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Something for everyone at the Rutgers New Jersey Jewish Film Festival
Sunday, November 4 through Sunday, November 11
The Regal Cinema Commerce Center
2399 US 1 South
North Brunswick
The eighth annual festival, which runs November 4 through November 11 in North Brunswick, features nine New Jersey premieres, many of which will feature guest appearances by the directors.
Tickets are now on sale and advance purchase is strongly recommended. The festival is sponsored by Rutgers’ Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life and made possible by the Karma Foundation.
Click here for a complete list of Rutgers New Jersey Jewish Film Festival movies.
Remembering the response to city strife
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
5 p.m.
Newark Museum
49 Washington Street
Newark
In commemoration of the 40th anniversary of New Jersey’s 1967 civil disorders, the Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience presents a special panel discussion on October 30, 2007 at 5 p.m. at The Newark Museum, a symbolic “reconvening” of the surviving members of the Governor’s Select Commission on Civil Disorders, also called the Lilley Commission, in recognition of the leadership of its chairman Robert Lilley, then the CEO of New Jersey Bell. The program is cosponsored by the New Jersey Historical Commission, a division of the New Jersey Department of State, and The Newark Museum.
Created originally in response to the Newark riots of 1967, the Lilley Commission was comprised of civic and corporate leaders who produced a report on Newark’s poverty, race relations, and economic status, concluding with recommendations for change. The panel of citizens and former members of the Governor’s Select Commission on Civil Disorders will be moderated by Ronald Smothers, former reporter for The New York Times and currently distinguished professor of journalism at the University of Delaware.
The Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience celebrates its10th anniversary as an important Rutgers University resource for public scholarship and civic discourse in greater Newark.
Please RSVP by calling 973-353-1871, x11 or email mpierson@newark.rutgers.edu.
Huddle with the Faculty: Gameday Seminars combine the gridiron with the classroom
New Gameday Seminars are a series of lively, one-hour sessions with leading Rutgers scholars on such timely topics as the 2008 presidential race, advances in our everyday painkillers, and athletic arenas from Roman times to today. Each 30- to 40-minute lecture will be followed by a question-and-answer period, leaving plenty of time for tailgating before the game. The seminars take place at the Busch Campus Center “Lecture Zone.”
October 27 – three hours prior to kickoff (TBA)
- From Rome to Rutgers: 2,500 Years of Sports Architecture
T. Corey Brennan, Associate Professor and Chair, Classics - Will Global Warming Turn the River Dorms into the Ocean Dorms?
Anthony J. Broccoli, Associate Professor, Environmental Sciences, and Director, Center for Environmental Prediction; and Lily Y. Young, Professor and Chair, Environmental Sciences - Crisis and Disaster: The Big Myths, the Real Truth
Caron Chess, Associate Professor, Human Ecology; and Lee B. Clarke, Associate Professor, Sociology
Center for Latino Arts and Culture celebrates 15 years of service
Saturday, November 10, 2007
7 p.m.
Rutgers Student Center
126 College Avenue
New Brunswick
The Center for Latino Arts and Culture (CLAC) is celebrating 15 years of continuous service to Rutgers and communities across New Jersey with an anniversary gala and program, “Building on a Legacy of Community Service through the Arts.”
Hon. Nina Mitchell Wells, New Jersey’s secretary of state, and Rutgers President Richard L. McCormick , the honorary chair of the gala, are among the speakers for the event. The evening program will feature a pre-gala art exhibition and reception, starting at 7 p.m., followed by a dinner program featuring live and recorded performances by outstanding Rutgers alumni, an art auction and a concert by Grammy Award winner Eddie Palmieri y La Perfecta II.
The program highlights the achievements of Rutgers alumni in the arts and honors funders, community leaders, faculty and artists for their leadership. This year’s honorees are Dr. Michael J. Bzdak, director of corporate contributions at Johnson & Johnson; Daniel H. Jara, president and CEO of the Statewide Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of New Jersey; Asela Rodríguez-Laguna, professor and chair of classical and modern languages at Rutgers-Newark; and New Brunswick artist Claudio Mir, a Mason Gross School of the Arts alumnus and a longtime collaborator in CLAC community-based programs.
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