University of Pittsburgh Calendar of Events, Oct. 13-20

The following events are open to the public. 

LECTURES 

10/14         John Perkins, New York Times best-selling author, will present a free public lecture on corporate responsibility, ethics in the public and private sector, and sustainable environmental practices at 8 p.m. in Soldiers and Sailors Auditorium, 4141 Fifth Ave., Oakland. For more information, visit www.gpsa.pitt.edu. 

10/15       Jennifer Kwon Dobbs, assistant professor of English at St. Olaf College, and Eleana Kim, assistant professor of anthropology at University of Rochester, will make presentations as part of Overseas Korean Adoptees’ Communities and Activism forum, at noon, 2431 Posvar Hall, 230 S. Bouquet St., Oakland. Dobb’s lecture is titled “Toward Truth and Reconciliation: Overseas Korean Adoptee and Unwed Mother Advocacy,” and Kim’s is titled “The Dry Eye of Adoption Politics: Testimony, Social Justice, and Representation Among Transnational Korean Adoptees.” The event is sponsored by Pitt and the Pittsburgh Consortium for Adoption Studies. For more information, contact Marianne Novy at mnovy@pitt.edu. 

10/15         Jennifer Kwon Dobbs, assistant professor of English at St. Olaf College, will hold a poetry reading at 4 p.m., 208B Cathedral of Learning, 4200 Fifth Ave., Oakland. The event is sponsored by Pitt and the Pittsburgh Consortium for Adoption Studies. For more information, contact Marianne Novy at mnovy@pitt.edu. 

10/17        Laurence Glasco, Pitt associate professor of history and author, will deliver a lecture titled “August Wilson’s Pittsburgh” at 2 p.m., Synod Hall, 125 N. Craig St., Oakland. The event is sponsored by the Race & Reconciliation Dialogue Group of St. Paul Cathedral. For more information, call 412-681-8528. 

FILM 

10/14        Pitt’s Center for Latin American Studies will present Miel para Oshun (Honey for Oshun) (2001), directed by Humberto Solás, as part of Cuban Eyes/Cubanize: Fifty Years of Cuban Cinema Since the Cuban Revolution film series, at 6:30 p.m., Frick Fine Arts Auditorium, 650 Schenley Dr., Oakland. For more information, visit www.amigosdelcinelatinoamericano.wordpress.com. 

10/14        The Pittsburgh Consortium for Adoption Studies will present First Person Plural (2000), a documentary by and about Korean American adoptee Deann Borshay Liem, as part of Overseas Korean Adoptees’ Communities and Activism, at 7:30 p.m., 4130 Posvar Hall, 230 S. Bouquet St., Oakland. A discussion will follow. The event is sponsored by Pitt and the Pittsburgh Consortium for Adoption Studies. For more information, contact Marianne Novy at mnovy@pitt.edu. 

EXHIBITION 

10/14-17  The Haitian Art Society of Pittsburgh will present an exhibition titled Haiti Rising in the Kimbo Gallery, William Pitt Union (WPU), 4200 Fifth Ave., Oakland. The exhibition will feature Haitian art collected from the Pittsburgh community and a lecture by Marcus Rediker, Pitt Department of History’s Distinguished Professor of Atlantic History, at 1 p.m. Oct. 15 in the WPU Ballroom. For more information, contact WPU at 412-648-7815. 

WORKSHOPS 

10/17         The University of Pittsburgh’s Department of Health and Physical Activity presents the “Fall into Dance” high school dance workshop taught by Pitt faculty and the Pitt Dance Ensemble, from noon to 5 p.m., Trees Hall Dance Studio, Allequippa and Darragh streets, Oakland. For more information, contact Susan Gillis-Kruman at 412-648-8262 or gillis@pitt.edu. 

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