Happenings

Issue Date: 
April 7, 2014

Concerts 

2014 Honors Recital, performances by the most accomplished music majors in Pitt’s Department of Music, 8 p.m. April 7, Bellefield Hall Auditorium, Pitt Department of Music, www.music.pitt.edu

University Gamelan Ensemble, hear the sounds of this traditional Indonesian ensemble, 8 p.m. April 12, Bellefield Hall Auditorium, Pitt Department of Music, www.music.pitt.edu

Exhibitions

Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens, Spring Flower Show, showcasing musical genres through whimsical sculptures made out of up-cycled instruments alongside thousands of seasonal flowers, through April 20, 1 Schenley Park, Oakland, www.phipps.conservatory.org

Filmmakers Galleries, Palimpsests: Ghost Signs of Pittsburgh, photographic exploration of the remains of local 20th century outdoor advertisements, through May 16, 477 Melwood Avenue, Oakland, www.pittsburghpalimpsests.com

University Art Gallery, Studio Arts Student Exhibition, work of graduating seniors featured alongside exceptional works from a range of Studio Arts courses, through April 26, Frick Fine Arts Building, Pitt Department of Studio Arts, www.studioarts.pitt.edu 

Hillman Library, Oakland: A Look Back Over the 20th Century, glimpse into the changes that would lead to Oakland’s development as a medical, cultural, and educational hub, through summer 2014, http://digital.library.pitt.edu/pittsburgh/exhibits/oakland-a-look-back/

Carnegie Museum of Art, Teenie Harris Photographs: Baseball in Pittsburgh, an inside look at some of the greatest moments in Negro League, Major League, Little League, and sandlot baseball in Pittsburgh, through Sept. 22, 4400 Forbes Ave, Oakland, www.cmoa.org

Carnegie Museum of Natural History, RACE: Are We So Different? integrates personal stories with expert discussions of the role of science within racial history, through Oct. 27, 4400 Forbes Ave, Oakland, American Anthropological Association, www.carnegiemnh.org

Lectures/Seminars/Readings 

“Touch Sensitivity and its Modulation in c. elegans, Marty Chalfie, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Biology, Columbia University, 4 p.m. April 7, 169 Crawford Hall, Pitt Department of Biological Sciences, www.biology.pitt.edu

“Navigating Toxic Inequality,” Thomas M. Shapiro, director, Institute on Assets and Social Policy, Pokross Professor of Law and Social Policy, The Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University, noon April 8, 2017 Cathedral of Learning, Pitt Center on Race and Social Problems, Reed Smith Speaker Series, www.crsp.pitt.edu

“New Synthetic Methods for Building Complexity,” Sarah Reisman, assistant professor of chemistry, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, 2:30 p.m. April 9, 150 Chevron Hall, Pitt Department of Chemistry 18th Paul Dowd Lecture, www.chem.pitt.edu

“Natural Product Synthesis: A Platform for Discovery in Chemistry and Biology,” Sarah Reisman, assistant professor of chemistry, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, 4 p.m. April 9, 150 Chevron Hall, Pitt Department of Chemistry 18th Paul Dowd Lecture, www.chem.pitt.edu

“Magazine Media: Why the Future Looks Bright,” Michael A. Clinton, president, marketing and publishing manager, Hearst Magazines, 4 p.m. April 11, 630 William Pitt Union, Pitt Department of English, www.english.pitt.edu

Theater/Opera/Dance

The Fever Chart, grappling with three visions of the Middle East, full of harshness, brutality, and unswerving optimism; My Doomsday Off, improvisation specialist and Pitt graduate student Ric Walker hosts sketch comedy show, presented consecutively, April 9-13, Studio Theatre, Cathedral of Learning basement, Pitt Department of Theatre Arts, www.play.pitt.edu

Miscellaneous

The Women Workers’ War, documentary recounting the story of two women: one who leads the longest factory sit-in by women in Italy and another who operates a factory that encourages cultural growth among the workers, 7 p.m. April 10, Ground Floor, 24 Cathedral of Learning, Pitt Department of French and Italian Languages and Literatures, www.italianfilmfests.org/pittsburgh.html

Madame Presidenta: Why Not U.S.? Vamos Meninas!, documentary investigating female political leaders in the United States and abroad, 7:15 p.m. April 10, 3911 Posvar Hall, Pitt Global Studies Center, Graduate School of Public Health Ford Institute for Human Security, www.wstudies.pitt.edu

The Poetics of Rediscovery: New Paths in Latin American Documentary, symposium presenting two works by scholar and filmmaker Julio Ramos, 10 a.m. April 11, Frick Fine Arts Auditorium, Pitt Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures, Film Studies, University Center for International Studies, www.ucis.pitt.edu

