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LGBTQ+ Center celebrates Coming Out Week by offering events, educational programming
salvetoday Posted On October 10, 2022


Salve Regina’s LGBTQ+ Center opened during the 2021-22 academic year as a physical space for LGBTQ+ students and their allies to foster community. The hiring of Emily Haggett, student engagement and LGBTQ+ resource coordinator, for the LGBTQ+ Center in the summer of 2022 has also helped to spur on existing efforts to create campus events and educational opportunities to celebrate Salve Regina’s mercy mission through its diversity, equity and inclusion efforts.

With this in mind, the LGBTQ+ Center is celebrating its first official Coming Out Week and offering a variety of events to honor National Coming Out Day, which is on Tuesday, Oct. 11.

“I am really excited to finally have events like Coming Out Week,” said Haggett. “We’ve been planning this for the LGBTQ+ community and its allies to feel celebrated, seen and heard for who they truly are. All of this programming will also help people who want to become allies to educate themselves around these topics through safe spaces that are welcoming to all.”

Below is a list of Coming Out Week events.

Tuesday, Oct. 11

National Coming Out Day Celebration
Tuesday, Oct. 11, 3-5 p.m.
Gerety Hall lawn

The National Coming Out Day Celebration will be a kick off event for the rest of Coming Out Week. Different activities that highlight acceptance will be offered that are coordinated by Alliance, the University’s LGBTQ+ student organization. There will be activities like lawn games, and Atomic Blonde Ice Cream, an LGBTQ+ owned food truck, will offer desert. Newport Out, a local LBGTQ+ organization, will also have a table to connect the University with local resources.

Wednesday, Oct. 12

Wear Your Flag Proudly: Rainbow Table Talk
Wednesday, Oct. 12, 4-5 p.m.
Gerety Hall, Room 103

The LGBTQ+ Center has been offering Rainbow Table Talk all semester, which is a weekly hour where the center meets with students and allies to talk about various LGBTQ+ topics in a safe space. For Coming Out Week, the topic will be around accepting and being true to oneself and one’s own identities.

LGBTQ+ Trivia Night
Wednesday, Oct. 12, 8-10 p.m.
Gerety Hall

Join weekly Trivia Night for an LGBTQ+ themed evening.

Thursday, Oct. 13

Open to All Safe Zone Training
Thursday, Oct. 13, 2-4 p.m.
Gerety Hall, Room 103

The LGBTQ+ Center offers Safe Zone Trainings to departments and offices across campus, which are a way for larger groups of people to begin learning about LGBTQ+ issues and how to be a safe resource for this community. Usually, this is scheduled through the LGBTQ+ Center for departments or offices. However, on Thursday, Oct. 13, the center will offer a Safe Zone Training for any individual on campus who is interested in attending — staff, faculty or students.

Salve Regina University students celebrate National Coming Out Day on Gerety Lawn with ice cream and activities.

Friday, Oct. 14

Born This Way Coffeehouse
Friday, Oct. 14, 6-8 p.m.
Gerety Hall, Room 102

Baila Conmigo
Friday, Oct. 14, 8-10 p.m.
Gerety Hall, Room 102

Friday will be a big send-off for Coming Out Week. There will be a coffee house from 6-8 p.m. followed by a dance party called Baila Conmigo, which is a collaboration with the Office of Multicultural Programs and Retention, the Hispanic and Latinx Student Organization, and the Spanish Club to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month. This collaboration acknowledges the intersectionality of marginalized minority communities, while also celebrating diversity in all its forms.

For further information on any of these events, please contact Emily Haggett at emily.haggett@salve.edu. All events are open to the Salve Regina community, and there is no need for registration.


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Dr. Dean de la Motte will discuss his first novel about Branwell Brontë
salvetoday Posted On October 7, 2022


McKillop Library will host an author talk with Dr. Dean de la Motte, professor of modern languages at Salve Regina, to discuss his first book entitled “Oblivion: The Lost Diaries of Branwell Brontë.” The book focuses on the life of Branwell Brontë, the only brother of the famous Brontë sisters, through a journey across the north of England.

