For the last two years, Frank Lee has “hacked” (with permission) the LED lights of the Cira Centre Building, a 29-story Philadelphia skyscraper, to create large-scale, interactive games of Pong and Tetris.… →
University Lecture Series
A collection of lectures featuring particularly prominent speakers, many of whom are guests to the university.
This lecture explores what the Liberal Arts has to offer in response to contemporary political and social challenges and highlights the significance of a Liberal Arts education.… →
In this talk titled, “The Imperfect Logic of the Anthropocene”, J.R.… →
This lecture explores black female identity, how it is problematized in America through popular culture, and the challenges black women can face here at Temple University. … →
Professor Jennifer Lee explores the ways in which programs that bring hundreds of thousands of guest workers to the United States for unskilled jobs have embraced various cultural mythologies about employers reacting to the societal trends of idle U.S.… →
In this lecture, “An Empire of Remedy: Medicine and Manifest Destiny in the Era of Indian Removal”, Isenberg uncovers a historical narrative of vaccination, through which Americans hoped to convince themselves, in the midst of Indian removal and their encroachments into Mexican territory, of the safety, certainty, and benignity of United States expansion.… →
Temple alum April Glaser and Professor of Journalism Meredith Broussard have a conversation on government and corporate dragnet surveillance and the legal, political, and grassroots challenges mounting worldwide.… →
Prof. Mark Weiner discussing using Epic Systems, a healthcare software system that stores medical records, for medical research. … →
Acclaimed expert Harold Holzer gives a lecture entitled “Lincoln and the Press: Master or Monster?”… →
