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SUMMARY:Mahwah Museum Hosts "The Irish in New Jersey" with Alan Delozier
DESCRIPTION:The deep and multi-faceted contributions of the Hibernian community in New Jersey over the last few centuries have made a tremendous impact on the development of the Garden State. From farming progress to improving the transportation routes to building the towns and cities from Cape May to High Point\, the influence of those with Irish ties have also made their lasting mark in the Arts\, Athletics\, Business\, Medicine\, Politics\, and all aspects of Irish-centered society statewide. \nAbout the speaker: Alan Delozier\, Humanities Librarian at Seton Hall University. Holds a Doctorate in Irish Studies from Drew University and a Certificate in Genealogy and Local Studies at Limerick University. \nRegistration is now open. Tickets can be purchased online through the museum here. \nAny necessary information will be sent to the email you provide. \nNo physical ticket will be required or distributed. \nMuseum admission: \nMembers: Free with discount code\nNon-Members: $5 \nThe Mahwah Museum is a recipient of NJCH grant funding.
URL:https://njhumanities.org/event/mahwah-museum-hosts-the-irish-in-new-jersey-with-alan-delozier/
LOCATION:Mahwah Museum\, 200 Franklin Tpke\, Mahwah\, NJ\, United States
CATEGORIES:Grantee Event
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SUMMARY:Outside the Wire: Writing Grief — Public Panel
DESCRIPTION:The Writers House at Rutgers University-Camden will host an in-person panel for veterans\, family members\, and the public highlighting the narratives and experiences of American veterans throughout the country’s history of conflict. The event is supported by an NJCH grant. \nABOUT THE PANEL \nOutside the Wire is a multi-format humanities project that highlights the narratives and experiences of American veterans throughout the country’s history of conflict. This year’s panel—featuring veterans\, writers\, and scholars whose work intersects with issues of concern to veterans and service members—will explore the diverse ways veterans\, active duty service members\, and their families have responded to and been impacted by grief. How have veterans written about grief throughout history? How has the pandemic shifted the ways veterans write or discuss grief? What does it mean to write about one’s grief or trauma with an audience in mind? In this panel\, we’ll be discussing the ways grief appears in and shapes each panelist’s work. From the violence of the battlefield\, to the aftermath of war\, to the outcome disparities of the G.I. Bill\, to grieving the person one used to be before their service\, the patterns of individualized and structural loss and grief in the armed forces have sometimes echoed and sometimes diverged from the conversation about grief in American society as a whole. \nABOUT THE PANELISTS \nCharlotte Kiechel is a historian of modern Europe and decolonization. She is a Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies (2024-2025) and Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. Previously\, she was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Williams College. Kiechel is currently finishing her first book\, Genocide’s Shadow: Holocaust Memory at the End of Empire. Her research has appeared in Humanity\, Journal of Genocide Research\, and the Journal of the History of International Law. She received her PhD in history from Yale University. \nDr. Juanita Kirton is published in several anthologies\, including AVOW (American Veteran Association for Women Magazine)\, A Journal of Hope and Healing\, Caribbean Writer\, Chester H. Jones Literary Journal\, Narrative\, Veterans Voices\, and elsewhere. Juanita’s poetry manuscript\, Letters to my Father\, was accepted for publication by Finishing Line Press\, 2020\, and her work can also be found in Inner Journey. Her poem Fall Skates won second prize in the Dream Quest One Writing Contest\, 2020. She is the recipient of the Baker Veterans Writing Scholarship\, 2018 to attend the Longleaf Writers Conference in Seaside Florida. She won the Sisters in Script self-publishing grant\, 1999 and her Peace Haiku was selected for Peace Mural in Philadelphia. Juanita is a member of Women Who Write\, Inc.\, International Women’s Writing Guild and Women Reading Aloud workshop series. She served on editorial staff for Clockhouse Literary Journal and as a teaching artist with Crossing Point Arts (Arts for survivors of human trafficking). Dr. Kirton served fourteen years in the U.S. Army and enjoys touring the US on her motorcycle. She lives in North East PA with her spouse. \nAdam Straus is a Marine veteran. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Iowa Review\, The Missouri Review\, The Los Angeles Review of Books\, HAD\, Best Small Fictions 2024\, and elsewhere. Adam holds an MFA from Rutgers-Camden. \nJulie Zavage completed a Master of Social Work degree at the University of Pennsylvania in 2017. Since then\, Julie has been providing individual\, group\, and family psychotherapy to adults and adolescents with many types of mood and substance use disorders. Before graduate school\, Julie worked in a VA medical center with veterans with PTSD and other mental health challenges\, and served for 5 years in the U.S. Army. \nThis panel will be held in-person in the Rutgers-Camden Campus Center\, South ABC Conference Room. The location is accessible via an elevator. The event is free\, and tickets can be reserved via Eventbrite.
