On May 13th at 6pm Queer Newark spotlights Kristyn Scorsone’s wonderful work “Invisible Pathways: Entrepreneurship by Queer Women of Color in Newark”! Join us and then stay for the Newark LGBTQ Community Center’s 4th Annual Dance-A-Thon Fundraiser with DJ Just Love!
To donate to the Dance-A-Thon and help support this much-needed sanctuary for the LGBTQ community in Newark, click HERE!
To read the full text of the statement on RU-N’s website click HERE.
Spring 2017 History Teach-in Schedule. All teach-ins will be held in the Esterly Lounge, Engelhard Hall, room 202. Free and open to all. (Like the Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/HistoryTeachIns.)
Friday, January 20. 11:45am-1:45pm: Presidential Power with Brian Phillips Murphy
Join us for our inaugural History Department Teach-in of 2017. We will watch live as Donald J. Trump becomes the 45th President of the United States of America. Following the inauguration, Professor Brian Phillips Murphy will lead a teach-in about what powers have just been transferred and what the modern presidency has become. Attendees are welcome to join for any and all of the event.
Tuesday, January 24. 1:00-2:00pm: Building Walls with Kornel Chang, Jason Cortes, Sadia Abbas, and Tim Raphael
During the election, the president-elect spoke about building walls and deporting millions of undocumented immigrants. Join us for a discussion on undocumented immigration, as faculty panelists speak on the past, present, and possible future of U.S. immigration policy and how it might impact our communities.
Wednesday, February 8. 2:30-3:30pm: Nazis and Demagogues with Eva Giloi
Racism, demagoguery, intimidation, scapegoating, exploiting discontent: these were the obvious tactics the Nazis used to gain power. But they also used more cunning, institutional methods to hold on to power, from manipulating the legal system to gaining control of people’s daily lives. Join us for a discussion about what we can learn from how the Nazis and other demagogues seized and maintained power.
Tuesday, February 28. 1:00-2:00pm: White Backlash with Mark Krasovic and Kyle Riismandel
Much has been made of the role of white racial resentment in the recent presidential election. This entry in the teach-in series seeks to place this political phenomenon in a longer story of American racial politics, with a particular focus on the conservative ascendancy of the late twentieth century.
Special note. The Documenting Hate in Greater Newark Project was created to make sure that hateful incidents of intimidation, harassment, and verbal or physical abuse are not lost to history; to better understand the frequency and nature of such incidents; and to help end them. If you or anyone in our community have incidents to report, please visit http://tinyurl.com/documentinghate.
Come join us for the opening reception of an important new exhibit, THURSDAY December 15, 2016 from 6-8pm: “From Rebellion to Review Board: Fighting For Police Accountability in Newark”
In 2016, Newark’s city council created its first civilian complaint review board with oversight over the police. This act was the culmination of more than fifty years of work by community members and organizations in the city who repeatedly demanded a review board in the face of police misconduct.
From Rebellion to Review Board tells the story of African American, Puerto Rican, and LGBTQ activists’ struggles against police misconduct and political disenfranchisement to claim power in Newark. Why did it take so long? How did differences within and between these communities help and hurt these efforts? What can we learn from this history to make a more just and equitable Newark today?
A companion exhibit, Acción Latina: Protesta y Transformación Socio-cultural en NuevaJersey, examines the forgotten Latinx riots that took place in four New Jersey towns in the 1960s and 1970s. This exhibit will be in Spanish.
Join us at the opening reception to see the exhibits, meet the graduate and undergraduate students who created them, and learn more about this important history.
Exhibit Opening:
December 15, 2016
6-8pm
Centennial Hall
Newark Public Library
5 Washington Street
Newark, NJ 07101-0630
(973) 733-7784
Exhibit on Display:
December 15, 2016 – February 3, 2017
Contact: Mary Rizzo, mary.rizzo@rutgers.edu or 973-353-1166
Support provided by:
American Studies Program at Rutgers University-Newark
Cultural Programming Grant, Rutgers University-Newark
The Newark Public Library
History Department Election-2016 Teach-In series: LGBTQ Rights
Tuesday, December 6, 2-3pm, 245 Conklin Hall
The History Department is hosting a series of teach-ins in response to the shock, fear, and outpouring of hate produced by the election results last month. Our first event, last week, on Islamophobia was highly successful, and we are looking forward to our next event on 12/6 on LGBTQ rights, 2 pm, in Conklin 245 (there will be cookies). Open to the public, and all are welcomed!
Event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1625587837744743/
Space is filling quickly. Please register at https://qnohppodcastingworkshop.eventbrite.com if you would like to attend. Lunch will be provided.
The Queer Newark Oral History Project will be hosting a special podcast workshop with Molly Graham on Thursday, December 8th at 1pm in Conklin Hall 324. This workshop will be a useful tutorial for anyone looking to start a podcast on any subject; style, script writing, narrating techniques as well as the technical aspects of editing, hosting, iTunes, and equipment will be discussed. It may be particularly beneficial for oral historians who want to create a podcast to complement their work in the field.
Podcasting Workshop
Thursday, December 8, 2016 at 1pm
Conklin Hall, Room 324
(History Conference Room)
RSVP by Monday, December 5th: https://qnohppodcastingworkshop.eventbrite.com (seating is limited)
Molly Graham is an oral historian, documentary radio producer and archivist with field experience in Massachusetts, Maine and the Midwest. She attended Bates College and the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies in Maine, where she’s from. Molly produced an award winning radio documentary called “Besides Life Here,” which was licensed by several NPR affiliates. She earned her M.A. in Library and Information Science from Simmons College in Boston. After Simmons, she worked as the oral historian for the Wisconsin Veterans Museum, transitioning the archives into the digital age and doubling the collection of interviews with Wisconsin connected veterans from all over the state. Last fall, she was an invited panelist at the annual Oral History Association meeting in Oklahoma City, presenting on “Digitization, Reference and Communications.” As Assistant Director of Oral History and Folklife Research, Inc., a non-profit organization she co-founded in Maine, Molly worked to record and preserve the voices and stories of Maine’s way of life, language, and history.
Please direct any questions about the workshop to Kristyn Scorsone, k.scorsone@rutgers.edu.
Does the thought of academic publishing give you nightmares? Learn how to navigate the publishing process by attending “Publishing without Perishing: Demystifying the Humanities Journal” on Wednesday, November 16, 2016, at 2:30 pm in Conklin Hall, Room 245.
This talk and workshop presented by Professor Whitney Strub will go over the basics of publishing articles in scholarly humanities journals: how to choose the best journal; how to best prepare your work for peer review; how the process works, from desk-rejects to revise & resubmits to acceptances; and what to expect from the whole process. Students are also encouraged to bring in possible target journals and/or abstracts of works-in-progress for group discussion.
Publishing without Perishing: Demystifying the Humanities Journal
Wednesday, November 16, 2016
2:30 – 3:50 pm
Conklin Hall, Room 245
(American Studies Lounge)
This event is brought to you by the Graduate Program in American Studies. Any questions about the event can be directed to Professor Mary Rizzo (mary.rizzo@rutgers.edu).
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