Past Events
September 2018
A&S Experiential Learning Overview
Are you in the College of Arts & Sciences and interested in obtaining experience in Undergraduate Research, Internships, Service Learning, or Education Abroad? Led by Ms. Pamela Derrick, Director of Experiential Learning, College of Arts & Sciences. Come out to learn more about experiential learning what it is and how to be involved!
Find out more »October 2018
Washington & Montgomery Experience (Internships)
Interested in gaining real world experience working in a political or governmental office? Come out to learn more about what the Washington & Montgomery Experience is all about.
Find out more »Meg Day Poetry Reading and Book Signing
Meg Day is the 2015-2016 recipient of the Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship, a 2013 recipient of an NEA Fellowship in Poetry, and the author of Last Psalm at Sea Level (Barrow Street 2014), winner of the Barrow Street Poetry Prize and the Publishing Triangle’s Audre Lorde Award, and a finalist for the 2016 Kate…
Find out more »“The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas”: 2018 Gladney Lecture for Justice and Social Change
Dr. Monica Muñoz Martinez (Brown University) will deliver this year's Rose Gladney Lecture for Justice and Social Change on October 10, 2018 at 6 p.m. in room 205, Gorgas Library. Martinez is an Andrew Carnegie Fellow and cofounder of the nonprofit organization Refusing to Forget. Her book, The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas,…
Find out more »Akhil Sharma Fiction Reading
Akhil Sharma is the award winning author of the novels Family Life and An Obedient Father. His short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Atlantic, and Best American Short Stories.
Find out more »UA Research Opportunities
Interested in learning how to gain research experience? Join us to learn about all the opportunities available to you.
Find out more »Religious Life, Elites, & Medieval Culture: An International Conference hosted by the University of Alabama, in partnership with the University of Dresden
For a thousand years and more, from the sixth to the sixteenth century and beyond, monks, nuns, canons, friars, andothers under religious vows stood at the pinnacle of Western European society. For their learning, piety, and expertise,and for their embodiment of Christian ideals and values, they were accorded positions of power and influence, anda wide…
Find out more »Religious Life, Elites, & Medieval Culture: An International Conference hosted by the University of Alabama, in partnership with the University of Dresden
For a thousand years and more, from the sixth to the sixteenth century and beyond, monks, nuns, canons, friars, andothers under religious vows stood at the pinnacle of Western European society. For their learning, piety, and expertise,and for their embodiment of Christian ideals and values, they were accorded positions of power and influence, anda wide…
Find out more »Religious Life, Elites, & Medieval Culture: An International Conference hosted by the University of Alabama, in partnership with the University of Dresden
For a thousand years and more, from the sixth to the sixteenth century and beyond, monks, nuns, canons, friars, andothers under religious vows stood at the pinnacle of Western European society. For their learning, piety, and expertise,and for their embodiment of Christian ideals and values, they were accorded positions of power and influence, anda wide…
Find out more »Religious Life, Elites, & Medieval Culture: An International Conference hosted by the University of Alabama, in partnership with the University of Dresden
For a thousand years and more, from the sixth to the sixteenth century and beyond, monks, nuns, canons, friars, andothers under religious vows stood at the pinnacle of Western European society. For their learning, piety, and expertise,and for their embodiment of Christian ideals and values, they were accorded positions of power and influence, anda wide…
Find out more »ARTIST LECTURE: Edgar Heap of Birds
Internationally known artist Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds headlines a series of events on UA campus October 4-25, 2018. During his visit Oct. 22-24, Heap of Birds will present an artist lecture, gallery talk, reception and roundtable discussions with students. Spirit Citizen – An International Dialogue with Artist Edgar Heap of Birds will…
Find out more »Experiential Learning for Law School Prep
Looking into going to law school? Come out and learn about what steps you should be taking and how to get involved before you go.
Find out more »The Day Lecture: Dr. Teemu Taira
The Day Lecture is sponsored by the Department of Religious Studies and will feature Dr. Teemu Taira, University of Helsinki on Tuesday, October 30, 2018 at 7:00 PM in 205 Gorgas Library. Dr. Taira will speak on Reading Bond Films through the Lens of Religion. Â
Find out more »November 2018
Landing Internships for A&S Majors
Are you in the College of Arts & Sciences and looking for interships? Come and learn about interesting internship options and how to apply.