The talk will be held on Wednesday, Oct. 12, from 4-5:30 p.m. on the first floor of McKillop Library. To register for the event, go here.

“Oblivion” traces Branwell’s meandering journey across the north of England, from the Fells of the Lake District to the ocean cliffs of Scarborough, from the smoky streets of industrial Halifax to the windswept moors above Haworth, encountering such notables as Hartley Coleridge and Franz Liszt.

Through Brontë’s experiences, one can contemplate the ineffable but fleeting ecstasy of sex, the existence of God, the nature of addiction, the desire for fame and the bitter resentment of poets and intellectuals, who feel unappreciated by an increasingly materialistic mechanized society in a century rapidly transitioning to modernity.

Dr. de la Motte earned degrees in comparative literature from the University of California and the University of North Carolina. He studied French at the University de Poitiers and German at the Deutsche Schule of Middlebury College. The co-editor of “Making the News: Modernity and the Mass Press in Nineteenth-Century France” and “Approaches to Teaching Stendhal’s The Red and the Black,” he has published a wide range of articles on nineteenth-century French literature and culture and numerous essays on the teaching of literature.

From 2000 to 2014 he worked as a chief academic officer, including eight years as the provost of Salve Regina. He now teaches courses in French and English, including an annual seminar entitled Scribblemania: The Brontës and the Passion of Writing. In the fall of 2021, he was a visiting scholar in Lyon, France. “Oblivion” is his first book.

The talk will be held on Wednesday, Oct. 12, from 4-5:30 p.m. on the first floor of McKillop Library. To register for the event, go here.


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Salve Regina brings back annual Cultural and Historic Preservation Conference after pandemic hiatus
salvetoday Posted On October 6, 2022


Salve Regina’s Noreen Stonor Drexel Cultural and Historic Preservation Program (CHP program) will host its 2022 Cultural and Historic Preservation Conference from Thursday, Oct. 13, through Saturday, Oct. 15. Because the CHP Conference has been on a hiatus due to the pandemic, it’s particularly special to bring it back in 2022.

This year’s theme, “Celebrating 75 Years of Preservation at Salve Regina University,” will both honor the legacy of preservation and look to the future.

Seventy-five years ago, the Sisters of Mercy were gifted the turn-of-the-century mansion Ochre Court as the base for founding a college. In the years since, the University has grown to encompass 80 acres of historic grounds and structures.

Today, Salve Regina stands as a monument to the early work of preserving historic structures that are enjoyed by modern students and the community. The University is committed to preserving the architectural and historical legacy that is part of its foundations, and the CHP program is only one of nine undergraduate programs in the entire nation that focuses on cultural and historic preservation.

The Cultural and Historic Preservation Conference was founded in 1997, although it was put on a hiatus the past few years due to the pandemic.

“We are so excited to be inviting both our Salve community and the outside community back onto campus to see all that Salve has to offer in this field,” said Dr. Jeroen van den Hurk, assistant professor of cultural and historic preservation. “This is also an amazing way for students to see all of the variety of careers that this field of study offers to them moving forward, and we are looking forward to connecting with everyone.”

What to expect at the 2022 Cultural and Historic Preservation Conference

Students participated at an archeological dig in the summer of 2021.

For 2022, the 2022 Cultural and Historic Preservation Conference has been expanded greatly. The conference will address the following themes of history of the preservation movement, technological developments aiding preservation efforts today, and the future of diversity, equity and inclusion.

“This year, we have Morrison Heckscher giving the Richard A. Grills Keynote Speaker in Historic Preservation. He’s retired from the Metropolitan Museum of Art and was the head of the American Wing,” said Dr. Heather Rockwell, assistant professor of cultural and historic preservation. “He’s going to do a retrospective on his work in cultural preservation and his experience in the field, and we’re very excited.”

