Monday Oct 8 - 4:30 PM
CMU, Adamson Wing, Baker Hall 136A
The University Lecture Series' "Journeys" installment continues with Raj Raddy, the Herbert A. Simon University Professor of Computer Science and Robotics. Reddy's talk is titled "Technology and Society"
Monday, October 8 at 7 pm
Cafe Scientifique
Penn Brewery
800 Vinial St
Pittsburgh, PA 15212
Lee Gutkind, author of "Almost Human," a book about the activities of the roboticists at CMU.
http://www.cafescipgh.org/index.html
Tuesday, October 09, 2007 - ***** CANCELLED ******
Pittsburgh .NET users group: ArcGIS
Jeff Cromwell will deliver an event on .NET and Geospatial Information Systems (GIS) using ArcGIS. The event will run from 5:30 - 8:00 pm at Microsoft Offices. Pizza and giveaways provided!
http://www.pghdotnet.net/Events/default.aspx
Oct 9 - 5:00 PM
CMU - Kresge Recital Hall, College of Fine Arts
The School of Art presents Nina Katchadourian, whose work exists in a wide variety of media, including photography, sculpture, video and sound.
Thu Oct 11 - 5:00 PM to 7:30 PM
Pitt - Ballroom of william pitt union
The Department of French and Italian 4th annual Open House will take place on Thursday, October 11th from 5-7:30pm in the ballroom of the William Pitt Union. For those of you who are new to the Department - this event is open to the entire University community with the intention of recruiting new students to major/minor in French and/or Italian. Representatives from Study Abroad, Career Services, Experiential Learning (Internships, Research Opportunities), Peace Corp, European Studies Center, Instruction & Learning will all be in attendance. This year formal presentations from some of these areas will be taking place throughout event.I would like to ask that you make every effort to encourage your students to attend this event. Last year more than 200 students were in attendance and a great time was had by all. And, of course, you should come too - students like the opportunity to speak with their instructors in an informal setting.At this time, I would also like to ask for volunteers to assist me with the setup and clean up of this event. If you are interested in volunteering to help me, please let me know at your earliest convenience. Set up will begin at 2:30pm in the Ballroom of the William Pitt Union. Oh, and did I mention that there will be delicious food served?
Oct 11, 2007 - 4:30 PM
CMU - McConomy Auditorium, University Center
The University Lecture Series presents the keynote address for Carnegie Mellon's celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month. The keynote speaker is Lalo Alcaraz, creator of the nationally syndicated comic strip La Cucaracha. Alcaraz will discuss "Multicultural Visibility in the Media."
Oct 11, 2007 - 4:30 PM
CMU - Richard Rauh Theater, Purnell Center for the Arts
The Humanities Center presents playwright Robert Myers, professor of English and creative writing at the American University in Beirut. Myers' talk is titled "Playing With History: Political Theatre in Europe, the U.S. and the Middle East." The lecture is co-sponsored by the Humanities Center, the Humanities Scholars Program and the School of Drama.
Sunday, October 14 - 2 PM
Main Library in Oakland
Balladeer Chuck Owston, accompanied by guitar and octave mandolin, will present a program of traditional and original songs from the British Isles and Appalachia.
Monday, September 24, 2007
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
2007 Oct 1 to Oct 7
http://www.hss.cmu.edu/humanitiescenter/Humanities_Events.htm
Thu Oct 4 - 4:00 PM
CMU - Wean Hall 7500
Fran Allen, an IBM Fellow Emerita at the T.J. Watson Research Lab and the 2007 recipient of the A.M. Turing Award, the most prestigious honor in computer science. Allen's talk is titled "Parallel Computers Will Be Everywhere: How will we use them?"
Thu Oct 4 - 4:30 to 6:00 PM
CMU - Adamson Wing, Baker Hall 136A
The University Lecture Series presents Ashish Arora, professor of economics at the Heinz School. Arora's talk is titled "From Underdogs to Tigers: The Growth of the Software Industry in Emerging Economies."
Thu Oct 4 - 5:00 to 8:00 PM
Church Brew, Lawrenceville
http://www.pghgeeks.org/
Thu Oct 4 at 7:30, 10 Pm, 12:30 AM
CMU McConomy Auditorium - $1
Film: The Lives of Others
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's movie debut focuses on the horrifying, sometimes unintentionally funny system of observation in the former East Germany. In the early 1980s, the successful dramatist Georg Dreyman and his longtime companion Christa-Maria Sieland, a popular actress, are big intellectual stars in the socialist state, although they secretly don't always think loyal to the party line. One day, the Minister of Culture becomes interested in Christa, so the secret service agent Wiesler is instructed to observe and sound out the couple, but their life fascinates him more and more...
