March 2008

A reading and signing with poet Luisa Igloria
Date: Tuesday, March 4
Time: 4:30-6:00 p.m.
Location: Gorgas Library, room 205
Description: This reading is co-sponsored by UA Libraries and New College. A reception will follow.
Cost: Free

Baseball vs. Troy
Date: Wednesday, March 5
Time: 6:30 p.m.
Location: Sewell-Thomas Stadium

Manly Hall Balcony Lunch
Date: Wednesday, March 5
Time: 12:00-2:00 p.m.
Location: Manly 212
Description: (taken from UA calendar) The Religious Studies Student Association in conjunction with the Theta Alpha Kappa Honor Society invite all to attend our inaugural Balcony Lunch. This event will introduce you to REL faculty, the luxurious departmental lounge and officers of the student organizations. Come for free lunch!
Cost: Free

Supreme Conflict: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Control of the U.S. Supreme Court
Date: Wednesday, March 5
Time: 6:00-8:00 p.m.
Location: Gorgas Library, room 205
Description: (taken from UA calendar) Jan Crawford Greenburg, an ABC News Correspondent based in Washington, D.C., will speak about her book, Supreme Conflict: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Control of the United States Supreme Court (Penguin, 2007). A signing and reception will follow
Cost: Free

RHA General Assembly Meeting
Date: Thursday, March 6
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Location: Ferguson Center, room 300
Cost: Free

Adam and Noah: From Dominion to Ecological Catastrophe and Back Again
Date: Thursday, March 6
Time: 7:30-9:00 p.m.
Location: St. Francis Catholic Church
Description: (taken from UA calendar) Faith Seeking Understanding is an annual lecture series sponsored by the Campus Ministers Association that brings renowned theologians to engage critically with aspects of faith and theology. This year Dr. Carol Newsom will bring fresh insight and consideration of the environmental crisis and the Book of Genesis. It promises to be a topical and highly engaged series. On Thursday night, Dr. Newsom will deliver a lecture at St. Francis on the topic of Adam and Noah: From Dominion to Ecological Catastrophe and Back Again."
Cost: Free

Dorm Dialogue: How does the U.S. economy affect you?
Date: Thursday, March 6
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Location: Ridgecrest West, 4th floor
Cost: Free

No Country for Old Men
Date: Friday, March 7 – Sunday, March 9
Time: 7:00 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, 12:00 on Sunday
Location: Ferguson Theatre
Cost: Free

So what does “They saw they were naked” have to do with ecology
Date: Friday, March 7
Time: 12:30-2:00 p.m.
Location: St. Francis Catholic Church
Description: (taken from UA calendar) Faith Seeking Understanding is an annual lecture series sponsored by the Campus Ministers Association that brings renowned theologians to engage critically with aspects of faith and theology. This year Dr. Carol Newsom will bring fresh insight and consideration of the environmental crisis and the Book of Genesis. It promises to be a topical and highly engaged series. On Thursday night, Dr. Newsom will deliver a lecture at St. Francis on the topic of ?Adam and Noah: From Dominion to Ecological Catastrophe and Back Again." The following afternoon at 12:30 the campus community is invited back for a seminar with her (and free lunch) with discussion focused on "So What Does 'They Saw They Were Naked' (Gen3:7a) Have to Do With Ecology?"
Cost: Free

Baseball vs. Youngstown State
Date: Friday, March 7
Time: 6:30 p.m.
Location: Sewell-Thomas Stadium

Women’s Tennis vs. Mississippi State
Date: Friday, March 7
Time: 3:00 p.m.
Location: Tennis Stadium

Baseball vs. Youngstown State
Date: Saturday, March 8
Time: 4:00 p.m.
Location: Sewell-Thomas Stadium

Softball vs. Tennessee
Date: Saturday, March 8
Time: 1:00 p.m.
Location: Softball Stadium

Women’s Tennis vs. Ole Miss
Date: Sunday, March 9
Time: 1:00 p.m.
Location: Tennis Stadium

Softball vs. Tennessee
Date: Sunday, March 9
Time: 1:30 p.m.
Location: Softball Stadium

Baseball vs. Youngstown State
Date: Sunday, March 9
Time: 2:00 p.m.
Location: Sewell-Thomas Stadium

