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  • The Third Annual Julian Abele “Out of the Shadows” Public History Symposium (Virtual)

    Sponsored by the Public History Minor at Monmouth University

    The Public History Minor at Monmouth University hosted the first annual Julian Francis Abele “Out of the Shadows” Virtual Public History Symposium via Zoom in 2021. Free for presenters and attendees alike, the Symposium is intended as a welcoming place for public history practitioners at all levels, established and emerging scholars, and graduate and undergraduate students to share their public history work on individuals or groups in history whose legacies have been purposefully or inadvertently suppressed, overshadowed, or underappreciated. We hope to bring these parties out of the shadows and into the fuller appreciation that they so richly deserve.

    The Symposium is named in honor of pioneering African American architect Julian Francis Abele, who contributed greatly to the design of Monmouth University’s Great Hall (previously known as both Shadow Lawn and Wilson Hall). Everyone who has attended Monmouth University has personal memories of the building, a National Historic Landmark. But if you ask them about it, they are probably more likely to mention Woodrow Wilson’s brief time at the original Shadow Lawn (not “ours”), or the current mansion’s starring role as Daddy Warbucks’s home in the movie Annie than they are the fact that it was designed in large part by perhaps “the greatest American born Beaux-Arts architect,” Julian Francis Abele. Monmouth University’s Fall 2020 Museums and Archives Management Basics class sought to increase awareness about Abele’s role in the creation of what is perhaps our University’s most beloved landmark by creating “The Julian Abele Project.” Now, we hope to honor Abele’s name with this annual virtual public history symposium, designed to bring regular attention to Abele’s story and to highlight work focused on other figures underrepresented in the historical record.

  • AI and Education: How to Navigate with Generative AI

    Ai Kamei

    The School of Education Instructional Technology Committee is happy to announce a free webinar about artificial intelligence and its effect on the educational landscape, which will be hosted by Ai Kamei, Ph.D.

    How can we navigate through an AI-infused future in education? While it’s true that tools like ChatGPT do present genuine challenges for educators, they also offer a chance to reconsider and update our current teaching methods. In this Zoom PD session, we will discuss how we can use generative AI like ChatGPT to update our current practice to support students to thrive in the AI era. Through this PD session, the participants will identify the pedagogical shifts necessary to meet student needs in the AI era, explore tools to save time planning lessons, writing emails, conducting research, and discuss the implications of AI on policies.

    Join Us on Zoom (Nov. 27, 12 p.m.)

     

  • Gala at the Great Hall

    On behalf of Monmouth University President Patrick F. Leahy, please join Monmouth University on Saturday, December 2, for the Gala at the Great Hall—a modern twist on a past event favorite. This marquee event will incorporate endless high-end action stations, craft cocktails and libations, and live musical entertainment, with ample seating for all to sit or mingle as they choose. A powerful brief program will be delivered by Monmouth’s President, Dr. Patrick F. Leahy. Guests will enjoy the grandeur and magic of Monmouth’s beloved signature building, while making an impact on those who walk its halls today.

    Proceeds will benefit the Access Fund, providing scholarship support to students with financial need. Your participation will serve as a highly visible vote of confidence in a Monmouth University education, and most importantly, in the students we serve.

  • Guajiros Retratos de Otoño, an exhibition of work by Lázaro Niebla

    Lázaro Niebla, a resident of Trinidad de Cuba, documents the connection to the past through reverse woodcut portraits of those that understand it best: his elders. His process begins by collecting discarded colonial window panels that were used to protect the homes in Trinidad de Cuba during the Spanish colonization. He then photographs his subjects, capturing them in a spontaneous moment. Working off of his photograph, Lázaro meticulously carves layer after layer from the repurposed panel, exposing the perfectly preserved wood under the surface. Using acrylic paint, Lázaro adds touches of color to the piece, choosing to leave the skin of the subject wood tone — connecting the person he has chosen to portray to the material that he has chosen to work with. The life of the tree, the window shutter, the home it protected, the subject portrayed, and the artist are all represented in each piece of art.

    Artist Demonstration: September 27 from 6pm – 8pm |Great Hall Auditorium
    Lázaro Niebla, Cuban wood sculptor, explains his concept, technique, tools and cultural aspects of his work.  He’ll show an example of a work in progress and how he accomplishes the carved details of his subjects to create the multi-dimensional texture of his works.

    NEW!!! Opening Reception – RESCHEDULED FOR November 10 from 6pm – 8 pm | Pollak Gallery
    Please join us for a meet and greet with the artist!

  • TITIAN: THE EMPIRE OF COLOR

    Winning over popes and emperors with his iconic, revolutionary works Titian succeeded in becoming one of the artists that symbolized the entire Renaissance.

    Titian was an extraordinary master of color and a brilliant entrepreneur, innovative both in a painting’s composition but also in how to sell it. In only a few years, Tiziano Vecellio became the official painter of Venice and the utmost artist sought after by the richest and most influential Courts in Europe.

    From Ferrara to Urbino, from Mantua to Rome, up to the Spain of Carlos V and his son Felipe II, Titian crossed his century illuminating it with his works of art, inspiring future generations of artists. Perfect interpreter of religion and mythology, portrayer of immediate expressive strength, he dominated his time outshining his contemporaries, always abiding by his motto: ‘Art is more powerful than Nature’.

