Events

Social Work Career Day
2022-03-09 14:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York)
Hosted by the School of Social Work
Zoom Link: https://monmouth.zoom.us/j/3616277591
Speakers
2–2:30 p.m.
Kristie Tapolow, LSW
Social Behavioral Support Specialist
Middletown Township Public School District
2:30-3 p.m.
Deidre Stamos Lonza, LCSW, LCADC
Senior Director of Operations
New Hope IBHC
3–3:30 p.m.
Jonelle Rodriquez, LSW
Social Worker
American Friends Service Committee – Immigrant Rights Program
Katie Meola, LSW
Social Worker
American Friends Service Committee – Immigrant Rights Program
3:30–4 p.m.
Virgina Kinneman, MSW, LCSW
Social Work Supervisor
RWJ Barnabas Health Inpatient
Behavioral Health

The Price of Free - Documentary Viewing and Discussion
2022-03-09 14:00 - 16:30 | Pollak Theatre
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Monmouth University’s School of Education International Education Committee is pleased to invite you to watch an international documentary, The Price of Free, by the Nobel prize winner Kailash Satyarthi. Please join us at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, March 9, 2022 at Pollak Theater.
Education is the prerequisite for global development; learning with global perspectives requires us to make sense of educational systems and what global issues are happening in different parts of the world.
As part of this free event organized by the Monmouth University School of Education International Education Committee, we are going to view The Price of Free by Kailash Satyarthi. This documentary movie presents Kailash Satyarthi’s global civil society movement to rescue children from slavery in India.
The documentary showing begins at 2 p.m. in Pollak Theater. Immediately following the movie, there will be a discussion panel for us to talk about global issues as well as educational perspectives in other countries.
If you prefer to watch the documentary on your own time, you can join the discussion panel at 3:30 p.m. Please use the available link for streaming access to the documentary:
The Price of Free: Documentary Streaming Access
For questions or additional information, please contact Vecihi Serbay Zambak at vzambak@monmouth.edu.

For Sama Virtual Discussion
2022-03-09 19:30 - 21:00 | Virtual
Join us for a World Cinema Series zoom discussion illuminating the theme “Living on the Edge: Displacement, Identity, and Resilience” by analyzing the message and impact of the For Sama (Syria, 2019).
FOR SAMA is both an intimate and epic journey into the female experience of war. A love letter from a young mother to her daughter, the film tells the story of Waad al-Kateab’s life through five years of the uprising in Aleppo, Syria as she falls in love, gets married and gives birth to Sama, all while cataclysmic conflict rises around her.
The film is the first feature documentary by Emmy award-winning filmmakers, Waad al-Kateab and Edward Watts.
The discussion of the film will be led by Dr. Saliba Sarsar, professor in the department of Political Science and Dr. Sanjana Ragudaran, Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work.
The film is available for streaming on a number of platforms including Vudu, Amazon Prime Video, YouTube, Google Play Movies and TV, or iTunes (for rent or purchase).
When you register you will be provided the meeting link to join the conversation. Free and open to the public, but registration is required.

MAAC Basketball Tournament Marquee Social
2022-03-10 17:00 | Caesars Atlantic City Hotel & Casino
$35/person (includes 1 drink ticket and heavy appetizers)

Writing Memoir (Advanced)
2022-03-10 19:30 - 21:00, 2022-03-17 19:30 - 21:00, 2022-03-24 19:30 - 21:00 | Virtual
Class Schedule: Thursdays – Mar. 10, Mar. 17, and Mar. 24 | 7:30 – 9:00 PM
This three-session virtual course taught by Mike Farragher (88) builds on the wildly popular Intro to Memoir Writing workshops with an emphasis on character development, dialogue, and scene setting that will make any story a page turner. Practical lessons are interspersed with writing prompts to get the creativity going during this 3 week course. No prior writing experience needed and all levels welcome!
Zoom Link will be provided upon registration.

Ariadne auf Naxos
2022-03-12 13:00 - 17:00 | Pollak Theatre
Prior to purchasing tickets please review our COVID-19 Safety Measures and Policies.
Purchasing tickets in advance is STRONGLY encouraged. Due to distanced seating in the theatre, capacity is limited and walk-ups might not be able to be accommodated.
Soprano Lise Davidsen makes her Live in HD debut in one of her signature roles, the mythological Greek heroine of Strauss’s enchanting masterpiece. The outstanding cast also features mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard as the Composer of the opera-within-an-opera around which the plot revolves, with soprano Brenda Rae as the spirited Zerbinetta and tenor Brandon Jovanovich as Ariadne’s lover, the god Bacchus. Marek Janowski conducts.

