On Sunday, Feb. 23 at 8 p.m. in Harbor View Hall’s Gatehouse Lounge, please join Completely Student Productions for a musical version of “The Full Monty,” with book by Wagner College Stanley Drama Award-winning playwright Terrence McNally, score by David Yazbek, directed by Brendan Stackhouse and Brian Falduto. Based on the 1997 British film of […]
On Monday, Feb. 24 at 1 p.m. in Main Hall 26, please join Sarah Donovan’s “Ethics, Gender & Society” class for a visit with Mark White, a prolific author who has written numerous books and journal articles about the relationship between philosophy, economics and law. White will talk about the connections between ethics, politics, pop […]
Please join us on Tuesday, Feb. 25 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. If you would like to read a special passage during the Read-Aloud, please email Mariah Sherman.
On Tuesday, Feb. 25 at 3 p.m. in Wagner College’s Stage One studio theater, please join us for “ ‘Virginia Woolf’ Comes Home,” a panel discussion and short staged reading that will introduce Wagner College English professor Willard Maas and his wife Marie Menken, who inspired the lead characters in Edward Albee’s 1962 landmark drama, “Who’s […]
On Tuesday, Feb. 25 at 8 p.m. in Spiro 4, please join Wagner College’s Chai Society for the next program in its “Current Issues in Israeli Politics” series. Government professor and rabbi Abraham Unger will talk about “The Ultra Orthodox and the Israeli Army: What Defines National Service?” If you plan to attend, RSVP by […]
On Wednesday, Feb. 26 at 9 p.m. in the Campus Hall Performance Center, join the Wagner College Music Department and the Office of Co-Curricular Programs for the ninth annual Tribute to Black Music. The program will include performances by Wagner College Choir, the Chamber Singers, Stretto vocal ensemble, Espresso vocal jazz ensemble and the Wagner […]
On Thursday, Feb. 27 at 11:20 a.m. in Campus Hall 208, please join Katica Urbanc’s “Contemporary Hispanic Women Writers” class for a visit with Jose Ovejero, who will discuss his latest award-winning novel, “La Invencion del Amor (The Invention of Love).” The program will be delivered in Spanish.
On Sunday, March 2 from 2 to 4 p.m. in the Wagner College Gallery, please join us for a reception highlighting an exhibition of photographs, paintings, original prints, drawings and sculpture by the college’s art faculty, including Griselda Healy, Nancy Bonior, Steve Foust, Steve Nutt, Antonio Reonegro, Steven Walker, Jennifer Toth, Kristi Pfister, Philip Mauro, […]
On Wednesday, March 5 at 4:30 p.m. in the Knubel Chapel, Kairos House, please join us for a Faculty Forum presentation by Steven Thomas and Stephen Greenwald on “The Question of a Sustainable Business Model for the Ethiopian Film Industry.” Last December, Stephen Greenwald and Steven Thomas traveled to Ethiopia to meet with filmmakers, university […]
March 5, 2014 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm, Staten Island, 10301
On Wednesday, March 5 at 6 p.m. in Wagner College’s Spiro Hall 2, please join Comite Ñani Migrante for a seminar entitled “Transnational Families: Staten Island & San Jerónimo de Puebla.” The program will address the mutual needs of Port Richmond immigrants from San Jerónimo (in Puebla, Mexico), and San Jerónimo residents who have relatives […]
Lecture: Underwater archaeology in Northern Israel
March 9, 2014 @ 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm, Staten Island, 10301
On Sunday, March 9 at 3 p.m. in Spiro 2, please join the Anthropology Department and the Archaeological Society of Staten Island for a lecture by Bridget Buxton of the University of Delaware, “In Search of the Age of the Titans: Recent Underwater Discoveries in Northern Israel.” From the death of Alexander the Great to […]
On Sunday, March 9 at 4 p.m., come send the Wagner College Choir off on its traditional concert tour of Florida with a concert at Trinity Lutheran Church, 309 St. Paul Ave., Staten Island. There will be beautiful music by Handel, Britten, Verdi and Richard Wagner as well as Latin American folk and art music, […]
On Tuesday evening, March 11 at the Union League Club, 38 E. 37th St. (at Park Ave.), Manhattan, please join us for Career Conversations, a reception and networking event designed to connect alumni and parents with today’s Wagner students for conversations about all things related to careers — education, finding the right path and how […]
On Wednesday, March 12 from 1 to 2:30 p.m. in Main Hall 23, three recent fine arts graduates of Wagner College will return to Grymes Hill for a discussion with current students about their lives as artists. The alumni are Robert Geronimo ’09, Sirena LaBurn ’09 and Shauna Sorensen ’10. Everyone is welcome to sit […]
March 12, 2014 @ 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm, Staten Island, 10301
Bob Moses, one of the leaders of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and an organizer of the Freedom Summer voter registration drive in Mississippi, will be the guest speaker for Wagner College's second annual Black History Month Scholar Symposium, which has been rescheduled for Wednesday, March 12 at 4:30 p.m. in Spiro 2. See this Web page for […]
On Thursday, March 13 from 2:40 to 4:10 p.m. in the Faculty Dining Room, economist Hugo Kaufmann will speak on “The Eurocrisis and the U.S. Economy.” America is tied into the global economy through interest rates, trade, currency exchange rates, credit spreads and bank borrowing costs; if Europe spirals downward, it will certainly impact the […]
March 13, 2014 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm, Staten Island, 10301
On Thursday, March 13 at 5 p.m. in Foundation Hall’s Manzulli Boardroom, please join Wagner College’s Hugh L. Carey Institute for Government Reform in welcoming Blair Horner, legislative director of the New York Public Interest Research Group, who will speak on “The Moreland Commission on Public Corruption and the Possibility for Reform in New York […]
On Thursday, March 13 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in Kairos House, Wagner Campus Ministry will host the first of two conversations on the life of Jesus of Nazareth. This session will explore what Christianity teaches about Jesus in the Nicene and Apostles’ creeds. The focus of the conversation will be on the incarnation (God […]
On Friday, March 14 at 9 a.m. in the Faculty Dining Room, please join the Staten Island Hunger Task Force for the 3rd annual Anti-Hunger Legislative Breakfast. To reserve your seat, please call Project Hospitality at 718-448-1544, ext. 103. For more information, contact Stephen Preskill or Samantha Siegel in the Center for Leadership and Engagement.
