Event Archive

2023

November

Meet the Author
Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews
Co-Sponsored with the Hollybush Institute
Wed. Nov. 1, 12:30pm

Student-Led Discussion
“The Portrayal of the Modern Indigenous Experience in the Television Show Reservation Dogs,”
Co-Sponsored with Student History Association, Phi Alpha Theta, and led by RCHGHR Student Association
Wed. Nov. 1, (8am, Discovery Hall 411

Theorizing at Rowan
Professor Walter S. Gershon (Early Childhood, Elementary, and Critical Foundations of Education, Rowan), will present a talk entitled “Educational Sound Studies: Scales and Modes, Neoliberalism as Eugenics, and Critical Possibilities for the Sonic.”
Wednesday, November 1, at 5 pm.

Hollybush Speaker Series
Alex Alvarez, “Climate Change and Global Security”
Tue. Nov. 7, 5pm, Wilson Hall 212
Watch the video here!

Theater
Five Survivors Tell the World.” The Manya Project.
irected by Anthony Hostetter
Wed. Nov. 8: 8pm, Pfleeger Concert Hall D

Annual Paul B. Winkler Event
“Aurora’s Sunrise” Film Screening (2022)
Directed by Inna Sahakan
Co-Sponsored by The Zoryan Institute
Thu. Nov. 9, 7pm, Student Center Eynon Ballroom

Theater
“Five Survivors Tell the World.” The Manya Project
Directed by Anthony Hostetter
Fri and Sat, Nov. 10 & 11: 8pm, Pfleeger Concert Hall

Study Trip
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Fri. Nov. 17, (Registration Required)

Hollybush Author Series
Debbie Sharnak, Uruguay in Transnational Perspective
Tue. Nov. 28, 2pm, Virtual

Works in Progress Series
Jenny Rich - "Paper Tombs: The Materiality of Post-Holocaust Memorial Books"
Tue. Nov. 28, 12:30, Oak Hall N, room 303

December

Book Club
Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews
Co-Sponsored with SJICR
Zoom Meeting 
Meeting ID: 856 8368 4683
Passcode: 591026
Wed. Dec. 6, 12:30pm, Robinson Hall 216

2023 Summer

August

• Dr. Mary J. Gallant Recognized as a Woman of Distinction for Fall 2023 by P.O.W.E.R. (Professional Organization of Women of Excellence Recognized
• How to Eat with Chopsticks Like an Absolute Pro
• A year after Revolutionary War soldiers from 1777 were found in a N.J. field, questions remain
• Preparing the Next Generation of Advocates

July

• What is the correct etiquette for Chopsticks? 
• Uruguayan Coup 50 Years Later
• Field School: Historic battlefield as their summer classroom, students learn about archaeology, public history

June

• Senegal and the Politics of Protest: an Interview With Kelly Duke Bryant
• Sweeney Center study explores state of offshore wind in NJ
• Rowan historian awarded NEH summer stipend for research on antisemitism in Cold War Latin America

2023 Spring

April

The War Over History? Understanding Russian Aggression Against Ukraine - Serhy Yekelchyk
Hollybush Author Series
Tuesday 4, 11:00-12:15, Virtual

Growing Just Food Systems
Monday 17, 2PM, Discovery Hall 101
A conversation with People's Kitchn philly about community, access, healing, and neighborhood self-determination.
Sponsored by the Philosophy and World Religions department, CHSS, and Geography, Planning, and Sustainability.

Enta Omry (You Are My Soulmate) - an Arabic film
Monday 17, 2PM, Bunce 147
Snacks and a Raffle
Sponsored by the World Languages department

Yom HaShoah and Genocide Awareness Event
Monday 17, 5:00-6:15, Business 131
RCHGHR Student Association

Law and Justice Day, 2023
Wednesday 19, 10AM-1PM, Bunce Green
Join the Law and Justice Studies program out on the Bunce Green to celebrate top Law and Justice students, New Jersey's top german shephards and other dogs, and equipment used to solve cases and beat crime.
Free pizza and other lite snacks.

Labyrinth of Lies
RCHGHR Film Series
Wednesday 19, 2:00-4:30, Engineering Hall 320

Historical Methods Student Presentations on Genocide
Thursday 20 and Tuesday 25, 3:30-5:00, Robinson 308
Professor Jody Russell Manning

The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Wan the World by Jonathan Freedland
RCHGHR Book Club
Wednesday 26, 12:30-1:30, Robinson 201B and Zoom / Meeting ID 856 8368 4683 / Passcode 591026
Co-Sponsored with SJICR 

May

Offshore Wind Technology in New Jersey: Sustainability, Emerging Markets and Policy
Steve Sweeney Center for Public Policy
Wednesday 3, 8:30am-1pm, Business Hall, Rm 104 (more info here)

Fall 2023

October

First Annual Lecture in African History
Dr. Nakanyike Musisi of the University of Toronto
Mon. Oct. 9, 5pm,Savitz Hall, Admissions Conference Room

Book Club
Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports on a Haunted Present
Co-Sponsored with SJICR
Wed. Oct. 11, 12:30, Robinson Hall 216

Student-Led Discussion
Capitalism and Structural Genocide: Roots of Violence
Co-Sponsored with Rowan Progressives and led by RCHGHR Student Association
Mon. Oct. 16, 8am, Robinson 103

Author Series
Debbie Sharnak, Of Light and Struggle: Social Justice, Human Rights, and Accountability in Uruguay
Co-Sponsored with History Department
Wed. Oct. 18: 11am, Hollybush Mansion

Centennial Lecture #2
David Tarr, "How to Save the Planet."
Co-sponsored by CHSS, Rohrer College of Business, School of Earth and Environment.
Thu. Oct. 19th, 7pm, Eynon Ballroom
Watch the Video here!

