Meet the Moment with Humanity

Spring 2024

Tensions are rising from every angle, local, national, and global.

How we as a community respond will make all the difference.

There are many ways to meet this moment, but not all are productive.

We can turn on each other. Or, we can embrace our shared humanity, with its messiness and contradictions.

The latter requires hard and sometimes uncomfortable work to live up to aspirational values like diversity, equity, and inclusion, which are much easier to say in the abstract than amid conflict.

Hands meeting from Meeting the Moment post

Conflict Tests Our Commitment

In moments of heightened conflict, we individually and collectively demonstrate our commitment to being an inclusive community. To hold space for those with whom we disagree.

This spring, we have curated two university-wide series to spark conversations affirming our commitment to equity and inclusion amid rising tensions.

Do your part and engage by listening to a speaker, viewing a documentary, reading the community commitments, and moving beyond proximity to build community.

Navigating Tensions, Affirming Community Speaker Series

Engage online or in person.

Each Chancellor-led unit will host a speaker and a documentary. All events will be offered in person and virtually to enable university-wide participation.

Mark your calendars now!

Meet the Speakers

Kazu Haga

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What Does Community Mean in a Polarized Society?

Thursday, January 25 | 12 pm

Rutgers–New Brunswick

Zimmerli Art Museum | Lower Dodge

Daryl Davis

Registration Closed

Hate - Undone: Conversations that Ignite Change

Tuesday, April 9 | 6 pm

Rutgers–Newark | Express Newark

Lecture Hall

Donna Hicks

Registration Closed

Bringing Dignity to Divided Times

Wednesday, February 28 | 4 pm

Rutgers Health, New Brunswick Campus

Clinical Academic Building (CAB), Room 1302

Susan Benesch

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Dangerous Speech and What We Can Do About It

Wednesday, April 24 | 3 pm

Rutgers–Camden

Campus Center | Multipurpose Room

Hate is on the rise.

In both expressions (speech) and incidents (violent and vandalism), rising hate is a reality of our national climate. This documentary series focuses on recent alarming incidents of hate and its impact on targeted communities to remind us all that, unchecked, hate kills.

Do not look away.