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  • Music Industry Network Event

    Lauren K. Woods Theatre

    The Monmouth University Music and Theatre Arts Department and Blue Hawk Media Group is hosting a networking event to connect students with alumni working in the music and entertainment field and expand their knowledge of the music industry. Come meet with alumni at Warner, Sony, SiriusXM and more!

    Free, please register.

  • Ross Gay

    Ross Gay – Toni Morrison Day Keynote Speaker

    Pozycki Hall Auditorium

    Ross Gay is the author of the poetry collections Against Which (2006), Bringing the Shovel Down (2011), Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude (2015), winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, and Be Holding (2022), winner of the PEN American Literary Jean Stein Award. As an essayist, he has published The Book of Delights, a 2019 New York Times bestseller, Inciting Joy (2022), and The Book of (More) Delights (2023). Gay is founding co-editor of the online sports magazine Some Call it Ballin’ and an ardent gardener and founding board member of the Bloomington Community Orchard, a non-profit, free-fruit-for-all food justice and joy project.

    Free and open to the public

  • Military Strategy of the American Civil War (Credit Hours for History Teachers)

    Guggenheim Memorial Library, Room 101 400 Cedar Ave, West Long Branch, NJ, United States

    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 […]

  • LGBTQ and Disability History and Comics (Credit Hours for History Teachers)

    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 […]

  • Archaeology and Enslavement in New Jersey (Credit Hours for History Teachers)

    Guggenheim Memorial Library, Room 101 400 Cedar Ave, West Long Branch, NJ, United States

    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 […]

  • Childhood and Youth in Modern China (Credit Hours for History Teachers)

    Guggenheim Memorial Library, Room 101 400 Cedar Ave, West Long Branch, NJ, United States

    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 […]

  • The Eighth Biennial International Interdisciplinary Conference on Race

    Various Campus Locations

    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 […]

  • Toni Morrison Day, Feb 21, 2025

    Toni Morrison Day 2025

    Pozycki Hall Auditorium

    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 […]

  • Communication Career Panels and Networking Event

    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 […]