January 15, 2025
With 2025 only two weeks old, The Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American Music at Monmouth University (BSACAM) already has some important circled dates and activities on its calendar for the new year. In fact, the first one takes place online tonight.
The January 2025 installment of BSACAM's ongoing and online series Conversations with our Curator will start tonight, January 15, at 7pm ET. Archives curator Melissa Ziobro will conduct a conversation with June Skinner Sawyers, author of the recently published We Take Care of Our Own: Faith, Class, and Politics in the Art of Bruce Springsteen. As usual, after the conversation, members of the online audience will be able to participate in a Q-and-A session, as well. Click the image below and/or scan its QR code for more information and for event registration, which is free to all who are interested.
And if you can't catch tonight's conversation live online, you'll still be able to watch it later. All past Conversations with our Curator events also are archived at BSACAM's YouTube channel, so you always can catch up on any event that you might have missed, or re-watch any event. Click here to view the Archives' Conversations with our Curator YouTube playlist.
BSACAM also has just announced its Second Annual President’s Lecture on Music History and Contemporary America. On Thursday, January 30, beginning at 3pm ET, BSACAM Board of Directors member and Princeton University Professor of American History Sean Wilentz, who also has written the acclaimed book Bob Dylan in America, will present “‘I Don’t Write Protest Songs’: Bob Dylan, 1963” in Pollak Theatre on the campus of Monmouth University. The lecture is free and open to the public, but advance registration is required to attend. Click here for more information, and to register.
Also recently announced was the date for the Archives' planned scholarly conference centered around the 50th anniversary of Born to Run later this year. The conference is scheduled to take place on Sunday, September 7, presumably at Monmouth University. No further details have been announced yet, but a call has been issued for all scholars to submit their paper and panel abstracts no later than Saturday, March 15. Click here for detailed submission guidelines.
And finally, while they haven't been announced just yet, before January is over we should know all of the details on the 2025 honorees and presenters, as well as ticketing information, for the Archives' 3rd Annual American Music Honors, to be held Saturday, April 26 at the University's Pollak Theatre. Stay tuned!