Upcoming Events & Lectures @ UA Libraries

2012 CALENDAR OF EVENTS

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 [1]

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Past Events

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Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 11:30 a.m. - 1:15 p.m.

Lunch and Learn Session
Sponsored by Office for Sponsored Programs

Contact: Erica Gambrell, 205-348-4269, egambrell@fa.ua.edu [19]

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Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 2:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Academic Advising Association


Contact: Rebekah Welch, 205-348-6639, srmoak@ua.edu [20]

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Relocated Outdoors
Monday, May 13, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 4:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.

Welcome Activities
Sponsored by: English Language Institute

Contact: Vicky Wyatt, 205-348-7413, vwyatt@eli.ua.edu [9]

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Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 8:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.

Facilities and Grounds Presentation

Contact: Donna McCray, 205-348-6777

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Monday, May 6, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

NSF Career Award Workshop
Sponsored by: Office for Research

Contact: Angie Shotts, 205-348-8070, ashotts@fa.ua.edu [21]

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Saturday, May 4, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 10:30 a.m.- 12:00 p.m.

SLIS Graduation Reception

Contact: Beth Riggs, 205-348-1527

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Friday, May 3, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 1:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Phi Beta Kappa Initiation

Contact: Margaret Abruzzo, 205-348-1884,mabruzzo@bama.ua.edu [22]

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Exhibition
February 16, 2013 - April 28, 2013
J. Wray and Joan Billingsley Pearce Foyer
Gorgas Library – Second Floor

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Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 104, 12:00 p.m.

WORKshop!
 
UA Libraries, in association with the Career Center, will present WORKshop!, a three hour career boot camp for all UA students, faculty and staff on April 24th.
 
At 12pm join Christopher Chirino for a Curriculum Vitae (CV) and Resume Writing Workshop. During this session you will learn the purpose of and difference between resumes and CVs, how to write a results-oriented resume and CV, and be able to critique your own resume or CV effectively. Participants are encouraged to bring a current CV/resume to the session. At 1pm, join Josh Sahib as he showcases the many uses of web portfolios for today’s graduates and the tools to create them. At 2pm, join Brittany Rhea Deputy for a lesson in setting your application packet apart and honing your interview skills using UA Libraries’ online resources.
 
All sessions will be held in Gorgas Library, room 104.
 
Contact:  Nancy Fawley, nefawley@ua.edu [23] or 205-348-1976
 

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Friday, April 19, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, noon - 3:30 p.m.

Writing Fair
Sponsored by: English Department

Contact: Kevin Waltman, kwalt555@gmail.com [24]

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Friday, April 19, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 8:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.

Kickoff 24 Hour Reading of Ulysses

Open to everyone

Contact: Tabitha Holcombe, tnholcombe@crimson.ua.edu [25]

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Thursday, April 18, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.

Lecture by Matthew Schoenbachler
Sponsored by: History Department

Contact: Margaret Abruzzo, 205-348-1884, mabruzzo@as.ua.edu [26]

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Thursday, April 18, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 2:00-4:00 p.m.

Library Spring Forum

Contact: Angela Wright, 205-348-6303

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Thursday, April 18, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.

University Days Wrap-Up
Sponsored by: Office of Orientation and Special Programs

Contact: Kari Hodgkiss, 205-348-1928, kari.hodgkiss@ua.edu [27]

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Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.

Information Session/Training
Sponsored by: Alabama REACH

Contact: Cynthia Morgan, cdmorgan@crimson.ua.edu [7]

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Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 11:30 a.m. - 1:15 p.m.

Lunch and Learn Session
Sponsored by Office for Sponsored Programs

Contact: Erica Gambrell, 205-348-4269, egambrell@fa.ua.edu [19]

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Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.

Tide Together

Contact: Rebecca Odom-Bartel, 205-523-4882, tidetogether@gmail.com [28]

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Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 12:00 p.m. - 12:45 p.m.

WellBama Health Coaching Session
Sponsored by: Health Promotion and Wellness

Contact: Heather Mundy, 205-348-0083

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Monday, April 15, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Lecture by Dr. Mireya Loza
Bracero Exhibit Closing

Contact: Lynne Adrian or Veronica Pruitt, 205-348-5940

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Monday, April 15, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 2:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Academic Advising Association


Contact: Rebekah Welch, 205-348-6639, srmoak@ua.edu [20]

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Saturday, April 13, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205

Letters About Literature
Sponsored by: University Libraries

Contact: Donna Adcock, 205-348-1416

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Friday, April 12, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205,1:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Research Networking
Sponsored by: Office for Sponsored Programs

Contact: Angie Shotts, 205-348-8070, ashotts@fa.ua.edu [21]

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RELOCATED
Thursday, April 11, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Book Signing by Tom Cherones
"The Hardly Boys: The Mystery of the Golden Goblet"

Contact: Emily Maxwell, University Supply Store, 205-348-7122, eamaxwell@bama.ua.edu [29]

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Thursday, April 11, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 9:30 a.m. -  11:30 a.m.

Workshop for Tide Together

Contact: Becky Odom-Bartel, 205-348-3361,  rlodombartel@ua.edu [10]

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Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 8:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.

An Earth Day Series: The International Politics of Climate Change and You at Doha, Qatar
Sponsored by: Honors College Assembly, UA Environmental Council, and US Green Building Council

Contact: Robert Cayaban, jose_roberto.cayaban@daimler.com [30]

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Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 4:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.

Sponsored by Division of Student Affairs

Contact:  Mary Alice Porter, 205-348-5218, maporter@sa.ua.edu [31]

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Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Gorgas Library, Alabama Digital Humanities Center, room 109A, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Wix Websites- Easy. Fast. Beautiful
Workshop

Wix is an easy to use platform for building websites. No coding or graphics knowledge is needed. With hundreds of professionally designed templates, Wix is a great choice no matter the content area. For job seekers, Wix offers a convenient space to create a digital portfolio that can help you stand out from the crowd.

http://www.lib.ua.edu/digitalhumanities [32]


Contact: Dr. Franky Abbott, frabbott@ua.edu [33]

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Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 10:00 a.m.

Information Technology Committee Spring Event

Contact: Josh Sahib, 205-348-6529

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Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

An Earth Day Series: Manufacturing and Environmental Management at Mercedes-Benz
Sponsored by: Honors College Assembly, UA Environmental Council, and US Green Building Council

Contact: Robert Cayaban, jose_roberto.cayaban@daimler.com [30]

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Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 3:30 p.m.

Department of Religious Studies

Contact:  Donna Martin, 205-348-5271

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Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

DAC Meeting

Contact: Angela Wright, 205-348-6303

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Monday, April 8, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 7:00 p.m.

Department of Religious Studies

Contact:  Donna Martin, 205-348-5271

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Monday, April 8, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Student Recruitment
Sponsored by: Honors College

Contact: Allison Verhine, 205-348-5534, allison.verhine@ua.edu [34]

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Friday, April 5, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 2:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

SLIS Honor's Day Celebration

Contact: Beth Riggs, 205-348-1527, briggs@slis.ua.edu [35]

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Thursday, April 4, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

Guest Speaker Erin Hochman
Lecture titled: "Ein Volk, Ein Reich: the Anschluss Movement in Germany
and Austria, 1918-1933"

Sponsored by: Department of History

Contact: Janek Wasserman, 205-348-1876

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Thursday, April 4, 2013
Gorgas Library, Alabama Digital Humanities Center, room 109A, 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.

Excavating Victorian Cuba: Mining the British Periodicals Database
Brown Bag Luncheon

Albert Pionke will give an overview of his text mining project, which uses concordance software, topic modeling, and other "distant reading" strategies to recover the metonymic distinctiveness of colonial Cuba in the British imagination as represented by the British periodical press 1680s-1930s.

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Contact: Dr. Franky Abbott, frabbott@ua.edu [33]

Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 4:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.

Raul Ramos Lecture, University of Houston
"Telling Stories of Race and Belonging in the American Southwest"

Sponsored by: Department of History, American Studies, Summersell Center for the South

Contact: Heather Kopelson, 205-348-1874, hmkopelson@bama.ua.edu [36]

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Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.

An Earth Day Series: Sustainability in Research and Practice at the University of Alabama
Sponsored by: Honors College Assembly, UA Environmental Council, and US Green Building Council

Contact: Robert Cayaban, jose_roberto.cayaban@daimler.com [30]

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Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Presentation by Professor Guy Bailey
An overview of his research on Southern American English
Sponsored by: English Department

Contact: Catherine Davies, 205-348-9525

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Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 8:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.