Tuesday Night Record Club: Carole King, Tapestry
2022-03-15 19:30 - 21:00 | Virtual
It’s just like book club but with albums! With new advances in technology, the way we consume music through our devices, apps and on demand streaming services like Pandora, Spotify and iTunes is making the idea of the “album” as an art form extinct. Get together with other music enthusiasts on Tuesday nights to discuss some of the greatest records of all-time! Listen to the album beforehand and then come prepared to discuss. This event will feature Carole King’s Tapestry.
We 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 Record 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.
Please stay tuned for more details about an in-person location for this event when more information becomes available.

Educators' Career Day
2022-03-16 09:00 - 13:00 | Anacon Hall, 2nd Floor, Student Center
Don’t miss this in-person event designed for Education majors!
Forty (40) school districts will be in attendance at this year’s annual Educators’ Career Day, and all are looking to hire teachers for all levels.
Details for Educators’ Career Day

Wednesday, March 16, 2022
9 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Anacon Hall, 2nd Floor, Student Center

Students and Alumni

This event is open to all Monmouth Students and alumni.
There is no pre-registration process or fee for attendance.

For more information, contact Jeff Mass in Career Development at jmass@monmouth.edu.

Jane Wong
2022-03-22 17:00 - 18:15 | Virtual
Join us for a zoom reading and Q&A with author Jane Wong.
Jane Wong is the author of How to Not Be Afraid of Everything (Alice James, 2021) and Overpour (Action Books, 2016). Her poems and essays can be found in places such as Best American Nonrequired Reading 2019, Best American Poetry 2015, American Poetry Review, POETRY, AGNI, Virginia Quarterly Review, McSweeney’s, and Ecotone. A Kundiman fellow, she is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and fellowships and residencies from Harvard’s Woodberry Poetry Room, the U.S. Fulbright Program, Artist Trust, the Fine Arts Work Center, Hedgebrook, and others. She is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Western Washington University.
When you register you will be provided the meeting link to join the conversation.
Free and open to the public, but registration is required.

Tuesday Night Book Club: Patti Smith, Just Kids
2022-03-22 19:30 - 21:00 | Virtual
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!
This month’s novel is Patti Smith, Just Kids.

Patti 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.
Just 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.
We 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.
Please stay tuned for more details about an in-person location for this event when more information becomes available.

Mental Health Career Panel
2022-03-23 20:00 - 21:00
Hosted by the Department of Psychology
Want a career in mental health, but not sure which one?
Want to do therapy, but not sure what training you need?
Come learn about the experiences of former MU psychology students working in mental health.
You will hear from a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, a Licensed Professional Counselor in Private Practice, a Clinical Psychologist at the Federal Correctional Complex and a Psychologist in Pediatric Neuropsychology.
Mental Health Career Panel
Hosted by the Department of Psychology

Wednesday March 23, 2022
8:00 – 9:00 p.m. EST

Presented on Zoom: Zoom Access Link
For more information, please contact Dr. Natalie Ciarocco at nciarocc@monmouth.edu.

Napoleon: In the Name of Art
2022-03-25 19:30 - 21:30 | Pollak Theatre
Prior to purchasing tickets please review our COVID-19 Safety Measures and Policies.
Purchasing tickets in advance is STRONGLY encouraged. Due to distanced seating in the theatre, capacity is limited and walk-ups might not be able to be accommodated.
Marking the 200th anniversary of Napoleon’s death, the documentary Napoleon: In the Name of Art explores the complex relationship between Napoleon, culture and art. Host Jeremy Irons brings audiences on a tour from Milan to Paris for a look at Napoleon’s imperial iconography and architectural style and to reflect on the relationship between power and art.
Estimated runtime: 90 minutes

Don Carlos
2022-03-26 12:00 - 16:00 | Pollak Theatre
Prior to purchasing tickets please review our COVID-19 Safety Measures and Policies.
Purchasing tickets in advance is STRONGLY encouraged. Due to distanced seating in the theatre, capacity is limited and walk-ups might not be able to be accommodated.
For the first time in company history, the Met presents the original five-act French version of Verdi’s epic opera of doomed love among royalty, set against the backdrop of the Spanish Inquisition. Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads a starry cast, including tenor Matthew Polenzani in the title role, soprano Sonya Yoncheva as Élisabeth de Valois, and mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton as Eboli. Bass-baritones Eric Owens and John Relyea are Philippe II and the Grand Inquisitor, and baritone Étienne Dupuis rounds out the principal cast as Rodrigue. Verdi’s masterpiece receives a monumental new staging by David McVicar that marks his 11th Met production, placing him among the most prolific and popular directors in recent Met memory.

