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Cognizant of the current economic and societal climate, the Race Conference committee is waiving registration fees for this year’s event in order to further the goals of open, active, and unhampered engagement. Monmouth University’s Seventh Biennial Interdisciplinary Conference on Race Public Spaces, Private Places: Constructing Race and Liberation Virtual Conference
Presented by Christopher DeRosa, Ph.D. This two-hour session traces how Union and Confederate plans for victory evolved over the course of the war. We will look at how American geography, contemporary military thinking, the available technology, and the contestants’ capacity for mobilization influenced their strategic choices. In particular, we will consider the profound struggle between slavery […]
Presented by Maryanne Rhett, Ph.D. This two-hour session will look at how graphic novels (comics, sequential art, etc.) can be utilized in middle and high school settings to aid in the instruction on the political, economic, and social contributions of persons with disabilities and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people. The history of comics is […]
Presented by Adam Heinrich, Ph.D. This two-hour session will look at the archaeological evidence for the lives of enslaved people in New Jersey of both African and Native American descent. The roles and lives of enslaved people have frequently been overlooked in New Jersey histories and at historical sites. Over the last several years, archaeological investigations have […]
Presented by Melissa Brzycki, Ph.D. This two-hour session will look at norms and expectations for children and youth in 20th-century China, including changes to the educational system. We will look at how childhood and youth changed during colonization, war, and the advent of socialism. We will cover youth-led movements like the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) and […]
Race and the Freedom to Learn Cosponsored by the William Monroe Trotter Institute for the Study of Black Culture at UMass Boston Location: Monmouth University Campus The freedom to learn has been inextricably linked to race across time and space. From the era of enslavement in the Americas to book burning in Nazi Germany down […]
Sponsored by the Public History Minor at Monmouth University Free and open to all The Public History Minor at Monmouth University hosted the first annual Julian Francis Abele “Out of the Shadows” Virtual Public History Symposium via Zoom in 2021. Free for presenters and attendees alike, the Symposium is intended as a welcoming place for […]
Presenter: Katherine Parkin, Ph.D., Professor, Department of History and Anthropology; Jules Plangere, Jr., Endowed Chair in American Social History Organized crime played a role in the experience of many securing, providing, and paying for abortions before they were legalized. The high rates for the procedure made illegal abortion in the 1960s the third largest moneymaker for […]
Tuesday, March 24, 2026 4:30–6:30 p.m. Guggenheim Memorial Library Room 101 Rated R A stunning tribute to the resilience of Native people and their way of life, “Sugarcane”, the debut feature documentary from Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie, is an epic cinematic portrait of a community during a moment of international reckoning. In 2021, evidence […]
This symposium provides a space for generative conversations on what we know about Native American boarding schools and what that knowledge means. Join us in exploring the 20th-century history of North American Indian boarding schools in this two-day symposium, featuring speakers, workshops, and film. About the Symposium In the late-19th and early-20th century, throughout the […]
