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Printer-friendly version2012 CALENDAR OF EVENTS
University Libraries Lecture Series is made possible in part through the generous support of Lakey and Susan Tolbert.
Please visit this page often as events may be added or changed.
For more information on the UA Libraries Lecture Series, contact Donna Adcock.
EXHIBITIONS
Pearce Foyer, Second Floor
February 15, 2012 - April 15, 2012
Contact: Donna Adcock, 205-348-1416, dbadcock@lib.ua.edu
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Second Floor - Mary Harmon Bryant Hall
Sounds Like Alabama
Alabama's Contributions to American Popular Music
from Hoole Library's Collections
Fall 2011 - Spring 2012
For additional information, visit
EVENTS AND MEETINGS
Monday, February 13, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Peer Leaders Inaugural Meeting
Contact: Jim Dawkins, 205-348-2717
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Academic Council Information Session
Contact: Nick Lambert, 618-518-6057, nicholas.t.lambert@gmail.com
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 10:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Strive for Five - Lunch and Learn Sessions
Sponsored by the Office of Health Promotion and Wellness
Contact: Tyler Williams, 348-0077, wellness@ua.edu
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 11:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
SGA Senate Town Hall Meeting
Contact: Brad Tipper, brad.tipper91@gmail.com
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 6:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Department of Religious Studies
Contact: Donna Martin, 348-5271
Saturday, February 18, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, Noon - 5:00 p.m.
University Fellows Experience Finalist Luncheon
Contact: Wellon Bridgers, 348-7598
Monday, February 20, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Academic Honor Council Information Session
Contact: Nick Lambert, 618-518-6057, nicholas.t.lambert@gmail.com
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
University of Alabama Academic Advising Association Meeting
Contact: Brandy Frost, 348-4537
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 2:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Guest Lecture by Cullen Murphy
Sponsored by the University Libraries, the School of Arts and Sciences and the Alabama Center for the Book
An American writer and editor, Murphy is probably best know for his work at The Atlantic, where he served as managing editor (1985-2006).
The acclaimed author of Are We Rome? brings his highly praised blend of deep research, colorful travelogue, analysis to a new history of the Inquisition in his new book, God's Jury: The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World.
Murphy currently serves as editor at large at Vanity Fair and is the author of The World According to Eve: Women and the Bible in Ancient Times and Our Own (1999).
Murphy, along with his father, John Cullen Murphy, wrote the comic strip Prince Valiant from the mid 70s to 2004.
Book signing and Reception to follow
Everyone is invited to attend!
Contact: Donna Adcock, 205-348-1416, dbadcock.lib.ua.edu
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Lunch 'n Learn Series - Zotero
Sponsored by University Libraries
Bring your brown bag lunch and learn all about Zotero. This free and easy-to-use citation tool will help you cite, collect, organize, and share your resources.
Free and open to the public.
Contact: Nancy Fawley, 205-348-1976, nefawley@ua.edu
Friday, February, 24, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 8:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Strive for Five
Sponsored by the Office of Health Promotion and Wellness
Contact: Tyler Williams, 205-348-0077, wellness@ua.edu
Saturday, February 25, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, Noon - 3:00 p.m.
Lecture and Debate Committee Meeting and Guest Speaker
Contact: Forrest Williams, ftwilliams@crimson.ua.edu
Friday, February 24, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 5:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
BFSA - An Evening Conversation with...Speaker Series
Contact: Brenda Elliot, 205-348-3837, belliot@ia.ua.edu
Friday, February 25, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Medical School Applications Workshop
Contact: Mallory Perkins, 205-348-1670, mallory.perkins@ua.edu
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Medical School Applications Workshop
Contact: Mallory Perkins, 205-348-1670, mallory.perkins@ua.edu
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Office of Health Promotion and Wellness - Lunch and Learn
Contact: Tyler Williams
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Office of Parent Programs
Contact: Matthew Clayton, 205-348-8404
Thursday, March 1, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 4:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Tide Together Workshop
Contact: Nadia Richardson, 205-401-7382
Saturday, March 3, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Alabama Center for the Book Gathering
Alabama Special Collections and Archives for the 21st Century
Sponsored by the Alabama Center for the Book, University Libraries and the School of Library and Information Studies
This day-long meeting will engage individuals and institutions state-wide interested in sharing information about its many public and private archives and special collections. The meeting creates opportunities for librarians, curators, archivists, book artists, museum administrators and collectors to share their thoughts on defining and redefining collecting, compare notes on physical and virtural exhibitions, and have a fruitful dialog about opportunities and options for special collections over the next two to five years. Guest speakers will include:
- Timothy Barrett, University of Iowa, 2009 MacArthur Fellow
- Tim Ely, renowed book artist
- Kenneth Gaddy, director of the Paul W. Bryant Museum
- Dr. John Cole, director of the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress
Contact: Donna Adcock, director, Public Relations, UA Libraries, 205-348-1416, dbadcock@lib.ua.edu
Monday, March 5, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 8:00 a.m. - Noon
Honors College Spring Recruitment Event
Contact: Allison Verhine, 205-348-5534
Monday, March 5, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Medical School Applications Workshop
Contact: Mallory Perkins, 205-348-1670, mallory.perkins@ua.edu
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 6:30 p.m.
Chiba University Transcultural Nursing Program Dinner
Hosted by the Capstone College of Nursing and Dean Sara Barger
Contact: Amanda Burroughs, 205-348-8532, aburroug@eli.ua.edu
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 2:00 p.m.
Author, Julie Hedgepeth Williams, has just released her new book, A Rare Titanic Family, about her great-uncle, Albert Caldwell, who survived the Titanic, along with his wife and baby.
Williams grew up hearing the story of the Titanic and how her family members survived the tragic 1912 shipwreck; one of the few families to survive intact. Williams was so inspired by Caldwell's story that she majored in History (and English) at Principia College, and eventually got a Master's and a PhD at University of Alabama, both with an emphasis on media history. She is the past president of the American Journalism Historians Association and teaches journalism part-time at Samford University in Birmingham. She has also taught media history at UA's own Master's in Community Journalism Program. She is married and has two teenage sons.
