University of Pittsburgh Calendar of Events, Sept. 15-22

The following events are open to the public. 

EXHIBITIONS  

9/15-25   The Lives They Left Behind—a photographic exhibition featuring the contents of suitcases left behind in the late 19th to mid-20th century by the patients of the now closed Willard Psychiatric Center in New York’s Finger Lakes region—is being presented in the Frick Fine Arts Auditorium, 650 Schenley Dr., Oakland. The exhibition hours are from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays. For more information, call 877-391-3820 or visit www.suitcaseexhibit.org.  

LECTURES 

9/16        Robert Whitaker, author of Mad in America (Basic Books, 2001), will deliver a lecture related to The Lives They Left Behind exhibition at 7 p.m., Frick Fine Arts Auditorium, 650 Schenley Dr., Oakland. For more information, call 877-391-3820 or visit www.suitcaseexhibit.org. 

9/17        Alejandro de la Fuente, Pitt research professor of history and Latin American studies, will deliver a lecture titled “Debates on Race and History in Contemporary Cuba,” at noon, 2017 Cathedral of Learning, 4200 Fifth Ave., Oakland. This event is part of the Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC Fall 2010 Speaker Series and is sponsored by Pitt's Center for Race and Social Problems within the School of Social Work. For more information, call 412-624-7382. 

9/22        Carla Yanni, author of The Architecture of Madness (University of Minnesota Press, 2007), will deliver a lecture related to The Lives They Left Behind exhibition at 7 p.m., Frick Fine Arts Auditorium, 650 Schenley Dr., Oakland. For more information, call 877-391-3820 or visit www.suitcaseexhibit.org.  

THEATER 

9/10-19   The University of Pittsburgh Repertory Theatre presents A One-Man Archy & Mehitabel, written by and starring Gale McNeely, in the Henry Heymann Theatre, Stephen Foster Memorial, 4301 Forbes Ave., Oakland. For more information, call 412-624-PLAY (7529) or visit www.play.pitt.edu.  

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