The CHP Conference also decided to invite some key speakers from the broad fields of preservation, according to Dr. Rockwell. For architectural history, the conference has Carl Lounsbury, who is retired from working for many years at the Colonial Williamsburg, the largest outdoor educational living history museum in the country. Jesse Casana, a professor at Dartmouth College, will also be joining the conference.

“Jesse Casana has done a lot of work in looking at the looting of cultural heritage, as well as the use of digital technologies to detect and protect cultural sites,” said Dr. Rockwell. “He’s also going to be doing one of our tours, so he is doing a demonstration of ground penetrating radar for conference attendees.”

The CHP Conference will also have a student’s symposium where four students are presenting, and the invited key note speakers are going to give a student paper award. Two of the presenting students are from Salve Regina, and two are from other universities.

For a full schedule of the conference, please go here. For any questions, please contact Dr. van den Hurk at jeroen.vandenhurk@salve.edu or Dr. Rockwell at heather.rockwell@salve.edu.

Featured photo is of students participating in a cultural and historic preservation project on campus at Salve Regina. 


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Pell Center to hold lecture on the grand project of American constitutionalism
salvetoday Posted On October 5, 2022


The Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy’s fall 2022 lecture series continues with a lecture, entitled “America’s Constitution: How It Arose and How to Preserve It,” by Akhil Reed Amar, the Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University. It will take place on Tuesday, Oct. 11, at 7 p.m. in the Bazarsky Lecture Hall in O’Hare Academic Building.

Akhil Reed Amar

The event is in partnership with the League of Women Voters of Newport County. To register, go to the Eventbrite.
Amar’s lecture is based on his most recent book, “The Words That Made Us: America’s Constitutional Conversation, 1760-1840.” Amar will offer his audience an overview of the grand project of American constitutionalism — past, present and future — with particular emphasis on the importance of free expression and on America’s special place in the world.

An extended discussion period will follow the lecture, and questions about the American constitutional project are welcome.

Akhil Reed Amar teaches constitutional law in both Yale College and Yale Law School. He graduated from Yale College summa cum laude in 1980 and from Yale Law School in 1984, and he clerked for Judge Stephen Breyer, who later became a Supreme Court Justice.

Amar joined the Yale faculty in 1985 at the age of 26. He is Yale’s only currently active professor to have won the University’s unofficial triple crown — the Sterling Chair for scholarship, the DeVane Medal for teaching and the Lamar Award for alumni service.

Amar’s work has won awards from both the American Bar Association and the Federalist Society, and he has been cited by Supreme Court justices across the spectrum in over 45 cases, which is high for scholars under age 65. He regularly testifies before Congress at the invitation of both parties, and in surveys of judicial citations and/or scholarly citations, he typically ranks among America’s five most-cited mid-career legal scholars.

He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has written widely for popular publications, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Time, and The Atlantic. He was an informal consultant to the popular TV show The West Wing and his scholarship has been showcased on many broadcasts, including The Colbert Report, Tucker Carlson Tonight, Morning Joe, AC360, 11th Hour with Brian Williams, Fox News @ Night with Shannon Bream, Fareed Zakaria GPS, Erin Burnett Outfront, and Constitution USA with Peter Sagal.

To attend the lecture on Tuesday, Oct. 11, at 7 p.m. in the Bazarsky Lecture Hall in O’Hare Academic Building, register here.


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Arts and Humanities  / News
Hamilton Gallery, Newport Art Museum partner to offer portraiture exhibit
salvetoday Posted On October 4, 2022


The Dorrance H. Hamilton Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of “Character Appeal: Portraits from the Newport Art Museum,” an exhibition of portraiture from the 18th to 21st centuries. The exhibit will run from Thursday, Oct. 6, through Thursday, Nov. 6. An opening reception will be held on Thursday, Oct. 6, from 6 to 8 p.m.

“In the same year that Salve Regina celebrates its 75th Anniversary, we are excited to share the news of our continuing partnership with the Newport Art Museum,” said Ernest Jolicoeur, director of the Hamilton Gallery, and Dr. Anthony Mangieri, chair of the Department of Art and Art History. “This collaboration is enabling art and art history students to engage directly with museum professionals and examine the issues facing museums and the communities they serve.”

