University of Pittsburgh Calendar of Events, Jan. 28-Feb. 4

EXHIBITION

1/28 "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 from10 a.m. to 5 p.m. through April 5. For more information, visit www.pitt.edu/news/free-at-last/.

THEATER

1/28 Pitt's Kuntu Repertory Theatre is presenting "Clean Drums," directed by Vernell A. Lillie, in the Seventh-Floor Auditorium, Alumni Hall, 4227 Fifth Ave., Oakland. The performance runs through Feb. 7. For more information, contact Kuntu Repertory Theatre at 412-624-7298 or visit www.kuntu.org/clean_drums.php.

LECTURES

1/29 Siddharth Chandra, a professor in Pitt's Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, will deliver a lecture titled "Marijuana Policy and Consumption in India: A Historical Perspective" at noon, 4130 Posvar Hall, 230 S. Bouquet St., Oakland. The event is part of the Spring 2009 Asia Over Lunch Lecture Series. For more information, contact Jennifer Murawski at 412-383-3062.

1/29 Patrice Petro, director of the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee's Center for International Studies, will deliver a lecture titled "Women and Cosmopolitanism (Marlene Dietrich, Anna May Wong, and Leni Riefenstahl)" at 1 p.m., 501 Cathedral of Learning, 4200 Fifth Ave., Oakland. The event is sponsored by Pitt's Film Studies Program. For more information, contact Volodia Padunov at padnumov@pitt.edu or Jennifer Florian at jrf16@pitt.edu, or visit www.filmstudies.pitt.edu/events/fy09/petro.pdf.

1/29 Timo Ovaska, a professor in the University of Connecticut's Department of Chemistry, will deliver a lecture titled "Oxyanionic 5-exo Cyclization/Claisen Rearrangement Reactions: Applications to the Synthesis of Cycloheptanoid Natural Products" at 2:30 p.m., 12B Chevron Science Center, 219 Parkman Ave., Oakland. The event is sponsored by Pitt's Department of Chemistry. For more information, visit www.chem.pitt.edu/p.php?pid=116&year=2009&term=spring.

1/29 Jefferson Hungerford, a professor in Pitt's Department of Geology and Planetary Science, will deliver a lecture titled "Basaltic Lavas Emplaced Beneath Ice: Emplacement Mechanism and Their Use as Paleo-ice Indicators" at 4 p.m., Room 11, Thaw Hall, 3943 O'Hara St., Oakland. The event is part of the Department of Geology and Planetary Science Spring 2009 Speaker Series. For more information, visit www.geology.pitt.edu/colloquium.html.

1/29 Maria Kurnikova, a professor in Carnegie Mellon University's Department of Chemistry, will deliver a lecture titled "Molecular Modeling of Ligand-Protein Interactions in Membrane Proteins" at 4 p.m., 12A Chevron Science Center, 219 Parkman Ave., Oakland. The event is sponsored by Pitt's Department of Chemistry. For more information, visit www.chem.pitt.edu/p.php?pid=116&year=2009&term=spring.

1/30 Ron Baraff, Rivers of Steel's director of museum collections and archives, and Tiffani Emig, Rivers of Steel's curator of collections, will deliver a lecture titled "Seeing Pittsburgh" at 10:30 a.m., 501 Information Sciences Building, 135 N. Bellefield Ave., Oakland. The event is part of the School of Information Sciences' Publishing Pittsburgh Pictures Lecture Series. For more information, visit www.ischool.pitt.edu/colloquia/ppp/index.php.

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