CMU, Doherty Hall A310
The International Relations Program at Carnegie Mellon University Presents:
Stuart J.D. Schwartzsein
"Iraq: Blood and Oil"
Monday, April 7, 2008
4:30 to 6, Doherty Hall A 310
Stuart J. D. Schwartzstein has worked as a foreign-affairs professional for more than 30 years, having served in the Defense and State Departments in a wide range of capacities, including as a diplomat, an analyst, negotiator, advisor and planner. He has also held positions in several think-tanks, including the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington D.C. His work has ranged broadly, both geographically and in subject matter, including defense industrial cooperation with European allies, technology transfer and export control issues, “information revolution” issues, encryption policy, international science and technology policy, chemical and biological weapons issues, refugee policy, Horn of Africa issues, relations with European allies and ASEAN countries.
While at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (1992-96), he did a good deal of work on Iraq issues, particularly focusing on human rights violations by Saddam Hussein and his regime. In 2004, he served in the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad as an advisor to the Minister for Science & Technology and to the president of the Iraqi National Academy of Sciences. He has continued to follow events in Iraq and has maintained contact with a number of Iraqi friends, including several in senior Iraqi government positions, as well as officials and experts in the US.
Mr Schwartzstein is currently an independent consultant based in Washington, D.C.
Mon Apr 7 - 4:30 PM
CMU, Baker Hall 136A
Lecture by Post-Gazette editor and former Treasury secretary Paul O'Neill
"Benchmarking the Real Pittsburgh"
Mon Apr 7 - 8 PM
CMU, Fine Arts building, Kresge Hall
Jazz voice recital by Nisha Asnani
Free admission
Mon Apr 7 - 7 PM
CMU University Center, McConomy auditorium
Lecture by Dan Savage, columnist of Savage Love
Admission is free for CMU students, but tickets must be picked up at UC desk. If not a CMU student, you can purchase an admission ticket for $5.
Monday, April 7, 2008 at 7 pm
Cafe Scientifique - Penn Brewery, 800 Vinial St, Pittsburgh, PA 15212
Nancy Minshew, MD, Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Autism: A Compelling Neuroscience Window on Brain Circuitry & Human Function
The rate of autism is on the rise, with one occurrence per 150 births overall, and one per 94 in baby boys. It is a clear and present risk in the minds of all those contemplating childbirth and of those with children under the age of 4. Cases of autism whose onset appears to follow the administration of vaccines has caused some parents to avoid vaccinating their children, putting them at risk of developing devastating illnesses that are preventable. But what is a concerned parent to believe?
Nancy Minshew, MD, is a Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and Director of one of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development's (NICHD’s) Autism Centers of Excellence, where she is investigating the neurobiologic and genetic basis of autism. She will talk briefly about the basis for the expansion in recognition rate of autism, and show that co-occurrence with vaccination is a very poor basis for considering vaccination to be a cause of autism.. Evidence of accelerated growth of the brain in children with autism at various points in development is just one piece in the neurobiological puzzle that might lead to a better understanding of autism. Furthermore, Dr. Minshew will explain that autism is a syndrome, not a disorder.
Tue Apr 8 - 8 PM
CMU, Fine Arts bldg, Kresge Hall
Contemporary Italian Guitar concert
Arturo Tallini
Wed Apr 9 2008 - 8 PM
CMU college of fine arts - Kresge Hall
Student recital guitar music
Wed April 9 2008 - 7pm
CMU - McConomy Auditorium
Chinese Film
Saving Face
In Manhattan, the brilliant Chinese-American surgeon Wil is surprised by the arrival of her forty-eight years old widow mother to her apartment. Ma was banished from Flushing, Queens, when her father discovered that she was pregnant. The presence of Ma affects the personal life of Wil, who is in love with the daughter of her boss in the hospital, the dancer Vivian Shing.
Production: Sony Classics
Director: Alice Wu
Language:English, Mandarin and Shanghainese
Run Time: 97 minutes
Thu Apr 10 - 7 PM
Pitt, 343 Alumni Hall
4227 Fifth Avenue
lecture by David Cortright, president of Fourth Freedom Forum
Concerns about the perils posed by nuclear weapons have focused primarily on the spread of the bomb–to North Korea, Pakistan, India, and perhaps Iran–and on the terrifying prospect that Al Qaeda might acquire such weapons. Nuclear dangers, however, are not only "out there," they also exist in the policies of the United States and Russia, which continue to maintain thousands of nuclear weapons on hair-trigger alert.
Meanwhile, glimmers of hope for a denuclearized future have recently appeared in North Korea and in a bipartisan statement from former senior US policymakers calling for "a world free of nuclear weapons."
At this event David Cortright will examine the nuclear danger and probe the sources of instability that are driving proliferation and continued reliance on nuclear weapons. He will also offer practical directions toward realizing a future without nuclear weapons, including the key role of citizen involvement.
Thu Apr 10 - 6 PM
Pitt - Frick Fine Arts bldg auditorium
Filmmaker Eleni Binge will present her film outlining the ethical issues associated with food production and consumption, at 6 p.m. April 10 in the Frick Fine Arts Auditorium, 650 Schenley Dr., Oakland.
The screening of the film, “Seeing Through the Fence,” is free and open to the public. A discussion with Binge with follow.
The film explores the role of food in modern society and our connection, or lack thereof, with the processes and animals from which food originates. It also explores the role of activism and the stereotyping off activists and alternative lifestyles.