Up Till Dawn Faculty/Staff Presentation

Contact: Melissa Kish, 205-348-5895

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Monday, April 1,2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 4:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.

Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Honor's Day Awards Ceremony
Sponsored by: MTE Department

Contact: Jan Creitz, 205-348-1739, creitz@eng.ua.edu [17]

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Monday, April 1, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.

UA-AAA Academic Advisors Excellence Awards Luncheon

Contact: Carol Duncan, 205-348-4893

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Friday, March 22, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

Active Shooter Training with Donald Keith

Contact: Teresa Faulkner, 205-348-8212, tfaulkner@fa.ua.edu [37]

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Thursday, March 21, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.

An Earth Day Series: Architectural Design, USGBC, LEED @ McLelland Architecture
Sponsored by: Honors College Assembly, UA Environmental Council, and US Green Building Council

Contact: Robert Cayaban, jose_roberto.cayaban@daimler.com [30]

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Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Lecture by BJ Hollars
Sponsored by: Hoole Special Collections Library



Contact: Jessica Lacher-Feldman, 205-348-0506, jlf@ua.edu [38]

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Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

UA-Wide Sports Research Symposium

Contact: Dr. Lance Kinney, 205-348-7706, kinney@apr.ua.edu [39]

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Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 6:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

Poetry Reading
Sponsored by: Creative Campus

Contact: Jane Hall, 205-348-7884, janehall@aalan.ua.edu [40]

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Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 2:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Academic Advising Association

Contact: Rebekah Welch, 205-348-6639, srmoak@ua.edu [20]

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Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 9:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

LFO Meeting

Contact: Lindley Shedd, 205-348-4674

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Friday, March 15, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205,1:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Research Networking
Sponsored by: Office for Sponsored Programs

Contact: Angie Shotts, 205-348-8070, ashotts@fa.ua.edu [21]

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Thursday, March 14, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.

Discerning Diverse Voices, Diversity Symposium
Sponsored by: College of Communication and Information Sciences

Contact: Caryl Cooper, 205-348-3593, cooper@ua.edu [42]

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Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.

Discerning Diverse Voices, Diversity Symposium- Film Showing
Sponsored by: College of Communication and Information Science

Contact: Caryl Cooper, 205-348-3593, cooper@ua.edu [42]

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Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 4:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.

Ignite UA

Sponsored by Division of Student Affairs


Contact:  Mary Alice Porter, 205-348-5218, maporter@sa.ua.edu [31]

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Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Gorgas Library, Alabama Digital Humanities Center, room 109A, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Creating and Managing Your Online Presence
Workshop

Googled yourself lately? Your online identity influences how you are perceived by instructors, employers, colleagues, and friends. Participants in this workshop will learn about tools they can use to assess their online identity and simple ways to create and maintain a professional presence online.

http://www.lib.ua.edu/digitalhumanities [32]



Contact: Dr. Franky Abbott, frabbott@ua.edu [33]

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CANCELLED
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

The Heart Of Henrietta Lacks
Sponsored by: Honors College

Contact: Amanda McRae, 205-348-5574, apmcrae@ua.edu [43]

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Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Information Session/Training
Sponsored by: Alabama REACH

Contact: Cynthia Morgan, cdmorgan@crimson.ua.edu [7]

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Monday, March 11, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Religion in Culture Lecture Series Featuring David Watt
Sponsored by: Relgious Studies Department

Contact: Theodore Trost, 205-348-7534, ttrost@as.ua.edu [44]

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Monday, March 11, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Student Recruitment
Sponsored by: Honors College

Contact: Allison Verhine, 205-348-5534, allison.verhine@ua.edu [34]

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Friday, March 8, 2013
Gorgas Library, Alabama Digital Humanities Center, Room 109A, 12:30 p.m.- 1:30 p.m.

Brown Bag Luncheon
Text Mining with Peter Leonard

Visiting speaker Peter Leonard will discuss his specific work with Google Books and text mining, as well as his general experience with digital humanities.

Peter Leonard is Librarian for Digital Humanities Research at Yale University Library.  His recent work as Principal Investigator of a Google Digital Humanities Grant has focused on Topic Modeling as a technique for exposing hidden structure in the Nordic-language volumes in Google Books. He received his doctorate in Scandinavian Literature from the University of Washington.

Contact: Franky Abbott, frabbott@ua.edu [33]

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Friday, March 8, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Department of Art and Art History Symposium

Contact: Rachel Dobson, 205-348-1893, rdobson@bama.ua.edu [45]

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Thursday, March 7, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.

Art to Life : Art Show
Sponsored by: Honors College

Contact: Emily Broman, ecbroman@crimson.ua.edu [46]

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Thursday, March 7, 2013
Llyod Hall, room 325, 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Guest speaker Peter Leonard
Topic Modeling the "Great Unread"

With the recent dramatic increase in the number of digitized texts, humanists are being called upon to re-evaluate their approaches. With a sufficiently-large corpus, even a trained scholar will struggle with problems of incomplete metadata and subject opacity.  The discipline of Computer Science encourages us to move beyond the Keyword Search model, towards algorithms that enable data to "organize itself."  What then is the relevance, in this new world, of the training and experience that literary scholars possess? How can literary  "domain expertise" complement algorithmic approaches to text mining?

Peter Leonard is Librarian for Digital Humanities Research at Yale University Library.  His recent work as Principal Investigator of a Google Digital Humanities Grant has focused on Topic Modeling as a technique for exposing hidden structure in the Nordic-language volumes in Google Books. He received his doctorate in Scandinavian Literature from the University of Washington.

Contact: Franky Abbott, frabbott@ua.edu [33]

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Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 7:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

An Evening with Rick Bragg
Sponsored by: Alpine Living

Contact: Amanda Sams, alsams1@crimson.ua.edu [47]

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Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 3:00 p.m.

"Absolutely the Most Important Thing You Know Nothing About: Shorthand and Civilization in the 17th- Century England"
Lecture by Dr. Michael Mendle

Isaac Newton the mathematician, John Locke the philosopher, Samuel Pepys the navy official and diarist, and Roger Williams the great apologist for religious liberty had something in common—they were all shorthand adepts.  An information technology for the clever and “geeky,” stenography emerged with astonishing rapidity in 17^th-cenury England, well before parallel developments elsewhere.  First seen as an aid to Puritan piety, shorthand’s possibilities were soon grasped by ambitious and creative people seeking to make points and profits.  By mid-century it had become essential to news-gathering, by the end it transformed law and public culture, redefining the normal expectation of public memory.

Sponsored by: University Libraries

Contact: Dr. Mendle, 205-348-7100

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Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

Office of Veteran and Military Affairs

Contact: Alex Karagas, 205-348-0983, karag001@sa.ua.edu [48]

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CANCELLED
Monday, March 4, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

Gun Control Forum
Sponsored by: Delta Sigma Theta Sorority

Contact: Brittany Tadesse, bttadesse@crimson.ua.edu [49]

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Monday, March 4, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Student Recruitment
Sponsored by: Honors College

Contact: Allison Verhine, 205-348-5534, allison.verhine@ua.edu [34]

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Sunday, March 3, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 3:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Sigma Tau Gamma

Contact: Alexandra Robinson, aerobinson2@crimson.ua.edu [50]

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Friday, March 1, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

MCAT Application Workshop
Sponsored by: Health Professions Office

Contact: Marian Denham, 205-348-6812, mcdenham@as.ua.edu [51]

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Thursday, February 28, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.

Spring 1 Certificate Ceremony
Sponsored by: English Language Institute

Contact: Vicky Wyatt, 205-348-7413, vwyatt@eli.ua.edu [9]

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Thursday, February 28, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 11:00 a.m. -  1:30 p.m.

CAPS Lunch and Learn
Sponsored by: Center for Advanced Public Safety

Contact: Valerie Trull, 205-348-6999

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Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 8:30 p.m. - 9:50 p.m.

Diverse Dessert, Gender and Sexuality Diversity
Sponsored by: Honors College Assembly

Contact: Al Gilani, atgilani@crimson.ua.edu [52]

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Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 4:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.