URL:https://njhumanities.org/event/outside-the-wire-writing-grief-public-panel/
LOCATION:Rutgers University–Camden\, 303 Cooper Street\, Camden\, NJ\, 08102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Grantee Event
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SUMMARY:"The Price of Silence" Film Screening and Discussion
DESCRIPTION:NJCH has proudly supported the development of the NJ PBS documentary series The Price of Silence\, which explores the roots of slavery\, with multiple grant awards. \nPart three of the series will premiere on on NJ PBS at 8 p.m. on February 19. \nThe filmmakers also will hold a special screening and discussion of the series\, including the new installment\, on February 22 at Montclair Public Library. The discussion will feature filmmaker Ridgeley Hutchinson and Linda Caldwell Epps\, a founding partner of the Sankofa Collaborative and a historical consultant on the film. \nAbout the film \nNew Jersey\, the Garden State\, is known for its produce\, but not for the enslaved people who tilled the soil. In this three-part documentary series\, which was originally created for and broadcast on NJ PBS\, descendants and historians tell their stories and why it was the last northern state to end the institution of slavery\, and how NJ’s history affected those who came here in the Great Migration. Each episode is 28 minutes long\, and there will be a 5-minute intermission after the second episode. \nThe Price of Silence is a Public Media Initiative through The WNET Group. \nThis program is co-presented by the Montclair NAACP\, the Montclair History Center\, the Friends of Howe House\, the UU Undoing Racism Team\, and the League of Women Voters of the Montclair Area. \nRegistration \nThe event is free to attend\, but registration is required through Montclair Public Library’s Adult School. \nClick here to register
URL:https://njhumanities.org/event/the-price-of-silence-film-screening-and-discussion/
LOCATION:Montclair Public Library\, Main Library\, 50 South Fullerton Avenue\, Montclair\, NJ\, 07042\, United States
CATEGORIES:Grantee Event
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SUMMARY:Douglass Day at Rowan University
DESCRIPTION:Douglass Day is a hands-on digital humanities event that marks the birthday of Frederick Douglass\, the renowned African American abolitionist\, writer\, reformer\, and statesman. Each year\, thousands of participants come together across the world to transcribe documents and create freely accessible online materials to teach and learn about Black history. \nThis year\, a team of volunteers from Rowan University will transcribe documents from the African American Perspectives Collection at the Library of Congress. All are welcome to participate (bring your own laptop)\, and lunch will be served. No prior experience is necessary. The team will convene in Bunce Hall. \nRegistration\nRegistration is required at https://forms.gle/G7SoQ1dUFhcUf5H76 \nParking\nPlease print and display the parking permit below while parking on campus for the event. \nDouglass Day Parking Pass Townhouse \nRowan University Parking Map \nFor more information\, contact Jessica Mack at (856) 256-4500 x53992 or via email. \n 
URL:https://njhumanities.org/event/douglass-day-at-rowan-university/
LOCATION:Rowan University\, 201 Mullica Hill Rd\, Glassboro\, NJ\, 08028\, United States
CATEGORIES:Grantee Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240626T190000
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SUMMARY:Black Americans\, Jewish Americans Book Club (Session 2)
DESCRIPTION:The Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life at Rutgers University will hold a virtual book club in conjunction with the interdisciplinary symposium that it held in March\, “Black Americans\, Jewish Americans: Historical Intersections\, Collisions\, and Passings.” \nThe book club\, which is free and open to the public\, will consist of two sessions. On June 5\, participants will focus on The Human Stain by Philip Roth. On June 26\, participants will focus on Passing by Nella Larsen. \nThe sessions will include discussion of key points and themes in each book\, as well as comparisons between the two novels\, guided by Donavan Ramon\, an assistant professor of English at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and the fall 2023 Bildner Visiting Scholar at Rutgers. \nThe event is presented in partnership with the New Brunswick Free Public Library\, the New Brunswick African American Heritage Committee\, and the Rutgers New Brunswick Libraries. Participants should read the books prior to the event and must RSVP for each session separately. \nRSVP Required\n Information & RSVP for Session One\n  \n Information & RSVP for Session Two
