Judy Wicks, founder of Philadelphia’s famous White Dog Café and pioneer of the local food movement, speaks at Paley’s “Beyond the Page” public program series Gather Round the Table: Conversations on the History, Impact and Implications of Food in Our Society.… →
University Lecture Series
A collection of lectures featuring particularly prominent speakers, many of whom are guests to the university.
The environments in which food is prepared, produced and consumed reflect and affect those processes.… →
Hamil Pearsall’s research bridges several themes in the human relationship to the environment and geography: the social dimension of sustainability; environmental justice and health; and community resilience in the face of environmental and economic stressors. … →
What was served at a colonial Philadelphia Thanksgiving feast? Join restaurateur, author and television personality Chef Walter Staib of Philadelphia’s famed City Tavern to find out.… →
Elizabeth O’Connell, the executive producer for wireless and radio at NBC News, is honored as the main event speaker for the 2013 Sherman Lecture.… →
The Libraries and the Faculty Senate Committee on the Status of Faculty of Color hosts a Chat in Stacks at Paley Library with moderator Kimmika Williams-Witherspoon.… →
Temple students Alex Epstein of Philly Urban Creators, Katy Ament with Temple Community Gardens, and students from the FarmLab architecture seminar discuss their first-hand experiences with a variety of urban farming models.… →
Carter’s lecture The Curious Case of Judge Aaron: Race, the Law, and the Protection of White Supremacy explores the uses of racialized, sexual violence during the Jim Crow period.… →
Shaw presents Playing at the Edge: Gender, Race, Sexuality and Video Games, a lecture focusing on research of popular culture, the politics of representation, technology, cultural production and qualitative audience research.… →
