Past Events

2013

Oct 26
Poetry Center Family Days
Oct 24
Reading: Jenny Boully
Oct 14 - Nov 4
The Operas of Verdi - Humanities Seminars Program
Oct 11
Lowriders: Chicano Culture - From Low to Slow to Show
Oct 11
Magical Moments: The Spirituality of Wonder in Religion and Literature
Oct 10
Reading: Maggie Nelson
Oct 10
Made in China: Cinematic Aesthetics and the Disappearing Chinese Factory
Oct 9
Brit Wit: Downton Abbey as Historical Fiction
Oct 9
Slapstick Superstars: What Makes the French Laugh
Oct 9
A Divine Dilemma: Dante’s Representation of Jewish People
Oct 8
Heartache: Teaching Love at the U of A
Oct 8
Counterculture: Exploring Faraway Lands and Cultures
Oct 7
Humanities Week Flandrau Planetarium Kickoff
Oct 4
Convergences Talk: Farid Matuk & Robert Poole
Oct 4 - Dec 13
Milton and Revolution - Humanities Seminars Program
Oct 3 - Dec 12
Utilitarianism: The Greater Good? - Humanities Seminars Program
Oct 3 - Dec 12
The Chinese City: From Imperial Capital to Global Metropolis - Humanities Seminars Program
Oct 2 - Dec 4
Homer's Iliad - Humanities Seminars Program
Oct 1
Allison de Fren: Filmmaker, “The Mechanical Bride”
Oct 1 - Dec 10
Dark Knight: The Life and Films of Alfred Hitchcock - Humanities Seminars Program
Sep 30 - Dec 16
The Medieval Quest as a Model for Us Today - Humanities Seminars Program
Sep 23
"Finding Them Gone" - Chinese Poems Read by Bill Porter
Sep 19
UA Prose Series: C.E. Poverman and Matt Mendez
Sep 18
First Meeting of "Craft of Poetry"
Sep 17 - Sep 21
Tibetan Monks of the Drepung Gomang Monastic College Present a Sand Mandala of Compassion
Sep 12
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Sep 10 - Dec 1
Nibelungenlied - Reading Group
Sep 10 - Dec 1
Nibelungenlied - Reading Group
Sep 9 - Dec 4
Art Exhibition: Altars and Elegies
Sep 6
Convergences on "The Body"
Sep 3
Shop Talk: The Work of Eduardo C. Corral and Natalie Diaz
Aug 29
Reading: Jane Miller and Joshua Marie Wilkinson
Aug 28 - Sep 4
Selections from the Permanent Collection: Twentieth Century First Editions
Aug 1 - Aug 29
The History Plays of Shakespeare's Second Tetralogy
Jul 10 - Jul 31
Dante's Paradiso
Jul 8
Writing Your Gods and Demons
Jul 8 - Jul 29
Roman Archaeology: Myth and Reality
Jun 22
Poetry in Letterpress
Jun 6 - Jun 27
For the Sake of Argument: Classical Rhetoric, Ethics, and Politics
May 19
Love, Revolution, and a Cracked Skull: Trotsky in Mexico
May 16
Poetry Center Classes & Workshop Showcase
May 7 - May 28
Russia in Search of a National Idea
May 2
Creative Writing MFA Graduate Student Reading
May 2
Religious Politics in a Manuscript Culture: Anglo-Bohemian COmmunication in the Later Middle Ages
May 2 - May 30
Environmental Law at the Crossroads: Five Core Issues
May 2 - May 5
Mental Health, Spirituality, and Religion: Premodern Perspectives for a Postmodern Discourse
May 1
Creative Writing MFA Graduate Student Reading
May 1 - Jun 1
Library Exhibition: "Hattie Lockett and UA Student Contest Broadsides"
Apr 27
Family Days at the Poetry Center
Apr 26
Department of Spanish & Portuguese FIlm Festival