Lectures and Speakers
LECTURE – Philosophy Today Lecture Series: Dr. Elliot Sober
ten Hoor Hall 125 350 Marrs Spring Road, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesThe University of Alabama’s Department of Philosophy has invited Dr. Elliot Sober (The University of Wisconsin, Madison) to present a talk, “Darwin and Intelligent Design” on December 1, 2022 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.
The Helen Crow Mills and John Carrol Mills Lecture Series: Dr. Hunter Waite
Gallalee Hall 227 514 University Blvd, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesDr. Hunter Waite will present the Fall 2022 Mills Lecture titled "Jupiter and the Galilean Moons: The ongoing NASA Juno mission to Jupiter and future exploration of Europa by the NASA Clipper mission." 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 [...]
Philosophy Today Lecture Series: Dr. Amy Kind
ten Hoor Hall 125 350 Marrs Spring Road, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesThe University of Alabama’s Department of Philosophy has invited Dr. Amy Kind (Claremont McKenna College) to present a talk, “A Skills-Based Framework for Imagination” on October 27, 2022 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.
Paul R. Jones Lecture Series: Cedric Smith
Camellia Room, Gorgas Library 711 Capstone Drive, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesCedric Smith’s work draws on a wide range of influences and sources, traditional and contemporary, to express his poignant observations of African American life. Much of his work is inspired by his observation as a child of the absence and negative portrayals of African Americans in advertising and on the labels of popular brands. The Paul R. Jones Collection currently has two works of painting and collage by Smith that showcase American culture and Black Americana. However, in the exhibition [...]
LECTURE – Dr. Julian M. Damian
Summersell Room, ten Hoor Hall Room 251 350 Marrs Spring Rd, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesThe Department of History, the College of Arts & Sciences, and the Capstone International Center are pleased to welcome to campus Professor Iulian M. Damian, a scholar of European history and culture who is currently in the United States as a Fulbright Visiting Scholar. Professor Damian will present a public research presentation entitled “A ‘Hot Corner’ of 15th Century Europe: Fascination, Defense, and Resilience along the Ottoman Frontier” at 2 PM on November 15 in the Summersell Room (251) in ten Hoor Hall. Dr. Damian [...]
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 [...]