Phi Beta Kappa - University of Alabama

02/07/2018

Please join us next Monday, February 12th at 4:00 PM for a lecture by Victor Batista, a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar. His lecture is entitled “Converting Water into Fuel: Natural and Artificial Photosynthesis,” and will take place in 2005 North Lawn. Professor Batista will also offer a second talk, “From Molecular Diodes to Molecular Memristors for the Digital Technology” on Tuesday, February 13th at 12:45. We hope you can make it!

10/29/2017

Please join us for the 2017 Going Lecture, "The Past and the Future of the Humanities," on Monday, October 30 at 3:30 PM in Gorgas 205. Professor Turner is Cavanaugh Professor Humanities Emeritus at the University of Notre Dame, where he taught in the Department of History and the History and Philosophy of Science Program.

He is author of eight books, including Philology: The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities (2014), which was the 2015 winner of Phi Beta Kappa’s Christian Gauss Award for literary scholarship or criticism. His other books include The Liberal Education of Charles Eliot Norton (1999); Without God, Without Creed: The Origins of Unbelief in America (1985); and Reckoning with the Beast: Animals, Pain, and Humanity in the Victorian Mind (1980). Recent articles include “From Philology to Religion in Victorian Britain: The Cases of Friedrich Max Müller and William Robertson Smith,” Calcutta Historical Journal (2007); and “Le concept de science dans l'Amérique du XIXe siècle,” Annales: Histoire, sciences sociales (2002).

The lecture is free and open to the public. Please join us!

04/05/2017

Due to the ongoing threat of severe weather, the Going Lecture for today will be cancelled. It will be rescheduled in Fall 2017.

03/27/2017

Please join us for the 2017 Going Lecture, “The Future and the Past of the Humanities,” which will be given by Professor James Turner on Wednesday, April 5th at 4:00 in Gorgas 205. Professor Turner is Cavanaugh Professor Humanities Emeritus at the University of Notre Dame, where he taught in the Department of History and the History and Philosophy of Science Program.

He is author of eight books, including Philology: The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities (2014), which was the 2015 winner of Phi Beta Kappa’s Christian Gauss Award for literary scholarship or criticism. His other books include The Liberal Education of Charles Eliot Norton (1999); Without God, Without Creed: The Origins of Unbelief in America (1985); and Reckoning with the Beast: Animals, Pain, and Humanity in the Victorian Mind (1980). Recent articles include “From Philology to Religion in Victorian Britain: The Cases of Friedrich Max Müller and William Robertson Smith,” Calcutta Historical Journal (2007); and “Le concept de science dans l'Amérique du XIXe siècle,” Annales: Histoire, sciences sociales (2002).

The lecture is free and open to the public. Please join us!

05/08/2016

Congratulations to all the 2016 initiates of Phi Beta Kappa! We especially wish to congratulate Hudson Kelley, 2016 winner of the Allen J. Going prize!!

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09/18/2014

Please join us for the 2014 Going Lecture today (Thursday) at 7:30 PM in 205 Gorgas Library. Mark Edmundson, University Professor in the English Department at the University of Virginia, will give a talk entitled "In Defense of Ideals." Professor Edmundson is the author of numerous books, including *The Death of Sigmund Freud* (translated into nine languages), *Literature Against Philosophy, Plato to Derrida,* *Why Read?* and many others. The lecture is open to the public and will be followed by a reception. Professor Edmundson will also present a lecture the following day at 3:00 in Ferguson Theater entitled "Education By Football," the subject of his forthcoming book. This lecture also is open to the public.

08/27/2014

Please join us for the 2014 Going Lecture on Thursday, Sept. 18 at 7:30 PM
in 205 Gorgas Library. Mark Edmundson, University Professor in the English Department at the University of Virginia, will give a talk entitled "In Defense of Ideals." Professor Edmundson is the author of numerous books, including *The Death of Sigmund Freud* (translated into nine languages), *Literature Against Philosophy, Plato to Derrida,* *Why Read?* and many others. The lecture is open to the public and will be followed by a reception. Professor Edmundson will also present a lecture the following day at 3:00 in Ferguson Theater entitled "Education By Football," the subject of his forthcoming book. This lecture also is open to the public.

05/14/2013

Congratulations to all the newly initiated members of Phi Beta Kappa! The 2013 winner of the Allen J. Going Phi Beta Kappa Award is A.J. Collins. Congratulations!

05/03/2013

Please join us for the spring initiation on Friday, May 3rd at 1:30 PM in Gorgas 205!

03/12/2013

Please save the date! Our spring initiation will be on May 3rd!

02/15/2013

If you're interested in getting more involved in our local PBK chapter, please come to a meeting today (Friday, Feb. 15) at 3:00 PM in 250 ten Hoor!

04/12/2012

Congratulations to all our new initiates! A special congratulations goes to Rita Isabela Morales, winner of the 2012 Allen J. Going Phi Beta Kappa Award!