Angela Kariotis: Rehearsing for the Future: Performance Technologies for Healing Centered Education
2022-03-28 10:05 - 2022-03-30 16:20, 2022-03-30 14:45 - 16:20 | Plangere 235
Angela Kariotis is a community engaged culture worker and educator building creative programs serving the needs of cities, institutions, and students of all ages for public good. Kariotis integrates restorative practices for a transformative learning experience and a healing centered education. Using a design thinking framework and appreciative inquiry for experiential learning, Kariotis synthesizes art-making for social entrepreneurship. Angela is winner of a NJSCA fellowship in playwriting, a National Performance Network Creation Fund Award, and a Tennessee Williams Theater Fellowship. As a performance artist, she’s been presented by venues such as UCLA, University of Texas at Austin, People’s Light, Legion Arts in Iowa, and Contact Theater in Manchester, UK. Kariotis is Curriculum Director and Facilitator of Walking the Beat, a national arts education program interrogating the history of police, the way we police each other, and ideating alternative cultures of care. Learn more about her commitments at https://angelakariotis.squarespace.com/
Part 1: Artist Talk and Performance – Monday, March 28th, 2022
In-Person // 10:05-11:25am – Location: Plangere 235
Part 2: Workshop – Wednesday March 30th, 2022
In-Person // 2:45-4:20pm – Location: Plangere 235
RSVP required: Please contact Deanna Shoemaker, Associate Professor in the Department of Communication (dshoemak@monmouth.edu) to RSVP.

Global Visionary Lecture with Ramu Damodaran, Former Chief of United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI)
2022-03-31 16:30 - 18:00 | Zoom Presentation with Limited Seating at Great Hall

Wine vs Stein 2022
2022-04-02 14:00 - 16:00
Sip and sample beer and wine either on-campus or from the comfort of your home.
Be Advised: All attendees, virtual and in-person, must be at least 21 years old to participate. Current students are strictly prohibited.

How to Use LinkedIn to Attract Your Ideal Job or Client
2022-04-04 12:30
Whether you are job searching, launching your next side hustle, or already own a business, LinkedIn is a great platform to generate broader visibility for your brand. And like all social media platforms, LinkedIn comes with its own built-in rules, quirks, algorithms, and tricks of the trade. Don’t miss out on the opportunity to learn how to harness the power of LinkedIn. Join this workshop to build a powerful LinkedIn profile, optimized for search, that gets you found! Let’s work smarter, not harder.
Join us online as Vin Matano ’18, senior account executive and “top salesperson on LinkedIn” at Demandbase, shares how to leverage LinkedIn to create your own personal brand, attract new clients, and have recruiters reach out to you.
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Fulbright U.S. Program Information Session for Students and Recent Graduates
2022-04-04 18:00 - 19:00 | Virtual

Every Second Counts for the Survivors! A Virtual Testimony Event
2022-04-05 19:00 - 20:00 | Live over Zoom

Tuesday Night Record Club: David Bowie, Low
2022-04-05 19:30 - 21:00 | Virtual
It’s just like book club but with albums! With new advances in technology, the way we consume music through our devices, apps and on demand streaming services like Pandora, Spotify and iTunes is making the idea of the “album” as an art form extinct. Get together with other music enthusiasts on Tuesday nights to discuss some of the greatest records of all-time! Listen to the album beforehand and then come prepared to discuss. This event will feature David Bowie’s Low.

We 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 Record 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.
Please stay tuned for more details about an in-person location for this event when more information becomes available.

