University of Pittsburgh Calendar of Events, March 15-21

LECTURES

3/15 Rebekah Hamilton, an assistant professor of nursing at Pitt, will deliver a lecture titled "Family Pressures on Young Women at Risk for Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer" at noon, Room 113, Barco Law Building, 3900 Forbes Ave., Oakland. This free event is part of the Grand Rounds lecture series and is sponsored by Pitt's Center for Bioethics and Health Law, Center for Continuing Education in the Health Sciences, and School of Law. For more information, contact Matt Moon at 412-648-1320 or moon@law.pitt.edu.

3/15 Andrew Zhao, a Ph.D. candidate in Pitt's Department of Anthropology, will deliver a lecture titled "Evolution of Clothing Styles in Contemporary China: A Tale of Modernity?" 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.

3/15 Thomas Hoye, a professor of chemistry at the University of Minnesota, will deliver a lecture titled "Oldies but (Still) Goodies: 'Diels-Alders,' 'Copes,' and Steriods" at

2:30 p.m., Room 12B, Chevron Science Center, 219 Parkman Ave., Oakland. This free event is sponsored by Pitt's Department of Chemistry and is part of its 2007 Levine lecture series. For more information, visit www.chem.pitt.edu.

3/15 Monica Bethe, a professor of literature in the Center for Japanese Studies at Otani University, Kyoto, will deliver a lecture titled "Edo Period Paintings of the Noh Theatre," at 3 p.m., Room 3504, Honors College, 35th floor, Cathedral of Learning, 4200 Fifth Ave., Oakland. This free event is sponsored by Pitt's Asian Studies Center and University Honors College. For more information, contact Dianna Dakis at 412-648-7763 or dakis@ucis.pitt.edu.

3/15 John Marohn, an associate professer of chemistry and chemical biology at Cornell University, will deliver a lecture titled "Nanoscale Imaging of Charge and Spin" at

4 p.m., Room 12B, Chevron Science Center, 219 Parkman Ave., Oakland. This free event is part of the 2007 Levine lecture series and is sponsored by Pitt's Department of Chemistry. For more information, visit www.chem.pitt.edu.

3/15 Haitian art collector Bill Bollendorf, owner of the Galerie Macondo, will deliver a lecture titled "Images of Haiti: Dumpster Deities and Other Paradoxes" at 5 p.m., University Art Gallery, Frick Fine Arts Building, 650 Schenley Dr., Oakland. This free event is part of the University Art Gallery's Gallery Talk Series for the exhibition Revolution, Ritual, and Remembrance: The Art of Haiti, which runs through March 17. For more information, contact Josienne Piller at 412-648-2423 or jpiller@pitt.edu.

3/16 Sagun Chanillo, a professor in the Department of Mathematics at Rutgers University, will deliver a lecture titled "The Composite Membrane Problem" at 4 p.m., Room 704, Thackeray Hall, 139 University Place, Oakland. This free event is part of Pitt's Department of Mathematics Spring 2007 Colloquium. For more information, contact Juan Manfredi at manfredi@pitt.edu or visit www.math.pitt.edu.

3/19 Monique Combescot, a professor at the Institut des NanoSciences de Paris, will deliver a lecture at 4:30 p.m., Room 102, Thaw Hall, 3943 O'Hara St., Oakland. 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.

3/21 Alison Stones, a Pitt professor of medieval art, will deliver a lecture titled"Writing and Manuscripts of France 1260-1320" at noon, Room 203, Frick Fine Arts Buliding, 650 Schenley Dr., Oakland. This free event is part Pitt's Department of the History of Art and Architecture Spring 2007 Colloquium speaker series. For more information, call 412-648-2400 or visit www.haa.pitt.edu.

MUSIC

3/15 Singer/songwriter Namoli Brennet will give a free performance at 4 p.m. in the Frick Fine Arts Building Auditorium, 650 Schenley Dr., Oakland. This event is sponsored by the Persad Center and PITT ARTS. For more information, call Annabelle Clippinger at 412-624-4462 or Linnea Glick at 412-624-1153.

3/18 Pitt's Bach and the Baroque ensemble, directed by Don Franklin, will give a concert titled "Music of Georg Benda and J.S. Bach" at 3 p.m., Heinz Chapel, Fifth and Bellefield avenues, Oakland. General admission is $12; student/senior admission, $8; and students with a valid Pitt ID, free. For more information, call 412-624-4125 or visit www.music.pitt.edu.

THEATER

3/21 Pitt Repertory Theatre will present a preview of The Proposal & The Wedding & The Bear, written by Anton Chekhov and directed by W. Stephen Coleman, at 8 p.m. in the Charity Randall Theatre, Stephen Foster Memorial, Forbes Avenue and Bigelow Boulevard, Oakland. General admission is $19. The play, which runs through April 1, will be presented at 8 p.m. Wednesdays through Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays. A talk-back session with the director and cast will follow the March 25 performance. For more information or to purchase tickets, call 412-624-7529 or visit www.play.pitt.edu.

FILM

3/16 Pitt's Asian Studies Center and Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures will host a free screening of the film April Snow (2005), directed by Heo Jin-ho, at 6:30 p.m., Room 4130, Posvar Hall, 230 S. Bouquet St., Oakland. For more information, contact Ebru Turker at 412-624-5562 or turker@pitt.edu.

3/21 As part of the film series "Experimental, Underground, Revolutionary: Avant-garde Films From Germany, Austria, and Switzerland," a screening of Foreigners Out! Schlingensief's Container (2002) and Christoph Schlingensief and His Films (2004), both directed by Christoph Schlingensief, 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.

EXHIBITION

3/15 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, 650 Schenley Dr., Oakland. For more information, contact Josienne N. Piller at 412-648-2423 or jpiller@pitt.edu.

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