November 14, 2005 Issue

Nov. 14

Musical Performance, Pitt Asian Studies Concert, Wu Man, pipa, 8 p.m., Bellefield Hall Auditorium, Pitt’s Music on the Edge Series, 412-624-4125, www.pitt.edu/~concerts.

Ceramics Exhibition, by Sin-Ying Ho, KOA Art Gallery, Pitt-Bradford, 814-362-7500, www.upb.pitt.edu/students/index.htm.

Audubon Print Exhibition, Tyrant Flycatcher, through Nov. 21, Hillman Library Ground Floor, Pitt Department of Special Collections, 412-648-7715, www.library.pitt.edu.

Art Exhibition, Over 100 Years in the Making: Recrudescence, a collaboration of photographs and sculptures by Michael Picarsic III and Lorraine Vullo, through Nov. 30, Rivers of Steel National Heritage Area, The Bost Building, 623 E. Eighth Ave., Homestead, 412-464-4020.

Pittsburgh Society of Sculptors Annual Exhibition, through Dec. 3, Mark Panza Gallery, 115 Sedgewick St., Millvale, www.online-sos.org.

Theatrical Performance, Radio City Christmas Spectacular, various times, continues through Dec. 4, Benedum Center, 719 Liberty Ave., PNC Broadway in Pittsburgh Series, www.pgharts.org/events/eventDetails.aspx?id=123166.

Art Exhibition, A Sense of Place: Contemporary African American Art, through Dec. 9, University Art Gallery, Frick Fine Arts Building, 412-648-2423, http://vrcoll.fa.pitt.edu/uag.

Art Exhibition, General Idea Editions: 1967-1995, an exhibition by Canada’s best-known team of artists, through Dec. 31, Andy Warhol Museum, 117 Sandusky St., 412-237-8300, www.warhol.org.

Art Exhibition, To Observe and Imagine: British Drawings and Watercolors from the Morgan Library, 1600-1900, through Dec. 31, Frick Art and Historical Center, 7227 Reynolds St., 412-371-0600, www.frickart.org.

Art Exhibition, Starf*cker: Andy Warhol and the Rolling Stones, through Jan. 8, Andy Warhol Museum, 117 Sandusky St., 412-237-8300, www.warhol.org.

Cathedral of Learning Nationality Room Holiday Tours, through Jan. 13, Mondays through Fridays 9 a.m.-4 p.m.;
Saturdays 9 a.m.-2:30 p.m.; and Sundays 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m., 412-624-6000.

Art Exhibition, Frank Lloyd Wright: Renewing the Legacy, through Jan. 15, Carnegie Museum of Art, 4400 Forbes Ave., 412-622-3131, www.cmoa.org.

Photography Exhibitions, Luke Swank: Modernist Photographer and Witness to the Fifties, through Feb. 5, Carnegie Museum of Art, 4400 Forbes Ave., 412-622-3131, www.cmoa.org.

Nov. 15

Open House and Information Session, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, 10-11:30 a.m., 4th Floor, Cathedral of Learning, Pitt’s College of General Studies, 412-624-7308, www.solutions.pitt.edu/default.aspx?EntryUID=a7865f43-ce6a-40a6-a572-203a2f6113ec.

Lecture, “Autobiography as Transformation: The Case of Miles Davis,” Krin Gabbard, professor, State University of New York at Stony Brook, noon, 2500 Posvar Hall, Pitt Film Studies Program, www.pitt.edu/~filmst/events/index.html.

Tuesday Musical Club, American Music/Composers’ Program, 12:30 p.m., St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, 5801 Hampton St., Highland Park, 412-682-0439, www.tuesdaymusicalclub.org.

Wellness Program Seminar on healthy eating, noon-
1 p.m., William Pitt Student Union, www.pitt.edu/~wellpgm.

Open Mic Night, 9 p.m., University Room, Pitt-Bradford, 814-362-7500, www.upb.pitt.edu/students/index.htm.

Nov. 16

4th Annual Pittsburgh Federal Career Day, 10 a.m.-
3 p.m. (For details, see page 2.)

Lecture, “Colonial Vampires and Uncanny New Women: The Return of the Colonial Repressed in Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North,” Julie Hakim Azzam, teaching fellow, Pitt Women’s Studies Program, noon, 2201 Posvar Hall, Pitt’s Women’s Studies Program, 412-624-6485, www.pitt.edu/~wstudies/news.html.

Senior Vice Chancellor’s Laureate Lecture, “DNA Charge Transport Chemistry and Biology,” Jacqueline K. Barton, professor, California Institute of Technology, noon. Auditorium 6, Scaife Hall, newsbureau.upmc.com/Medsurg3/LaureateLectures2005.htm.

