@ the Urban Archives, Ground Floor, Paley Library, 1210 Polett Walk Every Philadelphian knows that their city offers a plethora of options for cultural, historical and recreational exploration. But, did you know that there are many destinations outside of the city lines to visit as well? In this exhibit, the Urban Archives highlight images of exciting, unique and just plain curious spots that lie beyond Philadelphia’s border. Let us take you on a day trip to Lucy the Elephant in Margate, NJ; the Mercer Museum in Doylestown, PA; and the Bucks County Playhouse in New Hope, PA. All photographs in this exhibition are from the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, and all the sites still exist today. Lucy the Elephant in Margate, NJ, image form the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin collection at the Urban Archives

@ The Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection, Sullivan Hall, 1310 Polett Walk What do Lena Horne, Aretha Franklin, Camille Cosby and Winnie Mandela have in common? All of these talented, important women were Delta Sigma Thetas. The Blockson Collection’s fall exhibition celebrates the Epsilon Delta Chapter of Philadelphia, started at Temple fifty years ago. Hundreds of women–some are household names and some you do not yet know–have been part of this important organization of African American women. Look at their history, and take a trip into Philadelphia’s past, with this exhibition. Legendary Aretha Franklin, image from the Blockson Collection Singer, actress, activist Lean Horne, image from the Blockson Collection

December 1, 3:30 PM In Conversation with Andrew Lam East Eats West: The unexpected Consequences of Asian Immigration to America Paley Library Lecture Hall, 1210 Polett Walk, Ground Floor From cuisine and martial arts to sex and self-esteem, East Eats West shines new light on the bridges and crossroads where two hemispheres meld into one worldwide “immigrant nation.” In this new nation, with its amalgamation of divergent ideas, tastes, and styles, today’s bold fusion becomes tomorrow’s classic. But while the space between East and West continues to shrink in this age of globalization, some cultural gaps remain. Andrew Lam, the award-winning author of Perfume Dreams, continues to explore the Vietnamese diaspora, this time concentrating not only on how the East and West have changed but how they are changing each other. And he’ll talk about what it is like to thrive in the West with one foot still in the East.” Andrew is a writer and an editor with the Pacific News Service, a short story writer, and, has been, for 8 years, a commentator on National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered.” He co-founded New America Media, an association of over 2000 ethnic media organizations in America. His essays have appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country, including the New York Times, The LA Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, The Baltimore Sun, The Atlanta Journal, and the Chicago Tribune. His short stories are also anthologized widely and taught in many Universities and colleges. This program is part of the Language and Linguistics Speaker Series organized by the Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages Program. Support also provided by CIBER in the Fox School of Business and Management, GenEd, Vietnamese Studies, Department of English and the Faculty Senate Lectures and Forums Committee.

National GIS Day Celebration November 17th, 2010, 3:00 – 5:00PM Paley Library Lecture Hall Agenda: 3:00 – 4:00 PM: Presentations 4:00 – 5:00 PM: Reception On Wednesday, November 17th, 2010, join Temple University Libraries in celebrating it’s 2nd Annual National GIS Day. The two hour event will begin at 3:00 PM with presentations by invited speakers, followed with a reception. Our first speaker, Dr. Amy Hillier, is an Assistant Professor in City and Regional Planning at PennDesign, the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Design, where she teaches classes on the application of GIS in city planning, urban studies, public health, and social work. She is also is one of the faculty co-directors at the Cartographic Modeling Laboratory (CML), where she works with other faculty to integrate GIS into projects dealing with obesity, gun violence, pre-term birth, and injuries to children. One of her current projects is recreating the old 7th ward of Philadelphia studied by W.E.B. Du Bois in 1896 for his classic book, The Philadelphia Negro, using GIS, archival records, and 1900 census data to create an online mapping system and curriculum materials for high school and college students. Our 2nd speaker, Professor Jim Querry, is an Adjunct Professor at Philadelphia University, where he teaches introductory and advanced undergraduate GIS courses in the Department of Architecture. He is also the GIS Director at City of Philadelphia, where he directs a citywide, cross-departmental collaboration in enterprise GIS to enable City departments and related agencies to increase their productivity, effectiveness and delivery of services to city residents. In 2008, on behalf of the City of Philadelphia, he received the prestigious Presidents’ Award at the 2008 ESRI International User Conference, given to honor the city for its leadership and innovation in developing enterprise geographic information system (GIS) deployments that improve numerous government functions and city services. The presentations will be followed by a reception with light fare and opportunities to meet the speakers and other guests.

November 2, 5:30 PM Philadelphia Art Alliance, 251 South 18th Street NANCY HEINZEN ON RITTENHOUSE SQUARE Talking about America’s Best Used Public Space Take a look inside Philadelphia history with Nancy Heinzen, author of The Perfect Square: A History of Rittenhouse Square. (Temple University Press, 2009) Author Nancy Heinzen will discuss the growth and development of Rittenhouse Square, illustrating that not only is this urban space unique, but so too is the combination of human events and relationships that have created and sustained it. This program is presented by Temple University Libraries, the Temple University Press and the Philadelphia Art Alliance. Come early to explore PAAs newest exhibition, The Sitting Room: Four Studies, in the first and second floor galleries.

@ Paley Library Lecture Hall, Ground Floor, 1210 Polett Walk n+1 editors Marco Roth and Keith Gessen will discuss what it takes to start a print literary journal, survive the battle of ideas with other magazines (and the internet), and even get some writing done on the side. n +1 is a twice-yearly print journal of politics, literature, and culture. Jonathan Franzen has said of the publication, “Just when you’re thinking you’re intellectually alone in the world, something like n+1 falls into your hands,” and A.O. Scott raved in the New York Times magazine that the periodical offers “[p]ointed, closely argued and often brilliantly original critiques of contemporary life and letters.” Gessen is an essayist, novelist, and translator from Russian. His first novel, All the Sad Young Literary Men, was published in 2008, and he has written for the New Yorker, the London Review of Books, and other print and web-based periodicals. Roth lives here in Philadelphia and is a 2009 Pew Fellow in the Arts. His essays have appeared in Dissent and the Nation; his memoir, Reverse Transcription, will be published by Farrar Straus and Giroux in 2011.

@ Paley Library Lecture Hall, Ground Floor 1210 Polett Walk A Conversation hosted by Rachel Blau DuPlessis Emily Gould is a journalist and commentator, known for her probing, personal essays and books. Rachel Blau DuPlessis is a pre-eminent poet and Columbia-educated scholar who now teaches at Temple University. These two accomplished women will join together at Paley Library for a lively conversation you don’t want to miss. Join us as Gould reads from her new book, And the Heart Says Whatever, then discusses with Blau DuPlessis her opinions on online journalism, feminism, the media, publishing, food, cats and dogs, and answers audience questions. Gould is a former editor of the groundbreaking blog and online magazine, Gawker.com. She then became a household name with the publication of Exposed in the New York Times magazine. This feature-length article recounted her experiences at Gawker, and sparked controversy and generated abundant commentary on the Times website. Gould now shares her thoughts on eclectic topics from feminism to social media at Emily Magazine, a popular blog, and recently published her first full-length memoir, And the Heart Says Whatever (Free Press, 2010). She is also the host of the web-program Cooking the Books, a literature and foodie talk show, and continues to write for periodicals both in print and online, such as Slate.com and the New York Times. Blau DuPlessis is a writer, poet, critic and feminist scholar. She received her PhD from Columbia University in 1970 and has been teaching and writing ever since. She received the 2002 Pew Fellowship in the Arts and a 2008-2009 Fellowship at the National Humanities Center and published over 15 books of original poems, scholarship and criticism.