University of Pittsburgh Calendar of Events, Feb. 22-28

The following events are open to the public.

LECTURES

2/22 Jay Li, an assistant professor of history at Duquesne University, will deliver a lecture titled "Power of Bonds: Two Cases of Factional Politics in China's Great Cultural Revolution" at noon, Room 4130, Posvar Hall, 230 S. Bouquet St., Oakland. This free event is part of the Pitt Asian Studies Center's Asia Over Lunch Lecture Series. For more information, contact Brenda Jordan at 412-648-7763 or visit www.ucis.pitt.edu/asc.

2/22 Pitt's Survival Skills and Ethics Program will host a brown bag lunch lecture titled "Support for Pre- and Postdoctoral Training" at noon, Room S100, Biomedical Science Tower 2, 200 Lothrop St., Oakland. To register, call 412-578-3716 or visit www.survival.pitt.edu.

2/22 Ann Valentine, an assistant professor of chemistry at Yale University, will deliver a lecture titled "Bioinorganic Chemistry of Titanium in Medicine and the Environment" at 4 p.m., Room 12, Chevron Science Center, 219 Parkman Ave., Oakland. This free event,

sponsored by Pitt's Department of Chemistry, is part of the 2007 Levine Lecture Series. For more information, visit www.chem.pitt.edu.

2/22 Jock Murray, president of the American Osler Society, will deliver a lecture titled "From the Hand of God to the Human Genome: The Changing Frame of Multiple Sclerosis Over Six Centuries" at 6 p.m., Lecture Room 5, Scaife Hall, 3550 Terrace St., Oakland. This event is part of Pitt's CF Reynolds Medical History Society Lecture Series. For more information, call 412-647-5700 or e-mail bioethic@pitt.edu.

2/23 Pitt's Small Business Development Center in the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business will host a lecture titled "The Second Step: Developing a Business Plan" from 7:30 to 10 a.m., Room 209, Mervis Hall, Roberto Clemente Drive, Oakland. To register, call 412-648-1542 or e-mail mrwholihan@katz.pitt.edu.

2/23 Noh actor Hisa Uzawa will deliver a lecture on the life of a woman actor in a profession dominated by men, at noon, Room 4130, Posvar Hall, 230 S. Bouquet St., Oakland. This event is sponsored by Pitt's Asian Studies Center and Women's Studies Program. For more information, call 412-648-7370 or visit www.ucis.pitt.edu/asc.

2/23 Dawn Song, an assistant professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University, will deliver a lecture as part of the Pitt School of Information Sciences' Laboratory of Education and Research on Security Assured Information Systems Seminar at 2 p.m., Room 404, Information Sciences Building, 135 N. Bellefield Ave., Oakland. For more information, call 412-624-3988 or visit www.sis.pitt.edu/~lersais.

2/24 Pitt's Department of the History of Art and Architecture will hold a symposium titled "Current Directions in Historic Preservation Education" from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., Babcock Room, 40th Floor, Cathedral of Learning, 4200 Fifth Ave., Oakland. To RSVP, call

412-648-2400 or e-mail ets2@pitt.edu. For more information, visit www.haa.pitt.edu/news.

2/26 Ron Lifshitz, a senior lecturer of physics at Tel Aviv University, will deliver a lecture titled "Quasi-Crystals: Some of Nature's Most Intriguing Forms of Matter" at 4:30 p.m., Room 7500, Wean Hall, Carnegie Mellon University. This free event is part of the Carnegie Mellon University-University of Pittsburgh Physics Colloquium Series. For more information, visit www.phyast.pitt.edu/Events.

2/28 Ting Chang, an assistant professor of the Critical Histories of the Arts in the School of Art at Carnegie Mellon University, will deliver a lecture titled "Neither Here nor There: European Travel Writing on Asia in the Nineteenth Century" at noon, Room 203,

Frick Fine Arts Building, Schenley Drive, Oakland. This event is sponsored by Pitt's Department of the History of Art and Architecture. For more information, call

412-648-2400 or visit www.haa.pitt.edu.

