Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations like never seen before in Long Branch. This concert series was created with the intention of democratizing access to classical music, and the space and performers are illuminated by thousands of candles to create a truly magical experience.
The String Quartet has a tentative program that includes songs such as Clocks, Shiver, Speed of Sound, Trouble, Fix You, Paradise, Yellow, and many more!
Presenter: Katherine Parkin, Ph.D., Professor, Department of History and Anthropology; Jules Plangere, Jr., Endowed Chair in American Social History
Organized crime played a role in the experience of many securing, providing, and paying for abortions before they were legalized. The high rates for the procedure made illegal abortion in the 1960s the third largest moneymaker for organized crime. However, most studies by historians, criminologists, and sociologists have not considered how, where, and when organized criminals and their accomplices profited from abortion. This study of organized crime includes those providing abortions and lending money nationally, including relatives of Frank Sinatra and Drea de Matteo (“The Sopranos”) who provided illegal abortions in New York City.
Presenter: Jeffrey H. Weisburg, Ph.D., Specialist Professor, Department of Biology
Punk rock usually conjures images of teenagers or young adults (you know, the dregs of society) with spiked, colorful hair, tattoos, piercing, wearing ripped jeans, Doc Martin combat boots, dancing violently to bass-pounding music in a hot and sweaty, small music venue. Ph.D. in the sciences, engineers, and pre-med students are the furthest thing that comes to mind. Three lead singers of landmark punk bands have Ph.D.s in biology; Milo Aukerman of the Descendents (Biology), Greg Graffin of Bad Religion (Zoology), and Dexter Holland of the Offsprings (Molecular Biology). Several other punk rock artists also have graduate degrees in biology and engineering. This leads to the scientific question that needs to be examined and answered: What is the connection between punk rock and science? Is there something in the water? Is it genetics? Is it a chemical reaction that occurs when two people in the circle pit collide? All possibilities for this question will be investigated.
Candlelight Spring concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations like never before. Get your tickets now to discover the music of Adele at Pollak Theatre bathed in a lush, floral display dedicated to spring.
Fever Up’s concert series was created with the intention of democratizing access to classical music, and the space and performers are illuminated by thousands of candles to create a truly magical experience.
The String Quartet has a tentative program that includes songs such as Hello, Rumour Has It, Set Fire to the Rain, Rolling in the Deep, and many more!
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 Book Prize. At Princeton University she curated the critically acclaimed archival exhibition Toni Morrison: Sites of Memory, which brought over 150 never seen original archival objects into view. She is currently at work on two book projects that focus on Morrison: “The Wanderer: Toni Morrison and the Art of Creativity” and “Sites of Memory: Toni Morrison and the Politics of the Archive”.
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations like never seen before in Long Branch. This concert series was created with the intention of democratizing access to classical music, and the space and performers are illuminated by thousands of candles to create a truly magical experience.
The Listeso String Quartet has a tentative program that includes songs such as Clocks, Shiver, Speed of Sound, Trouble, Fix You, Paradise, Yellow, and many more!
Are you fearful of becoming burnt out in the field you are in? Do you often find yourself feeling exhausted, overwhelmed, or on edge? These symptoms do not occur overnight. They are frequently built up due to stress, over-commitment, and self-neglect. In this workshop, hear from alumna and licensed psychotherapist, Alaysha Prestia ’17 as she teaches you about evidence-based strategies to manage stress, set boundaries, and prevent burnout using cognitive behavioral and motivational interviewing techniques.
In recognition of the current climate regarding equity in education, the Social Justice Academy will host Cornelius Minor, a well renowned Brooklyn-eased educator.
Spring Distinguished Speaker
“My job as a teacher is not to merely teach the curriculum or even to just teach the students; it is to seek to understand my kids as completely as possible so that I can purposefully bend and remix curriculum to meet them.”
Cornelius Minor is a Brooklyn-based educator and part-time Pokemon trainer. He works with teachers, school leaders, and leaders of community-based organizations to support equitable literacy reform in cities (and sometimes villages) across the globe. His latest book, “We Got This”, explores how the work of creating more equitable school spaces is embedded in our everyday choices—specifically in the choice to really listen to kids.
Minor has been featured in Education Week, Brooklyn Magazine, and Teaching Tolerance magazine. He has partnered with the New York City Department of Education, the International Literacy Association, Scholastic, and Lesley University’s Center for Reading Recovery & Literacy Collaborative. Minor was featured in the documentary “Out of Print”, which made its way around the film festival circuit, and he has been a featured speaker at conferences all over the world. He is a dedicated hip-hop fan, and on some evenings, you can find him online saving the universe with his PlayStation or on paper saving the realm in Dungeons & Dragons.
Most recently, along with his partner and wife, Kass Minor, he has established The Minor Collective, a community-based movement designed to foster sustainable change in schools. Whether working with educators and kids in Los Angeles, Seattle, or New York City, Minor uses his love for technology, literature, and social media to bring communities together. As a teacher, Minor draws not only on his years teaching middle school in the Bronx and Brooklyn, but also on time spent skateboarding, shooting hoops, and working with young people.
These days, Minor is learning how to bake from his two young children, searching for an elusive pair of Jordan IVs, and is ritually re-reading all of the 1990s era comic books that he c
Please join us for our online side event for the 63rd Session of the Commission for Social Development hosted by the International Federation of Social Workers North America Representation Team to the United Nations.
This session explores community-driven strategies for advancing social justice and sustainable development grounded in collective care for each other and the planet to promote a sustainable and just future. Guest speakers include Professor Darja Zaviršek, Ph.D. from the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Work who will speak on the war in Ukraine and social work transnational solidarity and Dr. Ana Patricia Quintana Ramírez, Profesora Asociada de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia who will speak community-led resource management and Buen Vivir. Finally, we will be joined by guest speaker Mayane Chavez Barudin, a Tribal member of Kewa (Santo Domingo) Pueblo in New Mexico, and founder of the nonprofit Sovereign Energy. Mayane will speak on the topic of enabling economic prosperity and environmental justice for her community and Indigenous peoples by advocating for an inclusive clean energy transition.
