CMU - Baker Hall 136A
David Blight, a professor of American History and director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, & Abolition at Yale University will discuss his recent book, A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Narratives of Emancipation. Blight has amassed information about slavery based on manuscripts discovered only in 2004 to reveal the very lengthy process that was emancipation.
Tue Oct 7 - 7:30 PM
Pitt 1500 Posvar Hall
“Iran in the New Middle East,” Ray Takeyh, Council on Foreign Relations senior fellow on the Middle East, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 7, 1500 Posvar Hall, Pitt’s Matthew B. Ridgway Center, the National Security Network, Pittsburgh Middle East Institute,
Wed Oct 8 - 7:30 PM
Frick art building auditorium
FREE
"25 Watts", film from Montevideo
This affable low-budget affair from Uruguay captures a day in the life of three friends--Leche (Daniel Handler), Javi (Jorge Temponi), and Seba (Alfonso Tort)--as they bumble their way through a lazy, hungover Saturday in Montevideo. Along the way, they encounter a series of bizarre characters who remind them of just how unfocused and boring their lives actually are. Directed under the influence of American indie auteurs such as Jim Jarmusch and Richard Linklater by Juan Pablo Rebella and Pablo Stoll, 25 WATTS is a universally charming comedy.
Presented by AMIGOS DEL CINE LATINOAMERICANO
Thu Oct 9 - 7:30 PM
Pitt - Barco Hall (Law School building), ground floor
The University of Pittsburgh’s Matthew B. Ridgway Center for International Security Studies will present a lecture by internationally renowned security expert Richard A. Clarke as part of its speaker series. An expert on counterterrorism and homeland, national, and cybersecurity, Clarke will present a free public lecture titled “Which Candidate Is Better for National Security?” at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 9 in the Teplitz Memorial Courtroom, on the ground floor of the Barco Law Building.
Clarke served the last three Presidents as a senior White House advisor. Throughout his 11 consecutive years of White House service, he has been special assistant to the president for global affairs, national coordinator for security and counterterrorism, and special advisor to the president for cybersecurity. Clarke is an on-air consultant for ABC News and teaches at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. He also is the author of the bestselling book "Against All Enemies" (Free Press, 2004) and its 2008 sequel, "Your Government Failed You".
If attending the lecture, notice the mosaic on the wall of the courtroom by Virgil Cantini
Thu Oct 9
7:00 p.m.
Maghrebi-French Filmmaking
Frick Fine Arts Auditorium
The term beur is French inversion-slang (verlan) for the word arabe, and refers to the French-born children of North African (Maghrebi) immigrants of Arab as well as Amazigh and Kabyle origin. For the most part, this generation grew up in the concrete wastelands of France's low-income housing projects in the suburbs (banlieues). While beur has been part of the European lexicon for more than 20 years, the term and the culture it describes remain largely unknown in the United States.
Memories of October 17 On the evening of October 17, 1961, the French police brutally repressed a peaceful demonstration supporting Algerian independence. This powerful film unearths the painful memories of witnesses, keeping alive the memory of a massacre that French officialdom would like us to forget.
Memoire D'Immigres In this seminal documentary, a triptych of stories spells out the painful fate of two generations of Maghrebi immigration to France. This movie will be shown in two nights (Oct.9 and Oct. 16)
Audience: Open to the public
Cost: Free
Fri Oct 10 - 8 PM (45 minutes long)
Univ of Pittsburgh campus
documentary screening on Refugee Warehousing
Sat Oct 11 at 12:30 PM
CMU - Rangos Ballroom, University Center
Gary Knell, president and CEO of Sesame Workshop, will discuss his nonprofit educational organization that thoroughly use thes power of all media to educate children. Knell has been key to his company’s global mission and will explain how Sesame Street is changing our world.
Sat Oct 11 - 3:30 PM
Sewickley Sweetwater Art Center
Free blues concert by Eugene Morgan
in conjuction of a Community Day Celebration (African American Arts and Culture MAVUNO XII)
Drum Circle with Wacongo (noon)
Sat Oct 11 - 4 PM
Carnegie Lecture Hall
Mark Bradford, an artist whose work is among the works in the Life of Mars exhibit will be speaking about his works. Bradford is an abstract artist who, through collages of found materials such as foil, scrap paper, fences, or poster remnants, examines abstraction and questions systems of culture in his neighborhood of Los Angeles.
Sat Oct 11 - 7:30 and 9 PM performances
CMU student center
Etran Finatawa Showcases Nomadic Blues as part of CMU International Festival
A nomadic blues group from Niger will hold two performances at Carnegie Mellon University's International Festival. Etran Finatawa, which means "stars of tradition," combines modern electric guitar with calabasse (gourd) drums, string instruments, vocal music, handclapping and dancing. Performers adorn their faces with yellow paint while wearing long tunics, leather hose and turbans. The performances will be held 7:30-8:30 p.m. and 9-10 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 11, in Rangos Ballroom, University Center (UC).
In addition to the performances, Etran Finatawa will present "Harmony: Building Peace Through Music," a lecture about how the group fuses sounds from two of Niger's 11 tribes - the Tuareg and Wodaabe-Fulani - as a symbol of peace and reconciliation. The tribes share pastures and water sources along the desert's fringes, which has led to a history of conflict. The lecture is 2-3 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 11, in the Connan Room, UC.
The lecture and performances are free and open to the public. Tickets are required for the performances and will be available at Carnegie Mellon's University Center Information Desk beginning Oct. 2. More information on Etran Finatawa is available at www.etranfinatawa.com.
Sun Oct 12 - 2 PM
Beacon Hill Drive, off Penn Highway, in upper Wilkinsburg/Churchill
Trail running with the Hash House Harriers
Sun Oct 12 - all day
Washington, PA
Geocaching mega event: Geocoin Fest
Sun Oct 12 - 9 AM to 5 PM
Pittsburgh Zoo
FREE (only today thanks to RAD days)
kudos (being sarcastic) to the Pitt Program Council that charged $5:
Trip to the Zoo
October 12 10:00 am
Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium
$5 for Pitt Students
Join the Pitt Program Council for an exciting trip to the Pittsburgh Zoo! See the new baby elephants as well as many other exciting animals for only $5!
The price includes transportation by deluxe motorcoach as well as admission to the zoo. The bus will leave from Bigelow Blvd in front of the William Pitt Union at 10:00 a.m. and leaving the zoo around 3 p.m. Space is limited so sign up early! Sign-ups begin on Monday September 15th in the ticket office of the William Pitt Union.
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