Fri Oct 5 - 11 AM to 8:00 PM
alternative transportation festival
http://cleancities-pittsburgh.net/atf/
Fri 7 PM - 11 PM & Sat 7 PM - 11 PM
Lawrenceville Arts& Heritage Fall Festival
Our Lady of the Angels Parish in Lawrenceville introduces its first annual Art & Heritage Fall Festival, October 5th - 7th. The festival will take place at St. Mary Lyceum and former St. Mary property located between 45th and 46th Streets. This festival will appeal to children and adults alike: for the young ones there will be a hayride, climbing wall, storytelling, face painting, rides, games and hands-on activities like pumpkin painting and scarecrow building. For adults there will be ethnic meals/beverages each night (Friday is German with authentic Oktoberfest entertainment; Saturday is Folk, and Sunday is Irish), wine tasting, table gaming, a farmer's market, artists booths', and two stages of continuous entertainment. Also, the first annual 5K Spirit Run will take place through the beautiful Allegheny and St. Mary cemeteries on Saturday, October 6th beginning at 9am. There will also be a Scavenger Hunt Saturday afternoon at 1pm, with a $1,000 first place prize! Don't miss all this excitement! For more information, contact the parish office at 412/682-0929.
Fri Oct 5 - 6 PM
CMU - Kresge Hall - Fine Arts Buildinjg
African Drumming - free concert
Fri Oct 5 - 4 PM to 6 PM
CMU - Taiwanese food and happening
Fri Oct 5 - 6:00 to 8:00 PM
YOUTH BARISTA PROGRAM – FREE COFFEE AND DESSERT RECEPTION Join us Friday October 5th from 6-8pm, during Penn Avenues' Unblurred for a free coffee and dessert reception and the official introduction of the Youth Barista Program to our community. We will be serving FREE coffee drinks from our beautiful newly constructed coffee bar in our Great Hall with live musical entertainment and a pottery seconds sale. The Union Project is proud to announce a partnership with Starbucks for our new Youth Barista Program, an onsite skills training program for young adults.Over the coming year this program will train 30 young men and women aging out of foster care. Forty percent of foster youth end up homeless in their first 2 years out of the system. This program works to change that number locally by providing youth with skills and job placements in café and food service, allowing them to earn a living wage.
http://www.unionproject.org/
Fri 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM & Sat 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM
Melwood Screening Room
Melwood St, North Oakland
Free admission to Ann Arbor Film Festival selections
Great animation shorts, other experimental shorts, bend your imagination
http://www.aafilmfest.org/tour/program/
SAT 10/6/2007 - 11am
Columbus Day Parade -
Bloomfield Business District
Celebrate Pittsburgh's Italian-American heritage with the annual parade.Scheduled performers include the Steel City Angels and the Steel City Drum & Bugle Corps.The parade travels down Liberty Avenue from Baum Boulevard to the Bloomfield Bridge.
SAT 10/6/2007- 11am
Pittsburgh Symphony Heinz Hall
Join the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra for a concert of season highlights. Resident Conductor Lawrence Loh will lead the PSO in works by Brahms, Stravinsky and Elgar. The orchestra will also perform Berlioz’s exciting "Symphonie Fantastique".Admission is free. Presented as part of "RADical Days," a celebration of organizations funded by the Regional Asset District.
Sat 10/6/2007
Cars At Carnegie
Carnegie Mellon University Come out and see hundreds of cars at the first annual "Cars at Carnegie" American Red Cross Benefit Auto Show.See classic muscle cars, import tuners, and brand new dealership showroom cars in Carnegie Mellon's Morewood Parking Lot located near the corner of Forbes Ave. and Morewood Ave. in Oakland in Pittsurgh. There will be food, a DJ, and more.All cars are welcome. Free
Thu Oct 4 - 4:00 PM
CMU - Wean Hall 7500
Fran Allen, an IBM Fellow Emerita at the T.J. Watson Research Lab and the 2007 recipient of the A.M. Turing Award, the most prestigious honor in computer science. Allen's talk is titled "Parallel Computers Will Be Everywhere: How will we use them?"
Thu Oct 4 - 4:30 to 6:00 PM
CMU - Adamson Wing, Baker Hall 136A
The University Lecture Series presents Ashish Arora, professor of economics at the Heinz School. Arora's talk is titled "From Underdogs to Tigers: The Growth of the Software Industry in Emerging Economies."
