Lectures and Speakers
ARTIST LECTURE: Pete Schulte
Camellia Room, Gorgas Library 711 Capstone Drive, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesThe Sarah Moody Gallery of Art presents a lecture by Professor Pete Schulte on Thursday, January 26, 2023, 3:00 p.m., in the Camellia Room (2nd floor) of Gorgas Library. After the lecture, a reception will follow in the gallery. Professor Schulte will talk about the new SMGA exhibition, Yevgeniya Baras and Pete Schulte, which brings together his and the work of artist Yevgeniya Baras for a dialogue on abstraction, line and color in contemporary painting and drawing. At first glance, the artists’ works [...]
Philosophy Today Lecture Series: Dr. Anya Plutynski
ten Hoor Hall 125 350 Marrs Spring Road, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesThe University of Alabama’s Department of Philosophy has invited Dr. Anya Plutynski (Washington University, St. Louis) to present a talk, “Explaining Cancer” on February 9, 2023 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.
ALLELE Seminar Series: Dr. Daniel Odess
North Lawn Hall, Room 1000 221 Hackberry Lane, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesDr. Daniel Odess, with the National Park Service, will present an ALLELE seminar titled, "Tracks in the Sand: White Sands National Park and the Peopling of the Americas."
Visiting Artist and Scholar Lecture Series: Krista Clark
Garland Hall, Room 203 700 Capstone Drive, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesArtist Krista Clark will present a public lecture on her art on Thursday, February 23, 2023, at 5:30 p.m. in Garland Hall 203 on UA campus. Clark writes that her works “are inquiries into the commodification of space and the standardization of building aesthetics. I incorporate new and repurposed materials to construct familiar forms in new spatial arrangements; displaced from their accustomed sites and settings. Formal gestures: overlapping, layering, stacking and cutting reflect the complicated and often compromised relationship we have with our built environment. [...]
An Evening with Garth Greenwell
Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center 620 Greensboro Avenue, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesUA English’s Creative Writing Progam is excited to host celebrated writer Garth Greenwell, who will read a selection of his work and answer audience questions. Please join us at the Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center on Thursday, February 23 at 7 p.m. for a wonderful evening! Copies of his books will be available for purchase and signing. This event is free and open to the public. Garth Greenwell is the author of What Belongs to You, which won the British Book Award [...]
BOOK TALK – Dr. Jolene Hubbs
Camellia Room, Gorgas Library 711 Capstone Drive, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesDr. Jolene Hubbs’s book, Class, Whiteness, and Southern Literature, explores the role that representations of poor white people play in shaping both middle-class American identity and major American literary movements and genres across the long twentieth century.
LECTURE – “The White House Historical Association and Five Chapters of White House History”
Bryant Conference Center , United StatesStewart McLaurin, a 1981 graduate of The University of Alabama Department of History and current president of the White House Historical Association (WHHA), will return to campus on March 1 to speak as part of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute‘s (OLLI) lifelong learning lecture series. McLaurin will be in town to discuss the WHHA’s history, current projects, and role in preserving the presidential mansion for future generations. His presentation is entitled, “The White House Historical Association and Five Chapters of White House History.” [...]
Rose M. Gladney Lecture on Justice and Social Change: “Civil Rights without Human Rights”
Camellia Room, Gorgas Library 711 Capstone Drive, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesProfessor Joseph Darda, associate professor of English at Texas Christian University, will present the 2023 Rose M. Gladney Lecture on Justice and Social Change, titled “Civil Rights without Human Rights.”
Annual Day Lecture: “To Be Representative: American Muslim Comedy and the Diversity Complex”
Camellia Room, Gorgas Library 711 Capstone Drive, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesHosted by the Department of Religious Studies, the annual Day Lecture will be presented by Dr. Samah Choudhury, assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Ithaca College.
The Helen Crow Mills and John Carrol Mills Lecture Series: Dr. Kathleen O’Reilly
North Lawn Hall, Room 2009 221 Hackberry Lane, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesDr. Kathleen O'Reilly will present the Spring 2023 Mills Lecture titled “If You Build It, They Won’t Come: Creating Safe Sanitation for Women and Girls in Urban India.” The Helen Crow Mills and John Carrol Mills Lecture Series was established and endowed in UA’s College of Arts and Sciences by Helen Mills Pittman and her late husband, Dr. John Mills, of Birmingham, to bring successful and distinguished alumni and citizens to campus to speak as a way to motivate and inspire [...]