University of Pittsburgh Calendar of Events, Feb. 15-21

LECTURE

2/15 Mae Smethurst, a Pitt professor of classics, and Richard Smethurst, a Pitt professor of history, will deliver a lecture titled "Tsukioka Kôgyo and the Art of the Noh Theater" at noon, Room 4130, Posvar Hall, 230 S. Bouquet St., Oakland. This event is part of the Pitt Asian Studies Center's Asia Over Lunch lecture series. For more information, call

412-648-7370 or visit www.ucis.pitt.edu/asc.

2/15 Ruth Colker, a professor in the Michael E. Moritz College of Law at Ohio State University, will deliver a lecture titled "Disability and Integration: An Inherent Tension?" at 1 p.m., Teplitz Memorial Courtroom, Law School Building, 3900 Forbes Ave.,

Oakland. This event is sponsored by Pitt's Center for Bioethics and Health Law. CLE credits are offered; for more information, contact Matt Moon at 412-648-1320 or moon@law.pitt.edu.

2/15 Michael Golde, an associate professor in Pitt's Department of Chemistry, will deliver a lecture titled "Building Connections in Chemical Education" at 2:30 p.m., Room 12, Chevron Science Center, 219 Parkman Ave., Oakland. This free event is sponsored by Pitt's Department of Chemistry. For more information, visit cwt4.chem.pitt.edu/index.aspx.

2/15 Guobin Yang, an associate professor in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures at Barnard College, will deliver a lecture titled "The Rise of Environmentalism in China" at 4 p.m., Room 4130, Posvar Hall, 230 S. Bouquet St., Oakland. A reception and screening of the film Before the Flood (2004), directed by Yan Yu and Li Yifan, will follow at 5:45 p.m. in the Alumni Hall Auditorium, 4227 Fifth Ave., Oakland. This event is sponsored by Pitt's Asian Studies Center, University Center for International Studies, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, Department of Sociology, and Film Studies Program. For more information, contact Katy Carlitz at 412-648-7370 or visit www.ucis.pitt.edu/asc.

2/16 Pitt's Pedagogy and Difference Committee will host a panel discussion titled "Elephants in the Department: Pedagogy and Difference in the Graduate Classroom" at 1 p.m., Room 501, Cathedral of Learning, 4200 Fifth Ave., Oakland. Panelists are Pitt graduate students Patsy K. Eagen, Loring A. Pfeiffer, and Shelagh W. Patterson. For more information,

e-mail Neepa Majumdar at nmajumda@pitt.edu.

2/16 Marcus Rediker, a Pitt professor of history, will deliver a lecture titled "Gallery Talk: The Joyous Surrealism of Haitian Art" at 4 p.m. in the University Art Gallery, Frick Fine Arts Building, Schenley Drive, Oakland. This event is part of the University Art Gallery's "Revolution, Ritual, and Remembrance: The Art of Haiti" exhibition. For more information, contact Josienne N. Piller at 412-648-2423 or jpiller@pitt.edu.

2/19 Pitt's Office of International Services will present "PASSPORT to Cultural Adjustment" at noon, Dining Room A, William Pitt Union, 3959 Fifth Ave., Oakland. For more information, call 412-624-7120 or visit www.ois.pitt.edu.

2/19 Gurudev Dutt, a researcher in the Lukin Group at Harvard University, will deliver a lecture titled "Quantum Bits in Diamond: Pure, Paired, Prepared, and Probed" at 3 p.m., Room 106, Allen Hall, 3941 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.

2/20 Kazuya Kikuchi, a professor of chemistry at Osaka University, Japan, will deliver a lecture titled "Fluorescent Sensor Molecules With Tunable Switches for Changing Fluorescence Characteristics for Cellular Imaging" at 4 p.m., Room 12, Chevron Science Center, 219 Parkman Ave., Oakland. This free event is sponsored by Pitt's Department of Chemistry. For more information, visit cwt4.chem.pitt.edu/index.aspx.

2/21 Cindy Persinger, a Ph.D. candidate in Pitt's Department of the History of Art and Architecture, will deliver a lecture titled "The Unity of Style: Meyer Schapiro's Perspective on Modern Art" at noon, Room 203, Frick Fine Arts Building, Schenley Drive. This event is sponsored by Pitt's Department of the History of Art and Architecture. For more information, call 412-648-2400 or visit www.haa.pitt.edu.

2/21 Frank van Veggel, a professor of chemistry at the University of Victoria at British Columbia, Canada, will deliver a lecture titled "Ln3+ Based Photonic Materials: Synthesis, Characterization, and Application" at 4 p.m., Room 12, Chevron Science Center, 219 Parkman Ave., Oakland. This free event is sponsored by Pitt's Department of Chemistry. For more information, visit cwt4.chem.pitt.edu/index.aspx.

MUSIC

2/18 Pitt's Heinz Chapel Choir, directed by John Goldsmith, will present a free chamber choir festival at 3 p.m., Heinz Chapel, Fifth and Bellefield avenues, Oakland. For more information, call Pitt's Department of Music at 412-624-4125 or visit www.music.pitt.edu.

2/19 Daron Hagen, Pitt's Franz Lehar Composer-in-Residence, and the Music on the Edge Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Roger Zahab, will give a performance as part of the Pitt Department of Music's Music on the Edge Series at 8 p.m., Bellefield Hall Auditorium, 315 S. Bellefield Ave., Oakland. Admission for students with a valid Pitt ID is free. Tickets may be purchased through Pro Arts Tickets, 412-394-3353 or www.proartstickets.org.

THEATER

2/15 The Pitt Campus Women's Organization will present Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues at 8 p.m. in Room 120/121, David Lawrence Hall, 3942 Forbes Ave., Oakland. This event, which runs through Feb. 17, also is sponsored by the Pitt Women's Studies Program. For more information, call 412-624-6485 or visit www.pitt.edu/~wstudies.

FILM

In celebration of the Chinese Lunar New Year, Pitt's Asian Studies Center, University Center for International Studies, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, Department of Sociology, and Film Studies Program will present a three-day film festival Feb. 15-17 in the Alumni Hall Auditorium, 4227 Fifth Ave., Oakland. For more information, contact Katy Carlitz at 412-648-7370 or visit www.ucis.pitt.edu/asc.

The schedule is as follows:

2/15 Before the Flood (2004), directed by Yan Yu and Li Yifan, 5:45 p.m., and

When Ruoma Was Seventeen (2002), directed by Zhang Jiarui, 8:15 p.m.;

2/16 Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles (2005), directed by Yimou Zhang,

7:15 p.m.; and

2/17 Suzhou River (2000), directed by Ye Lou, 7:15 p.m.

2/21 As part of the film series "Experimental, Underground, Revolutionary: Avant-garde Films From Germany, Austria, and Switzerland," a screening of Das Hotel [The Hotel] (1976) and Schene-Tady III (1975), both directed by Heinz Emigholz, 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

2/15 An exhibition titled "Advertising a Dream: Movie Posters From Post-war Korea" will run through March 1 in the foyer of Pitt's Hillman Library, 3960 Forbes Ave., Oakland. This free event is sponsored by Pitt's Asian Studies Center, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, and University Library System's East Asian Library. For more information, contact 412-648-7370 or turker@pitt.edu.

2/15 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, Schenley Drive, Oakland. For more information, contact Josienne N. Piller at 412-648-2423 or jpiller@pitt.edu.

OTHER

2/20 Pitt's Career Services will hold an Internship Fair for communications, entertainment, and nonprofit organizations from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the William Pitt Union Assembly Room, 3959 Fifth Ave., Oakland. For more information, visit www.careers.pitt.edu.

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