The Committee for Cultural and Intellectual Community
2009-2010 Campus Theme for the Year: The Family
Schedule of Events
FALL SEMESTER
September 9 - October 14 -- Art Exhibit: Family: An Exhibition by the TCNJ Art Faculty
- Opening Reception, September 9, 5-7 PM. Contact Sarah Cunningham
October 6 -- Poetry Reading by Peter Balakian (co-sponsored by Department of English)
- 4:00 to 5:00 Business Building Lower Level Lounge. Contact David Blake, Dept. of English
October 7 -- Community Learning Day
- 12:00 to 1:30, Kendall Main Auditorium, The Transmission of Trauma across Generations: The New Jersey Suburbs to the Armenian Genocide, primary address by Dr. Balakian
- 1:30 to 2:00, Library Auditorium Lobby, Book signing by Dr. Balakian
- 2:00 to 3:30, Library Auditorium, Panel Discussion moderated by Dr. David Blake, Professor of English with Dr. Balakian, Dr. Ellen Friedman, Professor of English and Women's and Gender Studies, and Dr. Kevin Michels, Assistant Professor of Business
October 14 -- Lecture
- 5:00 PM, Library Auditorium, Hetty Joyce "Renaissance Families, Holy and Otherwise," contact Sarah Cunningham, College Art Gallery
November 4 --
Faculty Senate Research Colloquium
- 12:00 to 1:30, Mayo Concert Hall, Music Building,
Mark Kiselica, "The Complicated Worlds of Teenage Fathers: Implications for Clinical Practice, Public Policy, and Research,"
contact Cindy Curtis. Sponsored by TCNJ Faculty Senate
November 9 & 10-- 1989 Film Festival
- Twenty Years After the Fall of Communism, TCNJ will host a two-day Film festival to commemorate this historical event.
Monday, November 9, 7 pm, Library Auditorium: "Something about the Wall" followed by a Panel Discussion
Tuesday, November 10, 7pm, Library Auditorium: "The Singing Revolution" followed by Q&A with the Filmmakers, Jim and Maureen Tusty
The event is co-sponsored by CCIC and the Dean of Culture and Society. Both discussions will address the theme of this year's learning community on the family. On Monday evening, Ute Mehnert, a journalist from Germany, will discuss her family's experience living in a divided Germany, and her father's exile from East Germany. On Tuesday evening, filmmakers Jim and Maureen Tusty will discuss how their family's Estonian heritage played a role in the making of their film.
For further information, please contact Cynthia Paces, Dept. of History, paces@tcnj.edu
November 10 --
The Singing Revolution
- 7:00 PM, Library Auditorium, Film Screening and Q&A with Filmmakers Jim Tusty and Maureen Castle Tusty, contact Cynthia Paces, History
December 2 -- Panel Discussion
- 12:00 to 1:20, Library Auditorium,
"Your Family Tree: From Geneaology to Family History," contact Marc Meola, Library
SPRING SEMESTER
January 20 to February 24 -- Art Exhibit: Inherited Traits: Heidi Kumao and Nina Katchadourian
- Opening Reception, 5:00 to 7:00, (Artists Talk at 6 PM). contact Sarah Cunningham, College Art Gallery
February 11 -- Lecture
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6:30 to 8:00, Library Auditorium, Dana Burde, “Family Structure and Girls’ Education in Rural Afghanistan, contact: Cynthia Paces and Jo-Ann Gross, History
March 3 -- Faculty Senate Research Colloquium
- 12:00 to 1:30, Mayo Concert Hall, Music Building, Ellen Friedman,
"The Seven, a Holocaust Story. Chapter 1: My uncle, the New York City Taxi Driver,"
contact Cindy Curtis. Sponsored by TCNJ Faculty Senate
March 3 -- Lecture
- 2:00 to 3:30, Library Auditorium,
Judith Stacey, "The Political Arena of the Family" (tentative title), contact Cecila Colbeth, Women's and Gender Studies
March 4 -- Lecture
March 17, TCNJ Faculty Roundtable, "Non-Traditional Methods of Reproduction for Today's Families"
- 2:00 to 3:30, Library Auditorium, contact Ellen Friedman, English and Women and Gender Studies
March 19 -- Third Annual TCNJ Lunafest
- 7:00 PM, Library Auditorium,
film screenings of films for, by, and about women, contact Cecila Colbeth, Women and Gender Studies
March 24 -- Lecture
- 2:00 to 3:30, Library Auditorium,
Kara Suffredini, "Advancing the Rights and Privileges Pertaining to Family Issues for Members of the LGBT Community," contact Cecila Colbeth, Women and Gender Studies
March 31 -- Lecture
- 2:00 to 3:30, Library Auditorium,
Stephanie Coontz, "How Families are Changing," contact Cecila Colbeth, Women's and Gender Studies
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