Cristina Gragnani is an Assistant Professor of Italian at Temple University, specializing in turn of the twentieth century Italian literature and culture.… →
University Lecture Series
A collection of lectures featuring particularly prominent speakers, many of whom are guests to the university.
Alex Peltz of the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program and Nicky Uy of The Food Trust discuss the outcomes of the What We Sow campaign, which provided opportunities for the Philadelphia community to explore the world of local foods.… →
Eileen Ryan delivers a lecture titled Imperial Anxieties: Italian Colonialism and the Formation of an Official Mind, which examines the impact of the rise of the Fascist Party in the Libyan territories.… →
The Blockson Collection and the Department of African American Studies Student Association to celebrate some of Philadelphia’s most important African American legacies.… →
This talk investigates the rhetoric of sisterhood in “Ling Long,” a Shanghai-based women’s magazine run during the socio-culturally transformative period between 1931 and 1937.
In 2013, Temple University’s Blockson Museum celebrated the seventieth year of founder Charles Blockson’s efforts to preserve African American history by hosting a special event.… →
Temple University’s School of Social Work co-hosts an event that features speakers discussing the impact of the Affordable Care Act, also known as “Obamacare”.… →
As a part of Archives Month Philly, Lyn Lifshin, Daniel Scott Snelson and Elaine Terranova present readings of works both new and old; familiar and estranged; distant and intimate.… →
These days, across almost every communicative medium, somebody is talking, and talking a lot, about food; cooking blogs, FoodTV, restaurant critics, celebrity chefs, web series, journals, reality shows and food magazines abound.… →
