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  • Connected, Dynamic, at Risk: Coastal Nation Interests in a Strong New High Seas Biodiversity Treaty

  • Policing in Communities of Color

    A Conversation on Police Violence, Black Lives Matter, and Police Reform.

    Panelists

    Lorenzo M. Boyd, Ph.D.

    Lorenzo M. Boyd, Ph.D., is a nationally recognized leader in police-community relations and an authority on urban policing. Boyd is the vice president for diversity & inclusion at the University of New Haven. As the former director of the Center for Advanced Policing and a life member of the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives (NOBLE), Boyd has appeared on local, regional, and national media outlets to discuss policing in the aftermath of high-profile cases.

    Jason Williams, Ph.D.

    Jason Williams, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of justice studies at Montclair State University. He is a passionate activist criminologist deeply concerned about racial disparity and mistreatment within the criminal legal system. Williams has conducted ethnographic research in Baltimore, Maryland, and Ferguson, Missouri, following the police-involved tragedies of Freddie Gray and Michael Brown. He recently published a co-edited book entitled Black Males and the Criminal Justice System.

    Sean K. Wilson, Ph.D.

    Sean K. Wilson, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the Sociology and Criminal Justice Department at William Paterson University. As a community-based scholar, Wilson’s research seeks to foreground the voices and lived experiences of the oppressed and marginalized. His research interests include reentry, critical policing, critical criminology,reentry, critical gang studies, and race and justice.

    Andrea McChristian, Esq.

    Andrea McChristian, Esq., is the law and policy director at the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice. In this capacity, she leads the implementation of the strategic vision and the director of the law and policy program. Andrea oversees the programmatic function of the institute’s three pillars of social justice: democracy and justice, economic justice, and criminal justice reform. Andrea previously served as the director of the institute’s Criminal Justice Reform Initiative and was the primary author of Bring Our Children Home: Ain’t I a Child, which forms the basis of the 150 Years is Enough campaign.

     

    Organized by Marie Mele, Ph.D., mmele@monmouth.edu

    Sponsors: Intercultural Center; School of Humanities & Social Sciences, Sociology program; and Helen Bennett McMurray Endowment for Social Ethics

    Collaborators: Program in Gender and Intersectionality Studies,
    Black and African Diaspora Forum United, Black Student Union, Students for Systemic Change, Social Work Society, Guardians Club, and Global & Community Practice Action Group

  • ArtNOW Art+Feminism Wikipedia-Edit-a-thon

    Wikipedia is a worldwide collaborative encyclopedia project made up of a globalized network of volunteers who give their time to edit the site. Within this globalized network, there still lacks a diversity of voices. “In a 2011 survey, the Wikimedia Foundation found that less than 10% of its contributors identify as female; more recent research puts that number at 16% globally and 23% in the United States.”  (Mandiberg, M., Prajapati, S., & Schrock, R., 2020). Who contributes to a database matters. Especially when in 2015, that database was “the 7th most visited website in the world” (Paling, E., 2015). A 2011 study from the Pew Research Center, shows that “the more educated someone is, the more likely he or she is to consult Wikipedia. Almost 70 percent of Americans with college degrees read Wikipedia” (Paling, E., 2015). If college-educated people and students are using Wikipedia as a main source of information, there is an argument for students learning how to edit and contribute to the online encyclopedia that they use.

    It is increasingly important for cis and trans women, gender-non-conforming people, people of color, and Indigenous communities to be written back into history. When information systems like Wikipedia systematically exclude aspects of the human experience, our understanding of the world is incomplete. To have access to a more accurate information system that includes representation of historically marginalized groups, our understanding of success, knowledge, and of ourselves can become more whole.

    VIRTUAL EVENT SCHEDULE: Friday, September 18th

    8:00 AM                               WIKI EDIT-A-THON BEGINS

    8:15 AM                                OPENING REMARKS

    8:30 AM                                EDITING WIKIPEDIA: TRAINING

    9:15 AM                                 LIBRARY RESEARCH: ONLINE TRAINING

    9:30 AM­–12:00 PM              EDITING WIKIPEDIA: FREE TIME

    12:00 PM                                EDITING WIKIPEDIA: TRAINING

    12:45 PM                                LIBRARY RESEARCH: ONLINE TRAINING

    1:00 PM–4:00 PM                  EDITING WIKIPEDIA: FREE TIME

    4:00 PM–5:00 PM                  CLOSING REMARKS

     

    ArtNOW Art+Feminism 2020 is a Wikipedia-Edit-a-thon hosted by ArtNOW and the IDM Research Lab.