Check out the book's website at https://sites.google.com/site/raretitanicfamily/, or on Facebook at "A Rare Titanic Family."
The lecture, book signing and reception are free and open to the public.
Contact: Donna Adcock, 205-348-1416, dbadcock@lib.ua.edu
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Blackburn Institute Elections
Contact: Candice Peters, cpeters@sa.ua.edu
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.
College of Communication & Information Sciences' Communication & Diversity Forum
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 6:30 p.m.
English Language Institute Farewell Ceremony
Contact: Carol Weaver, 205-348-7413, cweaver@eli.ua.edu
Friday, March 9, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.
Blackboard Learn Learning Management System Initiative
Contact: Rachel Shuttlesworth, rshuttle@ua.edu, 205-348-0216
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
University of Alabama Academic Advising Association Meeting
Contact: Brandy Frost, 348-4537
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 2:00 p.m.
Chip Cooper - Lecture - Dance of the Photographer about his latest book, Old Havana: Spirit of the Living City.
Chip Cooper and Néstor Martí began collaborating in 2008, documenting the picturesque features of the oldest and most historically rich quarter in Cuba’s capital city at the behest of Eusebio Leal Spengler, the historian of the city of Havana and the director of the Habana Vieja restoration project. Cooper’s and Martí’s images highlight the spirit of change and renewal underlying the restoration of this international treasure and its revival as a vibrant business and residential area.
Chip Cooper was director of photography for The University of Alabama for thirty-three years and is now artist-in-residence in the Honors College and a faculty member in Arts and Sciences. While working for the university, he has published the following books: Hunting: The Southern Tradition, Alabama Memories, Silent in the Land, Common Threads, Crimson: The University of Alabama, and recently Tin Man. He has shown his work nationally and internationally, and his photographs are in many museums, as well as private and corporate collections.
Book signing to follow.
Event is free and open to the public.
Contact: Kelli H. Wright, 205-348-8539,khwright@as.ua.edu
Friday, March 23, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.
Honors College Spring Recruitment Event
Contact: Allison Verhine, allison.verhine@ua.edu, 205-348-5534
Saturday, March 24, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 10:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Interfraternity Council Preview Day - Meet and Greet
Contact: Albert Kotchish, 804-615-9024, greekgrad2@sa.ua.edu
Monday, March 26, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, Noon - 5:00 p.m.
Department of Religious Studies Lecture
Contact: Donna Martin, 348-5271
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 5:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
First Generation Honors Reception
Contact: Stacy Panitch, 205-348-5318, sapanitch@ua.edu
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, tba
Southern Hospitality: Alabama's Immigration Law in Political and Historical Perspective
Contact: Joshua Rothman, 205-348-3818
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Saturday, March 31, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, tba
Tuscaloosa County Preservation Society
Monday, April 2, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 5:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Department of Metallurgical & Materials Engineering Honor's Day Ceremony
Contact: Jan Creitz, 205-348-1739
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
April is National Poetry Month: Reading by 2012 Alabama State Council on the Arts Literature Fellows: Abraham Smith and Jeanie Thompson
Sponsored by: Alabama Writers' Forum, The Alabama Center for the Book and University Libraries
Free and open to the public.
Contact: Donna Adcock, 205-348-1416
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 3:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Symposium on Teaching Holocaust and Genocide Studies
In Honor of longtime University of Alabama Professor: Jerry Rosenberg
Contact: Marysia Galbraith, 348-8412
Thursday, April 5, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 4:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Tide Together Workshop
Contact: Nadia Richardson, 205-401-7382
Monday, April 9, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.
Honors College Spring Recruitment Event
Contact: Allison Verhine, allison.verhine@ua.edu, 205-348-5534
Monday, April 9, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Peer Leaders Inaugural Meeting
Contact: Jim Dawkins, 205-348-2717, jtdawkinsiv@sa.ua.edu
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 2:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Arts and Science Group Advising
Contact: Nancy Shockley, 205-348-9171, nshockle@as.ua.edu
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Symposium Hosted by Honors College
Contact: Wellon Bridgers, 348-7598
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 10:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Student Employee of the Year Luncheon
Contact: Vaishali Patel, 205-348-4354
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Spring Faculty Meeting - College of Arts and Sciences
Contact: Janie Boswell, 348-4356
Friday, April 13, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Writing Fair sponsored by the Department of English
Contact: Kevin Waltman, 205-310-5908
Monday, April 16, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 8:00 a.m. - Noon
Honors College Spring Recruitment Event
Contact: Allison Verhine, allison.verhine@ua.edu, 205-348-5534
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
University of Alabama Academic Advising Association Meeting
Contact: Brandy Frost, 348-4537
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Reading sponsored by Creative Campus
Contact: Jane Hall, Executive Secretary for the Associate Provost for Academic Affairs and Creative Campus, 205-348-7884
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Lunch 'n Learn Series - Prezi
Sponsored by University Libraries
Everyone is invited to bring their brown bag lunch and learn about Prezi a cloud-based (SaaS) presentation software and storytelling tool for exploring and sharing ideas upon a virtual canvas. Prezi is distinguished by its Zooming User Interface (ZUI), which enables users to zoom in and out of their presentation media. Prezi allows users to display and navigate through information within a 2.5D space on the Z-axis.
Free
Contact: Nancy Fawley, 205-348-1976, nefawley@ua.edu
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 12:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Anthropology Presentation
Contact: Kevin Walker, 348-1357
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 5:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Student Organization New Officer Training
Hosted by: SOURCE Board of Governors
Contact: Tyler Cohen, 615-818-6564
Friday, April 20, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 8:00 a.m. - Noon
Honors College Spring Recruitment Event
Contact: Allison Verhine, allison.verhine@ua.edu, 205-348-5534
Friday, April 20, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, Noon - 5:00 p.m.
Lavendar Graduation Event
Sponsored by the Women's Resource Center
LGBT students graduating in Fall 2012, Spring 2012 or Summer 2012, their allies and families are welcomed to graduate or "walk" in the event or to attend the event.
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Creative Writing Club Reading
Contact: Dr. Robin Behn, 205-348-8488
Saturday, April 28, 2012
Pearce Foyer, Gorgas Library, 8:00 a.m.
