Paley Library Lecture Hall
1210 Polett Walk

Martin R. Delany was one of the first to challenge the paradigm of White Supremacy. Delany said, “Every people should be originators of their own destiny.” He not only challenged slavery, he challenged the very thinking that allowed slavery to exist.

Join the Libraries and Moonstone Arts Center for a talk on the importance of Delany, the father of Black Nationalism, with scholar Molefi Kete Asante. Dr. Asante is Professor in the Department of African American Studies at Temple University. He has published 70 books, and, in 1987, he established the nation’s first doctoral program in African American Studies

The Wagner Free Institute of Science, Located at 1700 West Montgomery Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19121

We often see debates between experts on scientific issues that affect our lives and livelihoods. What can we do when the experts disagree but their decisions have enormous impacts on us? Do we try to influence their debate? Do we trust one side? Do we trust our gut feelings? Hydraulic fracturing in the Marcellus Shale has brought up these questions and issues. Join us for a panel discussion with speakers from a number of fields and disciplines who will help us understand the way we access and understand information and help us apply lessons learned from history in our decision-making process.

Moderator:
Babak Ashrafi, Executive Director of the Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science

Panel:
Susan Phillips, Reporter for WHYY and NPR, contributor to State Impact PA
Brook Lenker, Director of Fractracker.org
Sara Wylie, Director of Toxics and Health Research, publiclaboratory.org

The second annual Philadelphia Science Festival, taking place April 20-29, is presented by The Dow Chemical Company to celebrate science and technology. More than 105 institutions, museums and cultural and community centers are planning lectures, debates, hands-on activities and special exhibitions, most of them free. http://www.philasciencefestival.org/

Please note, lecture will be held at Tyler School of Art

The Foundations Department and Temple University Libraries, with the support of the General Activities Fund, present the Annual Foundations Lecture:
Artists & Authors, Ellen Harvey

Ellen Harvey’s work is in museum collections in the U.S. and Europe. A New Yorker, Harvey has had one-person exhibits in museums and galleries and completed noted public art commissions with Creative Time, Chicago Transit Authority and MTA Arts for Transit. She is currently working on a mosaic for the new Metro-North Yankee Stadium Station. Her book The New York Beautification Project was published by Gregory Miller and Co. in 2005. A catalog of her work, Ellen Harvey: Mirror, was published by the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in conjunction with her exhibition there in 2006.

Join us for the March 2012 installment of Chat in the Stacks, as Temple scholars explore: “Is Education Under Assault” ? Faculty panelists include:

• Matt Tincani Profressor Tincani is an Associate Professor of Special Education at Temple and coordinator of the Master’s Degree Program in Applied Behavior Analysis. His research interests focus on teaching language and social skills to people with autism spectrum disorder, positive behavior support, and applied behavior analysis. He is author of numerous journal articles, book chapters, and books on these topics, including “Preventing Challenging Behavior: Positive Behavior Support and Effective Classroom Management” (Prufrock Press, 2011).He is also interested in how policy informs the education of children with with ASD and other disabilities in public schooling.

• Yasuko Kanno Professor Kanno is an Associate Professor of TESOL in the College of Education, Temple University. She is interested in linguistic minority students’ negotiation of identity and educational opportunities within institutional settings, and this interest has resulted in two books, Negotiating Bilingual and Bicultural Identities (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2003) and Language and Education in Japan (Palgrave, 2008). Yasuko is currently working on several projects on linguistic minority students’ access to college, including statistical analyses of the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS:88) and the Education Longitudinal Study of 2002 (ELS:2002), and an ethnographic study of linguistic minority high school seniors going to college. Her latest work is Linguistic Minority Students Go to College: Preparation, Access, and Persistence (with Linda Harklau, Routledge, 2012). As a teacher educator, she teaches a variety of TESOL courses, including an undergraduate introductory course in English Language Learner Education, graduate courses in sociopolitical aspects of language teaching and learning, bilingual education and bilingualism, and language teaching methods. At home, she is the mom of an energetic and incredibly social 8-year-old son.

• Maia Bloomfield Cucchiara Professor Bloomfield Cucchiara is a sociologist of education focusing on urban education policy. My research examines urban education policy and its implications for disadvantaged students. I do this in two distinct ways. First, I am interested in understanding the impact urban revitalization and redevelopment have on public schools. My research in this area is designed to provide an understanding of the relationship between public education and deindustrialization, urban revitalization, and other macro-level urban processes. What role do schools play in 21st century cities? How do processes such as urban transformation and gentrification affect policy and practice in public schools? In particular, I am interested in the extent to which these developments ameliorate or exacerbate existing inequalities between students, families, and schools. Second, I am interested in school reform in Philadelphia and its implications for equity and capacity. Much of my work on Philadelphia school reform has examined the ways the state takeover of Philadelphia’s schools and the resulting marketization of the district affected civic engagement and civic capacity around education. I have published in the American Educational Research Journal, Teachers College Record, and the Journal of Education Policy.

BETTYE COLLIER-THOMAS on Women’s History March 22, 2:00 PM, the Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection Join us for an annual Women’s History Month program at the Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection. This year’s program features Temple’s own Dr. Bettye Collier-Thomas. A professor in the Department of History and the former director of the Temple University Center for African American History and Culture, Collier-Thomas is also a Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians. She is the founder and served as the first executive director of the Bethune Museum and Archives in Washington, D.C., the nation’s first museum and archives for African American women’s history. She is the author of the award-winning Jesus, Jobs, and Justice: African American Women and Religion (2010) and editor of Sisters in the Struggle: African American Women in the Civil Rights-Black Power Movement. She is currently a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, where she is working on a book-length history of African American women and politics.