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Gather Around the Table at Temple University Libraries this spring.

Please join us this spring for Temple Libraries’ Beyond the Page public programming series. This year our theme, “Gather Around the Table,” will frame critical conversations around the common theme of food.

The next program in this series is:

•   The American Way of EatingThursday, Feb. 20 at 3:30 pm

Tracie McMillan: The American Way of Eating
When award-winning journalist Tracie McMillan saw foodies swooning over $9 organic tomatoes, she couldn’t help but wonder: What about the rest of us? Why do working Americans eat the way we do? And what can we do to change it? To find out, McMillan went undercover in three jobs that feed America, living and eating off her wages in each. Reporting from California fields, a Walmart produce aisle outside of Detroit and the kitchen of a New York City Applebee’s, McMillan examines the reality of our country’s food industry in The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee’s, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table (Scribner, 2012).

McMillan’s lecture at Temple is cosponsored by the Myer & Rosaline Feinstein Center for American Jewish History. That lecture is part of the Feinstein Center’s series What Is Your Food Worth?

In addition to our curated, thematic events, our public programming series encompasses a number of discussions designed to highlight the outstanding work of our faculty and engage the strengths of our library.

Upcoming programs include:

•   Tuesday, Feb. 11 at 2:30 pm

Temple Issues Forum: Egyptian Politics, U.S. Policy
The Temple Issues Forum (TIF) presents debates on current events of interest to the campus, the community and the world. Featured at its upcoming event are Trudy Rubin, world correspondent for the The Philadelphia Inquirer; Wael Nawara, a political strategist and political party organizer who recently served as a fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government; Ashraf Khalil, middle east correspondent for Time magazine and author of Liberation Square: Inside the Egyptian Revolution and the Rebirth of a Nation (St. Martin’s Press, 2012); and Nancy Okail, executive director of the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Politics.
 
•   Thursday, Feb. 13 at 2:30 pm

Chat in the Stacks: African Americans in Philadelphia
Temple Libraries and the Faculty Senate Committee on the Status of Faculty of Color continue to host an engaging series of panels on timely topics with faculty from across the university. This February, panelists include Larry Robbins of the Moonstone Arts Center; Don ‘Ogbewii’ Scott, professor of English at the City College of Philadelphia; and Bettye Collier-Thomas, professor of history at Temple.

All programs are free and open to the public.
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Public programs are held in the Paley Library Lecture Hall at 1210 Polett Walk on Temple’s Main Campus unless otherwise specified.

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