    Co-sponsors: The Monmouth University Guggenheim Library and Program in Gender and Intersectionality Studies (PGIS) at Monmouth University.

    This event was organized with the guidance of Art+Feminism, “an intersectional feminist non-profit organization that directly addresses the information gap about gender, feminism, and the arts on the internet… ensuring that the histories of our lives and work are accessible and accurate” (Mandiberg, M., Prajapati, S., & Schrock, R., 2020).

  • Current Topics in Counseling Virtual Conference 2020

    The Department of Professional Counseling’s Virtual Current Topics in Counseling Conference is facilitated by the department’s active alumni organization, Counseling Alumni Connection (CAC). This is the fourth annual conference coordinated by the CAC. The purpose of this event is to provide timely and important information relevant to the counseling field.

    On Friday, October 16, a pre-conference ethics institute presented by Perry Francis, Ed.D, NCC, ACS, LPC will take place on the topic Ethics, Law, and Social Justice: The Intersection of Behaviors and Beliefs. A certificate for five (5) ethics continuing education hours will be provided. Participants will have one hour for lunch on their own.

    On Saturday, October 17, a full-day event will be held starting with a keynote presentation, followed by six workshops over three sessions (one morning, two afternoon) on a variety of subjects. A certificate for six (6) continuing education hours will be provided. Participants will have one hour for lunch on their own, with virtual networking opportunities available during that time.

    Registration Costs

    Professional Rates

    • Friday Only: $100
    • Saturday Only: $125
    • Full Conference: $200

    MU Alumni, MU Employees, & Current Field Placement Supervisors Rates

    • Friday Only: $100
    • Saturday Only: $100
    • Full Conference: $175

    PLEASE NOTE: All current undergraduate and graduate students can attend the conference free of charge.

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  • Cancelled: Lives of the ‘Brows’: Autobiography, Taste, Ethics

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    Dr. Max Cavitch, Associate Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania

    Please join us for a guest lecture by Dr. Max Cavitch, Associate Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is also an affiliated faculty member of the programs in Cinema Studies, Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, and Psychoanalytic Studies.

    Dr. Cavitch will be discussing literary taste and value in relation to autobiography—one of the world’s most popular and widely practiced genres. From “highbrow” triumphs of artistic intention to “middlebrow” narratives of historical significance to “lowbrow” tell-alls of gossipy celebrity, there are autobiographies to suit every taste. But what is “taste,” anyway? What does it have to do with “literary value”? And, moreover, what do either taste or literary value have to do with the question of whose lives and life-stories matter?

    Refreshments will be served. Students, faculty, and interested members of the public are warmly invited to attend.

    Free and open to the public.
    Sponsored by the Wayne D. McMurray Endowed Chair in the Humanities, Dr. Kristin Bluemel

  • Toni Morrison Day

    Photo of author Toni Morrison with one of her more famous quotes: This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.

    Join us for a celebration of the life and works of Toni Morrison: author, activist, academic, and Nobel Laureate.

    These events are free and open to the public. For questions or additional information, please contact Professor Linda Sacks at lsacks@monmouth.edu.

    Sponsored by the Department of English, the Guggenheim Memorial Library and the Honors School.

    Schedule of Events

    Library 101

    10:00 – 11:25 a.m. | Dr. Courtney Werner – Welcome; Professor Beth Sara Swanson – Opening remarks; Dr. Walter Greason – Keynote address

    11:40 a.m. – 4:10 p.m. | Sigma Tau Delta: marathon reading of Sula, read in its entirety by student and faculty volunteers

    4:30 – 5:50 p.m. |  Dr. Anwar Uhuru: “Finding Self Regard in the Works of Toni Morrison,” followed by discussion

    6:00 – 8:00 p.m. | Screening: Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am (2019), sponsored by the Honors School

