Provost Film Series: A Bottle in the Gaza Sea
2014-04-08 19:30 - 23:59 (America/New_York) | Pollak Theatre
Tai is 17 years old. Naim is 20. She’s Israeli. He’s Palestinian. She lives in Jerusalem. He lives in Gaza. Only 60 miles separate them but how many bombings, check-points, sleepless nights and bloodstained days stand between them?
All movies will be sown in the Pollak Theatre at Monmouth University. Free of charge and open to the Monmouth university community and the general public.

Talk Sports and Resistance in the United States
2014-04-09 13:00 - 14:15
Location: Wilson Auditorium, Wilson Hall
David Zirin, The Nation’s sports correspondent, is the author, most recently, of Game Over: How Politics Has Turned the Sports World Upside Down. He was named one of UTNE Reader’s “50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Our World.”
This event is co-sponsored by the generous support of:
Institute for Global Understanding, Office for Global Initiatives, Athletics Department, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, School of Social Work, Department of Communication, Department of Interdisciplinary Studies and the Sociology Club

Contemporary Chinese Sound Art and the Politics of Equality
2014-04-10 11:30 - 12:45
Location: Young Auditorium, Bey Hall
Contemporary Chinese Sound Art and the Politics of Equality (Lecture and discussion)
Prof. Andrew Demirjian, Department of Communication
Xiaoying Yuan, Independent Art Curator
Since its import into China, the evolution of and the practice of Sound Art, like the art of New Media, has been completely re-shaped by the political system, social structure, and market economy of contemporary China. Sound Art in China – as it’s been greatly affected by the local culture – has very little in common with its original reference in Western art history. In a classroom colloquium format, media art curator Xiaoying Yuan will discuss artists in contemporary China who work with sound as their medium and the issues of equality they encounter from a social, political, and institutional perspective. During her presentation she will play excerpts of compositions and video documentation of influential performances of this vibrant and extremely creative experimental art community that has limited access to gain the attention of Western art media.
About the Lecturer
Xiaoying Juliette Yuan holds a Master of Generative Literature from Paris III (la Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, France), and is currently a Ph.D. candidate at Planetary Collegium (University of Plymouth, UK), under the direction of Roy Ascott. She has worked in the media arts field since 2004, and is one of the most active figures in the Chinese media arts scene.
Her accomplished projects include international exhibitions, conferences and workshops. Her collaborators include governmental institutions, academies, museums, festivals, private institutions, and foundations, both in China and overseas. She is also an active editor and writer, and has widely published surveys and critiques in mainstream Chinese and international magazines.

President's Inauguration
2014-04-10 14:00 - 15:00
Join us on the steps of Wilson Hall for the Inauguration of President Paul R. Brown, Ph.D.
Can’t make it? A live stream of the inauguration will be available.

A Judgment of War: An Exhibit of Selected Works by Jacob Landau
2014-04-10 16:30 - 2014-04-25 23:59 | Monmouth University Library
Opening Reception: April 10, 2014 at 4:30 p.m.
Monmouth University Galleries presents an exhibition of works exploring the theme of war by American artist, humanist, and teacher Jacob Landau in Monmouth University Library. A Judgment of War: An Exhibit of Selected Works by Jacob Landau will be on view from April 10 – April 25 in the Library Seminar Room (102).
On Thursday, April 17 at 4:30 p.m. Steven Brower, Assistant Professor of Art at Marywood University, will give a talk on Landau’s comic books, including “The Sniper,” which he did while serving in the Italian theatre during World War II.
All events are free & open to the public. Docent tours are available (for times, contact Professor Susan Douglass 732-263-5509; sdouglas@monmouth.edu).
For additional information on the exhibition and other gallery events on the West Long Branch campus of Monmouth University, please contact call 732-263-5712 or visit www.monmouth.edu/arts.

Sean Tyrrell
2014-04-10 19:30 - 23:00 | Lauren K. Woods Theatre
One of Ireland’s major folk voices returns to Monmouth University for another extraordinary evening of deeply moving, engaging music and storytelling. Longtime traditional musician, renowned storyteller and performance artist since the 1960’s, Sean Tyrrell has traveled extensively all over the world, collaborating with folks such as Tommy Peoples and Paddy Keenan. Siobhan Long of the Irish Times Review writes: “Here be folk music as it was meant to be: pugilistic at times, all embracing at others. Tyrrell’s appetite for telling it like it is as unquenchable as ever.”
Cosponsored by the Irish Studies Program

GUC Featured Movie and Conversation
2014-04-10 20:00 - 22:00
Location: Young Auditorium, Bey Hall
Spanning seven years, “My So-Called Enemy” follows Palestinian and Israeli teenage girls who participated in a women’s leadership program in New Jersey called Building Bridges for Peace. It documents how the transformative experience of knowing their “enemies” as human beings collides with the realities of their lives in Palestine and Israel. The heart and mind-opening film presents the complexities of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict through a human lens and opens up the possibility for hope that comes from listening to each other’s stories. Viewers will have the opportunity to dialogue with Lisa Gossels, the dynamic director of this award-winning documentary.
This film will be shown as part of Prof. Saliba Sarsar’s “Comparative Politics of the Middle East” class. It is sponsored by the Monmouth Center for World Religions and Ethical Thought (MCWRET), the Monmouth Dialogue Group, and the U.S. President’s Interfaith Initiative at Monmouth University. A continental breakfast will be served.

