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2024 Latinx Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration
From September 16th through October 15th, please join the College of Liberal Arts and several other Temple campus partners for a university-wide celebration of Latinx Hispanic Heritage Month!
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Upcoming Events

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10/7
Monday
Psychology & Neuroscience Colloquium Series
10/7
Monday
Forensic Psych Club General Meeting
10/7
Monday
Lecture with Venerable Miao Guang: Compassion & Tolerance
10/8
Tuesday
Public Policy Info Session
10/8
Tuesday
Nonprofit Management Certificate Info Session
10/9
Wednesday
Hispanic Heritage Month: The Mexican Revolution, People's Movements, Migration, and the US: Then and Now
10/9
Wednesday
Temple in Spain: Meet the Resident Director and Attend Info Sessions
10/9
Wednesday
Forensic Psych Club Film Screening
10/10
Thursday
Hispanic Heritage Month: Shaping knowledge: Exploring Maya Ways of Knowing and Their Place In the World
10/10
Thursday
Poets & Writers Series: Emma Copley Eisenberg, Fiction Writer
10/10
Thursday
PPL Colloquium - Ingrid Olson
10/14
Monday
Matthew Soderblom Doctoral Defense: American Madness: The Frontier in the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, James Fenimore Cooper, Willa Cather, and O.E. Rølvaag
10/15
Tuesday
TUDOR Presents: Two Talks on Buddhism
10/15
Tuesday
Hispanic Heritage Month: Performance by Pat Boy
10/16
Wednesday
Theodora Sakellarides Doctoral Defense
10/16
Wednesday
Temple in Spain: Meet the Resident Director and Attend Info Sessions
10/17
Thursday
U.S. Domestic Policy in the 2024 Presidential Election
10/17
Thursday
Matthew Countryman - Community, Region, Nation: Rethinking Philadelphia Movement History in the 21st Century
10/18
Friday
Brian Shields Doctoral Defense
10/18
Friday
Careers in Policy and Advocacy with Labor Unions
10/18
Friday
Dissent in America Teach-Ins Presents: Who Will Control Congress?
10/18
Friday
Economics Fall 2024 Seminar Series - Dr. Joachim Hubmer
10/22
Tuesday
CLA Community Scholars Program Info Session
10/22
Tuesday
American Jews & Democracy: A Conversation about Civic Participation in Polarizing Times
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Public Service Internship Spotlight: Reema Kalidindi
Reema Kalidindi is a Political Science & Criminal Justice Double Major. She recently interned with the U.S. Marshals Service in the Chief of Diversity Office through The Washington Center's D.C. Internship Program.
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Fulbright for Philosophy: Graduate Student Spotlight, Jason Cutmore
Philosophy doctoral candidate Jason Cutmore receives Fulbright Research Grant!
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Spirit of Giving: Faculty Spotlight, Lucy Bregman
Professor Emeritus of Religion Dr. Lucy Bregman is best known for a course about death and dying. Today, she creates life-changing opportunities for CLA students!
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Forward Thinking: Alumni Spotlight, Katie Brennan
This Philosophy PhD grad brings a social justice mentality to her teaching and postdoctoral research.
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Philadelphia’s first poet laureate Sonia Sanchez returns to Temple for a reading and conversation

October 01
As soon as Sonia Sanchez, HON '98, entered the Charles Library Event Space on a Thursday afternoon in late September, the crowd erupted in applause....

Criminal justice junior receives prestigious Voyager Scholarship, the Obama-Chesky Scholarship for Public Service

September 24
Even before arriving at Temple, Bella Kwok was an advocate for ending sexual violence....
Africology and African American Studies

Dr. Reynaldo Anderson will be speaking at the United Nations Summit of the Future conference

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September 18
Dr. Reynaldo Anderson will be representing Temple University and the Department of Africology and African American Studies, at the United Nations Summit of the Future in Ne...
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Creative Writing Professor Liz Moore Discusses Her New Bestselling Novel On The Tonight Show

by Jonathan Hernandez
August 22
This past Tuesday night, Liz Moore, associate professor and director of Temple's MFA in Creative Writing, appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon to talk about he...
Owls in the City
Owls in the City
Graduates of the Master of Public Policy (MPP) Program are landing great positions in City Council and many other offices throughout Philadelphia. Check out the MPP alumni spotlight section to see where these Owls have landed!
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