University of Pittsburgh Calendar of Events, April 8-15

THEATER

4/8 Pitt's Kuntu Repertory Theatre will present two Rob Penny plays- "Pain In My Heart," and "Reachings"-both directed by Vernell A. Lillie, in the Seventh Floor Auditorium, Alumni Hall, 4227 Fifth Ave., Oakland. The performance runs through April 18. For more information, contact Kuntu Repertory Theatre at 412-624-7298 or visit www.kuntu.org.

LECTURES

4/8 Sharika Crawford, a graduate student in Pitt's Department of History, will deliver a lecture titled "Somos o No Somos Colombianos: Race and National Identity Formation on San Andres and Providence Islands, 1900-1930" at 3 p.m., 2500 Posvar Hall, 230 S. Bouquet St., Oakland. The event is sponsored by Pitt's Department of History. For more information, visit www.pitt.edu/~pitthist/news/lectures/index.html.

4/8 Paul J. Nelson, a professor in Pitt's Department of Religious Studies, will deliver a lecture titled "Religion and Civil Society Actors in International Development: A Report on the Early Stages of a Project on Religion, Political Voice, and Accountability" at noon, 2628 Cathedral of Learning, 4200 Fifth Ave., Oakland. The event is sponsored by Pitt's Department of Religious Studies. For more information, visit www.religiousstudies.pitt.edu/events.

4/8 Flavio Valente, the secretary general of the Food First Information and Action Network (FIAN), will deliver a lecture titled "The World Food Crisis' What is Actually Causing Millions to Suffer From Hunger and How the Human Rights Approach Can Help" at

6 p.m., 107 Barco Law Building, 3900 Forbes Ave., Oakland. The event is sponsored by Pitt's Global Studies Program and the FIAN. For more information, contact Veronica Dristas at 412-624-2918 or dristas@pitt.edu.

4/9 Brad Hurlburt, assistant director of Geographical Information Systems in Westmoreland County, will deliver a lecture titled "Geographical Information Systems and Westmoreland County" at 4 p.m., 11 Thaw Hall, 3943 O'Hara St., Oakland. The event is sponsored by Pitt's Department of Geology and Planetary Science. For more information, visit www.geology.pitt.edu/colloquium.html.

4/10 Bruce Montgomery, a professor and the faculty director of archives at the University of Colorado at Boulder, will deliver a lecture titled "From Richard M. Nixon to George W. Bush: Government Secrecy and the Archival Profession" at 11 a.m., 501 Information Sciences Building, 135 North Bellefield Ave., Oakland. The event is sponsored by Pitt's School of Information Sciences. For more information, visit www.ischool.pitt.edu/colloquia/aaa/index.php.

4/13 Liliana Milkova, a graduate curatorial intern at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., will deliver a lecture titled "Boris Mikhailov's Soviet Portraits" at noon, 4217 Posvar Hall, 230 S. Bouquet St., Oakland. The event is sponsored by Pitt's Center for Russian and East European Studies. For more information, contact Anna Talone at 412-648-7407 or crees@pitt.edu.

4/14 Victor Mosoti, a legal officer in the Development Law Service of the United Nations Food and Agruculture Organization in Italy, will deliver a lecture titled "Biofueling Our Future: The Implications and Regulatory Challenges of Biofuels Development in Global Economies" at 7 p.m., Teplitz Memorial Courtroom, Barco Law Building, 3900 Forbes Ave., Oakland. The event is sponsored by Pitt's Center for International Legal Education and Global Solutions Education Fund-Pittsburgh. For more information, contact Gina Clark 412-648-7023.

4/15 Jen Lee, a graduate student in Pitt's Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, will deliver a lecture titled "Microfinance Institution and World Poverty" at noon, 4217 Posvar Hall, 230 S. Bouquet St., Oakland. The event is sponsored by Pitt's Global Studies Program. For more information, contact Veronica Dristas at 412-624-2918 or dristas@pitt.edu.

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