BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//MFAS - ECPv6.7.0//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:MFAS X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://mfas.rutgers.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for MFAS REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:UTC BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:UTC DTSTART:20240101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250409T120000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250409T130000 DTSTAMP:20260407T005514 CREATED:20250109T173559Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250109T173810Z UID:860-1744200000-1744203600@mfas.rutgers.edu SUMMARY:Chokehold: Policing Black Men with Paul Butler DESCRIPTION:Chokehold: Policing Black Men with Paul Butler \nRegister: go.rutgers.edu/ethnonationalism\nLive-streamed at Facebook.com/RUCSRR URL:https://mfas.rutgers.edu/event/chokehold-policing-black-men-with-paul-butler/ CATEGORIES:Public Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250325T120000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250325T130000 DTSTAMP:20260407T005514 CREATED:20250109T165158Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250109T165224Z UID:854-1742904000-1742907600@mfas.rutgers.edu SUMMARY:The Last Plantation: Racism and Resistance in the Halls of Congress with James Jones DESCRIPTION:Federal lawmakers\, congressional employees\, and political journalists have labeled Congress the “Last Plantation.” Professor James Jones examines the careers\, experiences\, and activism of Black congressional staffers\, demonstrating how lawmakers have maintained a racialized workplace. \nRegister: go.rutgers.edu/ethnonationalism \nLive-streamed at Facebook.com/RUCSRR URL:https://mfas.rutgers.edu/event/the-last-plantation-racism-and-resistance-in-the-halls-of-congress-with-james-jones/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250313T170000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250313T200000 DTSTAMP:20260407T005514 CREATED:20250224T190053Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250224T190053Z UID:1013-1741885200-1741896000@mfas.rutgers.edu SUMMARY:Rutgers Students for Justice in Palestine Annual Fundraising Iftar DESCRIPTION:On behalf of Rutgers Students for Justice in Palestine\, We would like to personally invite you to our Annual Fundraising Iftar.\nThis intimate gathering is a chance to share a meal during this holy month\, connect on a personal level\, and learn more about the work we do. Please RSVP by email: nr726@scarletmail.rutgers.edu by March 3rd. URL:https://mfas.rutgers.edu/event/rutgers-students-for-justice-in-palestine-annual-fundraising-iftar/ LOCATION:RBG Hall\, 15 Washington Street\, Newark\, 07102 CATEGORIES:Public Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250305T170000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250305T200000 DTSTAMP:20260407T005514 CREATED:20250303T143439Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250303T144143Z UID:1023-1741194000-1741204800@mfas.rutgers.edu SUMMARY:Iftar and Exhibit "Powers of the Unseen" DESCRIPTION: URL:https://mfas.rutgers.edu/event/iftar-and-exhibit-powers-of-the-unseen/ CATEGORIES:Public Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250305T120000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250305T130000 DTSTAMP:20260407T005514 CREATED:20250109T172202Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250109T172240Z UID:857-1741176000-1741179600@mfas.rutgers.edu SUMMARY:In Search of Fatima: A Palestinian Story with Professor Ghada Karmi DESCRIPTION:In Search of Fatima: A Palestinian Story Professor Ghada Karmi March 5\, 2025 12:00 PM EST \nhttps://go.rutgers.edu/humanizingpalestine \nLive-streamed at Facebook.com/RUCSRR URL:https://mfas.rutgers.edu/event/in-search-of-fatima-a-palestinian-story-with-professor-ghada-karmi/ CATEGORIES:Public Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250303T173000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250327T203000 DTSTAMP:20260407T005514 CREATED:20250226T174817Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250226T174934Z UID:1019-1741023000-1743107400@mfas.rutgers.edu SUMMARY:Rutgers Campus Iftar Program DESCRIPTION:  URL:https://mfas.rutgers.edu/event/rutgers-campus-iftar-program/ CATEGORIES:Public Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250225T170000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250225T210000 DTSTAMP:20260407T005514 CREATED:20250129T145603Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250129T145824Z UID:933-1740502800-1740517200@mfas.rutgers.edu SUMMARY:Express Newark Presents RITUAL DESCRIPTION:Express Newark presents RITUAL: a series of exhibitions\, starting with Powers of the Unseen\, which focuses on Islamic spiritual traditions. \nRegister here.