What We Did With Our History Degrees
Panel of history alums meeting with current history majors. 
Fril Oct. 20th, 11am, University Archives

History Major Reunion - SOLD OUT!
Fri. Oct. 20th, 7pm, Summit City Winery

Barry Trachtenberg (English alum, '91), the Rubin Presidential Chair of Jewish History and Professor of History at Wake Forest University
Speaking on his new research project
Co-Sponsored with History Department and Department of Philosophy and World Religions
Mon. Oct. 23rd, 5pm, Business 301

Theorizing at Rowan
Prof. Eva Boodman - “Unsettling the Care Commons”
Wednesday, October 25, at 5 pm.  

Discussion Series
Cambodian Genocide Survivor Chanty Jong
Thu. Oct. 26, 7pm, Discovery Hall 414

Student-Led Discussion
“Anti-Semitism in Media: Fact from Fiction”
Mon. Oct. 30, 8am, Robinson Halll 103
Co-Sponsored with Rowan Hillel and led by RCHGHR Student Association

Book Club
Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports on a Haunted Present
Co-Sponsored with SJICR
Wed. Sep. 13, 12:30, Robinson Hall 216

Reproductive Justice Panel
On Constitution Monday, this panel will discuss the timely topic of reproductive justice, exploring it from religious, philosophical, legal, and activist perspectives.
Mon. Sep. 18, 3:30pm, Bozorth Hall 112
Watch the video here!

Author Series
Mikkel Dack, Everyday Denazification in Postwar Germany: The Fragebogen and Political Screening During the Allied Occupation
Co-Sponsored with History Department
Wed. Sep. 20, 11am, Hollybush Mansion

Virtual Tour and Discussion
The “Shoah” Exhibition in Block 27 at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum
Discussion led by Jody Russell Manning
Mon. Sep. 25: 2pm, Robinson Hall 308

Hollybush Author Series
Jake Keyel, Resettled Iraqi Refugees in the United States
Co-Sponsored with Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Wednesday 27: 11am

Theorizing at Rowan
Prof. Gabriel Mares (Politics, Princeton University), will present a talk entitled “The Postcolonial State in Postcolonial Theory.” 
Wednesday, September 27, at 5 pm
Watch the video here!

Persuading the Public
Dr. Pluta will answer questions on her new book, Persuading the Public: The Evolution of Presidential Communication from Washington to Trump
Sponsored by the Rowan Institute for Public Policy and Citizenship (RIPPAC) and the department of Political Science
Thu. Sep. 28, 2pm, Robinson Hall 227 / Light refreshments will be served
See photos from the event.

Female Trouble: Gender Race, and Class in American Pageantry
A talk by author Margot Mifflin
Sponsored by the American Studies Program and the College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Fri. Sep. 29, 1pm, Chamberlain Student Center 221

March

Post-Shoah Ethics and Animality - Andrea Cooper
RCHGHR Lecture Series
Thursday 2, 12:30-1:45, Virtual, Link coming soon
Co-Sponsored with Department of Philosophy and World Religions

From Operation Condor to the Endless Drug War in Mexico
Hollybush Author Series
Thursday 2, 2pm, Zoom, Link coming soon
Dr. Adella Cedillo (University of Houston)
Sponsored by International Studies Critical Junctures Lecture Series.

Mr. Jones
RCHGHR Film Series
Tuesday 7, 6:30-9:30, Science 338
With Professor Jim Heinzen

“In Our Voices”
Monday 27, 2:00pm, Discovery 414
Virtual Study Trip to Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center

The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Wan the World by Jonathan Freedland
RCHGHR Book Club
Wednesday 29, 12:30-1:45, Zoom / Meeting ID 856 8368 4683 / Passcode 591026
Co-Sponsored with SJICR

February

The Legacy of Woodrow Wilson
Discussion Series
Thursday 2, 5:00-6:15, Science 338 and Zoom / Meeting ID 490 783 4299 / Passcode 6EUNCq
Panel Discussion led by RCHGHR Student Association

The Soviet Collapse in 1991 – Still Making History Now?
Hollybush Author Series - Dr. Vladislav M. Zubok, London School of Economics
Wednesday 8, 2023 - Zoom only
Vladislav M. Zubok is the world’s leading expert on the Soviet side of the Cold War. He is the author of many books, including his most recent, the award-winning Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union.

Fredrick Douglass Transcribe-a-thon
Tuesday 14, 11:00-3:00, Business 104
Co-Sponsored with The History Department, Africana Studies, English Department, CINDS, and the Student History Association

Zikaron: Rediscovering Placehood in a Post-Atrocity World
Discussion Series
Wednesday 15, 7:00-8:15, Robinson 201A
Panel Discussion led by RCHGHR Student Association

“The Soviet Collapse of 1991: History in the Making?”
Hollybush Author Series
Wednesday 15, 9:30am Zoom
Dr. Vladislav Zubok (London School of Economics)

Abortion Ethics and Practices in the World
Discussion Series
Tuesday 21, 5:00-6:15pm, James 2100
Panel Discussion led by RCHGHR Student Association

The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Wan the World by Jonathan Freedland
RCHGHR Book Club
Wednesday 22, 12:30-1:30, Robinson 201B and Zoom / Meeting ID 856 8368 4683 / Passcode 591026
Co-Sponsored with SJICR

Schindler’s List
RCHGHR Film Series
Thursday 23, 6:30-9:30, Science 128

The Threat to Global Security Posed by Cyber Attacks in Space
Tuesday 28, 5:00pm - Zoom Only
Hosted by Dr Diane Janosek, an award-winning cybersecurity expert
Sponsored by International Studies and CHSS, DPEM, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and The Department of Computer Science, and Center for Cybersecurity Education and Research

January 2023

The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Wan the World by Jonathan Freedland
RCHGHR Book Club
Wednesday 25, 12:30-1:30, Robinson Hall 201B
Co-sponsored with SJICR.