“Character Appeal: Portraits from the Newport Art Museum” examines likeness, identity and personality through the timeless subject of portraiture. This exhibition presents seventeen artworks on loan from the Newport Art Museum, featuring a range of paintings, drawings, prints and photographs. The portraits offers images of youth and age, individuals and couples, the costumed and the contemplative, the everyday and the reimagined.

Highlights include a Japanese woodblock print from 1796 and an oil portrait of the writer and suffragist Julia Ward Howe from the 1890s. The exhibition also features numerous artworks with Newport ties, including paintings by Christopher Benson and Freedley Durr, a wood engraving by John La Farge, and a pencil drawing by Howard Gardiner Cushing.

A partnership with the Newport Art Museum made this exhibition possible. The curated selection of portraits was organized in collaboration with a community engaged learning course co-taught by Jolicoeur and Dr. Mangieri, both of whom are associate professors in the Department of Art and Art History.

“We are so thankful to the Newport Art Museum for graciously loaning us such fascinating portraits and for partnering with our Salve students,” said Jolicoeur and Dr. Mangieri. “As the premier art museum on Aquidneck Island and one of the country’s great regional museums, the Newport Art Museum is the ideal community partner for our students in art and art history to work with as they gain first-hand experience in curatorial practice and the role of museums in society.”

The Dorrance H. Hamilton Gallery is located in the Antone Academic Center on the campus of Salve Regina. It is handicap accessible with parking along Lawrence Avenue and Leroy Avenue. Its exhibits are open to the public on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Wednesdays and Fridays from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and Saturdays and Sundays from Noon to 4 p.m. The gallery is closed on Mondays.


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Mercy Mission  / News
‘What Matters to Me and Why?’ luncheon speaker series continues for second year
salvetoday Posted On October 4, 2022


The McAuley Institute for Mercy Education is excited to launch its second year of the “Voices of Mercy: What Matters to Me and Why?” luncheon speaker series on Tuesday, Oct. 11, at Noon in the State Dining Room in Ochre Court. Participants can register for all of the events in the series by visiting the Eventbrite page.

Sister Betty McAuliffe

The luncheon speaker series will kick off with Sister Betty McAuliffe, RSM and associate professor in the Department of Education, on Oct. 11. The second speaker within the series will be Aïda Neary, director of community educational partnerships, on Wednesday, Nov. 9, at Noon.

Salve Regina’s stories matter. This luncheon speaker series seeks to provide opportunities for the University community to gather and share its stories, core values and mission.

Aïda Neary

The series will host one Sister of Mercy, one faculty member, one staff member and one administrator annually to reflect on their lives and vocations. Each will respond to the question, “What matters to me, and why?”

“‘Voices of Mercy: What Matters to Me and Why?’ offers the University community a glimpse into the interior movements of one’s heart and journey,” said one participant when reflecting back on 2021-22’s luncheon speaker series. “It is a true testament to listening to the small voice of vocation and saying yes to becoming more than one imagines.”

In the spring semester, the University will hear from Dr. John Quinn, professor in the Department of History, on Wednesday, Feb. 8, and Dr. Nancy Schreiber, provost and vice president for academic affairs on Wednesday, March 8.

To register for any of the “Voices of Mercy: What Matters to Me and Why?” luncheon speaker series events, visit the Eventbrite page.

Featured photo is from 2021-22’s luncheon speaker series, one of which featured Rose Albert, assistant director of the Office of Multicultural Programs and Retention. 


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Athletics
Seahawks Take Flight campaign elevates athletics during Salve Regina’s 75th anniversary
salvetoday Posted On October 3, 2022


As Salve Regina’s 75th anniversary celebration continues, the campus community is participating in the annual Seahawks Take Flight campaign, which supports the University’s 20 varsity sports programs.

