a gated community with her preacher father\, family\, and neighbors\, sheltered from the surrounding anarchy. In a society where any vulnerability is a risk\, she suffers from hyperempathy\, a debilitating sensitivity to others’ emotions. \nPrecocious and clear-eyed\, Lauren must make her voice heard in order to protect her loved ones from the imminent disasters her small community stubbornly ignores. But what begins as a fight for survival soon leads to something much more: the birth of a new faith . . . and a startling vision of human destiny. \nWe are still waiting for more information about whether we will be able to hold this event in person. However\, we are also committed to continuing offering access virtually to Tuesday Night Book Club for all our new audiences! You can register now for Zoom access to the event. When you register you will be provided the meeting link to join the conversation. 

 \nPlease stay tuned for more details about an in-person location for this event when more information becomes available. 
URL:https://www.monmouth.edu/events/event/tuesday-night-book-club-octavia-e-butler-parable-of-the-sower/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Alumni,Alumni Affairs,Alumni Events,Arts at Monmouth,English,Free,Lectures,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211013T180000
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SUMMARY:Emma Copley Eisenberg
DESCRIPTION:The Visiting Writer’s series is thrilled to return for the 2021-22 season! The first event of the year will feature Monmouth University Adjunct Professor and Writer-In-Residence\, Emma Copley Eisenberg. \nEmma Copley Eisenberg’s fiction and nonfiction has appeared in McSweeney’s\, Granta\, The Virginia Quarterly Review\, Tin House\, Guernica\, The Washington Post Magazine\, and others. Her first book of nonfiction is The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia which was a NYTimes notable book of 2020 and nominated for an Edgar and Lambda Literary Award. Raised in New York City\, she lives in Philadelphia\, where she co-directs Blue Stoop\, a hub for the literary arts. Her next two books\, a novel and a collection of short stories\, are forthcoming from Hogarth (Penguin Random House). \nEisenberg will be reading from her book\, The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia and copies will be available for purchase through the University bookstore at the event.
URL:https://www.monmouth.edu/events/event/emma-copley-eisenberg/
LOCATION:Shadow Lawn
CATEGORIES:Arts at Monmouth,English,Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211012T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211012T210000
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SUMMARY:Tuesday Night Book Club: Liz Moore\, Long Bright River
DESCRIPTION:Join us for Tuesday Night Book Club! Hosted by Monmouth University’s Ken Womack and Michael Thomas\, each month we’ll explore a different novel. All you have to do is Zoom in and join the discussion! \nThis month’s novel is Liz Moore’s Long Bright River. In a Philadelphia neighborhood rocked by the opioid crisis\, two once-inseparable sisters find themselves at odds. One\, Kacey\, lives on the streets in the vise of addiction. The other\, Mickey\, walks those same blocks on her police beat. They don’t speak anymore\, but Mickey never stops worrying about her sibling. \nThen Kacey disappears\, suddenly\, at the same time that a mysterious string of murders begins in Mickey’s district\, and Mickey becomes dangerously obsessed with finding the culprit—and her sister—before it’s too late. \nAlternating its present-day mystery with the story of the sisters’ childhood and adolescence\, Long Bright River is at once heart-pounding and heart-wrenching: a gripping suspense novel that is also a moving story of sisters\, addiction\, and the formidable ties that persist between place\, family\, and fate. \n“[Moore’s] careful balance of the hard-bitten with the heartfelt is what elevates Long Bright River from entertaining page-turner to a book that makes you want to call someone you love.” – The New York Times Book Review\n\nWe are still waiting for more information about whether we will be able to hold this event in person. However\, we are also committed to continuing offering access virtually to Tuesday Night Book Club for all our new audiences! You can register now for Zoom access to the event. When you register you will be provided the meeting link to join the conversation. 

 \nPlease stay tuned for more details about an in-person location for this event when more information becomes available. 
