Just wanted to make this web site available:
State of Working America 2012. There also a book, which is available for free on the site.
State of Working America 2012
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Michael Nielsen on Open Science
Michael Nielsen, author of Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science, Princeton University Press, 2011. Listen to his lecture.
Preaching Death
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Professor Lucy Bregman of the Temple University Religion Department is the author of Preaching Death: The Transformation of Christian Funeral Sermons (Baylor University Press, 2011). She uses collections of funeral sermons and manuals for practicing clergy as a lens through which to illuminate changing notions of death in American society. On Thursday, July 5, 2012 she stopped by my office to talk about her book. At the end of this fascinating interview, she strongly recommends that an interested scholar write a similar book on changes in notions of love and marriage using collections of marriage and wedding sermons and related clergy manuals. Perhaps a doctoral student looking for a good topic will do so.
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Victorian Fetishism
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r Logan is a professor of English and the director of the Center for the Humanities at Temple University. He is the author of Nerves and Narratives: A Cultural History of Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century British Prose (1997) and, more recently, Victorian Fetishism: Intellectuals and Primitives (2009). On May 15, 2012, he stopped by my office to discuss Victorian Fetishism, which details the development of ideas about the primitive and how these concepts set the boundaries of culture in Victorian Britain. Drawing from Lucretius, Vico, and Auguste Comte, Peter Logan explains how fetishism – the defining feature of culture’s absence – figured in the works of literary and cultural critic Matthew Arnold, realist novelist George Eliot, and anthropologist Edward Tylor.
Library Prize Interviews, April 2012
On the day of the Library Prize Awards Ceremony, May 1, 2012, I spoke with the three library prize winners and their faculty sponsors. We discussed their research, the sources they used, the relationship between student and sponsor, and the winding roads that first brought them to their topics.
Please listen to these engaging conversations below.
Summer Beckley:
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“A Crisis of Identity: Advertising & the British Ministry of Information’s Propaganda Posters of World War II”
Afrora Muca:
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“From Classroom to Battlefield: The Role of Students in the Closing of Carlisle Indian Industrial School, 1918″
Eugene Tsvilik:
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“No Enemies to the Left: The Communist Party of the United States and Crises of International Communism, 1956-1968″
1876 & 1976 Centennial Celebrations: The Interview
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On March 28, 2012, Paley Library welcomed Professor Susanna Gold, Assistant Professor of 19th and 20th century Art History at the Tyler School of Art, Temple University, and Malgorzata Rymsza-Pawlowska, graduate student at Brown University, to discuss the 1876 Centennial and the 1976 Bicentennial celebrations. The program was moderated by Paley Library Director of Communications Nicole Restaino.
Susanna Gold is currently at work on a book on the 1876 Centennial Exhibition for Penn State University Press. Since our interview, Malgorzata Rymsza-Pawlowska completed her dissertation — “Bicentennial Memory: Postmodernity, Media, and Historical Subjectivity in the United States, 1966-1980″ — and was awarded her PhD from Brown University. (Congratulations, Malgorzata!)
After the completion of the program, Susanna Gold, Malgorzata Rymsza-Pawlowska, and Nicole Restaino sat down with me to discuss Philadelphia’s Centennial and Bicentennial celebrations.
2011-2012 Library Prize Winners!
Here are the winners of this year’s Library Prize for Undergraduate Research and the Library Prize for Undergraduate Research on Sustainability & the Environment.
Please join us on Tuesday, May 1 at 4 PM in the Paley Lecture Hall for the Awards Ceremony. The winners and their faculty sponsors will discuss the prize-winning papers. Refreshments provided.
Library Prize for Undergraduate Research
- Summer Beckley, “A Crisis of Identity: Advertising & the British Ministry of Information’s Propaganda Posters of World War II”
History 4997, Advisor: Richard Immerman - Afrora Muca, “From Classroom to Battlefield: The Role of Students in the Closing of Carlisle Indian Industrial School, 1918″
History 4997, Advisor: Andrew Isenberg - Eugene Tsvilik, “No Enemies to the Left: The Communist Party of the United States and Crises of International Communism, 1956-1968″
History 4997, Advisor: Petra Goedde
Library Prize for Undergraduate Research on Sustainability & the Environment
- Anthony Shields, Jenna Fink, Hasan Malik, Nicola Horscroft
“The treatment of drinking water using polymeric sorbents”
Engineering 4296
Faculty: Huichun (Judy) Zhang - Brian Davidson, Fiona Farrelly, Thomson Liang, Melissa MacKinnon
“Sustainable and efficient rope pump”
Engineering 4296
Faculty: Robert J. Ryan - (Honorable Mention)
Rachel Maddaluna
“Mitigation of climate change and species loss through avoided deforestation”
Biology 4391
Faculty: Brent Sewall
Nocturnal Rome
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Hans Mueller is the William D. Williams Professor of Classics at Union College in Schenectady, New York. Professor Mueller is the author of Roman Religion in Valerius Maximus.
On March 23, 2012, he came to Temple University to discuss his preliminary research on nocturnal Rome. What happened at night in the Roman world? What beliefs did people hold of the night? Before he spoke in the Classics Department, he was kind enough to stop by my office for an interview.
Talk Radio Host Rob Redding
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Rob Redding is the talk show host of the Redding News Review, a syndicated radio program heard Monday through Friday from 4 to 7 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on the Genesis Communications Network (GCN). On Sundays his program airs between 7 and 10 p.m. on GCN, SiriusXM Satellite Radio Channel 128, and other affiliate radio stations. He also maintains the Redding News Review news web site. He has appeared on Fox News, NPR, and CSpan.
On February 1, he visited Temple University to discuss the presidential elections and his new book Where’s the Change?: Why Neither Obama, nor the GOP Can Solve America’s Problems. Before he spoke in Anderson Hall, he stopped by Paley Library for an interview.
Out of Left Field: The Interview
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Professor Rebecca Alpert has had a longstanding interest in baseball since she began following the Brooklyn Dodgers in her youth. As a professor of religion, she has written on topics of modern Judaism and Jewish studies, and on the role of gender and sexuality in religion. When she learned of prominent Jewish booking agents in the Negro Leagues of the 1930s and 1940s, she was able to combine her interests in Jewish studies and baseball. The result is her new book Out of Left Field: Jews and Black Baseball, published in 2011 by Oxford University Press. On February 15, I had the privilege of interviewing Professor Alpert on her new book.