Oct. 13-26 -- Dialog welcomes help from readers in compiling a comprehensive calendar. All calendar material must be submitted for consideration by Wednesday, eight working days prior to publication dates. Send campus mail to: Dialog, Box 870144; email shibbard@ur.ua.edu; or call 348-5320. For general information about activities, events and special announcements of upcoming calendar entries, go to events.ua.edu.
Japan
Culture and Information Center
210 Research Drive, 348-5311
Programs:
- Oct. 21 -- Tea Ceremony, 11:45 a.m., $2.50
- Oct. 21 -- Kimono Sewing or Obi-tying, 1:15 p.m., $2.50
- Oct. 22 -- Origami, 3:30 p.m., $2.50
- Oct. 23 -- Japanese Gift Wrapping & Box Making, 1 p.m., $2.50 plus cost
- Oct. 23 -- Tie-Dyeing, 2 p.m., $2.50 plus cost
- Oct. 23 -- Manners in Japan, 3:30 p.m., free
- Oct. 23 -- Calligraphy, 3:30 p.m., $2.50
- Oct. 23 -- GO Lessons and Practice, 5 p.m., free
- Oct. 23 -- Film Night, 5 p.m., free
- Oct. 24 -- Japanese Cooking Hour, 3:30 p.m., $1
Japanese Language Classes:
- Oct. 21 -- Survival English, 10:30-11:30 a.m., free
International Center for Students
121 B.B. Comer
- Every Friday -- Capstone International Coffee Hour, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
Discovering Alabama
Featuring Dr. Doug Phillips, airs each Sunday at 1 p.m. and 6:30 p.m.
on Alabama Public Television. For information about buying videos, call
348-2039.
The Crimson Calendar at http://events.ua.edu is UA's campus-wide events calendar. The Crimson Calendar displays each day's events, is searchable and links to other related information and sites. Anyone may submit an event to the Crimson Calendar.
- Alabama Model United Nations Conference -- Oct. 16, 3rd Floor Ferguson Center, 9 a.m.
- Phenix City Story: Film/Lecture/Book Signing -- Bama Theater, 6 p.m.
- Murder and Corruption in Phenix City are Topics of a Night at The Bama Theater, Sponsored by UA's Hoole Library -- Phenix City, Ala., and its notorious past, including the events surrounding the assassination of Albert Patterson, former state senator and Democratic Party nominee for state attorney general, will be the topics of a night at the historic Bama Theater. On Oct. 23, UA's W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library will sponsor a film, lecture, reception and book signing at the theater.
Call 348-7111 for information about performances scheduled to be held in the Moody Music Building. All concerts are in the Concert Hall of the Moody Music Building and start at 7:30 p.m. unless otherwise noted.
Music
Moody Concert Hall, 348-7111, School
of Music calendar
- Oct. 14 -- Celebrity Series: Empire Brass, admission charged
- Oct. 16 -- Fall Choral Showcase
- Oct. 19 -- Faculty Recital: Faythe Freese, Organ, 2 p.m.
- Oct. 20 -- Tuscaloosa Community Singers
- Oct. 21 -- Faculty Recital: Charles Horn
- Oct. 23 -- Alabama Jazz Ensemble
Theatre
Marian Gallaway Theatre, 348-3400
Coalition for Diversity and Inclusiveness Lecture Series
Al Brophy, UA professor of law, presents "Remembering and Litigating Jim Crow: The Case of the Tulsa Riot, 1921" -- 340 Bidgood Hall, Oct. 15, 7:30 p.m.
Center for Mental Health and Aging Scientific Seminar
UA's School of Social Work and College of Arts and Sciences continues its Center for Mental Health and Aging scientific seminars with a public lecture. Dr. Monica Driscoll of Rutgers University will speak on "Elaborating Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Aging, Longevity and Healthspan in C. elegans: Lessons and Themes from Simple Old Animals." This seminar is jointly sponsored with the UA department of biological sciences' Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research program -- 202 Biology Building, Oct. 16, 4 p.m.
Hudson Strode Program in Renaissance Studies, "Bringing the Globe to Alabama"
The Strode Program is a privately endowed program to promote the study of literature from Skelton to Milton. The endowment provides for lectures and residencies by distinguished scholars, and fellowships for graduate study at UA in the field of English Renaissance Literature. Strode lectures are at 5 p.m. in 301 Morgan Hall. Oct. 20 -- Brian Vickers (Centre for Renaissance Studies, University of Zurich)
For more information, visit specific Web sites or call the telephone numbers below.
Alabama Museum
of Natural History
Smith Hall, 348-7550
- Through Jan. 25, 2004 -- Caves: A Fragile Wilderness
The Gorgas
House
On UA campus, 348-5906
Moundville
Archaeological Park and Museum
Highway 69 South, 205/371-2572
Paul
W. Bryant Museum
300 Bryant Drive, 348-4668
Alabama
Heritage Magazine
348-7467
The Web site provides information about the current issue of Alabama Heritage magazine, subscriptions, collecting back issues, the location on campus and more.
The Black Warrior Review is a nationally respected literary magazine that publishes the best in contemporary fiction, poetry and essays.
Gorgas
Library Book Arts Gallery
5th Floor, Gorgas Library
Bounds
Law Library
101 Bryant Drive, 348-5925
W.S.
Hoole Special Collections Library
208 Mary Harmon Bryant Hall, 50 Hackberry Lane, 348-0500
Sarah
Moody Gallery of Art
103 Garland Hall, 348-1891
Cartographic
Research Laboratory
324 Farrah Hall
Also see alabamamaps.ua.edu.
The University
of Alabama Press
20 Research Drive, 348-5180
The UA Press will provide tours of its publication house and a current catalog upon request.
The UA Press has announced a new imprint, Fire Ant Books. One of the first to be printed in this imprint is All-Time Greatest Alabama Sports Stories, by Benny Marshall and Friends and edited by Wendell O. Givens. The Fire Ant Books, billed as "books with a bite," are trade paperback books that focus on a wide variety of topics with national appeal.
Complete information is available via The University of Alabama official athletic Web site at www.rolltide.com. The site includes information about all sports, schedules, pricing information on faculty/staff tickets as well as tickets available to the public. General information on schedules and other news from Alabama athletics is also available at the site.
Football
- Oct. 25 -- UA vs. Tennessee, time TBA
Soccer
- Oct. 24 -- UA vs. Louisiana State, 7 p.m.
- Oct. 26 -- UA Arkansas, 1 p.m.
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