URL:https://www.monmouth.edu/events/event/tuesday-night-book-club-liz-moore-long-bright-river/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Alumni,Alumni Affairs,Alumni Events,Arts at Monmouth,English,Free,Lectures,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210921T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210921T210000
DTSTAMP:20260511T195146
CREATED:20210504T155804Z
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SUMMARY:Tuesday Night Book Club: Charles Yu\, Interior Chinatown
DESCRIPTION:Join us for Tuesday Night Book Club! Hosted by Monmouth University’s Ken Womack and Michael Thomas\, each month we’ll explore a different novel. All you have to do is Zoom in and join the discussion! \nThis month’s novel is Charles Yu’s Interior Chinatown. \nWillis Wu doesn’t perceive himself as a protagonist even in his own life: He’s merely Generic Asian man. Sometimes he gets to be Background Oriental Making a Weird Face or even Disgraced Son\, but he is always relegated to a prop. Yet every day he leaves his tiny room and enters the Golden Palace restaurant\, where Black and White\, a procedural cop show\, is in perpetual production. He’s a bit player here\, too\, but he dreams of being Kung Fu Guy—the most respected role that anyone who looks like him can attain. At least that’s what he has been told\, time and time again. Except by one person\, his mother. Who says to him: Be more. \nPlayful but heartfelt\, a send-up of Hollywood tropes and Asian stereotypes\, Interior Chinatown is Charles Yu’s most moving\, daring\, and masterly novel yet. \nWe are still waiting for more information about whether we will be able to hold this event in person. However\, we are also committed to continuing offering access virtually to Tuesday Night Book Club for all our new audiences! You can register now for Zoom access to the event. When you register you will be provided the meeting link to join the conversation. 

 \nPlease stay tuned for more details about an in-person location for this event when more information becomes available. 
URL:https://www.monmouth.edu/events/event/tuesday-night-book-club-charles-yu-interior-chinatown/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Alumni,Alumni Affairs,Alumni Events,Arts at Monmouth,English,Free,Lectures,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210810T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210810T210000
DTSTAMP:20260511T195146
CREATED:20210504T155338Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220930T162118Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Tuesday Night Book Club: Jennifer Egan\, A Visit from the Goon Squad
DESCRIPTION:Join us for Tuesday Night Book Club! Hosted by Monmouth University’s Ken Womack and Michael Thomas\, each month we’ll explore a different novel. All you have to do is Zoom in and join the discussion! \nThis month’s novel is A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan. \nJennifer Egan’s spellbinding novel circles the lives of Bennie Salazar\, an ageing former punk rocker and record executive\, and Sasha\, the passionate\, troubled young woman he employs. Although Bennie and Sasha never discover each other’s pasts\, the reader does\, in intimate detail\, along with the secret lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs\, over many years\, in locales as varied as New York\, San Francisco\, Naples\, and Africa. \nA Visit from the Goon Squad is a book about the interplay of time and music\, about survival\, about the stirrings and transformations set inexorably in motion by even the most passing conjunction of our fates. In a breathtaking array of styles and tones ranging from tragedy to satire to PowerPoint\, Egan captures the undertow of self-destruction that we all must either master or succumb to; the basic human hunger for redemption; and the universal tendency to reach for both—and escape the merciless progress of time—in the transporting realms of art and music. Sly\, startling\, exhilarating work from one of our boldest writers. \nWhen you register you will be provided the meeting link to join the conversation. GET MORE INFORMATION ON HOW TO USE ZOOM
URL:https://www.monmouth.edu/events/event/virtual-tuesday-night-book-club-jennifer-egan-a-visit-from-the-goon-squad/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Alumni,Alumni Affairs,Alumni Events,Arts at Monmouth,English,Featured,Free,Lectures,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210713T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210713T210000
DTSTAMP:20260511T195146
CREATED:20210504T155056Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220930T162119Z
UID:40810110833-1626204600-1626210000@www.monmouth.edu
SUMMARY:Virtual Tuesday Night Book Club: Ernest Hemingway\, The Sun Also Rises
DESCRIPTION:Join us for Tuesday Night Book Club! Hosted by Monmouth University’s Ken Womack and Michael Thomas\, each month we’ll explore a different novel. All you have to do is Zoom in and join the discussion! \nThis month’s novel is Ernest Hemingway\, The Sun Also Rises. \nOriginally published in 1926\, The Sun Also Rises is Ernest Hemingway’s first novel and a classic example of his spare but powerful writing style.​ \nA poignant look at the disillusionment and angst of the post-World War I generation\, the novel introduces two of Hemingway’s most unforgettable characters: Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley. The story follows the flamboyant Brett and the hapless Jake as they journey from the wild nightlife of 1920s Paris to the brutal bullfighting rings of Spain with a motley group of expatriates. In his first great literary masterpiece\, Hemingway portrays an age of moral bankruptcy\, spiritual dissolution\, unrealized love\, and vanishing illusions. \n“The ideal companion for troubled times: equal parts Continental escape and serious grappling with the question of what it means to be\, and feel\, lost.” —The Wall Street Journal \nWhen you register you will be provided the meeting link to join the conversation. GET MORE INFORMATION ON HOW TO USE ZOOM