Brown Bag Lunch, “Grants from Foundations,” Megan Greenwalt, Pitt Associate Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations, noon-1:30 p.m., S100 Biomedical Science Tower, Survival Skills and Ethics Program, www.survival.pitt.edu.

Postdoctoral Professionalism Series, “Managing Interpersonal Conflict: A Problem-Solving Approach,”
3-5 p.m., S100 Biomedical Science Tower, Pitt’s Office of Academic Career Development, www.health,pitt.edu/oacd.

Lecture, “The Interpreter: Race and Justice in Liberated France, 1944,” Alice Kaplan, professor, Duke University, 4:30 p.m., 149 Cathedral of Learning, Pitt Department of French and Italian Languages and Literatures, www.pitt.edu/~frit.

Film Screening, The Peacekeepers, 5 p.m., 4130 Posvar Hall, Pitt Global Studies Program, thomay@ucis.pitt.edu.

Symposium, “North Korea in the World Community,” 6-8 p.m., 532 Alumni Hall, Pitt Asian Studies Center, kcarlitz@ucis.pitt.edu, www.ucis.pitt.edu/asc/news/northkorea.html.

La Cultura Lecture Series, “The Flower and the Ecstacy; or, How the Ancient Greeks Made H.D. the Modern American Poet,” Richard Blevins, professor, Pitt-Greensburg, 7 p.m., Hempfield Room, Chambers Hall, Pitt-Greensburg, 724-836-7741, www.upg.pitt.edu.

Nov. 17

Jay L. Foster Memorial Community Lecture in Alzheimer’s Disease, “Treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease: The Beginning of a New Era,” Dale Schenk, senior vice president for Discovery Research, Elan Pharmaceuticals, 1 p.m., IBEW Conference Center, South Side, Pitt Graduate School of Public Health, 412-648-1294, www.publichealth.pitt.edu.

Health Sciences Faculty Professional Development Series, “Managing Interpersonal Conflict: A Problem-Solving Approach,” 3-5 p.m., S100 Biomedical Science Tower, Pitt Office of Academic and Career Development, www.health.pitt.edu/oacd.

Jay L. Foster Memorial Scientific Lecture in Alzheimer’s Disease, “What Abeta Immunotherapy Has Taught Us About the Role of Abeta and Alzheimer’s Disease,” Dale Schenk, senior vice president for Discovery Research, Elan Pharmaceuticals, 4 p.m., A115 Crabtree Hall, Pitt Graduate School of Public Health, 412-648-1294, www.publichealth.pitt.edu.

Panel Discussion, “A Reason to Hope: New Advances in the Treatment of Colorectal Cancer,” 6-7:30 p.m., Mountain View Inn, Highlands Room. Greensburg, UPMC Cancer Centers and Excela Health, 1-800-533-8762, www.news
bureau.upmc.com/Medsurg4/ReasonColorectal.htm.

Film Screening, My Mother the Mermaid, directed by Park Heungsik, 6 p.m., 4130 Posvar Hall, Pitt Asian Studies Center, turker@pitt.edu.

Book Discussion and Signing by Bebe Moore Campbell, 7 p.m., Kelly-Strayhorn Theater, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh-East Liberty, 130 S. Whitfield St., 412-363-8232, www.carnegielibrary.org/locations/eastliberty/.

Theatrical Performance, Tuesdays with Morrie by Jeffrey Hatcher and Mitch Albom, 8 p.m., continues through Dec. 11, Pittsburgh City Theatre, 1300 Bingham St., 412-431-2489, www.citytheatrecompany.org.

Musical Performance, The Douglas Levine Trio, 8 p.m. (For details, see page 2.)

Theatrical Performance, Complete Works of William Shakespeare, 8-10 p.m., Ferguson Theater, Pitt-Greensburg, 724-836-7483, www.pitt.edu/~upg.

The American Experience Lecture Series, “Liberal Education in the 21st Century: Dead or Still Desirable?” 8 p.m., Benedum Hall Auditorium, Pitt Honors College, 412-648-2653, www.honorscollege.pitt.edu/ae.

Nov. 18

Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Michael A. Brittingham, Pitt Department of Political Science, “Reactive Nationalism and Its Prospects for Conflict: The Taiwan Issue, Sino-U.S. Relations, and the ‘Role’ of Nationalism in Chinese Foreign Policy.” 10 a.m., 4625 Posvar Hall.

Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Elisha P. Merriam, Pitt Center for Neuroscience, “Spatial Updating in Human Cortex,” 10 a.m., 2nd Floor, Learning Research and Development Center.

Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Susan Corbesero, Pitt Department of History, “The Anniversaries of the October Revolution, 1918-1927: Politics and Imagery,” 2:30 p.m., 3526 Posvar Hall.

Lecture, “Plato and the Desire for the Good,” Rachel Barney, associate professor, University of Toronto,
3:30 p.m., 149 Cathedral of Learning, Pitt Center for Philosophy of Science, 412-624-1052, www.pitt.edu/~pittcntr.

Lecture, “The Young Lords, the Black Panthers, and the Social and Structural Roots of Late-Sixties Radicalism,” Johanna Fernandez, postdoctoral fellow, Center for African American Urban Studies and the Economy, Carnegie Mellon University, 4:30-6:30 p.m., Adamson Wing, 136A Baker Hall, 412-268-8928.

Healthy Black Family Emergency Preparedness Forum, 5-8:30 p.m., Kingsley Association, 6435 Frankstown Ave., East Liberty, Pitt Center for Minority Health, www.cmh.pitt.edu/home1.html.

Light Up Night, 5-9:30 p.m., Downtown Pittsburgh, various locations, Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership, 412-566-4190, www.downtownpittsburgh.com.

Poetry Reading by Leslie Ann Mcilroy and Sean Thomas Dougherty, 7:30 p.m., Bottle Works Ethnic Arts Center, Pitt-Johnstown, 814-269-2080, www.upj.pitt.edu.

Carnegie Gem & Mineral Show, through Nov. 20, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, 4400 Forbes Ave., 412-622-3131.

Nov. 19

Survival Skills and Ethics Workshop, “Making Oral Presentations,” 9 a.m.-3 p.m., 4th Floor, Scaife Hall, Lecture Room 2, Pitt Survival Skills and Ethics Program, 412-578-3716, www.survival.pitt.edu.

Musical Performance, Mostly Medieval with Urban Sky Consort, part of Chatham Baroque’s “Peanut Butter and Jam Sessions,” 10 a.m. and 11:30 a.m., McClintic Hall, Calvary Episcopal Church, 315 Shady Ave., 412-687-1788.

Musical Performance, Andy Statman Trio bluegrass group, 8 p.m., Carnegie Lecture Hall, 4400 Forbes Ave., Calliope Concerts, 412-432-0333, www.calliopehouse.org.

Theatrical Performance, Love Letters by A.R. Gurney,
8 p.m., Charity Randall Theatre, Stephen Foster Memorial, one-night performance benefiting the American Stroke Association, 412-624-7529.

Nov. 20

Lecture, “The Art of Whitfield Lovell,” Tenanche Golden, mixed-media and installation artist, and fiber artist Anna Cunningham, 2 p.m., Frick Fine Arts Gallery, part of A Sense of Place: Contemporary African American Art exhibition, 412-648-2423, vrcoll.fa.pitt.edu/uag.

Organ Artists Series Concert by Yoon-Mi Lim, 4 p.m., Heinz Memorial Chapel, 412-731-0266, www.discover.pitt.edu/chapel.

Nov. 21

Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Wenguo Feng, Pitt Department of Civil and Enviromental Engineering, “Hydrogen Sulfide Adsorption/Oxidation on Carbonaceous Surfaces in Its Applications in Vapor Phase Mercury Control,” 9:30 a.m., 931 Benedum Hall.

Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Xue Feng, Pitt Department of Civil and Enviromental Engineering, “Application of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes in Enviromental Engineering: Adsorption and Desorption of Environmentally Relevant Species Studies by Infrared Spectroscopy and Temperature Programmed Desorption,” noon, 931 Benedum Hall.

Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by George Engelmayr, Pitt Department of Bioengineering, “Optimizing Engineered Heart Valve Tissue Extracellular Matrix,” noon, Cellomics Building, 100 Technology Drive, Bridgeside Point, Suite 200, Conference Room A.

Lecture, author Dava Sobel, 7:30 p.m., Carnegie Music Hall, 4400 Forbes Ave., Drue Heinz Lecture Series, 412-622-8866, www.pittsburghlectures.org.

Nov. 22

Brown Bag Luncheon, “Experiences from Study Abroad in the Czech Republic: Lidice,” 12:15-12:45 p.m., room G5, Broadhurst Science Center, Pitt-Titusville, 814-827-4429, www.upt.pitt.edu.

Inaugural Lecture, “The Ways from God to Man: John Milton’s Road to Secular Perfection,” Paul A. Bove´, Distinguished Professor, Pitt English Department, 4 p.m., 2500 Posvar Hall.

Audubon Print Exhibition, Prairie Titlark, through Dec. 5,
Hillman Library Ground Floor, Pitt Department of Special Collections, 412-648-7715, www.library.pitt.edu.