International Holocaust Remembrance Day
Thursday 26, 5:00-6:15pm, Robinson Circle
Sponsored by RCHGHR Student Association, Hillel, Chabad, SJICR, Student History Association, Rowan Democrats, and Rowan Republicans

Psychology of Neo-Nazis: Another Journey by Train to Auschwitz
RCHGHR Film Series
Tuesday 31, 5:00-6:30, Science 254 

September 2022

Philosophy Club - Trolley Problems
September 13, 6:00-7:15pm, Business Hall 235
Free pizza and drinks will be provided
Also available remotely - Zoom
Need more info? Contact Bradley Elicker (elicker@rowan.edu) or Philip Osborne (osborne@rowan.edu)

Book Club: Kehinde Andrews, The New Age of Empire: How Racism and Colonialism Still Rule the World
Wednesday 14, 12:30pm, Westby 105
Also on Zoom Password 704099
Sponsored by RCHGHR and SJICR

The U.S. and the Holocaust” Ken Burns Documentary Premiere
Sunday 18 - Tuesday 20, 8-10am, Discovery Hall 101
Also on Zoom Password 735241
Discussion led by Jody Russell Manning

Scott Radnitz discusses his book - Revealing Schemes: The Politics of Conspiracy in Russia and the Post-Soviet Region.
Wednesday 21, 11:30am, on Zoom
Hollybush Author Series

The Ghost Cousins at Midcentury
Thursday 22, 2-3:15pm, James Hall 3114
Emma Heaney, Assistant Clinical Professor of Literature and Philosophy at NYU

The Queen - a film screening and discussion
Friday 23, 11am, Victoria 300
Commentary on the film provided by drag historian Joe E. Jeffreys, NYU
Sponsored by the American Studies Program, the Women and Gender Studies Program, CHSS, and Center for the Advancement of Women in Communication

Film Series: “Cold War” (2018) 
Thursday 29, 3:30-5:30, Wilson Hall 212
Discussion led by Jody Russell Manning

Trip to The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Friday 30, All day
Co-Sponsored with American Studies

Spring 2022

May

Sunday 1, 6pm, Terra Nova, Sewell
Seniors of Distinction Awards Ceremony
An awards ceremony/dinner for those who excelled in their respective departments. A private/invitation only event. 

Tuesday 10, 9am-5pm, Bunce Green
CHSS Commencement

April

Fridays 1, 8, 15, 22 and 29 - 1pm-4pm, Robinson 205
Visit the Museum of Anthropology at Rowan University, MARU, and Learn about human origins, the megafauna, origins of animal domestication, primates, cultures, and more!

Wednesday 4, 2pm, Chamberlain Student Center Ballroom
The Future of Emergency Management is Now: New Jersey and Beyond

Tuesday 5, 3:30-8:30, Welcome Center 116
A Celebration of the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribe of South Jersey
Co-sponsored with the History department, SJICR, and CHSS

Tuesday 12, 7pm - 9pm Discovery Hall 415
Film Series, "The Auschwitz Report" (2021)

Wednesday 13 - 12:30 - 1:30, Robinson 310
RCHGHR Book Club & Hollybush Author Series
Timothy Snyder "On Tyranny Graphic Edition: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Centerury"
Co-sponsored with SJICR

Thursday 14, 5pm - 6:15pm Wilson Hall 105
Discussion Series, Mikkel Dack "Everyday Denazification in Postwar Germany"
Book Discussion led by RCHGHR Student Association, Co-sponsored with German Studies

Monday 25 & Wednesday 27, 5pm - 6:30pm Robinson Hall 121
Student Presentations on Genocide

Monday 25, 3:30pm Chamberlain Student Center Rm 221
Global Security: Where Intelligence and Risk Assessment Meet the National Football League
Sponsored by Global Security of the NFL, Disaster Science & Emergency Management and CHSS

Wednesday 27 7:30pm-9:30pm, Tohill Theatre Bunce
Holocaust Survivor Plays
The Manya Project: "Number 25673: The Story of Itka Frajman Zygmuntowicz" and "This Horrible Thing: Elizabeth Erlich Roth's Story of Survival and Loss"
Co-sponsored with the College of Performing Arts

Thursday 28, 7:30pm - 9:30pm Bunce Tohill Theater
Holocaust Survivor Plays
"The Manya Project: "Try to Survive: Rose Ickowica Rechnic's Memory of the Holocaust" and "Girl in a Striped Dress: The Holocaust Story of Rosalie Lebovic Simon"
Co-sponsored with the College of Performing Arts

Friday 29, details to come...
Ethics Conference
The department of Philosophy and World Religions holds their annual Ethics Conference. 

March 2022

Fridays 4, 11, 18 and 25 - 1pm-4pm, Robinson 205
Visit the Museum of Anthropology at Rowan University, MARU, and Learn about human origins, the megafauna, origins of animal domestication, primates, cultures, and more!

