The University of Alabama’s Alabama Museum of Natural History and the UA Arboretum will host the annual St. Valentine’s Day gourmet dinner featuring big band and swing jazz music from 6:30 to 9 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 14, in Smith Hall on Sixth Avenue on the UA campus.
Werewolves howl, portraits bleed and mummies come to life in Charles Ludlam’s “The Mystery of Irma Vep,” opening Tuesday, Feb. 12 at The University of Alabama’s newly renovated Allen Bales Theatre. But this campy tribute to the Gothic horror films of a bygone era is played for laughs rather than chills.
The University of Alabama is celebrating African-American Heritage Month in February with the theme “Creating History Every Day” to recognize the range and diversity of contributions African-Americans have made.
Distinguished filmmaker John Sayles and producer Maggie Renzi are screening the West Alabama premiere of their award-winning film “Honeydripper” at the Bama Theatre Monday, Feb 4 at 7:30 p.m., sponsored in part by The University of Alabama College of Communication and Information Sciences.
As part of the Alabama Clay Conference 23, The University of Alabama will be hosting several notable exhibits of pottery ranging from the distant past to the here and now.
The Ferguson Center Student Union will host the third annual Hip-Hop Summit at The University of Alabama with the theme “Changing Lives Through Hip-Hop,” beginning on Monday, Feb. 4 at noon and ending with a major event closing out the summit on Thursday, Feb. 7 at 7:30 p.m.
Gregg Levoy, author of “Callings: Finding and Following an Authentic Life,” will present a workshop for students at The University of Alabama on Monday, Jan. 28 from 7-9 p.m. in the Moody Music Concert Hall on “Don’t Just Declare a Major, Follow a Calling.”
Dr. Roy F. Baumeister, Eppes Eminent Professor of Psychology at Florida State University, will deliver the lecture “Free Will as the Expensive Control of Action” at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 1 in room 208 in The University of Alabama’s Gordon Palmer Hall.
David M. Shribman, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and executive editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, will be on The University of Alabama campus to discuss “The New Architecture of Journalism” Tuesday, Jan. 29 at 6 p.m. in 205 Amelia Gorgas Library.
Dr. Ted Sider, professor of philosophy at New York University, will be the next speaker in the “Philosophy Today” series of public lectures at The University of Alabama.