University of Pittsburgh Calendar of Events, Sept. 24-Oct. 1

LECTURE

9/24 Rebecca I. Denova, a visiting lecturer in Pitt's Department of Religious Studies, will deliver a lecture titled "Who Cooked the Last Supper? Bodies, Boundaries, and New Questions of Female Leadership in Early Christianity" at noon, 2201 Posvar Hall, 230 Bouquet St., Oakland. This event is sponsored by Pitt's Women's Studies Program. For more information, visit www.wstudies.pitt.edu/index.html.

9/24 Michael O'Hara, a professor in the University of Iowa's Department of Psychology,will deliver a lecture titled "Postpartum Depression: A 30-year Odyssey" at 3 p.m., 4127 Sennott Square, 210 Bouquet St., Oakland. This event is sponsored by Pitt's Department of Psychology. For more information, contact Susan Campbell at 412-624-8792 or visit www.psychology.pitt.edu./news/colloquia/index.php.

9/25 Richard Scaglion, a professor in Pitt's Department of Anthropology, will deliver a lecture titled, "Why Is Pacific Islands Studies Part of Asian Studies? Asian Connections in Pacific Prehistory" at noon, 4130 Posvar Hall, 230 Bouquet St., Oakland. This event is part of the Asia Over Lunch Lecture Series. For more information, contact Brenda Jordan at 412-648-7763 or jordanb@pitt.edu, or visit www.ucis.pitt.edu/main/events-one-month.shtml.

9/25 Haider Ala Hamoudi, a professor in Pitt's School of Law, and Paul Amato, an Officer in the United States Marine Corp, will deliver a lecture titled, "The Rule of Law in Modern Iraq: Personal Perspectives" at 6 p.m., Teplitz Memorial Courtroom, Barco Law Building, 3900 Forbes Ave., Oakland. This event is part of the 2008-09 Rule of Law Lecture Series. For more information, contact D. Wes Rist at 412-383-6754, or visit www.law.pitt.edu/cile.

9/25 Rand Beers, founder and president of the National Security Network, will deliver a lecture titled "A Status Report on the Global War on Terror" at 7 p.m., Lower Lounge, William Pitt Union, 3959 Fifth Ave., Oakland. This event is sponsored by Pitt's University Center for International Studies. For more information, contact Beverly Brizzi at brizzi@gspia.pitt.edu.

9/26 Miyako Inoue, a professor in Stanford University's Department of Anthropology, will deliver a lecture titled "Walking the Magazine, Reading the Street: The Birth of the Capitalist Semiosis in Japanese Women's Magazines, 1900-1930" at 3 p.m., Anthropology Lounge, Posvar Hall, 230 Bouquet St., Oakland. For more information, contact Brenda Jordan at 412-648-7763 or jordanb@pitt.edu.

9/29 Maxine Hong Kingston, author of "China Men" (Knopf, 1980) and "The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts" (Knopf, 1976), will deliver a literary reading at 8:30 p.m., David Lawrence Hall, 3942 Forbes Ave., Oakland. This event is part of the Pittsburgh Contemporary Writers Series. For more information, contact Jeff Oaks at oaks@pitt.edu.

FILM

9/24 Pitt's Center for Russian and East European Studies, European Studies Center, and European Union Center of Excellence will present Kolya, part of International Week, at 4 p.m., 4130 Posvar Hall, 230 Bouquet St., Oakland. Screening includes English subtitles. For more information, contact Gina Pierce at 412-648-7407 or crees@pitt.edu.

CONCERT

9/24 The University of Pittsburgh's Symphony Orchestra will hold a concert at 8 p.m., Bellfield Hall Auditorium, 315 S. Bellfield Ave., Oakland. For more Information, visit www.music.pitt.edu.

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