University of Pittsburgh Calendar of Events, Feb. 7-13

PITTSBURGH CONTEMPORARY WRITERS SERIES
Poet Rachel Zucker, whose most recent book The Pedestrians (Wave Books, 2014) received wide praise and was named amongst the Chicago Tribune’s best poetry books of 2014, 8:30 p.m. Feb. 11, Frick Fine Arts Auditorium, Pitt Writing Program and University Store on Fifth, https://pghwriterseries.wordpress.com

THE YEAR OF THE HUMANITIES IN THE UNIVERSITY
“#FergusonSyllabus: Social Media Bring the Humanities into Public Debate,” Marcia Chatelain, associate professor, Department of History, Georgetown University, 5 p.m. Feb. 9, Humanities Center, 602 Cathedral of Learning, Pitt Departments of History and Africana Studies and Cultural Studies Program, www.humanities.pitt.edu

TOUR
“Hallowed Grounds” Tour, free public 90-minute tour highlights a number of African American “firsts” that occurred on campus, 11:45 a.m. Feb. 11, tour convenes in Cathedral of Learning Commons Room, Pitt’s K. Leroy Irvis Black History Month, wdonehue@pitt.edu

EXHIBITION
Erroll Garner Exhibition, display will feature materials from the Erroll Garner Archive, which was donated to Pitt’s University Library System in 2015, during February, William Pitt Union, Pitt’s K. Leroy Irvis Black History Month

LECTURE
“The Glow of the Sun King: Artisans and the Ascendancy of Louis XIV,” Chandra Mukerji, professor emerita, Department of Communication, University of California, San Diego, 6 p.m. Feb. 8, Carnegie Museum of Art Theater, 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland, Versailles: Space, Power, Memory lecture series, Pitt Architectural Studies Program, Department of French and Italian Languages and Literatures, and Carnegie Museum of Art, www.arch.pitt.edu

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