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Knap-In 2024

Moundville Archaeological Park 634 Mound State Parkway, Moundville, AL, United States

Moundville Archaeological Park will host its annual Knap-In on March 1-2, 2024. This stone tool maker event at will host flint knappers from all over the country. Knapping is the shaping of flint, chert, obsidian, or other conchoidal fracturing stone through the process of lithic reduction to manufacture stone tools. People have chipped rocks into tools and weapons for thousands of years. Native Americans knapped stone arrow and spear points, knife blades, scrapers, drills and many other tools and weapons. If you’re interested in learning to knap, or you just [...]

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 [...]

Spring Choral Showcase

Moody Music Building Concert Hall 810 2nd Avenue, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States

Astronomy Group Public Night at Moundville

Moundville Archaeological Park 634 Mound State Parkway, Moundville, AL, United States

7:30-10:00pm: Observing at Moundville Archaeological Park, observing deep sky objects, with Dr. Dean Townsley. For location visit this google maps link.

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 [...]

Registration for Fall 2024 Begins

Summer and Fall 2024 registration time assignments will be available by March 1, 2024. Make an appointment with A&S Student Services. Find the full UA Academic Calendar on the University Registrar’s website.

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 [...]

URCA 2024

Bryant Conference Center , United States

The Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Conference is an annual, University-wide event highlighting student research and creative activity.