University of Pittsburgh Calendar of Events, April 14-21

EXHIBITION

4/14 "Studio Arts Student Exhibition" featuring the artwork of graduating students in Pitt's Department of Studio Arts is being presented in the Frick Fine Arts Auditorium, 650 Schenley Dr., Oakland. The exhibition runs daily through May 1. For more information, call 412-648-2430 or visit www.studioarts.pitt.edu.

CONCERTS

4/15 Pitt's Department of Music will present the spring 2010 Jazz Ensemble at 8 p.m., Assembly Room, William Pitt Union, 3959 Fifth Ave., Oakland. For more information, visit www.music.pitt.edu/events/pitt-jazz-ensemble100201.

4/16 Pitt's Department of Music will present the African Music and Dance Ensemble at 8 p.m., Bellefield Hall Auditorium, 315 S. Bellefield Ave., Oakland. For more information, visit www.music.pitt.edu/events/.

4/18 Pitt's Department of Music will present the spring 2010 Women's Choral Ensemble at 3 p.m., Heinz Memorial Chapel, Fifth and Bellefield avenues, Oakland. For more information, visit www.music.pitt.edu/events/.

4/21 Pitt's Department of Music will present the University of Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra at 8 p.m., Bellefield Hall Auditorium, 315 S. Bellefield Ave., Oakland. For more information, visit www.music.pitt.edu/events/.

THEATER

4/14-17 Pitt's Kuntu Repertory Theatre will present two one-act plays, "The Electronic Negro" by Edward Bullins and "Sister Son/ji" by Sonia Sanchez, in the Seventh-Floor Auditorium, Alumni Hall, 4227 Fifth Ave., Oakland. For more information, contact Kuntu Repertory Theatre at 412-624-7298 or visit www.kuntu.org/.

4/14-18 The University of Pittsburgh Repertory Theater will present two-one act plays, "Dog Sees God" by Bert V. Royal and "Mud" by Maria Irene Fornes, in Pitt's Studio Theater, Cathedral of Learning, 4200 Fifth Ave., Oakland. For more information, visit www.play.pitt.edu/docs/0910SeasonMailer.pdf.

LECTURES

4/14 Alice K. Butterfield, a professor in the University of Illinois at Chicago's Jane Addams College of Social Work, will deliver the Raymond R. Webb Jr. lecture, titled "International Higher Education Partnerships for Place-Based Community Development: Lessons From a Social Work Education Partnership in Ethiopia," at noon, 2017 Cathedral of Learning, 4200 Fifth Ave., Oakland. The lecture commemorates World Social Work Day and is sponsored by Pitt's School of Social Work. For more information, call 412-624-6304.

4/14 Jorge Delgrado, a graduate student in Pitt's School of Education, will deliver a lecture titled "The Emerging Model of Scientific Publications in Latin America," at noon, 4130 Posvar Hall, 230 S. Bouquet St., Oakland. This event is sponsored by Pitt's School of Education's Department of Administration and Policy, Global Studies Program, and Institute for International Studies in Education. For more information, contact Veronica Dristas at 412-624-2918 or visit www.ucis.pitt.edu/main/events-one-month.shtml.

4/14 Daniel Brinks, a professor in the University of Notre Dame's Kellogg Institute for International Studies, will deliver a lecture titled "New Courts for New Democracies: Judicial Changes in Latin America from 1975 to 2009," at 1:30 p.m., 4500 Posvar Hall, 230 S. Bouquet St., Oakland. This event is sponsored by Pitt's Department of Political Science and Center for Latin American Studies. For more information, e-mail ertman@pitt.edu.

4/15 Meenakshi Wadhwa, director of Arizona State University's Center for Meteorite Studies, will deliver a lecture titled "Planetary Science/Isotopes Meteorites," at 4 p.m., Room 11, Thaw Hall, 3943 O'Hara St., Oakland. This event is sponsored by Pitt's Department of Geology and Planetary Science. For more information, visit www.geology.pitt.edu/about/colloquia/Apr_15.html.

4/16 Gonzalo Lamana, a professor in Pitt's Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures, will deliver a lecture titled "Truth, Self Evidence, and the Colonial Question," at 3 p.m., 501 Cathedral of Learning, 4200 Fifth Ave., Oakland. This event is sponsored by Pitt's European Studies Center and European Union Center of Excellence. For more information, visit www.ucis.pitt.edu/main/events.

4/16 David Brodbeck, the Robert and Marjorie Rawlins Chair of Music in the University of California at Irvine's Department of Music, will deliver a lecture titled "Essentialism, Orientalism, and Musical Identity in Goldmark's Queen of Sheba," at 4 p.m., 132 Music Building, 4337 Fifth Ave., Oakland. This event is sponsored by Pitt's Department of Music. For more information, visit www.music.pitt.edu/events/essentialism-orientalism-musical-id100122.

4/21 Paul Hanebrink, a professor in Rutgers University's Department of History, will deliver a lecture titled "From Judeo-Bolshevism to the Judeo-Christian Tradition: Christianity and Anti-Communist Politics in Postwar Europe," at 2 p.m., History Lounge, 3703 Posvar Hall, 230 S. Bouquet St., Oakland. This event is sponsored by Pitt's Department of History, European Studies Center and European Union Center of Excellence. For more information, visit www.ucis.pitt.edu/main/events.

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