Homecoming 2008

All three Rutgers campuses will celebrate the annual rite of fall – homecoming – when alumni return to share the Rutgers spirit with their community.

In Newark, homecoming will run from Wednesday, September 24 through Saturday, September 27. Featured events will be a Dharma Jazz concert, a talent show and pageant, and a historical walking tour of Newark with Dean Andy Rothman. On Saturday, the Rutgers–Newark Hall of Fame men’s basketball team will take on the Harlem Wizards.

A schedule of events and locations is available at the Newark homecoming website.

In Camden, “Hollywood Homecoming 2008” will take place on Saturday, October 11 from noon to 5 p.m. Featured will be an alumni VIP tent , alumni celebrity shuttle tours, Wheel of Fortune, Athletic Hall of Fame Dinner, intercollegiate soccer, a free barbeque, and a kids' zone. Two soccer games will be featured: the women's soccer team vs. Susquehanna University at 12:30 p.m. and men's soccer vs. York College at 3 p.m.

For more information, visit the Camden homecoming website.

In New Brunswick, homecoming will run from Friday, October 17 through Sunday, October 19. Alumni are invited to “Rock the Block” at a kickoff festival and pep rally from 3 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Friday, complete with fireworks. The featured football game on Saturday is Rutgers vs. UConn; those without tickets can go to the Game-Watch Party on the Livingston Campus. A homecoming golf outing will take place on Sunday.

Click here for information on the New Brunswick Homecoming.

Annual Conference on Undergraduate Teaching

Friday, September 26
8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Douglass Campus Center
Trayes Hall
100 George Street
New Brunswick

The New Brunswick Faculty Council and the Center for Teaching Advancement and Assessment Research (CTAAR) present the annual Conference on Undergraduate Teaching. This year's special guest speaker is higher education consultant Peggy L. Maki. Maki specializes in assisting institutions integrate assessment of student learning into educational practices, processes, and structures.

Discussion at the conference will focus on assessment of student learning and building assessment into course syllabi.

Visit the CTAAR website to register for the conference.

Bunting Program Celebrates 50th Anniversary 

Thursday, September 25

6 p.m.

Douglass Campus Center

Join past and present students in the Mary I. Bunting program for a 50th Anniversary Celebration. The festivities will feature Meredith Hall, best-selling author of Without a Map, and a "Buntings through the Decades" panel discussion. Cost is $20 per person; current Bunting students are free.

The Mary I. Bunting Program was established in 1958 by Mary I. Bunting, the dean of Douglass at that time. This program, part of Douglass Residential College, provides individualized advising and support services for mature women students.

Contact Meg Gardiner at the Associate Alumnae of Douglass College, 732-932-2880, ext. 15, or mgardiner@winants.rutgers.edu.

Rutgers, NJIT drama students create theater together

Hot L Baltimore

October 22 through October 25
7 p.m.
Sunday, October 26
2:30 p.m.

Bradley Hall Theater
Bradley Hall
Third Floor
110 Warren Street
Newark

The Directors Project 2008

December 3 through December 6
7 p.m.

Jim Wise Theatre
Kupfrian Hall
Entrance from the Campus Green
NJIT Campus

The Rutgers/NJIT Joint Theatre Program, which taps the combined talents of Rutgers–Newark and New Jersey Institute of Technology students and faculty, has announced its fall 2008 season.

Hot L Baltimore, by Lanford Wilson, will be directed by Dan Drew, director of last spring's Urinetown. The Directors’ Project 2008 will present student-directed short plays.

Tickets are $10 for students and senior citizens, $12 for general admission. Children under 15 are free. High-school groups with faculty get in for free, but advance reservations are required.

For information or reservations, call 973-596-3457, or write to theatre@njit.edu. For updated information and additional events, visit www.newark.rutgers.edu/arts.

Assessing globalization’s impact

Monday, October 13 through Monday, November 10
5 p.m.

Dana Room
John Cotton Dana Library
185 University Avenue
Newark

The Rutgers Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights’ free fall 2008 Speaker Series will focus on globalization as it pertains to genocide, environmentalism, and grassroots movements.