    Special guest: Jeff Koons
    Estimated runtime: 88 minutes 

     

  • Ballet Hispánico

    Ballet Hispánico is the nation’s renowned Latino dance organization and one of America’s Cultural Treasures. For 50 years Ballet Hispánico has been bringing communities together to celebrate and explore Latino cultures through innovative dance performances, transformative dance training, and enduring community engagement experiences. The organization’s founder, National Medal of Arts recipient Tina Ramirez, sought to give voice to the Hispanic experience and break through stereotypes. Today, Ballet Hispánico is led by Eduardo Vilaro, an acclaimed choreographer and former member of the Company, whose vision of social equity, cultural identity, and quality arts education for all drives its programs.

    The evening’s program will include:

    Club Havana
    Choreographer Pedro Ruiz, a native of Cuba, brings the intoxicating rhythms of conga, rumba, mambo, and cha cha to life in “Club Havana.” Set to a fusion of Cuban, jazz, and big-band swing music, this performance promises to be a silky, sexy joy.

    New Sleep (Duet)
    Choreographed by William Forsythe, “New Sleep (Duet)” offers a unique and inventive dance movement based on balletic axioms. Forsythe’s work reorients ballet as a dynamic 21st-century art form, pushing the boundaries of dance.

    Línea Recta
    From choreographer Annabelle Lopez Ochoa comes “Línea Recta,” a powerful and resonant work that explores the absence of physical partnering in flamenco dance. While maintaining the genre’s hallmark passion, Lopez Ochoa’s piece offers an original and explosive movement language performed to flamenco guitar by Eric Vaarzon Morel.

  • Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking

    Yannick Nézet-Séguin (Conductor), Latonia Moore (Sister Rose), Joyce DiDonato (Sister Helen Prejean), Susan Graham (Mrs. Patrick De Rocher), Ryan McKinny (Joseph De Rocher) Jake Heggie’s powerful work has its highly anticipated Met premiere in a new production by Ivo van Hove. Based on Sister Helen Prejean’s memoir about her fight for the soul of a condemned murderer, Dead Man Walking matches the high drama of its subject with Heggie’s poignant music and a libretto by Tony and Emmy Award–winner Terrence McNally. Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin takes the podium, with mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato starring as Sister Helen. The cast also features bass-baritone Ryan McKinny as the death-row inmate Joseph De Rocher, soprano Latonia Moore as Sister Rose, and mezzo-soprano Susan Graham—who sang Helen Prejean in the opera’s 2000 premiere—as De Rocher’s mother.

    Content Advisory: Dead Man Walking contains a depiction of a rape and murder, as well as other adult themes and strong language.

     

     

  • Sustainability in Teaching and Research (STAR) Symposium

    A Symposium on Curricular and Scholarly Innovations based on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Exploring National and International Efforts Toward Equity, Coastal and Climate Futures, Sustainability and Social Justice, and Global Partnership for Sustainable Development.

    Registration is Now Open

    Preliminary Agenda & Speakers

    Additional information about speakers and scheduling will be added in the coming days. Please check back soon for updates.

    Symposium Opening

    Patrick Leahy, Ed.D., Monmouth University President

    Tammy Snyder Murphy, First Lady of New Jersey

    Keynote Speaker

    Omar Hernandez, Program Manager of the United Nations Academic Impact

    Executive Plenary Session on Institutional Best Practices on Sustainability

    Dr. Angel Cabrera, President of the Georgia Institute of Technology

    Dr. Rupa Chanda, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia, and the Pacific

    Panel Themes by Day

    Day 1: In-Person/Hybrid

    Track A: Educating for Sustainability

    Track B: Moving Towards Sustainable Environment

    Track C: Equity Justice and Sustainable Communities

    Special Attraction: “Youth Creative Works on Sustainability” session with representation from Monmouth University and high school students

    Day 2: Virtual

    Tracks D and E: Interdisciplinary Perspectives in Sustainability Teaching and Research

  • The Mississippi Delta Meets the Jersey Shore (Featuring Anthony “Big A” Sherrod & The Allstars)

    The Mississippi Delta Meets the Jersey Shore

    Friday, June 2, 2023, at 8 p.m.
    Lauren K. Woods Theatre

    Purchase Tickets: $25

    Celebrate the delta and the history of the blues with a night of live music and stories. This event will feature Mississippi’s own Anthony “Big A” Sherrod & The Allstars, with an opening set from Ken “Stringbean” Sorensen.

    Anthony “Big A” Sherrod

    “Big A,” has been described as “an old soul deeply steeped In the Delta blues.” Roger Stolle, owner of Clarksdale’s Cat Head Delta Blues Store, describes Sherrod as “the torchbearer for the Clarksdale sound. “There’s no one else of Anthony’s generation who has learned first-hand from and/or played with the last of the older generation who are gone now […] Anthony was there and absorbed the distinct sounds, vocals, playing and showmanship from each musician he encountered. He knows where the music came from.” –Living Blues Magazine

    Presented by the Jersey Shore Jazz & Blues Foundation and the Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American Music at Monmouth University. Co-sponsored by Mississippi Delta National Heritage Area and Visit Clarksdale.

  • 5th Annual MLK Distinguished Lecture in Social Justice featuring Anthony Abraham Jack, Ph.D.

    Elite colleges are accepting diverse and disadvantaged students more than ever before—but to Anthony Jack, access does not equal acceptance. An assistant professor at Harvard and author of The Privileged Poor, Jack—once a low-income, first-generation college student himself—studies how poor students are often failed by the top schools that admit them. In talks, he details how class divides on campus create barriers to academic success—and shares what schools can do to truly level the playing field.

    This program is presented annually by the President’s Advisory Council for Diversity and Inclusion and will be moderated by Professor Claude Taylor.