RUTGERS-CAMDEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS
STEDMAN GALLERY
GORDON THEATER
Third and Pearl Sts.
Camden, NJ 08102
856-225-6306
FAX: 856-225-6597
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Visions of Camden Lecture Series:
PUBLIC PROGRAMMING
All events are FREE and will take place in the Stedman Gallery
There will be a reception with light refreshments following each event.
Parking will be available free of charge in Lots 13 & 14 during the events.
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Tuesday, January 29th @ 12:20-1:20pm
Lecture: Father Jeff Puthoff
Father Jeff Puthoff will speak on his pivotal role as a community leader in Camden and his recent initiative with the symbol of the cross as a way of providing healing & awareness.
Father Jeff Putthoff, SJ has lived and worked in Camden, NJ for the last thirteen years. He is the founder and Executive Director of Hopeworks 'N Camden, a youth technology portal using the technologies of web site design/development and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to work with youth ages 14-23 in Camden New Jersey.
Tuesday, February 12th @ 12:20-1:20pm
Round Table: Vibiana Cvetkovic & Daniel Sidorick
Vibiana Cvetkovic will speak about the RCA glass window and Nipper as a mascot, and Daniel Sidorick will speak about the Campbell's Soup water towers as industrial symbols.
Vibiana Cvetkovic is a Reference Librarian and the head of Access and Collection Services at the Paul Robeson Library, Rutgers University in Camden, New Jersey. Ms. Cvetkovic is Chair of the Children and Childhood Studies Area of the Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association, and an Associate of the Center for Children and Childhood Studies at Rutgers University.
Daniel Sidorick is the author of Condensed Capitalism: Campbell Soup and the Pursuit of Cheap Production in the Twentieth Century, published by Cornell University Press. The New Jersey Historical Commission awarded the book the Richard P. McCormick Prize. Sidorick has taught at Temple University, the College of New Jersey, and Rutgers University New Brunswick, where he is currently teaching a course on the history of New Jersey workers.
Moderator:
Charlene Mires Associate Professor of History and Director of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities (MARCH) at Rutgers-Camden.
Thursday, February 14th @ 4:00pm
Artist's Lecture: Camilo Vergara
Camilo José Vergara is a Chilean-born, New York-based writer, photographer and documentarian. Beginning in the 1980s, Vergara applied the technique of rephotography to a series of American cities, photographing the same buildings and neighborhoods from the exact vantage point at regular intervals over many years to capture changes over time. Camden, NJ is just one of these cities.
Tuesday, February 19th @ 12:20-1:20pm
Round Table: Paul Jargowsky & Howard Gillette
Paul Jargowsky will speak about the Carnegie Library and the eventual disinvestment in Camden city & its people; and Howard Gillette will speak on Camden's shocking 2012 homicide rate& the crosses that represent it.
Paul Jargowsky is Professor of Public Policy and Director, Center for Urban Research and Urban Education at Rutgers-Camden. His principal research interests are inequality, the geographic concentration of poverty, and residential segregation by race and class. Jargowsky has also been involved in policy development at both the state and federal levels.
Howard Gillette is Professor of History Emeritus at Rutgers University-Camden, and specialized in modern U.S. history, with a special interest in urban and regional development. His book, Camden After the Fall: Decline and Renewal in a Post-Industrial City, also published by the University of Pennsylvania Press (2005), received best book awards from the Urban History Association and the New Jersey Historical Commission.
Moderator:
Charlene Mires Associate Professor of History and Director of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities (MARCH) at Rutgers-Camden.
Thursday, February 21st @ 5:00-7:00pm
Fred Barnum Followed by Performance by the RU-C Jazz Ensemble (6:00pm)
Parking available in lots 13 and 14 free of charge 4-8 p.m.
Fred Barnum, business development manager for Camden's L-3 Communications Systems, is a Camden County Historical Society Trustee and author of His Master's Voice In America (1991), an illustrated history of the enterprise that began in 1901 as the Victor Talking Machine Company, then became RCA-Victor.
The Rutgers-Camden Jazz Ensemble provides a challenging, yet supportive environment for musically skilled students to experience the long tradition of jazz in its many stylistic forms. The ensemble is organized by Rutgers-Camden Professor Eric Polack.