    Library 102

    10:05 a.m. – 4:10 p.m. | Visit the Toni Morrison Gallery – enjoy food and refreshments

    Faculty Symposium

    Magill 107

    11:40 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. | Pedagogy Panel: “Teaching Toni Morrison”

    1:15 – 2:35 p.m. | Scholarship Roundtable: “Morrison: History, Themes, and Craft”

    Wilson 104

    10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. | Open Room: Student & Faculty maker/creator space

    10:00 – 11:00 a.m. | Collage Workshop with Professor Linh Dao, Department of Art and Design

    2:00 – 3:00 p.m. |  Collage Workshop with Professor Linh Dao (video)

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  • 6th Biennial Interdisciplinary Conference on Race

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    Monmouth University’s upcoming 6th biennial Interdisciplinary Conference on Race is themed Race, Memory and Identity and brings distinguished speakers and cultural performances.

    This conference aims to bring together scholars from multiple disciplinary perspectives to broadly explore the intersections of Race, Memory, and Identity. Contemporary social, political, and media discourses demonstrate the continued need to evaluate the differing ways that race and identity impact memory in connection to history, trauma, loss and remembrance. Understanding memory as both a subject and a tool can act to promote conversations about how memories of the past impress upon individual and collective memory to affectively shape racial and cultural identities.

    This year, historian Dr. William Sturkey, UNC, Chapel Hill, will deliver the opening plenary lecture. Dr. Qiana Whitted, USC, and other distinguished speakers will also participate in this conference.

    Registration Fees:

    • Scholar/General Public: $125
    • Non-MU Student: $85
    • Monmouth University Faculty, Students & Staff: No Charge
      (Please Note:  members of the Monmouth community still need to register. )

    For more information, please contact Brooke Nappi at bnappi@monmouth.edu or use the link below to visit the conference web site.

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  • Reproductive Justice 2019: Perils and Prospects

    The personal is the political has been a part of the American vocabulary since at least the 1960s. Initially this argument was a source of identity and politics-making in the male public arena, not the female domestic space. Recently, this personal has been targeted in both Western Europe and North America where varying nationalist resurgences have resulted in anti-choice legislation. In response, some American states have passed reproductive-specific protections through legislative acts of their own. Against the backdrop of culture war, what does this renewed attention to female agency and their bodies say about our broken, polarized present? What prospects lay ahead for women? And more importantly, what perils?

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    Opening Remarks

    Dr. Nancy Mezey – Dean of the Honors School

    Moderator

    Dr. Rekha Datta – Interim Provost

    Host and Organizer

    Dr. L. Benjamin Rolsky

    Panelists

    Anne C. Deepak – Associate Professor of Social Work

    Sasha N. Canan – Assistant Professor of Health and Physical Education

    Lazara G. Paz-Gonzalez – Adjunct Professor of Nursing and Health Studies

    Sponsored By:

    The Provost’s Office, The School of Humanities & Social Science and the Department of History & Anthropology in conjunction with the Program in Gender and Intersectionality Studies, The University Library, The Leon Hess Business School, The School of Education, The School of Social Work, and The Honors School.

  • Graduate English Meet-Up

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    A goosebump inducing evening of perfect readings for the season. Enjoy spooky readings of the season from faculty members and students. Meet and mingle with other Graduate students.

    For more information, contact Michele McBride at mmcbride@monmouth.edu.

  • Ink & Electricity Lecture Series

    This annual lecture series brings top scholars in the fields of digital humanities, media studies, the history of the book, print culture, and children’s literature to Monmouth University every fall.

    STRANGER THAN FICTION:
    THE NOVEL IN WEB 2.0

    A Talk by Dr. Priya Joshi
    Professor of English
    Temple University

    Fan sites, new writing platforms, and new markets for the novel are now produced and curated by readers on Web 2.0 platforms. This talk reviews the story of “literature” in the age of digital production with particular attention to the future of literary theory.

    This event is free and open to the public and refreshments will be served.

    Ink and Electricity is sponsored by the Wayne D. McMurray-Helen Bennett Endowed Chair in the Humanities at Monmouth University, Dr. Kristin Bluemel, professor of English. She can be reached at kbluemel@monmouth.edu or 732-571-3622.