2013-2014 CHAT Lectures

Distinguished Faculty Lectures

All talks showcase new research by Temple faculty on alternate Thursdays, 12:30-1:50 pm, CHAT Lounge, 10th Floor, Gladfelter Hall

	Fall 2013
	Sep. 12, 2013		Adrienne Shaw, Media Studies and Production
	Sep. 26, 2013		Niambi Carter, African American Studies
	Oct. 10, 2013		Hamil Pearsall, Geography and Urban Studies
	Nov. 7, 2013		Eileen Ryan, History
	Nov. 21, 2013		Yun Zhu, Critical Languages
	Srping 2014
	Feb. 6, 2014		Cristina Gragnani, Italian
	Feb. 20, 2014		Mark Leuchter, Religion
	Mar. 13, 2014		Orfeo Fioretos, Political Science
	Mar. 27, 2014		Adele Nelson, Art History
	Apr. 10, 2014		Lara Ostaric, Philosophy
	Apr. 24, 2014		Alicia Imperiale, Architecture

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Fall 2013

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Distinguished Faculty Lectures Series

Adrienne Shaw, Media Studies and Production

Playing at the Edge: Gender, Race, and Sexuality in Video Games

Thursday, September 12
12:30–1:50 pm, CHAT Lounge

Adrienne Shaw received her PhD from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to joining the Temple faculty she held postdoctoral posts at the Mudra Institute for Communication Ahmedabad, the University of Pittsburgh, and Colorado State University. Her research and teaching focus on popular culture, the politics of representation, technology, cultural production and qualitative audience research. Her primary areas of interest are video games, gaming culture, and gender and sexuality studies. In addition to authoring several book chapters, her research has been published in New Media and Society, Critical Studies in Media and Communication, Games and Culture, among others. Her 2010 article "What is video game culture? Cultural studies and game studies" was the most downloaded article from Games and Culture in 2010 and has been the top read paper of that journal for the last three years. She has also received top paper awards from ICA and AEJMC. In addition, she is a member of the government funded CYCLES project (part of the SIRIUS program) developing an educational video game to train players on cognitive biases. In addition, she is one of the co-chairs of the GLBT studies interest group of the International Communication Association.

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Distinguished Faculty Lectures Series

Niambi Carter, African American Studies

The Myopia of Lynching Imagery: Lynching as True Crime

Thursday, September 26
12:30–1:50 pm, CHAT Lounge

Niambi M. Carter is Assistant Professor of African American Studies. Dr. Carter is a summa cum laude graduate of Temple University and received her M.A. and Ph.D. from Duke University. Her primary areas of study are American politics, with an emphasis on race, identity politics, American political development, and public opinion. With a focus on African Americans, her project examines this group's public opinion with respect to immigration. Her most recent work explores the uses of racialized, sexual violence during the Jim Crow period.

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Distinguished Faculty Lectures Series

Hamil Pearsall, Geography and Urban Studies

Diversification or Transformation? Coping with Vulnerabilities to Multiple Stressors in Eastern Chiapas, Mexico

Thursday, October 10
12:30–1:50 pm, CHAT Lounge

Hamil Pearsall is an assistant professor in the Geography and Urban Studies Department in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Her research bridges several themes in human-environment and human geography: the social dimension of sustainability; environmental justice and health; and community resilience to environmental and economic stressors. Pearsall received her MA and PhD from the Graduate School of Geography at Clark University and was an assistant professor of GIScience in the International Development, Community, and Environment Department at Clark University prior to joining the faculty at Temple.

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Distinguished Faculty Lectures Series

Eileen Ryan, History

Imperial Anxieties: Italian Colonialism and the Formation of an Official Mind

Thursday, November 7
12:30–1:50 pm, CHAT Lounge

An expert in Italian colonialism in North Africa, Eileen Ryan received her PhD from Columbia University, a MA from the University of Chicago Divinity School, and her BA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her dissertation was entitled "Italy and the Sanusiyya: Negotiating Authority in Colonial Libya, 1911-1931." She has published one article on Italian perceptions of pan-Arab movements in an Italian historical journal. She is currently working on one article related to railroad construction in colonial Libya and a second article on the anxiety among Italian imperialists at the lack of a cohesive Italian colonial culture.

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Distinguished Faculty Lectures Series

Yun Zhu, Critical Languages

Negotiating A Female Public Sphere: The Rhetoric of Sisterhood in the Women's Magazine Ling Long (Shanghai, 1931-1937)

Thursday, November 21
12:30–1:50 pm, CHAT Lounge

Yun Zhu is an Assistant Professor of Chinese and Asian Studies in the Department of Critical Languages, where she teaches Chinese language, literature, film, and culture. Her current project, tentatively entitled "Of and Beyond Gender and Nation: The Dynamics of Sisterhood in the Modern Chinese Imaginary, 1890s to Mid-1930s," investigates the unfolding of sisterhood stories in intellectual, literary, and cinematic discourses as embedded in the master narrative of Chinese modernity.