Tuesday 1, 5pm - 7pm, Discovery Hall 415
Film Series "A Twelve-Year Night" (2018)
Co-sponsored with International Studies

Wednesday 2, 5pm, Business Hall 121
Theorizing at Rowan:
Neo-Aristotelianism and Histories of Wrongdoing
Philosophy prof. Philip Osborne will be presenting for an in-person and online audience.
To register to attend online, click here (no registration required to attend in-person)
co-sponsored with CHSS

Thursday 3, 2pm, Chamberlain Student Center 144
A Virtual Company Town: Seabrook Farms and Critical ?Histories of Race, Migration, and Labor in South Jersey
Andrew Urban, an historian of migration, labor, consumerism, and empire will speak about the complex history of captive labor at Seabrook Farms.
An in-person and online event. Click here to attend virtually.
Co-sponsored with the History Department and SJICR

Monday 7, email to Dr. Ellen Miller - millere@rowan.edu 
Call for Ethics Conference Abstract Deadline
The department of Philosophy and World Religions holds their annual Ethics Conference on April 29. Abstracts are due March 7. 

Tuesday 8, 5pm - 6:15pm Discovery Hall 118
Speaker Series, SirMichael Cianci, "Human Rights in Asia"
Discussion led by RCHGHR Student Association, Co-sponsored with Asian Studies

Tuesday 8, 12:30pm - go.rowan.edu/disney
Beyond Bling: Disney and the Sound of Contemporary Girlhood
Dr. Jennifer Fleeger is Associate Professor of Media and Communication Studies at Ursinus College, where she coordinates the Film Studies Program.
Co-sponsored by Women’s & Gender Studies Program, Department of Radio/Television/Film, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Ric Edelman College of Communication and Creative Arts

Wednesday 9, 12:30pm - 1:30pm, Robinson 310
RCHGHR Book Club & Hollybush Author Series
Timothy Snyder "On Tyranny Graphic Edition: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Centerury"
Co-sponsored with SJICR

Monday 21, 2pm - 3:15pm, James Hall 2094
Speaker Series, Vinchelle, "Gay Liberation Movement and Activism in Philadelphia" 
Co-sponsored with Africana Studies

Wednesday 23, 5pm - 6:15pm Discovery Hall 215
Discussion Series, "Antisemitic Tropes in Media"
Panel Discussion led by RCHGHR Student Association, Co-sponsored with Rowan Writing Arts Club

Monday 28, 4pm, Rowan Welcome Center (131 Rowan Boulevard)
President's Day Lecture: Watergate and the Nixon Presidency
Dr. Douglas Brinkley, CNN Presidential Historian and Rice University history professor, will discuss the 50th Anniversary of Watergate and the Nixon Presidency
Co-sponsored by The College of Humanities and Social Sciences, College of Communication and Creative Arts, and the Rowan Institute for Public Policy and Citizenship

Monday 28, 4pm, Chamberlain Student Center rm. 127
Leading in Times of Crisis
Captain John Stevenson, of the North Wildwood Police Department, will highlight the importance of leadership prior, during, and after a crisis.
Sponsored by Disaster and Preparedness Emergency Management

Tuesday 29, 5pm, Zoom - (pre-registration is required)
Inequity at Boiling Point: What I've Learned as a Journalist Covering the Human Toll of Global Warming
Featuring Somini Sengupta, international climate correspondent for The New York Times
Sponsored by International Studies, the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, the Hollybush Institute for Global Peace and Security, the Department of Journalism, and the Department of Geography, Planning, and Sustainability. It is funded by a UISFL grant from the U.S. Department of Education.

Wednesday 30, 2pm, Boyd Hall, Wilson
Let Every Voice Be Heard: A Social Justice Concert
Join us for a performance of songs on the theme of social justice representing varied musical styles, including pop, classical and musical theater, followed by a student panel discussion. Free and open to the public. No registration required.
Co-sponsored by the Department of Music, Women's & Gender Studies Program, College of Performing Arts, College of Humanities and Social Sciences

February 2022

Fridays 4, 11, 18 and 25 - 1pm-4pm, Robinson 205
Visit the Museum of Anthropology at Rowan University, MARU, and Learn about human origins, the megafauna, origins of animal domestication, primates, cultures, and more!

Tuesday 1, 7pm - 9pm Discovery Hall 415 
Film Series - "The Look of Silence" (2014)
Co-sponsored with Asian Studies

Tuesday 8, 12:30pm - 1:45, Robinson 201A
Speaker Series - "Kurds and Yazidis in the Middle East: Victimhood, Survival, and Coexistence", Metin Atmaca
with Phi Alpha Theta

Wednesday 16 - 12:30 - 1:30, Robinson 310
RCHGHR Book Club & Hollybush Author Series
Timothy Snyder "On Tyranny Graphic Edition: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Centerury"
Co-sponsored with SJICR

Wednesday 23, 5:pm - 6:15pm - Virtual (link coming soon)
Discussion Series - "Rights on the Reservations"
Panel discussion led by RCHGHR Student Association

Friday 25, 11am - virtual
Rosa Parks Luncheon
Panelists include Dr. Judith A. Lightfoot, Infectious Disease Specialist, Vice Chairman of Department of Medicine, Internal Medicine Program Chair, and Chief of Infectious Disease at Rowan University School of Osteopathic Medicine; Dr. Jonathan Lassiter, Assistant Psychology Professor, Rowan University (Research Expertise - Afrocentric psychology, health inequities qualitative methodology, mixed-methods research, intersectionality, cultural resilience, and protective factors); Dr. Jenice Forde-Baker, Emergency Medicine Specialist, Assistant Emergency Department Medical Director at Virtua Our Lady of Lourdes. President of The New Jersey Chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians (NJ-ACEP).

Registration required here. Funds raised help continue the Dr. Gary Hunter Scholarships.
Co-sponsored by the History department and Africana Studies

Monday 28, 5:pm - 6:15pm, Science 338
Discussion Series, Marianne Lods, "It's been a Long, Long Time"
Book Discussion led by RCHGHR Student Association

January 2022

Fridays 21, 25 - 1pm-4pm, Robinson 205
Visit the Museum of Anthropology at Rowan University, MARU, and Learn about human origins, the megafauna, origins of animal domestication, primates, cultures, and more!