Thu Oct 4 - 5:00 to 8:00 PM
Church Brew, Lawrenceville
http://www.pghgeeks.org/
Thu Oct 4 at 7:30, 10 Pm, 12:30 AM
CMU McConomy Auditorium - $1
Film: The Lives of Others
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's movie debut focuses on the horrifying, sometimes unintentionally funny system of observation in the former East Germany. In the early 1980s, the successful dramatist Georg Dreyman and his longtime companion Christa-Maria Sieland, a popular actress, are big intellectual stars in the socialist state, although they secretly don't always think loyal to the party line. One day, the Minister of Culture becomes interested in Christa, so the secret service agent Wiesler is instructed to observe and sound out the couple, but their life fascinates him more and more...
Fri Oct 5 - 11 AM to 8:00 PM
alternative transportation festival
http://cleancities-pittsburgh.net/atf/
Fri 7 PM - 11 PM & Sat 7 PM - 11 PM
Lawrenceville Arts& Heritage Fall Festival
Our Lady of the Angels Parish in Lawrenceville introduces its first annual Art & Heritage Fall Festival, October 5th - 7th. The festival will take place at St. Mary Lyceum and former St. Mary property located between 45th and 46th Streets. This festival will appeal to children and adults alike: for the young ones there will be a hayride, climbing wall, storytelling, face painting, rides, games and hands-on activities like pumpkin painting and scarecrow building. For adults there will be ethnic meals/beverages each night (Friday is German with authentic Oktoberfest entertainment; Saturday is Folk, and Sunday is Irish), wine tasting, table gaming, a farmer's market, artists booths', and two stages of continuous entertainment. Also, the first annual 5K Spirit Run will take place through the beautiful Allegheny and St. Mary cemeteries on Saturday, October 6th beginning at 9am. There will also be a Scavenger Hunt Saturday afternoon at 1pm, with a $1,000 first place prize! Don't miss all this excitement! For more information, contact the parish office at 412/682-0929.
Fri Oct 5 - 6 PM
CMU - Kresge Hall - Fine Arts Buildinjg
African Drumming - free concert
Fri Oct 5 - 4 PM to 6 PM
CMU - Taiwanese food and happening
Fri Oct 5 - 6:00 to 8:00 PM
YOUTH BARISTA PROGRAM – FREE COFFEE AND DESSERT RECEPTION Join us Friday October 5th from 6-8pm, during Penn Avenues' Unblurred for a free coffee and dessert reception and the official introduction of the Youth Barista Program to our community. We will be serving FREE coffee drinks from our beautiful newly constructed coffee bar in our Great Hall with live musical entertainment and a pottery seconds sale. The Union Project is proud to announce a partnership with Starbucks for our new Youth Barista Program, an onsite skills training program for young adults.Over the coming year this program will train 30 young men and women aging out of foster care. Forty percent of foster youth end up homeless in their first 2 years out of the system. This program works to change that number locally by providing youth with skills and job placements in café and food service, allowing them to earn a living wage.
http://www.unionproject.org/
Fri 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM & Sat 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM
Melwood Screening Room
Melwood St, North Oakland
Free admission to Ann Arbor Film Festival selections
Great animation shorts, other experimental shorts, bend your imagination
http://www.aafilmfest.org/tour/program/
SAT 10/6/2007 - 11am
Columbus Day Parade -
Bloomfield Business District
Celebrate Pittsburgh's Italian-American heritage with the annual parade.Scheduled performers include the Steel City Angels and the Steel City Drum & Bugle Corps.The parade travels down Liberty Avenue from Baum Boulevard to the Bloomfield Bridge.
SAT 10/6/2007- 11am
Pittsburgh Symphony Heinz Hall
Join the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra for a concert of season highlights. Resident Conductor Lawrence Loh will lead the PSO in works by Brahms, Stravinsky and Elgar. The orchestra will also perform Berlioz’s exciting "Symphonie Fantastique".Admission is free. Presented as part of "RADical Days," a celebration of organizations funded by the Regional Asset District.
