2008 Feb 25 - Mar 2

Thu Feb 28 - 12 PM
Pitt, 2413 Posvar Hall
Francesca Polletta, professor of sociology at the University of California at Irvine, will deliver a lecture, titled “Victim Stories,” at noon, 2413 Posvar Hall, 230 Bouquet St., Oakland. This event is sponsored by Pitt’s School of Arts and Sciences, Women’s Studies Program, Cultural Studies Program, and The Pittsburgh Social Movement Forum. For more information, contact wstudies@pitt.edu or visit www.pitt.edu/~wstudies/news.html.

Thu Feb 28 - 7:30 PM
Pitt, Frick Fine Arts Building Auditorium
Peter Linebaugh, professor of history at the University of Toledo, will deliver the E.P. Thompson Memorial Lecture, at 7:30 p.m., Frick Fine Arts Building Auditorium, 650 Schenley Dr., Oakland. This annual event is sponsored by Pitt’s Department of History. For more information, visit www.pitt.edu/~pitthist/news/lectures/index.html.

Thu Feb 28 - 5:00 PM
CMU- McConomy Auditorium
Black History Month Keynote Address
Jabari Asim, editor-in-chief of Crisis magazine, a preeminent journal of politics, ideas, and culture published by the NAACP, is this year's keynote speaker for Black History Month. Asim spent 11 years at the Washington Post, where he served as deputy editor of the book review section. For three years he wrote a syndicated column on political and social issues for the Post. He is also a former vice president of National Book Critics Circle. An accomplished poet, playwright and fiction writer, Asim has published work in a number of anthologies and literary magazines.

Thu Feb 28, 8:30pm •
Cathedral of Learning G-24
Latin American Film Festival "BATALLA EN EL CIELO"
Dir. Carlos Reygadas • Mexico - 2005
In the 1940s, Mexico City had a population of 1 million. It is said that life was quite pleasant there in those days. Today Mexico City is a megalopolis of more than 20 million souls. Marcos is the chauffer of the general who supervises the daily flag ceremonies. Marcos picks up the general's daughter Ana at the airport. He is the only member of Ana's household who is aware that she leads a double life. Although a child of Mexico's political elite, she works part time in a rather seedy Mexico City brothel--not for the money but as an act of rebellion and debasement. The intimacy which has developed from sharing this secret with Marcos has become physical. On this particular day, Marcos is troubled. When Ana questions him, he confesses a secret of his own: he and his wife have kidnapped an infant for ransom and the baby has died in their custody. As the police draw closer, Ana urges Marcos to turn himself in. But in the end, he seeks redemption from a higher power. A clash that reminds Marcos of his true station in life, and another death prefigures brings the tortured soul to join a crowd of pilgrims approaching the shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe.



Fri Feb 29 - 5 PM
CMU Art Gallery
The Regina Gouger Miller Gallery presents "Transit 2008," an exhibit featuring the diverse work of students from Carnegie Mellon, Kyoto University of Art & Design, Nagoya Zokei University of Art & Design and Tokyo Zokei University

Fri Feb 29 - 6:30 PM
Leap Day Hash with the Hash House Harriers
Rivers City Inn, downtown, Market St. & Blvd. of Allies

Sat Mar 1 - 2 PM
LANtek Computer Services, 441 Jane Street, Carnegie 15106
St David's Day Hash by Whiff