Ignite UA

Sponsored by Division of Student Affairs

Contact:  Mary Alice Porter, 205-348-5218, maporter@sa.ua.edu [31]

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Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Gorgas Library, Alabama Digital Humanities Center, Room 109A, 12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m.

Building Digital Editions Workshop

Why build a digital edition of a text? What is involved? This workshop will detail the  process with attention to manuscript and document preparation, permissions, text encoding practices using the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI), and translation to the web.  Participants will explore examples of digital edition projects and learn what they bring to scholarship.

Contact: Franky Abbott, frabbott@ua.edu [33]

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Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 3:00 p.m.

Presentation by Dr. Jorge Ortiz-Sotelo; Lima, Peru
Sponsored by: Department of History, Arts and Sciences, and President's Office

Contact: Larry Clayton, lclayton@simplecom.net [53]

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Monday, February 25, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 4:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.

Lecture by Professor Christian Ayne Crouch
Sponsored by: History Department, Department of Modern LangMonday, February 25, 2013
uages and Classics, and Diversity Committee

Contact: Jenny Shaw, 205-348-1860, jenny.shaw@ua.edu [54]

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Saturday, February 23, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.

University Fellows

Contact: Nicole Bohannon, nicolecbohannon@gmail.com [55]

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Friday, February 22, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205,1:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Research Networking
Sponsored by: Office for Sponsored Programs

Contact: Angie Shotts, 205-348-8070, ashotts@fa.ua.edu [21]

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Thursday, February 21, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 4:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.

"Poetry &"
Sponsored by: Creative Campus

Contact: Jane Hall, 205-348-7884, janehall@aalan.ua.edu [40]

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Thursday, February 21, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Nutrition Series: Is Your Personality Making You Fat?
Sponsored by: Office of Health and Wellness

Contact: Kay Whites, 205-348-0077, kwhites@ua.edu [56]

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CANCELLED
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 7:00 p.m.- 8:30 p.m.

Veteran Career Fair
Sponsored by: Veteran and Military Affairs

Contact: Alex Karagas, karag001@sa.ua.edu [48]

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Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Gorgas Library, Alabama Digital Humanities Center, room 109A, 12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m.

Using Relational Databases for Digital Research Workshop

Relational databases have long been the accepted standard for the storage and manipulation of large and complex data sets, from data in the personal desktop environment  to enterprise-strength, cloud computing applications. This workshop will discuss the applications and advantages of relational databases, how they have been used in various digital projects, and demonstrate how researchers can leverage the power inherent in these web applications and the SQL language to store, manipulate, analyze and organize their research data.

Contact: Franky Abbott, frabbott@ua.edu [33]

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Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 11:30 a.m. - 1:15 p.m.

Lunch and Learn Session
Sponsored by Office for Sponsored Programs

Contact: Erica Gambrell, 205-348-4269, egambrell@fa.ua.edu [19]

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Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

Financial Aid Information Session
Sponsored by: Undergraduate Admissions

Contact: Mary Kathryn Carroll, 205-348-8205, mary.kathryn.carroll@ua.edu [57]

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Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 2:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Academic Advising Association

Contact: Rebekah Welch, 205-348-6639, srmoak@ua.edu [20]

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Monday, February 18, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Lecture by Dr. Mario Sifuentez, University of California
Opening of Bracero Exhibition
Sponsored by: American Studies Department and University Libraries

For more information, please visit http://www.sites.si.edu/exhibitions/exhibits/bracero_project/main.htm [58]
Contact: Lynn Adrian or Veronica Pruitt, 205-348-5940

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Sunday, February 17, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.

Orientation Leader Training
Sponsored by: Office of Orientation and Special Programs

Contact: Mallory Miciek, mallory.r.miciek@gmail.com [59]

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Friday, February 15, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Student Recruitment
Sponsored by: Honors College

Contact: Allison Verhine, 205-348-5534, allison.verhine@ua.edu [34]

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Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 8:00 p.m. -  9:30 p.m.

First Friends' Valenetines Speed Meeting
Sponsored by: Honors College Assembly

Contact: Chloe Smith, crsmith15@crimson.ua.edu [60]

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Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 4:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.

Ignite UA

Sponsored by Division of Student Affairs

Contact:  Mary Alice Porter, 205-348-5218, maporter@sa.ua.edu [31]

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Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 7:00 p.m.

Coca-Cola First-Generation Scholars Etiquette Dinner

Contact: Dianne Teague, 205-348-9162, dteague@aalan.ua.edu [61]

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Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Department of Religious Studies

Contact:  Donna Martin, 205-348-5271

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CANCELLED
Monday, February 11, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 6:00 p.m. -  7:00 p.m.

Guest Speaker Beverly Semmes
Sponsored by: Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, Art Department

Beverly Semmes is an internationally acclaimed artist who creates environments of lush textiles and accompanying materials.  Organized by the Hunter Museum of American Art in Chattanooga, the exhibition features glass and clay vessels with oversized garments.  Patterson Sims writes in the accompanying catalog: “They are costumes in search of their characters, patiently seeking and awaiting women—or maybe men, children, or a culture—big enough to wear them.” The vessels’ freeform and coarse features contrast with the smoothness of the fabric.  Semmes is the recipient of many awards and grants: among them an NEA Fellowship (1994-95), a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship (1997) and an award from the Art Critics International Association (2001).  Her work is in the collections of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC, as well as the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York and the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. Semmes lives in New York City and teaches at NYU and Pratt Institute.

Contact: Vicki Rial, 205-348-1891,vrial@art.as.ua.edu [62]

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Monday, February 11, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 3:00 p.m.- 4:00 p.m.

"The Promise and Perils of Doing History in the Digital Age"

Description: What will become of the humanities in the Age of Google?  Andrew Torget will talk about the unprecedented challenges and opportunities that face historians in the twenty-first century.  Tracing the evolution of the digital humanities over the past two decades, Torget will explore how new research methods (such as geospatial analysis and text-mining) are creating a quiet revolution among historians, and what that could mean for how we understand the past.
 
Andrew J. Torget is a historian of nineteenth-century North America at the University of North Texas, where he directs the Digital History Lab.  The founder and director of numerous digital humanities projects -- including Mapping Texts, Texas Slavery Project, Voting America, and the History Engine -- Andrew served as co-editor of the Valley of the Shadow project, and as the founding director of the Digital Scholarship Lab at the University of Richmond.  The co-editor of several books on the American Civil War, Andrew has been a featured speaker on the digital humanities at Harvard, Stanford, Rice, and the National Archives in Washington, D. C.  In 2011, he was named the inaugural David J. Weber Research Fellow at the Clements Center for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University.  He is currently completing a book titled Cotton Empire: Slavery, the Texas Borderlands, and the Origins of the U.S.-Mexico War.


Contact: Franky Abbott, frabbott@ua.edu [33]

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Exhibition
November 28, 2012 – January 31, 2013
J. Wray and Joan Billingsley Pearce Foyer
Gorgas Library – Second Floor

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Sunday, February 10, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Chapter Internal Development
Sponsored by: Lamda Zeta Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta

Contact: Diedre Graham, dagraham@crimson.ua.edu [63]

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CANCELLED
Thursday, February 7, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Tide Together

Contact: Rebecca Odom-Bartel, 205-523-4882, tidetogether@gmail.com [28]

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Thursday, February 7, 2013
Gorgas Library, Alabama Digital Humanities Center, room 109A, 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.

Community-Based Digital Projects
Brown Bag Luncheon

Heather Pleasants and Ellen Spears will  present their projects, the Black Belt 100 Lenses Digital Archive and Letters from the Scottsboro Boys Trials: A Digital Exhibit, to illustrate their approaches to community-based collaboration and their value. 

Contact: Dr. Franky Abbott, frabbott@ua.edu [33]

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CANCELLED
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 3:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Lecture
Sponsored by: History Department

Contact: Donna Adcock, 205-348-1416

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Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205

8:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Understanding Work Expectations
Training session conducted by Pete Blank

Contact: Angela Wright, 205-348-6303

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Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205

8:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Speed of Trust
Training session conducted by Pete Blank

1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Understanding Work Expectations
Training sessions conducted by Pete Blank

Contact: Angela Wright, 205-348-6303

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Monday, February 4, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 6:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

Anti-Violence Against Women (White Ribbon Campaign)
Sponsored by: Women's Resource Center


Contact: Terrence Merkerson, tamerkerson@crimson.ua.edu [64]

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Saturday, February 2, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

SECCAcon II: Out of the Pulpit
Sponsored by: Alabama Atheists and Agnostics

Contact: Michael Grierson, msgrierson@crimson.ua.edu [65]

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Friday, February 1, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 12:00 p.m. -1:30 p.m.

