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The Weekly Chatter for April 26, 2010


We look forward all year to this week's CHAT Celebration, where the CHAT fellows, research groups, and friends and the curious gather to honor the year's research at CHAT, to meet old friends, and to make new ones. All are welcome, and we hope you'll join us to fete the people who created the vibrant intellectual community at CHAT 2009-10.

Next Monday, CHAT welcomes linguist and literary critic Ann Banfield to our final event of 2009-10. Banfield's studies of narration are some of the most widely anthologized pieces in "narrative studies" today, and it is a real honor to have her conclude the year at CHAT. Speaking of which ...

The end is nigh dept. With this issue of the Weekly Chatter, we sign off until Fall. CHAT's Twitter and Facebook pages will continue to update recipients over the break. And the Graduate Lounge will remain open until the end of finals, to help the weary graders and paper writers in their time of need.

On a personal note, I want to thank everyone for supporting the new research in the humanities and social sciences that CHAT encourages and showcases. During the year, CHAT works with many different groups of people—from undergraduates to faculty, internal and external—toward the goal of building a vibrant intellectual community here. With over fifty public events, fifteen meetings of the fellows seminar, and three new exhibitions, this has been a remarkable and rewarding year. Thank you all for being part of this ongoing project.

—Peter Logan


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 This Week at CHAT

CHAT Celebrates

Audience image in CHAT LoungeCelebrate the People and Projects Supported by The Center for the Humanities at Temple in 2009-10!

Thurs., April 29, 4:30-6:30 p.m.
CHAT Lounge, 10th Floor, Gladfelter Hall
Refreshments provided (more ...)

 Next Week at CHAT

New Horizons Lecture Series

Ann Banfield portraitAnn Banfield, UC Berkeley

Beckett between Yeats, Joyce and Proust

Mon., May 3, 3-5:00 pm
CHAT Lounge, 10th Floor, Gladfelter Hall (more ...)

 Of Further Interest

Greek and Roman Classics Department

Kurt Raaflaub portaitKurt Raaflaub, Brown University

The Quest for Peace in the Ancient World: Why Greece?

Mon., April 26, 3:00 pm
Women's Studies Lounge, 811 Anderson Hall (more ...)


Philosophy Department

Portrait of Jitendra MohantySymposium in Honor of Jitendra Mohanty

Bina Guta, University of Missouri
Frank Kirkland, Hunter College
David Carr, Emory

Fri., April 30, 2-6:00 pm
CHAT Lounge, 10th Floor, Gladfelter Hall (more ...)

 Continuing . . .

Exhibits

Butterfly detail from porcelain plateJessica Rowe, 2010 CHAT Curator

Excavating Desire: Tastes and Tablewares
in Early to Mid-Nineteenth-
Century Philadelphia

9 am - 4 pm, CHAT Gallery, 10th floor, Gladfelter Hall (more ...)


Infiorate photographMartha Madigan, Photographs

Infiorate

Italian streets and piazzas are embellished by elaborate flower carpets during this annual festival.

Jan. 19—July 1, CHAT Gallery, 10th floor, Gladfelter Hall, M-F, 10 am-4 pm (more ...)


Inside image of the graduate loungeThe Center for the Humanities (CHAT) on the 10th floor of Gladfelter Hall is also home to your Graduate Student Center. The Lounge is open 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. weekdays and provides free coffee, tea, and current journals. Gradate students and faculty from all schools and colleges at Temple are welcome to visit.


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