URL:https://www.monmouth.edu/events/event/virtual-tuesday-night-book-club-ernest-hemingway-the-sun-also-rises/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Alumni,Alumni Affairs,Arts at Monmouth,English,Free,Lectures,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210615T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210615T210000
DTSTAMP:20260511T195146
CREATED:20210504T154732Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220930T162119Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Tuesday Night Book Club: David Guterson\, Snow Falling on Cedars
DESCRIPTION:Join us for Tuesday Night Book Club! Hosted by Monmouth University’s Ken Womack and Michael Thomas\, each month we’ll explore a different novel. All you have to do is Zoom in and join the discussion! \nThis month’s novel is David Guterson’s Snow Falling on Cedars. \nSan Piedro Island\, north of Puget Sound\, is a place so isolated that no one who lives there can afford to make enemies. But in 1954 a local fisherman is found suspiciously drowned\, and a Japanese American named Kabuo Miyamoto is charged with his murder. In the course of the ensuing trial\, it becomes clear that what is at stake is more than a man’s guilt. For on San Pedro\, memory grows as thickly as cedar trees and the fields of ripe strawberries—memories of a charmed love affair between a white boy and the Japanese girl who grew up to become Kabuo’s wife; memories of land desired\, paid for\, and lost. Above all\, San Piedro is haunted by the memory of what happened to its Japanese residents during World War II\, when an entire community was sent into exile while its neighbors watched. Gripping\, tragic\, and densely atmospheric\, Snow Falling on Cedars is a masterpiece of suspense— one that leaves us shaken and changed. \n“Haunting…. A whodunit complete with courtroom maneuvering and surprising turns of evidence and at the same time a mystery\, something altogether richer and deeper.”—Los Angeles Times \n“Compelling…heartstopping. Finely wrought\, flawlessly written.”—The New York Times Book Review \nWhen you register you will be provided the meeting link to join the conversation. GET MORE INFORMATION ON HOW TO USE ZOOM
URL:https://www.monmouth.edu/events/event/virtual-tuesday-night-book-club-david-guterson-snow-falling-on-cedars/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Alumni,Alumni Affairs,Alumni Events,Arts at Monmouth,English,Free,Lectures,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210511T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210511T213000
DTSTAMP:20260511T195146
CREATED:20201007T154603Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220930T162120Z
UID:40810110482-1620761400-1620768600@www.monmouth.edu
SUMMARY:Virtual Tuesday Night Book Club: Taylor Jenkins Reid's Daisy Jones and the Six
DESCRIPTION:Join us for Tuesday Night Book Club! Hosted by Monmouth University’s Ken Womack and Michael Thomas\, each month we’ll explore a different novel. All you have to do is Zoom in and join the discussion! \nThis month’s novel is Taylor Jenkins Reid’s Daisy Jones and the Six. A gripping novel about the whirlwind rise of an iconic 1970s rock group and their beautiful lead singer\, revealing the mystery behind their infamous breakup. Taylor Jenkins Reid is a talented writer who takes her work to a new level with Daisy Jones & The Six\, brilliantly capturing a place and time in an utterly distinctive voice. \nWhen you register you will be provided the meeting link to join the conversation. GET MORE INFORMATION ON HOW TO USE ZOOM
URL:https://www.monmouth.edu/events/event/virtual-tuesday-night-book-club-taylor-jenkins-reids-daisy-jones-and-the-six/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Alumni,Alumni Affairs,Arts at Monmouth,English,Free,Lectures,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210420T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210420T193000
DTSTAMP:20260511T195146
CREATED:20201020T204024Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220930T162119Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Tuesday Night Book Club: Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad
DESCRIPTION:Join us for Tuesday Night Book Club! Hosted by Monmouth University’s Ken Womack and Michael Thomas\, each month we’ll explore a different novel. All you have to do is Zoom in and join the discussion! \nThis month’s novel is Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award\, the #1 New York Times bestseller from Colson Whitehead\, a magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave’s adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. In Whitehead’s ingenious conception\, the Underground Railroad is no mere metaphor—engineers and conductors operate a secret network of tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. The Underground Railroad is at once a kinetic adventure tale of one woman’s ferocious will to escape the horrors of bondage and a shattering\, powerful meditation on the history we all share.