2022 H.R. Young Lecture: Patrick Radden Keefe
2022-04-07 18:00 - 19:00 | Pollak Auditorium
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Patrick Radden Keefe is an award-winning staff writer at The New Yorker magazine and the author of the New York Times bestseller Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty, a devastating portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, whose fortune was built by Valium and whose reputation was destroyed by OxyContin.
The Sackler name has adorned the walls of many storied institutions—Harvard, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Oxford, the Louvre. They are one of the richest families in the world, known for their lavish donations to the arts and the sciences. The source of the family fortune was vague, however, until it emerged that the Sacklers were responsible for making and marketing a blockbuster painkiller that was the catalyst for the opioid crisis.
Keefe graduated from Columbia, and later earned masters degrees from Cambridge University and the London School of Economics, and a JD from Yale Law School. In addition to The New Yorker, his work has appeared in The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Magazine, Slate, and other publications. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, and fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation, the New America Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library.
Registration is required, so please use the link below to submit online.

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Raphael: The Young Prodigy
2022-04-08 19:30 - 21:30 | Pollak Theatre
Due to availability issues, this event has been rescheduled from its original date of May 13. Tickets issued prior to the change will be valid for the new date. There is no need to contact the box office unless you are unable to attend and need a refund.

Prior to purchasing tickets please review our COVID-19 Safety Measures and Policies.
Purchasing tickets in advance is STRONGLY encouraged. Due to distanced seating in the theatre, capacity is limited and walk-ups might not be able to be accommodated.

Raphael: The Young Prodigy tells the story of the Italian Renaissance artist from Urbino, starting from his extraordinary portraits of women – the Mother, the Friend, the Secret Lover and the Client. From portraits of his mother, who died when the painter was only 8 years old, to the female admirers who helped him on his road to success, Raphael, (1483-1520), was able to portray an ideal of celestial beauty, and to focus his gaze more on the psychology of his subjects’ features than on their physical form, so that their personalities emerge in a striking manner. Audiences will discover the life and times of one of the most influential Renaissance painters.
Estimated runtime: 80 minutes

Celebration of the Life of Reenie Menditto
2022-04-12 17:30 | Guggenheim Memorial Library Lawn
Rain Date: April 13
Please join honors school alumni, students and friends for a ceremony celebrating Reenie’s life, followed by a walk (or drive) to the beach for the inaugural Reenie Menditto Moonlight Walk to see the moon over the ocean.
Please visit this page to upload any photos you have of Reenie.
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Tuesday Night Book Club: Maggie O’Farrell, Hamnet
2022-04-12 19:30 - 21:00 | Virtual
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!
This 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?
Their 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.
We 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.
Please stay tuned for more details about an in-person location for this event when more information becomes available.

Rivka Galchen
2022-04-14 17:00 - 18:15 | Erlanger Gardens
Rivka Galchen is the recipient of a William Saroyan International Prize for Writing and a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, among other honors. She writes regularly for The New Yorker, whose editors selected her for their list of “20 Under 40” American fiction writers in 2010. Her debut novel, Atmospheric Disturbances (2008), and her story collection, American Innovations (2014), were both New York Times Best Books of the Year. She received an MD from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Galchen divides her time between Montreal and New York City. Her latest novel, Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch, was released by FSG in June.

Colin Hay - Now and The Evermore Tour
2022-04-14 20:00 - 22:00 | Pollak Theatre
Prior to purchasing tickets please review our COVID-19 Safety Measures and Policies.
Singer-songwriter Colin Hay is most beloved for his intimate, confessional live shows but most widely known for being an influential and celebrated frontman of Men at Work, responsible for penning several pop hits of the early ’80s including (The Land) Down Under and Who Can it Be Now. After Men At Work, Hay embarked on a solo career, debuting in 1987 with Looking For Jack and continued to release critically acclaimed solo material throughout the 2000’s, Hay contributed I Just Don’t Think I’ll Ever Get Over You to the soundtrack of Garden State and has had roles in other cult movies and television shows.
He has written and released some 13 solo albums, the latest being “I Just Don’t Know What To Do With Myself” an album of cover material, released through Nashville-based Compass Records, who Colin has worked with since 2003.
He has an a new album “Now and The Evermore” due for release March 18.

More about Colin Hay at http://www.colinhay.com/

Senior Show: Graphic and Interactive Design; Fine Art and Animation
2022-04-18 - 2022-05-01 | Rotary Ice House Gallery & 2nd floor of the DiMattio Gallery
Featuring the work of Monmouth University graduating seniors who will receive their degrees in Graphic and Interactive Design as well as Fine Art and Animation.