Sat 10/6/2007
Cars At Carnegie
Carnegie Mellon University Come out and see hundreds of cars at the first annual "Cars at Carnegie" American Red Cross Benefit Auto Show.See classic muscle cars, import tuners, and brand new dealership showroom cars in Carnegie Mellon's Morewood Parking Lot located near the corner of Forbes Ave. and Morewood Ave. in Oakland in Pittsurgh. There will be food, a DJ, and more.All cars are welcome. Free
Sat 10/6 - 1 to 3 PM
Fall Festival, Sewickley Hills history center
There will be something for all ages........Ponies, miniature donkey, baby pig, wagon rides, horse jumping, The Hunt Hounds, antique cars, jugglers, cookies & lemonade, and much more......A special sheep dog herding exhibit and an extra special visit of unusual wild animals! This afternoon of community fun was made possible by a grant from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Community and Economic Development with special support from State Senator John Pippy to the Sewickley Heights History Center. Support your community this Saturday, October 6th from 1-3:30 pm
Sat Oct 6 - 8:00 PM
Yuri Yunakov
bulgarian marriage music
BrewHouse, South Side, 18th and Josephine
http://www.rootsworld.com/rw/feature/yunakov.html
http://www.slavonicweb.org/artists/yuri.html
http://www.dirtylinen.com/linen/82/yunakov.html
Sunday, October 7, 2007 - 3pm
Sanctuary Concert Series recital
with guest pianist Mark Lazarev featuring the music of Debussy, Thuille, Piazzolla, Running, and Stein. First Baptist Church of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA
Admission is free. A free-will offering will be collected.
http://www.aeolianwinds.com/performances.html
Sunday, Oct 7 - 11 AM to 2 PM
Orienteering at Indiana, PA
http://www.wpoc.org/
2007 Sep 24 to Sep 30
Sep 24, 2007 - 4:30 PM
CMU - Adamson Wing, Baker Hall 136A
The ULS presents another "Journeys" lecture featuring Psychology Professor Roberta Klatzky. In the Journeys lectures, faculty members share their reflections on their journeys — the everyday actions, decisions, challenges and joys that make a life. Klatzky's talk is titled "Waiting for Life To Happen." Klatzky says: "If you ask someone to describe her life, likely she'll tell you about the inevitable transitions (high school to college); the major decisions (get married? me?); and the big surprises, good (winning the lottery) or calamitous (cancer). But life's definition more often lies in seemingly idle meandering, aided by gentle nudges or currents along the way. It's how your parents met, the frost on the window in winter, the games with your siblings, the trout that jumped off the line. It's the glint of light you catch in the corner of your eye that vanishes when you turn to look directly. Only after you've meandered a way can you look back and see a pattern. In my talk I will look for it."
Monday, September 24, 2007, 4:30 PM,
Univ of Pitt: 103 Allen Hall,
Colloquium, Edward F. Redish, University of Maryland,
"Problem Solving and the Use of Math in Physics Courses,"
Refreshments available at 4:15 PM, PITT
Abstract: Mathematics is an essential element of physics problem solving, but as professionals, we often fail to appreciate exactly what we are doing with it. Math may be the language of science, but math-in-physics is a distinct dialect of that language that requires both more subtlety and more skills than are typically taught in math courses. Research with students in classes ranging from algebra-based physics to graduate quantum mechanics indicates that (1) we sometimes don't appreciate the skills students need to solve the problems we assign, and (2) students problems are sometimes with their expectations about what they are supposed to be doing rather than with their math skills. Implications for instruction will be discussed.
http://www2.physics.umd.edu/~redish/redish.htm
The lecturer collects money bills portraying scientists:
http://www2.physics.umd.edu/~redish/Money/
Tue Sep 25 - 7 pm
Univ of Pitt: 4130 Posvar
International Week Film“Rx for Survival”
Tue Sep 25 - 6:30-9 pm
Univ of Pitt: WPU Assembly Rm.
International Week Film“Blood Diamond”
MICHAEL SIMSdiscusses & signs Apollo’s Fire Tuesday, September 25 at 7:00 PM
Critically acclaimed author Michael Sims brings a scientists curiosity and a poets soul to a delightful tour of a single day on Earth. Most of us do not give a second thought to the elemental rhythms of daily life, but in Apollo’s Fire, Michael Sims sets out to open readers’ eyes to the miraculous events that lie underneath the oldest story on Earth: the passing of a single day.
--Jessie Gruman, Ph.D. Author of AfterShock: What to Do When the Doctor Gives You - or Someone You Love - a Devastating Diagnosis
Dr. Gruman will discuss her book and share personal insight, sound scientific knowledge and practical advice in this free lecture.
“AfterShock is a comprehensive and invaluable guide through the fear and confusion that comes with the news that you or someone close to you has a devastating illness. The plain language and easy to follow instructions make this a ‘must have’ for every family, healthy or otherwise.” - Tom Brokaw, NBC News
September 26, 20076:00 PMCarnegie Library of Pittsburgh – Main4400 Forbes Avenue (Oakland)
This event is free and open to the public.
