Filmmaker Margaret Brown will screen her film “The Order of Myths” at the Bama Theatre Thursday, Oct. 30 at 7:30 p.m., sponsored by The University of Alabama College of Communication and Information Sciences and the Arts and Humanities Council of Tuscaloosa County.
The University of Alabama Center for Ethics & Social Responsibility will host the semifinal and final rounds of the fourth annual Moral Forum Tournament. The semifinals will be held at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 22 in the Ferguson Center Forum (room 360) and the final round will be at 7 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 27 in Morgan Auditorium. Scholarships totaling $13,000 will be awarded the final night.
Shakespeare wrote, “Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.” But scholars will take a stab at examining those follies Saturday, Oct. 25, when The University of Alabama’ s Hudson Strode Program in Renaissance Studies hosts the symposium “Shakespeare’s Love Triangles.” The symposium will begin at 9 a.m. in 301 Morgan Hall.
Dr. Cornel West, a social justice activist and Princeton University professor, spoke to a capacity audience at The University of Alabama Oct. 16. A videotape of West’s lecture will be screened Oct. 29 at 6:30 p.m., 8 p.m., and 9:30 p.m. in the theatre of the Ferguson Center on the UA campus.
Dr. Bruce Lincoln, an internationally recognized scholar in religious studies and the Caroline E. Haskell Professor of the History of Religions in the Divinity School at the University of Chicago, will give The University of Alabama department of religious studies’ 2008-2009 Aaron Aronov Lecture.
Students who would like to participate in the Miss University of Alabama program are invited to a candidate interest meeting on Sunday, Oct. 19 at 3 p.m. in Alumni Hall.
The University of Alabama Honors College and UA Housing and Residential Communities are co-sponsoring a forum on the presidential election on Monday, Oct. 20 at 7 p.m. in 205 Gorgas Library.
“The Wild Party,” Andrew Lippa’s musical set during the Roaring ’20s, opens Tuesday, Oct. 21, and continues through Sunday, Oct. 26, at the Allen Bales Theatre in Rowand Johnson Hall on The University of Alabama campus, a production of UA’s theatre and dance department.
The Capstone College of Nursing at The University of Alabama will host a groundbreaking ceremony Oct. 10 for a new facility that will provide state-of-the-art clinical instruction for UA nursing students working to counter a national nursing shortage.
Alfonso T. Yuchengco, foreign affairs advisor to the president of the Philippines and a secretary in the presidential cabinet, former Philippine ambassador to China, Japan and the United Nations and head of the Yuchhengco Group of Companies, will receive The University of Alabama Global Insurance Humanitarian Award at the Alabama Insurance Day 2008 Conference Thursday, Oct. 9.