Gorgas Library, room 205, 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Denny Society
Contact: Lisa Pritchett, 205-348-0758, lpritchett@advance.ua.edu
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
University of Alabama Academic Advising Association Meeting
Contact: Brandy Frost, 348-4537
Friday, May 17-18, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 8:00 a.m.
Southeastern Women's Centers Conference
Sponsored by the Women's Resource Center
Contact: Cyndi Hamner, 205-348-5040, cghamner@sa.ua.edu
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Tide Together Mentoring Program Meeting
Contact: Becky Odom-Bartel, Graduate Ambassador Coordinator, 205-523-4882
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 10:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Strive for Five - Lunch and Learn Sessions
Sponsored by the Office of Health Promotion and Wellness
Contact: Tyler Williams,205-348-0077,wellness@ua.edu
Friday, February 3, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 8:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Check for Strive for Five
Sponsored by the Office of Health Promotion and Wellness
Contact: Tyler Williams, 205-348-0077, wellness@ua.edu
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Tide Together Workshop
Contact: Nadia Richardson, 205-401-7382
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 5:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Professor Maryemma Graham, University of Kansas
Lecture, Book Signing and Reception
Sponsor: Department of English
Contact: Yolanda Manora, 205-348-5949, ymanora@english.as.ua.edu
Monday, January 30, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 5:00 p.m.
Poetry Reading by Dr. Hank Lazer and Professor Robin Behn
Free and open to the public!
Sponsored by: Creative Campus
Contact: Professor Robin Behn, 205-348-8488
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
SGA Initiative
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, Noon - 5:00 p.m.
Department of Religious Studies
Contact: Donna Martin, 348-5271
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 1:45 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.
Blackboard Learn Learning Management System Initiative
Contact: Rachel Shuttlesworth, 205-348-0216
Monday, January 23, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Greek Recruitment Information Session
Contact: Albert Kotchish, 804-615-9024, greekgrad2@sa.ua.edu
Monday, January 23, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 7:30 a.m.
Office of Undergraduate Admissions and Scholarships
Contact: Lynn McColl, 348-8206
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Lecture and Debate Committee Meeting
Contact: Forrest Williams, ftwilliams@crimson.ua.edu
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Guest Lecture by Michael Fitzgerald, professor of history, St. Olaf's College, Northfield, Minnesota.
Sponsored by the Frances S. Summersell Center for the Study of the South
Fitzgerald is the author of the book "The Union League and Social Change in the Deep South During Reconstruction" (LSU, 1989) a study of African-American grassroots politics and its impact on the plantation system. Various articles of his dealing with aspects of Reconstruction have appeared in the Journal of American History, Journal of Southern History, and Civil War History. He has recently published an article on Black Nationalism in the 1930s too. His most recently completed work is on African American activists and the politics of livelihood, titled "Urban Emancipation: Popular Politics in Reconstruction Mobile 1860-1890" (LSU, 2002).
At St. Olaf, Fitzgerald teaches African-American history, Civil War and Reconstruction, along with co-teaching the second half of the American survey. He teaches seminars on various topics dealing with southern history and race relations. He periodically directs the American Racial and Multicultural Studies and African Diaspora programs.
Contact: Dr. Joshua Rothman, associate professor of History and African American Studies
director, Frances S. Summersell Center for the Study of the South, 205-348-3818
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Honors College Assembly - Involvement Symposium
Contact: Emily Broman, ecbroman@crimson.ua.edu
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Poetry Reading by Norman Fischer, sponsored by Creative Campus
Contact: Alexis Clark, 205-348-7884
Tuesday, January, 17, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
University of Alabama Academic Advising Association Meeting
Contact: Beverly Frost, 348-4537
Thursday, January 5, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Libraries' Technology Forum
Contact: Tom Wilson, Associate Dean, 205-348-2299
Monday, December 19, 2011
Gorgas Library, room 205, 8:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Toys for Tots Reception Banquet
Contact: Mary Ann Robbins, 348-0762
Thursday, December 1, 2011
Gorgas Library, room 205, 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
UAPD Retiree Recognition Reception
Contact: April Weatherford, 348-4521
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Gorgas Library, room 205, tba
Guest Lecture by Joseph Dane
Sponsored by School of Library and Information Studies, the Creative Writing Department, and University Libraries
Contact: Steve Miller, 348-1525
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Gorgas Library, room 205, 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Geological Survey of Alabama/State Oil and Gas Board Staff Training and Meeting
Contact: Yvonne Massey, 205-247-3687
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Gorgas Library, room 205, 6:00 p.m.- 7:00 p.m.
SGA Town Hall Meeting
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Gorgas Library, room 205, 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. NEW TIME
Talk by Astronaut Col. Michael "Mike" Fincke
Sponsored by Capstone International Programs, University Libraries, International Honors Program and Capstone Conversations
To learn more about Col. Fincke visit: http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/fincke.html
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Gorgas Library, room 205, 7:30 p.m.
Television as Archive: What Can We Learn about American Politics from American Politics from Watching Old Cop Shows?
Contact: Nhung Nguyen, glomitas@gmail.com
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
W. S. Hoole Special Collections Library, 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
W. S. Hoole Special Collections Library, 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 CANCELLED
Gorgas Library, room 205, 5:30 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.
Film Showing by visiting Spanish writer and film director, Vicente Molina Foix
Sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages and Classics
Contact: Dr. Ana Corbalan, 205-348-7151
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Gorgas Library, room 205, 2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
University of Alabama Advising Association Meeting
Contact: Brandy Frost, 348-4537
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Gorgas Library, room 205, 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Justification Forum
Sponsored by Lambda Zeta Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority
Contact: Jamie Coleman, 251-554-0400, jacoleman3@crimson.ua.edu
Monday, November 14, 2011
Gorgas Library, room 205, 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Residence Hall Association Meeting
Contact: Keith Saint, president, Residence Hall Association, 348-4953
Friday, November 11, 2011
Gorgas Library,11:00 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Elsevier Meeting and Luncheon
Contact: Jill Grogg, 205-348-7994
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Gorgas Library, room 205, 10:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Annual Building Representative Luncheon
Contact: Celeste Siggers, Office of the Assistant Vice President of Facilities and Grounds, 348-8703
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
W. S. Hoole Special Collections Library, Second Floor, Mary Harmon Bryant Hall, 5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
The Authentic Animal: Reading and Talk with Dave Madden
UA assistant professor in the Creative Writing Department, Dave Madden, will read from his new book, The Authentic Animal: Inside the Odd and Obsessive World of Taxidermy (St. Martin's Press, 2011). A reception and signing will take place before and after the talk.
