Astronomy Group Public Night
Gallalee Hall Rooftop Observatory , United States6:30-7:00 pm: Talk: “The invisible matter” by Abhipsa Acharya to be held in the Gallalee Hall main lecture hall, Room 227 7:00-9:00 pm: Observing from the Gallalee Hall rooftop observatory, with Dr. Jimmy Irwin
LECTURE: Infrastructures of Feeling: Imperial Nostalgia and Landmark Restoration Projects
ten Hoor Hall, Room 346 350 Marrs Spring Rd, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesDr. Lina Benabdallah of Wake Forest University will be visiting the department on Friday, February 16, 2024 from Noon to 1:30pm in ten Hoor 346. The Program for Middle East Studies and the Department of Political Science invite you to a talk: Infrastructures of Feeling: Imperial Nostalgia and Landmark Restoration Projects States and state actors often engage in infrastructure and landmark restoration, construction, and reconstruction abroad for a variety of strategic reasons, including reviving imperial nostalgias. This presentation examines the [...]
ALLELE Seminar Series: Dr. Erik Sperling
North Lawn Hall, Room 2005 221 Hackberry Lane, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesDr. Erik Sperling from Stanford University will present an ALLELE seminar titled, "Breathless through time: Oxygen, temperature, and animals across Earth’s history."
PERFORMANCE – Alabama Repertory Dance Theatre – Spring 2024
English Building Auditorium 428 Colonial Drive, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesJoin us for an enthralling celebration of dance at the Alabama Repertory Dance Theatre's spring concert. Witness captivating pieces skillfully brought to life by renowned guest choreographers and our nationally acclaimed dance faculty. Together, they create a mesmerizing canvas of motion that reflects the rich tapestry of the field. Enjoy this extraordinary journey and celebrate the power of dance with us. Buy tickets in advance online.
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 [...]
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 [...]