January 29, 2013 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm, Staten Island, 10301
Please join us for “Tales of Survival: Refugees of Genocide in NYC.” This panel discussion will feature four Wagner College students — Yvonne Taylor (freshman), Gabrielle Tricorico (freshman), Rebecca Barrett (freshman, Theater) and Carl-Olivier Prime (senior, History) — along with English professor Eloise Brezault and history professor M. Ousmane Traore. Their discussion will respond to […]
Please join us for lunch and a time to learn and share about the hunger crisis in New York City. The Rev. Terry Troia, of Project Hospitality, and Susan Fowler, from Grow to Give NYC, will share information on hunger in NYC, and there will be time to discuss everyone’s thoughts on the crisis. To […]
February 5, 2013 @ 12:00 pm - February 6, 2013 @ 6:00 pm, Staten Island, 10301
A blood drive will be held on Tuesday, Feb. 5 and Wednesday, Feb. 6 in Union 201 from 12 to 6 p.m. each day. Blood for our community is desperately needed. Over 2,000 men, women and children in our surrounding community — including cancer, transplant and surgery patients, trauma victims, newborn babies and many others […]
February 5, 2013 @ 12:00 pm - February 6, 2013 @ 6:00 pm, Staten Island, 10301
A blood drive will be held on Tuesday, Feb. 5 and Wednesday, Feb. 6 in Union 201 from 12 to 6 p.m. each day. Blood for our community is desperately needed. Over 2,000 men, women and children in our surrounding community — including cancer, transplant and surgery patients, trauma victims, newborn babies and many others […]
February 7, 2013 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm, Staten Island, 10301
On Thursday, Feb. 7 at 1 p.m. in Union 201, please join us for the next installment in the Social Justice Dialogue Luncheon series. This week’s topic will be “Gun control: A deliberative dialogue.” Using the deliberative dialogue process made famous by the Kettering Foundation’s National Issues Forum, we want to invite the group to […]
Legislative breakfast on Food Stamps, food education
February 8, 2013 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm, Staten Island, 10301
On Friday, Feb. 8 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. in the Faculty Dining Room, Wagner College will co-host a legislative breakfast sponsored by Project Hospitality to highlight concerns about possible spending cuts to the Food Stamp program and food education programs in the public schools. This may also be an opportunity to advocate for […]
February 10, 2013 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm, Staten Island, 10301
On Sunday, Feb. 10 at 3 p.m. in Spiro 2, James Fritzsimmons will be giving a lecture entitled "Wine, Cheese and Travel." The lecture will focus on the development of wine, beer, cheese and other "secondary products" that arise after a society's shift to agriculture and as a response for the need to store food. […]
February 12, 2013 @ 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm, Staten Island, 10301
On Tuesday, Feb. 12 at 5:30 p.m. in the Faculty Dining Room, join us for a panel discussion entitled “Spielberg’s Lincoln: Fact or Fiction?” Moderated by Wagner College history professor Rita Reynolds, the panel will include English professor Steve Thomas and history majors Erin Pentz and Anthony Trombetta. Dinner will be served during the discussion, […]
February 12, 2013 @ 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm, Staten Island, 10301
Wagner College will host a presentation by film scholar Neal Gabler on “How (and Why) the Jews Invented Hollywood.” The program, part of the Jewish Culture Series, is co-sponsored by the Chai Society and Hillel Foundation at Wagner College and the Staten Island Jewish Community Center. The program is free, and the public is invited. […]
Inaugural Black History Month Scholar Symposium features Dr. Tricia Rose
February 13, 2013 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm, Staten Island, 10301