Wednesday 26 - 12:30pm - 1:30pm, Robinson 310
RCHGHR Book Club & Hollybush Author Series
Timothy Snyder "On Tyranny Graphic Edition: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century"
Co-sponsored with SJICR

Thursday 27, 5pm - 6:15pm, Student Center Patio
International Holocaust Remembrance Day
RCHGHR Student Association, Co-sponsored with Hillel, Chabad, Phi Alpha Theta, SJICR, DEI, Student History Association, Rowan Democrats, and Rowan Republicans

2021 Fall Events

December

Fridays 3, 10 and 17 - 10am-4pm, Robinson 205
Visit the Museum of Anthropology at Rowan University, MARU, and Learn about human origins, the megafauna, origins of animal domestication, primates, cultures, and more!

Student Presentations on Genocide Professor Jody Russell Manning
Wednesday 1 and Monday 6 - 3:30-5:30, Library 401

Wendy Lower, "The Ravine" 
Wednesday 8 - 12:30-1:30, James 1112
Book Club

November

Fridays 5,12, and 19 - 10am-4pm, Robinson 205
Visit the Museum of Anthropology at Rowan University, MARU, and Learn about human origins, the megafauna, origins of animal domestication, primates, cultures, and more!

Between Present and Future: On Du Bois' Radical Pessimism and Radical Hope
Wednesday 3 - 5:00-6:15pm, Engineering 319 and Zoom
Theorizing at Rowan
Co-sponsored by the Africana Studies Program, the Department of Political Science and Economics, and the College of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Cambodian Genocide Survivor Chanty Jong
Wednesday 3 - 6:30-8:00pm, Westby 111
Annual Paul B. Winkler Lecture 
Co-Sponsored with Asian Studies

Education: Refugee, Integrating Authentic Literature in the Classroom with Alan Gratz
Thursday 4 - 7:30-9:30, Virtual (info coming soon)
Speaker Series 
Co-Sponsored with The Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education

Quo Vadis, Aida? (2020) 
Tuesday 9 - 3:00-5:00pm, Robinson 310
Film Series 

Wendy Lower "The Ravine" with SJICR
Wednesday 10 - 12:30-1:30, James 1112
Book Club 

Dr. Jacob Blanc, "Before the Flood: The Itaipu Dam and the Visibility of Rural Brazil"
Thursday 11 - 11:30am, Zoom 
Hollybush Author Series
Dr. Jacob Blanc, University of Edinburgh

International Careers Info Session
Thursday 11 - 12:30pm, Zoom
Carmen Mezzera from the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs (APSIA)

Sean R. Roberts, “War on the Uyghurs: China’s Internal Campaign Against A Muslim Minority”
Wednesday 17 - 6:30-7:45pm, Zoom
Hollybush Author Series 
Dr. Sean R. Roberts, 

Virtual Tour of the NYC Jewish Heritage Museum - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust
Friday 19 - 1:00pm, Discovery Hall 101
The 'tour' will be in-person and broadcast in Discovery Hall 101. 

Pandemic Passages in Global Perspective
Friday 19 - 12pm, Zoom
Panel includes, Dan Margolies, Yuhi Li, Artur Yeghiazaryan, Narine Abrahamyan, Harriet Hartmann
sponsored by the Sociology and Anthropology department; International Studies and CHSS

Author Courtney Gould on Writing LGBTQ+ YA Literature
Monday 22 - 2pm, Zoom (email slaterk@rowan.edu to register)
Author of The Dead and the Dark

Computerization and Crime in the US
Tuesday 23 - 2pm, Zoom
Pallab Ghosh, Associate Professor and Graduate Director of Economics at the University of Oklahoma
co-sponsored by CHSS and the Political Science and Economics Department

Sir Michael Cianci, “Human Rights in China and Ethiopia,” RCHGHR Student Association
Tuesday 23 - 5:00-6:15, Savitz 321
Speaker Series 
Co-Sponsored with Asian Studies

October 2021

Every Friday in October, 10am-4pm, Robinson 205
Visit the Museum of Anthropology at Rowan University, MARU, and Learn about human origins, the megafauna, origins of animal domestication, primates, cultures, and more!

Seran Schug, “Rise of Humanitarianism and Mental Health in Armenia”
Monday 4 - 12:30-1:30, Library 403
Speaker Series 
Co-sponsored with the Sociology and Anthropology Dept.

Gender Dynamics and Working Parents During the Pandemic
Tuesday 12 - 12:30, Webex 
How have working parents coped with COVID-19? Join us for a discussion of the gender dynamics involved with meeting the demands of home and work during the pandemic. Dr. Kristen Shockley is Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Georgia and Associate Editor of both the Journal of Business and Psychology and the Journal of Applied Psychology.

Wendy Lower, "The Ravine" with SJICR
Wednesday 13 - 12:30-1:30, James 1112
Book Club 

Gender's Ascent and the Decline of Sex
Wednesday 13 - 5pm, Engineering Hall, Room 319
Also on zoom
Christopher Breu, English, Illinois State University

“Antisemitic Tropes in Literature and Film,” Panel Discussion led by RCHGHR Student Association
Thursday 14 - 5:00-6:15, James 2104
Discussion Series
Co-sponsored with Jewish Studies, Phi Alpha Theta, The Student History Association, and Rowan Cinema Club

“Final Account” (2020) with German Studies
Tuesday 19 - 5:00-7:00, Savitz 321
Film Series 

Dr. Sara Vigil, Geopolitical Ecologies of Environmental Change, Land Grabbing and Migration
Wednesday 20 - 9:30 AM, Zoom
Hollybush Author Series
Dr. Sara Vigil (Stockholm Environmental Institute, in Bangkok, Thailand)

Digital Culture and the Afterlife of Things - Sarah Wasserman, University of Delaware
Tuesday 26 - 2PM, Business Hall 204
Sponsored by the American Studies Program, the English Department, and the College of Humanities and Social Science.

“Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process Retrospective,”
Professors Katrinka Somdahl-Sands and Joshua Gedacht
Panel led by RCHGHR Student Association
Tuesday 26 - 5:00-6:15, Robinson 305
Discussion Series 
Co-Sponsored with SHA, PAT, and Jewish Studies 

Amanda Demmer, After Saigon's Fall
Wednesday 27 - 2PM, Zoom
Hollybush Author Series
Amanda Demmer

September 2021

Every Friday in September - 10am-4pm, Robinson 205
Visit the Museum of Anthropology at Rowan University, MARU, and Learn about human origins, the megafauna, origins of animal domestication, primates, cultures, and more!

Wednesday 15 - 12:30-1:30, James 1112
Book Club 
Wendy Lower, "The Ravine"
Co-sponsored with SJICR

Wednesday 22 - 3:30 PM Zoom meeting
Hollybush Author Series, Dr. Alison Mountz (Professor of Geography and Canada Research Chair in Global Migration, Wilfrid Laurier University)
The Death of Asylum: Hidden Geographies of the Enforcement Archipelago 

Thursday 23 - 5:00-6:15, Webex
Discussion Series 
“Human Rights in the World” Panel Discussion led by RCHGHR Student Association
Co-Sponsored with Phi Alpha Theta and The Student History Association

Tuesday 28 - 11:00-12:15, Webex
Hollybush Author Series 
Kate Brown, “The Great Chernobyl Acceleration:Environment and Health in the Nuclear Age”

Wednesday 29 - 5:00-6:30 PM
International Studies Open House, CSC 221
You are invited! International Studies @ Rowan Open House! For prospective students and their families. Please join us to meet the program coordinator and affiliated faculty, get to know some students who share your interests, and learn about our exciting curriculum and co-curricular programming!
Preregistration is required-please click this link: Registration 

Wednesday 29 - 6:30-9:15, Robinson 204
Film Series 
“Sometimes in April”
Co-sponsored with Africana Studies

Thursday 30 - 11am, Zoom meeting
11th Annual Africana Studies Welcome Back Reception
Learn more about the Africana Studies major and minor. Meet diverse faculty who teach courses like: The Black Lives Matter Movement, International Modern African Union, Tangled Politics & Natural Hair, African American Film, and Hip-Hop Culture: Music, Lifestyle, Fashion and Politics.

Spring 2021

RCHGHR Author Series, Vanessa Walker, principles in Power: Latin America and the Politics of US Human Rights Diplomacy
April 14, 12:30pm
Sponsored by: Rowan Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Righs and CHSS

Music Improvisation as a Form of Social Change
April 16, 11am 
Sponsored by: Sociology & Anthropoogy and CHSS

Hollybush Author Series, Adom Getachew, Worldmaking After Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination
April 19, 9:30am 
Sponsored by: Rowan Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Righs and CHSS

Hollybush Author Series, Terje Ostebo, Islam, Ethnicity, and Conflict in Ethiopia: The Bale Insurgency, 1963-1970
Sponsored by: Rowan Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Righs and CHSS Student Presentations on Genocide
April 21, 3:30, 5pm
3:30 Presentations
5:00 Presentations

Rowan Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Righs and CHSSRwandan Genocide Commemoration and Film Series, As We Forgive (2008)
April 23, 5pm 
Sponsored by: Rowan Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Righs and CHSS

Student Presentations on Genocide
April 26, 3:30pm, 5pm
3:30 Presentations
5:00 Presentations
Sponsored by: Rowan Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Righs and CHSS

RCHGHR Book Club, Christina Lamb "Our Bodies, Their Battlefields"
April 28, 12:30pm
Sponsored by: Rowan Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Righs and CHSS

White Violence in Native North American Communities
April 29, 3:30pm
Sponsored by: Sociology & Anthropoogy and CHSS

Spring 2019

May

Commencement!

College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Date/Time: May 14, 2019 / 2:00pm
Place: Bunce Green

April

50 Years After Apollo 11: Reflections on the Space Race and the Cold War

History Department
Date/Time: April 4, 2019 / 2:00pm
Place: Chamberlain Student Center, room 144
For more information contact Jim Heinzen

The United States and Russia went from bitter Cold War rivals to close allies in space exploration. How did this happen?

- Astronaut Stanley G. Love
- NASA Dr Asif Siddiqi of Fordham University
- Dr. James Heinzen, Department of History
- Discussion and Audience Questions to follow

Sponsored by The Hollybush Institute, the Department of History, and CHSS

"The Treaty of Versailles and the Road to World War II"

Panel Discussion moderated by Stephen Hague
History Department
Date/Time: April 25, 2019 / 2:00-3:30pm
Place: Chamberlain Student Center 129
For more information contact William Carrigan

March

Dr. Paul B. Winkler Annual CHSS Lecture

"Talat Pasha’s Killing Orders and Denial of Armenian Genocide"

Dr. Tanner Akcam, Clark University
Rowan Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and the History Department
Date/Time: March 7, 2019 / 7:00-8:30pm
Place: Owl's Nest
For more information contact William Carrigan

A unique feature of the Armenian Genocide has been the long-standing efforts of successive Turkish governments to deny its historicity and to hide the documentary evidence

surrounding it. Denialists claimed that there was no central decision taken by Ottoman authorities to exterminate the Armenians and all available documents that indicate otherwise are either fake or were doctored by Armenians.