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nExpress Newark’s 2024-2025 annual theme Ritual is a series of exhibitions and events that explore the relationship between Islamic spiritual practices\, rituals\, and art—featuring experimentations in photography\, film\, sound art\, and textiles. Ritual features work by artists\, curators\, students\, and community members who’ve immersed themselves in nonsecular expressions of spirituality and Islamic traditions across the Muslim world. These works span Newark\, which has long been home to one of our nation’s largest African American Muslim communities\, while also branching out beyond the domestic borders of the United States to unite members of the global community. \nBy bridging traditional spiritual practices and aesthetic innovations\, these artistic explorations turn towards Muslim interiorities—an often underrepresented perspective in art—to create timely meditations that center art and ritual and inspire new discourses\, worldviews\, and conversations about belief and identity. \nImage: Malick Welli\, Forgotten Paradise: Dream the Other Side of the River\, 2022\, Archival Inkjet\, 60×40 inches\, courtesy of the artist\, Charlotte Brathwaite\, and Galerie d’Art L’Atelier 21. \nDate and Time \nOpening Reception: February 25\, 2025\nExhibition On View: February 25 – July 31\, 2025 \nExhibitions \n\n\n\n\nPowers of the Unseen \nIn the Paul Robeson Gallery\, the exhibition “Powers of the Unseen” features photography works that explore the Muslim concept of the Unseen (al-Ghayb)\, which refers to that which is hidden from the visible world and beyond human perception. In this exhibit\, the theory of the Unseen frames photography by thirteen international artists\, including Laylah Amatullah Barrayn\, Chester Higgins\, Gordon Parks\, Kameelah Janan Rasheed\, and Malick Welli. These artists explore the frontier between the visible and invisible\, the intersection of spirituality and photography\, and the limits of perception and representation. While many artists have some relationship with Muslim-majority contexts worldwide\, their work resists singular labels. \nAs the exhibit includes European\, American\, and African artists\, it also questions the standard geographies of the “Muslim World.” Amidst calls for inclusive representation across spheres of public life\, this work challenges us to consider the right to remain hidden. Powers of the Unseen is co-curated by Sandrine Colard\, Wendell Marsh\, Alex Dika Seggerman\, and Aude Tournaye and will be on view until July 31\, 2025. \nFeatured Artists: \nYounes Baba- Ali \nYasi Alipour \nLaylah Amatullah Barrayn \nCharlotte Brathwaite \nNene Aissatou Diallo \nBinta Diaw \nBruno Hadjih \nChester Higgins \nAmina Kadous \nBaseera Khan \nGordon Parks \nKameelah Janan Rasheed \nMalick Welli \nWoven Prayers\, Nzingah Oyo \nPhotographer Nzingah Oyo is presenting “Woven Prayers\,” in which the artist captures large-scale portraits in front of hand-sewn prayer rugs to contemplate the complexities of faith\, hope\, and connection in a world yearning for meaning. Activating across the entire second floor of Express Newark\, Oyo invites members from the local Muslim community to participate in the portrait sessions held in the SHINE Portrait Studio. \nSacred Rugs: Contemplation\, Hope\, Resilence \nAcross in the Windows Gallery\, “Sacred Rugs: Contemplation\, Hope\, Resilience” showcases the work of fourteen students who completed the fall 2024 class\, “Problems in Contemporary Art: Ritual.” The course\, led by Assistant Director of SHINE Portrait Studio\, Anthony Alvarez\, encouraged Rutgers students to develop critical insights informed by Elsayed’s artistic practice and to design and create new rugs. Together\, Alvarez and Elsayed urged students to consider the prayer rug as a medium for contemplation\, hope\, and resilience\, inspiring them to envision aesthetic futures that challenge fear and despair. \nCarroussa Sonore\, Younes Baba Ali \nExpress Newark welcomes multimedia artist Younes Baba Ali as its first international Artist-in-Residence. Baba Ali is a Moroccan-born artist based in Brussels who engages the public by mixing technology\, objects\, sound\, video\, and photography with political\, social\, and ecological issues. Throughout his residency\, he is developing a two-part installation\, “Carroussa Sonore\,” which translates to “sounding cart\,” that engages those who live and work in Newark. Local artists and students work closely with Baba Ali to create site-specific sound artworks performed throughout Newark neighborhoods by street vendors and performance artists. “Carroussa Sonore” departs from a religious act and becomes an intervention that archives urban soundscapes\, abstract noises\, and alternative narratives throughout the African Diaspora. \nSubtle Centers\, Dahlia Elsayed & Andrew Demirjian \n“Subtle Centers\,” an immersive installation imagined by SHINE