Events
Upcoming SOBL-related Events - Spring 2021
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January
17th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service
- Saturday, January 30th, 9:30am
- Galloway and Atlantic City Campuses
February
Stockton Center on Successful Aging (SCOSA) - Older Adult Education, Socialization
and Recreation Events
- Several events scheduled throughout the month
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Stockton Institute for Lifelong Learning (SILL) - Music of African Americans
- Thursdays, February 4, 11, 18 & 25, 1:00-2:00pm
- Virtual - Registration Required ($45 for 4 sessions)
Presenter: Beverly Vaughn, Professor of Music and Africana Studies
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Globalization Lecture Series - Cultural Nuances of Loss and Grief under Pandemic and
Disasters: Implications to Philippine Social Work Practice
- Thursday, February 11th, 4:30pm
- Zoom - Join Here
Speaker: Guia Calicdan-Apostle, Associate Professor of Social Work
Childhood Application Seminar Series (CASS) - The Legalization of Marijuana and the Implications for Child Welfare and Other Unconventional Paths to Working with Children
- Tuesday, February 16th, 4:30pm
- Zoom - Join Here (password: 062871)
Speaker: Dawn Konrady, Director, Child Welfare Education Institute (CWEI)
Presented by the Childhood Studies Minor
Criminal Justice Career Series - Women in Law Enforcement
- Tuesday, February 23rd, 4:30pm
- Zoom - Join Here
Alumni Speakers:
- Cat Marino (BA/MA) - Madison PD (Wisconsin)
- Ashley Kumar (BA) - Arlington County PD (Virginia)
- Nicole Pinkham (BA) - New Orleans PD (Louisiana)
- Nancy DiPalma (BA) - U.S. Supreme Court PD (Washington, DC)
(CANCELLED) Globalization Lecture Series - Supreme Court Case Involving Puerto Rico's Colonial
Status
- Thursday, February 25th, 4:30pm
- Zoom - Join Here
Speaker: Arleen Gonzalez, Associate Professor of Criminal Justice, Criminal Law
March
Stockton Institute for Lifelong Learning (SILL) - Think Humanities, Act Creatively:
An Environmental Humanities Overview
- Mondays, March 1, 8, 22 & 29, 3:00-4:00pm
- Virtual - Registration Required ($45 for 4 sessions)
Presenter: Kristin J. Jacobson, Professor of American Literature, Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality
Studies, and American Studies
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Psychology Speaker Series: Race, Ethnicity & Diversity - Examining the origins of racism from a developmental perspective
- Wednesday, March 3, 4:00-5:00pm
- Zoom - Join Here
Stockton Institute for Lifelong Learning (SILL) - Optimal Brain Wellness: Current
Research and Practical Strategies
- Thursdays, March 4, 11, 18 & 25
- Virtual - Registration Required ($45 for 4 sessions)
Presenter: Christine Gayda-Chelder, Assistant Professor of Psychology
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What's the Difference? An Examination of Counseling Professions
- Wednesday, March 10th, 4:30pm
- Zoom - Register Here
Presented by the Psychology Program
Panelists include Elyssa Smith and Terrilyn Battle, both Assistant Professors in the MA Counseling program, among others.
Globalization Lecture Series - The Future of International Education: What We Have
Learned From COVID
- Thursday, March 11th, 4:30pm
- Zoom - Join Here
Speaker: JY Zhou, Director, Office of Global Engagement & Senior International Officer
Continuing the Conversation: Race, Racism, and Anti-Racism - "This Moment: Confronting
America's Legacy of Social and Racial Injustice"
- Tuesday, March 23rd, 12:30pm
- Zoom - Join Here (passcode: 335971)
Presented by the Africana Studies Program
Speaker: Patricia Reid-Merritt, Distinguished Professor of Africana Studies and Social Work
Childhood Application Seminar Series (CASS) - Two presentations followed by Q & A
- Tuesday, March 23rd, 4:00-5:00pm
- Zoom - Join Here (passcode: 412149)
Presentations by doctoral candidates at the Childhood Studies graduate program at
Rutgers University-Camden:
- Michelle Storrod will present on Ecological Ruptures & Strain: Girls, Juvenile Justice and Phone Removal
- Mary Mitsdarffer will present on The Impacts of Federal and State Immigration Enforcement Polices on Latinx English Language Arts Achievement
Cannabis Legalization in New Jersey: Lessons in Legalization from Other States
- Tuesday, March 23rd, 4:30pm
- Zoom - Register Here
Co-sponsored by the Stockton American Democracy Project/Political Engagement Project
and the Cannabis Studies Minor
Speaker: Dr. John Hudak, Deputy Director of the Center for Effective Public Management and a senior fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution
Globalization Lecture Series - Hindu Nationalism in India, COVID19 Pandemic & the
Systematic Disenfranchisement of Minorities
- Thursday, March 25th, 4:30pm
- Zoom - Join Here
Speaker: Manish Madan, Associate Professor of Criminal Justice
Suicide Awareness Event - Virtual Screening of the Documentary, My Ascension (followed by Q&A panel and discussion)
