Nonprofit

Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience - Rutgers University - Newark


  • About Us

    The Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience is celebrating its second decade as an interdisciplinary academic center that, through public partnerships and programming, offers the Newark metropolitan area the finest thinkers and artists engaged with key issues of modern life. Through an array of lectures, fellowships, symposia, film screenings, performances, exhibitions, and other programs, we foster broad public discussion on the arts and culture; urban life and development; diversity and race relations; local, national, and transnational history; and education. The Institute promotes intercultural understanding, civic and historical empathy, and community engagement as crucial elements in the development of civic life in Newark and beyond.

    The Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience is celebrating its second decade as an interdisciplinary academic center that, through public partnerships and programming, offers the Newark metropolitan area the finest thinkers and artists engaged with key issues of modern life. Through an array of lectures, fellowships, symposia, film screenings, performances, exhibitions, and other programs, we foster broad public discussion on the arts and culture; urban life and development; diversity and race relations; local, national, and transnational history; and education. The Institute promotes intercultural understanding, civic and historical empathy, and community engagement as crucial elements in the development of civic life in Newark and beyond.

    Cause Areas Include

    • Civic Engagement
    • Community Development
    • Education
    • Race & Ethnicity
    • Research & Social Science

    Location

    • 49 Bleeker Street, Newark, NJ 07102, United States
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