ten Hoor Hall – Room 125
Convocation – Topic Sentences and Outline Workshop
ten Hoor Hall - Room 125 , United StatesMatt Minicucci will conduct a workshop to provide strategies for writing strong essays.
Convocation – Active Reading Workshop
ten Hoor Hall - Room 125 , United StatesMatt Minicucci will conduct a workshop on active reading strategies.
Convocation – Introduction to Blount
ten Hoor Hall - Room 125 , United StatesDr. Fred Whiting will give an introduction to the Blount Scholars Program and the students who make up the incoming class.
Convocation – Introduction to Foundations
ten Hoor Hall - Room 125 , United StatesDr. Deborah Keene will give an overview of the Blount Programs first year curriculum.
Joe Hornsby Book Reading
ten Hoor Hall - Room 125 , United StatesJoe Hornsby, longest serving Blount director, will read from his new book, My! Bama: A Mom-Noir.
Convocation – Worldviews Presentations
ten Hoor Hall - Room 125 , United StatesBlount Seniors will present their Worldviews projects.
Convocation – Star Child: The Workings of Octavia Butler. Sci Fi and the Postwar Rise of a Nation
ten Hoor Hall - Room 125 , United StatesDr. Sharony Green from the Department of History
Convocation – Geology – It’s More Than Just Rocks
ten Hoor Hall - Room 125 , United StatesDr. Joe Lambert will discuss Research and Career Opportunities within Geological Sciences.
Convocation – Dance, A Philosophical Take on Being
ten Hoor Hall - Room 125 , United StatesJamorris Rivers from UA Dance Department will discuss how dance serves humanity as a counterweight to forms of dogma, and look at the ways in which a philosophical dance lens can allow us to transcend all the pettiness that can get in the way of building healthy communities as well as the best version of
Convocation – Centering Vulnerability/Displacing Ableism in Higher Education: Who the H*** is Normal anyways?
ten Hoor Hall - Room 125 , United StatesIn this presentation, Dr. Nirmala Erevelles will deconstruct notions of normativity and achievement in higher educational contexts like UA and propose a centering of vulnerability and disability as crucial to our definition of humanness. We can then discuss the implications of this intervention in the ableist contexts that have historically been deemed normal, natural, and