Taner Akçam, known as “the Sherlock Holmes of the Armenian Genocide,” with his latest book provides a major clarification of the often-blurred lines between facts and truth with regard to these events. Akçam both brings to light documents either hidden or destroyed by the Turkish government that contain the killing orders, as well as demonstrates the authenticity of these orders, which had been signed by Ottoman Interior Minister Talat Pasha.

These killing orders of Talat Pasha had been given to an Armenian intellectual named Aram Andonian by an Ottoman bureaucrat by the name of Naim Efendi. 

The denialist school has long argued that a bureaucrat with the name Naim Efendi never existed and that there exists on a memoir written by him. According to this claim, the telegrams and memoirs were all forgeries, produced by Armenians to further their claims.

Taner Akçam provides the evidence to refute the basis of these claims and proves that the existence of Naim Efendi, his memoir and the killing orders are authentic, revealing the genocidal intent of the Ottoman-Turkish government towards its Armenian population.

As such, this work removes a cornerstone from the denialist edifice and further establishes the historicity of the Armenian Genocide. These findings represent an earthquake in the field of Armenian Genocide and will contribute enormously to the fight for recognition.

NYT: ‘Sherlock Holmes of the Armenian Genocide’ Uncovers Lost Evidence:

February

Bakithi Kumalo

"Have Courage, Take Chances"

Co-sponsored by: Genocide & Holocaust Center, History Department, SJICR, International Studies, and Department of Music.

Bakithi Kumalo
The History Department
Date/Time: February 12, 2019 / 5pm
Place: Pfleeger Concert Hall
For more information contact Chanelle Rose

Bakithi speaks about his growing up in South Africa under Apartheid. Born and raised in Soweto, the famous Johannesburg township that was also home to Nelson Mandela, he also talks about the influences of the South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, politician, and philanthropist, who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999, the changes he witnessed upon the abolishment of the Apartheid regime, and the history and evolution of Paul Simon’s Graceland, in which he literally played a major role. Interspersed throughout he shares original compositions as well as traditional South African melody, rhythm and song. His accomplishments as a renowned and extraordinary musician provide an inspirational story and his music provides a genuinely uplifting experience.

"Climate Ethics for the Dead and the Dying - When Past-Oriented Environmentalism Isn't Enough"

Julia D Gibson
Philosophy and Religion Studies Department
Date/Time: February 12, 2019 / 3:30pm
Place: Science Hall, Room 126
For more information contact Dr. Ellen Miller

"Trauma as Morally Damaging"

Alycia LaGuardiaLoBianco
Philosophy and Religion Studies Department
Date/Time: February 13, 2019 / 3:30pm
Place: Campbell Library, Room 126
For more information contact Dr. Ellen Miller

"President's Day Keynote Address"

Erez Manela, Harvard University
History Department
Date/Time: February 19, 2019 / 6:00-7:30pm
Place: Rowan Hall
For more information contact William Carrigan

"Soviet Entrepreneurs in Late-Socialist Black Markets: The  Kirgiz Affair and the Death Penalty in the 1950s-1960s"

Works in Progress
Jim Heinzen, the History Department
Date/Time: February 25, 2019 / 2pm
Place: Hollybush
For more information contact Dr. Emily Blanck

Supported by new material from recently declassified Russian archives, this article delves deeply into one criminal case to explore key aspects of the history of illegal, underground markets in the Soviet 1950s-1960s. The article concludes in part that associated with and fully permeating the shadow economy one sees many varieties of attitudes and mores, social practices, relationships, moral outlooks, and informal ways of negotiating.

Fall 2018

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November

September

October

April

Philosophy and Religion Department Rowan Ethics Conference Date/Time: April 13, 2018 / TBA Place: TBA

Philosophy & Religion Studies Spirituality Discussions Date/Time: April 25, 11-12pm Place: SJICR, Hawthorn Hall, Room 204

March

Philosophy & Religion Studies Spirituality Discussions Date/Time: March 28, 11-12pm Place: SJICR, Hawthorn Hall, Room 204

Rowan Center For Holocaust & Genocide Studies It’s a Minor Story Date/Time: March 22, 5pm Place: Robinson, Room 201A

Law and Justice Studies Rowan Criminal Club Date/Time: March 7, 12:30-2pm Place: Student Center, rm 144

Philosophy & Religion Studies Theorizing at Rowan Date/Time: March 7, 5pm Place: Robinson Hall, 224 http://theorizing-at-rowan.tumblr.com  "Race and Conservatism or, Decolonizing the Curriculum" Guest Speaker: John E. Drabinski Black Studies, Amherst College   EVENT POSTPONED FOR APRIL 11TH! (the snow is-a comin')!

Philosophy & Religion Studies Theorizing at Rowan Date/Time: Wednesday, March 21, 5pm Place: Robinson Hall, 323 http://theorizing-at-rowan.tumblr.com  "Racists" Guest Speaker: Kimberly Ann Harris Philosophy, Pennsylvania State University

February

Rowan Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies (RCHGS) The Promise Date/Time: Monday, February 12, 8pm Place: Science Building Rm 126

Rowan Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies (RCHGS) Book Club: First They Killed My Father, by Loung Ung Date/Time: Wednesday, February 21, 12:30-1:30 Place: SJICR, Hawthorn 204

Philosophy & Religion Studies Theorizing at Rowan Date/Time: Wednesday, February 21, 5pm Place: Robinson Hall, 323 http://theorizing-at-rowan.tumblr.com  "'Everything Becomes Possible' The Philosophy of Lévi-Strauss' Myth-Function" Guest Speaker: Karl hein Philosophy, Rowan University

