TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – The University of Alabama’s English department writing center has launched a new “Tweet at the Writing Center” service that allows students to ask writing related questions and receive answers through Twitter.
To participate in the service, students tweet their questions to @UAWriting Center using the hashtag #helpwritenow.
The University of Alabama’s Creative Campus is hosting “#blkComedy: A Night of Comedy in a Handheld World” featuring YouTube stars Trey Moe and Xavier Burgin. The event, at 5 p.m. Wednesday, April 5, in Russell Auditorium, is free and open to the public.
The University of Alabama is hosting a two-day workshop on how communities and universities can bridge the gaps that exist between them and work together. The “University and Community Engagement Workshop: Strategies for Bridging the Gap between Town and Gown,” will be held at Hotel Capstone from 8 a.m. Monday, April 3, to 3 p.m. Tuesday, April 4.
World-renowned composer and percussionist Gino Robair will headline the final concert of The University of Alabama’s 2016-17 Sonic Frontiers concert series.
The University of Alabama’s history department is hosting a daylong conference Monday, March 27, that will highlight the transnational connections between the U.S. South and Latin America in the 19th century. The conference is titled “Dreams of Dominion: The U.S. South and Latin America.”
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – Dr. Jonathan L. Walton, a social ethicist and scholar of religions, has been selected as the 2017 Realizing the Dream distinguished lecturer. He will give his Realizing the Dream lecture at 7 p.m. March 23 in the Embassy Suites Ballroom. It’s free and open to the public.
University of Alabama graduate student Candace Chamber’s will receive the 2017 Scholars for the Dream Travel Award from the National Council of Teachers of English.
The Scholars for the Dream Travel Award is a national award given to emerging scholars of color – graduate students – who are embarking on scholarship that is promising, said Dr. Michelle Robinson, an assistant professor of English at UA.
Now, five decades later, UA’s department of religious studies is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a showcase of its accomplishments by students, graduates and faculty.
“A lot of units would invite people from outside to talk, as part of these celebrations, but we reasoned that the strength of our department is its current students, past students and our faculty,” McCutcheon said. “So our logic is we wanted to highlight those three groups.”
College professors from across the U.S. and Europe are headed to The University of Alabama this week to take part in the Digitorium, a three-day digital humanities conference.
The Digitorium will take place at Gorgas Library and Morgan Hall March 2-4. University Libraries and the Hudson Strode Program in Renaissance Studies in the English department are sponsoring the conference.
As part of a new history class called “Southern Memory: Lynching in the South,” which was started at The University of Alabama this fall by Dr. John Giggie, 15 students have spent the semester learning about the history and rationale of lynching, as well as tracking down the history of the documented lynchings that took place in Tuscaloosa County.