University of Pittsburgh Calendar of Events, April 20-26

The following events are open to the public.

LECTURES

4/20 Woo-Seung Kim, an assistant professor in the Department of Russian Area Studies at Paichai University, South Korea, will deliver a lecture titled "The Development of the Middle Class in Contemporary Russia" at noon, Room 4217, Posvar Hall, 230 S. Bouquet St., Oakland. This event is sponsored by the Pitt Center for Russian and East European Studies. For more information, contact Vera Dorosh at 412-648-7407 or crees@ucis.pitt.edu.

4/20 Alexey Kryukov, an associate professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin Colleges, will deliver a lecture titled "Functional Relativity: How to Extend the Principle of Relativity to Quantum Mechanics" at 2:30 p.m., Room 817R, Cathedral of Learning, 4200 Fifth Ave., Oakland. This event is sponsored by the Pitt Center for Philosophy of Science. For more information, call 412-624-1052 or visit www.pitt.edu/~pittcntr.

4/20 Michèle Cloonan, dean and a professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Simmons College, Mass., will deliver a lecture titled "The Paradox of Preservation," at 4:30 p.m., Room 125, Frick Fine Arts Auditorium, Schenley Drive, Oakland. This event, held in conjunction with Pitt's Johnson Institute for Responsible Leadership in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, is part of the Pitt School of Information Sciences Policy, Ethics, and Accountability Lecture Series. For more information, contact Kelly Shaffer at 412-624-2677 or kshaffer@mail.sis.pitt.edu.

4/21 As part of the Pitt Center for Philosophy of Science's 2006 Lecture Series, Paolo Mancosu, an associate professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, will deliver a lecture titled "Unification and Explanation: A Case Study from Real Algebraic Geometry" at 3:30 p.m., Room 817R, Cathedral of Learning, 4200 Fifth Ave., Oakland. For more information, call 412-624-1052 or visit www.pitt.edu/~pittcntr.

4/21 As part of the Pitt Asian Studies Center and the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures' 2006 Spring Colloquium Series, Dorota Krysinska, an MFA candidate in Pitt's East Asian Studies Center, will deliver a lecture titled "Non-Rising Sons of Japan—A Problem of Social Withdrawal (hikikomori)," at 2 p.m., Room 4217, Posvar Hall,

230 S. Bouquet St., Oakland. For more information, contact Paula Locante at plocante@pitt.edu.

4/21 Xiao-Hui Yang, a Ph.D. candidate in Pitt's Department of Anthropology, will deliver a lecture titled "Actively Aging in China: The Cultivation of Health and the Management of Aging with Traditional Chinese Medicine," at 3 p.m., Room 3106, Posvar Hall, 230 S. Bouquet St., Oakland. This event is sponsored by Pitt's Asian Studies Center and Department of Anthropology. For more information, contact Paula Locante at plocante@pitt.edu.

4/22 Pitt's Center for Philosophy of Science will hold the two-day Robert and Sarah Boote

4/23 Conference in Reductionism and Anti-Reductionism in Physics beginning at 9:30 a.m. in Room 817R, Cathedral of Learning, 4200 Fifth Ave., Oakland. For more information, visit www.pitt.edu/~pittcntr.

MUSIC

4/22 The Pitt African Drumming Ensemble, directed by Anicet Mundundu, will give a concert at 8 p.m., Bellefield Hall Auditorium, 315 S. Bellefield Ave., Oakland. General admission is $10; students and seniors, $5. Students with a valid Pitt ID are free. For more information, call 412-624-4125 or visit www.pitt.edu/~concerts.

4/23 The Heinz Chapel Choir, directed by John Goldsmith, will give a free Spring Concert at 3 p.m., Heinz Chapel, Fifth and Bellefield avenues, Oakland. For more information, call 412-624-4125 or visit www.pitt.edu/~concerts.

THEATER

4/22 Yvonne Hudson, Pitt alumna and local actress and playwright, will perform her own play, Mrs. Shakespeare, Will's First and Last Love, at 4 and 7 p.m. April 22 and 4 p.m.

April 23 in Room 144, Cathderal of Learning, 4200 Fifth Ave., Oakland. A talk-back session follows each performance. General admission is $15; groups and seniors, $10; Pitt faculty and staff with a valid Pitt ID, $10; students with ID, $8; and children under 12, free. For more information, e-mail MrsShakespeare2005@yahoo.com. Tickets can be purchased through New Place Collaborations, 412-512-0589.

FILM

4/22 The Pitt Center for Latin American Studies will present a free screening of the film No Te Mueras Sin Decirme Adónde Vas (1995), directed by Eliseo Subiela, from 3:30 to

6 p.m., First Floor Auditorium, Frick Fine Arts Building, Schenley Drive, Oakland. For more information, contact Luz Amanda Villada at 412-648-7394 or lavst12@ucis.pitt.edu.

EXHIBITIONS

4/20 The first editions of 15 major works by author Richard Wright are on display through April 30 on the second and third floors of Pitt's Hillman Library, 3960 Forbes Ave., Oakland. Library hours are 7:50 a.m. to 2 a.m. Monday through Friday; 9 a.m. to midnight, Saturday; and 10 a.m. to 2 a.m. Sunday.

4/20 The Pitt University Art Gallery will host the Studio Arts Student Exhibition through April 30 in the Frick Fine Arts Building, Schenley Drive, Oakland. Hours are Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Thursdays, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Admission is free. For more information, contact gallery director Josienne Piller at 412-648-2423 or jpiller@pitt.edu.

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