Over the past 75 years, more than 6,300 students representing 45 states and 12 countries have participated in athletics at Salve Regina. The first Hall of Fame Class celebrated the first 50 years of Salve Regina athletics, and now those enshrined total more than 60 individuals. Varsity athletic offerings have grown from less than 10 to 20 sports.

While Salve Regina became a charter member of the Commonwealth Coast Conference in 1984, student athletes will transition to a new league home next year in the New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference (NEWMAC).

As Salve Regina’s athletics programs prepare to move towards a new level of competition, they all have goals in mind to smooth the transition to NEWMAC. The Seahawks Take Flight campaign aims to provide student athletes and athletic programs with the resources they need to succeed at home and on the road by raising funds for equipment, facilities and travel.

Salve Regina teams compete regionally during their seasons but also have opportunities to travel nationally during preseason and breaks. The women’s volleyball team recently traveled to Portland, Oregon for a tournament; the women’s basketball team has a similar trip planned to Las Vegas, Nevada this winter; and spring sports often travel during spring break.

Students reflect on the importance of being an athlete

Supporting athletics helps to advance a crucial part of the college experience for many students. Morgan Shuey ’23, a healthcare administration major on the women’s basketball team and vice president of the Student Athletic Advisory Committee (SAAC), notes how sports were an integral part of her transition to college life.

“Being part of a team right off the bat and being welcomed into a family … helps with the transition from high school to college,” she said.

Shuey added that student athletes have the unique experience of being welcomed into a tight-knit group the minute they walk on campus, allowing them to have internal support as they navigate the college experience socially and academically. Being involved in a sport also helped her develop time management skills, as she must make sure she plans for games, practice and schoolwork.

Justice Welch ’23, healthcare administration major, president of SAAC and a member of the baseball team, spoke to the success of Salve Regina’s athletics teams. “We are always making things better for the sports and for everyone,” he said. “We have something really special that attracts people, and it’s always awesome when alumni come back.”

One Salve, 20 sports, one team

Bill Villareal is the former head coach of the women’s lacrosse team and current acting athletic director. With his new role, he hopes to take the motto “20 sports, one team” in stride and incorporate it into each athletic program, as well as the entire University.

“We really are one team. We have to work together to get a common goal, which is to be the best we can be, and it does take all 20 teams,” Villareal said. “I am really trying to make it a big family-oriented organization. I think when the community sees where we are leading, deep down inside they just want to help.”

The Seahawks Take Flight campaign runs through Friday, Oct. 28. Fans can support the team of their choice to help student athletes achieve their personal goals and to invest in the future success of individual programs. Visit salve.edu/takeflight to learn more.


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Event Coverage  / Mercy Mission  / News
Mercy Mondays: Community invited to this semester’s Taizé prayer services
salvetoday Posted On October 3, 2022


“What is a Taizé prayer service, exactly?”

At the Mercy Center for Spiritual Life, the staff and I (Matthew J. Kelly) often hear this familiar question from students, friends and family members. “What is Taizé? What does it mean? What makes Taizé special?” I get asked these question a lot. So to clarify and provide some context, keep reading!

I discovered Taizé prayer services as a first-year student at Salve Regina back in 2001. They were looking for someone to play the piano, and I said I’d do it without knowing exactly what I’d committed to. At that time, services were held every Monday evening, and they became an immediate source of calm and peace for me.

But this was a calm and peace that I had never experienced before. I found that Taizé provides a prayer experience unlike any other, offering a respite from the busy world and a practice of both spirituality and mindfulness.

A Taizé service in France.

Taizé services – so named from the place in which they were conceived by a monastic community of brothers in Taizé, France – are services characterized by three things: song, readings and meditation. Short songs, often in the form of a single, simple refrain, are repeated over and over similar to a mantra.

The idea is that when singing a song with a single idea, it becomes easier to focus on the words and to discern how it resonates within yourself. Readings are sometimes passages from the Bible and other times poetry or reflections. Taizé services are ecumenical — which means that they are Christian in nature and celebrated by Christian congregations around the world. Services also offer time for quiet reflection and meditation, and in the spirit of the Taizé community, we offer our prayer services by candlelight.

