Advanced Summer Registration Begins
2014-03-10 - 2014-03-25

Provost Film Series: Fill the Void
2014-03-10 19:30 - 23:59 (America/New_York) | Pollak Theatre
A young Hasidic Jewish woman is pressured into an arrange levirate marriage to an older widower.
All movies will be shown in the Pollak Theatre at Monmouth University. Free of charge and open to the Monmouth University community and the general public.

Undergraduate Mid-Term Grades
2014-03-13 - 2014-03-19

Gallery Exhibition: Art in Science
2014-03-13 09:00 - 2014-04-30 23:59 | Pollak Gallery
March 14 – April 30
Opening Reception: Thurs. March 13 from 6-8 pm
Intended to express and highlight the beauty of science – through images, drawings, and photos of natural forms and visualization of scientific, mathematic, and engineering processes based on the research and coursework of MU faculty and students. Images will reveal the elegance of science art in scientific results, observations, and failures.
Pollak Gallery: Monday – Friday, 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. (Except during openings)

National Theatre of London: War Horse - Second Screening
2014-03-14 19:00 - 23:00 | Pollak Theatre
National Theatre of London: War Horse – Second Screening
The National Theatre’s original stage production of
War Horse, broadcast live from London’s West End to cinemas.

Since its first performance at the National
Theatre in 2007, War Horse has become an international smash hit,
capturing the imagination of four million people around the world.
Based on Michael Morpurgo’s novel and adapted
for the stage by Nick Stafford, War Horse takes audiences on an
extraordinary journey from the fields of rural Devon to the trenches of First
World War France. Filled with stirring music and songs, this powerfully moving
and imaginative drama is a show of phenomenal inventiveness. At its heart are
astonishing life-size puppets by South Africa’s Handspring Puppet Company, who
bring breathing, galloping, charging horses to thrilling life on stage.
Don’t miss your chance to experience this landmark production in a
cinema near you.

Spring Break
2014-03-15 - 2014-03-21

Met Opera: WERTHER
2014-03-15 13:00 - 23:00 | Pollak Theatre
Massenet’s Werther
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.
Encore: Sun. April 13 | 1 p.m.

On Screen/In Person: WONDER WOMEN! The Untold Story of American Superheroines
2014-03-20 19:30 - 23:00 | Pollak Theatre
WONDER WOMEN! The Untold Story of American Superheroines
with director Kristy Guevara-Flanagan
March 20, 2014 at 7:30 pm
Pollak Theatre
WONDER WOMEN! The Untold Story of American Superheroines traces the fascinating legacy of comic book character Wonder Woman to illustrate how popular representations of powerful women often reflect broader cultural anxieties about gender roles.
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.

Poet Richard Blanco
2014-03-25 16:30
Location: Pollak Theatre
President Obama’s Inaugural Poet, Richard Blanco was made in Cuba, assembled in Spain, and imported to the United States—meaning his mother, 7 months pregnant, and the rest of the family arrived as exiles from Cuba to Madrid where he was born. Only 45 days later, the family emigrated once more and settled in Miami. His acclaimed first book of poetry, City of a Hundred Fires, explores the yearnings and negotiation of cultural identity as a Cuban- American, and received the Agnes Starrett Poetry Prize. His second book, Directions to The Beach of the Dead, won the Beyond Margins Award from the PEN American Center for its continued exploration of the universal themes of cultural identity and homecoming.

First Senior Exhibition: Fine Art
2014-03-28 09:00 - 2014-04-04 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 Fine Art.
Opening reception: Fri. March 28, from 7– 9 p.m.

Rechnitz Hall, The Dimattio Gallery
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.

Songwriters by the Sea
2014-03-29 20:00 - 23:59 | Pollak Theatre
The Sounds of Asbury Park and other Shore points are celebrated when a pair of musically minded Jersey Joes — Joe D’Urso and Joe Rapolla — bring their Songwriters by the Sea series of intimate, relaxed, and inspired round-robins to the Pollak Theatre stage. What started out as a coffee shop show for area songwriters to casually perform with other writers in Asbury Park has quickly evolved into a national series featuring some of the top songwriters in music today. Artists to perform include Marshall Crenshaw, David Johansen and Allison Moorer. Opening the show will be Monmouth University students Natalie Zeller, Bryan Haring and Erin Holmes.

