John Gerzema, speaker, business thought-leader, and co-author of The Athena Doctrine: How Women (and the Men Who Think Like Them) Will Rule the World, thinks the world would be a better place if all our leaders thought more like women.… →
University Lecture Series
A collection of lectures featuring particularly prominent speakers, many of whom are guests to the university.
Adrienne Shaw, assistant professor of Media Studies and Production at Temple University, leads a conversation on her latest research: a feminist and historical analysis of gender and sexuality in gaming production, audiences, and texts.… →
Zadeh explores debates in the course of Islamic intellectual history over translating the Quran and their relation to broader theoretical problems for the fields of translation studies, the history of ideas, and the philosophy of language.… →
In "Mistranslation and Catastrophe", Dr. Brickhouse reflects on the role of mistranslation in her own research, and the productive possibilities of embracing 'mistranslation' over other values-'mastery,' for example, or the 'untranslatable.'
In commemoration of the 400th anniversary of Cervantes’ death, hear from William Egginton in this lecture, “The Man Who Invented Fiction: How Cervantes Ushered in the Modern World”.… →
There is a new economics of college in America. Millions of people enroll in higher education with plans to work, borrow, and conserve, only to find that their funds still fall short of today’s high college prices.… →
In this lecture, “Interactivity and Privacy—Can We Have Both?”, S. Shyman Sundar examines the allure of online interactivity, the challenge of protecting privacy, and users’ attempts to assert their agency.… →
A diverse student leadership panel along with Pennsylvania State Senator Vincent Hughes and Temple Professors Karen Turner and Kimmika Williams-Witherspoon discuss the major issues in the 2016 election cycle and how candidates and the media have handled the issue of race.… →
In this lecture, “The Currency of Cotton: Art, Materiality and Memory”, Anna Arabindan-Kesson explores the visual and material implications of the global dimensions of the nineteenth century cotton trade.… →
