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Lunch ‘n Learn with Andy Merrifield

Join Andy Merrifield for UofO’s Jan Term seminar on Mushrooms and Marx. Register for free on Eventbrite. Andy Merrifield is a writer, urbanist and independent scholar with a PhD from the University of Oxford. He is author of a dozen books, including works on urbanism and social theory such as Metromarxism, The New Urban Question and Magical Marxism, intellectual …

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Reading Group: Dead Epidemiologists

Join University of Orange’s Collective Recovery team as we dig into Rob Wallace’s new book of essays on the origins of COVID-19, Dead Epidemiologists.  Guest speakers will include the author Rob Wallace, and renowned epidemiologists Rod Wallace and Deborah Wallace, in conversations with Molly Rose Kaufman, Robert Sember, and Lesley Rennis from UofO’s Collective Recovery team.  …

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Stroll and Scroll Walks

As a part of UofO’s Reading Group for Mindy Fullilove’s book Main Street we are offering three walks: A Box-Circle-Line walk of Orange’s Main Street on October 31st (~2 miles) on October 31st from 1-3PM A Transect Walk from Maplewood to Montclair (~8 miles) on November 1st starting at 10:30am A Transect Walk following the Orange Line …

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Drawing by Carol Hsiung.

Main Street Reading Group

We invite you to join the University of Orange in a reading group and urbanism series that will celebrate the launch of Main Street: How A City’s Heart Connects Us All by Essex County’s own Mindy Thompson Fullilove, MD. Register for free here. For information on the facilitated Stroll and Scroll walks as a part of …

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Addressing ACEs through Collective Recovery

In this conversation with Lourdes Rodriguez, David Armstrong, James Encinas, and Reginald Miller we invite you to learn more about preventing Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) in your community by assuring safe, stable, nurturing relationships and environments. Using collective recovery as a way to think about what is ours to do? the conversation builds on personal …

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Gardening In The Valley

Join Mindy Fullilove, MD and Landscape Architect Stephen Panasci in a presentation and discussion of Mindy’s newly installed garden. They’ll discuss what it means to design a garden with a sense of place along with ways to incorporate ecologically beneficial plantings and a sustainable edible garden.  With COVID-19 disruptions to our daily lives, outdoor spaces …

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Summer Reading Group: Ideas Arrangements Effects

Join DS4SI and U of O in their upcoming book group! Using the Ideas–Arrangements–Effects framework from DS4SI’s new book, we will dig into techniques and examples for sensing arrangements, intervening in unjust ones, and imagining new, more sustainable and joyful ones.  Meetings are Monday’s in August from 5PM to 6PM. To participate: Download a FREE …

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Summer Reading Group: From Enforcers to Guardians

UofO Reading Group: “From Enforcers to Guardians”In partnership with DS4SI and Maplewood Memorial Library. Mindy Fullilove, UofO Co-founder, and Hannah Cooper wrote From Enforcers to Guardians to help people understand how police violence affects health and to understand possible paths forward. You can download a free PDF of the book below, a précis for each …

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Nupurspectives #2

In this episode, Nupur Chaudhury talks to Molly Rose Kaufman about the need to learn from past organizers and movements and how it can help us find out what we are for. Watch below and check out episode 1, an interview with Lourdes Hernandez Rodriguez, here!

UofO 2020 Graduation!

Join us for this year’s University of Orange Graduation Ceremony!Monday June 29th, 6PM: Free Registration on Eventbrite We cannot wait to celebrate all of your accomplishments at our graduation this year on Monday, June 29th.  We are honored to have Ayako Maruyama as both our graduation speaker and the designer of what is sure to …

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