Publisher's Weekly says that The Authentic Animal "muses with verve and wit on the relationships between human and animal, art and artifact, as well as on the collector's obsession." Kirkus Reviews calls the book a "readable, sometimes chilling tour of an intriguing subculture." And booklist sees "genuine curiosity, respect, depth, and wit," in the writing of "this remarkably entertaining and thought-provoking book."
Everyone is invited!
http://www.lib.ua.edu/libraries/hoole/happenings/events.htm
Contact: Jessica Lacher-Feldman, 348-0506
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Gorgas Library, room 205, Noon - 5:00 p.m.
Department of Religious Studies Lecture
Contact: Donna Martin, 348-5271
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Gorgas Library, room 205, 7:30 p.m.
Stories of the Buddha: Ancient, Medieval, Modern
Contact: Nhung Nguyen, glomitas@gmail.com
Monday, November 7, 2011
Gorgas Library, room 205, 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Residence Hall Association Meeting
Contact: Keith Saint,president, Residence Hall Association, 348-4953
November 7, 2011
Gorgas Library, room 205, 8:00 a.m. - Noon
Honors College Recruitment Event
Contact: Allison Verhine, 348-5534
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Gorgas Library, room 205, Noon - 5:00 p.m.
Friday, November 4, 2011
Gorgas Library, room 205, 7:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
The Department of Mechanical Engineering Round Table Discussion
Contact: Lynn Hamric, 348-6341
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Gorgas Library, room 205, 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
First Annual Building a Sustainable Network
Hosted by: The Future Black Law Students Association
Contact: Alexander Camardelle, president, 251-295-8738
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Gorgas Library, room 205, 8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Crimson Couch to 5K Check-Ins
Health Promotion and Wellness
Contact: Linda Faulkner, 348-0083
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Gorgas Library, room 205, 3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Guest Speaker, Evlyn Gould, College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor in the Humanities and professor of French, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon
Gould holds a B.A. degree in Dance, has performed in classical and character ballet, and serves as cantorial assistant at the synagogue. Her work focuses on 19th century French literature, culture, and the performing arts, as well as issues in Jewish and European Studies.
She is the author of Virtural Theater from Diderot to Mallarmé (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989), The Fate of Carmen (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996; 2001), and co-author and co-editor of Engaging Europe: Rethinking a Continent in Change (Rowman and Littlefield, 2006; 2007).
Sponsored by the Department of Modern Language and Classics
Contact: Cindy Davis, 205-348-5054
CANCELLED
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Gorgas Library, room 205, 9:00 a.m. - Noon
Office of Educational Technology (eTech)
Contact: Catherine Doughty, 348-4922
Friday, October 28, 2011
Gorgas Library, room 205, 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Alumni Day
Sponsored by the School of Library and Information Studies
Contact: Beth Riggs, 348-1527
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Gorgas Library, room 205, 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Women in Politics Forum
Contact: Devin Wyatt, dawyatt1@crimson.ua.edu
Friday, October 21, 2011
Gorgas Library, room 205, 11:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Mill's Lecture - Lt. General William Foster, guest speaker
Sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences
Contact: Janie Boswell, 348-4356
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Gorgas Library, room 205, 5:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
University Honors Program
Contact: Julie Hollingsworth, 205-348-5577
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Gorgas Library, room 205, 8:00 a.m. - Noon
First Year Experience and Parent Program
Division of Student Affairs
Contact: Jessalynn King, 205-348-8404
Beverages and light snacks will be provided.
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Gorgas Library, room 205, 2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
University of Alabama Academic Advising Association Meeting
Contact: Brandy Frost, 348-4537
Monday, October 17, 2011
Gorgas Library, room 205, 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Residence Hall Association Meeting
Contact: Keith Saint, 348-4953
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Gorgas Library, room 205, 7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Photographer Shelia Pree Bright
Ms. Bright's lecture is in conjunction with the Paul Jones Collection of American Art.
Sheila Pree Bright, born 1967, is a fine art photographer based in Atlanta. Her large-scale works combine a wide-ranging knowledge of contemporary culture, while challenging perceptions of identity. Bright received national attention after winning the “Santa Fe Prize” from the Santa Fe Center for Photography in 2006 for her body of work The Suburbia Series. The project takes aim at the American media’s projection of the typical African-American community and depicts a more realistic and common ideology of African-American life.
Sponsored by Dean Robert Olin and the College of Arts & Sciences
Contact: Stacy Morgan, 348-0069
Monday, October 10, 2011
Gorgas Library, room 205, 6:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
"Stamping Out Hunger" - Beat Auburn Beat Hunger Letter Sending Event
The Community Service Center and the West Alabama Food Bank are teaming up to host the annual food drive competition to fight hunger while competing against Auburn University. The Beat Auburn Beat Hunger Kick off festivities begin Monday, Oct. 10.
"Beat Auburn Beat Hunger is one of the oldest traditions and most unifying things on campus that allows students to give back to the community that is in such great need," said Charlotte Brown, CSC student director for hunger and homelessness.
"The West Alabama Food Bank helps the Tuscaloosa community, but it also helps the counties surrounding Tuscaloosa, as well," said Wahnee Sherman, director of the CSC. "This is a wonderful way for students to get involved in a very practical way. Students have been so great since the tornado; this is another way for them to continue what they've already done and to make an impact here in Tuscaloosa and the surrounding area."
Each year, the sponsoring groups try to implement new activities for students to get involved in. On Monday, there will be the Stamp Out Hunger letter-writing campaign in Gorgas Library Room 205 from 6 to 10 p.m. Participants can personalize letters and emails and send them to family members and friends. There will be refreshments and prizes for the student who sends the most letters and/or emails. All envelopes and stamps will be provided, along with the pre-made letter.
