Friday, September 11th 12:30-1:50 Library Auditorium A Student-Author discussion to celebrate Dr. Tim Clydesdale’s recent publication “The Purposeful Graduate.” We all know that higher education has changed dramatically over the past two decades. Historically a time of exploration and self-discovery, the college years have been narrowed toward an increasingly singular goal—career training—and college students these… Continue Reading
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Film Screening ‘Gideon’s Army’
Thursday, April 16, 2015, 6:00pm Library Auditorium Followed by discussion with Professor Mort Winston (Department of Philosophy) ‘Gideon’s Army’ tells the story of three young public defenders in the Deep South: idealistic lawyers who challenge the assumptions that drive a criminal justice system strained to the breaking point Continue Reading
Katrina Ballads
Saturday, March 7, 2015, 1:00pm Mildred & Ernest E. Mayo Concert Hall Live performance of composer Ted Hearne’s Katrina Ballads, a piece that explores issues of social justice through media sound bytes from the weeks that followed Hurricane Katrina. Including pre-performance discussion groups facilitated by TCNJ faculty and students and a post performance discussion with… Continue Reading
Poverty and the Pope
Wednesday, March 4, 2015, 4:30-6:30pm Education Building 115 Part of the “Exploring Economic Justice: New Jersey, the Nation, and the World” series this talk will be presented by Dr. Jagdish Bhagwati. Professor Bhagwati is a University Professor (Economics, Law, and International Affairs)) at Columbia University. Professor Bhagwati has authored, co-authored, edited, or co-edited over 35… Continue Reading
Canceled: Economic Justice for All
Wednesday, February 25, 2015, 4:30pm Education Building 115 ‘Economic Justice for All: How Smart Cities of the Future are Powered by Community-Engaged Design’ presented by Dr. Antwi Akom. Dr. Akom is Associate Professor of Environmental Sociology, Public Health, and STEM Education at San Francisco State University and Co-Founder of the Institute for Sustainable Economic, Educational, and… Continue Reading
Politics Forum
Tuesday February 24, 2015, 3:00-6:00pm Library Auditorium Thomas Healy (Seton Hall Law School) will present “The Justice Who Changed His Mind:Oliver Wendell Holmes and the Story Behind Abrams v. United States.” Continue Reading
Film Screening ‘WHO CARES?’
Thursday February 19, 2015, 6:00-8:00pm Library Auditorium Part of the “Exploring Economic Justice: New Jersey, the Nation, and the World” series WHO CARES? is a film about social & humanitarian entrepreneurs around the world. Brilliant people with innovative ideas and a big social impact. The film aims to inspire people to become changemakers. Continue Reading
Politics Forum
Tuesday February 17, 2015, 12:30-1:30 Education Building room 113 Rachel Goldman presents “Breaking the Concrete Ceiling: Ancient Roman Attitudes to Slavery.” Continue Reading
Film Screening: Danny Lyon, “Los Ninos Abandonados”
Wednesday February 11, 2015, 10:00am-12:00pm Kendal Hall 125 TCNJ’s Department of Communications Studies will present Lyon’s 1975 film Los Niños Abandonados on February 11 at 10:00AM in the Kendall Hall Screening Room. Lyon’s documentary about homeless children in Columbia has been acclaimed as “one of the great cinema-vérité documentaries,” and it remains poignantly timely today… Continue Reading
Gendering the Enemy in Soviet Cold War Films
Tuesday, February 3, 2015, 12:30 – 1:50pm Library Auditorium Oleg Riabov is a Fulbright Visiting Scholar (August 2014 – February 2015). His research project, “Gendering the Enemy in Soviet and American Cold War Films (1945-1963)”, deals with the ways of producing otherness with help of gender discourse in international relations. He investigates cinematic representations of Soviet and… Continue Reading