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Past Events

IRW Undergraduate Learning Community - Opening Session

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Thursday, September 5, 2019
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
IRW's undergraduate learning community meets on Thursday afternoons from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m.

IRW Seminar - Beth Rubin, “Public Histories, Situated Citizenships: Educating for Democracy in Divided Societies”

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Thursday, May 2, 2019
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
IRW Seminar Room, Center for Women’s Programs, 160 Ryders Lane, 2nd Floor
The IRW Seminar meets every Thursday morning during the academic year from 10:30 a.m. to noon.

IRW Seminar - Kate Cairns, “Living with, and Against, Slow Violence: Youth and Environmental Justice in Camden, New Jersey”

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Thursday, April 25, 2019
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
IRW Seminar Room, Center for Women’s Programs, 160 Ryders Lane, 2nd Floor
The IRW Seminar meets every Thursday morning during the academic year from 10:30 a.m. to noon.

IRW Distinguished Lecture Series -  "Whose Lives Matter? Drugs, Criminalization, and Social Justice" (Panel Discussion)

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Thursday, April 18, 2019
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
RDJC Bldg., First Floor Conference Room, 162 Ryders Lane, Douglass Campus

IRW Seminar - Julie Rajan, “Women, Violence, and the Islamic State"

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Thursday, April 18, 2019
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
IRW Seminar Room, Center for Women’s Programs, 160 Ryders Lane, 2nd Floor
The IRW Seminar meets every Thursday morning during the academic year from 10:30 a.m. to noon.

Public Engagement Project - Storytelling for Social Change Workshop with Thaler Pekar

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Thursday, April 11, 2019
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
RDJC Bldg., First Floor Conference Room, 162 Ryders Lane, Douglass Campus
A workshop on how narrative techniques can be used to enhance social change work. Registration is now open. Register here .

IRW Distinguished Lecture Series - Naomi Klein, "Labor of Loss: Climate Change and the Emerging Economy of Care and Repair"

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Thursday, April 4, 2019
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
RDJC Bldg., 162 Ryders Lane, Douglass Campus
Naomi Klein is the inaugural Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Culture and Feminist Studies at Rutgers University

IRW Seminar - Jordan Steiner, “The Relationship Between Sexual Violence and Mental Health Outcomes for Adolescents Girls and Young Women in Malawi”

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Thursday, April 4, 2019
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
IRW Seminar Room, Center for Women’s Programs, 160 Ryders Lane, 2nd Floor
The IRW Seminar meets every Thursday morning during the academic year from 10:30 a.m. to noon.

IRW Distinguished Lecture Series - "Slavery's Shadows: The Afterlife of Dispossession" (Panel Discussion)

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Thursday, March 28, 2019
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
RDJC Bldg., 162 Ryders Lane, Douglass Campus

Public Engagement Project - Mimi Schwartz, "Beyond the 'I': When Memoir Meets History," a talk and workshop

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Thursday, March 7, 2019
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
RDJC Bldg., First Floor Conference Room, 162 Ryders Lane, Douglass Campus
Beyond the ‘I’: When Memoir Meets History by Mimi Schwartz Personal narrative helps to put a face on social issues, an idea at the heart of Mimi Schwartz’s essay collection, When History Is Personal . In it, Schwartz explores 25 moments that have mattered in her life, mid 20th century

Public Engagement Project - Public Engagement for Academics Workshop with Thaler Pekar

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Thursday, February 21, 2019
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
RDJC Bldg, First Floor Conference Room, 162 Ryders Lane, Douglass Campus
This workshop is intended to help scholars learn how to use narrative to engage with audiences that transcend the academy, through op-eds, blogs, social media, and for fundraising purposes. Register NOW .

IRW Seminar - Eriada Cela

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Thursday, February 14, 2019
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
IRW Seminar Room, Center for Women’s Programs, 160 Ryders Lane, 2nd Floor
The IRW Seminar meets every Thursday morning during the academic year from 10:30 a.m. to noon.

IRW Seminar - Sandy Flitterman-Lewis, "Hidden Voices: Childhood, the Family, and Antisemitism in Occupation France"

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Thursday, February 7, 2019
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
IRW Seminar Room, Center for Women’s Programs, 160 Ryders Lane, 2nd Floor
The IRW Seminar meets every Thursday morning during the academic year from 10:30 a.m. to noon.

IRW Seminar - Priti Narayan, "Terrains of Negotiation: Strategic Residents and the State in a Developing City"

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Thursday, January 31, 2019
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
IRW Seminar Room, Center for Women’s Programs, 160 Ryders Lane, 2nd Floor
The IRW Seminar meets every Thursday morning during the academic year from 10:30 a.m. to noon.

IRW Seminar - Sandra Medina, "The Remnants of the Armed Conflict: The Body In/After Violence in Contemporary Colombian Cinema"

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Thursday, January 24, 2019
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
IRW Seminar Room, Center for Women’s Programs, 160 Ryders Lane, 2nd Floor
The IRW Seminar meets every Thursday morning during the academic year from 10:30 a.m. to noon.

Public Engagement Project - Oral History and Activism Workshop

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Thursday, December 6, 2018
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
RDJC Bldg, First Floor Conference Room, 162 Ryders Lane, Douglass Campus
Space is limited and registration is required. Application deadline: December 3, 2018, 11.59 p.m.

IRW Seminar - Manjula Bharathy

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Thursday, November 15, 2018
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
IRW Seminar Room, Center for Women’s Programs, 160 Ryders Lane, 2nd Floor
The IRW Seminar meets every Thursday morning during the academic year from 10:30 a.m. to noon.

Public Engagement Project - Participatory Writing with Angelique Haugerud

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Thursday, November 8, 2018
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
RDJC Bldg., First Floor Conference Room, 162 Ryders Lane, Douglass Campus
Attendance at this workshop is limited. To register visit: https://goo.gl/forms/7EP9zJ0gWc87wEpn2 .

IRW Distinguished Lecture Series - "My City Was Gone: Gentrification, AIDS, and Urban Change" (Panel Discussion)

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Thursday, November 1, 2018
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
RDJC Bldg., 162 Ryders Lane, Douglass Campus

IRW Seminar - Khosi Xaba

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Thursday, November 1, 2018
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
IRW Seminar Room, Center for Women’s Programs, 160 Ryders Lane, 2nd Floor
The IRW Seminar meets every Thursday morning during the academic year from 10:30 a.m. to noon.