For eleven years running, the Libraries and the Faculty Senate Committee on the Status of Faculty of Color have co-hosted this engaging series of panels on timely topics, featuring faculty from across the university.

Join us for our first Chat in the Stacks of the spring semester during which we’ll discuss diversity and inclusion from the perspective of postdocs and graduate students of color. Panelists include Enya-kalia Jordan, Minjung Noh, and Dr. Shaeeda Mensah, among others.

Registration requested.

Programs offered by Temple University Libraries are accessible to people with disabilities. Please contact Richie Holland, Director of Library Administration, at richieh@temple.edu or 215-204-3455 for more information, to request an accommodation, or with questions/concerns.

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Mark for your calendars and join us on Thursday, April 4 from 3:30 to 5pm for a talk by Uma Narayan, Professor of Philosophy and the Andrew W. Mellon Chair at Vassar College, on, “Microcredit and Third World Women: Panacea for Poverty or Delusional Development?” in Anderson Hall 821 (The Women’s Studies Lounge). A reception from 5-6pm will follow in the same room.

The talk is part of the Greater Philadelphia Women’s Studies Consortium (GPWC) annual speaker-in-residence program, and is hosted by Temple’s Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies Program, with generous co-sponsorship from the Departments of Philosophy, Political Science, and Sociology, and the Center for the Study of Humanities (CHAT) and the Global Studies Program.

Are you interested in using your communication skills to serve the common good?  Attend this panel and networking session to learn from professionals in non-profit management, public relations, and communications.  Light refreshments will be served.  Event is cosponsored by the Temple Career Center and Klein College of Media and Communication.

Join Temple MAP for our fall semester movie night on Wednesday, October 24th, from 5-8PM in the CHAT lounge of Gladfelter Hall!

Light dinner/snacks and drinks will be provided.

Please RSVP by emailing us at mapattemple@gmail.com

(N.B.: This discussion group is open only to faculty members and post-doctoral students.)

Join the Departments of Communications and Criminology/Justice Studies at Drexel University on October 15th for a talk with Prof. Robert Audi from the University of Notre Dame. The talk is being held from 3:30 – 5:00PM. For additional information, please contact Marilyn G. Piety at mp34@drexel.edu

“It is the mission of National Coming Out Week (NCOW) to provide resources through active and passive programming to members of the LGBTQIA+ community as well as advocates/allies.

The “X” theme for this year symbolizes intersectionality, gender inclusion, and X in Roman numbers represent the number 10. As we celebrate the 10th anniversary of NCOW, this image will be visible across the campus community.”

For the month of October the Temple University Department of Anthropology  and the Anthropology Graduate Student Association will be holding a two-part brown bag lunch series on Archaeology of the African Diaspora. October 5^th we invite you to attend a talk by Dr. Christopher Fennell, Professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign titled“Interdisciplinary Approaches to Investigating African Diaspora Histories”. On October 19^th we invite you to attend a talk by Dr. Theresa A. Singleton, Associate Professor at Syracuse University, on her current research on Maroon landscapes in the Dominican Republic, “In Search of Maniel de Ocoa:  Mapping Slave Runaways Landscapes in Hispaniola.”  Pizza will be provided at both lunches!

Come celebrate National Coming Out Week with us on October 10^th at 3:30pm in the Women’s Studies lounge on the 8th floor of Anderson Hall!