Find out more »Spirits of the Air: Birds and American Indians in the South
Dr. Shepard Krech III (Professor Emeritus, Brown University) will deliver a talk, “Spirits of the Air: Birds and American Indians in the South” on November 27, 2018, at 6 p.m. in room 205, Gorgas Library.  Dr. Krech has spent his career exploring the intersections between human societies and the natural world, most notably through…
Find out more »ARTIST LECTURE: Alice Hohenberg Federico
Alice Hohenberg Federico, a New York artist and a Selma, Alabama, native, will present an exhibition of her ceramic works at the Sarah Moody Gallery of Art November 29, 2018 – January 11, 2019. Federico will present a lecture on her work Wednesday, Nov. 28, 6-8 pm in 205 Gorgas Library.  Federico works on the potter’s…
Find out more »After Slavery: A Pop Up Museum
Created by Blount students enrolled in BUI 301 Slavery, Emancipation, and the University of Alabama seminar, this temporary exhibition explores the African American experience in Tuscaloosa during Reconstruction, 1865-1890. Specifcally, visitors will gain a deeper understanding on early African American political participation, educational attainment from the Freedmen's Schools to Stillman Institute, and efforts to create stable individual and…
Find out more »January 2019
ARTIST LECTURE: Michi Meko
Multidisciplinary artist Michi Meko will deliver a public lecture Thursday, January 24, 2019 at 7:00 pm in Gorgas Library 205 on UA campus. Atlanta Magazine has called Meko’s work about “the contemporary experience of black life and survival.” A native of Florence, Alabama, the Atlanta-based, multidisciplinary artist draws influence from Southern culture and contemporary urban life.…
Find out more »Mercer Professor Sarah Gardner to Speak on Southern Literary Reviewers
Please join us for an evening with Dr. Sarah Gardner, Professor of History at Mercer University, on Monday, January 28, 2019, from 5:00-6:30 PM in Gorgas 205. In her talk, entitled "The World the Reviewers Made," Dr. Gardner will be speaking about her most recent book, Reviewing the South: The Literary Marketplace and the Southern…
Find out more »February 2019
Kwoya Fagin Maples Reading
Kwoya Fagin Maples is a writer from Charleston, S.C. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Alabama and is a graduate Cave Canem Fellow and a Homeschool Lambda Literary Fellow. In addition to a chapbook publication by Finishing Line Press entitled Something of Yours (2010) her work is published in several…
Find out more »ARTIST LECTURE: Ben Vida
The Visiting Artist and Scholar Lecture Series and Sonic Frontiers are proud to present renowned visual artist and composer Ben Vida in two appearances. Vida will deliver a public lecture Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2019, at 7:00 p.m. in Gorgas Library 205 and give a performance Thursday, Feb. 21, 7:30 p.m. at the Recital Hall of…
Find out more »Trail Blazers in Law: Dinner Reception and Lecture
This event is designed to demonstrate how experiences outside of the classroom can prepare you for a career in the legal field. Current legal professionals will you to dicuss opportunities to gain experience, possible career paths, and professional opportunities.
Find out more »Speaking of Alabama and My Return to Y’all: Public lecture by Thomas Nunnally
Dr. Thomas Nunnally, Professor emeritus of English, Auburn University, and Editor of Speaking of Alabama: The History, Diversity, Function, and Change of Language (2018), will give the talk, Speaking of Alabama and My Return to Y’all. Reception will follow the talk.Â
Find out more »March 2019
ARTIST LECTURE: Iva Gueorguieva
Visual artist Iva Gueorguieva will deliver a public lecture Tuesday, March 5, 2019, at 7:00 p.m. in Gorgas Library 205 on UA campus. A native of Bulgaria, Iva Gueorguieva lives and works in Los Angeles. Gueorguieva’s current abstract paintings and sculptures, on display in a two-person exhibition at Sophia Contemporary in London, “investigate notions of space,…
Find out more »Sherrie Flick Masterclass
Sherrie Flick is the author of the novel Reconsidering Happiness (University of Nebraska Press), the flash fiction chapbook I Call This Flirting (Flume Press), and two short story collections with Autumn House Press: Whiskey, Etc. (2016) and Thank Your Lucky Stars (Fall 2018). Her nonfiction has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Creative Nonfiction, Pittsburgh Quarterly, and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Find out more »Race and Gender Explorations: A Symposium on War and Military Service in 19th & 20th Century America
Mark your calendars for a one-day symposium hosted by Dr. Andrew Huebner, Dr. Lesley J. Gordon, and Dr. Holly Pinhiero on Friday, March 22, 2019. The symposium is entitled “Race and Gender Explorations: A Symposium on War and Military Service in 19th & 20thCentury America,” and will explore the overlapping history of American military service, race, and gender. Fighting wars…
Find out more »April 2019
International Opportunities for Arts and Sciences Students
Join us and learn about the many different opportunities Arts and Sciences students can participate in abroad. From internships to research to education abroad, discover all the ways you can add experience to your resume.
Find out more »Freedom of Religion and the State in the Danish Kingdom of Cartoons
Following a brief overview of religion(s) on the ground in the Kingdom of Denmark, including the 2005 Danish cartoon controversy which involved images of the Prophet Mohammad, the lecture focuses on the way in which the state handles religion(s), the freedom of religion(s), its dominant nothions of reigion, and how it manages the relationships between…
Find out more »Jennifer Horne Masterclass
I’m a writer, editor, and teacher, and I enjoy connecting with readers and other writers. On November 1, 2017, I was commissioned Alabama's Poet Laureate, for a four-year term. I grew up in Arkansas and have lived for many years in Alabama, although I’ve also lived abroad, in England and Romania, and have traveled extensively…
Find out more »A Triumph of American Technology: Remembering the 1969 Apollo Moon Landing on Its 50th Anniversary
The Department of History is hosting a colloquium on the 50th anniversary of the Apollo moon landing on Wednesday, April 10, at 5:15pm in 205 Gorgas. It will include talks by Dr. Richard Branam, Assistant Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, titled "How We Got There: the Technology of Rocketry and Space Flight," Dr. Margaret Peacock,…
Find out more »January 2020
The Persecuted Body: U.S. Evangelicals and the Politics of Suffering
“The Persecuted Body: U.S. Evangelicals and the Politics of Suffering” A talk by Dr. Melani McAlister, Professor of American Studies and International Affairs at the George Washington University.  Dr. McAlister recently published The Kingdom of God Has No Borders: A Global History of American Evangelicals (Oxford, 2018) which explores how US evangelical Christians, white and black, have constructed…
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