MARCH

Every gift on #RUGiving days makes a difference! By donating to MARCH, you help support the Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia, Continuing Education in Historic Preservation , and a commitment to sharing community scholarship and creative projects! give.rutgersfoundation.org/march-camden/9…

This week student research Sophia Westfall prepared an exhibit "Foraging Poetry in the Wild" all about her senior honors project that explores the mortality of literature by making books out of biodegradable materials like orange peels, leaves, seeds and rose petals.

Join us for a program with Gisela Heffes, a leading scholar in Latin American Environmental Humanities. This interactive session will explore how storytelling and materiality serve as tools for engaging with ecological change. Register here: eventbrite.com/e/storytelling…

Join us at @paulrobesonlibrary for a workshop on how to carve a stamp, apply ink and press it to make fun designs. We'll also hear from @njpirgstudents about the importance of saving the bees in our local communities: engage.camden.rutgers.edu/event/11072788

Join Proof, a humanities makerspace, for a series of print-making workshops this semester. From making your own paper to working with beeswax and harnessing the power of the sun to print, you'll realize just how easy it is to create! More details: engage.camden.rutgers.edu/organization/m…

Join us for our winter selection of the MARCH Book Club The Light Eaters by Zoë Schlanger, a thought-provoking exploration of the intelligence, agency and consciousness of plants. We will meet at Inkwood Books on Sunday, February 23 6 - 7 pm. Register: forms.gle/E9V8eAVUE4aXiM…

In less than a week, Dr. Mercy Romero will be joining us for a conversation on doing research in and about the Camden community! Join MARCH and @CureRutgers for a fascinating evening: march.rutgers.edu/programs/

We are excited to welcome the Chancellor's Distinguished Visiting Scholar Mercy Romero to Rutgers in October! Author of Toward Camden, Dr. Romero will lead a series of programs on writing about community and exploring the places we call home. Learn more: march.rutgers.edu/programs/

Reminder that our summer book club session is this Sunday, July 7 at 6 PM! We'll be reading The Home Place by J. Drew Lanham. Sign up here and let us know that you'll be coming! forms.gle/XB1A5pE2ZJufSq…

Our summer selection for the MARCH book club is J. Drew Lanham's The Home Place! Join us on Sunday, July 7 at 6 PM with our hosts, Inkwood Books. Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Please join us in welcoming three new staff members to our team! Amy Hoke joins @RutgersArts, Isabel Stevens joins @MARCHRUCamden, and Anita Li serves as the business manager for the FASC dean's office. So glad to have you all! go.rutgers.edu/2ig9fdsm

We are thrilled to announce our spring book club selection, How Far the Light Reaches. Excitingly, for our 4/28 meeting @Inkwoodnj, we will be joined by author Sabrina Imbler! For more info and to sign up for the book club portion, please visit: march.rutgers.edu.

🎉RUTGERS GIVING DAYS 2024🎉 This year, we hope you consider supporting MARCH programming! Your donation will help us continue to develop and host free public events. Please visit march.rutgers.edu for more info! #rugivingdays ✨

Please join us for our inaugural MARCH Visiting Scholar Series event with Dr. Sara J. Grossman, author of DUP “Immeasurable Weather”! All info + reg at march.rutgers.edu

🚨🐶Therapy dogs incoming!🐶🚨 Join @MARCHRUCamden, Woof Wednesday, and the Writers House for DOG FEELINGS: From Animal Stories to Therapy Animals. Wednesday December 6, 11:00-12:20, @RobesonLibrary. Free and open to the public (a form of ID is required for entry). More info ⬇️

As part of the Death Under Glass exhibit at the Stedman Gallery, Dr. Sayre will talk about mourning and commemoration, and how memorials of loss serve a communalizing function tomorrow, Nov 14 @ 4:30pm.

Please join us for our second MARCH Book Club on December 10th @Inkwoodnj! Sign up by this weekend for a chance to win a free copy of our winter selection, Upstream by Mary Oliver. All info + registration on our website!

MARCH is hiring a Program Coordinator! Looking for someone with experience in public humanities, environmental humanities, or public history. Job posting below! jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/214723

Join us for the inaugural MARCH book club on October 22nd @Inkwoodnj! Our fall selection is Gathering Moss by Robin Wall Kimmerer. More info and where to buy the book @ inkwoodnj.com/events

MARCH is growing! MARCH has always been a space where you can think deeply about *place* and our new Director Dr. Jillian Sayre will be leading an effort to broaden that approach through a new focus on the Environmental Humanities. Stay tuned!