Digital Humanities at Temple

951ers, if you are interested in possibilities for digital humanities, I highly recommend attending tonight's CHAT (Center for the Humanities at Temple) talk.  4:30-6 p.m. Gladfelter Hall, 10th floor, in the CHAT lounge.
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Philadelphia Noir...

Temple's Paley Library is hosting a great event on American Noir, which will include a discussion of Philadelphia Noir.  Please make this event if you can (Monday, October 8th at noon).  I have a class then, so you will have to fill me in.

Also note that this event precedes NoirCon a four-day festival of noir.  So if you are into noir--this is a great season for it in Philadelphia!

Free Admission to the Philadelphia History Museum

The Philadelphia History Museum at the Atwater Kent (formerly the Atwater Kent Museum), is reopened after being closed for several years.  If you aren't from Philadelphia this is a great place to begin to get a sense of the city's history.  If you are from Philadelphia, it will be good to see all the changes that have happened at the museum since its renovation.

The PHM will be open to all for free on Saturday September 22 and Sunday, September 23.  Find out more here and here.

& Sunday September 23, 2012

11:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

Stetson Hats...right next to Temple

Per our very brief discussion of Hatboro, PA in class on Monday, here is a brief entry from Phila Place (the neighborhood history project of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania) on the Stetson Factory that used to be near us at Temple. 

Check it out: http://www.philaplace.org/story/326/

Phila Place also has some useful demographic data on neighborhoods and how they've changed over time.  It's a great introduction to Philadelphia history.  The Historical Society of Philadelphia is also a very interesting place to visit, should you consider it for your Museum/Site Review Essay.

Welcome!

Welcome to the fall 2012 Mosaic 851/951 blog that will catalog information, conversation, and other areas of interest to our class this semester.  This course is the first of a two-semester seminar that will introduce you to humanities at Temple University.  We'll use this space throughout the semester to share ideas and to keep track of our many projects.

To learn more about the course sequence and design, please see the program page for Intellectual Heritage.  There you will find, among other items, the listing for this semester’s lecture and film series.

Visit this page often and feel free to comment whenever you see fit.

Looking forward to a great semester!