Thu Apr 10 - 8:30 PM
Pitt, Frick fine arts building, Auditorium
Cinema Latino Americano festival
SUITE HABANA
Dir. Fernando Pérez • Cuba - 2003
Suite Habana is a splendid portrait of Cubans, from kids to the most elderly, so splendidly photographed, hopping from scene to scene, among the different persons making up this visual poem. There are no words to describe this; indeed, there is a saying which says "an image is worth a thousand words". And in this film of a little more than 84 minutes you have millions of words which get nowhere near the story-less story unfolding before your eyes: because these are real people living real lives - not actors trying to interpret some such rôle. Here you have the beauty of Cuban citizens en La Habana, white, black, mestizo or whatever, which just sums up into one glorious film.
Thu Apr 10 - 10 PM
CMU - McConomy auditorium
free movie: "Smart People"
Filmed on campus last year, to be commercially released next month
Sat Apr 12 - 4 PM
Pitt, Frick Fine Arts Building, Auditorium
Piano music of Giacinto Scelsi
Lecture/Concert by Franco Sciannameo and pianist Donna Amato
A Rediscovered Piano Sonata (1943) by Giacinto Scelsi
I. Sinfonia II. Largo III. Fuga
FRANCO SCIANNAMEO
Born in Italy, Film Musicologist and Cultural Historian Franco Sciannameo studied in Rome at the Conservatorio di Musica “Santa Cecilia,” at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena and Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome. He also holds advanced degrees in Historical Musicology and Cultural Studies from the University of Pittsburgh. Always concerned with the role of artists in society, Franco Sciannameo writes and lectures extensively on contemporary music and its relation to politics, cinema, and the arts. He has worked closely with a number of celebrated composers, including Giacinto Scelsi, Nino Rota, Ennio Morricone, Franco Donatoni, and Paul Chihara, with whom he collaborated on many performances and recordings. Sciannameo’s articles and essays are featured regularly in The Musical Times (London) and L’IDEA (New York), while his books are published by Mario Adda Editore, The Edwin Mellen Press, Pendragon Press, and The Scarecrow Press.
Franco Sciannameo is the Director of Carnegie Mellon’s BHA/BSA/BCSA Interdisciplinary Degree Programs and a Fellow in the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry where he directs Moysikòs, a Sonic Fountain project.
DONNA AMATO
Donna Amato was born in Pittsburgh. She studied with Lorraine Landefeld, Ozan Marsh, Louis Kentner in London, Gaby Casadesus in Paris, Guido Agosti in Siena, Italy, and Angelica Morales von Sauer in Mexico. Her concert and recording career has flourished with appearances in Great Britain, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Austria, Norway, Mexico, Canada, and the United States, and Radio broadcasts on the BBC as well as the inaugural live broadcast on Classic FM .
She has worked closely with many contemporary composers and has given world première performances of a wide range of music. Her concerto appearances with leading British orchestras have included the Mozart Concerto KV 488 with the Philharmonia Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall, London, the Tchaikovsky Concerto No.1 at the Barbican and Royal Festival Hall, and the Grieg Concerto at the Royal Festival Hall and the Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow. Other performances have included her appearance as a guest artist at Sir Charles Groves' 75th Birthday Gala with the English Sinfonia in London; she also gave a memorable account of the rarely heard Franz Xavier Mozart Second Concerto with the Victoria Symphony Orchestra, British Columbia. Other recent performances with orchestra have included the Skryabin Piano Concerto and the Saint-Saëns Piano Concerto No. 4.
She was invited to visit Russia and the Independent States, where her concert tour and radio and television appearances were an outstanding success. She has been invited to return as part of an ongoing cultural exchange between the United States and the former Soviet Union. Donna Amato is among the very few pianists who have so far undertaken performances and recordings of the highly demanding and virtuosic music of Kaikhosru Sorabji.
An artist with a busy recording schedule, her currently available recordings include the two concertos of Edward MacDowell with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the sonatas of Dutilleux and Balakirev, the recital disc "A Piano Portrait" (works by Liszt, Debussy, Ravel and Gershwin), a disc of late piano music of Skryabin, two CDs of piano works by Sorabji, a CD of music by Edgeworth-resident 19th-century composers Ethelbert and Arthur Nevin, and a CD of music by British composers. Recent CD releases include the complete piano sonatas of American Romantic composer Edward MacDowell, a CD in collaboration with Matthew Murchison, a solo CD of Carson Cooman's piano works, Nancy Galbraith's Second Piano Concerto, and Giacinto Scelsi’s Early Piano Works (Stradivarius, May 2008). Future plans include the release of discs of Arnold Rosner, and a recording of the Piano Symphony No. 5 of Sorabji. Several leading contemporary composers have written works especially for her, which she has performed, broadcast and recorded.
In the fall of 2001 she gave eight performances of the Jazz Concerto in D by Dana Suesse with Pittsburgh's prestigious River City Brass Band, under the direction of Denis Colwell. In 2003 she performed Leonardo Balada’s Piano Concerto, and performed and broadcasted the world premiere of Sorabji’s 5th Piano Concerto in The Netherlands with the Netherlands Radio Symphony. In June 2004 she appeared in collaboration with flutist Julie Seftick at Carnegie Hall in NY, and as soloist gave the world premiere at Merkin Hall, NY of Sorabji's Piano Symphony No. 5. She recently performed Nancy Galbraith's Second Piano Concerto with the Carnegie Mellon Wind Ensemble. Other recent performances include a solo recital at Harvard University, a Scelsi concert at the Museo di Arti Moderne in Rome, and an appearance as soloist in Messaien's Couleurs de la cité céleste with George Vosburgh conducting the Carnegie Mellon University Wind Ensemble. Donna Amato currently teaches piano at the University of Pittsburgh and is an accompanist at the Carnegie Mellon School of Music.
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