Met Opera: PRINCE IGOR Encore
2014-03-30 13:00 - 17:00 | Pollak Theatre
PRINCE IGOR (Borodin) – New Production Encore: Sun. March 30 at 1:00 p.m.Run Time: 4:30 Borodin’s defining Russian epic, famous for its Polovtsian Dances, comes to the Met for the first time in nearly 100 years. Dmitri Tcherniakov’s new production is a brilliant psychological journey through the mind of its conflicted hero, with the founding of the Russian nation as the backdrop. Star bass-baritone Ildar Abdrazakov takes on the monumental title role, with Gianandrea Noseda conducting.

Withdrawal Deadling (semester-long classes)
2014-03-31

33rd Annual Black Maria Film and Video Festival
2014-04-01 19:30 - 23:59 | Pollak Theatre
The films that become the centerpiece of the Black Maria Film and Video Festival honor the vision of Thomas Edison, New Jersey inventor and creator of the motion picture. It was his New Jersey studio, the world’s first, which he called the “black maria” (pronounced “mariah”) after which the festival is named. The cutting edge, cross-genre work that makes up the festival’s touring program, has been traveling across the country every year for decades. Black Maria focuses on diverse short films – narrative, experimental, animation, and documentary – including those which address issues and struggles within contemporary society such as the environment, public health, race and class, family, sustainability, and much more. These exceptional works ranging from comedy to drama to the exploration of pure form in film and video are not sidebars to feature length films, they are the heart and soul of the festival. The program is free and all are welcome. Works which will be screened are unrated; some of the content is sophisticated and might not be suited to younger audiences.
Films:A Place of Spirit – Jury’s Choice6.5 min. by Natalie Conn and Jay Weichun, Brooklyn, NYThis is the story of Andrea Phillips, a Staten Island based artist, facing eviction from her home after 44 years. Rather than center itself around the policy issues associated with Andrea’s eviction, “A Place of Spirit” focuses on Andrea’s emotional and spiritual relationship to her eccentric, unique and uncommon home.Something Like Whales – Jury’s Choice5 min. by Nora Sweeney, Val Verde, CA.In a dying industrial neighborhood in Cincinnati, Ohio, the Queensgate Train Yard pulses with life. A local worker describes the haunting sound emanating from the yard as ‘something like whales.’ This poetical film was shot in part with a camera obscura.
For The Birds – You Be the Judge: Peoples’ Choice Award14 min. by Tara Atashgah, Santa Monica, CA. Inspired by a true story, “For The Birds” follows a young Iranian girl as she is taken to the gallows to be hanged, having been accused of adultery. In her final moments, she imagines her fate in the hands of the surrounding townspeople.Close the Lid, Gently: A Home Document Scan – Jury’s Choice5.5 min. by Ariana Gerstein, Barton, NY.A video made entirely from two home desktop scanners – one a photo scanner, the other a refurbished low-end document scanner. Each has its own texture and sees the domestic environment in its own particular way, one scan at a time. This piece deals with the deliberate misuse/re-purposing of commercial image producing machines for a slow, individual, low tech, approach to the motion picture making process.The Apothecary – Jury’s Choice17 min. by Helen Hood Scheer, Palo Alto, CA.A moving portrait of beloved druggist, Don Colcord, in a rural Colorado outpost. Don is a man who operates the only pharmacy within 4,000 square miles. He navigates a profound divide between his public persona and his personal life. To the community, he is jovial and heroic. At home, he is impotent and isolated due to his wife’s disability. “The Apothecary” explores notions of individual duty and obligation in the face of privately held grief and ambivalence.
Wise Choice or Lucky Guess – Directors’ Choice3.5 min. by Ellen Raines, Fox Point, WI.A recently deceased man has to make a choice between heaven and hell, while sitting on an escalator.Rehearsal – Directors’ Choice 11 min. by Tom Rosenberg, Austin, TX.