2/28 Pitt's Survival Skills and Ethics Program will host a brown bag lunch lecture titled "Careers in Biotech" at noon, Room S100, Biomedical Science Tower 2, 200 Lothrop St., Oakland. To register, call 412-578-3716 or visit www.survival.pitt.edu.

2/28 Ian Reader, a professor and director of the Japan Centre at Manchester University, U.K., will deliver a lecture titled "Dangerous Religion?: Cultural Constructions of Religion in Post-Aum Japan and Their Wider Implications" at 4 p.m., Room 4127, Sennott Square,

210 S. Bouquet St., Oakland. This event is sponsored by Pitt's Asian Studies Center, Department of Religious Studies, and Japan Council of the University Center for International Studies. For more information, contact Judy Macey at 412-624-5990 or rocky@pitt.edu.

THEATER

2/23 Pitt's Asian Studies Center will present Noh, the classic theater of Japan, at 7 p.m., Charity Randall Theatre, Stephen Foster Memorial, Forbes Avenue and Bigelow Boulevard, Oakland. The double-bill performance, Aoi no Ue (The Lady Aoi) and Hagoromo (The Feather Cloak), will be performed by Japanese Noh artist Hisa Uzawa and a group of 12 actors and musicians featuring elegant costumes and masks. Tickets are $15 for reserved seats and $10 for students, seniors, children under 12, and Pitt faculty and staff. For tickets, call the University of Pittsburgh Repertory Theatre Box Office at 412-624-7529 or visit www.play.pitt.edu.

FILM

2/28 As part of the film series "Experimental, Underground, Revolutionary: Avant-garde Films From Germany, Austria, and Switzerland," a screening of Nicht der Homosexuelle ist pervers, sondern die Situation in der er lebt [Not the Homosexual Is Perverse but the Situation in Which He Lives] (1971), directed by Rosa von Praunheim; Rohfilm [Raw Film] (1968) and Love Stinks (1982), both directed by Birgit and Wilhelm Hein; and Baby I Will Make You Sweat (1994), directed by Birgit Hein, will take place at 7:30 p.m., Room 205, David Lawrence Hall, 3942 Forbes Ave., Oakland. This free event is sponsored by Pitt's Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures and School of Arts and Sciences. For more information, contact Randall Halle at 412-648-2614 or rhalle@pitt.edu.

2/28 Pitt's Global Studies Program and European Studies Center will present a free screening of the film Beyond Borders, The Immigrant Chimera-Inch Alla Dimanche (2001), directed by Yamina Benguigui, at 8:30 p.m., Room 4130, Posvar Hall, 230 S. Bouquet St., Oakland. For more information, contact Veronica Dristas at 412-624-2918 or dristas@ucis.pitt.edu.

EXHIBITIONS

2/22 An exhibition titled "Advertising a Dream: Movie Posters From Post-war Korea" will run through March 1 in the foyer of Pitt's Hillman Library, 3960 Forbes Ave., Oakland. This free event is sponsored by Pitt's Asian Studies Center, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, and University Library System's East Asian Library. For more information, contact 412-648-7370 or turker@pitt.edu.

2/22 An exhibition titled "Revolution, Ritual, and Remembrance: The Art of Haiti" will run through March 17 in the University Art Gallery, Frick Fine Arts Building, Schenley Drive, Oakland. For more information, contact Josienne N. Piller at 412-648-2423 or jpiller@pitt.edu.

OTHER

2/23 Actor and spoken-word poet Nathan James will host an Open Mic Event titled "The Spirit of Haiti" at 6 p.m. in the University Art Gallery, Frick Fine Arts Building, Schenley Drive, Oakland. This event is part of the University Art Gallery's "Revolution, Ritual, and Remembrance: The Art of Haiti" exhibition. For more information, contact Josienne N. Piller at 412-648-2423 or jpiller@pitt.edu.

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