The Venice Syndrome (Teorema Venezia), showing what remains of Venetian life in a requiem for a grand city overrun by 50,000 tourists every day, 9 p.m. April 11, 1700 Posvar Hall, Pitt Department of French and Italian Languages and Literatures, www.italianfilmfests.org/pittsburgh.html

Kathleen E. George, Pitt professor of theater, signing her book The Johnstown Girls, noon April 11, University Store on Fifth, Oakland, Pitt Department of Theatre Arts, www.play.pitt.edu

Long Live Freedom (Viva la Libertà), the leader of the most notorious political opposition party in Italy mysteriously disappears and is replaced by his identical twin brother, who has recently been released from a psychiatric hospital, 7 p.m. April 12, Frick Fine Arts Auditorium, Pitt Department of French and Italian Languages and Literatures, www.italianfilmfests.org/pittsburgh.html

Pittsburgh Contemporary Writers Series, readings by Dana Ward, editor of CyPress Books and author of the poetry collections The Crisis of Infinite Worlds and This Can’t Be Life, and by Anne Boyer, assistant professor of creative writing at the Kansas City Art Institute and author of the poetry collections My Common Heart and The Romance of Happy Workers, 8:30 p.m. April 10, Frick Fine Arts Auditorium, http://pghwriterseries.wordpress.com 

PhD Dissertation Defenses

Leslie A. Meyn, Graduate School of Public Health’s Department of Epidemiology, “Longitudinal Evaluation of Self-Reported Antibiotic Use and Its Association with Vaginal and Rectal Colonization by Lactobacillus and Vulvovaginal Candidiasis in Non-Pregnant Women,” 9 a.m. April 7, A523 Crabtree Hall. 

Cynthia Swinehart, Dietrich School’s Department of Philosophy, “An Aristotelian Solution to the Problem of Internal Minorities,” 1 p.m. April 7, 1001D Cathedral of Learning.

Allison Hahn, Dietrich School’s Department of Communication and Rhetoric, “Argumentation and Identity in Maasai and Mongolian Land Disputes,” 10:30 a.m. April 8, 1128 Cathedral of Learning.

Marcus Adams, Dietrich School’s Department of History and Philosophy of Science, “Mechanical Epistemology and Mixed Mathematics: Descartes’s Problems and Hobbes’s Unity,” 10:30 a.m. April 8, G28 Cathedral of Learning.

Janelle Zacherl, Graduate School of Public Health’s Department of Human Genetics, “Effects of Trans Fats on Human Macrophages,” 11 a.m. April 8, 109 Parran Hall.

Ying Ding, School of Medicine’s Department of Computational Biology, “Prognostic Biomarker Detection, Machine Learning Bias of Minimal-Error Classifier and Identifying Differential Coexpression Modules via Meta-Analysis Framework,” 3 p.m. April 8, A522 Crabtree Hall.

Sondra Balouris, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences’s Department of Occupational Therapy, “Development and Validation of the Cerebral Performance Categories-Extended (CPC-E),” 9 a.m. April 9, 4065 Forbes Tower.

Martin Saavedra, Dietrich School’s Department of Economics, “Essays on the Effects of Childhood Conditions on Adult Economic and Health Outcomes,” 10 a.m. April 9, 4900 Posvar Hall.

Chi-Ting Su, Graduate School of Public Health’s Department of Human Genetics, “Molecular Mechanisms of LTBP4-related Cutis Laxa,” 2 p.m. April 9, A719 Crabtree Hall.

Shaowu Tang, Graduate School of Public Health’s Department of Biostatistics, “Investigations on Genomic Meta-analysis: Imputation for Incomplete Data and Properties of Adaptively Weighted Fisher’s Method,” 9 a.m. April 10, A719 Crabtree Hall.

Mary T. Marchetti, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences’s Department of Physical Therapy, “Developing an Educational Program for Staff in Assisted Living Facilities and Personal Care Homes on Fall Risk and Fall Prevention,” 10 a.m. April 10, 4065 Forbes Tower.

Abhishek Garg, School of Medicine’s Department of Immunology, “Feedback Inhibition of IL-17 Signal Transduction,” 2 p.m. April 10, 1104 Scaife Hall.

Julius Obiri Yeboah Asubonteng, Graduate School of Public Health’s Department of Epidemiology, “Metabolic Syndrome and Subclinical Atherosclerosis: Prevalence, Remodeling and its Associated Risk Factors,” noon April 11, 309B Crabtree Hall.