Second Senior Show: Graphic Design & Animation
2014-04-11 09:00 - 2014-04-18 17:00 | Joan and Robert Rechnitz Hall
Location: Joan and Robert Rechnitz Hall
Free & Open to the Public
Featuring the work of Monmouth University graduating seniors who will receive their degrees in Graphic Design.
Rechnitz Hall, The Dimattio Gallery
Opening Reception: Fri. April 11, from 7 – 9 p.m.
Joan and Robert Rechnitz Hall Hours
Monday – Thursday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Friday, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. | Saturday, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Panel Discussion: Guatemala Public Health 2014
2014-04-11 13:00 - 14:15
Location: Turrell Boardroom, Bey Hall
Guatemala Public Health 2014: “It’s an Adventure,” Panel Discussion
Students join professors for a panel discussion on the state of public health in Guatemala. Panel members include Prof. Chris Hirschler and Corey Inzana, Alexandra Evangelista, Chelsea McDermott, Melanie Pardun, Carly Samona, Angelica Santos, Students.

Met Opera: WERTHER Encore
2014-04-13 13:00 - 17:00 | Pollak Theatre
WERTHER (Massenet) Encore: Sun. April 13 at 1:00 p.m.Run Time: 3:15
Jonas Kaufmann stars in the title role of Massenet’s sublime adaptation
of Goethe’s revolutionary and tragic romance, opposite Sophie Koch as
Charlotte. The new production is directed and designed by Richard Eyre
and Rob Howell, the same team that created the Met’s recent hit staging
of Carmen. Rising young maestro Alain Altinoglu conducts.

On Screen/In Person: United in Anger: A History of ACT UP
2014-04-14 19:30 - 23:43 | The Great Hall
United in Anger: A History of ACT UP  with director Jim Hubbard
April 14, 2014 at 7:30 pm
Wilson Auditorium
United in Anger: A History of ACT UP is the first feature-length documentary to explore ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) from an historical perspective and describes how a small group of men and women of all races and classes came together to change the world and save each other’s lives.
There will be a Q & A with the filmmaker following the screening.
On Screen/In Person is made possible by Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation through the generous support of the National Endowment for the Arts’ Regional Touring Program.

Teacher From The Black Lagoon & Other Story Books
2014-04-15 10:00
An exciting new musical revue based on favorite contemporary children’s books including Teacher From the Black Lagoon (by Mike Thaler and Jared Lee), Dogzilla (by Dav Pilkey), Grumpy Bird (by Jeremy Tankard), I Want My Hat Back (by Jon Klassen), Lily’s Purple Plastic Purse (by Kevin Henkes), Love Splat, Splat the Cat (by Rob Scotton), The Grasshopper and the Ant.
Book titles subject to change. (Approximately one hour in length, recommended for grades K – 4)
For more information and study sheets visit: www.theatreworksusa.org

Natalie Diaz
2014-04-17 11:00 - 2014-04-18 17:00 | The Great Hall Auditorium
Native American poet Natalie Diaz will be in residence at Monmouth University on Thursday, April 17 and Friday, April 18th, 2014.
On Thursday, 17th, at 11:00 a.m., she will speak about the language revitalization program at Fort Mojave, her home reservation, where she works with the last Elder speakers of the Mojave language. At 3:00 p.m. she will conduct a poetry workshop with students and community members. At 4:30 p.m. she will read her poems.
On Friday, 18th, Natalie Diaz will participate in the afternoon launch of The Monmouth Review, the student-edited literary and arts journal, outside Wilson Hall.
Natalie Diaz grew up in the Fort Mojave Indian Village in Needles, California, on the banks of the Colorado River. She is Mojave and an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian Community.
Her poems have appeared in The North American Review, The Southeast Review, Prairie Schooner, Spillway, Best New Poets 2007, The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses, and other literary journals and anthologies. Her book, When My Brother Was an Aztec, was published by Copper Canyon Press in 2012.
Her book will be available for purchase and signing at the poetry reading.
This residency is co-sponsored by the West Branch Arts Council and the Department of English.