Wed September 26, 2007 - 8:00 pm
The University of Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Roger Zahab director
Edvard Grieg: Holberg SuiteJohn
Cage: Twenty-three
Bellefield Hall Auditorium, free
Web sep 26 - 6 PM
Full moon run with the hash house harriers
http://www.pgh-h3.com/
Sep 27, 2007 - 4:30 PM
CMU - Adamson Wing, Baker Hall 136A
Jonathan Sawday, professor of English Studies at Strathclyde University. Sawday's talk, co-sponsored by the Humanities Center, is titled "Calculating Engines: Minds, Bodies, Sex and Machines on the Eve of the Enlightenment." The lecture explores the fascination with the idea of creating artificial life and ‘thinking machines’ in the pre-enlightenment period. It concentrates on the pertinent ideas of Descartes, Hobbes, Pascal, and Leibniz, but ends by exploring the ‘anti-machine’ of the late 17th Century, i.e., the malfunctioning sex machines of the notorious John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester.
Thu 9/27/2007 - 8:30 PM
Univ of Pitt, Frick Auditorium
60 minute documentary- free show
Film director Robert Young sits for his first formal portrait with theSpanish painter Félix de la Concha. The film unfolds in an artist's studioin the Pittsburgh Hill District. As we watch de la Concha at work, Youngdiscusses his career filming subjects ranging from nomadic Eskimo tribes toSicilian slum-dwellers. In the process, the two artists discuss theircalling. What drives them to do independent work? How do creative peoplefind their subjects? How are they supported, thwarted and inspired by whatgoes on around them?
Fri 9/28/2007 - 7pm
CMU School Of Art Lecture Series: Mona Hatoum
Carnegie Mellon University
Mona Hatoum was born into a Palestinian family in Beirut, Lebanon in 1952 and now lives and works in London and Berlin. Her poetic and political oeuvre is realized in a diverse and often unconventional range of media, including installations, sculpture, video, photography and works on paper. She'll discuss her work tonight in the McConomy Auditorium.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona_Hatoum
Fri Sep 28, 2007
Univ of Pitt International Fair 11-3,
Fashion Show: WPU Assembly 7-8:30pm
Sat-Sun 9/28/2007 - 9/30/2007
Little Italy Days
Bloomfield Business District
The 6th annual "Little Italy Days" features free activities and entertainment for young and old. Expect lots of music, food, games, more food and other fun activities amidst Bloomfield's unique shops and dozen or so fine restaurants.Produced by the Bloomfield Business Association, this event helps tonurture Bloomfield's Little Italy identity, to promote family values andthe community to the region, and to encourage people to live, work, shopand play here in the future.
Sat Sep 29, 2007 - 1-4pm
Univ of Pitt, WPU lawn
free asian food samples
http://www.pitt.edu/~asians/
Sun Sep 30 2007 - 10:30 AM
Oakland Gospel Church
corner of Morewood and Ellsworth, Shadyside
basement cafecteria of Winston school
Sat & Sun Sep 29 and Sep 30
McConnell's Mill Festival
http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/stateparks/parks/mcconnellsmill.aspx
CMU - Adamson Wing, Baker Hall 136A
The ULS presents another "Journeys" lecture featuring Psychology Professor Roberta Klatzky. In the Journeys lectures, faculty members share their reflections on their journeys — the everyday actions, decisions, challenges and joys that make a life. Klatzky's talk is titled "Waiting for Life To Happen." Klatzky says: "If you ask someone to describe her life, likely she'll tell you about the inevitable transitions (high school to college); the major decisions (get married? me?); and the big surprises, good (winning the lottery) or calamitous (cancer). But life's definition more often lies in seemingly idle meandering, aided by gentle nudges or currents along the way. It's how your parents met, the frost on the window in winter, the games with your siblings, the trout that jumped off the line. It's the glint of light you catch in the corner of your eye that vanishes when you turn to look directly. Only after you've meandered a way can you look back and see a pattern. In my talk I will look for it."
