“Where we share the world with you.” The Center at Camden CC Connector Building, Room 103 Camden County College PO Box 200 The Center Blackwood, NJ 08012 Director: John L. Pesda at Camden County College www.camdencc.edu/civiccenter SPRING 2018 | Program Brochure Mission he Center at Camden County College focuses Ton the needs and interests of educators and the community at large. Its goal is to create an informed citizenry through exploration of humanities, social John L. Pesda sciences, natural sciences and issues critical to a democratic society. Citizens have the opportunity Director to meet scholars, scientists, government officials and business leaders to explore historical and current issues and discuss societal problems and their solutions Open Admissions Policy All members of the community are welcome to attend our courses, special events and lecture series. Minors may attend, preferably if accompanied by a registered parent or guardian. About Us Ellen Hernandez The Center offers interesting and thought-provoking Associate Director courses and events to help teachers to meet their professional development requirements and community members to enhance their knowledge. Registrants may choose to attend one or more sessions of any series or course. Registration In order for us to notify you of any cancellations or changes, all participants are asked to register prior to attending. We reserve the right to cancel or reschedule programs should the need arise. Please check our website for cancellations, Valerie Concordia changes, and other updates. Project Coordinator Contact Information MAILING ADDRESS: THE CENTER AT CAMDEN CC, CAMDEN COUNTY COLLEGE, PO BOX 200, BLACKWOOD, NJ 08012 OFFICE: MADISON CONNECTOR 103, MAIN CAMPUS (BLACKWOOD) PHONE: (856) 227-7200, EXT. 4333 FAX: (856) 374-5092 EMAIL: [email protected] FOR MORE INFORMATION, VISIT OUR WEBSITE: WWW.CAMDENCC.EDU/CIVICCENTER 2 LECTURE SERIES MARCH 22 Albert Bierstadt Bierstadt’s “great pictures” of the American West helped shape a worldview of America’s natural wonders as equal to those of Europe, disseminating some of the first views of Wyoming, Nebraska and the Rocky Mountains to an eager audience back on the east coast. MARCH 29 Frederick Edwin Church One of Thomas Cole’s most prominent pupils, Church’s career differed from his contemporaries by turning to exotic locations like South America and the North Atlantic ocean for inspiration, on trips funded by businessmen with commercial interests in Art in Evening: Painting the exploration of the “New World.” American Landscape APRIL 5 COURSE NUMBER: IDY-209-71 Thomas Moran LECTURER: Monica Zimmerman, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts In 1871, Thomas Moran traveled as a guest artist on a wilderness DAY: Thursday TIME: 7:00pm LOCATION: Civic Hall trek into the Yellowstone area, tagging along on a geological expedition and bringing back sketches of geysers, canyons and hot Reflecting early American ideas of discovery, exploration and springs so powerful they helped convince President Grant and the settlement, 19th century landscape painters captured pastoral U.S. Congress to establish it as the first national park in the scenes, wildernesses and an expanding national consciousness United States. He was renowned particularly for his paintings of about the natural environment. The work of these artists also the Grand Canyon and Colorado River. contains an inherent ambivalence, as their romanticizing of the mostly unexplored territories of the newly formed United States contributed to a westward expansion that would also bring about its industrial and commercial development, ultimately requiring a national park movement to preserve the beauty they sought to capture on canvas. This series of talks will explore those artists, their visions and their concerns. FEBRUARY 22 Thomas Cole When English-born Thomas Cole hiked into the Catskills and began producing some the first images of that largely unexplored landscape, he accidentally started the first defined American art A wonderfully presented program, movement – the Hudson River School. combining fantasy, art, social MARCH 8 “ morals, and politics represented in Asher B. Durand a specific genre of art. Durand earned an early reputation as one of the best engravers in the country, producing a copy of the constitution in 1823 and — Susan Lahr subsequently providing the images on some of the country’s first Art in the Evening Lecture Series, Fall 2017 postage stamps. Later swept up in the Hudson River School Kindred Spirits ” movement, his most famous canvas, , shows his friend Thomas Cole and poet William Cullen Bryant exploring the Catskills. 