University of Pittsburgh Calendar of Events, March 8-14

LECTURES

3/14 Katherine Wisner, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology in Pitt's School of Medicine and the director of Women's HealthCARE at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, will deliver a lecture titled "Depression in Women During Childbearing" at noon, Room 2201, Posvar Hall, 230 S. Bouquet St., Oakland. This free event is sponsored by Pitt's Women Studies Program as part of its celebration of Women's History Month. For more information, call 412-624-6485 or visit www.pitt.edu/~wstudies.com.

3/14 Josh Ellenbogen, a professor of the history of photography and modern art at Pitt, will deliver a lecture titled "Sciences and Sense, Artistic Representation, and the Concept of Impression in the Nineteenth Century" at noon, Room 203, Frick Fine Arts Building,

650 Schenley Dr., Oakland. This free event is part Pitt's Department of the History of Art and Architecture Spring 2007 Colloquium speaker series. For more information, call

412-648-2400 or visit www.haa.pitt.edu.

3/14 Fei Yu, an integrated library systems applications specialist in the eiNetwork and an alumni of Pitt's School of Information Sciences, will deliver a lecture titled "Users' Emotional Satisfaction and Material Satisfaction at the Micro/Macro-Level in Academic Libraries" at noon, Rangos Auditorium, University Center, 5032 Forbes Ave., Oakland. This free event is part of the Digital Libraries Colloquium series sponsored by Pitt's University Library System, the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University Library, and the Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science. For more information, visit www.sis.pitt.edu/academics/colliquia/DL.html.

3/14 Kathryn Neckerman, associate director of the Columbia University Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, will deliver a lecture titled "The Time Tax: Race and Spatial Equity in New York City" at 1:30 p.m., Room 2017, Cathedral of Learning, 4200 Fifth Ave., Oakland. This free event is sponsored by Pitt's School of Social Work as part of its Center on Race and Social Problems' Spring 2007 Reed Smith Lecture Series. For more information, call 412-624-7382 or visit www.crsp.pitt.edu.

FILM

3/14 As part of the film series "Experimental, Underground, Revolutionary: Avant-garde Films From Germany, Austria, and Switzerland," a screening of Nicht loschbares Feuer [Inextinguishable Fire] (1969); Arbeiter verlassen die Fabrik [Workers Leaving the Factory] (1995); Auge Machine 1 [Eye Machine 1] (2001-3); Schnittstelle Section [Interface] (1995); and Ich glaubte Gefangene zu Sehen [I Thought I Was Seeing Convicts] (2000), all directed by Harun Farocki, 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.

3/14 Pitt's Global Studies Program, European Studies Center, and Italian Club will host a free screening of the film Waalo Fendo: Where the Earth Freezes (1998), directed by Mohammed Soudani, at 8:30 p.m., Room 4130, Posvar Hall, 230 S. Bouquet St., Oakland. For more information, contact Veronica Dristas at 412-624-2918 or dristas@ucis.pitt.edu.

EXHIBITION

3/8 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, 650 Schenley Dr., Oakland. For more information, contact Josienne N. Piller at 412-648-2423 or jpiller@pitt.edu.

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