Richard Siken, whose poetry collection “Crush” won the 2004 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize, will be the next visitor in The University of Alabama Bankhead Reading Series. Siken will read at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 17 at the Bama Theatre in downtown Tuscaloosa.
A bilingual lecture with Dr. Almidio Aquino, director of the Language Notebooks Project, will be held at The University of Alabama on Monday, Jan.14 in 205 Gorgas Library from 2-4 p.m.
On Saturday, Jan. 19, seven of the Tuscaloosa area’s most renowned choirs will perform at the 19th Annual “Realizing the Dream” concert. The event, which honors the life and works of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., begins at 7:30 p.m. in the Concert Hall of The University of Alabama’s Moody Music Building.
A leading pediatrician and expert in providing services to underserved populations will offer insights into the relationship between clinical care and culture Tuesday, Jan. 29 in classrooms 1, 2 and 3 at The University of Alabama School of Medicine building. The event is free and open to the public.
The University of Alabama Men’s and Women’s Wheelchair Basketball Teams kick off the second half of their season Friday, Jan. 11 at the Pioneer Classic Wheelchair Basketball Invitational at the Lakeshore Foundation in Birmingham.
Sculpture, paintings, drawings and other artworks that show off the vivid imaginations of The University of Alabama’s art faculty are on display at the Sarah Moody Gallery of Art (http://art.ua.edu/moody.html).
The results of an in-depth analysis of the Tuscaloosa community, including a unique look at downtown development and private communities, will be presented in the public forum “Height as Power,” Saturday, Jan. 26 from 1 to 4 p.m. on The University of Alabama campus.
Soaring oil prices. The ailing housing market. The decline in the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the Standard & Poor’s 500 in the last quarter of 2007. Is a recession imminent?
Anyone connected with the commercial real estate business should be able to find something useful and interesting at the Alabama Commercial Real Estate Conference scheduled for Friday, Jan. 18 at the Birmingham/Jefferson County Civic Center/ Sheraton Hotel. The conference is presented by the Alabama Center for Real Estate, which is part of The University of Alabama’s Culverhouse College of Commerce.
Dr. Edward Larson, Talmadge Chair of Law and Russell Professor of American History at the University of Georgia, will deliver his lecture, “From Dayton to Dover: A Brief History of the Evolution Teaching Controversy,” Jan.15 at 7:30 p.m. in 127 Biology Building on The University of Alabama campus.