Events

Natasha Tretheway - Monmouth University Summer Music & Arts Festival
2021-07-01 19:00 - 2021-07-31 17:00 (America/New_York) | Virtual
A special reading by former United States Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Natasha Tretheway, as part of the 2021 Monmouth University Summer Music & Arts Festival.

For more information on the festival visit: https://www.monmouth.edu/mca/festival/.

Virtual Tuesday Night Book Club: Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
2021-07-13 19:30 - 21:00 | Virtual
Join us for Tuesday Night Book Club! Hosted by Monmouth University’s Ken Womack and Michael Thomas, 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 Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises.
Originally published in 1926, The Sun Also Rises is Ernest Hemingway’s first novel and a classic example of his spare but powerful writing style.​
A poignant look at the disillusionment and angst of the post-World War I generation, the novel introduces two of Hemingway’s most unforgettable characters: Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley. The story follows the flamboyant Brett and the hapless Jake as they journey from the wild nightlife of 1920s Paris to the brutal bullfighting rings of Spain with a motley group of expatriates. In his first great literary masterpiece, Hemingway portrays an age of moral bankruptcy, spiritual dissolution, unrealized love, and vanishing illusions.
“The ideal companion for troubled times: equal parts Continental escape and serious grappling with the question of what it means to be, and feel, lost.” —The Wall Street Journal
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Seasons in the Soil (Lecture In The Garden Series)
2021-08-26 18:00 - 20:00 | Virginia A. Cory Community Garden at Monmouth University, 2 Brookwillow Ave, West Long Branch, NJ, United States
Rich Mohr is a graduate of FIT (Florida Institute of Technology) where he holds a Bachelor of Science in Marine Biology and a Master of Science in Secondary Science Education. He currently works at Sickle’s Market in Little Silver within the agricultural department. Rich has taught courses at Georgian Court University that were focused on environmental sustainability, creating an understanding of the roles people and societies play in sustaining the earth’s resources for future generations. He put stewardship theories into practice by creating, promoting and managing the university’s first community vegetable garden, the Mercy Garden. Rich was instrumental in establishing an experimental improved rain garden design on campus, specifically targeting nitrogen removal from storm water runoff. In the past he’s developed and conducted extension programs with Rutgers Cooperative Extension in Ocean County and developed community garden workshops at Long Branch Covenant Church.

Special Edition Tuesday Night Record Club: Bruce Springsteen's The Rising
2021-09-09 19:30 - 21:00 | Virtual
During this special Thursday-night edition of Tuesday Night Record Club, host Ken Womack and guest Bob Santelli, GRAMMY Museum Founding Executive Director, and Monmouth ’73, mark the twentieth-anniversary of the 9/11 attacks that inspired one of Bruce’s most moving albums.
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The Courage to Love - Cultivating Joy and Peace in a Turbulent World
2021-09-21 18:00 | Virginia A. Cory Community Garden at Monmouth University, 2 Brookwillow Ave, West Long Branch, NJ, United States
In honor of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s presentation to the Monmouth University community, the School of Social Work is pleased to host this presentation and meditation in the Virginia A. Cory Community Garden.

The XIV Dalai Lama - Livestream Event
2021-09-21 23:30 | Shadow Lawn / Virtual
The XIV Dalai Lama will join Monmouth University and guests on Tuesday, September 21, at 11:30p.m. EDT for a livestream session to engage in conversation with our students and colleagues and offer his message of happiness, health, well-being, and the future of this earth, our only home.

Climate Crisis Teach-In 2021
2021-10-04 - 2021-10-09 | Virtual

Sin Nombre – Virtual Panel Discussion
2021-10-06 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 2009 film, Sin Nombre.
Sin nombre (English: “Nameless”) is a Mexican-American adventure thriller film written and directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga, about a Honduran girl trying to immigrate to the United States, and a boy caught up in the violence of gang life.
The discussion of the film will be led by Dr. Manuel Chavez, Lecturer and Director of Philosophy program; Dr. Priscilla Gac-Artigas, Professor of Spanish and Latin American Literature; and Chilean-American writer, playwright, actor, theater director and editor Gustavo Gac-Artigas.
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.
This event is part of Hispanic American Heritage Month

