February 20, 2006

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• Activities
• Exhibits
• Events
• Performances
• Lectures
• Crimson Tide Sports
• African American Heritage Month 2006

Activities

Japan Culture and Information Center, 121 B.B. Comer Hall, 348-5311

• 141 B.B. Comer Hall, 348-5311 Visit the Web site for a list of programs for the month. http://bama.ua.edu/~jprogram/ jcic/calendar.htm.

International Center for Students

• 121 B.B. Comer — Capstone International Coffee Hour, every Friday, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.

‘Discovering Alabama’

“Discovering Alabama” with Dr. Doug Phillips airs each Sunday at 6:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. on Alabama Public Television.

Exhibits

UA Museums

Alabama Museum of Natural History, Smith Hall, 348-7550

• Harper Photo Exhibit and Symposium
  “Botanical Bonanza: Photographs by Roland Harper” will be on display through March 17. The exhibit showcases 22 rare photographs of Alabama plants and landscapes taken by Roland McMillan Harper between 1911 and 1951. Harper (1878-1966) served as botanist and phytogeographer for the Alabama Geological Survey from 1905 until his death. Although not a member of the UA faculty, generations of students and scientists called upon Harper in his office located at the Geological Survey in Smith Hall on the University campus. Operating hours for UA’s Museum of Natural History are 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. Admission is $2 for adults and $1 for children and retirees.

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.

Black Warrior Review — The Black Warrior Review is a nationally respected literary magazine that publishes the best in contemporary fiction, poetry and essays.

Marr's Field Journal, 348-7264, MFJ@sa.ua.edu

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

• Faces and Places: Selected 19th and 20th c. Photographs of African-Americans from the Wade Hall Collection
  An exhibition of 19th and 20th century photographs of African-American subjects selected from the Wade Hall Photographs Collection, part of the W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library’s collections. This exhibit will run Feb. 1 through March 17. Admission is free. This exhibition is held in conjunction with UA’s campuswide celebration of African-American Heritage Month.

• To Kill a Mockingbird: An exhibit of books, photographs, and other materials relating to Harper Lee’s legendary novel.
  The exhibition includes photographs from Lee’s days as a UA student, along with several editions of her stellar work, which are housed in the Alabama Collection in the W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library. This exhibit will run through March 17. Admission is free.

Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, 103 Garland Hall, 348-1891

Ferguson Center Art Gallery, 348-3250

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 a current catalog upon request.

Events

Tracie Morris

A Missing Link: Hip-Hop and Poetry

Creative Campus Initiative and Punch Writer's Project will host “A Missing Link: Poetry and Hip-Hop” as part of the Performance Poetry Series Feb. 23 at 8 p.m. in the Ferguson Center Theater. Patrons will be entertained by performance poet Tracie Morris as well as enjoy added components of disc jockeying, rapping, stepping and break-dancing. This event is sponsored by the Creative Campus, the Punch Literary Arts Project, the Coalition for Diversity and Inclusiveness, New College, the SGA Financial Affairs Committee, the Women’s Resource Center, the Community Service Center, Ferguson Theater and the Freshman Forum. Admission is free. For more information contact LaToya Scott, Creative Campus intern, at 348-6933 or latoyascott925@prodigy.net.

Lectures

Religion in Culture Lectures

The department of religious studies will sponsor two lectures this month by professors from the University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. Both will be held at 3:30 p.m. at Gorgas Library, Henry Jacobs Reading Room. Admission is free. For more information contact Russell McCutcheon, department of religious studies, at 348-5271 or Russell.mccutcheon@ua.edu. Dr. Darlene Juschka will speak on “Sexing the Gods: Gender, Sex, Sexuality and Systems of Belief” on Feb. 22. This lecture is co-sponsored by the department of women’s studies. Dr. William Arnal will talk on “Heresy as an Analytic Category: The Case of the Apostle Paul” on Feb. 23.

Bankhead Visiting Writers Series: Theresa Pappas and Kathryn Starbuck

Poets Theresa Pappas and Kathryn Starbuck will read from their latest work as a part of the Bankhead Visiting Writers Series March 2 at 7:30 p.m. in 205 Smith Hall. Pappas’ first collection of poems, “Flash Paper,” won the Minnesota Voices Project Competition and was published by New Rivers Press. Her work has received various literary awards and appeared in several publications. She has taught at Tufts University and Iowa State University and worked as a Visiting Writer in Iowa and Alabama. Starbuck is the editor of George Starbuck’s poems “Visible Ink” (2002) and “The Works: Poems Selected from Five Decades” (2003), both from The University of Alabama Press. Her first collection of poems is “Griefmania.” For more information contact Liliana Loofbourow, creative writing, at 393-3360 or loofb001@bama.ua.edu.