The community at Taizé has become a pilgrimage site for high school and college students across the globe. I’m honored to be able to keep the tradition of Taizé alive at Salve Regina and offer services for our students, faculty, staff and the public.

Services will be offered this semester on the following dates:

  • Monday, Oct. 3, from 5:30-6 p.m.
  • Sunday, Oct. 16, from 2-2:30 p.m.
  • Monday, Nov. 7, from 5:30-6 p.m.
  • Sunday, Nov. 20, from 2-2:30 p.m.
  • Monday, Dec. 5, from 5:30-6 p.m.

Offered by Matthew J. Kelly, campus minister of music, liturgy and multifaith ministry

This post is part of an ongoing series called Mercy Mondays that highlights Salve Regina’s dedication to its Mercy Mission. Search the tag Mercy Mission for more updates on the Mercy branches of Salve Regina.


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Event Coverage  / Faculty/Staff
Faculty lecture to focus on history of jazz dance, racism in the U.S.
salvetoday Posted On September 29, 2022


McKillop Library will host another faculty lecture with Lindsay Guarino, associate professor and chair of the Department of Music, Theatre and Dance. Entitled “Whiteness and the Fractured Jazz Dance Continuum,” the lecture will explore how jazz dance, an indigenous American art form rooted in Black American people and culture, is often mislabeled and misunderstood.

The lecture will be held on Thursday, Oct. 6, from 4-5:30 p.m. on the first floor of McKillop Library. To register for the event, go here.

Guarino edited “Rooted Jazz Dance” that focus on the themes that will inspire her lecture.

Arguing that the history of jazz dance is closely tied to the history of racism in the United States of America, Guarino will present the obscured story of how normalized Whiteness permeated the form so that today, performers and audiences alike participate unaware in misguided appropriation of artistic capital. To see jazz clearly, one must deconstruct historical narratives by considering who the storytellers have been, what biases may have been present, and what parts of the narrative were left behind.

To this end, Guarino will share her research on how Africanist aesthetics and cultural values are the bedrock of American jazz but have been historically devalued and systemically invisibilized. She will also provide specific examples of how and where jazz dance fractured from its Black American roots.

By tracing jazz from its roots in West Africa, to its origins in African American culture and to its myriad manifestations today, one can more clearly see how jazz both reflects and subverts American values and offers limitless potential for better understanding the complexity of American identity.

Guarino  is an artist, educator and scholar. She has facilitated the dramatic growth of the dance program, including its new major focused in jazz studies. Guarino’s historical and embodied research interrogates the impacts of Whiteness on jazz history and practice through an antiracist lens, and investigates the intersections of jazz pedagogy, Africanist aesthetics, American history, identity and culture.

As an educator and a leader, Guarino prioritizes community at the heart of her practice and seeks to cultivate spaces where individuality is celebrated and recognized as vital to personal and collective growth.

The lecture will be held on Thursday, Oct. 6, from 4-5:30 p.m. on the first floor of McKillop Library. To register for the event, go here.


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Pell Center to host roundtable discussion on the politicization of U.S. immigration
salvetoday Posted On September 28, 2022


The Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy will host a roundtable discussion about immigration on Friday, Sept. 30, from 11:45 p.m. to 12:45 p.m. The event will be held at the back of the O’Hare Academic Building on the lawn, and a free lunch will be provided. Salve Regina staff, faculty and students are invited to participate.

The discussion will be lead by Dr. Jim Ludes, vice president for strategic initiatives at Salve Regina and the executive director of the Pell Center. The topic be will around the politicization of U.S. immigration inspired by recent events — including the movement of migrants to Martha’s Vineyard, Washington, D.C. and other northern sanctuary cities from southern border states.

The discussion will focus on how such events are portrayed on the Right and Left and what political motivations lie beneath the tactics.

Roundtable discussions are open to students, faculty and staff at Salve Regina University. The Pell Center will provide a free lunch, and space is limited. Please RSVP to pellcenter@salve.edu.


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