Events
A celebration of faculty-authors, Camden spring writers conference, self-portraiture in photography exhibit, and more
Fourth annual “Celebration of Faculty Authors” exhibition and reception
On Tuesday, March 20, starting at 5 p.m., the Libraries will hold the fourth annual exhibition and opening reception to honor faculty who have published books during the calendar year 2006. This year’s exhibition will be held in the lobby of Alexander Library and the opening reception will be held in the Remigio U. Pane Room on the first floor of the library. University Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Philip Furmanski and University Librarian Marianne Gaunt invite all Rutgers community members to attend the opening reception. To RSVP for the exhibition opening reception, send an email to events@rci.rutgers.edu. For any questions about this exhibition, call 732-932-7505, ext. 303, or email hglazer@rci.rutgers.edu.School of Public Affairs and Administration presents dialogue on open government and secrecy
In celebration of Sunshine Week 2007, the School of Public Affairs and Administration at Rutgers–Newark will host an event titled “Closed Doors: Open Democracies?” which will consist of an interactive national program webcast from the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. The webcast will be followed by a discussion of how transparency issues affect New Jersey residents.
The event takes place at Monday, March 12, from 12:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. in Room 449 of Conklin Hall located on the corner of University Avenue and Bleeker Street at Rutgers–Newark. The event is free and open to the public. Seating is limited; reservations are required by emailing erborry@pegasus.rutgers.edu.
For more information, contact Suzanne Piotrowski, assistant professor of public affairs and administration, 973-353-5093, ext. 20, or spiotrow@rutgers.edu.Rutgers–Camden celebrates Women’s History Month with a diverse series of free lectures
A series of free lectures at Rutgers–Camden will be held in Armitage Hall and the Law School Building on Fifth Street, between Cooper Street and the Benjamin Franklin Bridge. For more information, call 856-225-6161; for directions to Rutgers–Camden, visit www.camden.rutgers.edu.
Thursday, March 8, 4:30 p.m., Room 206 of the Law School, Martha Hodes, professor of history at New York University, will read from her recent book, The Sea Captain’s Wife: A True Story of Love, Race, and War in the Nineteenth Century. The codirector of the New York University Humanities Council Workshop, Hodes is the author of the books White Women, Black Men: Illicit Sex in the Nineteenth-Century South and Sex, Love, Race: Crossing Boundaries in North American History. . The Rutgers–Camden Department of History will sponsor a reception following the talk.
Wednesday, March 21, noon in the Faculty Lounge on the third floor of Armitage Hall, Nicole Else-Quest, an assistant professor at Villanova University, will present the talk “How Different Is ‘Different’?" Else-Quest’s lecture will consider how we make sense of gender differences and similarities. Complimentary lunch will be provided.
Distinguished lecture in European history
The Department of History at Rutgers–New Brunswick will hold its third annual Distinguished Lecture in History on Monday, March 19, at 4:30 p.m. This year’s guest lecturer is Anthony Grafton, Henry Putnam University Professor of History at Princeton University. His talk is called “Pedants, Pariahs, and Patriarchs: The Study of Chronology and Its Discontents in Early Modern Europe.”Grafton’s special interests include the history of books and the history of scholarship, education, and science. His most recent publications include Christianity and the Transformation of the Book (2006), Leon Battista Alberti: Master Builder of the Italian Renaissance (2002), and The Footnote: A Curious History (1999).
This year’s lecture takes place in the Scholarly Communication Center at the Alexander Library on the College Avenue Campus. The event is sponsored by the Department of History, the Office of the Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences, and Rutgers University Libraries. It is open to the public.
Writers at Rutgers: Susanna Moore
Susanna Moore is the author of the novels My Old Sweetheart, The Whiteness of Bones, Sleeping Beauties, In the Cut (which she later adapted for the film directed by Jane Campion and starring Meg Ryan), and One Last Look. Inspired by her childhood in Hawai`i she wrote a nonfiction travelogue entitled I Myself Have Seen It: The Myth of Hawai`i. Moore’s new novel, The Big Girls, will appear in May 2007. English Professor Carolyn Williams will introduce Moore.