Convocation – Introduction to Blount

ten Hoor Hall - Room 125 , United States

Dr. Fred Whiting will give an introduction to the Blount Scholars Program and the students who make up the incoming class.

Joe Hornsby Book Reading

ten Hoor Hall - Room 125 , United States

Joe Hornsby, longest serving Blount director, will read from his new book, My! Bama: A Mom-Noir.

Convocation – Dance, A Philosophical Take on Being

ten Hoor Hall - Room 125 , United States

Jamorris 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 States

In 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