Below are events external to CHAT many may find of interest:

13th Annual AMART Symposium: “The History of the Pennsylvania Reserve Volunteer Corps
September 22, 2007
Ritter Hall Annex, Walk Auditorium
For more information go to http://www.temple.edu/humanities/CHATs/PennsylvaniaReserveCorpsSymposium.htm.

2006-07

20 April 2007
12:40 to 1:30
Room 126, Engineering and Architecture

James J. Smith, the Director of Environmental Affairs for the Saint Gobain Corporation, will present “A Manufacturer’s Perspective on Sustainability.” For more information contact Michel C. Boufadel, chair of Temple’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, at boufadel@temple.edu.

27 April 2007
12:30 - 1:40
Room 126 of the
Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection
400 Market Street, Harrisburg, PA

“Climate Change and the Need for Sustainable Energy; Higher Education's Role in Solving This Urgent Problem,” is a seminar sponsored by The Pennsylvania Consortium for Interdisciplinary Environmental Policy. For further information contact Michel C. Boufadel, chair of Temple’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, at boufadel@temple.edu.

James Elkins Lecture
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
6 pm
126 Architecture/Engineering Building
12th & Norris Streets
Temple University Main Campus
(for more information see www.temple.edu/tyler)

James Elkins is currently E.C. Chadbourne Chair in the Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the Art Institute of Chicago. He also teaches in the Department of Visual and Critical Studies, and is Head of History of Art at the University College Cork, Ireland.  Elkins received a graduate degree in painting, and went on to a PhD in Art History, which he finished in 1989, both from the University of Chicago.

History, Religion, GUS, and Jewish Studies are co-sponsoring a lecture that will be of great interest to readers of the Weekly Chatter. On Friday, January 26, Dr. Kazi Nural Islam will speak on “Religious Pluralism in Bangladesh: Problems and Prospects.” He will deliver the lecture, which will begin at 11am, in Gladfelter 914: the Russell F. Weigley Seminar Room. Dr. Islam, a noted scholar in both philosophy and religious studies, a leader of the faculty of Bangladesh’s oldest and most prestigious institutions of higher learning: the University of Dhaka.For more information contact David Harrington Watt: david.watt@temple.edu.

Poet, prose writer, and playwright Thalia Field will present her work at Temple University Main Campus Center for Humanities Lounge, 10th floor Gladfelter Hall Thursday, February 1st , 1:30-3:00 PM.

The event is free and open to the public.

Thalia Field’s work lives at the crossroads of poetry, prose,drama and essay. Her collections, Point and Line (2000) and Incarnate: Story Material (2004) are available from New Directions, and a book-length “performance novel” Ululu (Clown Shrapnel) is forthcoming from Coffee House press in 2007. Recently, her multimedia performance work has included Rest/Less (Boston Cyberarts Festival, 2005) and Zoologic
(www.HOW2Journal.com; Vol. 2, No.2). Field’s work has appeared in numerous journals including Theater, Ploughshares, Chicago Review, Fence, and Conjunctions, where she guest-edited issue #28 on experimental music-theater scores. Upcoming projects include an interdisciplinary
DVD/book, Inside the Light, and a novel-length essay on the roots of experimentation in modern art and science, Experimental Animals.

This event is part of POETRY COMPLEX: Writing that crosses genre, co-sponsored by Temple-Penn Poetics

Contact Information:
Sharon Logan, Creative Writing Program Administrative
Assistant
Email: creatwrt@temple.edu, 215.204.1796
Website: http://www.temple.edu/creativewriting/events

TEMPLE UNIVERSITY
MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM
David Alan Grier
George Washington University
will speak on

Human computers and the emergence of the
American applied mathematics community

ABSTRACT: Prior to WWII, applied mathematics was affiliated with astronomy, physics or electrical engineering. Most academic mathematicians shunned the subject. Within these disciplines, the individuals who were often most familiar with applied techniques were human computers, the individuals who did the calculations associated with the mathematical analysis. Through the 1930s, human computers were commonly found in Almanac offices but with the New Deal these computers found more opportunities through the programs of the WPA and the National Youth Administration. By the start of WWII most large universities, many government agencies, and a few private companies housed a scientific computing lab staffed by human computers. These computers were generally bright individuals who lacked the social standing to get a higher degree. They advanced the techniques of numerical analysis and numerical linear algebra, taught others numerical techniques and helped maintain a journal devoted to applied mathematics, Mathematical Tables and Other Aids to Computation. A group from the Mathematical Tables Project formed the core for the National Bureau of Standards Applied Mathematics Division, which promoted Applied Mathematics during the 1950s.

Monday, November 20, 2006
Lecture at 4:00 p.m.
Coffee, tea, and refreshments 3:30–5:00 p.m.
Room 617, Wachman Hall

Historical Legacies in International Affairs: Explaining the International System in the 21st Century
October 27, 2006
Funded by the College of Liberal Arts
Co-sponsored by the Department of Poltical Science, the Penn-Temple European Studies Colloquium, and CHAT
For more information and the program, visit www.temple.edu/polsci/hls
See also the linked flyer.