Camellia Room, Gorgas Library
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.”
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
An Evening with Carmen Maria Machado
Camellia Room, Gorgas Library 711 Capstone Drive, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesCelebrated writer Carmen Maria Machado will read a selection of her work and answer audience questions. Copies of her books will be available for purchase and signing. Machado’s writing defies and blends genres such as surrealism, fantasy, and horror to create writing that is so palpable it seems alive. She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and is the Writer in Residence at the University of Pennsylvania.
An Evening with Carmen Maria Machado
Camellia Room, Gorgas Library 711 Capstone Drive, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesCelebrated writer Carmen Maria Machado will read a selection of her work and answer audience questions. Copies of her books will be available for purchase and signing. Machado’s writing defies and blends genres such as surrealism, fantasy, and horror to create writing that is so palpable it seems alive. She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and is the Writer in Residence at the University of Pennsylvania.
An Evening with Carmen Maria Machado
Camellia Room, Gorgas Library 711 Capstone Drive, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesCelebrated writer Carmen Maria Machado will read a selection of her work and answer audience questions. Copies of her books will be available for purchase and signing. Machado’s writing defies and blends genres such as surrealism, fantasy, and horror to create writing that is so palpable it seems alive. She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and is the Writer in Residence at the University of Pennsylvania.
“Stories That Stand Still” – A Discussion of Craft by Carmen Maria Machado
Camellia Room, Gorgas Library 711 Capstone Drive, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesThis talk will explore the craft of writing fiction that doesn’t move—fiction contained in a single, discreet space as large as a house, and as small as a bed—and the implication it has for our understanding of gender, characterization, plot, and time. Stories discussed will include Angela Carter’s “The Fall-River Axe Murders,” Susan Glaspell’s “A Jury of Her Peers,” Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour,” Nancy Hale’s “The Earliest Dreams,” and Lesley Nneka Arimah’s “The Future Looks Good.” This [...]
“Stories That Stand Still” – A Discussion of Craft by Carmen Maria Machado
Camellia Room, Gorgas Library 711 Capstone Drive, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesThis talk will explore the craft of writing fiction that doesn’t move—fiction contained in a single, discreet space as large as a house, and as small as a bed—and the implication it has for our understanding of gender, characterization, plot, and time. Stories discussed will include Angela Carter’s “The Fall-River Axe Murders,” Susan Glaspell’s “A Jury of Her Peers,” Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour,” Nancy Hale’s “The Earliest Dreams,” and Lesley Nneka Arimah’s “The Future Looks Good.” This [...]
“Stories That Stand Still” – A Discussion of Craft by Carmen Maria Machado
Camellia Room, Gorgas Library 711 Capstone Drive, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesThis talk will explore the craft of writing fiction that doesn’t move—fiction contained in a single, discreet space as large as a house, and as small as a bed—and the implication it has for our understanding of gender, characterization, plot, and time. Stories discussed will include Angela Carter’s “The Fall-River Axe Murders,” Susan Glaspell’s “A Jury of Her Peers,” Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour,” Nancy Hale’s “The Earliest Dreams,” and Lesley Nneka Arimah’s “The Future Looks Good.” This [...]