Portrait Studio artist-in-residence Dahlia Elsayed\, in collaboration with artist Andrew Demirjian. This immersive installation meditates on the permeability between interiorities and exteriorities\, prompting visitors to imagine a space between the physical and spiritual worlds collectively. Transforming the Box Gallery into an invented outdoor courtyard featuring mirrored reflection\, moving sounds\, and tangible objects\, the space offers an invitation from the material world for greater comprehension and interpretation of the immaterial. URL:https://mfas.rutgers.edu/event/express-newark-presents-ritual/ CATEGORIES:Public Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250219T120000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250219T130000 DTSTAMP:20260407T005514 CREATED:20250109T164531Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250109T164614Z UID:848-1739966400-1739970000@mfas.rutgers.edu SUMMARY:Displacement and Erasure in Palestine: The Politics of Hope with Professor Noa Shaindlinger DESCRIPTION:The lecture explores the ways in which Palestinians negotiate physical and symbolic erasures by producing their own archives and historical narratives. With a focus on the city of Jaffa and its displaced Palestinian population\, Professor Noa Shaindlinger argues that the Israeli state ‘buried’ histories of mass expulsions and spatial appropriations. \nhttps://go.rutgers.edu/humanizingpalestine \nLive-streamed at Facebook.com/RUCSRR URL:https://mfas.rutgers.edu/event/displacement-and-erasure-in-palestine-the-politics-of-hope-with-professor-noa-shaindlinger/ CATEGORIES:Public Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250109T080000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250109T170000 DTSTAMP:20260407T005514 CREATED:20250109T174038Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250109T174038Z UID:864-1736409600-1736442000@mfas.rutgers.edu SUMMARY:Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir of Surviving India's Caste System with Yashica Dutt DESCRIPTION:Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir of Surviving India’s Caste System Yashica Dutt \nApril 23\, 2025 12:00 PM EDT \nRegister: go.rutgers.edu/ethnonationalism \nLive-streamed at Facebook.com/RUCSRR URL:https://mfas.rutgers.edu/event/coming-out-as-dalit-a-memoir-of-surviving-indias-caste-system-with-yashica-dutt/ CATEGORIES:Public Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241204T120000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241204T140000 DTSTAMP:20260407T005514 CREATED:20241202T205414Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241202T205451Z UID:811-1733313600-1733320800@mfas.rutgers.edu SUMMARY:Gaza\, Genocide and International Law (featuring Francesca Albanese) DESCRIPTION:Join the Rutgers Center for Security\, Race and Rights for a presentation by Francesca Albanese\, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestine Territories\, for an international legal and policy analysis of Israel’s military campaign in Gaza since October 8\, 2023. \nIn what numerous international legal scholars conclude constitutes a genocide\, the Israeli military has killed over 54\,000 Palestinians\, injured over 120\,000 Palestinians\, severely restricted entrance of food aid and medicine causing mass starvation\, destroyed every university\, destroyed or damaged over 70% of buildings\, destroyed or damaged 85% of schools\, displaced 90% of the civilian population\, and destroyed or severely damaged every hospital in Gaza. \nRegister for the event at: https://go.rutgers.edu/gazagenocide \nAfter the event\, the recording will be available for viewing on CSRR’s Youtube Channel here. URL:https://mfas.rutgers.edu/event/gaza-francesca-albanese/ CATEGORIES:Public Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241029T120000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241029T130000 DTSTAMP:20260407T005514 CREATED:20241023T205804Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241024T151643Z UID:553-1730203200-1730206800@mfas.rutgers.edu SUMMARY:One State Reality: What is Palestine Israel? DESCRIPTION:CSRR Presents the Democracy and Ethnonationalism Lecture Series ft. Nathan J. Brown & Shibley Telhami\n\n\n\nOctober 29\, 2024\n12:00 PM EDT\n\n\nThe One State Reality argues that a one state reality already predominates in the territories controlled by the state of Israel. The One State Reality forces a reconsideration of foundational concepts such as state\, sovereignty\, and nation\, encourages different readings of history\, and provides context for confronting uncomfortable questions such as whether Israel/Palestine is an “apartheid state.”\n\n\n\n\nPlease Register at: go.rutgers.edu/ethnonationalism\n\n\nLive-streamed at Facebook.com/RUCSRR URL:https://mfas.rutgers.edu/event/one-state-reality-what-is-palestine-israel/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR