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Spring 2010 Events


Early African American Print Culture in Theory and Practice Conference
Keynote Lecture by Frances Smith Foster of Emory University

Thursday, March 18, 5:30 PM; Reception to follow
Main Campus, Paley Library, 1210 Polett Walk, ground floor, lecture hall
Frances Smith Foster, author of more than a dozen books, is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of English and Women's Studies at Emory University. Her lecture at Temple inaugurates the Early African American Print Culture in Theory and Practice conference. Held in Philadelphia March 18 to 20, this conference brings together scholars who demonstrate ways in which the study of print culture and early African American literature inform one another. It is co-sponsored by the Library Company of Philadelphia, the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, Temple University Libraries and the University of Pennsylvania Center for Africana Studies.
This event will be preceded by a tour of the Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection at 4:00 PM. The collection is located in Sullivan Hall at 1330 Polett Walk, which is about one block west of Paley Library on Temple's Main Campus.

Artistic Process, Artistic Progress: Sketchbooks from the Tyler School of Art
Tuesday, March 23, 5:30 PM
Main Campus, Paley Library, 1210 Polett Walk, ground floor, lecture hall
The Tyler Foundation Department and Temple University Libraries present an exploration of the foundations sketchbook -- a unique documentation of artistic process and growth. This program is part of a series of events planned around the annual Foundation Lecture, given this year by comic artist Lynda Barry. These sketchbooks, like Barry’s recently published What it Is, explore materials, concepts and techniques through bright collage. Please join us for a discussion with Tyler students and faculty as they share their artistic processes and insights.
This event is co-sponsored by the Foundation Department at the Tyler School of Art. At 10:30 AM the same day, Barry will present the annual Foundations Lecture in room B04 of the Tyler School of Art.

Digital Day: Temple University Libraries E-Resources Fairs
Wednesday, March 24, 11:00 AM-2:00 PM
Science, Engineering and Architecture Resources:
Science, Engineering and Architecture Library, 1947 N. 12th Street, room 201
Humanities and Arts Resources: Paley Library, first floor, 1210 Polett Walk
Temple University Libraries offers more than 400 electronic databases and thousands of journals, books and online resources. These materials are essential to research and exploration in the 21st-century library. Join us for giveaways, snacks and an unparalleled learning opportunity. Vendors at Paley Library include Alexander Street Press, AP Images, Credo Reference, EbscoHost, Films Media Group, Gale, LexisNexis, Oxford University Press and ProQuest-SourceOECD. Vendors at SEAL include IEEE, Elsevier, ProQuest, Books 24 x 7, Web of Science, Reaxys, Biological Abstracts, ScienceDirect, Compendex, INSPEC, Avery Index and Safari Tech Books Online.

Temple Book Club presents: A Conversation with Sharon White, Vanished Gardens: Finding Nature in Philadelphia
Thursday, March 25, 1:00 PM
Main Campus, Paley Library, 1210 Polett Walk, ground floor, lecture hall
Temple professor Sharon White discusses her melodic work of creative non-fiction at this book club author event. In Vanished Gardens: Finding Nature in Philadelphia, White gives a portrait of the resilience and richness of the natural world in Philadelphia and of the ways that gardening can connect nature to urban space.

Public History Double-Header
The Top Secret Rosies of WWII: An Illustrated Lecture by LeAnn Erickson
Tuesday, March 30, 1:30 PM
Main Campus, Paley Library, 1210 Polett Walk, ground floor, lecture hall
Filmmaker and Temple professor LeAnn Erickson reveals a hidden history of top-secret women war workers during World War II. She will describe how libraries, archives, documents and painstaking research come together to create her historical documentary project Hidden Herstory: The Top Secret Rosies of WWII. This event includes a screening of the trailer of Erickson’s still-in-process documentary.

Public History in the Federal Government with Lincoln Bramwell, Chief Historian, U.S. Fire Service
Tuesday, March 30, 4:30 PM
Main Campus, Paley Library, 1210 Polett Walk, ground floor, lecture hall
How do the conception, theory and practice of historical methods differ inside and out of the academy? What challenges are unique to the public historian's involvement in policy creation and private employment? Dr. Lincoln Bramwell will expand on these ideas and share his experience working in publishing, academia, as a contract historian for the National Park Service and as chief historian of the U.S. Forest Service. Sponsored by Temple University Libraries and the Center for Public History

Special Collections Showcase: The John T. McIntyre Collection
Wednesday, April 7, 4:00 PM
Main Campus, Paley Library, 1210 Polett Walk, mezzanine, Special Collections Reading Room
John T. McIntyre (1871-1951) was a Philadelphia-based writer who penned novels, plays and juvenile books for 60 years. This showcase brings the life and works of this lesser-known, but intriguing, local author to the fore by examining his manuscripts and books, found only in the Temple Special Collections Department.

Save the Date: Chat in the Stacks
Thursday, April 1, 2:30 PM
Main Campus, Paley Library, 1210 Polett Walk, ground floor, lecture hall
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