Spring Awakenings: A Concert Featuring Orchestra and Collegiate Chorus
2014-04-17 19:30 - 23:00 | Pollak Theatre
“Symphony #5 in B-flat major” – Franz Schubert
“The Lark Ascending” – Ralph Vaughan Williams“Vespers” – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
A concert featuring three perennial favorites, each uncommonly effervescent, sweet and vibrant as if made for Springtime. This concert is sponsored by the Monmouth University Performing Arts Series with orchestra and collegiate chorus conducted by Dr. David M. Tripold

Film Screening - Money for Nothing: Inside the Federal Reserve
2014-04-18 11:30 | Pollak Theatre
The Honors School presents a special screening of the acclaimed new documentary that takes audiences inside the world’s most powerful financial institution, Money for Nothing: Inside the Federal Reserve.
DATE: Friday, April 18
SCREENING TIME: 11:30 a.m.
LOCATION: Pollak Theatre
Watch the trailer: www.moneyfornothingthemovie.org
100 years after its creation, the power of the Federal Reserve has never been greater. Markets around the world hold their breath in anticipation of the Fed Chairman’s every word. Yet the average American knows very little about the most powerful financial institution on earth.
Narrated by acclaimed actor Liev Schreiber, Money for Nothing: Inside the Federal Reserve is the first film to take viewers inside America’s central bank and reveal the impact of Fed policies – past, present, and future – on our lives. As Ben Bernanke steps down, join incoming Fed Chair Janet Yellen, former Fed Chair Paul Volcker, and many of the world’s best financial minds as they debate the decisions that led the global economy to the brink of collapse and ask whether me might be headed there again.

Visiting Writers: Louise Gluck
2014-04-24 16:30
Louise Glück is one of America’s finest contemporary poets. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Glück is a former Poet Laureate of the United States and the author of a dozen widely acclaimed books. Stephen Dobyns, writing in the New York Times Book Review, said “no American poet writes better than Louise Glück, perhaps none can lead us so deeply into our own nature.” Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Hass has called her “one of the purest and most accomplished lyric poets now writing.”

Light of Day Foundation presents: Alejandro Escovedo & the Sensitive Boys with Special Guest Amy Cook
2014-04-25 20:00 | Pollak Theatre
Alejandro Escovedo is a roots rock/alternative country singer/songwriter from Austin, Texas. He began a career in the early 1980’s that spans 14 albums, thousands of live shows and hundreds of thousands of miles on the road forging an identity that is one with his muse and his music. Over a lifetime spent traversing the bridge between words and melody, he has ranged over an emotional depth that embraces all forms of genre and presentation, a resolute voice that weathers the emotional terrain of our lives, its celebrations and despairs, it’s land mines, blindsides, upheavals and beckoning distractions, in search of ultimate release and the healing truth of honesty. Sometimes it takes the form of barely contained rage, the rock of punk amid kneeled feedback; sometimes it caresses and soothes, a whispery harmony riding the air of a nightclub room, removed from amplification, within the audience. Alejandro has worked his musical magic a number of times at the Jersey Shore, at the legendary Stone Pony, at the Count Basie Theatre and at the Paramount Theater headlining the Light of Day Festival in Asbury Park where he was joined by his friends Willie Nile, Joe Grushecky, Jesse Malin and Bruce Springsteen. Nationally syndicated radio shows such as Little Steven Van Zandt’s Underground Garage continue to give prominent attention to Escovedo and his music, continuing to play songs such as “Silver Cloud” from his 2010 album Street Songs of Love as well as music from his most recent record 2012’s Big Station. His family boasts several professional musicians including his niece, drummer/percussionist Sheila E. With Special Guest Amy Cook.
Tickets on sale now online, by phone and in person at the Pollak Theatre and MAC Box Offices.Visit lightofday.org for more information.

Met Opera: COSÍ FAN TUTTE (Broadcast in HD)
2014-04-26 13:00 - 23:00 | Pollak Theatre
Mozart’s Cosí Fan Tutte
Run Time: 4:05
Broadcast in HD

Music Director James Levine makes his long-awaited return to the Met podium to conduct Mozart’s beloved opera about testing the ties of love. The cast is filled with youthful Met stars: Susanna Phillips and Isabel Leonard are the sisters Fiordiligi and Dorabella, Matthew Polenzani and Rodion Pogossov are their lovers, with Danielle de Niese as the scheming Despina.

Encore: Sun. May 18 | 1 p.m.

Senior Recital - Michael Aragones & Scott Johnston
2014-04-26 15:00 - 17:00 | Lauren K. Woods Theatre
Michael Aragones (Drums/Piano) Music Education major & Scott Johnston (guitar) Music major, will be performing their Senior Recital at the Woods Theatre on Saturday, April 26, 2014 at 3:00 p.m. Admission is free; light refreshments will be served.