Donations can be made around campus, in the community and also via text message. For more information on BABH, visit http://beatauburnbeathunger.ua.edu .
Contact: Charlotte Brown, 334-399-7033
Friday, October 7, 2011
Gorgas Library, room 205, 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Lecture by David Newel
Sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences
Contact: Janie Boswell, 348-4356
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Gorgas Library, room 205, 4:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Tide Together Workshop
Contact: Nadia Richardson, 205-401-7382
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Wednesday, October 5, 2011 Hoole Special Collections Library, Second Floor, Mary Harmon Bryant Hall, 5:00 p.m. - Reception & Book Signing; 5:30 p.m. - Talk Thirteen Loops: Race, Violence, and the Last Lynching in America (University of Alabama Press, 2011) by B. J. Hollars Hollars is a graduate of the MFA program in creative writing at the University of Alabama and is an assistant professor teaching non-fiction writing at the University of Wisconsin Eau Clair. Hollars used the collections at the W. S. Hoole Special Collections Library for his research. The event is sponsored by University Libraries and is free and open to the public. |
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http://www.lib.ua.edu/libraries/hoole/happenings/events.htm
Contact: Jessica Lacher-Feldman, 348-0506
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Gorgas Library, room 205, 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Library Forum
Contact: Angela Wright, 348-6303
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Gorgas Library, room 205, 8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Crimson Couch to 5K Check-Ins
Health Promotion and Wellness
Contact: Linda Faulkner, 348-0083
Monday, October 3, 2011
Gorgas Library room 205, 5:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Culverhouse Investment Management Group
Contact: Rob Norwood, president, 615-975-9929
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Gorgas Library, room 205, 5:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Rose Gladney Lecture Series
Sponsored by American Studies
Contact: Dr. Lynne M. Adrian, 348-9762
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Gorgas Library, room 205, 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Honors College Lecture
Contact: Wellon Bridgers, 348-7598
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Gorgas Library, room 205, 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
United Way Campus Campaign Kickoff
Contact: Nancy Bohannon, 348-8376
Monday, September 26, 2011
Gorgas Library, room 205, 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Residence Hall Association Meeting
Contact: Keith Saint, 348-4953
Beverages and light snacks will be provided.
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Hoole Special Collections Library, Second Floor, Mary Harmon Bryant Hall
5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. Talk to begin at 5:30 p.m.
Talk and Book Signing with Alieen Henderson on E.A. Smith
Please join us!
For more information visit: http://www.lib.ua.edu/libraries/hoole/happenings/events.htm
Contact: Jessica Lacher-Feldman, 348-0506
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Gorgas Library, room 205, 2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
University of Alabama Academic Advising Association Meeting
Contact: Brandy Frost, 348-4537
Monday, September 19, 2011
Gorgas Library, room 205, 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Alpha Epsilon Delta Meeting
(Pre-Medical Honor Society)
Contact: Amanda Wright, 205-331-0774
Friday, September 16, 2011
McLure Education Library, 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Family Weekend Story Time - Sponsored by University Libraries
The McLure Education Library will host Story Time as part of UA's annual Family Weekend. Faculty staff, students, and visitors who have or work with children are invited to attend. Adults will learn helpful hints on reading and telling stories while children of all ages will enjoy listening to a few examples. The theme for this year's Family Weekend is "Weathering the Storms." The theme will focus on families surviving through times of disaster.
Mildred L. Jackson, Ph.D., associate dean for research & instruction, UA Libraries, and professional story teller, will be this year's featured storyteller. Jackson has a master's degree in storytelling from East Tennessee State University, Jonesborough, TN. Student volunteers from the College of Education and School of Library & Information Studies will also share stories and lead children in an arts and crafts activity.
Please join us for an afternoon of storytelling, crafts and refreshments.
McLure Library is located on University Boulevard, next to Graves Hall. No registration is necessary and everyone is welcome. For more information, please contact Helga Visscher at hvissche@ua.edu or 205-348-1507.
To view other Family Weekend Events visit http://parents.ua.edu/fwSchedule.cfm
Friday, September 16, 2011
Gorgas Library, room 205, 2:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Parent Advisory Council Meeting
Contact: Rob Patterson, Associate Director, First Year Experience & Parent Programs, 348-8404
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Gorgas Library, room 205, Noon- Lunch, 1:30 - 3:30 Meeting
Library Leadership Board Meeting
Contact: Donna Adcock, 348-1416
Monday, September 12, 2011
Gorgas Library, room 205, 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Residence Hall Association Meeting
Contact: Keith Saint, 348-4953
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Gorgas Library, room 205, 8:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Future Black Law Students Meeting
Contact: Alex Camardelle, 251-295-8738
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Gorgas Library, room 205, 4:00 p.m.
Lecture by Gary Gallagher - Civil War in film
Gallagher, the John L. Nau III Professor of the American Civil War at the University of Virginia, is fascinated by the impact of film and how people's perceptions are both reflected in and shaped by images. He uses films in his Civil War class to illustrate how Hollywood's treatment of the war and public perceptions have changed over the decades.
Book signing
To learn more about Gary Gallagher visit:
http://civilwarlibrarian.blogspot.com/2008/02/gary-gallagher-on-glory-gone-with-wind.html
Contact: George C. Rable, Charles Summersell Chair in Southern History, 205-348-1808
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Gorgas Library, room 205, 8:30 a.m - 10:00 a.m.
