The Libraries are delighted to continue their relationship with Temple Contemporary (formerly Temple Gallery) by co-sponsoring three programs this fall. These programs represent our commitments to bringing speakers, arts, and culture, in a variety of disciplines, to the Temple campus.<\/p>\n
All programs take place at Temple Contemporary in the Tyler School of Art building, 2001 North 13th Street, and all require free registration. <\/a><\/p>\n How does Philadelphian differ from other dialects across the United States? Learn about Philadelphia\u2019s place in American English with internationally renowned linguist\u00a0William Labov<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 What natural misunderstandings stem from the Philadelphia dialect and how is our accent changing in response to higher education and immigration?<\/p>\n Come early to test your linguistic knowledge with an interactive language display designed by Hive76 that features accents from across Philadelphia and the United States.\u00a0 Also on display will be linguistically related works by\u00a0Rachel Perry Welty<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Sean Monahan<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n William Labov is a University of Pennsylvania linguist who has been studying the Philadelphia dialect for the past 25 years.\u00a0\u00a0Widely regarded as the founder of variationist sociolinguistics, his 1960s studies of African American Vernacular English remain some of the most respected linguistic research of the 20th<\/sup>\u00a0century.<\/p>\n The Changing Patterns of Philadelphia English is scheduled to address questions of how Philadelphia talks to itself that were raised by Temple Contemporary\u2019s Advisory Council.<\/p>\n This event is co-sponsored through generous support of Temple University\u2019s Departments of Spanish and Portuguese, Temple University Libraries, Anthropology, American Studies, Geography and Urban Studies, General Student Activities Fund, and Tyler School of Art.<\/p>\n In partnership with the Art History, and Painting Departments at Tyler School of Art, Temple Contemporary is proud to welcome back Temple alumnus and renowned art critic Irving Sandler.\u00a0 Nationally regarded as one of the most influential writers of the New York art scene, Irving Sandler\u2019s books including The Triumph of American Painting: A History of Abstract Expressionism (1970), The New York School: The Painters and Sculptors of the Fifties (1978), American Art of the 1960s (1988), Art of the Postmodern Era: From the Late 1960s to the Early 1990s (1996) stand as the most lucid and critical examinations of the New York art world ever written. Irving Sandler’s visit is part of The Department of Art History’s Distinguished Art History Alumni and Scholar Lecture Series.<\/p>\n This lecture is co-sponsored by Temple University Libraries, The Art History Department, The Department of Painting, Drawing, and Sculpture, Temple University General Activities Fees, Temple Contemporary.<\/p>\n As the oldest street and square grid in the United States, Philadelphia has long been an active participant in the \u201crhetorical and operational openings\u201d enabled by city public spaces.\u00a0 On a macro level of media visibility- urban streets have become global stages for enacting political change.\u00a0 However, on a micro level many of these same urban thoroughfares have themselves been engineered to segregate communities leading to increased civic unrest, economic disinvestment in urban centers, and a booming car culture.\u00a0 How can we reconcile the uses of urban streets to collapse these disparities of scale?<\/p>\n Saskia Sassen will be addressing the question of how we can best occupy \u201cthe global street\u201d for civic, environmental, political, and economic global gain.\u00a0 Sassen, Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology at Columbia University, is one of the world\u2019s leading authorities on the social consequences of globalization. Her meticulous and far-reaching work has encompassed immigration, new networked technologies, the dynamics of global cities, the changes within the nation-state caused by the \u201ctransnational\u201d economy and the feminization of labor. Her work is characterized by the \u201cunexpected and the counter-intuitive\u201d, and she uses her research to cut through established \u201ctruths\u201d that may not be what they seem.<\/p>\n The Global Street<\/em> is co-organized by Temple Contemporary and Next American City.\u00a0 This event is sponsored by Temple University\u2019s Film and Media Arts Department and Temple University Libraries.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Libraries are delighted to continue their relationship with Temple Contemporary (formerly Temple Gallery) by co-sponsoring three programs this fall. These programs represent our commitments to bringing speakers, arts, and culture, in a variety of disciplines, to the Temple campus. … Continue reading \n
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\nSandler will be specifically addressing the radical change that took place across the United States and specifically in the art world in the early 1970s.\u00a0 This shift created the distinction that is now recognized as the development from Modernism to Post-Modernism.\u00a0 Sandler’s illustrated lecture will be positioning this change into an historical context of cultural and political events that continue to be relevant to the discourse of contemporary art.<\/p>\n\n