Monday, September 24, 2007, 4:30 PM,
Univ of Pitt: 103 Allen Hall,
Colloquium, Edward F. Redish, University of Maryland,
"Problem Solving and the Use of Math in Physics Courses,"
Refreshments available at 4:15 PM, PITT
Abstract: Mathematics is an essential element of physics problem solving, but as professionals, we often fail to appreciate exactly what we are doing with it. Math may be the language of science, but math-in-physics is a distinct dialect of that language that requires both more subtlety and more skills than are typically taught in math courses. Research with students in classes ranging from algebra-based physics to graduate quantum mechanics indicates that (1) we sometimes don't appreciate the skills students need to solve the problems we assign, and (2) students problems are sometimes with their expectations about what they are supposed to be doing rather than with their math skills. Implications for instruction will be discussed.
http://www2.physics.umd.edu/~redish/redish.htm
The lecturer collects money bills portraying scientists:
http://www2.physics.umd.edu/~redish/Money/
Tue Sep 25 - 7 pm
Univ of Pitt: 4130 Posvar
International Week Film“Rx for Survival”
Tue Sep 25 - 6:30-9 pm
Univ of Pitt: WPU Assembly Rm.
International Week Film“Blood Diamond”
MICHAEL SIMSdiscusses & signs Apollo’s Fire Tuesday, September 25 at 7:00 PM
Critically acclaimed author Michael Sims brings a scientists curiosity and a poets soul to a delightful tour of a single day on Earth. Most of us do not give a second thought to the elemental rhythms of daily life, but in Apollo’s Fire, Michael Sims sets out to open readers’ eyes to the miraculous events that lie underneath the oldest story on Earth: the passing of a single day.
--Jessie Gruman, Ph.D. Author of AfterShock: What to Do When the Doctor Gives You - or Someone You Love - a Devastating Diagnosis
Dr. Gruman will discuss her book and share personal insight, sound scientific knowledge and practical advice in this free lecture.
“AfterShock is a comprehensive and invaluable guide through the fear and confusion that comes with the news that you or someone close to you has a devastating illness. The plain language and easy to follow instructions make this a ‘must have’ for every family, healthy or otherwise.” - Tom Brokaw, NBC News
September 26, 20076:00 PMCarnegie Library of Pittsburgh – Main4400 Forbes Avenue (Oakland)
This event is free and open to the public.
Wed September 26, 2007 - 8:00 pm
The University of Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Roger Zahab director
Edvard Grieg: Holberg SuiteJohn
Cage: Twenty-three
Bellefield Hall Auditorium, free
Web sep 26 - 6 PM
Full moon run with the hash house harriers
http://www.pgh-h3.com/
Sep 27, 2007 - 4:30 PM
CMU - Adamson Wing, Baker Hall 136A
Jonathan Sawday, professor of English Studies at Strathclyde University. Sawday's talk, co-sponsored by the Humanities Center, is titled "Calculating Engines: Minds, Bodies, Sex and Machines on the Eve of the Enlightenment." The lecture explores the fascination with the idea of creating artificial life and ‘thinking machines’ in the pre-enlightenment period. It concentrates on the pertinent ideas of Descartes, Hobbes, Pascal, and Leibniz, but ends by exploring the ‘anti-machine’ of the late 17th Century, i.e., the malfunctioning sex machines of the notorious John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester.
Thu 9/27/2007 - 8:30 PM
Univ of Pitt, Frick Auditorium
60 minute documentary- free show
Film director Robert Young sits for his first formal portrait with theSpanish painter Félix de la Concha. The film unfolds in an artist's studioin the Pittsburgh Hill District. As we watch de la Concha at work, Youngdiscusses his career filming subjects ranging from nomadic Eskimo tribes toSicilian slum-dwellers. In the process, the two artists discuss theircalling. What drives them to do independent work? How do creative peoplefind their subjects? How are they supported, thwarted and inspired by whatgoes on around them?
Fri 9/28/2007 - 7pm
CMU School Of Art Lecture Series: Mona Hatoum
Carnegie Mellon University
Mona Hatoum was born into a Palestinian family in Beirut, Lebanon in 1952 and now lives and works in London and Berlin. Her poetic and political oeuvre is realized in a diverse and often unconventional range of media, including installations, sculpture, video, photography and works on paper. She'll discuss her work tonight in the McConomy Auditorium.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona_Hatoum
Fri Sep 28, 2007
Univ of Pitt International Fair 11-3,
Fashion Show: WPU Assembly 7-8:30pm
Sat-Sun 9/28/2007 - 9/30/2007
Little Italy Days
Bloomfield Business District
The 6th annual "Little Italy Days" features free activities and entertainment for young and old. Expect lots of music, food, games, more food and other fun activities amidst Bloomfield's unique shops and dozen or so fine restaurants.Produced by the Bloomfield Business Association, this event helps tonurture Bloomfield's Little Italy identity, to promote family values andthe community to the region, and to encourage people to live, work, shopand play here in the future.