Crimson Couch to 5K Check-Ins
Health Promotion and Wellness
Contact: Linda Faulkner, 348-0083
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Gorgas Library, room 205, 8:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Honors College Assembly
Contact: Sarah Hughes, 205-495-2206
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Gorgas Library, room 205, 6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Academic Honor Council Meeting
Contact: Wesley Vaughn, 205-937-1090
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Gorgas Library, room 205, 8:00 a.m. - Noon
Programs in Secondary Curriculum, Teaching and Learning
Contact: Margie Carroll, 348-6058
Monday, August 29, 2011
Gorgas Library, room 205, 8:00 a.m. - Noon
Programs in Secondary Curriculum, Teaching and Learning
Contact: Margie Carroll, 348-6058
Saturday, August 27, 2011
Gorgas Library, room 205, 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Student Senate Workshop
Contact: Ryan Flamerich, 786-302-3834
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Gorgas Library, room 205, 8:00 a.m. - Noon
Programs in Secondary Curriculum, Teaching and Learning
Contact: Margie Carroll, 348-6058
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Gorgas Library, room 205, 1:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Alabama 102
Sponsored by the Blackburn Institute
Contact: Candace Peters, 348-3277
Friday, August 19, 2011
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Gorgas Library, room 205, 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Gone With the Wind - Lecture by Tuscaloosa collector, David Williams
Sponsored by The University of Alabama Libraries and The Alabama Center for the Book
Mr. Williams has been collecting Gone With the Wind memorabilia since he first saw the movie in 1969. He will share his stories about collecting , his favorite item in his collection, where he collects and his knowledge of the subject.
Join us for a fun afternoon and remember where you were when you first read the book and saw the movie.
Everyone is invited and refreshments will be served.
Contact: Donna Adcock, 348-1416
Gorgas Library, room 205
Dean of Students Dinner
Event is private.
Contact: Houston Johnson, 242-4204
Friday, September 3, 2010
Monday, March 29, 2010
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
From 5-10 pm
Artist Dozier Bell: Lecture in Gorgas Library room 205, followed by a reception in the Sarah Moody Gallery. Her solo show, "Navigator: Paintings by Dozier Bell" will be on view at the Sarah Moody Gallery of Art of the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, July 31 - September 4, 2009. University of Alabama Department of Art.
Dozier Bell was born and raised in Maine, where she still lives. As a graduate student, she studied painting at the University of Pennsylvania with renowned landscape painter Neil Welliver, and at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.
Since her first solo show in 1987, Bell has received a number of awards, including fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation; she has been a Fulbright artist-in-residence at the Bauhaus University in Weimar, Germany, and is the recipient of an honorary doctorate from the Maine College of Art.
Thursday, September 3, 2009
in Gorgas Library room 205 from 3:30-4:45 pm and the Bama Theater at 7:30pm
Poetry, Community, and Public Engagement: A Conversation
The University of Alabama’s Creative Campus Initiative is pleased to present guest writers Alabama Poet Laureate, Sue Walker and Founder of the Alabama Writer’s Forum, Jeanie Thompson in Tuscaloosa on September 3, 2009. Walker and Thompson will make two appearances during their visit.
A panel discussion entitled: Poetry, Community, and Public Engagement: A Conversation will take place at 3:30 pm to 4:45 pm with a reception and book signing to follow, in 205 Gorgas. The Conversation will feature panelists Walker and Thompson as well as UA Professor of Creative Writing Robin Behn and Ryan Browne key persons involved with the Creative Writing Workshop for High School Students and Kyes Stevens, founder of the Alabama Prison Arts & Education Project.
That evening at 7:30 pm in concurrence with Wayne Sides’ photo exhibition in the Bama Theatre’s Junior League Gallery, Walker and Thompson will give readings in the Bama’s Greensboro Room and will be available for signing afterwards.
Books will be available for purchase at both events. All events are FREE and open to the public. The visit has been made possible through contributions from Creative Campus, the Department of English program in Creative Writing, the Honors College, and University Libraries. To arrange an appointment with Thompson or Walker contact Alexis Clark, alexis.clark@ua.edu or the Creative Campus office at 205-348-7884. For more information visit www.creativecampus.ua.edu or call 205-348-7884.
Thursday, September 17, 2009
in Gorgas Library room 205 at 7:30 pm
Juliana Spahr teaches exploratory forms, ones full of juxtaposed noises, clashing contexts, and community discord even while some of her expectations (and hopes) for writing are more meditative.
She publishes poetry, prose, and essay.Reception and book signing to follow.
Thursday, September 24, 2009 *Canceled*
in Gorgas Library room 205 from 4-6 pm
Warren St. John
Due to a scheduling conflict, unfortunately we will have to cancel Warren St. John's visit on 9/24. We are looking at other dates and times, so please stay tuned. We apologize for any inconvenience. Thank you!
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
in Gorgas Library room 205 at 5pm
Join us for a lecture by Elena Barthel, 2nd Year Visiting Assistant Professor at the Rural Studio at Auburn University.
The Rural Studio is a design-build architecture studio run by Auburn University which aims to teach students about the social responsibilities of the profession of architecture while also providing safe, well-constructed and inspirational homes and buildings for poor communities in rural west Alabama.
Lecture in Gorgas Library 205, Exhibit and Reception in Sarah Moody Gallery of Art
Thursday, October 1, 2009
in Gorgas Library room 205 at 7:30 pm
The keynote lecture for the Race and Displacement Symposium will be given by a prominent figure in critical race studies, Houston A. Baker, Jr. of Vanderbilt University. This lecture is free and open to all.
Houston A. Baker, Jr. is a native of Louisville, Kentucky. He received his BA (Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa) from Howard University. He received his MA and Ph.D. degrees from UCLA. He has taught at Yale, the University of Virginia, the University of Pennsylvania, and Duke University. Currently, he is Distinguished University Professor and Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. He has served as Editor of American Literature, the oldest and most prestigious journal in American Literary Studies. Professor Baker began his career as a scholar of British Victorian Literature, but made a career shift to the study of Afro-American Literature and Culture. He has published or edited more than twenty books. He is the author of more than eighty articles, essays, and reviews. His most recent books include Turning South Again: Re-Thinking Modernism, Re-Reading Booker T and I Don’t Hate the South: Reflections on Faulkner, Family, and the South. He has served in a number of administrative and institutional posts, including the 1992 Presidency of the Modern Language Association of America. His honors include Guggenheim, John Hay Whitney, and Rockefeller Fellowships, as well as a number of honorary degrees from American colleges and universities.
Friday, October 2, 2009
in Morgan Auditorium at 7:30 pm
As part of the Race and Displacement Symposium, we are pleased to bring Queen Quet back to The University of Alabama campus. This event is free and open to all.