3 LECTURE SERIES APRIL 19 (THURSDAY) No Means NO – Consent and Other Boundaries for Teens This week will explore key issues on personal boundaries for teens in the areas of bullying, harassment and dating. The prevention strategies from TeenCAP, a program used throughout the state, will be shared to encourage your students to be caring, compassionate citizens who maintain boundaries as they grow into adulthood. APRIL 24 Preventing Harassment, Intimidation and Bullying (HIB) Intro to Child Abuse and New Jersey has one of the most comprehensive HIB laws in the country, but bullying still occurs in our schools. This session will Bullying Prevention review HIB and a whole school approach to prevent bullying and COURSE #: IDY-209-72 DAY: Tuesdays TIME: 6:00pm encourage safer school and community environments. LOCATION: Civic Hall MAY 1 In honor of April’s “National Child Abuse Prevention Month,” Empowering Students in a Cyber-World the staff from the New Jersey Child Assault Prevention (CAP) Social media, apps, gaming and even sexting are all part of the Regional Training Center will be offering a five-part series on framework of our adolescents’ online world. While youth might empowering your children and students in how to be free from be electronically savvy, they often lack the understanding of its bullying, abuse and sexual exploitation. The series will provide social context. This session will share the latest cyber trends and excellent information for teachers, as well as parents, on how to how they can be opportunities for violence or for making the promote resilience, confidence and a sense of compassion in world a better place. children and youth. MAY 8 APRIL 3 Trafficking Teens and Children in New Jersey CAP’s Empowerment Theory: We will conclude the series with a discussion on trafficking, also Keeping Your Children Safe, Strong and Free known as modern day slavery. Traffickers lure and control their The opening of the series will be a brief overview of the historical victims through fraud, force and coercion. Who are traffickers? and international perspective of child abuse, and how, when Could your teen be at risk for trafficking? Approaches will be given basic human rights, children’s vulnerability to violence is provided on how you can equip your young person to be aware reduced. The strategies of the Child Assault Prevention (CAP) of the subtleties of exploitation and how they can not only be program for children (pre-K through 5th grades) will be shared safe, but also combat exploitation in their community. and how its application within the schools of New Jersey is helping decrease child abuse and bullying statewide. 4 LECTURE SERIES Terror in the Twenty First APRIL 11 Inside the Caliphate: What ISIS Wants and How It Century-Al Qaeda, ISIS and Finally Can Be Stopped Their Affiliates Joby Warrick, the author of the Pulitzer-prize winning book, COURSE #: IDY-209-73 DAY: Wednesdays TIME: 7:00pm Black Flags, will separate fact from fiction about the world’s most LOCATION: Civic Hall notorious terrorist organization. He will discuss the profiles of past and present leaders of ISIS and explain how it built its World-wide terrorist activities have had a profound economic, global army as well as whether the impact of the defeat of ISIS’S politic, psychological, and social impact. The response to these caliphate in the Middle East will usher in a dangerous new phase activities has resulted in calamitous consequences for populations in the fight against terrorism. Warrick will offer insights, stories, throughout the world. War, destruction of societies, enormous and images based upon his many years of reporting in the loss of life, personal injury, displacement of people, diversion of Middle East. resources, and political instability have followed in its wake. This series will attempt, by drawing upon the research and experience APRIL 25 of experts, to explain the threats posed by terrorism and consider Al Qaeda ways of eliminating its underlying causes. Daniel Byman, a professor in the Security Studies Program at the FEBRUARY 28 Georgetown University School of Foreign Service and the Research Jihadism in Saudi Arabia Director of the Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Cole Bunzel is a Ph.D. student at Princeton University’s Institution, will draw upon his work with the 9-11 Commission and Department of Near Eastern Studies, where his research focuses on as an analyst for the U.S. intelligence community, to explain how al the history of Wahhabism, the puritan Islamic reform-movement in Qaeda is distinct from the Islamic State and the broader jihadist Saudi Arabia. It is the ideological movement to which al-Qaida and movement. ISIS belong. He will analyze the place of Wahhabism in modern jihadi ideology. Bunzel, who studied and researched in Egypt and Topics in American History: Saudi Arabia is the author of From Paper State to Caliphate: The Ideology of the Islamic State.. America and the Middle East in MARCH 7 the Age of Terrorism The Evolution of Al-Qaeda COURSE #: HIS-150-52 Barack Mendelsohn, Associate Professor of Political Science and INSTRUCTOR: Jack Pesda DAY: Wednesdays TIME: 6:00-8:30pm DATES: 1/17 -5/2 LOCATION: Madison 210 Coordinator of the Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Program at Haverford College, will analyze the current state of the al Qaeda threat and demonstrate how its power is overstated.