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Spring 2014

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Distinguished Faculty Lectures Series

Cristina Gragnani, Italian

The 'Other' Side of Conflict: Italian Women Writers and World War I

Thursday, February 6
12:30–1:50 pm, CHAT Lounge

Cristina Gragnani is Assistant Professor of Italian at Temple University. She received her PhD in 2002 from Harvard University. Prior to joining the French, German, Italian and Slavic Department at Temple University, she taught and coordinated study abroad courses in Italy, and then moved on to a Tenure Track position at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her scholarly work focuses on turn of the twentieth century Italian literature and culture. Within this timeframe her research interests lie in three different fields: Italian women writers, late nineteenth century literary periodicals, and Luigi Pirandello. She published articles on Willy Dias (Fortuna Morpurgo), Elda Gianelli, Anna Franchi, female readership in post-unification Italy, and Luigi Pirandello. With Ombretta Frau she is the author of the 2011 book Sottoboschi letterari (Literary Underworld, Firenze University Press) and of the critical edition of Pirandello's Taccuino di Harvard (The Harvard Notebook, Mondadori, 2002). She is currently at work on a book on Italian women writers and World War I, and on a collaborative Digital Humanities project (also with Ombretta Frau) on the material culture of late nineteenth century Italian women writers.

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Distinguished Faculty Lectures Series

Mark Leuchter, Religion

The Enemy Within: Myth, Morality, and Cosmic Conflict in Ancient Judaism

Thursday, February 20
12:30–1:50 pm, CHAT Lounge

Mark Leuchter is Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible and Jewish Studies with the Department of Religion. His research focuses upon the formation of the Hebrew Bible, prophecy and priesthood in ancient Israel, and mythology in early Judaism. He is the author of several books and scholarly articles, his favorite band is Rush, and he strongly prefers dogs to cats.

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Distinguished Faculty Lectures Series

Orfeo Fioretos, Political Science

History and Politics in the Remaking of Global Capitalism

Thursday, March 13
12:30–1:50 pm, CHAT Lounge

Orfeo Fioretos is an Associate Professor of Political Science who specializes in the study of advanced capitalism and global cooperation. He is the author of Creative Reconstructions: Multilateralism and European Varieties of Capitalism (Cornell 2011) and articles in International Organization, Review of International Political Economy, Comparative Political Studies, other journals and volumes.

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Distinguished Faculty Lectures Series

Adele Nelson, Art History

Abstraction and Ethics:
The Representation of Gender
in Postwar Brazilian Art

Thursday, March 27
12:30–1:50 pm, CHAT Lounge

Adele Nelson is assistant professor of art history at Temple University, where she teaches modern and contemporary art of Latin America, Europe, and the United States. A specialist in postwar and contemporary Brazilian art, she received a PhD at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. She is the author of Jac Leirner in Conversation with/en conversacion con Adele Nelson (Fundacion Cisneros, 2011). Recent and forthcoming studies include essays in Art Journal (Fall 2012) and MoMA's Mario Pedrosa: Primary Documents anthology (forthcoming 2014). Her current book project studies the Sao Paulo Bienal and the emergence of abstraction in Brazil.

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Distinguished Faculty Lectures Series

Lara Ostaric, Philosophy

The Nonsensical and the Ugly

Thursday, April 10
12:30–1:50 pm, CHAT Lounge

Lara Ostaric specializes in Kant, post-Kantian philosophy and aesthetics. She is interested in the issues of moral teleology, metaphysics and epistemology and their relation to aesthetics. Her current book project, tentatively titledCritique of Judgment and the Unity of Kant's Critical System, explores the role of aesthetic judgment for the relation between theoretical and practical reason in Kant, how Kant's third Critique points uniquely beyond Kant's own critical framework and how it bears on the development of post-Kantian philosophy. Lara Ostaric studied at Chicago, Notre Dame, was a DAAD fellow and fellow of the Center for Advanced Studies at the Ludwig-Maximilian-Universitat in Munich.

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Distinguished Faculty Lectures Series

Alicia Imperiale, Architecture

UNRRA-CASAS and the Planning of the Southern Italian Village of La Martella 1951-54

Thursday, April 24
12:30–1:50 pm, CHAT Lounge

Alicia Imperiale, Architect, is Assistant Professor of Architectural History/Theory and Design at the Tyler School of Art, Temple University. She holds a Bachelor of Architecture from Pratt Institute, an MFA in Combined Media from Hunter College/City University of New York, an MA and PhD (Fall 2013) in Architectural History and Theory from Princeton University with the dissertation, Critical Organicism: Alternate Histories of Italian Architecture 1958-1973.