Sat Sep 29, 2007 - 1-4pm
Univ of Pitt, WPU lawn
free asian food samples
http://www.pitt.edu/~asians/
Sun Sep 30 2007 - 10:30 AM
Oakland Gospel Church
corner of Morewood and Ellsworth, Shadyside
basement cafecteria of Winston school
Sat & Sun Sep 29 and Sep 30
McConnell's Mill Festival
http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/stateparks/parks/mcconnellsmill.aspx
2007 Sep 17 to Sep 23
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2007
Lecture--Changing Sexuality in China by Dr. Li Yinhe3:30 pm- 6:00 pmLower Lounge, William Pitt Union
Pitt's most famous alumna in China, the sociologist Li Yinhe (PhD Sociology 1988), is a professor at the Institute of Sociology at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Her main academic interests include sexual norms in the People's Republic of China, homosexuality, and women's studies. She is the first researcher to publish extensively on homosexuality in China, and her writings call for a re-examination of traditional sexual norms. Li Yinhe was married to Wang Xiaobo (Pitt MA 1988), novelist and essayist, whose fame has only increased since his death in 1997.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2007
Lecture--Gender Equality in China by Dr. Li Yinhe3:30 pm- 6:00 pmLower Lounge, William Pitt Union
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19
Lecture--Homosexuality in China by Dr. Li Yinhe7:00 p.m.- 9:00 p.m.Cathedral of Learning 324
Tuesday, September 18, 4:30 p.m.
CMU Adamson Wing (Baker Hall 136A)
Kai-Fu Lee, Google China
Kai-Fu Lee, vice president of Google, will discuss the engineering, product development, and public affairs initiatives he designed to help develop Google’s operations in China. Lee graduated from Carnegie Mellon with a Ph.D. in computer science. From 1988 to 1990, Lee served as an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon, during which he developed the world’s first speaker-independent continuous speech-recognition system. He joined Google in 2005. The lecture is part of the School of Computer Science Distinguished Lecture Series.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kai-Fu_Lee
Thu Sep 20, 2007 4:30 PM
CMU, Adamson Wing, Baker Hall 136A
David Harvey, professor of anthropology at the Graduate Center at City University of New York. Harvey's talk is titled "Geographies of Globalization." Harvey, called "one of the most influential geographers of the later twentieth century” by Library Journal, is a leading theorist in the field of urban studies. He earned his Ph.D. from Cambridge University and was formerly a professor of geography at Johns Hopkins, a Miliband Fellow at the London School of Economics and the Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography at Oxford. His refections on the importance of space and place (and more recently “nature”) have attracted considerable attention across the humanities and social sciences. His highly influential books include "The New Imperialism;" "Paris, Capital of Modernity;" "Social Justice and the City;" "Limits to Capital;" "The Urbanization of Capital;" and "The Condition of Postmodernity," to name a few.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Harvey_(geographer)
Thursday, September 20, 8 p.m.
Powerhouse Pianists Festival I
Blair McMillen, Donald Berman
Music by Su Tan, Eric Moe, David Rakowski, Mark Wingate, Frederic Rzewski, Barbara White, Esa-Pekka Salonen, and Giacinto Scelsi
Univ of Pittsburgh, Bellefield Hall Auditorium
http://www.music.pitt.edu/performance/onTheEdge.html
$10
Sat Sep 22 - 11 AM to 7 PM
Dragon Boat Festival
South Side riverpark
http://www.pittsburghdragonboatfestival.org/
Sat Sep 22 - 2:00 PM
Run with the hash house harriers
http://www.pgh-h3.com/
Location: Panhandle trail, Carnegie, PA
http://tinyurl.com/27xuz5
http://www.panhandletrail.org/panhandle24x48.pdf
Sat Sep 22 - 6:30 PM
CMU - University Center - Rangos Hall
Indian Classical Music and dance - free
http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/macay/
Sat Sep 22 - 11 AM to 9 PM
Mediterrean Food Festival (lebanese)
Lady of Victory Maronite Catholic Church
1000 Lindsay Rd, Carnegie, PA 15106
http://www.olov.info/flyer%2007%20festival.pdf
Sun Sept 23 - noon to 5 PM
East End Food Coop
Festival
http://www.eastendfood.coop/
Sunday, Sep 23 - 3:00 PM to 7:00 PM
Mountain Bike club annual picnic
North Park, Harmar Grove
http://www.porcmtbclub.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1193
Other tid-bits:
alot of companies are coming to CMU for recruiting. They are the companies that only select a few elite schools for this purpuse (the others are MIT, Harvard, Yale, Stanford, CalTech). This outfit pastered all the hallways on campus with big posters titled "Hack Wall Street" for an invitation to speak with their HR personnel. Look at who is already on board on this ship:
http://www.tower-research.com/Team.html
Ultimate Frisbee
http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/ultimate/mmellons/
Lecture--Changing Sexuality in China by Dr. Li Yinhe3:30 pm- 6:00 pmLower Lounge, William Pitt Union
Pitt's most famous alumna in China, the sociologist Li Yinhe (PhD Sociology 1988), is a professor at the Institute of Sociology at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Her main academic interests include sexual norms in the People's Republic of China, homosexuality, and women's studies. She is the first researcher to publish extensively on homosexuality in China, and her writings call for a re-examination of traditional sexual norms. Li Yinhe was married to Wang Xiaobo (Pitt MA 1988), novelist and essayist, whose fame has only increased since his death in 1997.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2007
Lecture--Gender Equality in China by Dr. Li Yinhe3:30 pm- 6:00 pmLower Lounge, William Pitt Union
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19
Lecture--Homosexuality in China by Dr. Li Yinhe7:00 p.m.- 9:00 p.m.Cathedral of Learning 324
Tuesday, September 18, 4:30 p.m.