URL:https://njhumanities.org/event/black-americans-jewish-americans-book-club-session-2/
LOCATION:NJ
CATEGORIES:Grantee Event
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SUMMARY:Black Americans\, Jewish Americans Book Club
DESCRIPTION:The Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life at Rutgers University will hold a virtual book club in conjunction with its interdisciplinary symposium\, “Black Americans\, Jewish Americans: Historical Intersections\, Collisions\, and Passings.” \nThe book club\, which is open to the public\, will consist of two sessions. On June 5\, participants will discuss The Human Stain by Philip Roth. On June 26\, participants will discuss Passing by Nella Larsen. \nThe sessions will include discussion of key points and themes in each book\, as well as comparisons between the two novels\, guided by Donavan Ramon\, an assistant professor of African-American and English literature at University of Southern Illinois at Edwardsville and the fall 2023 Bildner Scholar at Rutgers. \nThe events are presented in partnership with the New Brunswick Free Public Library\, the New Brunswick African American Heritage Committee\, and the Rutgers New Brunswick Libraries. \nRSVP is required by email.
URL:https://njhumanities.org/event/black-americans-jewish-americans-book-club-2/
LOCATION:NJ
CATEGORIES:Grantee Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240605T190000
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SUMMARY:Black Americans\, Jewish Americans Book Club (Session 1)
DESCRIPTION:The Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life at Rutgers University will hold a virtual book club in conjunction with the interdisciplinary symposium that it held in March\, “Black Americans\, Jewish Americans: Historical Intersections\, Collisions\, and Passings.” \nThe book club\, which is free and open to the public\, will consist of two sessions. On June 5\, participants will focus on The Human Stain by Philip Roth. On June 26\, participants will focus on Passing by Nella Larsen. \nThe sessions will include discussion of key points and themes in each book\, as well as comparisons between the two novels\, guided by Donavan Ramon\, an assistant professor of English at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and the fall 2023 Bildner Visiting Scholar at Rutgers. \nThe event is presented in partnership with the New Brunswick Free Public Library\, the New Brunswick African American Heritage Committee\, and the Rutgers New Brunswick Libraries. Participants should read the books prior to the event and must RSVP for each session separately. \nRSVP Required\n Information & RSVP for Session One\n Information & RSVP for Session Two
URL:https://njhumanities.org/event/black-americans-jewish-americans-book-club-session-1/
LOCATION:NJ
CATEGORIES:Grantee Event
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SUMMARY:Black Americans\, Jewish Americans Book Club
DESCRIPTION:The Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life at Rutgers University will hold a virtual book club in conjunction with its interdisciplinary symposium\, “Black Americans\, Jewish Americans: Historical Intersections\, Collisions\, and Passings.” \nThe book club\, which is open to the public\, will consist of two sessions. On June 5\, participants will discuss The Human Stain by Philip Roth. On June 26\, participants will discuss Passing by Nella Larsen. \nThe sessions will include discussion of key points and themes in each book\, as well as comparisons between the two novels\, guided by Donavan Ramon\, an assistant professor of African-American and English literature at University of Southern Illinois at Edwardsville and the fall 2023 Bildner Scholar at Rutgers. \nThe events are presented in partnership with the New Brunswick Free Public Library\, the New Brunswick African American Heritage Committee\, and the Rutgers New Brunswick Libraries. \nRSVP is required by email.
URL:https://njhumanities.org/event/black-americans-jewish-americans-book-club/
LOCATION:NJ
CATEGORIES:Grantee Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240427T100000
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SUMMARY:Priyanka Taslim Author Talk
DESCRIPTION:Cranford Public Library will host a discussion with Priyanka Taslim\, author of The Love Match\, on April 27 as part of its NJCH-grant-supported Elevated Voices Series. \nTaslim is a local author whose debut book came out in 2023. Books will be on sale through local bookstore Here’s the Story\, available for Priyanka to autograph.  \nVisit cranfordlibrary.org for full information.