Lunch and Learn
Sponsored by: Student Involvement and Leadership

Contact: Lacy Sellars, 205-348-6114, jlsellars@sa.ua.edu [66]

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Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 4:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.


Ignite UA

Sponsored by Division of Student Affairs

Contact:  Mary Alice Porter, 205-348-5218, maporter@sa.ua.edu [31]

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Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Gorgas Library, Alabama Digital Humanities Center, room 109A, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Library Links to Success: Career Exploration and Preparation
Workshop

Whether you are trying to choose a career path or are about to enter the workforce for the first time, this workshop is for you! In one hour, you will discover, access and navigate library and government resources designed specifically to aid in career exploration, job searching and interview preparation. All are welcome and seating is first come first served - so be sure to arrive early!

http://www.lib.ua.edu/digitalhumanities [32]

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Contact: Dr. Franky Abbott, frabbott@ua.edu [33]

Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

HCA Civic Engagment Team
Sponsored by: Honors College Assembly

Contact: Emily Broman, ecbroman@crimson.ua.edu [46]

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Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 7:30 a.m.

WellBama Health Screening
Sponsored by: Office of Health and Wellness

Contact: Heather Mundy, hnmundy@ua.edu [11]

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CANCELLED
Monday, January 28, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 8:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

High School Advisory Board
Sponsored by: Undergraduate Admissions

Contact: Lynn McColl, 205-348-8206, lynn.mccoll@ua.edu [8]

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Sunday, January 27, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 1:00 p.m. -  5:00 p.m.

Chapter Internal Development
Sponsored by: Lamda Zeta Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta

Contact: Diedre Graham, dagraham@crimson.ua.edu [63]

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Thursday, January 24, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 8:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.

Student Affairs Divisional Meeting

Contact:  Carol Duncan, 205-348-4893, dunca026@bama.ua.edu [67]

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Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Branch Out: A Night of Engagement and Involvement with the Honors College
Sponsored by: Honors College

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Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Gorgas Library, Alabama Digital Humanities Center, room 109A, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Intellectual Property in the Academy
Workshop

This workshop examines the basic contours of copyright law as it applies in scholarly communication. What is intellectual property, what is the public domain, and how does fair use apply? What should be in a request when permission is needed, and what is worth negotiating for? Finally, what rights do scholars have as creators of intellectual property and how can those rights be exercised?
 
Presenter: Claire Lewis Evans, Editor for Digital and Electronic Publishing, The University of Alabama Press


Contact: Dr. Franky Abbott, frabbott@ua.edu [33]

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Contact: Michael Forst, mlforst@crimson.ua.edu [68]

Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

Book Talk and Signing "The Myth of Martyrdom"
By Dr. Adam Lankford

Contact: Dr. Lankford, adam.lankford@ua.edu [69]

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Thursday, January 17, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.

Orientation Leader Training
Sponsored by: Office of Orientation and Special Programs

Contact: Mallory Miciek, mallory.r.miciek@gmail.com [59]

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Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 4:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.

Ignite UA

Sponsored by:  Division of Student Affairs

Contact:  Mary Alice Porter, 205-348-5218, maporter@sa.ua.edu [31]

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Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 11:30 a.m. - 1:15 p.m.

Lunch and Learn Session
Sponsored by Office for Sponsored Programs

Contact: Erica Gambrell, 205-348-4269, egambrell@fa.ua.edu [19]

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Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 2:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Academic Advising Association

Contact: Rebekah Welch, 205-348-6639, srmoak@ua.edu [20]

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Monday, January 14, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Dave Bauer Grant-Writing Seminar
Sponsored by: College of Arts and Sciences

Contact: Kanika Davis, 348-2530

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Thursday, January 10, 2013
Gorgas Library, Alabama Digital Humanities Center, room 109A, 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.

Accessibility in Digital Humanities
Brown Bag Lunch

How can we broaden our understanding of the ways that people use digital resources by considering the experiences of users with disabilities? In this brown bag, we will discuss contemporary DH conversation about "access," strategies for widening this access in our own projects, and issues, such as heavy reliance on visualization, that exclude some users from working with particular digital tools and resources.
http://www.lib.ua.edu/digitalhumanities [32]



Contact: Dr. Franky Abbott, frabbott@ua.edu [33]

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CANCELLED
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.

English Department- Lecture
Sponsored by: Hudson Strode Program in Renaissance Studies

Contact: Nicholas Helms, nrhelms@crimson.ua.edu [70]

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Sunday, January 6, 2013
Gorgas Library, room 205, 12:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Parent Ambassadors Training Session

Contact: Jennifer DeFrance, 205-348-8404, jdefrance@sa.ua.edu [71]

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Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 11:30 a.m. - 1:15 p.m.

Lunch and Learn Session
Sponsored by Office for Sponsored Programs

Contact: Erica Gambrell, 205-348-4269, egambrell@fa.ua.edu [19]

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Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 11:30 a.m.

Toys For Tots Reception

Contact: Emily Burnett, 205-348-5543, ekmims@ua.edu [2]

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Monday, December 17, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 9:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

Blackboard Learn Information Session

Contact:  Rachel Shuttlesworth, 205-348-0216, rshuttle@ua.edu [72].

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Saturday, December 15, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 2:30 p.m.

SLIS Commencement Ceremony

Contact: Beth Riggs, 205-348-1527, briggs@slis.ua.edu [35]

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Thursday, December 13, 2012
Gorgas Library, Digital Humanities Center, room 109A, 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.

Keeping Your Digital Works Alive

Continually evolving technology can blindside you, preventing access to your precious digital content before you know it.  Come learn about the issues and challenges of keeping your digital works alive through the years at this brown bag led by Jody DeRidder, head of digital services, University Libraries.

Follow link [73] for more information.

Contact: Franky Abbott, (205) 348-0767, frabbott@ua.edu [33]

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Friday, November 30, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Speed Networking for Health Related Research
Hosted by Office of Sponsored Programs

Contact: Angela Shotts, 205-348-8070, ashotts@fa.ua.edu [21]

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Thursday, November 29, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 2:00 p.m.

WellBama presentation by Rebecca Kelly

Contact: Angela Wright, 205-348-6303

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Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 9:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.

Honors College Assembly

Contact: Amanda McRae, 205-348-5574, apmcrae@ua.edu [43]

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CANCELLED
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Guest Speaker President Guy Bailey
Sponsored by: English Department

Contact: Catherine Davies, 205-348-9525, cdavies@as.ua.edu [74]

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Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Gorgas Library, Alabama Digital Humanities Center, room 109A, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Lunchtime Learning Workshop
"HooteSuite- Reclaim Control Over Your Social Media"

Are you drowning in information? Is your Twitter feed out of control? Tired of switching between Facebook and Twitter, or multiple Facebook and Twitter accounts? HooteSuite is a social media management tool that allows you to manage all of your social media streams with one dashboard; filter your Twitter account into smaller, focused feeds; post, reply, direct message, and generally find sanity while maintaining your presence in your social media accounts.


Contact:  Nancy Fawley, 205-348-1976, nefawley@ua.edu [23]

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Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 10:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.

Annual Building Representative Luncheon
Sponsored by: Facilities and Grounds


Contact: Celeste Siggers, 205-348-8703, csiggers@fa.ua.edu [75]

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Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 4:00 p.m.

Ignite UA

Contact: Mary Alice Porter, 205-348-5218, maporter@sa.ua.edu [31]

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Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.

Black Faculty and Staff Association

Contact: Cynthia Moore, 205-348-3116, cmoore@cchs.ua.edu [76]

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Monday, November 26, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 8:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

Student Alumni Association

Contact: Alex McNair, atmcnair@crimson.ua.edu [77]

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CANCELLED
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 2:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Academic Advising Association

Contact: Rebekah Welch, 205-348-6639, srmoak@ua.edu [20]

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Monday, November 19, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

First Scholars Thanksgiving

Contact: Jessica Franks, 205-348-6559, jfranks@aalan.ua.edu [78]

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Friday, November 16, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Honors College Recruitment

Contact:  Allison Verhine, 205-348-5534, allison.verhine@ua.edu [34]

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Thursday, November 15, 2012
Gorgas Library

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Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205

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Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Gorgas Library, Alabama Digital Humanities Center, room 109A, 12:00 p.m. -1:00 p.m.

