University of Pittsburgh Calendar of Events, Mar.18- 25

EXHIBITION

3/18 "Free At Last? Slavery in Pittsburgh in the 18th and 19th Centuries," an exhibition by the University of Pittsburgh, is being presented at the Senator John Heinz History Center, 1212 Smallman St., Strip District. The exhibition runs daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. through April 5. For more information, visit www.pitt.edu/news/free-at-last/.

LECTURES

3/18 Miriam Meislik, an archivist in Pitt's Archives Service Center, will deliver a lecture titled "Historic Photos of Pittsburgh" at 11 a.m., 501 Information Sciences Building, 135 N. Bellefield Ave., Oakland. The event is part of the Publishing Pittsburgh Pictures Lecture Series. For more information, visit www.ischool.pitt.edu/colloquia/ppp/index.php.

3/18 Ofira Roll, a graduate student in Pitt's School of Education, will deliver a lecture titled "A Taste of Democracy From American and Israelis' Schools" at noon, 4217 Posvar Hall, 230 S. Bouquet St., Oakland. The event is sponsored by Pitt's Global Studies Program. For more information, contact Veronica Dristas at

412-624-2918 or dristas@pitt.edu.

3/18 Rebecca Denova, a visiting lecturer in Pitt's Department of Religious Studies, will deliver a lecture titled "And We Got to Get Ourselves Back to the Garden" at noon, 2628 Cathedral of Learning, 4200 Fifth Ave., Oakland. The event is part of the Department of Religious Studies Brown Bag Lunch Colloquium. For more information, contact 412-624-5990 or relgst@pitt.edu.

3/19 Donald Goldstein, a professor in Pitt's Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (GSPIA), will deliver a lecture titled "Pearl Harbor: The Relevance of the Attack 68 Years Later" at noon, 4130 Posvar Hall, 230 S. Bouquet St., Oakland. The event is part of the Asia Over Lunch Lecture Series. For more information, contact Jennifer Murawski at 412-383-3062 or jennm@pitt.edu.

3/19 Kevin Chappell, director of mapping and surveying at Precision Laser and Instruments Inc., will deliver a lecture titled "Overview of Real-Time GPS Networks and the New Virtual Reference System in Pennsylvania" at 4 p.m., 11 Thaw Hall, 3943 O'Hara St., Oakland. The event is sponsored by Pitt's Department of Geology and Planetary Science. For more information, visit www.geology.pitt.edu/colloquium.html.

3/19 Michael Kraig, director of policy analysis and dialogue at the Stanley Foundation, will deliver a lecture titled "Rising Powers-The New Global Reality" at 3 p.m., 4130 Posvar Hall, 230 S. Bouquet St., Oakland. The event is sponsored by Pitt's Global Studies Program. For more information, contact Veronica Dristas at 412-624-2918 or dristas@pitt.edu.

3/19 Peter Karsten, a professor in Pitt's Department of History, will deliver a lecture titled "Crisis of Conscience" at 6 p.m., Alcoa Room, Barco Law Building, 3900 Forbes Ave., Oakland. The event is sponsored by Pitt's Center for International Legal Education. For more information, contact Gina Clark at 412-648-7023 or glclark@pitt.edu.

3/20 Jen Waldron, a professor in Pitt's Department of English, and Todd Reeser, a professor and director of graduate studies in Pitt's Department of French and Italian Languages and Literatures, will deliver a lecture titled "Gender Theories Past and Present: Pedagogical Issues" at noon, 2201 Posvar Hall, 230 S. Bouquet St., Oakland. The event is sponsored by Pitt's Women's Studies Program. For more information, contact wstudies@pitt.edu or visit www.wstudies.pitt.edu/news.html.

3/20 Ruben Rios Avila, author of "La raza Comica" (Ediciones Callejón, 2002) will deliver a lecture presented in Spanish titled "Locas Barrocas, Indigencia Americana Maricona: The Queer Face of Poverty as Exposed in the Testimonial Baroque of Nestor Perlongher and Pedro Lembel" at 3 p.m., 142 Cathedral of Learning, 4200 Fifth Ave., Oakland. The event is sponsored by Pitt's Center for Latin American Studies. For more information, contact clas@pitt.edu or visit www.ucis.pitt.edu/main/events-six-month.shtml.

3/24 Ricardo D. Trimillos, chair of Asian Studies in the School of Pacific and Asian Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, will deliver a lecture titled "Nusantara/Nanyang/Southeast Asia: Public Enactments of Religious Belief" at 3 p.m, 4130 Posvar Hall, 230 S. Bouquet St., Oakland. The event is sponsored by Pitt's Asian Studies Center. For more information, contact Kiely Houston at 412-648-7426 or khouston@pitt.edu.

3/25 Julieta Paredes, founding member of the Bolivian anarcha-feminist group Mujeres Creando (Women Creating), will deliver a lecture in Spanish with an English translation, titled "Las Luchas Feministas y La Nueva Constitucion Politica en Bolivia," at 3 p.m., 232 Cathedral of Learning, 4200 Fifth Ave., Oakland. The event is sponsored by Pitt's Center for Latin American Studies. For more information, contact clas@pitt.edu or visit www.ucis.pitt.edu/main/events-six-month.shtml.

3/25 Laurent DuBois, a professor of French and history at Duke University's Department of Romance Studies, will deliver a lecture titled "The Empire of French Soccer" at 4 p.m., 3703 Posvar Hall, 230 S. Bouquet St., Oakland. The event is part of Pitt's Graduate Program Speaker Series. For more information, visit www.pitt.edu/~pitthist/news/lectures/index.html.

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