Spring 2009
The University Libraries Lecture Series is made possible in part through the generous support of Lakey and Susan Tolbert.
UA Libraries lecture series vodcast series available here - download and listen to previous talks from the UA Libraries! Please note - dates and times are subject to change.
Please visit this page often as events may be added or changed.
For more information on the UA Libraries Lecture Series, contact Jessica Lacher-Feldman .
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Gorgas Library, room 205 at 4:30 pmDigital Literacy Contest
This event will take place on Wednesday, April 22, 4:30 to 6:00 p.m. in room 205 Gorgas Library and near by computer labs. Everyone will meet at 205 Gorgas at 4:30. Sponsored by the UA libraries as a Digital Literacy/Information Literacy promotion.
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Thursday, April 23, 2009
Gorgas Library, room 205 at 4:30 pmJoel Brouwer, poet and author and Director of UA's MFA program in Creative Writing will read from his new book, And So (Four Way Press, 2009).
"And So is a wonderfully strange book. Its despairing characters are alone even when in a pair, but there is a kind of joy in the poet's attentiveness to the expanse of their distress and the distress of others." -- Matthea Harvey
Past events Spring 2009
Monday April 20, 2009
4:30 pm in the W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, 2nd Floor Mary Harmon Bryant HallElizabeth Findley Shores will discuss her book, On Harper's Trail: Roland McMillan Harper, Pioneering Botanist of the Southern Coastal Plain (UGA Press, 2008)
Roland McMillan Harper (1878-1966) had perhaps "the greatest store of field experience of any living botanist of the Southeast," according to Bassett Maguire, the renowned plant scientist of the New York Botanical Garden. However, Harper's scientific contributions, including his pioneering work on the ecological importance of wetlands and fire, were buried for decades in the enormous collection of photographs and documents he left and were obscured by his reputation as an eccentric. With this book, Elizabeth Findley Shores provides the first full-length biography of the accomplished botanist, documentary photographer, and explorer of the southern coastal plain's wilderness areas. Incorporating a wealth of detail about Harper's interests, accomplishments, and influences, Shores follows his entire scientific career, which was anchored by a thirty-five-year stint with the Alabama Geological Survey. Shores looks at Harper's collaboration with his brother Francis, as they traced William Bartram's route through Alabama and the Florida panhandle and Francis edited the Naturalist Edition of The Travels of William Bartram.Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Gorgas Library, room 205, 2:30 p.m.
3rd Annual University Libraries Student Book Collecting Contest Award Ceremony and Collections Lecture. Prizes will be awarded at this event.
Contest winners are expected to attend this ceremony.Monday, April 13, 2009
Gorgas Library, room 205 at 4 pmTwain Braden will talk about his fascinating adventure and his book, Ghosts of the Pioneers: A Family Search for the Independent Oregon Colony of 1844 (Lyons Press, 2007). Co-sponsored by New College.
In the summer of 2006, between terms of law school, author Twain Braden, his wife Leah Day, and their four children retraced the route of these pioneers, following the Oregon trail in search of emigrant ghosts—along the original ruts formed by their wagons more than 150 years before. Juxtaposing the story of the Independent Oregon Colony’s arduous journey west with his own modern-day trip, Braden presents a moving and illuminating account of how America became what it is today.
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Gorgas Library, room 205 at 4 pm
Robert J. Norell, The University of Tennessee will discuss his new book, Up from History: The Life of Booker T. Washington (Belknap Press, 2009).
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Gorgas Library, room 205 at 4 pmDeserters, Coffee-coolers, Bounty-jumpers and Medicants: Civil War Veterans and the Public in Gilded Age America.
A lecture with Dr. Jim Marten.James Marten is Professor and Chair of the History Department at Marquette University. He is also serving as President of the Society of Civil War Historians. His research and publications have covered a wide range of topics from dissent in Civil War era Texas to the history of childhood. His best known book is The Children’s Civil War published by the University of North Carolina Press in 1998, a pioneering work in social and intellectual history. He is currently working on a project entitled, “Their Great Good Fortune: Civil War Veterans in Victorian America.”Wednesday, March 25, 30092:30-4:30 pm (note special time) in Gorgas Library room 205Meet renowned food expert, Susan Hermann Loomis.As an internationally-recognized expert on food, Susan takes a unique approach to her craft; combining training in journalism with a love for food and the people who produce it.Extensive travel throughout the United States, France, and Italy has given Susan a depth of knowledge and an appreciation for the rich traditions around food—how it is grown, harvested, and prepared. Susan believes that learning about cooking and food should involve much more than recipes and techniques. She delights in meeting and introducing the personalities and customs behind the great cuisines of France.Susan is the author of six cookbooks, the most recent of which is On Rue Tatin (Broadway Books) and runs an internationally known cooking school in the Normandy region of France.Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Gorgas Library, room 205 at 4 pmDr. Rich Megraw, Associate Professor of American Studies at The University of Alabama, will discuss his new book, Confronting Modernity: Art and Society in Louisiana (University Press of Mississippi, 2008).
Confronting Modernity examines how the conflicts and benefits of modernity's nationalizing influences were reflected and resisted by the state's artists in the first half of the20th century. In Louisiana, such change not only produced the turbulent politics of the Huey Long era but also provoked debate over new ideas on art and the social roles for artists.
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Rodgers Library, 2 pmCelebration of Charles Darwin's Birthday at Rodgers Library for Science and Engineering
Rodgers Library for Science and Engineering will sponsor a twenty-minute program on February 12, 2009, at 2:00 p.m., to commemorate Charles Darwin's 200th birthday and the 150th anniversary of Darwin's major work On the Origin of Species.
Professor Daniel Graf of the University of Alabama Department of Biological Sciences will say a few words about Charles Darwin. Following Professor Graf's presentation, birthday cake and punch will be served. All are welcome.
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
2-4 pm in Gorgas Library Pearce Foyer, 2nd Floor
Felix Mendelssohn's 200th Birthday with faculty and students from the Department of Theatre and Dance. Please join us for music and cake!Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Gorgas Library, room 205 at 4 pmAfrican American scholar and author Jerry W. Ward Jr., will read from his memoir, The Katrina Papers.
Dr. Jerry W. Ward Jr. is a distinguished professor of English and African American World Studies at Dillard University in New Orleans. He is recognized as one of the leading experts on the author Richard Wright.
Some of his other works include Black Southern Voices, Redefining Blakc Literary History, and Trouble in the Water: 250 Years of African American Poetry. This event is part of a two day, multi-event visit with Dr. Ward and is co-sponsored by Creative Campus, University LIbraries, Crossroads Community Center and New College.
More information to be added including info on co-sponsors and hosts -- please visit this page often!
[ Events from previous semesters at the Libraries information available here]
