Hosted by the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Department of History, Frye Gaillard will give an in-depth lecture on the history of the decade of the 1960s on Tuesday, Feb. 19, at 4 p.m. in Heritage Hall, Room 104.

Visiting artist and designer Parisa Tashakori will lecture and work with students as well as lead design workshops with UAB DAAH graphic design students.

The festival is presented by the College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Theatre. Since UAB’s first Festival of Ten-Minute Plays in 2003, these roller-coaster evenings have featured a variety of short comedies and tragedies, each performed in about 10 minutes.

Misunderstandings and tantrums abound when the four members of the self-absorbed Bliss family each invite a guest for the weekend. Coward’s beloved play is a delightful mix of high farce and comedy of manners. 

Sculptor Kevin Vanek will lecture, lead a workshop for students and offer a glimpse into his creative process at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Ibram X. Kendi, Ph.D., an award-winning author and professor at American University, will exchange dialogue with Paulette Patterson Dilworth, vice president for UAB’s Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, to discuss a range of current event topics relating to society and culture.

The symposium will address the rights and needs of the disability community. These include the removal of social, economic and environmental barriers that limit accessibility to basic services.

Theatre UAB will present a staged reading of a new play, “Tell Me Something Good,” by native Alabamaian playwright Audrey Cefaly.

The music has been inspired by and relates to the two AEIVA current exhibits “Stitching History From the Holocaust” and “Irene Grau: Incohèrent Walk.”

Classically trained violinist and songwriter Gaelynn Lea will perform at the second annual Social Spotlight Festival.

UAB celebrates 50 years of dedication to medicine and research by highlighting the work of former professor and co-director of CFAR, Beatrice Hahn, M.D., with a keynote titled “Out of Africa: Tracing the origins of human AIDS and malaria.”

Pianist Nikolai Lugansky will perform works by Debussy, Scriabin, and Rachmaninoff for the University of Alabama at Birmingham Piano Series on Tuesday, Feb. 12.

A lively historical view of the Gulf of Mexico, drawn from the award-winning book “The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea,” will be the topic of discussion during a lecture at UAB on Jan. 17.

A new season of musical performances has been announced for spring 2019 by the Department of Music.