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Joyce Carol Oates and Paul Muldoon featured at 20th annual Rutgers–Camden writers’ conference

Saturday, April 12
All-day workshop begins at 9 a.m.

Register at:
Armitage Hall
311 North Fifth Street
Camden

1:45 to 3 p.m.
Free public reading with Jane Bernstein, Rachel Hadas, and Richard McCann

Walt Whitman Center
101 Cooper Street
Camden

7 p.m.
Free public reading with Joyce Carol Oates and Paul Muldoon

Gordon Theater
314 Linden Street
Camden

Internationally acclaimed author Joyce Carol Oates will lead a roster of nationally recognized writers, including esteemed poet Paul Muldoon, who will read from their works and offer guidance to aspiring writers during the 20th annual Rutgers–Camden Spring Writers’ Conference.

Seminars on writing poetry, fiction, essay, screenplays, and freelance writing will be offered in this intensive program, which is open to the community. Conference writers include novelists Jane Bernstein and Joyce Carol Oates; fiction writers Susan Muaddi Darraj and Richard McCann; poets Rachel Hadas, Paul Muldoon, and Gregory Pardlo; screenwriter Joseph Gangemi; freelance writer Jancee Dunn; memoirist David Matthews; and literary editors Kathleen Volk Miller and Marion Wrenn.

Conference director Lisa Zeidner is the author of two books of poems and four novels. Her stories, essays, and reviews have appeared widely. She is a professor of English at Rutgers–Camden.

More information and full conference schedule

Register here for the Spring Writers’ Conference (PDF)

University press offers publishing workshop

Wednesday, April 2 and Friday, April 25
1 to 4:30 p.m.

Archibald S. Alexander Library
Scholarly Communication Center
169 College Avenue
New Brunswick

Have you ever wondered how book editors decide what to publish, whether you need an agent, or how to determine which publisher is right for your work? The staff of Rutgers University Press invites you to learn how you can turn your manuscript into a book, and what will happen to it if you are successful.

Registration is $25 for Rutgers faculty, students, and staff; $50 for all other attendees. Download the flyer to register for the workshop.

A conference on translation’s role in a global world

Friday, April 3
3:30 p.m.

Saturday, April 4
9:30 a.m.

Archibald S. Alexander Library
Teleconference/Lecture Hall
169 College Avenue
New Brunswick

Translation is more than the rendering of one language into another; it involves the hot-button issues of cross-border relations, world trade, cultural identity, legal testimony, the dominance of English, and even the transnational implications of dubbing and subtitling in the cinema. Translation studies programs are beginning to flourish on campuses across the country.

From the Program in Comparative Literature, TRANSLATION ³ (Culture • Institution • Theory) will offer public dialogues, roundtables, and panels that approach translation in the broadest sense – as a real-world activity, playing a crucial role in political, legal, and commercial arenas, and as a productive discipline in the academy.

The conference will explore translation in cinematic dubbing, in the New Jersey courts of law, in literary texts, and in global communities. Renowned scholars, theorists, and translators will come together to consider translation in culture, institution, and theory.

The long guest list includes Rutgers faculty Alamin Mazrui (Africana studies), Julie Livingston (history), and Michael Levine (Germanic, Russian, and East European languages and literatures).

Histoire Engagée: French history, art, and culture to come alive in New Brunswick

Thursday, April 3 through Saturday, April 5

Hyatt Regency New Brunswick
2 Albany Street
New Brunswick

French history, art and culture will come alive at Rutgers and in downtown New Brunswick from April 3 through April 5, when the Society for French Historical Studies holds its 54th annual conference here.

The conference, expected to draw about 350 North American scholars of French history, will begin Thursday evening, April 3, with a celebration of a major show devoted to the 19th-century French artist Honoré Daumier at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum on the College Avenue Campus. It will convene Friday and Saturday, April 4 and April 5, at the nearby Hyatt Regency in downtown New Brunswick.

Featured presenters include the Friday luncheon speaker, Myriam Cottias, of the National Scientific Research Center and director of an international research group on slavery based at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris, and Denis Crouzet, professor at the Sorbonne and an internationally known scholar of religion, violence, historiography, and apocalyptical thought, who will speak Saturday. Later that day he will join his friend and collaborator, the renowned scholar Natalie Zemon Davis, professor emerita of Princeton University and the University of Toronto, for an informal discussion of the meaning of the conference theme, “Engaged History.”

Register for the conference here (PDF), or contact Jennifer Jones at 732-932-6727 or jemjones@rci.rutgers.edu. Secondary school teachers may attend at a reduced fee, and the conference is free for all Rutgers graduate and undergraduate students.

Film as a catalyst for social change, with a focus on the environment

Monday, April 7
7:30 p.m.

Douglass Campus Center
Trayes Hall
100 George Street
New Brunswick

Filmmaker Judith Helfand will discuss the impact of film on environmental advocacy and will show clips from two of her recent films, Blue Vinyl and Everything’s Cool. Rabbi Lawrence Troster will provide a Jewish perspective on environmental concerns.

Helfand, a filmmaker, activist, and educator, is best known for her ability to take the dark, cynical worlds of chemical exposure and heedless corporate behavior and make them personal, resonant, highly charged, and entertaining.

Troster is director of the fellowship program and rabbinic scholar-in-residence for GreenFaith, the interfaith environmental coalition in New Jersey. He co-chairs the Interfaith Partnership for the Environment of the United Nations Environment Program. Troster has published numerous articles and has lectured widely on theology, environmentalism, liturgy, bio-ethics, and Judaism and modern cosmology.

The program will be moderated by David B. Kriser Professor of Anthropology Faye Ginsburg, founding director of the Center for Media, Culture and History, and the Center for Religion and Media at New York University.

Please RSVP by March 31 to csjlrsvp@rci.rutgers.edu or 732-932-2033.

Libraries’ speaker to discuss historical value of politicians’ records

Tuesday, April 8
5 p.m.

Archibald S. Alexander Library
Scholarly Communication Center
169 College Avenue
New Brunswick

Author James A. Wooten, who has written extensively on federal legislation and public policy, will deliver the 23rd annual Rutgers University Libraries’ Louis Faguères Bishop III Lecture. Wooten, a professor of law at the University at Buffalo, the State University of New York, will speak on the topic “Tracking history in the making: The research value of political papers.”

Wooten will reflect on the ways in which collections of political papers serve as rich sources for researchers. His remarks are informed by his work in numerous archives of former Congressional leaders, including those of U.S. Sen. Harrison A. Williams Jr., found in Rutgers University’s Special Collections and University Archives in New Brunswick.

To RSVP, call 732-932-7505 or email events@rci.rutgers.edu.