Lunchtime Learning Workshop
"Using Social Media in the Classroom"

Rebecca Johnson, Director of Instructional Technology in the College of Arts and Sciences, will talk about a range of social media tools, such as Twitter, Facebook, and blogs, and present strategies for choosing and using the right tool.

Contact: Frances Abbott, 205-348-0767, frabbott@ua.edu [33]

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Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 4:00 p.m.- 8:30 p.m.

Tide Together

Contact: Rebecca Odom-Bartel, tidetogether@gmail.com [28]

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Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

"Body Doubles: the aspirations of a multiplayer Macbeth in contemporary South Korea"
A presentation on intersections between performance, virtuality, Shakespeare and contemporary Korean culture by Sam Trubridge
Director of Playground NZ Theater Company and Lecturer, Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand


This research examines the phenomena of the PC Bang (internet cafe) in contemporary South Korean culture, where profound distances between the physical and the virtual are produced. A performance interpretation of Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' is developed for this environment using the gaming platform as a stage, enabling a dialogue to occur between fictional idealised bodies and the domestic equivalents.

Sam Trubridge is a director and performance designer with The Playground NZ, having directed 'The Restaurant of Many Orders' (UK, NZ, Italy), 'Sleep/Wake' (The Auckland Festival 2009, NZ), and a new work 'Ecology in Fifths'. He is also artistic director for The Performance Arcade, an annual event on Wellington Waterfront, NZ. Trubridge is the Oceanic editor for the 'World Scenography' publication, and has been published in various other books and journals worldwide, including 'Behind the Scenes: contemporary set design' by Black Dog publishing. He has presented work, lectured, and exhibited across Oceania, Asia, The Americas, and Europe with his research in performance design, art/science collaboration and performance art.   http://theplaygroundnz.com/ [79]
 
 
 
For more information, please contact Dr. Holmes-Tagchungdarpa in History. aholmes12@as.ua.edu [80]

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Monday, November 12, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 6:00 p.m.- 8:00 p.m.

Annual Fall Convocation Coca Cola First Generation Scholars First Scholars, REACH
Sponsored by: Coca Cola First Generation Scholars

Contact: Dianne Teague, 205-348-9162, dteague@aalan.ua.edu [61]

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Thursday, November 8, 2012
Gorgas Library, Alabama Digital Humanities Ceneter, 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.

Digital Projects Showcase

Visiting speaker Lauren Klein will show some of her favorite digital projects to engage a discussion about new ideas and trends in digital humanities.

*Co-sponsored by the Summersell Center for the Study of the South and ADHC

Follow link [81] for more information.
 

Contact Info: Franky Abbott, frabbott@ua.edu [33]

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Wednesday, November 7, 2012 and Thursday, November 8, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 6:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.

Improbable Fictions Staged Reading of  Julius Caesar
Sponsored by: English Department

Contact: Nicholas Helms, nrhelms@crimson.ua.edu [70]

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Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Hoole Special Collections Library, 5:30 p.m.

• November 7, 2012 at 5:30 pm:   Joshua D. Rothman, associate professor of History at The University of Alabama will talk about his new book,  Flush Times and Fever Dreams: A Story of Capitalism and Slavery in the Age of Jackson (UGA Press, 2012)  A talk followed by Q&A and book signing.

In 1834 Virgil Stewart rode from western Tennessee to a territory known as the “Arkansas morass” in pursuit of John Murrell, a thief accused of stealing two slaves. Stewart’s adventure led to a sensational trial and a wildly popular published account that would ultimately help trigger widespread violence during the summer of 1835, when five men accused of being professional gamblers were hanged in Vicksburg, nearly a score of others implicated with a gang of supposed slave thieves were executed in plantation districts, and even those who tried to stop the bloodshed found themselves targeted as dangerous and subversive. Using Stewart’s story as his point of entry, Joshua D. Rothman details why these events, which engulfed much of central and western Mississippi, came to pass. He also explains how the events revealed the fears, insecurities, and anxieties underpinning the cotton boom that made Mississippi the most seductive and exciting frontier in the Age of Jackson.

As investors, settlers, slaves, brigands, and fortune-hunters converged in what was then America’s Southwest, they created a tumultuous landscape that promised boundless opportunity and spectacular wealth. Predicated on ruthless competition, unsustainable debt, brutal exploitation, and speculative financial practices that looked a lot like gambling, this landscape also produced such profound disillusionment and conflict that it contained the seeds of its own potential destruction. Rothman sheds light on the intertwining of slavery and capitalism in the period leading up to the Panic of 1837, highlighting the deeply American impulses underpinning the evolution of the slave South and the dizzying yet unstable frenzy wrought by economic flush times. It is a story with lessons for our own day.

Published in association with the Library Company of Philadelphia’s Program in African American History. A Sarah Mills Hodge Fund Publication.


Contact: Jessica Lacher-Feldman, 205-348-0500, jlf@ua.edu [38]

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Wednesday, November 6, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 3:30 p.m.

Department of Religious Studies

Contact:  Donna Martin, 205-348-5271

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Monday, November 5, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.

Academic Honor Council

Contact: Sydney Newman, smnewman@crimson.ua.edu [82]

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Monday, November 5, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Blackboard Learn Information Session

Contact:  Rachel Shuttlesworth, 205-348-0216, rshuttle@ua.edu [72]

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Friday, November 2, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 8:00 a.m.

School of Library and Information Studies Honors Day

Contact: Beth Riggs, 205-348-1527

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Thursday, November 1, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 3:00 p.m.

School of Library and Information Studies 40th Anniversary Celebration

Contact:  Anne Edwards, 205-348-1522

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Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 2:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Academic Advising Association

Contact: Rebekah Welch, 205-348-6639, srmoak@ua.edu [20]

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CANCELLED
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 6:00 p.m.- 9:00 p.m.

UA Thomas Payne Project Forum

Contact: Kyle Jones, kcjones3@crimson.ua.edu [83]

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Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.

Black Faculty and Staff Association

Contact: Cynthia Moore, 205-348-3116, cmoore@cchs.ua.edu [76]

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Monday, October 29, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 6:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.

Guest Lecturer Jose Antonio Vargas
Sponsored by: Department of Journalism

Pulitzer Prize winning journalist
Hearst Journalist-in-Residence
Showing video clips from recent documentary on immigration





Free and open to the public





Contact: Dr. George Daniels, 205-348-8618, gdaniels@ua.edu [85]

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CANCELLED
Thursday, October 25, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 8:00 a.m.

Gender and Race Studies Symposium

Contact:  Stephanie Grimes, 205-348-5782,  howel016@ua.edu [86]

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Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Lecture by guest artist, James Sherman Brantley

Sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences

Contact:  Stacy Morgan, 205-348-0069

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Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Open Access & Copyright Webinar by Kenneth Crews

Contact: Tom Wilson, 205-348-2299, tcwilson@ua.edu [87]

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Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Gorgas Library, Alabama Digital Humanities Center, room 109A, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00p.m.

Lunchtime Learning Workshop
"Scholar's Choice: RefWorks or Zotero"

Do you want to know more about using RefWorks or Zotero to manage your citations, or do you want to learn about both to decide which fits your needs best? This workshop will feature 30-minute presentations on both citation management tools.


Contact:  Nancy Fawley, 205-348-1976, nefawley@ua.edu [23]

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Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 5:00 p.m.

Sigma Tau Delta Honor Society Induction Ceremony

Contact:  Dr. Carl Miller, cfmiller1@as.ua.edu [88] or Shea Stripling, Isstripling@crimson.ua.edu [89]

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Monday, October 22, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 8:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

Student Alumni Association

Contact: Alex McNair, etmcnair@crimson.ua.edu [90]

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Sunday, October 21, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 3:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.

Avanti Team University Days Training

Contact: Ally Martin, ramartin1@crimson.ua.edu [91]

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Thursday, October 18, 2012
Friday, October 19, 2012
Saturday, October 20, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, tba

Southeast Music Library Association
2012 Annual Meeting

Contact: Cynthia Miller, 205-348-8644

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Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Hoole Special Collections Library, 5:30 p.m.

