5th Annual Temple University Underground Railroad & Black
History Conference
“Journeys of Discovery in 19th Century African-American
History”
Pre-registration: $15 or ($25 for on-site)
Buffet Dinner
Panel of distinguished scholars
Keynote Address
Symposium and Buffet Dinner included
For further information, contact
Dr. Andy Waskie at E-mail:
awaski01@temple.edu or Tel: 215-204-5452.
Friday, February 22, 2008
4:00 to 8:00 p.m.
10th Floor, Gladfelter Hall
Fall 2007
"Life Insurance and Multiple Modernities in the Nineteenth Century"
A Talk by Timothy Alborn (City University of New York)
This is the first of this year’s discussions organized by the Nineteenth Century Forum. Instead of a lecture, this is a discussion at the Center for the Humanities of a work in progress. The pre-circulated paper should be read in advance. Come prepared to rethink your most basic assumptions about modernity when Historian of Business Timothy Alborn presents "Life Insurance and Multiple Modernities in the Nineteenth Century" a discussion of the history of futurity by looking at the logic behind Victorian life insurance. Brown bags are welcome! For further information, contact Peter Logan (peter.logan@temple.edu) or Elizabeth Varon (evaron@temple.edu).
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007
11:40 a. m. to 1:00 p.m.
10th floor, Gladfelter Hall
Fall 2006
"Pseudology: Derrida on Arendt and Lying in Politics"
A Talk by Martin Jay (University of California at Berkeley)
Martin Jay is Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of nine books, including Downcast Eyes: The Denigration of Vision in Twentieth-Century French Thought (1993), and The Dialectical Imagination: A History of the Frankfurt School and the Institute of Social Research, 1923-50 (1973). His most recent book is Songs of Experience: Modern American and European Variations on a Universal Theme (Berkeley: U of California Press, 2004).
Friday, October 20, 2006, 3:00 PM
Russell F. Weigley Seminar Room
Gladfelter 914
Reception to follow in the CHAT Reception Area, 10th Floor Gladfelter
"The Eye Needs a Rest"
A talk by Barry Bergdoll (Columbia University)
Lecture co-sponsored by the Architecture Program of the Tyler School of Art, the Department of Art History and the Graduate Art History Organization, and Tyler School of Art. November 1, 2006, 6:00pm in Lecture Hall 126 of the College of Architecture and Engineering Building, located on Temple University Main Campus, 1947 North 12th Street @ Norris Street, 215 204 8813.
Wednesday, November 1, 2006, 6:00 p.m.
College of Architecture and Engineering Building, Lecture Hall 126
"A View across the Maidan: Recovering a Dynamic Landscape"
A talk by Anu Mathur and Dilip da Cunha, University of Pnnsylvania School of Design"
Anuradha Mathur and Dilip da Cunha are award-winning designers-planners who deploy a widely prevalent landscape of the Indian subcontinent – the maidan – as a lens to view places like Bangalore that planners struggle to contain and predict as a city in the global arena. Administrators still operating within the colonial tradition of the ‘gazetteer’ rush to fence it as a public space while designers hasten to articulate its spatial structure. But they miss the point: the maidan is not just an object to accommodate in space and time; the maidan is an attitude that accommodates. It is a negotiated settlement that grants landscape an agency that cannot be easily limited. It is an old ground for a new reading of terrains, one that opens a new past, present and future.
Thursday, November 2, 2006, 4:00-6:00 PM
CHAT Lounge
Gladfelter Hall 10th floor.
More information on this lecture and forthcoming New India Seminars is available at http://www.temple.edu/humanities/india/index.htm.
"The Weight of the Colonial Past on French Immigration Policies"
A Talk by Alexis Spire
This talk will examine the institutional treatment of the immigration from Algeria. It appears that immigrants from Algeria always were recipients of a derogatory treatment which finds its source in the in the colonial history of France and the ambiguous status which was reserved to this population. After the Independence of Algeria, a sort of continuity is particularly observed throughout the reotrientation of agents of the colonial administration becoming specific apparels of control of the new immigration. In addition the treatment of migrants from North Africa has structured the immigration policies of France. On many aspects -such as the policies of "Regroupement familial" – (family reassembly program), the warranties of repatriation or again on the conditions of
estrangement- the fate of Algerians has been a precursor of what has afterwards been extended to all migrants in France.
Wednesday, October 18, 2006, 3:00 PM
Russell F. Weigley Seminar Room
Gladfetlter 914
Sponsored th CHAT and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy; CoSponsored by the History Department and the Temple Faculty Senate
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