Marquetta Goodwine (also known as Queen Quet, Chieftess of the Gullah/Geechee Nation or Marquetta L. Goodwine), is a native of St. Helena Island, South Carolina and is an author, computer scientist, mathematician, preservationist, and the selected and elected Head-of-State for the Gullah/Geechee Nation. She is the official spokesperson for Gullah/Geechees. The Gullah/Geechee people organized and voted to establish her position along with the Wisdom Circle Council of Elders and Assembly of Representatives. They have their own constitution and flag. The Gullah/Geechee Nation begins in Jacksonville, North Carolina and extends southward to Jacksonville, Florida encompassing the Sea Islands and the Lowcountry.
Goodwine is the founder of the Gullah/Geechee Sea Island Coalition, which works to preserve the land and culture of the Gullah/Geechee, who continue to be forced out of their island and coastal homes due to development and economic pressures. In 1999 she became the first Gullah to speak before the United Nations, giving testimony at an April 1 hearing of the Commission on Human Rights in Switzerland. Queen Quet is also the Chair of the Gullah/Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor General Management Plan and the Expert Commissioner for South Carolina. She is a member of the 15 person commission established by the United States Gullah/Geechee Cultural Heritage Act which was passed by the United States Congress. This was a result of the work that Queen Quet had done to inform the world of the need to protect this unique culture.
Goodwine also served as a consultant for the 2000 Mel Gibson film The Patriot, which featured scenes set in the Gullah region of South Carolina. She continues to advise on numerous historic documentaries and to lecture throughout the world. She is the founder of a historic presentation troupe, "De Gullah Cunneckshun" which has recorded several CDs.
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
in Gorgas Library room 205 at 4 pm
Come hear Dr. Hasan Kwame Jeffries talk about his new book Bloody Lowndes: Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama's Black Belt (New York University Press, 2009). Learn about the beginnings of the Black Power movement in Lowndes County, Alabama and it's effects on the larger civil rights movement. Reception and book signing to follow.
Thursday, October 15, 2009
in Gorgas Library room 205 at 7 pm
Alicia Schmidt Camacho is Sarai Ribicoff Associate Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, Race at Migration, and the Associate Master for Ezra Stiles College. Her scholarship concerns the femicide in Ciudad Juárez, transnational migration, border governance, and social movements in the Americas. She is the author of Migrant Imaginaries: Latino Cultural Politics in the Mexico–U.S. Borderlands (NYU Press, 2008), and is currently at work on a second book project entitled, The Carceral Border: Social Violence and Governmentality on the Frontiers of Our America. She serves on the board of Junta for Progressive Action, a community agency serving the Latina/o community of Fair Haven, and is a contributor to local and transnational projects for immigrant and human rights.
Reception and book signing to follow.
In Gorgas Library room 205 at 4:30 pm
In Gorgas Library room 205 at 7:30 pm
Bankhead Visiting Writer Series with Kathryn Davis
Kathryn Davis has received the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Her celebrated novels include Labrador, The Girl Who Trod on a Loaf, The Walking Tour, and Versailles. In 2006, Davis received the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
In Gorgas Library room 205 at 4:00 pm
Former Alabama Congressman and author, Glen Browder
Glen Browder will be introducing and discussing his new book, The South's New Racial Politics: Inside the Race Game of Southern History, NewSouth Books (April 21, 2009). The South's New Racial Politics presents an original thesis about how blacks and whites in today's South engage in a politics that is qualitatively different from the past. Glen Browder-as practitioner and scholar-argues that politicians of the two races now practice an open, sophisticated, biracial game that, arguably, means progress; but it also can bring out old-fashioned, cynical, and racist Southern ways. The lesson to be learned from this interpretative analysis is that the Southern political system, while still constrained by racial problems, is more functional than ever before. Southerners perhaps can now move forward in dealing with their legacy of hard history.
Reception and book signing to follow.
In Gorgas Library 205 at 2:00pm
Laura Freixas
"Souls in Purgatory or How I Became a Writer Thanks to my mother, Franco, and Simone de Beauvoir"
Laura Freixas ( Barcelona , 1958) went to the French Lycée and did a BA in Law at Barcelona . She is the author of two collections of short stories (The Wrist Murderer , 1988, and Tales at the Age of Forty, 2001), a non-fiction work ( Women and Literature [in Spain ], 2000) and three novels: The Last Sunday in London (1997), Just Between Friends (1998) and Love or Whatever It Is (2005).
She has also worked as a foreign language assistant in two British Universities, a publisher, a literary critic for El País newspaper and a translator. She edited an anthology of short stories, Mothers and Daughters (1996) followed by Women Friends (2009). She is a weekly columnist for La Vanguardia newspaper.
Her latest work is the autobiography Adolescencia en Barcelona hacia 1970 (2007).
She has given lectures and/or been a writer in residence at various Universities in Ireland, Great Britain and the United States, such as Limerick, Nottingham, Edinburgh, Cornell, Rutgers, City University of New York and others. In 2006 she taught a creative writing course at the University of Virginia. She is a member of the European Cultural Parliament and the president of the association Clásicas y Modernas for gender equality in spanish Culture.
Laura Freixas currently lives in Madrid.
In Gorgas Library room 205 at 5:00pm
William Christenberry: Land / Memory
Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, 5 November – 22 December 2009
A native Tuscaloosan and university art department graduate, William Christenberry will be the visiting lecturer during this homecoming exhibition. The exhibition will feature the artist’s sculpture, drawings and photographs. Though his photography made him an international figure in visual art, this prolific artist trained as a painter and draftsman before turning toward the camera. His native Alabama has never been very far away as it is the subject matter of his art work. He currently serves as professor emeritus at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, D.C. Additionally, his dance card has been full over the past three years as major exhibitions of his work have traveled across the United States and abroad. His numerous awards include the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, Weil Fellow (Auburn University), The Alabama Prize, Lyndhurst Foundation Prize (Chattanooga) and an Individual Artist Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Christenberry will present a public lecture at 5:00 PM on Thursday, November 5 at 205 Gorgas Library. Admission is free. Funding support for the Sarah Moody Gallery of Art comes from the Department of Art and Art History and the College of Arts and Sciences. Gallery hours are 9:00-4:30 PM weekdays and 5:00-8:00 PM Thursday evenings. Contact the gallery at 348-1891 or go to http://www.as.ua.edu/art/moody.html.