CMU Adamson Wing (Baker Hall 136A)
Kai-Fu Lee, Google China
Kai-Fu Lee, vice president of Google, will discuss the engineering, product development, and public affairs initiatives he designed to help develop Google’s operations in China. Lee graduated from Carnegie Mellon with a Ph.D. in computer science. From 1988 to 1990, Lee served as an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon, during which he developed the world’s first speaker-independent continuous speech-recognition system. He joined Google in 2005. The lecture is part of the School of Computer Science Distinguished Lecture Series.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kai-Fu_Lee
Thu Sep 20, 2007 4:30 PM
CMU, Adamson Wing, Baker Hall 136A
David Harvey, professor of anthropology at the Graduate Center at City University of New York. Harvey's talk is titled "Geographies of Globalization." Harvey, called "one of the most influential geographers of the later twentieth century” by Library Journal, is a leading theorist in the field of urban studies. He earned his Ph.D. from Cambridge University and was formerly a professor of geography at Johns Hopkins, a Miliband Fellow at the London School of Economics and the Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography at Oxford. His refections on the importance of space and place (and more recently “nature”) have attracted considerable attention across the humanities and social sciences. His highly influential books include "The New Imperialism;" "Paris, Capital of Modernity;" "Social Justice and the City;" "Limits to Capital;" "The Urbanization of Capital;" and "The Condition of Postmodernity," to name a few.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Harvey_(geographer)
Thursday, September 20, 8 p.m.
Powerhouse Pianists Festival I
Blair McMillen, Donald Berman
Music by Su Tan, Eric Moe, David Rakowski, Mark Wingate, Frederic Rzewski, Barbara White, Esa-Pekka Salonen, and Giacinto Scelsi
Univ of Pittsburgh, Bellefield Hall Auditorium
http://www.music.pitt.edu/performance/onTheEdge.html
$10
Sat Sep 22 - 11 AM to 7 PM
Dragon Boat Festival
South Side riverpark
http://www.pittsburghdragonboatfestival.org/
Sat Sep 22 - 2:00 PM
Run with the hash house harriers
http://www.pgh-h3.com/
Location: Panhandle trail, Carnegie, PA
http://tinyurl.com/27xuz5
http://www.panhandletrail.org/panhandle24x48.pdf
Sat Sep 22 - 6:30 PM
CMU - University Center - Rangos Hall
Indian Classical Music and dance - free
http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/macay/
Sat Sep 22 - 11 AM to 9 PM
Mediterrean Food Festival (lebanese)
Lady of Victory Maronite Catholic Church
1000 Lindsay Rd, Carnegie, PA 15106
http://www.olov.info/flyer%2007%20festival.pdf
Sun Sept 23 - noon to 5 PM
East End Food Coop
Festival
http://www.eastendfood.coop/
Sunday, Sep 23 - 3:00 PM to 7:00 PM
Mountain Bike club annual picnic
North Park, Harmar Grove
http://www.porcmtbclub.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1193
Other tid-bits:
alot of companies are coming to CMU for recruiting. They are the companies that only select a few elite schools for this purpuse (the others are MIT, Harvard, Yale, Stanford, CalTech). This outfit pastered all the hallways on campus with big posters titled "Hack Wall Street" for an invitation to speak with their HR personnel. Look at who is already on board on this ship:
http://www.tower-research.com/Team.html
Ultimate Frisbee
http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/ultimate/mmellons/
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