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Paul R. Jones Lecture Series: Norm & Carnetta Davis
Camellia Room, Gorgas Library 711 Capstone Drive, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesNorm 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 StatesThe 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 [...]
Knap-In 2024
Moundville Archaeological Park 634 Mound State Parkway, Moundville, AL, United StatesMoundville 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 StatesArtist 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 StatesAstronomy Group Public Night at Moundville
Moundville Archaeological Park 634 Mound State Parkway, Moundville, AL, United States7:30-10:00pm: 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 StatesJulian 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 StatesThe 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 StatesThe 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 [...]