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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 […]
Keynote Speaker: Autumn Womack Autumn Womack is an associate professor of African American studies and English at Princeton University. She is the author of “The Matter of Living: The Aesthetic Experiment of Racial Data, 1880-1930” (U. Chicago, 2022), which won the MLA’s William Sanders Scarborough Prize and was shortlisted for the Modernist Studies Association’s First […]
Presented by the Department of Communication and the Wayne D. McMurray School of Humanities and Social Sciences Career Panels “Life After Monmouth: Emerging Trends in Communication Fields” 1:30–3:45 p.m., Third Floor “All the Place You’ll Go! Diverse Careers in Communication” 2:45–3:45 p.m., Third Floor Networking Session with Panelists and Alumni 3:45–4:15 p.m., Second Floor Internship/Job […]
CAC Presentation Series: Alumni Status Medical Trauma: Emotional Implications and Crisis Intervention Presenter: Alison Kulick, M.S., LPC, NCC, CVT Price: $20 for Alumni and Professionals, Free for Students 2 CE Hours Provided Traumatic medical events such as illness, diagnostic, or therapeutic procedures can have a myriad of emotional consequences which can include PTSD, chronic anxiety, […]
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 […]
Thanks to a generous donation, Dean David Golland is pleased to announce the Wayne D. McMurray School of Humanities and Social Sciences Dean’s Distinguished Speaker Series for the 2025-2026 academic year. The Dean’s Distinguished Speaker Series will invite authors to speak to groups of students, staff, faculty and administrators. In conjunction with Monmouth University’s Constitution […]
February 12, 2025
Hands-on Workshop: 11:40 AM – 2:35 PM, DiMattio Gallery
Poetry Reading: 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM, Great Hall Auditorium
Two visiting poets, Andrea Ballou and Mike McCarthy, will give a reading and lead a workshop that explores how poetry and image making can inspire, dialog, and transform the other in the creative process. Associate Professor Kimberly Callas collaborated with McCarthy on his recent poetry book Behold and will join the discussion and workshop.
The film exposes the dangerous role of mainstream media in fueling anti-trans legislation, uncovering how biased coverage drives hate, endangers lives, and threatens democracy itself. With insights from journalists like Jelani Cobb, Lydia Polgreen, and Gina Chua, and activists like Laverne Cox, the story dismantles anti-trans disinformation and highlights its devastating real-world impact.
Blake Butler is the author of twelve book-length works, recently including Molly, Void Corporation, and UXA.GOV. His short fiction, interviews, reviews, and essays have appeared widely, including in The New York Times, Harper’s, The Paris Review, Fence, Bomb, Bookforum, and as an ongoing column at Vice. In 2021, he was longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize. He is a founding editor of HTMLGIANT.
Join us as we welcome the Department of Communication’s newest faculty member to campus, Assistant Professor Jake Yuzna, who will share an artist talk and selects from their creative practice. Yuzna is a filmmaker, artist, and curator whose work often explores evolving identities, subculture, and genre. Their films have been presented at the Cannes Film Festival, Berlin Film Festival, London Film Festival, New Museum of Contemporary Art, Walker Art Center, and the British Film Institute, among others. In addition, their work has been distributed by NetFlix, Hulu, PBS, and Arté Television, among others.
