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Religion, Culture and Identity: A Campus-Wide Program at The College of New Jersey
Fall 2007
In co-sponsorship with the School of Culture and Society and the School of Art, Media, and Music, the Religious Studies Committee and CCIC are pleased to announce a campus-wide program of events for 2007-2008 at The College of New Jersey, on the theme of “Religion, Culture, and Identity.”
The following events scheduled for Fall 2007 are free and open to the College community and the general public.
September 11-October 14, 2007:The College Art Gallery Religion, Culture & Identity: Exhibition by the TCNJ Art Faculty.
Opening Reception: September 11, 2007, 6-8pm
September 19, 2007: 6:00pm, Library Auditorium Artist Lecture: Shelly Silver
September 26, 2007: 5:15-6:45 pm, Library Auditorium, Public Lecture: Pia Brancaccio, Drexel University, "Art and Religious Identities in the Early Buddhist Communities of South Asia"
October 3, 2007: Religion, Culture, and Identity Community Learning Day
12-1:30 pm: Kendall Hall, Public Lecture: Sister Helen Prejean, CSJ, Sisters of St. Joseph of Medaille, speaking on morality and the death penalty.
1:30-2:00 pm: Lobby of the Library Auditorium, Book-Signing
2:00- 3:30 pm: Library Auditorium, Panel discussion, "Religion and Public Policy"
October 10, 2007: 5-6:30 pm, Library Auditorium, Public Lecture: Jon Pahl, Lutheran Theological Seminary, “The Desire to Acquire: Why Shopping Malls are Sites of Religious Violence”
October 17, 2007: Library Auditorium, Symposium: Bosnia: Reflections on Religion, Nation and State
10-12 pm, Film: “Picture Me an Enemy,” followed by discussion with filmmakers Nathalie Applewhite and Rene Lego
2:00 – 3:30 pm: Bosnia: Children of War, Children of Peace: A Panel Discussion
4:30 pm, Keynote Address: Andras Reidlmayer, Harvard University, "'It is though they have torn our heart out': Ethnicity, Religion, and the Destruction of Culture in the Balkan Wars of the 1990s"
October 18, 2007: 4 pm., Library Auditorium: A Program of Jewish Fiction
Fiction Reading: Writers Elisa Albert and Edward Schwarzschild read from their works and discuss how Judaism has shaped their art and identity. Albert is the author of How This Night is Different and the forthcoming The Book of Dahlia. Schwarszschild is the author of Responsible Men and the recently published The Family Diamond. Sponsored by CCIC, English Department, and the Visiting Writer’s Series.
October 30-December 5, 2007: The College Art Gallery: Assumed Identities, curated by Sarah Cunningham (closed for Thanksgiving Break, Nov. 21-25).
Opening Reception: October 30, 2007, 6-8pm
November 14, 2007: 2:00pm Library Auditorium Artist Lecture: Oskana Chepelyk
November 15, 2007: 4:00 pm, Library Auditorium, Public Lecture: Zhihua Yao, University of Hong Kong, “Reincarnation and Eternal Resurrection in Buddhism”
December 1-2, 2007: Library Auditorium, Film Weekend: Spirituality and Film, Two Films of 1997
December 1, 2007: 2:30-4 pm, Film: “Taste of Cherry,” by Abbas Kiarostami (Iran, 1997)
4:30-6 pm, Film: “A Walk with Kiarostami,” by Jamsheed Akrami (2005)
5-6 pm, Public Lecture: Jamsheed Akrami, “Iranian Cinema: Reflections of Humanity”
December 2, 2007: 2-4 pm, Film: “The Apostle,” by Robert Duvall (US, 1997)