On Monday, March 24 at 4:45 p.m. in the President's Office, please join President Richard Guarasci in congratulating Carey Institute Dean Seymour Lachman upon the publication of his new book, “Mr. New York: Lew Rudin and his Love for the City.” The book, published in January by SUNY Press, includes a foreword by President Bill […]
March 24, 2014 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm, Staten Island, 10301
On Monday, March 24 from 6:30 to 8 p.m. in Foundation Hall’s Manzulli Boardroom, please join Claire Regan’s “Introduction to Journalism” class for a visit with syndicated cartoonist Leigh Rubin, whose presentation is titled “A Twisted Mind is a Terrible Thing to Waste.” Nobody finds more fun and inspiration in dogs, cows, cats, kids, religion, […]
March 25, 2014 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm, Staten Island, 10301
On Tuesday, March 25 at 6 p.m. in Spiro 2, please join government professor Cyril Ghosh for a visit with Dominic Rushe, a New York correspondent for the U.K. newspaper, The Guardian. Rushe will talk about the National Security Agency’s surveillance program, as revealed by Edward Snowden, and the controversy surrounding those revelations.
On Thursday, March 27 at 4:20 p.m. in Campus Hall 333, please join the Education Department for a panel discussion with four authors/illustrators of children’s books: Wagner alumnus Rob Geronimo, Staten Island attorney Anne DePaolo, Marie Barret and Kyra Marsigliano. Space is limited; RSVP to education@wagner.edu.
On Thursday, March 27 at 4:30 p.m. in Campus Hall 201, the Wagner Reading Group will discuss “Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America,” by Vivek Bald.
On Thursday, March 27 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in Kairos House, Wagner Campus Ministry will host the second of two conversations on the life of Jesus of Nazareth. This session will explore a recent turn in scholarship that has been informed by modern Biblical criticism. This liberal perspective on Jesus provides an account for […]
March 30, 2014 @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm, Staten Island, 10301
On Sunday, March 30 from 2 to 3:30 p.m. in Foundation Hall’s Manzulli Boardroom, a panel of four recent Wagner College alums who are now in law school (Louis Russo, Michael Schultz, James Alicea and Amy Pimer) will talk about their particular experiences in applying to and attending law school, including a Q&A. Sign up […]
On Sunday, March 30 at 3 p.m. in the Campus Hall Performance Center, please join faculty member Anthony Turner for a recital by his voice students. The program will include selections from “The Music Man,” “Parade,” “Crazy for You” and “Shrek.” Featured vocalists will be William Albach, Noah Bridgestock, Ryan Burd, Dean Marino, Jake Marks, […]
Social Justice Dialogue: ‘Another look at Bob Moses’
March 31, 2014 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Monday, March 31, 12 to 1 p.m., Union 203 — Following the Black History Month Scholars Symposium conversation earlier this month with Bob Moses, the Center for Leadership and Engagement is hosting a Social Justice Dialogue to further discuss some of the presentation's themes. We will explore Bob Moses' work as a member of the […]
CANCELED: Paul J. Bailo, who was scheduled to deliver an ACE lecture on Tuesday, April 1 at 6 p.m. in Spiro 4, “The Secrets of Conducting a Digital Interview,” will not be appearing.
On Tuesday, April 1 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. in Spiro Sports Center’s VIP Room, join CACE for a GRE Strategy Seminar. Learn about the graduate school admissions process, application tips and the structure and scoring of the GRE entrance exam required by most graduate programs. Included: test-taking strategies and sample practice questions. This presentation […]
On Wednesday, April 2 at 4:30 p.m. in the Knubel Chapel, Kairos House, please join us for a presentation of original faculty research by history professor Rita Reynolds, “Free and Insane in Charleston: Freedom and Divorce Among Free People of Color in Antebellum South Carolina.” All are welcome.
April 2, 2014 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm, Staten Island, 10301
On Wednesday, April 2 at 7:30 p.m. in Foundation Hall’s Manzulli Boardroom, please join Campus Ministry for a talk with Brett Krutzsch and a panel discussion, “Being Both: Queer & Religious, Exploring Queer Religious Possibilities.” Krutzsch, a graduate student at Temple University, will be joined by panelists Campus Life Dean Sara Klein, history professor Cyril […]
On Friday, April 4 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Campus Hall Performance Center, please join the Provost’s Office and the Music Department for a master class with Broadway veteran and Grammy Award winner Larry Marshall, with pianist Ok Kyun Kang. Marshall, a master teacher and performer, will give helpful tips as young, […]