• October 17, 2012 at 5:30 pm:   Ralph Voss, retired professor of English at The University of Alabama will talk about his new book, Truman Capote and the Legacy of In Cold Blood (UA Press, 2011)  A talk followed by Q&A and book signing.

Truman Capote and the Legacy of In Cold Blood  is the anatomy of the origins of an American literary landmark and its legacy.

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Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Gorgas Libary, Alabama Digital Humanities Center, room 109A, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Lunchtime Learning Workshop
"Introduction to WordPress: Building a Class Online"

This workshop will introduce WordPress and explain how to set up and maintain a course site using it.  The workshop will concentrate equally on discussion of the online tools available and of the ways in which such tools can be applied to pedagogy.

Contact: Frances Abbott, 205-348-0767, frabbott@ua.edu [33]

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Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 11:30 a.m. - 1:15 p.m.

Lunch and Learn Session
Sponsored by Office for Sponsored Programs

Contact: Erica Gambrell, 205-348-4269, egambrell@fa.ua.edu [19]

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Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 5:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Honors College Book Review and Signing

Contact:  Susan Haynes, 205-348-5506, smhayes@ua.edu [92]

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Monday, October 15, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.

Sponsored by: English Language Institute
Fall 1 Certificate Ceremony

Contact: Vicky Wyatt, 205-348-7413, vwyatt@eli.ua.edu [9]

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Monday, October 15, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Honors College Recruitment

Contact:  Allison Verhine, 205-348-5534, allison.verhine@ua.edu [34]

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Sunday, October 14, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Guest Lecturer Edwina Rogers

Contact: Michael Grierson, msgrierson@crimson.ua.edu [65]

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Saturday, October 13, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 10:00 a.m.

Slash Pine Poetry Festival

Sponsored by the Department of English, Alabama Writers' Forum and the Alabama Center for the Book

Contact:  Patti White, patti.white@ua.edu [93]

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Friday, October 12, 2012
Gorgas Library, Alabama Digital Humanities Center, room 109A, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Discovering UVA's Scholar's Lab

David McClure will show recent work by the Scholars' Lab, a digital scholarship center at the University of Virginia Library, and discuss the group's emphasis on R&D and training. Projects will include the Praxis Program – a new, innovative approach to graduate student education.

Follow link [94] for more information.

Contact: Franky Abbott, (205) 348-0767, frabbott@ua.edu [33]

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Friday, October 12, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.

Blackboard Learning Information Session

Contact:  Rachel Shuttlesworth, 205-348-0216, rshuttle@ua.edu [72]

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Thursday, October 11, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 7:00 p.m.- 8:00 p.m.

Phi Sigma Theta Honor Society

Contact: Stephanie Gross, segross@crimson.ua.edu [95]

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Thursday, October 11, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Digital Humanities Center
Guest Speaker Dave McClure

Follow link [96] for more information.

Contact: Frances Abbott, frabbott@ua.edu [33]

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Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Tide Together

Contact: Rebecca Odom-Bartel, 205-523-4882, tidetogether@gmail.com [28]

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Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Capstone Village, 9:45 a.m.

October 10, 2012 at  9:45 am at Capstone Village [97], located at 601 5th Avenue East Tuscaloosa, Delbert Reed will talk about his upcoming book on World War II and The University of Alabama. 

A small exhibit of materials from the Hoole Library relating to the talk will be on display on the first floor of Capstone Village, including an air mission jounral recently donated to the Hoole Library by Emmett Dendy. Mr. Dendy’s air mission journal and  information about Ralph Krupp. Mr.  Krupp was  a US pilot shot down in August 1944 and held in a German POW camp near Nurnberg. In March 1944, Mr. Dendy flew a mission to bomb Nurnberg.  Jim Gamble another US airman held in the Nurnberg camp, described the US bombing raid in his published memoirs, Innocents Abroad. Reed is the author of numerous books, including most recently, When Winning Was Everything, a tribute to former Alabama football players who served in the military World War II. More than 325 former Crimson Tide players and coaches served during the war. They were in leadership positions and in every major battle. Some dropped behind enemy lines as paratroopers on D-Day; many were pilots in the European, Asian and Pacific theaters of war; scores were soldiers in the fields of France and Belgium, and others were Marines on Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima and Okinawa. Thirteen lost their lives in service to our country. Over 50 players are featured with stories and photos of their playing days at Alabama and their military days."

Contact: Jessica Lacher-Felman, JLF@ua.edu [98] , 205-348-0500

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Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 5:30 p.m.

Honors College Presentation

Contact: Wellon Bridgers, 205-348-1393, wlbridgers@aalan.ua.edu [99]

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Monday, October 8, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 8:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

Student Alumni Association

Contact: Alex McNair, atmcnair@crimson.ua.edu [77]

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CANCELLED
Thursday, October 4, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Sarah Moody Art Gallery Lecture
Q & A with Thornton Willis

Thornton Willis Exhibition
October 4 – November 16, 2012            
 

The exhibit features a decade of large abstract oil paintings by New York artist and UA alumnus Thornton Willis.  There are three bodies of work represented in this exhibition: Willis’s latest paintings, lattice paintings, and triangle paintings. Willis’s works have always had in common the “allover surface plane held in tension, between figure and ground, as an interwoven field”, says Lance Esplund, arts contributor to the Wall Street Journal.  He writes of Willis’ latest work: “Willis’s restless geometries poke their long-necked heads upward and around, as if to hear a distant drumbeat or to see above the herd.” Joseph Masheck, Artforum, offers this comment: “The paintings may not resemble human likenesses, but they nevertheless seem somehow to proffer human character in the abstract.” Willis’s awards include a painting fellowship from the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, painting and printmaking fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Fellowship, the Pollack-Krasner Foundation Painting Fellowship and membership in the 2004 Southern Mississippi College of Arts and Letters Wall of Fame.  His work is in more than 40 collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, NY; The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC; the Herb and Dorothy Vogel Collection, National Gallery, Washington, DC; The High Museum of Art, Atlanta; and the Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, UA, Tuscaloosa, AL.

Contact: Vicky Rial, 205-348-1891, vrial@art.as.ua.edu [62]

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Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Gorgas Library, Alabama Digital Humanities Center, room 109A, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Lunchtime Learning Workshop
"Introducing Omeka for Digital Projects"

This presentation introduces the use of Omeka for digital projects. Omeka is an open source tool out of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University and is a popular choice for digital humanities projects including online exhibits. The presenter will discuss basic functions of Omeka and several local digital humanities projects will be demonstrated.


Contact: Frances Abbott, 205-348-0767, frabbott@ua.edu [33]

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Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.

HR Development Wordpress Training

Contact: Teresa Faulkner, 205-348-8212, tfaulkner@fa.ua.edu [37]

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Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 4:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.

Summercell Center for the Study of the South

Contact: Dr. Joshua Rothman, 205-348-3818, jrothman@as.ua.edu [100]

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Monday, October 1, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Honors College Recruitment

Contact: Allison Verhine, 205-348-5534, allison.verhine@ua.edu [34]

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Thursday, September 27, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 4:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.

Summercell Center for the Study of the South

Contact: Dr. Joshua Rothman, 205-348-3818, jrothman@as.ua.edu [100]

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Thursday, September 27, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.

HR Development Wordpress Training

Contact: Teresa Faulkner, 205-348-8212, tfaulkner@fa.ua.edu [37]

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Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Phi Sigma Theta Honor Society

Contact: Stephanie Gross, sagross@crimson.ua.edu [101]

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Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 3:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Guest Speaker Korey Jackson
Sponsored by: Digital Humanities Center


Contact: Frances Abbott, frabbott@ua.edu [33]

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Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Gorgas Library, Alabama Digital Humanities Center, room 109A, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Lunchtime Learning Workshop
"Planning Video and Audio Projects"

This session will focus on the timelines, production considerations and introduce basic editing options for video and audio projects.

Contact: Nancy Fawley, 205-348-1976, nefawley@ua.edu [23]

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Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

Precious Knowledge Film Screening and Panel Discussion
Sponsored by: Women's Resource Center

A film screening in celebration of Hispanic Latina Heritage Month.

Contact: Women's Resource Center, 205-348-5040, www.wrc.ua.edu [103]

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Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.