Second Annual UA Blood Drive Challenge
Date: Monday, March 10
Time: 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Location: Capstone Drive near Gorgas Library
Description: (taken from UA calendar) The School of Library and Information Studies (SLIS) will sponsor the Second Annual UA Blood Drive Challenge. Homemade baked goods will be provided to blood donors by SLIS students. Each school and organization is encouraged to build a team. The team with the most donors will win bragging rights and the traveling trophy awarded to SLIS following last year's challenge.
Cost: Free

Second Annual UA Blood Drive Challenge
Date: Tuesday, March 11
Time: 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Location: Capstone Drive near Gorgas Library
Description: (taken from UA calendar) The School of Library and Information Studies (SLIS) will sponsor the Second Annual UA Blood Drive Challenge. Homemade baked goods will be provided to blood donors by SLIS students. Each school and organization is encouraged to build a team. The team with the most donors will win bragging rights and the traveling trophy awarded to SLIS following last year's challenge.
Cost: Free

Turning Japanese: How Winnifred Eaton became Onoto Watanna
Date: Tuesday, March 11
Time: 4:30-6:00 p.m.
Location: W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, 2nd floor of Mary Harmon Bryant Hall
Description: (taken from UA calendar) Dr. Edward Tang, Associate Professor of American Studies, will present this lecture. An exhibit of the works by Eaton/Wattana from the Hoole Special Collections will be on display in the Hoole Library lobby. This event is in conjunction with Sakura Festival 2008.
Cost: Free

2007-2008 Aaron Aronov Lecture
Date: Tuesday, March 11
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Location: Smith Hall, room 205
Description: (taken from UA calendar) Arjun Appadurai, The New School, New York, NY, will speak about "The Offending Part: Sacrifice and Ethnocide in the Era of Globalization.” The lecture is free and open to the public. Appadurai’s lecture will address his recent work on violence, culture and globalization. His previous work on globalization, media and cultural flows has been drawn upon by social scientists, architects, designers, media scholars and humanists. He is working on the links among design, social science, urban forms and globalization.
Cost: Free

UA Leadership Series: Goal-setting and career networking
Date: Tuesday, March 11
Time: 7:00-8:00 p.m.
Location: Gorgas Library, room 205
Description: (taken from UA calendar) This new monthly series is open to all students and is designed to enhance the student’s leadership skills. Students will have the opportunity to learn how to be effective leaders by participating in a variety of activities, including completing the Myers-Briggs personality profile. The seminar will meet on the second Tuesday of every month. Series topics include: Leadership Styles, Decision-making, Resolving Conflict, and Networking.
Cost: Free

Softball vs. Florida
Date: Wednesday, March 12
Time: 5:00 p.m.
Location: Softball Stadium

Baseball vs. Samford
Date: Wednesday, March 12
Time: 6:30 p.m.
Location: Sewell-Thomas Stadium

RHA General Assembly Meeting
Date: Thursday, March 13
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Location: Ferguson Center, room 300
Cost: Free

LUNAFEST
Date: Thursday, March 13
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Location: Bama Theater
Description: (taken from UA calendar) LUNAFEST is a national film festival by for and about women. A silent auction and reception catered by The Globe restaurant will begin at 6 PM. The silent auction will feature goods from local businesses and artists. The films will begin at 7 PM after Cassandra Simon a faculty member from the Social Work department and breast cancer survivor, tells the audience about her experiences. All proceeds from the event benefit the Breast Cancer Fund and The Women's Resource Center.
Cost: $10 for students

RHA General Assembly Meeting
Date: Thursday, March 20
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Location: Ferguson Center, room 300
Cost: Free

Baseball vs. Vanderbilt
Date: Sunday, March 23
Time: 2:00 p.m.
Location: Sewell-Thomas Stadium

Women’s Tennis vs. Vanderbilt
Date: Sunday, March 23
Time: 1:00 p.m.
Location: Tennis Stadium

“Stripping, Sex, and Popular Culture” with Catherine M. Roach
Date: Tuesday, March 25
Time: 4:00-6:00 p.m.
Location: Gorgas Library, room 205
Description: (taken from UA calendar) The story of author Catherine Roach's response to the decision of her life-long best friend to become an exotic dancer. Catherine and Marie grew up together in Canada and moved to the USA to enroll in PhD programs at prestigious universities. For various reasons, Marie left her program and instead chose to work as a stripper. The author, at first troubled and yet fascinated by her friend's decision, follows Marie's journey into the world of stripping as an observer and analyst. She finds that this world raises complex questions about gender, sexuality, fantasy, feminism, and even spirituality.
Cost: Free