URL:https://njhumanities.org/event/priyanka-taslim-author-talk/
LOCATION:Cranford Community Center
CATEGORIES:Grantee Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240321T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240321T210000
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SUMMARY:Price of Liberty Film Series: The Sacrifice Zone
DESCRIPTION:NJCH is proud to sponsor the Montclair History Center’s 2024 Price of Liberty film series. \nFor the ninth year in a row the Montclair History Center will be hosting The Price of Liberty\, a film and discussion series on issues related to race\, segregation\, integration\, and Civil Rights. This year’s 2024 series explores environmental improvement sought for communities of people of color in the films Mann v. Ford (2011) produced by HBO and The Sacrifice Zone (2020) produced by Talking Eyes. \nThe Sacrifice Zone explores the Chemical Corridor of Newark\, NJ located just down the road from schools and apartment buildings where Portuguese\, Brazilian\, Central American and African American residents live next to toxic substances. The film follows a group of environmental activists determined to break the cycle of poor communities of color serving as dumping grounds for society. Learn more about the film here: https://thesacrificezone.org/about. \nScreenings and discussion will be led by scholars Leslie Wilson\, PhD and Khemani Gibson\, PhD. \nThe Sacrifice Zone will be screened on Thursday\, March 21 at 7 pm at Montclair Film’s Cinema 505 at 505 Bloomfield Ave\, Montclair.  Screenings will be available as a hybrid event for online participation through zoom and free to the public\, registration required here. \nAbout the Scholars\nLeslie Wilson is a professor and associate dean in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Montclair State University. He works with the Teacher Education Program as the coordinator of social studies education and he teaches African\, American and African American history. He specializes in 19th century Antebellum America\, and modern urban history. Professor Wilson writes on a variety of subjects and often has editorial pieces published in NJ.com. \nKhemani Gibson is a community organizer from Orange\, NJ with a PhD from New York University in history with a focus on the African Diaspora. His research looks at issues of identity and community formation as well as conceptualizations of freedom and citizenship in the late-nineteenth and twentieth century Caribbean region. While committed to his work as an academic\, Khemani is deeply committed to bridging the gap between the academy and marginalized communities.
URL:https://njhumanities.org/event/price-of-liberty-film-series-the-sacrifice-zone/
LOCATION:Montclair Film Cinema 505\, 509 Bloomfield Ave\, Montclair\, NJ\, United States
CATEGORIES:Grantee Event,Sponsorships
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240304T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240304T210000
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SUMMARY:Not Quite White in Fiction and Film: Laura Z. Hobson’s Gentleman’s Agreement and Nella Larsen’s Passing
DESCRIPTION:The Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life at Rutgers University will host a moderated discussion of two films based on novels that explore themes of racial and ethnic passing\, Gentleman’s Agreement and Passing in conjunction with its “Black Americans\, Jewish Americans: Historical Intersections\, Collisions\, and Passings\,” supported by an NJCH grant. \nGentleman’s Agreement and Passing are critically-acclaimed novels on racial and ethnic passing that have also been adapted for the screen. The novels investigate how anti-Black racism and antisemitism have shaped the integration of Blacks and Jews into White Christian American society. Penned by women\, both novels also explore issues of gender and social class. \nNella Larsen’s Passing\, published in 1929 during the Harlem Renaissance\, was adapted for film in 2021 and stars Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga as Black friends who must confront the limits of their friendship and the color line when one is more successful than the other at “passing” as White. \nLaura Z. Hobson’s bestselling Gentleman’s Agreement was originally published in 1946\, shortly after World War II\, in serial form in Cosmopolitan. In the 1947 Academy Award-winning film adaptation\, Gregory Peck stars as a gentile reporter tasked with uncovering antisemitism. He soon discovers the depth of bigotry and hatred that exists in the United States. \nRachel Gordan\, Shorstein Professor of American Jewish Culture and Society at the University of Florida\, and Donavan Ramon\, Assistant Professor of African-American and English Literature\, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville\, will discuss the novels and their adaptations to the screen in a panel moderated by film and cultural critic Gene Seymour. Excerpts from both films will be shown during the program. \nThe event is part of a series of events exploring the historical intersections of Black and Jewish Americans supported by an NJCH grant. Open to the public as part of the series is a virtual book club discussing Philip Roth’s The Human Stain on June 5 and Larsen’s Passing on June 26. Find information and RSVP for the book club events here.