Are Politics and Spiritual Values Compatible? A Conversation with Cory Booker
2021-10-13 11:40 | Virtual
Join U.S. Senator Cory Booker in a discussion with Monmouth University students on the importance and challenges of putting principles into practice in politics. The conversation will be moderated by Patrick Murray of the Monmouth University Polling Institute.
Senator Cory Booker started his political career at age 29 when he was elected to the Newark City Council. He served as the Newark mayor from 2006 to 2013 and in 2013 he was elected to represent New Jersey in the U.S. Senate.
Patrick Murray was named the Monmouth University Polling Institute’s founding director in 2005. He frequently appears as a commentator on polling and politics for regional and national outlets. During federal election years, Murray also serves as an exit poll analyst for the NBC News Decision Desk.
This is part of a series of campus events around the virtual visit of
His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama at Monmouth on September 21.
This free event is open to the public, but you must register.
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Emma Copley Eisenberg
2021-10-13 16:30 - 18:00 | Shadow Lawn
The Visiting Writer’s series is thrilled to return for the 2021-22 season! The first event of the year will feature Monmouth University Adjunct Professor and Writer-In-Residence, Emma Copley Eisenberg.
Emma Copley Eisenberg’s fiction and nonfiction has appeared in McSweeney’s, Granta, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Tin House, Guernica, The Washington Post Magazine, and others. Her first book of nonfiction is The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia which was a NYTimes notable book of 2020 and nominated for an Edgar and Lambda Literary Award. Raised in New York City, she lives in Philadelphia, where she co-directs Blue Stoop, a hub for the literary arts. Her next two books, a novel and a collection of short stories, are forthcoming from Hogarth (Penguin Random House).
Eisenberg will be reading from her book, The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia and copies will be available for purchase through the University bookstore at the event.

JCPenney Suit Up Event
2021-10-24 15:00 - 18:00 | Monmouth Mall Eatontown
Join us at the Monmouth Mall Eatontown for the JCPenney Suit Up event!
Get tips on how to dress and prepare for job interviews … big discounts available!
MU Career Development is partnering with JCPenney to bring you discounts on professional attire and accessories for your interviews, internships and full-time jobs!
Please RSVP to careerdevelopment@monmouth.edu if you plan to attend.

Internship & Career Fair
2021-10-27 12:30 - 16:00 | Virtual
Mark your calendars for the Fall 2021 Internship & Career Fair! 50+ employers will be waiting to meet you with internship and full-time career opportunities, including Colgate-Palmolive, NY Football Giants, Meredith Corporation, OceanFirst Bank, Enterprise, Gaming Laboratories International, CDW, MJH Life Sciences, Target Corporation, and many more! Don’t miss Monmouth’s largest career fair of the semester.

Sam Cusumano
2021-11-01 15:00 - 16:00 | Virtual
Join us for a virtual Arts-Engineering talk/performance/workshop with Sam Cusumano. Cusumano is an Engineer for the Arts living in Philadelphia working with students, artists, musicians, and curators to create educational interactive electronic devices and installations. As part of his creative practice, he has connected plants and fungi with synthesizers to make music. Biodata Sonification is the process of representing invisible changes in plants to create music. By detecting microcurrent fluctuations across the surface of a plant’s leaf, these changes are used to generate MIDI notes which can be played through a synthesizer or computer to create sound. In this virtual presentation Sam Cusumano will explain methods used to tap into the secret life of plants, showing how to translate data for making music, and discuss the implications of interpreting biodata. Audio examples of Biodata Sonification will be performed live using analog synthesizers, digital audio workstations, and synth apps along with a Snake Plant, large Monstera, and various Cacti.
When you register you will be provided the meeting link to join the conversation.
Free and open to the public, but registration is required.
This event is being recorded for educational and archival purposes and it may be posted on our website. By participating in this presentation, you give permission for Monmouth University to record the presentation for University purposes. You understand that your name, likeness, voice and statements may be recorded. If you do not wish to be recorded, a recording of this presentation will later be available upon request, and you can contact Amanda Stojanov, Assistant Professor of Digital Media (astojano@monmouth.edu) with any questions you may have regarding the presentation.