The fourth in a series of public lectures on evolution will continue with ecologist Dr. Richard Lenski. Lenski will speak on “Experimental Evolution: Bugs and Bytes” Feb. 23 at 7:30 p.m. in 127 Biology Building Auditorium. Lenski, the Hannah Professor of Microbial Ecology at Michigan State University, specializes in experimental evolution. He and his colleagues perform experiments using two different, fast-evolving systems – bacteria and digital organisms – to investigate the dynamics of evolution. His work has been published in the scientific journals Nature and Science. Lenski also collaborates on experiments using digital organisms – computer programs that replicate, mutate and evolve – and have demonstrated the evolutionary origins of complex new functions. The Alabama Lectures on Life’s Evolution (ALLELE) series is funded through a grant from the National Science Foundation, and UA’s College of Arts and Sciences and College of Education. The lectures are designed for non-technical audiences and are free and open to the public.

Scientific Seminar Series

Upcoming speakers for the spring 2006 Scientific Lecture Series include Dr. Ronald H. Aday, Dr. Louis D. Burgio and Bettina Schmid. Lectures are held from noon to 1:30 p.m. in Room 111 of AIME building. Lunch is provided. Aday, interim department chair for sociology and anthropology at Middle Tennessee State University, will speak Monday, Feb. 27. His topic is “Identifying the Special Needs of Aging Prisoners: A New Frontier for Research and Practice.” Burgio, distinguished research professor at UA, and Schmid of the UA department of psychology will discuss “The Alabama REACH Demonstration Project: Helping Families Living with Alzheimer’s Disease” Monday, March 6.

Performances

School of Music
All performances will be held at 7:30 p.m. in the Moody Music Building Concert Hall unless otherwise indicated.

• Feb.21 — Electronic Music Recital hall
• Feb. 22 — Lecture: Dale Cockwell, Endowed Chair 4 p.m. Recital Hall
• Feb. 22 — He’s A Lady Pageant sponsored by SAI Admission Charged
• Feb. 23 — Guest Recital: Dennis Bender, bass baritone; Cliff Jackson, piano; Maggie Snyder, viola; and Susan Snyder, piano
• Feb. 26 — Faculty Recital: Susan Fleming, mezzo soprano 2 p.m.
• Feb. 27 — Guest Recital: Aaron Misenheimer, trombone
• Feb. 28 — Faculty Recital: Less is More Pre-Concert Lecture 6:30 p.m. Recital Hall
• Feb. 28 — Faculty Recital: Less is More Performance Recital Hall Admission Charged
• March 1 — Lecture: Endowed Chair 4 p.m. Recital Hall
• March 1 — Trombone Quartet
• March.1 — Faculty Recital: Amanda Penick, piano 2 p.m.

Department of Theatre and Dance
Marian Gallaway Theatre (Rowand-Johnson Hall); Allen Bales Theatre (Rowand-Johnson Hall); Morgan Auditorium (Morgan Hall); 348-3400

In rehearsals for “Fifth of July” are (L-R) Seth Panitch (assistant professor and director), Stephen Tyler Davis (undergraduate student playing Jed Jenkins) and Chris Hardin (MFA student, playing Ken Talley)

‘Fifth of July‘ by Lanford Wilson

The gathering was a reunion of friends and family, coming together to share memories and laughs and pay tribute to a deceased uncle. But along with fond reminiscences and jokes, revelations and longburied truths are inevitable as well. Full of quirky characters, humor and emotional truths, “Fifth of July” reminds the audience that those they love can give strength to face the challenges of today and tomorrow. Performances are in Marian Gallaway Theatre. Admission is $8 for students, $10 for faculty and staff, and $12 for adults. Performances are Feb. 21-25 at 7:30 p.m. and Feb. 26 at 2 p.m. For more information contact Thomas Adkins, department of theatre and dance, at 348-3400 or at theatre.dance@ua.edu.

Alabama Repertory Dance Theatre

The Alabama Repertory Dance Theatre showcases the preprofessional dancers of the UA theatre and dance department in original works choreographed by faculty members. Each performance is a perfectly blended mix of various dance styles, giving audiences the opportunity to see the stars of tomorrow onstage today. Performances are in Morgan Auditorium, Morgan Hall. Admission is $8-$12. Performances are Feb. 28-Mar. 3 at 7:30 p.m. For more information contact the department of theatre and dance at 348-3400 or theatre.dance@ua.edu.

Crimson Tide Sports

Complete sports 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.