Spring Career Day
2014-04-02 12:30 - 16:00 | MAC At Monmouth
We currently have 110 registered employers from all various types of industries.

Open to all students and alumni only.
Free LinkedIn photo service available.

ETHEL featuring Kaki King: ...And Other Stories
2014-04-04 19:30 - 23:00 | Pollak Theatre
Known worldwide for transcending the limits of tradition, the New York City-based string quartet ETHEL, comprised of Ralph Farris (viola), Dorothy Lawson (cello), Kip Jones (violin) and Tema Watstein (violin), has for the past decade and a half actively, aggressively, joyfully, adapted their epic skill-set to the presentation of rainbow-colored music of every style and description. Guitarist Kaki King, recognized as one of “The New Guitar Gods” by Rolling Stone has, likewise, won an enthusiastic international following as her gutsy, honest, and astonishingly beautiful works seem to defy gravity. Brought together, these celebrated sound worlds intermingle and swarm to create a glorious and inspired collaboration.
… And Other Stories is an electrifying immersion in brilliant instrumental skill, rich sonic adventures, and flights of fantastic storytelling. The collaboration is anchored by a groundbreaking re-imagining of Bach’s masterful Brandenburg Concerto #6 and also includes works from ETHEL’s repertoire by Phil Kline and John Zorn. Original works by Kaki King and a world premiere composition for ETHEL & Kaki King by Serbian composer Aleksandra Vrebalov round out the program.

Met Opera: LA BOHÉME
2014-04-05 13:00 - 23:00 | Pollak Theatre
Puccini’s La Bohéme
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.
Encore: Sun. May 4 | 1 p.m.

In the Mood: 1940s Musical Revue
2014-04-06 16:00
Much more than a concert, IN THE MOOD presents a retro 1940s musical revue featuring the IN THE MOOD Singers and Dancers with the sensational String of Pearls Big Band Orchestra. The music and the arrangements are as authentic as it gets. This was a time that all America was listening and dancing to the same kind of music.

In the 1940s, the combination of up-tempo big band instrumentals and intimate, romantic ballads set the mood for a future filled with promise, hope and prosperity. This was the time when the music moved the nation’s spirit!

Global Understanding Convention - Opening Ceremony
2014-04-07 11:30 - 12:45
Location: Wilson Hall Auditorium
Opening Ceremony, UN Academic Impact Lecture featuring Dr. Azza Karam, Senior Advisor on Social and Cultural Development United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), “Towards Global Equality: Education, Opportunity, Prosperity”
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John Werner Lecture
2014-04-07 16:30 - 19:15
Location: Versaille Room, Wilson Hall
Lecture by John Werner, TED Speaker, Co-Founder of Citizen Schools Project, Innovator of the Camera Culture Group at the MIT Media Lab , “Innovative Education Initiatives”

Priority/Early Registration for Summer/Fall/Spring
2014-04-08 - 2014-04-18

Social Work & Human Rights Lecture
2014-04-08 11:30 - 12:45
Location: Wilson Auditorium, Wilson Hall
School of Social Work and GUC feature lecture by Ercilia Melillán Toro “Social Work and Human Rights – Threats and Opportunities”

Human Trafficking - Lecture and Discussion
2014-04-08 14:15 - 14:30
Location: Young Auditorium, Bey Hall
Human Trafficking (Lecture and Discussion)
Elizabeth Graham, Associate Director of the Monmouth County’s Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Prevention Agency, 180 Turning Lives Around
This session will address the state of human and sex trafficking globally with a specific focus on the state of New Jersey and Monmouth County. Ms. Graham is also the director of 2NDFLOOR® Youth Helpline a 24/7 statewide youth helpline where youth can call regardless of topic and speak to a counselor. Ms. Graham sits on several boards and task forces related to these topics.
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Provost Film Series - A Bottle in the Gaza Sea
2014-04-08 19:25 - 22:05
Location: Pollak Theater
A Bottle in the Gaza Sea – A film by Thierry BinistiTai 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?
Discussion will follow after the screening Guest: Prof. Marina Vujnovic

Provost Film Series: A Bottle in the Gaza Sea
2014-04-08 19:30 - 23:59 | 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