CHSS Dean's Office Beyond DACA: Dynamic Immigration, Dreamers, and Advocating for Change Date/Time: Monday, February 26, 1:30pm Place: Rohrer Business Building, rm 104 A & B

Philosophy & Religion Studies Spirituality Discussions Date/Time: Wednesday, February 28, 11-12pm Place: SJICR, Hawthorn Hall, Room 204

January

Rowan Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies (RCHGS) Holocaust Remembrance Day Date/Time: January 25, 5pm Place: Robinson Green

Rowan Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies (RCHGS) Book Club: First They Killed My Father, by Loung Ung Date/Time: Wednesday, January 31, 12:30-1:30 Place: SJICR, Hawthorn 204

December 2017

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November 2017

International Studies: Rowan in the World - Rohingya Refugees and the Myanmar Crisis in Historical Perspective by Dr. Joshua Gedacht of the Department of History. Date/Time: Thurs. Nov. 30 5-6:15pm Place: Robinson, rm. 224 Since August 2017, over 600,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled from the predominantly Buddhist nation of Myanmar. This talk will provide an update on this ongoing humanitarian emergency and examine the historical roots of the conflict going back to the British colonial era. For further information contact: James H. Shrader- shrader@rowan.edu

Rowan Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies (RCHGS): World War II Study Abroad program in May 2018 Date/Time: Thurs. 30 Nov. 2.00pm Place: History Conference Room - Robinson 2nd Floor Open to all majors!

Philosophy & Religion Studies: Theorizing at Rowan What is Environmental Justice?, by David Clowney Date/Time: Nov. 29, 5pm Place: Bunce Hall, 106

Rowan Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies (RCHGS) RCHGS Annual Lecture Genocide and Mass Violence in an Age of Climate Change, by Alex Alvarez Date/Time: Nov. 16, 7pm Place: Westby, 111

Philosophy & Religion Studies: Interfaith Encounters Spirituality Discussion/SJICR Reads Date/Time: Nov. 14, 12:30-1:30pm Place: Hawthorn Hall, SJICR Multipurpose Room

Philosophy & Religion Studies: Theorizing at Rowan Critique and Care: Two Modes of Thought, by Sjoerd van Tuinen (Philosophy, Erasmus Univ., Rotterdam, NL / Institute for International and Refional Studies, Princeton Univ.) Date/Time: Nov. 8, 5pm Place: Bunce Hall, 106

Sociology & Anthropology, Africana Studies, Social Justice and Inclusion and Conflict Resolution: Hear from Akeem Browder, brother of Kalief Browder and his wrongful 2010 imprisonment story. Date/Time: Nov. 3, 2pm (at 12:30, 2 of the 6-part documentary will be shown) Place: Student Center Ballroom

Philosophy & Religion Studies: Theorizing at Rowan Bessel and the Personal Equation: The Epistemic Consequences of Perceptual Relativity, by Matthew Lund (Philosophy, Rowan Univ.) Date/Time: Nov. 1, 5pm Place: Bunce Hall, 106

October 2017

Philosophy & Religion Studies: Theorizing at Rowan A Kantian Argument Against Solitary Confinement, by Krista Thomason (Philosophy, Swarthmore College) Date/Time: Oct. 25, 5pm Place: Bunce Hall, 106

CHSS Match Internship: Student Information Night Date/Time: Oct. 24, 6-7pm Place: Student Center, Rm. 144

The Rowan Center for Holocaust and Genocide Center: The Mischlinge Exposé Date/Time: Oct. 24, 7pm Place: Boyd Recital Hall, Wilson

Philosophy & Religion Studies: Rumi Symposium for Peace and Justice Date/Time: Oct. 24, 5-8pm Place: Student Center Pit

Philosophy & Religion Studies: Spiritual Diversity Group Date/Time: Oct. 18, 6:30pm Place: Hawthorn, 2nd Floor, SJIRC Conference Room

Philosophy & Religion Studies: Interfaith Encounters Spirituality Discussion/SJICR Reads Date/Time: Oct. 10, 12:30-1:30pm Place: Hawthorn Hall, SJICR Multipurpose Room

September 2017

Philosophy & Religion Studies: Interfaith Encounters Spirituality Discussion/SJICR Reads Date/Time: Sep. 12, 12:30-1:30pm Place: Hawthorn Hall, SJICR Multipurpose Room

Philosophy & Religion Studies: Theorizing at Rowan The Civil War Diary of Emma mordecai: a Typical Anomaly, by Dianne Ashton (Religion Studies, Rowan Univ.) Date/Time: Sep. 27, 5pm Place: Bunce Hall, 106

Africana Studies, The Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies, SJICR Date/Time: Sep. 12, 6:30pm Place: Boyd Hall, Wilson

April

March

February

The History Department Rosa Parks Luncheon Date/Time: February 28, 11AM Place: Eynon Ballroom, Student Center

Rowan Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies A People Uncounted: The Untold Story of the Roma Film Screeing and Discussion Date/Time: February 7, 6-9pm Place: Robinson 306

Theorizing @ Rowan Sylvia Plath's Poetry and Medicine Date/Time: February 8, 5pm Place: Bozorth 118

Spiritual Diversity Group Compassion vs. Violence Date/Time: February 8, 12:30pm Place: Robinson 214 (SJICR Conf. rm)

Rowan Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies Research Colloquium Date/Time: February 8, 12:30pm Place: Wellness Center, Seminar Room

Philosophy and Religion Ethics Conference Call for Abstracts due: February 20 Date/Time: April 28, 11AM Place: Eynon Ballroom, Student Center

 January

Rowan Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies Holocaust Remembrance Day Date/Time: January 26, 5pm Place: Robinson Green