Fred Rowland - Librarian: 2011-2012 Interviews with Authors

On the day of the Library Prize Awards Ceremony, May 1, 2012, I spoke with the three library prize winners and their faculty sponsors....

On March 28, 2012, Paley Library welcomed Professor Susanna Gold, Assistant Professor of 19th and 20th century Art History at the Tyler School of Art, Temple University, and Malgorzata Rymsza-Pawlowska, graduate student at Brown University, to discuss the 1876 Centennial and the 1976 Bicentennial celebrations....

March 23, 2012: Hans Mueller is the William D. Williams Professor of Classics at Union College in Schenectady, New York....

February 1, 2012: Rob Redding is the talk show host of the Redding News Review, a syndicated radio program heard Monday through Friday from 4 to 7 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on the Genesis Communications Network (GCN)....

February 15, 2012: Professor Rebecca Alpert has had a longstanding interest in baseball since she began following the Brooklyn Dodgers in her youth....

February 28, 2012: On Tuesday, February 28, Professor Jeffrey Kahn of Johns Hopkins University gave a talk in Gladfelter Hall entitled "Chimpanzees in Research: Ethics, Necessity & Why It Matters"....

January 18, 2012: In 2011 Temple University religion professor Vasiliki Limberis published Architects of Piety: The Cappadocian Fathers and the Cult of the Martyrs (Oxford University Press)...

November 11, 2011: On November 14, 2011, The Center for Afro-Jewish Studies held its 6th Annual Symposium on "Passing": Religion, Politics & Peoplehood, a topic inspired by the 50th anniversary of the publication of John Howard Griffin’s Black Like Me and Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth...

September 30, 2011: On September 30, Professor Frederick Ahl of the Cornell University Classics Department spoke at Temple University about "Wordplay in the Aeneid"...

September 9, 2011: In September, I sat down with the director of the Temple University Press Alex Holzman to speak about an AAUP report entitled "Sustaining Scholarly Publishing", which he helped to organize during his tenure as president of the American Association of University Presses (AAUP)...