- Saturday, March 27th, 6pm
- Click Here to register
Sponsoredy by Stockton's Master of Social Work Alliance and Active Minds
April
Globalization Lecture Series - Protests around the Globe: Why, When, and How People Protest
- Thursday, April 1st, 4:30pm
- Zoom - Join Here
Speaker: Nusret Sahin, Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice
Global Literacy Talks - W.H.O. and the Pandemic
- Tuesday, April 6th, 1:00-2:00pm
- Zoom - Register Here
Hosted by the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU), in
partnership with The New York Times and World101
Criminal Justice Career Series - Environmental Law Enforcement
- Tuesday, April 6th, 4:30pm
- Zoom - Join Here
Guest Speakers:
- SSA Dorothy Manera, US Fish and Wildlife, Vineland, NJ
- Lt. William Brennan, Chief Petty Officer, USCG Reserves
- Representative from the NJ State Police, Marine Bureau
Childhood Studies Speaker Series - A Conversation about William Frantz Public School
- Tuesday, April 6th, 4:30pm
- Zoom - Register Here
Speaker: Meg White, Associate Professor of Education, and co-author of William Frantz Public School: A Story of Race, Resistance, Resiliency, and Recovery in New Orleans
Stockton Institute for Lifelong Learning (SILL) - Reading Poems: Celebrating Spring
and the Natural World
- Wednesdays, April 7, 14, 21 & 28, 3:00-4:00pm
- Virtual - Registration Required ($45 for 4 sessions)
Speaker: Nancy Reddy, Assistant Professor of Writing and First-year Studies
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Psychology Speaker Series: Race, Ethnicity & Diversity -Transformational Differences
in America by African American Psychologists from Arkansas
- Thursday, April 8th, 2:30-3:30pm
- Zoom - Join Here (passcode: 874657)
Speaker: Dr. Patricia Griffen, Clinical Psychologist
Globalization Lecture Series - Displaced Population Around the World After COVID
- Thursday, April 8th, 4:30pm
- Zoom - Join Here
Speaker: Elma Kaiser, Assistant Professor of Social Work
Recruiting Session - United States Drug Enforcement Administration
- Thursday, April 8th, 4:30pm
- Virtual - Join Here
Recruiter: Special Agent Anthony Jennings
Globalization Lecture Series - Cultural and Literacy Dialogues Between Asia and Latin America
- Tuesday, April 13th, 12:30pm
- Zoom - Join Here
Speaker: Gorica Majstorovic, Professor of Spanish
Criminal Justice Lecture Series - Becoming First
- Thursday, April 15th, 4:30pm
- Zoom - Register Here
Speaker: Colonel Melissa A. Zebley, Superintendent of the Delaware State Police
Grant-Seeking Panel: Meet the Experts
- Friday, April 16th, 1-3pm
- Zoom - Register Here
Hosted by the Stockton University Foundation and moderated by Jennifer Kosakowski,
Executive Director of Development/Corporate and Foundation Relations
Psychology Speaker Series: Race, Ethnicity & Diversity - The roles of working memory,
stereotype threat, and academic attitudes in student learning and achievement
- Tuesday, April 20th, 2:30-3:30pm
- Zoom - Join Here (passcode: 908346)
Speaker: Dr. Latasha Holden, Provost's Postdoctoral Fellow in Psychology at Florida State University
Political Science Spring Celebration (virtual)
- Tuesday, April 20th, 4:30-5:45pm
- Zoom link will be sent to invitees
Political Science faculty will recognize Political Science majors and minors, induct new Pi Sigma Alpha members, and announce the awardees for the Alan Arcuri Pre-Law Scholarships
Global Literacy Talks - Climate Change on Earth Day
- Thursday, April 22nd, 1:00-2:00pm
- Zoom - Register Here
Hosted by the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU), in partnership with The New York Times and World101
Unity Day 2021 - Pre-conference on Unity of Religions and Spirituality: Do Religion
and Spirituality Matter in the "New Normal"?
- Thursday, April 22nd, 2-4pm
- Zoom - Register Here
Featured Speaker: Kevin Locke “Tokaheya Inajin” - International Hoop Dancer, Educator, Traditional Storyteller from Lakota and Anishnabe Indigenous Tribes
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Childhood Application Seminar Series (CASS) - two research presentations from doctoral candidates at the Childhood Studies graduate program at Rutgers University-Camden
- Thursday, April 22nd, 4:30-5:30pm
- Zoom - Join Here (passcode: 598614)
Presenters:
- Diana Carolina Garcia Gomez will present on CULTIVATING HOPE: Children’s and Youth’s participation in collective memory processes in post-accord Colombia
- Smruthi Bala Kannan will present on ‘Clean Bodies in School: An ethnographic study of sanitation and hygiene discourses in Tamil Nadu, India’
Globalization Lecture Series - Environmental Issue in the New Normal: New Administration,
Same Pandemic
- Thursday, April 22nd, 4:30pm
- Zoom - Join Here
Speaker: Tait Chirenje, Professor of Environmental Science / Sustainability
Globalization Lecture Series - Representation of Gender in Edward Albee's Drama
- Thursday, April 29th, 4:30pm
- Zoom - Join Here
Speaker: Inga Zhghenti, Fulbright Scholar
May