Lectures and Speakers
Hispanic Heritage Month Colloquium – Dr. Rodolfo Torres
Gordon Palmer Hall, Room 346 505 Hackberry Lane, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesTitle: Almost Orthogonality in Fourier Analysis: From Singular integrals, to Function Spaces, to Leibniz Rules for Fractional Derivatives
An Allgood-Danford Lectureship Event: A Poetry Reading by Sawako Nakayasu
Oliver-Barnard Hall 801 Capstone Drive, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesPhilosophy Today Lecture Series: Dr. Miriam Solomon
ten Hoor Hall, Room 125 350 Marrs Spring Road, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesThe University of Alabama’s Department of Philosophy has invited Dr. Miriam Solomon (Temple University) to present a talk, “The Old and the New Problem of Grief in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders” on September 28, 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.
ARTIST LECTURE: Tom Stanley
Gorgas Library Yellowhammer Room , United StatesThe Sarah Moody Gallery of Art is pleased to present the exhibition, Tom Stanley: Painting and Drawing and Discovering a Practice, August 31 to October 3, 2023. There will be an artist lecture on Tuesday, October 3, at 4:30 p.m. in Gorgas Library’s Yellowhammer Room (second floor), and a closing reception following the lecture from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., directly across the street in the gallery. The gallery will be closed on Monday, September 4, for the Labor Day holiday. This exhibition [...]
Philosophy Today Lecture Series: Dr. Felipe De Brigard
Camellia Room, Gorgas Library 711 Capstone Drive, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesThe University of Alabama’s Department of Philosophy has invited Dr. Felipe De Brigard (Duke University) to present a talk, “Memory and Forgiveness” on October 3, 2023 from 7:30pm-9:00pm in the Camellia Room of Gorgas Library (Room 200). 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: War in Ukraine: Lessons for the Czech Republic & Europe
Camellia Room, Gorgas Library 711 Capstone Drive, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesThe International Studies Program, The Department of Political Science, The University of Alabama Libraries, and The Alabama Center for the Book are proud to present: War in Ukraine: Lessons for the Czech Republic & Europe. Dr. Nekola is an historian and political scientist from Prague, Czech Republic. He is a member of Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), Czechoslovak Studies Association (CSA) and Czechoslovak Genealogical Society International (CGSI), author of more than four hundred articles and twenty-four [...]
ART LECTURE: Dr. Doris Sung, “Women of Mokuhanga”
Gorgas Library Yellowhammer Room , United StatesThe Sarah Moody Gallery of Art is pleased to present the exhibition, Women of Mokuhanga, from October 17 through November 30, 2023. There will be an opening reception on Tuesday, October 17 from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. and a lecture on Thursday, November 9, at 4:00 p.m. by Assistant Professor Dr. Doris Sung in Gorgas Library’s Yellowhammer Room. Co-curated by Sarah Marshall, professor of printmaking, and Doris Sung, professor of Asian art history, of the department of art and art history, Women of [...]
ALLELE Seminar Series: Dr. Ed Hagen
North Lawn Hall, Room 2005 221 Hackberry Lane, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesDr. Ed Hagen from Washington State University will present an ALLELE seminar titled, "The evolution of "recreational" substance abuse: Dramatic age and sex differences and the tradeoff between drug toxicity and antiparasitic benefits."
An Evening with Sarah Giragosian
Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center 620 Greensboro Avenue, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesUA English’s Creative Writing Program is excited to host poet Sarah Giragosian, who will read a selection of her work and answer audience questions. Please join us at the Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center on Wednesday, November 29th at 7 p.m. for a wonderful evening, and arrive early for refreshments and mingling! This event is free and open to the public. Sarah Giragosian is the author of the poetry collections Queer Fish, a winner of the American Poetry Journal Book Prize, and The [...]
Philosophy Today Lecture Series: Dr. Vincent Chiao
ten Hoor Hall, Room 125 350 Marrs Spring Road, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesThe 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.