Philosophy Today Lecture Series: Dr. Vincent Chiao

ten Hoor Hall, Room 125 350 Marrs Spring Road, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States

The University of Alabama’s Department of Philosophy has invited Dr. Vincent Chiao (The University of Toronto) to present a talk, “Incarceration’s Goldilocks Problem” on February 1, 2024 from 7:30pm-9:00pm in ten Hoor Hall, room 125. This event is open to the public and all are welcome. If you have any questions, please contact Lesley Perkins at lpperkins@ua.edu.

LECTURE: Infrastructures of Feeling: Imperial Nostalgia and Landmark Restoration Projects

ten Hoor Hall, Room 346 350 Marrs Spring Rd, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States

Dr. Lina Benabdallah of Wake Forest University will be visiting the department on Friday, February 16, 2024 from Noon to 1:30pm in ten Hoor 346. The Program for Middle East Studies and the Department of Political Science invite you to a talk: Infrastructures of Feeling: Imperial Nostalgia and Landmark Restoration Projects States and state actors often engage in infrastructure and landmark restoration, construction, and reconstruction abroad for a variety of strategic reasons, including reviving imperial nostalgias. This presentation examines the [...]

ALLELE Seminar Series: Dr. Erik Sperling

North Lawn Hall, Room 2005 221 Hackberry Lane, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States

Dr. Erik Sperling from Stanford University will present an ALLELE seminar titled, ​"Breathless through time: Oxygen, temperature, and animals across Earth’s history."

Paul R. Jones Lecture Series: Norm & Carnetta Davis

Camellia Room, Gorgas Library 711 Capstone Drive, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States

Norm and Carnetta Davis, important collectors of African American art, will talk about their collection and collecting in a lecture titled “Artistic Sojourns: Our Quest for Knowledge and Understanding of Black Art in America and Beyond,” on Thursday, February 29, 2024, at 4:30 p.m. in the Camellia Room, 2nd floor, Gorgas Library on UA campus. Over many years, Norm and Carnetta Davis have amassed one of the most impressive private collections of African American art in the southeastern United States.  [...]

Challenging Empire: Women, Art, and the Global Early Modern World Symposium

Camellia Room, Gorgas Library 711 Capstone Drive, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States

The symposium “Challenging Empire: Women, Art, and the Global Early Modern World,” part of the project Global Makers: Women Artists in the Early Modern Courts of Europe and Asia, is intended to extend and expand knowledge of cultural production by and for early modern women – particularly those associated with the courts – on a global scale. See the full program on the Department of Art & Art History's website. While numerous conferences, symposia and resulting publications in the past several [...]

ARTIST LECTURE: Craig Drennen

Gorgas Library Yellowhammer Room , United States

Artist Craig Drennen will present a public lecture on his art on Monday, March 4, 2024, at 4:00 p.m. in the Yellowhammer Room of Gorgas Library on UA campus. The public is invited to attend. Craig Drennen is a painter based in Atlanta and a 2018 Guggenheim Fellow. His recent solo exhibitions include Old Athenian & at Stove Works in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and First Acts at Atlanta Contemporary Art Center in Atlanta. He has been an artist in residence at Yaddo, MacDowell, the Triangle Arts [...]

Rose M. Gladney Lecture on Justice and Social Change: Julian Saporiti

UA Student Center Theater 751 Campus W Dr, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States

Julian Saporiti is a musician/scholar whose songs address the tragic legacies of the Vietnam War (he’s half Vietnamese) and the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. His music appears under the Smithsonian Folkways label. He earned a PhD in American Studies from Brown University. The lecture/performance will especially appeal to anyone with interests in folk music/storytelling, video arts, the American wars in Asia, refugees and immigration, and Asian American identities. https://www.nonoboyproject.com/

ARTIST LECTURE: Sharon Butler

Camellia Room, Gorgas Library 711 Capstone Drive, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States

The Sarah Moody Gallery of Art is pleased to present the exhibition, Sharon Butler: March, February 27 through April 5, 2024. Butler will present a lecture about her artwork on Wednesday, March 20, at 3:00 p.m. in the Camellia Room of Gorgas Library (2nd floor). There will be a reception for the artist following the lecture in the SMGA from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. Sharon Butler is an American artist and writer on art interested in ideas about contemporary abstraction, especially in a [...]

LECTURE: Monitors and Meddlers: How Foreign Actors Influence Local Trust in Elections

ten Hoor Hall, Room 347 350 Marrs Spring Rd, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States

The Program for Middle East Studies and the Department of Political Science invite you to a talk: Monitors and Meddlers: How Foreign Actors Influence Local Trust in Elections  Sarah Bush University of Pennsylvania Monday, March 25, 2024 4 pm in ten Hoor 347 Abstract: Foreign influences on elections are widespread. Although foreign interventions around elections differ markedly—in terms of when and why they occur, and whether they are even legal—they all have enormous potential to influence citizens in the countries where elections are [...]

An Evening with Hugh Sheehy

Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center 620 Greensboro Avenue, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States

UA English’s Creative Writing Progam is excited to host fiction writer Hugh Sheehy, who will read a selection of his work and answer audience questions. Please join us at the Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center on Monday, March 25 at 7 p.m. for a wonderful evening, and arrive early (6:30 p.m.) for refreshments and mingling! This event is free and open to the public. HUGH SHEEHY is the author of The Invisibles, winner of the 2014 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction [...]