In the W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library at 5:00 pm
The Late Great Johnny Ace and Transition from R&B to Rock 'n' Roll.
If Elvis Presley was a white man who sang in a predominantly black style, Johnny Ace was a black man who sang in a predominantly white one. His soft, crooning "heart ballads" took the black record-buying public by storm in the early 1950s, and he was the first postwar solo black male rhythm and blues star signed to an independent label to attract a white audience. His biggest hit, "Pledging My Love," was at the top of the R&B charts when he died playing Russian roulette in his dressing room between sets at a packed "Negro Christmas dance" in Houston. This first comprehensive treatment of an enigmatic, captivating, and influential performer takes the reader to Beale Street in Memphis and to Houston's Fourth Ward, both vibrant black communities where the music never stopped. Following key players in these two hotspots, James Salem constructs a multifaceted portrait of postwar rhythm and blues, when American popular music (and society) was still clearly segregated.!
Among the many colorful characters who knew and worked with Johnny Ace—including B. B. King, Johnny Otis, Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton, and Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown—none exerted more influence on his career than the promoter and entrepreneur Don D. Robey. It was Robey and his sometime wife Evelyn Johnson who transformed John Marshall Alexander Jr. into the heartthrob Johnny Ace and promoted him to the top of the R&B charts. But the price of fame was a grueling life of touring on the "chitlin circuit," where successive one-night stands might be 800 miles apart and musicians performed more than 340 days a year. Johnny Ace's career lasted barely eighteen months, yet musicians from Bob Dylan to Paul Simon have acknowledged their debt to him. Ace's inimitable delivery ushered in a fusion of black and white styles that set the stage for rock 'n' roll and changed American popular music forever.
Check out the new exhibit in the W.S. Hoole Special Collections lobby featuring photographs and memorabilia.
Reception and book signing to follow.
Thursday, November 12, 2009
In Gorgas Library room 205 at 7:30 pm
Department of History, University of Alabama "Friends of History" Lecture with Dr. J.F. Guilmartin
"Gunpowder, the Printing Press and the Death of the Middle Ages."
Professor Guilmartin of Ohio State University, is an authority on military history, maritime history, and the history of technology. He is an early modern Europeanist whose research focuses primarily on the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He also is interested in aerospace history and has written about the Vietnam war and the Gulf war.
Professor Guilmartin is well known for his Gunpowder and Galleys: Changing Technology and Mediterranean Warfare in the Sixteenth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1974; 2nd, revised, edition, London: Conway Maritime Press, 2003). More recently he has published Galleons and Galleys(London: Cassell, 2002)"The Cutting Edge: An Analysis of the Spanish Invasion and Overthrow of the Inca Empire, 1532-1539 (Kenneth J. Andrien and Rolena Adorno, eds., Transatlantic Encounters: Europeans and Andeans in the Sixteenth Century; Berkeley, University of California Press, 1991): 40-69 and A Very Short War: The Mayaguez and the Battle of Koh Tang (College Station, Texas: Texas A&M Press, 1995).
Reception and book signing to follow.
Thursday, November 19, 2009
In Gorgas Library room 205 at 7:30 pm
Bankhead Visiting Writer Series with David Young
David Young is the Donald R. Longman Emeritus Professor of English and Creative Writing at Oberlin College, where he currently works as editor of FIELD magazine and Oberlin College Press. He is the author of ten poetry collections, most recently Black Lab (Knopf, 2006). He is also well-known as a translator, most recently for Du Fu, A Life in Poetry (Knopf, 2008) and The Poetry of Petrarch (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2004). His translation of Rilke's Duino Elegies (Norton, 1980) has been selling steadily for thirty years. His literary criticism includes three books on Shakespeare, one on Yeats, and, most recently, Six Modernist Moments in Poetry (Iowa, 2006). His creative nonfiction book, Seasoning: A Poet's Year, with Seasonal Recipes (Ohio State, 1999). Young has been designated as a treasure of the state of Ohio and has received numerous recognitions, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Cleveland Arts Prize.
Thursday, December 3, 2009
In Gorgas Library room 205 at 4 pm
Come and hear UA's Dr. Stephen Schwab talk about his new book, Guantanamo, USA: The Untold History of America's Cuban Outpost.
Established as America's first foreign naval base following the Spanish-American War, Guantánamo is now more often thought of as our Devil's Island, the gulag of our times. This book takes readers beyond the orange-jumpsuited detainees of today's headlines to provide the first comprehensive history of Guantánamo from its origins to the present.
Occupying 45 square miles of land and sea, Guantánamo has for more than a century symbolized the imperial impulse within U.S. foreign policy, and its occupation is decried by Cuba as a violation of inter-national law--even though a treaty legally grants the U.S. a lease in perpetuity. Stephen Schwab now describes the base's role in American, Caribbean, and global history, explaining how it came to be, why it's still there, and how it continues to serve a variety of purposes.
Schwab views the base's creation as part of a broad U.S. strategy of annexations, protectorates, and limited interventions devised to create a strong sphere of influence in the western Atlantic. He charts its history from this early belief that it would prevent European powers from staking imperial claims in the Caribbean and examines the crucial defensive role that Guantánamo played as a convoy hub for strategic goods during World War II. He then looks at clashes over Guantánamo during the Cold War, culminating in LBJ's decision to make the base independent by firing Cuban workers and building a desalinization plant. Schwab also fleshes out Guantánamo's ongoing roles as the U.S. Navy's lone forward base in the Caribbean, providing refueling for U.S. and allied ships, as a Coast Guard station engaged in search-and-rescue missions and counternarcotics operations, and as a U.S. facility for processing undocumented aliens.
Even though the Castro government persistently protests America's presence--and refuses even to bank the rent that the U.S. dutifully pays--Guantánamo remains the only place where diplomatic exchanges between the two countries occur, and Schwab documents how the facility has served mutual interests as both a point of nationalistic frictions and a center for diplomatic compromise. By presenting Guantánamo's story within its broader historical framework, his book gives readers a greater appreciation of America's true stake in this controversial Caribbean outpost.
Reception and book signing to follow.
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