URL:https://www.monmouth.edu/events/event/virtual-tuesday-night-book-clubcolson-whiteheads-the-underground-railroad/
CATEGORIES:Alumni,Alumni Affairs,Arts at Monmouth,English,Free,Lectures,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210330T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210330T213000
DTSTAMP:20260511T195146
CREATED:20201007T152222Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220930T162120Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Tuesday Night Book Club: Rebecca Skloot's The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
DESCRIPTION:Join us for Tuesday Night Book Club! Hosted by Monmouth University’s Ken Womack and Michael Thomas\, each month we’ll explore a different novel. All you have to do is Zoom in and join the discussion! \nThis month’s novel is Rebecca Skloot’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Her name was Henrietta Lacks\, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors\, yet her cells—taken without her knowledge—became one of the most important tools in medicine: The first “immortal” human cells grown in culture\, which are still alive today\, though she has been dead for more than sixty years \nAs Rebecca Skloot so brilliantly shows\, the story of the Lacks family—past and present—is inextricably connected to the dark history of experimentation on African Americans\, the birth of bioethics\, and the legal battles over whether we control the stuff we are made of. \n#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The story of modern medicine and bioethics—and\, indeed\, race relations—is refracted beautifully\, and movingly.”—Entertainment Weekly\n \nWhen you register you will be provided the meeting link to join the conversation. GET MORE INFORMATION ON HOW TO USE ZOOM
URL:https://www.monmouth.edu/events/event/virtual-tuesday-night-book-club-rebecca-skloots-the-immortal-life-of-henrietta-lacks/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Alumni,Alumni Affairs,Arts at Monmouth,English,Free,Lectures,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210223T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210223T213000
DTSTAMP:20260511T195146
CREATED:20201007T150958Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220930T162120Z
UID:40810110473-1614108600-1614115800@www.monmouth.edu
SUMMARY:Virtual Tuesday Night Book Club: Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man
DESCRIPTION:Join us for Tuesday Night Book Club! Hosted by Monmouth University’s Ken Womack and Michael Thomas\, each month we’ll explore a different novel. All you have to do is Zoom in and join the discussion! \nThis month’s novel is Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man. Originally published in 1952 as the first novel by a then unknown author\, it remained on the bestseller list for sixteen weeks\, won the National Book Award for fiction\, and established Ralph Ellison as one of the key writers of the century. The book’s nameless narrator describes growing up in a black community in the South\, attending a Negro college from which he is expelled\, moving to New York and becoming the chief spokesman of the Harlem branch of “the Brotherhood”\, before retreating amid violence and confusion to the basement lair of the Invisible Man he imagines himself to be. \nWhen you register you will be provided the meeting link to join the conversation. GET MORE INFORMATION ON HOW TO USE ZOOM
URL:https://www.monmouth.edu/events/event/virtual-tuesday-night-book-club-ralph-ellisons-invisible-man/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Alumni,Alumni Affairs,Alumni Events,Arts at Monmouth,English,Free,Lectures,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210126T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210126T213000
DTSTAMP:20260511T195146
CREATED:20201007T150613Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220930T162121Z
UID:40810110470-1611689400-1611696600@www.monmouth.edu
SUMMARY:Virtual Tuesday Night Book Club: Raymond Carver's What We Talk about When We Talk about Love
