University of Pittsburgh Calendar of Events, Mar. 25-April 1

EXHIBITION

3/25 "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/.

FILMS

3/27 Pitt's Global Studies Program will present "The Great Global Warming Swindle" (2007), directed by Martin Durkin, at 3 p.m., 4130 Posvar Hall, 230 S. Bouquet St., Oakland. For more information, contact Veronica Dristas at 412-624-2918.

3/27 Pitt's Asian Studies Center will present "Secret Sunshine" (2007), directed by Chang-dong Lee, at 6 p.m., 4130 Posvar Hall, 230 S. Bouquet St., Oakland. The screening is part of Pitt's Korean Film Festival. For more information, contact Ebru Turker at 412-624-5562.

4/1 Pitt's Center for Latin American Studies will present "Che Guevara: Hasta la Victoria Siempre (2008), directed by Clark Green, at 7:30 p.m., Frick Fine Arts Auditorium, 650 Schenley Dr., Oakland. For more information, contact amigoscinelatinoamericano@gmail.com.

LECTURES

3/25 Susan Funkenstein, a visiting instructor in Pitt's Department of the History of Art and Architecture, will deliver a lecture titled "Imaging Dance at the Bauhaus" at noon, 203 Frick Fine Arts Auditorium, 650 Schenley Dr., Oakland. The event is sponsored by Pitt's Department of the History of Art and Architecture. For more information, visit www.haa.pitt.edu/news/col_schedule.html.

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 in 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.

3/26 Clark Chilson, a professor in Pitt's Department of Religious Studies, will deliver a lecture titled "How to Hide a Religion: Dissimulation as a Transformative Process in the History of a Modern Secretive Shin Buddhist Association" 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.

3/26 Shane Minkin, a graduate student in New York University's Departments of History and Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, will deliver a lecture titled "The Death of Empire: British Cemeteries in Alexandria, Egypt, 1827-1972" at 1:30 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.

3/26 Christine L. Borgman, presidential chair of the University of California at Los Angeles' Department of Information Studies, will deliver a lecture titled "Scholarship in the Digital Age: Information, Infrastructure, and the Internet" at 4 p.m., Kurtzman Room, William Pitt Union, 3959 Fifth Ave., Oakland. The event is sponsored by Pitt's School of Information Sciences. For more information, contact Kelly I. Shaffer at 412-624-2677 or kshaffer@sis.pitt.edu.

3/26 Edward Lidiak, an emeritus professor in Pitt's Department of Geology and Planetary Science, will deliver a lecture titled "An Overview and New Results Describing the Tectonics and Development of the Caribbean Plate Region" 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.

3/26 Joanna Woods-Marsden, a professor in the University of California at Los Angeles' Department of Art History, will deliver a lecture titled "L'Arme and Gli Amori: Gendered Identity in Titian's Portraits for the Este Court of Ferrara" at 4:30 p.m., 202 Frick Fine Arts Auditorium, 650 Schenley Dr., Oakland. The event is sponsored by Pitt's Women's Studies Program. For more information, contact 412-624-6485 or wstudies@pitt.edu.

3/ 26 Ed Robbins, a documentarian and videographer, will deliver a lecture titled "Portraying War and Its Aftermath: A Personal Perspective" at 6 p.m., 113 Barco Law Building, 3900 Forbes Ave., Oakland. The event is part of Pitt's Global Issues Lecture Series. For more information, contact Veronica Dristas at 412-624-2918.

3/31 Dennis Hart, associate director of Pitt's Asian Studies Center, will deliver a lecture titled "Who's Afraid of the Big, Bad North Korea?" at 1 p.m., 4217 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.

3/31 Diana Paton, a senior lecturer in the Centre for Gender and Women's Studies at Newcastle University, will deliver a lecture titled "Obeah Acts: Producing and Policing the Boundaries of Religion in the Caribbean" at 4 p.m., 3703 Posvar Hall, 230 S. Bouquet St., Oakland. The event is sponsored by Pitt's Department of History. For more information, visit www.pitt.edu/~pitthist/news/lectures/index.html.

3/31 Magid Shihade, a visiting professor in Pitt's University Center for International Studies, will deliver a lecture titled "Modernity and Its Others: Conflicts and Violence in the Middle East" at 8 p.m. Sutherland Hall, 3725 Sutherland Dr., Oakland. The event is sponsored by Pitt's Global Studies Program and International Studies Living Learning Community. For more information, contact Veronica Dristas at 412-624-2918.

3/31 Meredith LeVande, a singer and songwriter, will deliver a lecture titled "Women, Pop Music, and Pornography" at 8:45 p.m., Ballroom, William Pitt Union, 3959 Fifth Ave., Oakland. The event is sponsored by Pitt's Campus Women's Organization. For more information, contact 412-624-6485.

4/1 Slobodan Naumovic, a professor in Belgrade University's Department of Ethnology and Anthropology, will deliver a lecture titled "Golgotha and Resurrection: Destiny Myths, Victimization, and Nationalism in Early Serbian Cinematography" at noon, 4217 Posvar Hall, 230 S. Bouquet St., Oakland. The event is sponsored by Pitt's Center for Russian and East European Studies. For more information, contact crees@pitt.edu.

4/1 Raoul Kopelman, the Richard Smalley Distinguished University Professor of Chemistry in the University of Michigan's chemical biology doctoral program, will deliver a lecture titled "Nanoparticle Sensors for Intracellular and In-vivo Chemical Analysis" at 4 p.m., 12B Chevron Science Center, 219 Parkman Ave., Oakland. For more information, visit www.chem.pitt.edu/p.php?pid=116&year=2009&term=spring.

4/1 Marsha D. Marcus, a professor of psychiatry in Pitt's School of Medicine, will deliver a lecture titled "Pediatric Obesity: A National Crisis" at 6 p.m., Carnegie Library, 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland. The event is part of the 2008-09 Mental Health and Wellness Lecture Series. For more information, visit wpic.upmc.com/PDF/WPICMentalHealthWellness0809.pdf.

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