Black Faculty and Staff Association

Contact: Cynthia Moore, 205-348-3116, cmoore@cchs.ua.edu [76]

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Monday, September 24, 2012
Gorgas 205, room 205, 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

A Spectrum lecture event exploring lives of selected queer Hispanics and drawing inspiration from their lives to improve current activism and awareness of the intersectionality of those identities.

Contact: Kaylyn Johnson, kajohnson5@crimson.ua.edu [104]

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Monday, September 24, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.

Department of Religious Studies

Contact: Donna Martin, 205-348-5271

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Friday, September 21, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Honors College Recruitment

Contact:  Allison Verhine, 205-348-5534, allison.verhine@ua.edu [34]

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Friday, September 21, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Honors College Recruitment

Contact:  Allison Verhine, 205-348-5534, allison.verhine@ua.edu [34]

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Friday, September 21, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Honors College Recruitment

Contact:  Allison Verhine, 205-348-5534, allison.verhine@ua.edu [34]

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Thursday, September 20, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.

HR Development Wordpress Training

Contact: Teresa Faulkner, 205-348-8212, tfaulkner@fa.ua.edu [37]

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Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Hispanic Latina Heritage Month Presentation
Sponsored by: Womens Resource Center

Contact: Womens Resource Center, 205-348-5282, wrc.ua.edu [105]

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Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Gorgas Library, Alabama Digital Humanities Center, room 109A, 12:00 p.m. -1:00 p.m

Lunchtime Learning Workshop
"An Introduction to HTML5"

This workshop explores HTML5, which provides a wide range of powerful features for constructing dynamic online content. From voice searches to file handling to 3D graphics, many functions previously confined to native desktop or mobile apps are now possible through the browser.

Contact: Frances Abbott, 205-348-0767, frabbott@ua.edu [33]

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Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 11:30 a.m. - 1:15 p.m.

Lunch and Learn Session
Sponsored by Office for Sponsored Programs

Contact: Erica Gambrell, 205-348-4269, egambrell@fa.ua.edu [19]

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Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Rodgers Science and Engineering Library, First Floor, 10:30 a.m.




Contact: Donna Adock, 205-348-1416, dbadcock@ua.edu [106]

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Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

Dean of Students Office Webinar

Contact: Ben Callaway, 334-413-2408, wbcallaway@gmail.com [107]

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Monday, September 17, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

Publisher in Residence Group Meeting
Speaker: Dr. George Thompson
Sponsored by: College of Arts and Science Dean's Office
For more information on Publisher in Residence, visit website http://www.gftbooks.com/ [108]

Contact: Amanda Collins, 205-348-2520, agcollins2@as.ua.edu [109]

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Friday, September 14, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, Noon - 5:00 p.m.

Parent Advisory Council Meeting

Contact:  Litsa Orban, 205-348-8404, leorban@sa.ua.edu [110]

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CANCELLED
Thursday, September 13, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 4:00 p.m. -7:00 p.m.

Summercell Center for the Study of the South

Contact: Dr. Joshua Rothman, 205-348-3818, jrothman@as.ua.edu [100]

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Thursday, September 13, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

Spectrum Meet

Contact: Gaby Wilson, gnwilson1@crimson.ua.edu [111]

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Thursday, September 13, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

Blackboard Learn Information Session

Contact:  Rachel Shuttlesworth, 205-348-0216, rshuttle@ua.edu [72]

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Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m., 6:00 p.m. -7:30 p.m.

Avanti and Parent Ambassador Orientation Information Sessions
Sponsored by: Office of Orientation and Special Programs & Office of Parent Programs

Information sessions for students interested in joining the Avani and Parent Ambassador Orientation teams

Contact: Bridget Resetco, 205-348-8954, brresetco@gmail.com [112]

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Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m., 6:00 p.m. -7:30 p.m.

Avanti and Parent Ambassador Orientation Information Sessions
Sponsored by: Office of Orientation and Special Programs & Office of Parent Programs

Information sessions for students interested in joining the Avani and Parent Ambassador Orientation teams

Contact: Bridget Resetco, 205-348-8954, brresetco@gmail.com [112]

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Monday, September 10, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

Introductory Evening and Document Screening of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
by Rebecca Skloots

Sponsored by: Honors College

This accessible book relates the shocking tale of Henrietta Lacks,
an African-American woman whose cells were after her death without
her knowledge or consent or that of her family in medical experiments.
The book raises questions around the theme of medical ethics, race, religion,
gender and social justice.





Contact: Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa, holmesapo@yahoo.co.nz [113]

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Monday, September 10, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 8:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Undergraduate Admissions and Scholarships

Contact:  Lynn McColl, 205-348-8206, lynn.mccoll@ua.edu [8]

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Sunday, September 9, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Delta Zeta 90th Birthday Celebration

Contact:  Dr. Margaret Purcell, 205-348-7038, mpurcell@ccs.ua.edu [114]

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Friday, September 7, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, tba

Library Leadership Board Meeting

Contact:  Donna Adcock, 205-348-1416, dbadcock@ua.edu [106]

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Thursday, September 6, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.

Crimson Outreach

Contact: Molly Lisenby, mdlisenby@crimson.ua.edu [115]

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Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 6:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

Sarah Moody Gallery of Art
Guest Artist - Brian Novatny: Selected Paintings and Drawings

New York artist Brian Novatny brings figurative drawings and paintings to the Sarah Moody Gallery of Art. This exhibition shows the evolution of Novatny’s work over the last 17 or so years.  This evolution is more of style than content. The appearance of the figures in Novatny’s work has changed significantly, from stylized to recognizable, familiar faces.  Novatny’s figures are oddly preoccupied and disconnected from narrative, yet there are bits of narrative integrated into each drawing, whether a patterned fabric, a figure falling, or a June Allyson look-alike. There is also a feeling of unease in the work as if the figures are “trapped” in the background of the works. Novatny has had solo exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Seattle, Saint Louis, Berlin and Frankfurt and is represented by ADA Gallery in Richmond, Virginia.   The artist will be lecturing on his work on Wednesday, September 5, in 205 Gorgas Library on the UA campus.

Contact:  Vicki Rial, 205-348-5968, vrial@art.as.ua.edu [62]

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Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.

Avanti and Parent Ambassador Orientation Information Sessions
Sponsored by: Office of Orientation and Special Programs & Office of Parent Programs

Information sessions for students interested in joining the Avani and Parent Ambassador Orientation teams

Contact: Bridget Resetco, 205-348-8954, brresetco@gmail.com [112]

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Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m., 6:00 p.m. -7:30 p.m.

Avanti and Parent Ambassador Orientation Information Sessions
Sponsored by: Office of Orientation and Special Programs & Office of Parent Programs

Information sessions for students interested in joining the Avani and Parent Ambassador Orientation teams

Contact: Bridget Resetco, 205-348-8954, brresetco@gmail.com [112]

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Thursday, August 30, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.

Art to Life Lecture

Sponsored by: Honors College

Contact: Emily Broman, ecbroman@crimson.ua.edu [46]

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Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

Honors College Assembly Involvement Symposium

Contact: Emily Broman, ecbroman@crimson.ua.edu [46]

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Thursday, August 23, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.

IFC Recruitment Event
Sponsored by the Dean of Students and Office of Greek Affairs

Contact:  Nick Lambert, 618-518-0657, nicholas.t.lambert@gmail.com [116]

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Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Graduate Student and Faculty Discussion
Sponsored by: Department of Art and Art History

Contact: Rachel Dobson, 205-348-1893, rdobson@bama.ua.edu [45]

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Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Blackburn Institute Kick-Off


Contact:  Candace Peters, 205-348-3277, cpeters@sa.ua.edu [117]

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Monday, August 20, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 2:00 p.m - 3:30 p.m.

English Department Instructor Orientation

Contact: Nancy Calvert, 205-348-8485, ncalvert@bama.ua.edu [118]

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Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, Noon

English Language Institute Certificate Ceremony

Contact:  Vicky Wyatt, 205-348-7413, vwyatt@eli.ua.edu [9]

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Monday, August 6, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

Blackboard Learn Information Session

An overview of the transition to the Blackboard Learn learning management system.

Contact:  Rachel Shuttlesworth, 205-348-0216, rshuttle@ua.edu [72]

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Thursday, July 26, and Friday, July 27, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 8:00 a.m.

Council of Assistant and Associate Deans Retreat

Contact:  Carol Duncan, 205-348-4893

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Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 2:00 p.m.