DESCRIPTION:Join us for Tuesday Night Book Club! Hosted by Monmouth University’s Ken Womack and Michael Thomas\, each month we’ll explore a different novel. All you have to do is Zoom in and join the discussion! \nThis month’s book is Raymond Carver’s What We Talk about When We Talk about Love. In his second collection\, including the iconic and much-referenced title story featured in the Academy Award-winning film Birdman\, Carver establishes his reputation as one of the most celebrated short-story writers in American literature—a haunting meditation on love\, loss\, and companionship\, and finding one’s way through the dark. \nWhen you register you will be provided the meeting link to join the conversation. GET MORE INFORMATION ON HOW TO USE ZOOM
URL:https://www.monmouth.edu/events/event/virtual-tuesday-night-book-club-raymond-carvers-what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-love/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Alumni,Alumni Affairs,Arts at Monmouth,English,Free,Lectures,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201215T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201215T213000
DTSTAMP:20260511T195146
CREATED:20200825T162201Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220930T162121Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Tuesday Night Book Club: Amor Towles' A Gentleman in Moscow
DESCRIPTION:Join us for Tuesday Night Book Club! Hosted by Monmouth University’s Ken Womack and Michael Thomas\, each month we’ll explore a different novel. All you have to do is Zoom in and join the discussion! \nThis month’s novel is Amor Towles’ A Gentleman in Moscow and joining the conversation will be the special guest host Anika Chapin. A Gentleman in Moscow immerses us in another elegantly drawn era with the story of Count Alexander Rostov. When\, in 1922\, he is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal\, the count is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol\, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov\, an indomitable man of erudition and wit\, has never worked a day in his life\, and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding outside the hotel’s doors. Unexpectedly\, his reduced circumstances provide him a doorway into a much larger world of emotional discovery. \nWhen you register you will be provided the meeting link to join the conversation. GET MORE INFORMATION ON HOW TO USE ZOOM
URL:https://www.monmouth.edu/events/event/virtual-tuesday-night-book-club-amor-towles-a-gentleman-in-moscow/
CATEGORIES:Alumni,Alumni Affairs,Arts at Monmouth,English,Featured,Free,Lectures,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201117T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201117T213000
DTSTAMP:20260511T195146
CREATED:20200825T161409Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220930T162122Z
UID:40810110356-1605641400-1605648600@www.monmouth.edu
SUMMARY:Virtual Tuesday Night Book Club: Clare Beams' The Illness Lesson
DESCRIPTION:Join us for Tuesday Night Book Club! Hosted by Monmouth University’s Ken Womack and Michael Thomas\, each month we’ll explore a different novel. All you have to do is Zoom in and join the discussion! \nThis month’s novel is Clare Beams’ The Illness Lesson.  Written in intensely vivid prose and brimming with psychological insight\, The Illness Lesson is a powerful exploration of women’s bodies\, women’s minds\, and the time-honored tradition of doubting both. \nWhen you register you will be provided the meeting link to join the conversation. GET MORE INFORMATION ON HOW TO USE ZOOM
URL:https://www.monmouth.edu/events/event/virtual-tuesday-night-book-club-clare-beams-the-illness-lesson/
CATEGORIES:Alumni,Alumni Affairs,Arts at Monmouth,English,Free,Lectures,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200911T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200911T180000
DTSTAMP:20260511T195146
CREATED:20200901T181747Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220930T162121Z
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SUMMARY:The Intersection Faculty Book Club Summer Book Selection Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Save the Date to Discuss The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy on Friday\, September 11 at 4:30 p.m. \nNow more than ever it is important for us to stay connected and find comfort in togetherness. We will gather together via Zoom to discuss the novel. Zoom invite will be sent closer to the event. Please feel free to “bring” your own refreshments. \nDr. Abha Sood will serve as our discussion leader. She is an African American and Postcolonial Literature Scholars. Dr. Sood has provided the thought questions below to help you reflect on the book. \n\nHow do the troubled relationships–parent-child\, inter-caste\, intergenerational\, inter-religious\, intercultural–inform the plot?