Senior Recital - Zoe Taddei
2014-04-26 19:30 - 21:30 | Lauren K. Woods Theatre
Zoe Taddei, Music major, will be performing her Senior Recital at the Woods Theatre on Saturday, April 26, 2014 at 7:30 p.m. She will be featured on cello. Admission is free; light refreshments will be served.

Annual Student Exhibition 2014
2014-04-27 13:00 - 2014-05-02 17:00 | Joan and Robert Rechnitz Hall
Opening Reception: Sunday, April 27 from 1-4 pm. Featuring select works by Monmouth University students in photography, graphic design, animation and studio art.

State of the Real Estate Market
2014-04-28 17:30 | The Great Hall
Kislak Real Estate Institute & Leon Hess Business School
cordially invite you to attend the
“State of the Real Estate Market”
Special Guest Speakers:
Mitchell E. Hersh
Director, President and Chief Executive OfficerMack-Gili Realty CorporationChairman and Chief Executive OfficerRoseland Properties
Ara K. Hovnanian
Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive OfficerHavnanian Enterprises, Inc.
Ronald S. Ladell
Senior Vice PresidentAvalonBay Communities, Inc.
Monday, April 28, 2014Lecture at 5:30 p.m.Wilson Hall Auditorium
Reception immediately following in the Versailles Room
Registration Required
R.S.V.P. by Thursday, April 24, 2014732-571-4412 or send e-mail to tlowy@monmouth.edu
Sponsored by the
Leon Hess Business SchoolH.R. Young Lecture Series
and
The Kislak Real Estate InstituteStephen B. Siegel Lecture Series

Dinosaur Zoo Live
2014-04-29 10:00 - 15:00 | Pollak Theatre
Two Shows: Tues. April 29th at 10 a.m. &
12:30 p.m.
Erth’s DINOSAUR ZOO Live™ takes you on a tour through pre-historic Australia, bringing an eye-popping array of ancient creatures to life on stage. You will observe and interact with extraordinarily life-like creatures, just like those that inhabited the Southern Hemisphere millions of years ago. Meet a menagerie of insects, mammals and dinosaurs in their ancient environment, in this highly imaginative, entertaining and educational live show. From the sweetly curious baby Dryosaur, to the peaceful hulk Titanosaur, and even the teeth-gnashing T-rex — Erth’s DINOSAUR ZOO™ Live is a unique interactive theater performance that stimulates the imagination in a way that connects children to their world. Erth’s large-scale puppets were developed in consultation with paleontologists, based on current science and interpretations of fossil evidence. Employing sophisticated design and electronics, these giants are brought to life by skilled performers and puppeteers, made all the more real through the magic of theatre.
www.DinosaurZooLive.us

Music & Theatre Department's Chamber Orchestra and Ensembles
2014-04-29 16:30 - 17:45 | Lauren K. Woods Theatre
Directed by Professor Michael Gillette
Open to all students and faculty
Classical pieces by Mozart, Grieg, Verdi, Bach, Vaughn, Williams, Schubert, Rossini, & Clarke performed by the Chamber Orchestra & Ensembles.

Graduate Information Session
2014-04-30 19:00
This Information Session will cover all Graduate Programs offered at the University.

Monmouth Pride Day
2014-05-02 11:00 - 15:00 | Shadow Lawn

Senior Recital - Katrina Lebron
2014-05-02 19:30 - 21:30 | Lauren K. Woods Theatre
Katrina Lebron, Music/Music Industry major, will be performing her Senior Recital at the Woods Theatre on Friday, May 2, 2014 at 7:30 p.m. She will be featured on voice. Admission is free; light refreshments will be served.

Junior Recital - Kelly Thomas
2014-05-03 15:00 - 17:00 | Lauren K. Woods Theatre
Kelly Thomas, Music major, will be performing her Junior Recital at the Woods Theatre on Saturday, May 3, 2014 at 3:00 p.m. She will be featured on voice. Admission is free; light refreshments will be served.

Met Opera: LA BOHÈME Encore
2014-05-04 13:00 - 17:00 | Pollak Theatre
LA BOHÈME (Puccini)Encore: Sun. May 4 at 1:00 p.m.Run Time: 3:25
Puccini’s moving story of young love is the most performed opera in Met history—and with good reason. Anita Hartig stars as the frail Mimì in Franco Zeffirelli’s classic production, with Vittorio Grigolo as her passionate lover, Rodolfo.

Senior Recital - Kristi-Ann Hunt
2014-05-04 14:00 - 16:00 | Lauren K. Woods Theatre
Kristi-Ann Hunt Music/Music Industry major will be performing her Senior Recital at the Woods Theatre on Sunday, May 4, 2014 at 2:00 p.m. She will be featured on voice. Admission is free; light refreshments will be served.
