2008 Feb 18 - Feb 24

Wed Feb 20
Pitt, 3703 Posvar Hall
Megan McLean, a doctoral candidate in Pitt’s Department of History, will deliver a lecture, titled “Squatters in Paradise: The Development of Cancun, 1970-2000,” at 4 p.m., 3703 Posvar Hall, 230 Bouquet St., Oakland. For more information, visit www.pitt.edu/~pitthist/news/lectures/index.html.

Wed Feb 20 - 6:30
Eclipsed Full Moon evening run with the Hash House Harriers
1720 Lowrie St
Pittsburgh, PA 15212
Billysbistro.com

Thu Feb 21 - 6 PM
Defense Counsel for the Notable “Hamdan v. Rumsfeld” U.S. Supreme Court Case to Speak at Pitt Law School Feb. 21
Charles Swift's lecture is titled “U.S. Sovereignty and the War on Terror After “Hamdan v. Rumsfeld””
PITTSBURGH-The University of Pittsburgh School of Law's Center for International Legal Education and the Global Solutions Education Fund will present the 16th Annual McLean Lecture on World Law featuring Charles Swift, the acting director of Emory University's International Humanitarian Law Clinic, at 6 p.m. in the Barco Law Building's Teplitz Moot Courtroom, 3900 Forbes Ave., Oakland. This event is free and open to the public.
Swift's lecture is titled “U.S. Sovereignty and the War on Terror After “Hamdan v. Rumsfeld.”” Swift acquired extensive experience in the practice of military and international law during his service with the Department of Defense Office of Military Commissions. His well-publicized representation of Salim Hamdan, the driver for Osama bin Laden, brought Swift to the U.S. Supreme Court in the precedent-setting case of “Hamdan v. Rumsfeld.” In its decision, the court ruled that the military commission being used to try Hamdan was illegal and therefore lacked the protections provided under the Geneva Conventions and U.S. Uniform Code of Military Justice.
Known for his dedication to preserving the rule of law during wartime, Swift has been honored by the American Civil Liberties Union with a Medal of Liberty and named by the “National Law Journal” as one of the most influential lawyers in America. With more than 12 years of litigation experience with the U.S. military, Swift is also a visiting associate professor at Emory.

Thu Feb 21 - 7 PM
Pitt, Frick Fine Arts Auditorum
Pitt’s Consortium for Educational Resources on Islamic Studies, Global Studies Program, and Film Studies Program will present Turtles Can Fly part of the Reel Voices From the Middle East Film Series, at 7 p.m., Frick Fine Arts Building Auditorium, 650 Schenley Dr., Oakland. For more information, contact Veronica Dristas at 412-624-2918 or visit www.ucis.pitt.edu/main/events-one-month.shtml.

Thu Feb 21 - 7:30 PM
Pitt, Film, G324 Cathedral of Learning
Pitt’s Women’s Studies Program will present Searching for Angela Shelton, part of the Women’s Studies Film Series, at 7:30 p.m., G324 Cathedral of Learning, 4200 Fifth Ave., Oakland. For more information, contact wstudies@pitt.edu or visit www.pitt.edu/~wstudies/news.html.

Thu Feb 21 - 8:30pm
Pitt, Posvar Hall 4130
Film: "SAMPSONIA WAY: CITY OF ASYLUM"
Dir. José Muniain
Poet Huang Xiang is considered to be the pre-eminent post cultural revolution poet of China. His unceasing bravery, in the face of sure re-imprisonment, and further torture, forced him to leave his homeland.
Huang Xiang was born in Hunan Province, China, in 1941.
Huang began writing poems in the 1950s and has been imprisoned repeatedly for his work. In 1978, he founded “Enlightenment,” the first underground writers’ society, and started a literary magazine with the same title. In exile in the United States since 1997, he was resident poet in Pittsburgh under the Cities of Asylum program for writers
City of Asylum/Pittsburgh provides sanctuary to writers exiled under threat of death, imprisonment, or persecution in their native countries.

Fri Feb 22 - 7 PM
Pitt, Film, Frick Fine Arts Building
Pitt’s Consortium for Educational Resources on Islamic Studies, Global Studies Program, and Film Studies Program will present Forget Baghdad, part of the Reel Voices From the Middle East Film Series, at 7 p.m., Frick Fine Arts Building Auditorium, 650 Schenley Dr., Oakland. For more information, contact Veronica Dristas at 412-624-2918 or visit www.ucis.pitt.edu/main/events-one-month.shtml.

Sat Feb 23
Kate Brown, a professor at the University of Maryland, will deliver a lecture, titled “Where Historians Fear to Tread: History and Memory in the Chernobyl Zone of Alienation,” at 5:30 p.m., Frick Fine Arts Building Auditorium, 650 Schenley Dr., Oakland. This event is sponsored by Pitt’s Center for Russian and East European Studies and the Graduate Student Organization for the Study of Europe and Central Asia (GOSECA). For more information, contact James Johnson at gosecaconference@yahoo.com or visit www.pitt.edu/~sorc/goseca/GOSECA2008/.

