Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Rick Bragg and author Willy Vlautin will give readings Thursday, April 5 at 7:30 p.m. at the Bama Theatre, as part of the Bankhead Visiting Writers Series.
Acclaimed Israeli storyteller Noa Baum will present a multicultural performance of “A Land Twice Promised” on Thursday, March 29 at 7 p.m. in 151 Shelby Hall on The University of Alabama campus.
Capstone Creed Week events at The University of Alabama will feature a Creed Week Kickoff on Monday, March 26 starting at 11 a.m. in the Ferguson Plaza.
F. Michael Reilly, president and chief executive officer of Randall-Reilly Publishing Company, will deliver the keynote address at a reception and award dinner on Friday, March 30, celebrating The University of Alabama’s Entrepreneurship Program’s Top 20 national ranking in Undergraduate Entrepreneurship Education.
Dr. Arthur J. Tipton, chief executive officer and president of Brookwood Pharmaceuticals Inc., will speak with students at The University of Alabama Monday, April 2.
The department of English in the College of Arts and Sciences at The University of Alabama will host the 28th English Symposium, March 29-30, at the Ferguson Center.
Visitors can view the moon and Saturn through a University of Alabama telescope Tuesday, March 27 and take in a talk on neutrinos, tiny, invisible objects said to pass through the human body by the millions every second.
The fifth in a series of public lectures on evolution will continue at The University of Alabama with physical anthropologist Douglas Crews. Crews will speak on “Human Senescence and Longevity: Evolutionary Theories, Biological Models and Biocultural Influences” March 22 at 7:30 p.m. in 127 Biology Building Auditorium on the UA campus.
Dr. Paul Bushkovitch, one of the leading scholars of Russia in the United States, will give a public talk at the second annual Friends of History Lecture Thursday, March 22, at 4 p.m. in 205 Gorgas Library.
The Rose Gladney Lecture for Justice and Social Change will be held at The University of Alabama W. S. Hoole Special Collections Library on March 21 at 7:30 p.m. with guest speaker Joan C. Browning.