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/