URL:https://njhumanities.org/event/not-quite-white-in-fiction-and-film-laura-z-hobsons-gentlemans-agreement-and-nella-larsens-passing/
LOCATION:Trayes Hall\, Douglass Student Center\, Rutgers University-New Brunswick\, 100 George Street\, New Brunswick\, NJ\, 08901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Grantee Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240222T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240222T210000
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SUMMARY:Price of Liberty Film Series:  Mann v. Ford Screening & Discussion
DESCRIPTION:NJCH is proud to sponsor the Montclair History Center’s 2024 Price of Liberty film series. \nFor the ninth year in a row the Montclair History Center will be hosting The Price of Liberty\, a film and discussion series on issues related to race\, segregation\, integration\, and Civil Rights. This year’s 2024 series explores environmental improvements sought for communities of people of color in the films Mann v. Ford (2011) produced by HBO and The Sacrifice Zone (2020) produced by Talking Eyes. \nThirty years after Ford Motor Company began dumping toxic waste in their backyard–and after one too many premature deaths–the Ramapo Mountain Indians filed a major class-action lawsuit: Mann v. Ford. This compelling documentary reveals the story of how this tiny tribe and their team of passionate lawyers took on the ‘big dogs’–Ford and the Environmental Protection Agency. \nScreenings and discussion will be led by scholars Leslie Wilson\, PhD and Khemani Gibson\, PhD. \nMann v Ford will be screened on Thursday\, February 22 at 7 pm at Montclair Film’s Cinema 505 at 505 Bloomfield Ave\, Montclair.  Screenings will be available as a hybrid event for online participation through zoom and free to the public\, registration required here. \nAbout the Scholars\nLeslie Wilson is a professor and associate dean in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Montclair State University. He works with the Teacher Education Program as the coordinator of social studies education and he teaches African\, American and African American history. He specializes in 19th century Antebellum America\, and modern urban history. Professor Wilson writes on a variety of subjects and often has editorial pieces published in NJ.com. \nKhemani Gibson is a community organizer from Orange\, NJ with a PhD from New York University in history with a focus on the African Diaspora. His research looks at issues of identity and community formation as well as conceptualizations of freedom and citizenship in the late-nineteenth and twentieth century Caribbean region. While committed to his work as an academic\, Khemani is deeply committed to bridging the gap between the academy and marginalized communities.
URL:https://njhumanities.org/event/price-of-liberty-film-series-mann-v-ford-screening-discussion/
LOCATION:Montclair Film Cinema 505\, 509 Bloomfield Ave\, Montclair\, NJ\, United States
CATEGORIES:Grantee Event,Sponsorships
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SUMMARY:NJ Orators Oral History Showcase
DESCRIPTION:New Jersey Orators presents Remembering Their Legacy: An Oral History of Our Seniors\, a showcase of student Orators’ interviews with Middlesex and Union County senior citizens in their 90s (and older)\, who experienced the Civil Rights Era.  \nRemembering Their Legacy\, funded by a grant from NJCH and the New Jersey Martin Luther King\, Jr. Commission\, records for posterity our local seniors’ recollections of the Civil Rights and the Voting Rights movements\, and offers a blueprint for future generations. \nJoin NJ Orators at Piscataway Public Library for an intergenerational Town Hall discussion of the history of Civil and Voting Rights\, highlighting how far we’ve come and how far we’ve yet to go. \nThis showcase is co-hosted by the Piscataway African American Senior Citizens Club and the Piscataway Township School District. \nLight refreshments will be served. \nPlease register via the Piscataway Public Library website »
URL:https://njhumanities.org/event/nj-orators-oral-history-showcase/
LOCATION:Piscataway Public Library – Kennedy Branch\, 500 Hoes Ln\, Piscataway\, NJ\, 08854\, United States
CATEGORIES:Grantee Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="NJ Orators":MAILTO:njorators@gmail.com
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