P-Card Training - Things Every Approver Should Know

What to expect from Cardholders and Reconcilers
Tips for spotting fraud and misuse
Best practices for setting up departmental controls


Contact:  Jennifer Clark, jclark@fa.ua.edu [119]

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Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 10:00 a.m.

P-Card Training - Reconciler Tips, Tricks, and Shortcuts

Organization and Workflow Tips
Why was I declined?
How much do I have available?
Getting the most out of Works

Contact:  Jennifer Clark, jclark@fa.ua.edu [119]

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Monday, July 16, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.

Assessment Council Luncheon

Sponsored:  Office of Institutional Effectiveness

Contact:  Samantha Glashaw, 205-348-9830

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Friday, July 13, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, Noon

Dean of Students Office Graduation Luncheon

Contact:  Ben Callaway, 334-413-2408, wbcallaway@gmail.com [107]

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Thursday, July 12, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 6:00 p.m.

Dean of Students Office - Summer Camp

Contact:  Lowell Davis, lkdavis2@sa.ua.edu [12]

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Monday, July 9, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 2:00 p.m.

P-Card Training - Travel 101:  Best Practices for Paying Travel Expenses

P-Card vs. Travel Voucher, In-State vs. Out-of-State, Rental Cars


Contact:  Jennifer Clark, jclark@fa.ua.edu [119]

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Friday, June 29, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 10:00 a.m.

P-Card Training - Hot Topics:  Common Mistakes and Frequently Asked Questions

Writing clear business purpose explanations
Tips for avoiding Violation Points
How to find the information that you need

Contact:  Jennifer Clark, jclark@fa.ua.edu [119]

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Thursday, June 28, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 6:00 p.m.

Dean of Students Office - Summer Camp

Contact:  Lowell Davis, lkdavis2@sa.ua.edu [12]

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Thursday, June 21, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, Noon

English Language Institute Certificate Ceremony


Contact:  Vicky Wyatt, 205-348-7413

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Thursday, June 14, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

WellBama Rewards

Sponsored by the Office of Health Promotion and Wellness

Contact: Heather Mundy, 205-348-0083, hnmundy@ua.edu [11]

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Friday, June 8, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Creative Writing Camp - Poetry Reading

Sponsored by the UA English Department

Contact:  Christoper McCarter, 408-839-2011, comccarter@crimson.ua.edu [120]

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Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.


Speaker - Cristina Diaz, University of Havana

Sponsored by Dean Robert Olin, College of Arts & Sciences

Contact:  Janie Boswell, 205-348-4356, jeboswell@as.ua.edu [121]

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Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 1:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Bama Bound Training

Contact:  Ally Martin, 678-602-7856, ramartin1@crimson.ua.edu [91]

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Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 9:00 a.m.

Library Technology Forum

Contact:  Jason Battles, 205-348-8647, jjbattles@ua.edu [122]

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Saturday, May 19, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, Meeting 11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.; Luncheon Noon

Tuscaloosa County Preservation Society Luncheon and Meeting


Contact:  Katherine Mauter, 205-758-2238

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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 [123]

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Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 11:00 a.m. Luncheon; 1:30 p.m. Meeting

Library Leadership Board

Contact:  Donna Adcock, 205-348-1416, dbadcock@ua.edu [106]

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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, 205-348-4537

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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 [124]

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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

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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 [34], 205-348-5534

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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

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Thursday, April 19, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 12:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

Anthropology Presentation

Contact:  Kevin Walker, 205-348-1357, kwwalker@ua.edu [125]

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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 [126]-based (SaaS [127]) presentation software [128] and storytelling [129] tool for exploring and sharing ideas upon a virtual canvas. Prezi is distinguished by its Zooming User Interface [130] (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 [131] space on the Z-axis [132].

Free

Contact:  Nancy Fawley, 205-348-1976, nefawley@ua.edu [23]

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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

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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, 205-348-4537

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Monday, April 16, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

Holocaust Remembrance Day - Honoring Survivors

Contact:  Amy Castleberry, aecastleberry@crimson.ua.edu [133]

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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 [34], 205-348-5534

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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

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Thursday, April 12, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

Information Technology Committee

Contact:  Josh Sahib, 205-348-6529, jsahib [134]

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Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

Phi Beta Kappa Initiation Ceremony

Contact:  Margaret Abruzzo, mabruzzo@bama.ua.edu [22]

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Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Gorgas Library, rom 205, 8:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.

MetaPress Student Conference

Meta Press hosts content on behalf of scientific, technical, and medical publishers from around the world.

Contact:  Natalie Weeks, 205-981-4007, nweeks@metapress.com [135]

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Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

Symposium Hosted by Honors College

Contact:  Wellon Bridgers, 205-348-7598

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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 [16]

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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 [34], 205-348-5534

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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 [136]

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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

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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, 205-348-8412

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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: [137]Alabama Writers' Forum, The Alabama Center for the Book and University Libraries

Free and open to the public.















Contact:  Donna Adcock, 205-348-1416, dbadcock@ua.edu [106]

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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

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Saturday, March 31, 2012 DATE MOVED TO:  May 19, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, Meeting 11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.; Luncheon Noon

Tuscaloosa County Preservation Society Luncheon and Meeting
Guest Speaker:  A.S. Williams III

Contact:  Katherine Mauter, 205-758-2238

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Thursday, March 29, 2012
Contact:  Dr. Jamie Naidoo, 205-348-1518

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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

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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 [138]

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Monday, March 26, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, Noon - 5:00 p.m.

Department of Religious Studies Lecture

Contact:  Donna Martin, 205-348-5271

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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 [139]

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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 [34], 205-348-5534

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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.


Book signing to follow.

Event is free and open to the public.

Contact:  Kelli H. Wright, 205-348-8539,khwright@as.ua.edu [140]

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Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 3:00 p.m.


Libraries' Spring Forum

Contact:  Angela Wright, 205-348-6303

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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

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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 [72], 205-348-0216

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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 [141]

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Thursday, March 8, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.

College of Communication & Information Sciences' Communication & Diversity Forum

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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 [117]

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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/ [142], 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 [143]

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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 [144]

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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 [145]

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Monday, March 5, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 8:00 a.m. - Noon

Honors College Spring Recruitment Event

Contact:  Allison Verhine, 205-348-5534

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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

Registration is limited to 80 participants.

Contact: Donna Adcock, director, Public Relations, UA Libraries, 205-348-1416,  dbadcock@lib.ua.edu [143]

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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

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Thursday, March 1, 2012
Gorgas Library, Capstone Entrance, First Floor, 11:00 a.m.

Join us for the Celebration of the 1 Millionth Student Visitor to the Libraries (since August 1, 2011)

Prizes and Refreshments

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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

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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

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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 [146]

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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 [145]

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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 [147]

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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 [23]

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Thursday, February 24, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Pulitzer Prize Winner Douglas Blackmon, 'Slavery by Another Name'

Journalist and historian Douglas Blackmon will be speaking about his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, "Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II," and about the PBS documentary film recently made from his work.

This event is cosponsored by the Frances S. Summersell Center for the Study of the South, New College, the Dean's Office and the College of Arts and Sciences, the Blount Undergraduate Initiative, and the Departments of American Studies, Criminal Justice, Gender and Race Studies, History, and Journalism.

Contact:  Dr. Josh Rothman, 205-348-(205) 348-3818,Website [148], jrothman@bama.ua.edu [149]

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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 [150]

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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, 205-348-4537

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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 [116]

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Monday, February 20, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 8:00 p.m. - 9:15 p.m.

Bama Blitz Planning Meeting

Sponsor:  Community Service Center

Contact:  Wahnee Sherman, 205-348-5722 or Barbara Grimes ,bgrimes@sa.ua.edu [151]

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Saturday, February 18, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, Noon - 5:00 p.m.

University Fellows Experience Finalist Luncheon

Contact:  Wellon Bridgers ,205-348-7598

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Thursday, February 16, 2012
Gorgas Library, room 205, 6:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.

Department of Religious Studies

Contact:  Donna Martin , 205-348-5271

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CANCELLED
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 [152]

More information to be added including info on co-sponsors and hosts -- please visit this page often!

 

 Past Events

2011 [154] | 2010 [155] | FALL 2009 [156]
 

[ Other events from previous semesters at the Libraries information available here] [157]

 

 

 

 

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