\nHow do thwarted or unfulfilled desires affect personality and behavior?\nThe political environment in Kera la and its impact on social relationships (challenge to feudal structures?).\nThe conflict between the native language (Malayalam) and the borrowed language (English).\nThe landscape and its influence on the narrative.\nComparisons to other narratives informed by (or narrated by) a child’s view (in retrospect).\n\nThis event celebrates the interconnections between the Program in Gender and lntersectionality Studies and the Institute for Global Understanding\, and is co-hosted with the English Department and the Library. \nThis program is designed for faculty and academic administrators. The Zoom link will be distributed by MU email on Wednesday\, September 9. For questions\, please send email to Dr. Lisa M. Dinella at ldinella@monmouth.edu. \nAbout the Intersection Faculty Book Club\nNew York Times Bestseller\nThe Intersection Faculty Book Club features a thought-provoking novel each break. The books selected highlight equity\, gender and diversity topics. An MU scholar hosts the discussion\, bringing an interdisciplinary perspective and inspiring deeper discussion. This book club is a joint venture of the Program in Gender and lntersectionality Studies\, the Guggenheim Memorial Library\, and the English Department.
URL:https://www.monmouth.edu/events/event/the-intersection-faculty-book-club-summer-book-selection-discussion/
CATEGORIES:English,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200311T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200311T173000
DTSTAMP:20260511T195146
CREATED:20200225T190647Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220613T141243Z
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SUMMARY:Cancelled: Lives of the 'Brows': Autobiography\, Taste\, Ethics
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Max Cavitch\, Associate Professor of English\, University of Pennsylvania\nPlease join us for a guest lecture by Dr. Max Cavitch\, Associate Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania\, where he is also an affiliated faculty member of the programs in Cinema Studies\, Gender\, Sexuality\, and Women’s Studies\, and Psychoanalytic Studies. \nDr. Cavitch will be discussing literary taste and value in relation to autobiography—one of the world’s most popular and widely practiced genres. From “highbrow” triumphs of artistic intention to “middlebrow” narratives of historical significance to “lowbrow” tell-alls of gossipy celebrity\, there are autobiographies to suit every taste. But what is “taste\,” anyway? What does it have to do with “literary value”? And\, moreover\, what do either taste or literary value have to do with the question of whose lives and life-stories matter? \nRefreshments will be served. Students\, faculty\, and interested members of the public are warmly invited to attend. \nFree and open to the public.\nSponsored by the Wayne D. McMurray Endowed Chair in the Humanities\, Dr. Kristin Bluemel
URL:https://www.monmouth.edu/events/event/lives-of-the-brows-autobiography-taste-ethics/
LOCATION:Bey Hall 222
CATEGORIES:Community Member,Council of Endowed Chairs,Current Student,English,Faculty,School of Humanities and Social Sciences
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200218T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200218T235959
DTSTAMP:20260511T195146
CREATED:20200211T162641Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230220T170924Z
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SUMMARY:Toni Morrison Day
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a celebration of the life and works of Toni Morrison: author\, activist\, academic\, and Nobel Laureate. \nThese events are free and open to the public. For questions or additional information\, please contact Professor Linda Sacks at lsacks@monmouth.edu. \nSponsored by the Department of English\, the Guggenheim Memorial Library and the Honors School. \nSchedule of Events\nLibrary 101 \n10:00 – 11:25 a.m. | Dr. Courtney Werner – Welcome; Professor Beth Sara Swanson – Opening remarks; Dr. Walter Greason – Keynote address \n11:40 a.m. – 4:10 p.m. | Sigma Tau Delta: marathon reading of Sula\, read in its entirety by student and faculty volunteers \n4:30 – 5:50 p.m. |  Dr. Anwar Uhuru: “Finding Self Regard in the Works of Toni Morrison\,” followed by discussion \n6:00 – 8:00 p.m. | Screening: Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am (2019)\, sponsored by the Honors School \nLibrary 102 \n10:05 a.m. – 4:10 p.m. | Visit the Toni Morrison Gallery – enjoy food and refreshments \nFaculty Symposium\nMagill 107 \n11:40 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. | Pedagogy Panel: “Teaching Toni Morrison” \n1:15 – 2:35 p.m. | Scholarship Roundtable: “Morrison: History\, Themes\, and Craft” \nWilson 104 \n10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. | Open Room: Student & Faculty maker/creator space \n10:00 – 11:00 a.m. | Collage Workshop with Professor Linh Dao\, Department of Art and Design \n2:00 – 3:00 p.m. |  Collage Workshop with Professor Linh Dao (video) \nClick Image to Download Event Schedule\n 
URL:https://www.monmouth.edu/events/event/toni-morrison-day/
CATEGORIES:English,Honors School,School of Humanities and Social Sciences
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191030T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191030T180000
DTSTAMP:20260511T195146
CREATED:20191009T134017Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200331T131437Z
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SUMMARY:Ink & Electricity Lecture Series
DESCRIPTION:This annual lecture series brings top scholars in the fields of digital humanities\, media studies\, the history of the book\, print culture\, and children’s literature to Monmouth University every fall. \nSTRANGER THAN FICTION:\nTHE NOVEL IN WEB 2.0\nA Talk by Dr. Priya Joshi\nProfessor of English\nTemple University\nFan sites\, new writing platforms\, and new markets for the novel are now produced and curated by readers on Web 2.0 platforms. This talk reviews the story of “literature” in the age of digital production with particular attention to the future of literary theory. \nThis event is free and open to the public and refreshments will be served. \nInk and Electricity is sponsored by the Wayne D. McMurray-Helen Bennett Endowed Chair in the Humanities at Monmouth University\, Dr. Kristin Bluemel\, professor of English. She can be reached at kbluemel@monmouth.edu or 732-571-3622.
URL:https://www.monmouth.edu/events/event/ink-electricity-lecture-series/
LOCATION:The Great Hall -104
CATEGORIES:Council of Endowed Chairs,English,Free,Lectures/Workshops/Symposiums,School of Humanities and Social Sciences
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191029T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191029T210000
DTSTAMP:20260511T195146
CREATED:20191010T140028Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200331T131614Z
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SUMMARY:Graduate English Meet-Up
DESCRIPTION:A goosebump inducing evening of perfect readings for the season. Enjoy spooky readings of the season from faculty members and students. Meet and mingle with other Graduate students. \nFor more information\, contact Michele McBride at mmcbride@monmouth.edu.
URL:https://www.monmouth.edu/events/event/graduate-english-meet-up/
LOCATION:Withey Chapel – the Great Hall
CATEGORIES:English,Graduate Student,School of Humanities and Social Sciences
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SUMMARY:Small Island
DESCRIPTION:adapted by Helen Edmundson \nbased on the novel by Andrea Levy \nAndrea Levy’s Orange Prize-winning novel Small Island comes to life in an epic new theatre adaptation. Experience the play in cinemas\, filmed live on stage as part of National Theatre Live’s 10th birthday. \nSmall Island embarks on a journey from Jamaica to Britain\, through the Second World War to 1948 – the year the HMT Empire Windrush docked at Tilbury\, England. \nThe play follows three intricately connected stories. Hortense yearns for a new life away from rural Jamaica\, Gilbert dreams of becoming a lawyer\, and Queenie longs to escape her Lincolnshire roots. Hope and humanity meet stubborn reality as the play traces the tangled history of Jamaica and the UK. \nA company of 40 actors take to the stage of the National Theatre in London in this timely and moving story.
URL:https://www.monmouth.edu/events/event/small-island/
LOCATION:Pollak Theatre
CATEGORIES:Arts at Monmouth,Broadcast in HD,English,Theatre
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