Waystations along a crooked road: Contraband camps, the relocation of former slaves, and the elusive meaning of freedom
Date: Wednesday, March 26
Time: 4:00-6:00 p.m.
Location: Gorgas Library, Room 205
Description: (taken from UA calendar) Summersell Lecture with Professor Chandra Manning, Department of History, Georgetown University, will present a talk. Following the talk, she will sign copies of her book, What this Cruel War was Over: Soldiers, Slavery, and the Civil War (Vintage, 2008). Chandra Manning, a graduate of Mount Holyoke College, received an M.Phil from the National University of Ireland, Galway, and took her Ph.D. at Harvard in 2002. She has lectured in history at Harvard and taught at Pacific Lutheran Univeersity in Tacoma, Washington
Cost: Free

Bankhead Visiting Writers Series
Date: Thursday, March 27
Time: 4:30 p.m.
Location: Morgan Hall, room 301
Description: (taken from UA calendar) Wendy Rawlings is the recipient of residency fellowships from The MacDowell Colony, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Yaddo. She was awarded the John Farrar Fellowship in Fiction at the Bread Loaf Writer's Conference. Rawlings' teaching interests include form and theory of fiction, short fiction by women, narrative voice in the American short story and the comic novel. A collection of her short stories, Come Back Irish, won the 2000 Sandstone Prize for Short Fiction and was published in December 2001. Theodore Worozbyt has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Georgia and Alabama Councils for the Arts. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Alice Blue, 42opus, American Poetry Journal, The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel, Crazyhorse, Faultline, Hotel Amerika, Kaleidowhirl, Kulture Vulture, Mississippi Review Online, New England Review, National Poetry Review, North American Review, Passages North, The Southern Review and Verse Daily. He has published a chapbook, A Unified Theory of Light, and his first full-length collection, The Dauber Wings, winner of the first American Poetry Journal Book Prize. He teaches at The University of Alabama. Information: (205) 348-0766 or at www.bama.ua.edu/~writing.
Cost: Free

RHA General Assembly Meeting
Date: Thursday, March 27
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Location: Ferguson Center, room 300
Cost: Free

Charlie Wilson’s War
Date: Friday, March 28 – Saturday, March 29
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Location: Ferguson Theatre
Cost: Free

The University of Alabama Opera Theatre: Operalabama
Date: Friday, March 28 – Sunday, March 30
Time: 7:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, 3:00 p.m. on Suday
Location: Moody Music Building
Description: (taken from UA calendar) University Opera Theatre and OperAlaBama present a full opera production featuring scenes, arias and monologues from opera and musical theatre in an exciting and stunning new format.
Cost: Admission charged

Baseball vs. Jacksonville State
Date: Tuesday, March 25
Time: 6:30 p.m.
Location: Sewell-Thomas Stadium

Softball vs. UAB
Date: Tuesday, March 25
Time: 6:30 p.m.
Location: Softball Stadium

Men’s Tennis vs. Georgia
Date: Friday, March 28
Time: 3:00 p.m.
Location: Tennis Stadium

Baseball vs. Ole Miss
Date: Friday, March 28
Time: 6:30 p.m.
Location: Sewell-Thomas Stadium

Baseball vs. Ole Miss
Date: Saturday, March 29
Time: 4:00 p.m.
Location: Sewell-Thomas Stadium

Softball vs. Ole Miss
Date: Saturday, March 29
Time: 1:00 p.m.
Location: Softball Stadium

Matsuri (Festival) in the Mall
Date: Saturday, March 29
Time: 11:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Location: McFarland Mall
Description: (taken from UA calendar) The event offers an opportunity to experience Japanese culture. Through an exciting variety of Japanese cultural exhibits and performances, we hope to build friendship and to increase an understanding of the country and people of Japan.
Cost: Free

Softball vs. Ole Miss
Date: Sunday, March 30
Time: 1:30 p.m.
Location: Softball Stadium

Baseball vs. Ole Miss
Date: Sunday, March 30
Time: 2:00 p.m.
Location: Sewell-Thomas Stadium

Men’s Tennis vs. Tennessee
Date: Sunday, March 30
Time: 1:00 p.m.
Location: Tennis Stadium