Wagner College invites you to the inaugural Black History Month Scholar Symposium featuring guest speaker Tricia Rose, professor of Africana Studies at Brown University, on the topic of “Race, Media and Social Justice in the Obama Era,” a discussion of political, social and economic struggles and media representations of blacks in a post-civil rights society, […]
Please join us on Wednesday, Feb. 13 at the Quad Theatre in Manhattan’s West Village (34 W. 13th St., off Fifth Ave.) for a private screening of the documentary film, “Long Shot: The Kevin Laue Story,” about the amazing one-armed basketball player. Kevin Laue himself will attend and field a Q&A at the end of […]
Social Justice Dialogue discussion on gay blood donation restrictions
February 14, 2013 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm, Staten Island, 10301
On Thursday, Feb. 14 at 1 p.m. in Union 201, please join us for the next installment in the Social Justice Dialogue Luncheon series. This week’s topic will be, “Same Blood, Different Love: Discussion on FDA Ban on Gay Men from Donating Blood.” For more information on the Social Justice Dialogues series, visit our online […]
On Wednesday, Feb. 20 at 4:15 p.m. in Kairos House, please join the Faculty Forum for presentations by Wagner College History Department scholars Lori Weintrob and Rita Reynolds on Staten Island history. Insight into the dynamic evolution of New York City and our Nation can be found by examining the history of transportation, industrialization, health […]
February 21, 2013 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm, Staten Island, 10301
Please join us on Thursday, Feb. 21 from 12 to 2 p.m. in the Union Atrium for the annual Black History Month Read-Aloud, sponsored by the Horrmann Library and the Coterie Book Club. Thank you to the following scheduled readers: 12:00 to 12:05 — Dorothy Davison 12:05 to 12:20 — Amy Eshleman 12:20 to 12:30 […]
The campus community is invited to a performance workshop on Friday, Feb. 22 at 1 p.m. in Main Hall B9 with Katrien van Beurden of Teatro Punto. Van Beurden has studied at the Theatre Academy in Utrecht and the Fine Arts in Montana. She has trained recently in film performance with Ivana Chubbuck in Los […]
February 22, 2013 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm, Staten Island, 10301
On Friday, Feb. 22 at 4:30 p.m. in the Stage One studio theater, please join us for “Solo dell’Arte,” a one-man presentation by Carlos Garcia Estevez, artistic co-director of Teatro Punto. Carlos Garcia Estevez is the founder and artistic leader of Teatro Punto. He trained for 3 years with Jacques Lecoq at his École Internationale […]
February 22, 2013 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm, Staten Island, 10301
In celebration of Black History Month, the Horrmann Library's Spotlight Gallery has an exhibition of paintings by Warren Lyons on display, "Of Human Feelings," through Sunday, March 3. A gallery reception is scheduled for Friday, Feb. 22 from 6 to 8 p.m. The exhibition and the reception are free, and the public is invited. The […]
The Wagner College Choir has been invited to return to perform at the annual Black History Month Town Hall Meeting at First Central Baptist Church, 117 Wright St., Stapleton, Staten Island on Saturday, Feb. 23 at 12 p.m. You’re welcome to come to this event.
February 25, 2013 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm, Staten Island, 10301
On Thursday, March 21 at 7 p.m. in Union 201, please join the Heart & Sole Shoe Project, in cooperation with the Arts & Culture Events series and CACE Disabilities Services, for a symposium and shoe fashion show to raise awareness of Marfan Syndrome. Refreshments will be served.
On Monday, Feb. 25 at 4:30 p.m. in the Union Atrium, please join Provost Lily McNair for a wine and cheese reception in recognition of the new book by Government & Politics professor Cyril Ghosh, "The Politics of the American Dream: Democratic Inclusion in Contemporary American Political Culture," published earlier this year by Palgrave Macmillan.
