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Religion, Culture and Identity: A Campus-Wide Program at The College of New Jersey
Spring 2008
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 Spring 2008
are free and open to the College community and the general public.
Religion, Culture and Identity
Program of Events
Spring 2008
January 16-February 13, 2008 (reduced hours Jan.16-22, 2008: Tu, We, Th, 12pm-3pm; regular hours Tu, We, Thu 12-7pm., Su 1-3pm), TCNJ Art Gallery, Exhibition: Between Heaven and Earth: Spiritual Transformation and Sacred Spaces, juried by Eleanor Heartney
January 30, 2008, 4:30-5:30 pm, Holman Hall: Juror’s Talk
January 30, 2008, 6-8pm, Holman Hall: Opening Reception
This exhibit will examine sacred spaces in both their physical and conceptual realizations. In faiths as diverse as Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism and Islam, a house of worship is far more than a conglomeration of bricks and mortar. Throughout history, sacred architecture has melded the realms of the visible and invisible, transforming everyday reality so that the soul can ascend to extra-worldly concerns. Today, in our more secular age, spiritually charged spaces are not always connected to specific religious dogmas. For this exhibition, artists will be asked to consider questions like: What makes a space sacred? How are beliefs embodied in architecture? How do expressions of art and metaphor advance the possibilities of spiritual understanding?
February 9, 2008, Library Auditorium, Symposium; The Creation and Contestation of Sacred Space
For the full schedule, see:
http://www.tcnj.edu/~philos/religion/SacredSpaceSymposium.htm
February 9-16, 2008, Holman Hall: Tibetan Sand Mandala Ceremony
February 20, 2008, Kendall Hall, Black History Month Keynote Lecture, 7 pm: Dr. Angela Davis, scholar and activist, “Race, Gender, and Social Justice in the American Penal System.”
Co-sponsored by the African-American Studies Department, Black Student Union, Center for the Study of Social Justice, Chi Upsilon Sigma, English Department, History Department, Multicultural Lecture Series, Office of Academic Affairs, Office of Student Life, Philosophy and Religion Department-Classical Studies Program, School of Culture and Society, Sociology and Anthropology Department, Student Governing Association, USA Studies, and Women’s and Gender Studies
February 20-March 30, 2008 (closed March 8-16, 2008; regular hours: Tu, We, Th 12-7pm, Su 1-3pm), TCNJ Art Gallery, Exhibition,: Parable of the Garden: New Media Art From Iran & Central Asia, curated by Leeza Ahmady, Sarah Cunningham, and Deborah Hutton
February 20, 2008, 4pm, Holman Hall: Curators’ Talk
February 20, 2008, 5-7pm, Holman Hall: Opening Reception
Geographically focusing on former Persia and its cultural legacy, this exhibit will present recent media works by artists from Iran and Central Asia. The exhibit thematically explores not only the traditional garden and the contemporary sense of place, but also notions of paradise lost and found, lessons learned and forgotten, and traditions cherished and rejected.
February 27, 2008, 5-6:30 pm, Social Science Room 230: Reading from Anthony Hecht, The Hard Hours, by President R. Barbara Gitenstein followed by discussion
March 2008: Women’s History Month, Women and Religion, organized by Women’s and Gender Studies
March 3, 2008, 7-10 p.m., Library Auditorium: Documentary film, “The Noble Struggle of Amina Wadud,” followed by discussion with Amina Wadud
March 4, 2008, 7 pm., Music Building, Mildred and Ernest E. Mayo Concert Hall,Music Building, Lecture: Starhawk, “Earth Spirit, Earth Justice”
March 19, 2008, 3-4:30 pm., Library Auditorium: Poetry Reading by Alicia Ostriker, “Women's Words”
March 20, 2008, 11:30-1:50 pm., Library Auditorium: Alumni Panel, “Feminists Do Religion,” discussion with question and answer session
March 25, 2008, 8-10:30 pm., The Rathskeller (Brower Student Center): “An Evening With Singer and Songwriter Regina Sayles”
March 22, 2008, Library Auditorium: Contested Sacred Spaces
2:30-4 pm: Film, “Roses in December” (US, 1982), introduced by
filmmaker Bernard Stone
4-4:30 pm: Coffee break
4:30-5:30 pm: Question and answer session with Bernard Stone
March 26, 2008, 8 pm, Mildred and Ernest E. Mayo Concert Hall, Music Building,
Concert: “Quatuor pour la fin du temps” (Quartet for the End of Time, 1941) by
Olivier Messiaen, and “Piano Quintet in f minor,” Op. 67 (1907) by Amy (Mrs. H.H.A.) Beach. Performed by the Amabile String Quartet with guest artists in
collaboration with faculty from the Department of Music
7: 15 pm, Mildred and Ernest E. Mayo Concert Hall, Pre-Concert Lecture:
Wayne Heisler, TCNJ, “The Leaving in Music”
April 1, 2008, 5-6:30 pm, Library Auditorium, Lecture: Rebecca Alpert, TempleUniversity, “Jewish Views of Solitary Sex.” Co-sponsored by Women’s and Gender Studies
April 2, 2008, 12-1 pm, Forcina 134, Colloquium for Faculty Research and Creative Activity, Lecture: Jo-Ann Gross, TCNJ, “The Poetics of Space in Tajikistan”
April 3, 11:30-12:30, SB 331, Lecture: Michael Robertson, TCNJ,“Reading Poetry Religiously”
