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A vision for the College Avenue Campus

Monday, April 21
4 to 5 p.m.

Student Activities Center
613 George Street
New Brunswick

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)

Ag Field Day and the New Jersey Folk Festival: 90 years of outdoor fun

Saturday, April 26
9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

George H. Cook Campus
New Brunswick

Rutgers invites you to the 90th annual Ag Field Day, a celebration of our community spirit and of the close ties enjoyed by students, faculty, staff, alumni, volunteers, and New Jersey residents. For more than a century, Ag Field Day has been an opportunity for members of the public to learn about and participate in Rutgers’ programs. Bring your family and friends, and enjoy:

• Tours of the Rutgers Gardens and Helyar Woods
• Animal shows, petting zoo, and the NJ 4-H Dog Show
• Flower and plant sales
• Face painting, clowns, magicians, cockroach races, and tree climbing
• Arts and craft sales
• Department, center, and institute open houses

Visitors to Ag Field Day also may attend the New Jersey Folk Festival, which is held on the lawns of the Rutgers Eagleton Institute on the adjacent Douglass Campus. The festival features music, craft demonstrations, talks, ethnic foods, and a children’s area. This year’s focus is German music, food, and culture.

Visit the Ag Field Day website for more information.

Mourning the loss of ancient national treasures in Iraq

Friday, April 11
7 p.m.

Student Activity Center
Raritan River Lounge
613 George Street
New Brunswick

The Department of Art History in the School of Arts and Sciences is hosting a candlelight vigil to mark the fifth anniversary of the looting of the Iraq Museum in Baghdad. The museum was raided in the days following the U.S. invasion of Iraq, with numerous groups stealing statues, friezes, jewelry, pottery, vases and other artworks. Many of the items have been recovered, but thousands remain missing. The museum’s collections contained artifacts chronicling ancient Mesopotamia’s 5,000-year history.

Event schedule:

7 p.m.: Welcome: Archer St. Clair Harvey and Tod Marder, Certificate Program in Historic Preservation, Department of Art History

7:15 p.m.: “The US Invasion, ‘National Building,’ and the Destruction of Iraq’s Cultural Heritage,” Eric Davis. Center of Middle Eastern Studies and Department of Political Science

7:30 p.m.: Film: Robbing the Cradle of Civilization

8:30 p.m.: “Rutgers Classicist Documents Lost Iraqi Museums: the Photos of Emeritus Professor Christoph Clairmont”, T. Corey Brennan, Department of Classics

8:45 p.m.: “The Iraq Museum Today,” Migdalia Tollens, Department of Art History

Gala celebration to commemorate 100 years of Rutgers in Newark

Thursday, June 19
6 to 10 p.m.

Paul Robeson Campus Center
350 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard
Newark

Rutgers University in Newark officially came into existence in 1946, when the New Jersey State Legislature voted to make the University of Newark part of Rutgers University.

However, Rutgers–Newark’s roots date back to 1908, when the New Jersey Law School began classes. That law school, along with four other educational institutions in Newark – Dana College, the Newark Institute of Arts and Sciences, the Seth Boyden School of Business, and the Mercer Beasley School of Law – formed a series of alliances over the years, and a final merger in 1936 resulted in the establishment of the University of Newark. A decade later, Rutgers–Newark was founded.

Today, Rutgers–Newark is a doctoral-granting research institution that has evolved into one of the country’s leading urban public research universities.

For more information on the gala and Rutgers–Newark’s centennial year, visit www.newark.rutgers.edu/century. For ticket information, contact provost-newark@newark.rutgers.edu, or call 973-353-3326.

Symposium examines the impact of climate change on water resources

Tuesday, April 15
8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Rutgers Student Center
126 College Avenue
New Brunswick

Climate change is likely to have profound impacts on water resources by accentuating floods and droughts. Such changes could affect drinking water quality and availability, water management policies and procedures, and aquatic ecosystems.

This one-day symposium, hosted by the Rutgers Climate and Environmental Change Initiative and the New Jersey Water Resources Research Institute, will bring together stakeholders, policymakers, researchers, and citizens with an interest in the effects of climate change on water resources. Click here to view a draft agenda for the day.

Lunch will be provided, and registration is free but required. To attend, register here. Visit the symposium website for more information.

Rutgers–Camden law school to present human rights lawyer with Brennan award

Monday, April 21
4 p.m.

School of Law–Camden
217 North Fifth Street
Camden

Karinna Moskalenko, founder of the Moscow-based International Protection Center, will receive the Justice William J. Brennan Jr. Human Rights Award from the Rutgers School of Law–Camden during a special ceremony. She also will deliver a free public lecture.

Touted as “Russia’s leading human rights lawyer,” Moskalenko has won a number of cases brought before the Human Rights Committee of the United Nations. She also won the first-ever cases against Russia at both the European Court and the Human Rights Committee.

Moskalenko’s clients include global chess champion Garry Kasparov. Her efforts have drawn the ire of the Russian government and the attention of the world.

Named in honor of the late U.S. Supreme Court justice, the Brennan Award is presented annually by the Rutgers–Camden law school.

For more information, contact msepanic@camden.rutgers.edu.