On Monday, Feb. 25 at 6 p.m. in Spiro 4, please join Prof. Alan Hoffner’s sociology class for a conversation with N.Y. State Senator Tony Avella, who will discuss the state of New York State, New York City, and various issues facing both. Avella was elected to his first term in the state senate in […]
Please join Generation Citizen on Monday, Feb. 25 at 6 p.m. in Spiro 2 for the screening of a documentary film, “The Black Power Mixtape.” The film, shot from the perspective of Swedish filmmakers during the Civil Rights movement in the U.S., documents the lives of the movement’s most radical (and often forgotten) leaders. A […]
February 26, 2013 @ 11:00 am - 4:00 pm, Staten Island, 10301
Wagner College is one of the 88 colleges and universities that belong to Imagining America, a national consortium that seeks to translate scholarship in the arts and humanities into community-based actions to foster public understanding and promote the public good. Kevin Bott, associate director of Imagining America and an expert in educational theater and applied […]
February 26, 2013 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm, Staten Island, 10301
Have you ever thought about what your personal brand is? Do you know how you plan to sell your experience and skills when you enter the job market? If not, plan to attend this career workshop on Tuesday, Feb. 26 at 6 p.m. in the Spiro Sports Center’s VIP Room. Come learn a bit more […]
February 26, 2013 @ 9:00 pm - 10:00 pm, Staten Island, 10301
Please join us on Tuesday, Feb. 26 at 9 p.m. in the Campus Hall Performance Center for the 8th annual “Tribute to Black Music,” sponsored by the Wagner College Music Department. The program will feature several brief sets of African-American music. The stunning singer/actress/pianist Jeannine Otis and the electrifying Larry Marshall will preview the coming […]
February 27, 2013 @ 8:00 pm - March 2, 2013 @ 10:00 pm, Staten Island, 10301
Twenty years after Wagner College awarded Jonathan Larson the 1993 Stanley Drama Award for an early version of his groundbreaking rock opera, the Wagner College Theatre will stage “Rent” for the first time on its Main Stage beginning Wednesday, Feb. 27. Based loosely on Puccini’s opera, “La Bohème,” “Rent” tells the story of a group […]
February 27, 2013 @ 8:00 pm - March 2, 2013 @ 10:00 pm, Staten Island, 10301
Twenty years after Wagner College awarded Jonathan Larson the 1993 Stanley Drama Award for an early version of his groundbreaking rock opera, the Wagner College Theatre will stage “Rent” for the first time on its Main Stage beginning Wednesday, Feb. 27. Based loosely on Puccini’s opera, “La Bohème,” “Rent” tells the story of a group […]
Social Justice Dialogue discussion of NYPD’s ‘Stop & Frisk’ policy
February 28, 2013 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm, Staten Island, 10301
On Thursday, Feb. 28 at 1 p.m. in Union 201, please join us for the next installment in the Social Justice Dialogue Luncheon series. This week’s topic will be, “Stop & Frisk: Is NYPD Racially Discriminating?” For more information on the Social Justice Dialogues series, visit our online Newsroom.
February 27, 2013 @ 8:00 pm - March 2, 2013 @ 10:00 pm, Staten Island, 10301
Twenty years after Wagner College awarded Jonathan Larson the 1993 Stanley Drama Award for an early version of his groundbreaking rock opera, the Wagner College Theatre will stage “Rent” for the first time on its Main Stage beginning Wednesday, Feb. 27. Based loosely on Puccini’s opera, “La Bohème,” “Rent” tells the story of a group […]
Join librarian Dennis Schaub in a workshop to help you avoid plagiarism. You will learn how to cite your sources properly, including tips for direct quotation, paraphrasing and how to determine whether or not some information is common knowledge.
February 27, 2013 @ 8:00 pm - March 2, 2013 @ 10:00 pm, Staten Island, 10301
Twenty years after Wagner College awarded Jonathan Larson the 1993 Stanley Drama Award for an early version of his groundbreaking rock opera, the Wagner College Theatre will stage “Rent” for the first time on its Main Stage beginning Wednesday, Feb. 27. Based loosely on Puccini’s opera, “La Bohème,” “Rent” tells the story of a group […]
On Saturday, March 2 at 2 p.m. at the Staten Island Greenbelt Nature Center, please join Wagner College astronomy professor Harold Kozak for a NASA/JPL talk, “Life on Mars?” The lecture is open to the general public, and there is no admission charge. Kozak’s talk will look at the recent robotic mission to Mars and […]
March 2, 2013 @ 9:00 pm - March 3, 2013 @ 10:00 pm, Staten Island, 10301
Join us this Saturday and Sunday evening at 9 p.m. in Harbor View Hall’s Gatehouse Lounge for two performances of “The Vagina Monologues.” The $2 suggested donation benefits Safe Horizon, a leading national organization offering assistance to victims of child abuse, domestic violence, or other violent crimes.
