Evolving from Professor Ralph Young's Dissent in America course and co-sponsored by the History Honors Society Phi Alpha Theta, each Friday since September 2002 students gather to discuss the historical background to the current political situation in the world.
The Teach-ins are held every Friday from 3:30-5:00 in Anderson Hall 821.
To learn more about the teach-ins see the article "The Right to Dissent" on page 25 of The Temple Review
also see:
History Scholars Fight Present War
The Associated Press and Channel 6 reported on the October 15, 2004 teach-in. The AP article was published in over 50 news sources including CNN, The Washington Post, The Guardian, New York Newsday, The Miami Herald, The Chicago Sun-Times, and many others.
A related article appeared in the Organization of American Historians Newsletter
Also see Professor Young's article on dissent in the July 2004 issue of USA Today Magazine
Spring 2008 Teach-Ins
2/1 Drs. Edward Lama Wonkeryor and Dana Saewitz on “Racism and the Dimensions of Advertising in the United States”
2/8 Temple Political Science major Saad Quasem on “The Life and Legacy of Benazir Bhutto”
2/15 Dr. Gregory J. W. Urwin on “Wrestling with the Greatest Generation: World War II as History and National Myth.”
2/29 Dean Teresa Scott Soufas on “The Madrid Bombings: Terrorism in Europe”
3/7 Dr. Allen Hornblum and Yusef Anthony on “Cold War Prison Experiments in the U.S.”
3/21 Dr. James W. Hilty on “The Cheney-Bush Theory of the Unitary Presidency”
4/4 Dr. Ralph Young on “In a Dark Time, 1968: Losing Martin and Bobby”
4/11 Dave Lindorff on "What Are They Afraid Of?: Why The Health Care Proposals of the Presidential Candidates are Doomed to Fail"
4/18 Western Illinois University Professor Dr. Peter Cole on “Wobblies in Philadelphia”
4/25 Temple Advertising and Psychology Major Liz Bada on "How What We Eat Became Who We Are"
Fall 2007 Teach-Ins
9/14 Temple Graduate Student Rob Dewey on “Being a Muslim in America”
9/21 Philadelphia Inquirer Columnist Chris Satullo on “The Myth of the Self-Made Man”
9/28 Professor Istvan Varkonyi on “1968: The Year of the Barricades—Columbia, Paris, Prague”
10/5 Professor Herbert Simons on “How Post-9/11 Crisis Rhetoric Led to Quagmire in Iraq”
10/12 Brazilian Political Scientist Maria Helena Moreira Alves on “Caught in the Middle: Living in the Crossfire Between the Police and Drug Lords in Rio de Janeiro”
10/19 Professors Rebecca Alpert, Michelle Byng, Jessica Winegar, and scholars Manar Darwish, and Phil Hoefs on “Women in Islam”
10/26 Professors Mark Taylor (Princeton Theological Seminary), Tameka Cage (University of Pittsburgh), & Johanna Fernandez (Baruch College) on “The Mumia Abu-Jamal Case”
11/2 Professors Jane Evans, Joan Wallach Scott, Art Hochner, Linn Washington, Ralph Young, Carol Jenkins, and history major Maureen Whitsett on “Academic Freedom for All: Fact or Fiction” (sponsored by AFT, TAUP, the Faculty Senate, and the Department of History)
11/9 Amanda Marlow on “Can a Woman Be President?”
11/16 Professor Benjamin Rifkin (Vice Dean of CLA) on “Report from a Cold War Veteran: My Scrapes with the KGB 1981-1985”
Spring 2007 Teach-Ins
1/26 Temple Students José Diaz, Kate Stabler & Thomas Robinson on “The Historical Roots of Temple’s Student Action Labor Project”
2/2 Kwame Griffith on "Race & Education Today: Why it Matters"
2/9 Michael Berg on “The Ultimate Cost of War: Iraq, Abu Ghraib, and His Son’s Execution”
2/16 Sgt. Liam Madden on “A Marine’s Experiences in Iraq”
2/23 Professor Laura Toran on “Global Warming”
3/16 David Lindorff on “The Case for Impeachment”
3/23 Professor Lori Zett & Reporter Alexander Ponsen on “Hugo Chavez: Socialism for the 21st Century”
3/30 Temple Student Nehad Khader on “A Palestine Refugee Remembers: From Palestine to Iraq to the USA”
4/6 Leah Hilsey and ACT UP on “Until It's Over: the Current Face of the Fight Against AIDS”
4/13 Armond James on “Mass Media: Truth or Propaganda? The Influence of the Media in Shaping Public Opinion”
4/20 Bollywood Film Writer Abhijat Joshi on “Bollywood Films: What Would Gandhi Say?”
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