The series is presented with the support of the Rutgers Global Initiative Human Rights Program and in collaboration with the Rutgers Division of Global Affairs colloquium on “Globalization: Reform, Resistance and Rights.” The schedule includes:

• “Preventing Genocide: A United Nations Emergency Peace Service Eradicating Genocide and Crimes against Humanity,” Monday, October 13. Speaker: Saul Mendlovitz, Dag Hammarskjöld Professor of Peace and World Order Studies Emeritus, Rutgers School of Law--Newark.
• “The Future of Environmentalism: The Politics of Sacrifice in an Age of Comfort,” Monday, October 20. Speaker: Paul Wapner, professor of international studies and director of the Program on Global Environmental Politics, School of International Service, American University, Washington D.C.
  

For more information, contact Carla Capizzi, 973-353-5262, or email capizzi@rutgers.edu

Shedding light on the rights of Muslim women

Wednesday, October 22
5:30 p.m. reception,  6 p.m. lecture

Alexander Library
4th Floor Teleconference Lecture Hall
169 College Avenue
New Brunswick

Ayesha Imam, former director of the network Women Living Under Muslim Laws, will speak about her life and work and engage in a dialogue with undergraduate students.

The event is cosponsored by Rutgers’ Institute for Research on Women (IRW), and Rutgers' universitywide Global Initiatives program.

Imam has been an activist for women's rights, human rights, democracy, and sustainable development for over two decades. She is the founding director of BAOBAB for Women's Human Rights in Nigeria, an organization focusing on women's legal rights under customary, statutory and religious laws. She is on the board of the international solidarity network Women Living Under Muslim Laws (WLUML), and is part of the organizing group of the African Feminist Forum. Currently, she coordinates the West Africa Gender Inclusive Citizenship Project with the Royal Tropical Institute of the Netherlands.

The IRW Distinguished Lecture Series continues with its second Thursday event on  October 23 when Imam will discuss the struggles of Muslim women in West Africa over rights and entitlements, vis-à-vis the completing claims of 'culture and tradition,' Muslim laws, and colonial and post-colonial discourses of 'modernity,' post-modernity, and 'universal' human rights discourses. The lecture will be at Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building, 160 Ryders Lane, Douglass Campus.  Reception at 4:00; lecture at 4:30 p.m.

For more information, visit the Institute for Research on Women’s website.

Writers span the campuses

All three major campuses are alive with the sound of literature as the fall authors’ series continues. Below is a sampling:

Wednesday, October 29
8 p.m.

Rutgers Student Center
126 College Avenue
New Brunswick

Oliver Sacks will deliver the Mason Welch Gross Lecture as part of the Writers at Rutgers Reading Series. Sacks burst onto the literary scene in 1985 with The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: And Other Clinical Tales, a collection of case histories from the world of neurological science. Now, with a new book, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, Sacks will bring his clinical anecdotes to the popular series.

The series continues throughout the semester with an appearance by Caryl Phillips on November 12.

Wednesday, October 22
5:30 p.m.

Paul Robeson Gallery
Paul Robeson Campus Center
350 Dr. Martin Luther King Blvd.
Newark

The Writers at Newark Reading Series will present a reading and discussion by poet Richard McCann and fiction writer Matthew Klam.

Klam, author of Sam The Cat, received an O. Henry Award, a Whiting Writer's Award, and a PEN/Robert Bingham Award, and has received grants from the National Endowment of the Arts and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts. McCann’s work has appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, Tin House, Ploughshares, and in many anthologies, including Best American Essays 2000. He is the author of Ghost Letters, a book of poems.

The series will continue with poets D. Nurkse and Tracy K. Smith on November 12, author Junot Diaz and poet Cathy Park Hong on December 3.

7 p.m.

Stedman Gallery
Fine Arts Center
314 Linden Street
Camden

Patrick Rosal is the author of two full-length poetry collections, Uprock Headspin Scramble and Dive, which won the Members' Choice Award from the Asian American Writers' Workshop, and most recently My American Kundiman, which won the Association of Asian American Studies 2006 Book Award in Poetry as well as the 2007 Global Filipino Literary Award. His chapbook, Uncommon Denominators, won the Palanquin Poetry Series Award from the University of South Carolina, Aiken.