Monday, October 22, 2:30pm
Paley Library Lecture Hall
A Lecture by Juan Williams
Eyes on the Prize: The Truths of American Race Relations

On Monday, October 22, Temple University Libraries, the College of Liberal Arts, the General Education Program and the Office of the Provost will welcome distinguished journalist and NPR Senior Correspondent Juan Williams.

Williams is one of America’s leading political writers and thinkers. In addition to his work for NPR, he is a political analyst for Fox Television and a regular panelist on FoxNews Sunday. He has written prize-winning columns and editorials for The Washington Post. Williams has also worked extensively in the documentary medium, having won an Emmy Award for his television writing.

Williams is also the author of six books; including nonfiction bestseller Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965 and an acclaimed biography, Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary. His work, My Soul Looks Back in Wonder, presents eyewitness accounts of history-making movements for African American, Latino and women’s rights. His latest book is Enough—The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black America- and What We Can Do About It.

Please join the College of Liberal Arts, the General Education Program, Temple University Libraries and the Office of the Provost in welcoming one of today’s leading speakers on politics, journalism, American culture, demographics and issues of race and diversity. Please come to Paley Library Lecture Hall, Monday, October 22 at 2:30pm to hear Eyes on the Prize: The Truths of American Race Relations. After his talk, Mr. Williams will receive questions from the audience. All are welcome.

For more information please contact Nicole Restaino, Library Communications Manager at 215-204-2828 or restaino@temple.edu.

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Thursday, October 25, 1:00pm
Paley Library Lecture Hall
Thom Nickels
Philadelphia Architecture

On Thursday, October 25, Temple University Libraries welcomes Thom Nickels to the Temple Book Club. Nickels will discuss his book Philadelphia Architecture (Arcadia, 2005), which celebrates the richness and diversity of our city’s built environment.

Nickels has a long history of architectural journalism, and in 2005 won the American Institute of Architects’ Lewis Mumford Award for Architectural Journalism. He is the The Bulletin’s architecture critic, and writes a weekly column on the subject for Philadelphia Metro. His knowledge of architecture goes back even further; he was raised in a family of architects and remembers leafing through his father’s trade magazines at a young age. Nickels knew he would one day write on this topic; a meeting with famed Bauhaus architect Walter Gropius solidified this notion.

An accomplished writer, Nickels is also a poet, journalist and author of 7 books beyond Philadelphia Architecture: The Cliffs of Aries (Aegina Press, 1988), Two Novellas: Walking Water & After All This (Banned Books, 1989), The Boy on the Bicycle (Starbooks Press, 2003), Images of America: Manayunk (Arcadia Publishing, 2001), Images of America: Gay and Lesbian Philadelphia (Arcadia Publishing, 2001) Tropic of Libra (Starbooks Press, 2002) and Out in History (Starbooks Press, 2005). He is a Contributing Editor for Philadelphia’s Weekly Press and writes a social commentary column for STAR Publications. Nickels writes extensively on travel and the arts, and co-founded the Arts Defense League. He is also a regular contributor to the Gay and Lesbian Review and Lambda Book Report. His column, “Different Strokes,” was the first weekly out gay newspaper column in the nation.

Please join the Temple Book Club in welcoming Thom Nickels to the Paley Library Lecture Hall at 1:00pm on Thursday, October 25.

For more information please contact Nicole Restaino, Library Communications Manager at 215-204-2828 or restaino@temple.edu.

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