Lectures at CMU open to the public free of charge
Monday at 4:30 p.m.
Title: “Contaminants and the Developing Reproductive System — Lessons from Wildlife”
The Basics: Lou Guillette, a distinguished professor of zoology at the University of Florida, will speak about the ways in which researchers can extend observations of the effects of pollution on the reproductive processes of wildlife to those of humans. His underlying thesis claims that, although there is a wide variety of diversity among different species, there is a significant degree of consistency among the cellular and physiological systems associated with vertebrae reproduction.
Where: Adamson Wing, Baker Hall 136A
When: Today at 4:30 p.m.

Wednesday at 12 p.m.
Title: BYOBrain Brown Bag Series — “Art, History, and Images of the Feminine in Baudelaire’s Paris”
The Basics: Beryl Schlossman, a French professor at Carnegie Mellon, will speak about comparative and historical techniques used to examine European literature, culture, and art. By studying French poet Baudelaire’s use of visual images in his literary art, Schlossman hopes to better understand early French modernism.
In addition, Schlossman will discuss the possible impact of critic Walter Benjamin’s theoretical treatment of Baudelaire on French literature and supplement the discussion with a description of her own trip to Paris.
Where: College of Fine Arts 303
When: Wednesday at 12 p.m.

Friday at 7 p.m.
Title: AB Lectures — Sasha Frere-Jones
The Basics: Sasha Frere-Jones, a music critic for The New Yorker as well as a touring musician, will speak on his experiences in the areas of business, writing, and music. Frere-Jones has covered a variety of different genres and musicians including Lil Wayne, Led Zeppelin, Cat Power, and Mary J. Blige.
Where: McConomy Auditorium
When: Friday at 7 p.m.


Sunday Feb 24 - 2 PM
Heinz Hall
Pittsburgy Youth Symphony Orchestra
"Petruska", by Stravinski
free admission

Sunday, February 24, 2008, 8PM
Garfield Artworks 4931 Penn Ave.
$5/$4 students, seniors
Tonight’s program is a hilarious salute to the Kuchar brothers featuring a wide sampling of films from George Kuchar plus 2 separate film portraits of George and Mike. All titles projected in original 16mm. Adult’s over 18 only.
George Kuchar - The Lady From Sands Point (1967, 16mm, black and white, sound, 9.25 min.) This film is a documentary showing artist, Betty Holiday, an attractive blonde who talks alot, in her Long Island studio. Miss Holliday does not talk in this film, but her beautiful work talks for her. --G. K.
George Kuchar - Color Me Shameless (1967, 16mm, black and white, sound, 30 min.) Starring Bob Cowan, Gina Zuckerman, Donna Kerness. This movie was made when I was a bit depressed which is nothing new, but also the main actor, Bob Cowan, happened to be depressed also and so we had a wonderful time working together. One of the actresses was also separated from her husband at this time and the movie solidifies into concrete the repressed desires of everyone who works with me, or more realistically, instead of concrete, the production becomes a frozen, brittle enema bag that slowly thaws and can only be appreciated along channels previously blocked by organic reality. --G. K.
George Kuchar - Encyclopedia of the Blessed (1968, 16mm, color & b/w, sound, 43 min.) ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE BLESSED culminates my involvement with artist Red Grooms and Mimi Gross. It is a diary of our work as we head for the Pacific Ocean in a suicidal plunge for theatrical infamy. The film traces the construction of two craven images made in the likeness of myself by Grooms and Gross. Then it switches to the sandhills of Nebraska where fat cattle walk around. There the film explores Grooms' biggest construction, "The Chicago Installation." The film rolls relentlessly onward to the West Coast showing, for the first time on any screen, a theatrical production we three put in the University of California. It marks my directorial debut on the stage and Red Grooms' comeback after ten years of exile from live theatre. --G. K.
George Kuchar - K.. Y. Kapers (1977, 16mm, black and white, sound, 16 min.) KY stands for Kentucky ... where this film was shot. As a visiting artist at the University in Lexington, I involved a group of students in this improvised project. We shot it in five morning sessions from 9 AM to 12:30 PM. I did the photography, directing and story line. The story isn't really in a line as it loops, bends and stops throughout the 20-minute running time. --G. K.
George Kuchar - Mongreloid (1978, 16mm, color, sound, 10 min.) A man, his dog, and the regions they inhabited, each leaving his own distinctive mark on the landscape. Not even time can wash the residue of what they left behind. --G. K.
Henry Hills - George (1988, 16mm, color & b/w, silent, 2 min.) When I recently moved, I found the "lost" original of this optically printed portrait of George Kuchar smoking (with Melinda McDowell and Virginia Giritlian): four or more scenes progressing simultaneously through frame alternation.-H. H.
Marie Losier - Bird, Bath & Beyond (2003, 16mm, color & b/w, sound, 13 min.) A dream-document of Mike Kuchar, floating through his memories, as the sea, space and sky drift past. Wrapped in odd costumes, he frolics with the imaginary creatures surrounding him, and recalls the creatures of his own imagination.
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