Men’s Basketball

• Feb. 26 — Florida 3 p.m.
• March 1 — Auburn 7 p.m.

Women’s Basketball

• Feb. 23 — LSU 7 p.m.

Softball

• March 3-5 — Hampton Inn Crimson Classic TBA

Baseball

• Feb. 21 — Memphis 6:30 p.m.
• Feb. 24 — Florida International 6:30 p.m.
• Feb. 25 — Florida International 4 p.m.
• Feb. 26 — Florida International 2 p.m.
• March 1 — B'ham Southern 6:30 p.m.
• March 3 — Appalachian State 6:30 p.m.
• March 4 — Appalachian State 4 p.m.
• March 5 — Appalachian State 2 p.m.

Men’s Tennis

• March 3 — Vanderbilt 3 p.m.
• March 5 — Kentucky 1 p.m.

Frozen Tide, UA Ice Hockey Team, Begins First Season

The UA Student Recreation Center is bringing more focus to winter sports with the formation of the ‘Frozen Tide’ BAMA Hockey team, now playing competitively against other collegiate teams at the Pelham Civic Complex ice rink.

The 15-member ‘Frozen Tide’ BAMA hockey team was started last semester by UA students Adam English and Josh Stokes of Huntsville and Will Damare of Memphis after they realized that several students on campus were interested in forming an ice hockey team. By November, the 13 members and two goalies began practices at Pelham Civic Complex. The team now meets twice a week for onice practices and once a week for off-ice conditioning practices on Saturdays.

A member of the “Frozen Tide” practices on the ice at the Pelham Civic Complex.

Darren Awender, a native of Windsor, Ontario, Canada, serves as head coach for BAMA hockey in its first year. He played hockey for UAH when they won the national championship in 1996. Awender is currently a pharmaceutical representative in Birmingham and is a volunteer coach. Brent Ullom, a UA graduate student, serves as assistant coach. Ullom, who now calls Huntsville home, is originally from Arizona. He primarily leads the team in off-ice conditioning.

The BAMA hockey team kicked off its season against Vanderbilt University with games Feb. 18-19.

For more information, visit the team’s Web site at http://home.mindspring.com/~c.english/index.html or contact Stokes, team vice president, at 256-653-0163, stoke001@bama. ua.edu.

African American Heritage Month 2006

Monday, Feb. 20
Panel Discussion: African American Portrayals in the Media
222 Reese Phifer Hall, 7 p.m.
Sponsored by Capstone Association of Black Journalists
347-3592

Celebrations of Black History
Ferguson Center Theater, 7 p.m.
Sponsored by Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc.
Contact: rober169@bama.ua.edu or 393-0395

Tuesday, Feb. 21
West Alabama Blues Camp Kids featuring Debbie Bond and Willie King
223 Little Hall, 4:30 p.m.
Musical performance sponsored by School of Social Work
348-3924

“Crash” into Race Relations
Ferguson Center Theater, 7 p.m.
Sponsored by University Programs
Contact: 348-7525

Wednesday, Feb. 22
African American Heritage Health and Fitness Fair “Make the Connection…Mind, Body and Spirit”
Student Recreation Center, 3-8 p.m.
Sponsored by Russell Student Health Center Health Education and Wellness Department, Counseling Center, Healthy Campus and University Recreation
Contact: 348-2258 or 348-4930

Thursday, Feb. 23
A Missing Link: Hip-Hop and Poetry
Ferguson Center Theater, 8 p.m.
Sponsored by Creative Campus, Punch Literary Arts Project, College of Arts and Sciences, Coalition for Diversity and Inclusiveness, New College, SGA Financial Affairs Committee, Women’s Resource Center and Community Service Center
Contact: latoyascott925@prodigy.net

Tuesday, Feb. 28
AAHM Culminating Reception
Ferguson Center TV Lounge, 4 p.m.
Sponsored by Crossroads Community Center

Extended events over the month include:
Soul Radio Show: programs dedicated to jazz, rhythm and blues, gospel and hip hop music, New Rock WVUA 90.7 FM Wednesdays, 10 p.m.-midnight

Exhibit: Notable Alabama African-Americans: Did You Know? Amelia Gayle Gorgas Library Sponsored by University Libraries

Exhibit: A Tribute to Sylvester Jones Ferguson Center, Sponsored by the Career Center

“African American Women Who Dared” Flyer Campaign UA Women’s Resource Center

For a full listing of events and more information contact Bettina Byrd-Giles, director of the UA Crossroads Community Center, or Liz Denson, Crossroads program assistant, at 348-6930.

www.sa.ua.edu/dos/aahm.html or 348-6930

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