Newspaper of the University of Pit tsburgh Volume IX • Number 25 • September 22, 2008

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PUBLISHER Robert HillASSOCIATE PUBLISHER John HarvithEXECUTIVE EDITOR Linda K. schmitmeyerEDITOR Jane-ellen RobinetART DIRECTOR Gary CravenerSTAFF WRITERS sharon s. Blake John Fedele Morgan Kelly Amanda Leff Anthony M. Moore Patricia Lomando White

HAPPENINGS EDITOR Lauren O’Leary

The Pitt Chronicle is published throughout the year by university News and Magazines, university of Pittsburgh, 400 Craig Hall, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, Phone: 412-624-1033, Fax: 412-624-4895, e-mail: chron@pitt.edu Web: www.chronicle.pitt.edu

The university of Pittsburgh is an affirmative action, equal opportunity institution that does not discriminate upon any basis prohibited by law.

Symposium to Address Pitt Professor’s Book on Pittsburgh’s Urban Planning

edward K. Muller, university of Pittsburgh profes-sor of history, and his book Before Renaissance: Planning in Pittsburgh, 1889-1943 (university of Pittsburgh Press, 2006), will be honored during the Department of History Book symposia series, the first of the academic year. “The scholar in the Community” symposium will take place from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m., sept. 26 in the Wil-liam Pitt union Lower Lounge.

in addition to celebrating Muller and his work, the sympo-sium will feature commentary by Morton Coleman, past director of Pitt’s institute of Politics; Howard Gillette, director of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities and professor of history at Rutgers-Camden university; Joel Tarr, Richard s. Caliguiri university Professor of History and Policy at Carnegie Mellon university; and August Carlino, president and chief executive officer of the Rivers of steel National Heritage Area.

The group will address the significance of this book within the history of planning in both Pittsburgh and the nation, and comment on Muller’s involve-ment as a public scholar in the city.

The symposium is free and open to the public. For more information, call 412-648-7451.—Patricia Lomando White

Pitt Sets Conference on Islam, Popular Culture in Indonesia, Malaysia

indonesia and Malaysia are home to approximately one-fifth of the world’s Muslim population, yet they are often overlooked or misrepresented in the media’s portrayal of islam. ideas, sounds, images, and gestures associated with islam abound in contemporary popular cultural forms, including film, music, television, radio, comics, fashion, magazines, and cyberculture.

An Oct. 10-12 conference, islam and Popular Culture in indonesia and Malaysia, will address the relationship between islam and popular culture in the Malay world. speaker and panel sessions will be conducted at two primary locations: the Pittsburgh Filmmakers Melwood screening Room, 477 Melwood Ave., North Oakland, and the Martin Colloquium Conference Room, 4127 sennott square. The full schedule and additional information are available on the Asian studies Center’s conference Web site at www.ucis.

pitt.edu/asc/conference.in the last two decades, forms of islam

represented in the mass media—targeted largely at urbanized youth—have played a key role in the

islamisation of indonesia and Malaysia. These forms—and the accompanying circulation, marketing, and practice of islamic ideals—will be the focus of the conference.

The seminar will address issues concerning the historical and social conditions that have contributed to popular culture in the Malay world. it will also look at the forms that islam takes in popular culture and the meanings audiences derive from these representations. Central to these issues is the role the mass media play in establishing Muslim identities, especially among youth.

The conference is cosponsored by Pitt’s school of Arts and sciences, Office of the Provost, university Center for international studies, Global studies Program, Asian studies Center, indo-Pacific Council, Department of Music, Women’s studies Program, Department of Anthropology, Film studies Program, Department of english, Cultural studies Program, and Consortium for education Resources on islamic stud-ies as well as Ohio university’s Center for southeast Asian studies and Falcon interactive, indonesia.

The conference also includes a film screening and concert. Gubra (Anxiety, 2006), directed by Yasmin Ahmad, will be shown at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 10 in the Melwood screening Room. The concert, Rock Meets islam in indonesia, featuring Rhoma irama and soneta, with Pittsburgh’s own Dangdut Cowboys, begins at 8 p.m. Oct. 11 in Bellefield Auditorium. Both events are free and open to the public; space however, is limited.—Amanda Leff

Richard A. Clarke to Discuss Presidential Candidates, National Security

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. More information is available at 412-624-7884 or www.ridgway.pitt.edu.—Amanda Leff

Richard A. Clarke

By Sharon S. Blake

The University of Pitts-burgh Repertory Theatre launches its 2008-09 season, American Revelations, on Oct. 15. The season includes three contemporary mas-terpieces and one classic that will explore America’s legacy and national identity. The season kicks off with The Clean House by Sarah Ruhl, followed by Aristo-phanes’ comedy Lysistrata; it wraps up with both parts of Tony Kushner’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Angels in America.

American Revelations is Pitt Rep’s most techni-cally challenging season in recent memory, according to Bruce McConachie, chair of Pitt’s Department of Theatre Arts. He says the effects-heavy Angels in America, in particular, will give Pitt’s designers and theater techni-cians the chance to share the spotlight.

With the exception of Lysistrata, tickets for all performances are $22 gen-eral admission; $19 for Pitt faculty, staff, and alumni; and $12 for students.

Performance dates and information about the plays follow.

The Clean HouseOct. 15-26Henry Heymann Theatre, Stephen

Foster MemorialA Pulitzer Prize finalist and Pittsburgh

premiere, The Clean House takes place in a “metaphysical” Connecticut, where no affluent household is complete without a Latin housekeeper. Matilde, a Brazilian cleaning lady, has no interest in cleaning. She prefers to devote her time to composing the world’s funniest—and lethal—jokes. Thomas Costello, a Pitt PhD candidate in theater arts, directs.

LysistrataOct. 29-Nov. 9Studio Theatre, B72 Cathedral of

Learning“Make love, not war” is the message

of Aristophanes’ raunchy political comedy from 411 B.C., in which Athenian women bring about an end to the Peloponnesian War by withholding sex from their hus-bands. More than two millennia later, the Father of Comedy’s classic romp rings true, naughty, and hilarious. Pitt under-graduate student and theater arts major Kaitlyn Wittig directs. Tickets are $10; students, $7.

Angels in America Part 1: Millennium Approaches

Feb. 19-March 1Charity Randall Theatre, Stephen

Foster MemorialKushner’s epic masterpiece has been

hailed as one of the greatest American dramas. Set in the era of AIDS and the Reagan Administration, Millenium reveals how the afflicted and their loved ones brace themselves as physical realities unravel to make way for disturbing supernatural forces. The intersecting dramas of humans, angels, and phantoms converge on the arrival of a heavenly messenger. What will the millennium bring—a new age or an apocalypse? Pitt teaching artist Holly Thuma directs.

Pitt Repertory Theatre Sets New Season, American Revelations

Angels in America Part 2: PerestroikaApril 2-11Charity Randall Theatre, Stephen

Foster MemorialPicking up where Millennium leaves

off, Perestroika plunges the audience into a feverish dream of political unrest, personal revelation, and celestial instability. At turns shocking, heartbreaking, and funny, the conclusion reproaches humanity’s hypocrisy and greed and illuminates our capacity for forgiveness, love, and survival—attributes that reveal the true angels among us. Pitt teaching artist Robert C. T. Steele directs.

For more information, visit www.play.pitt.edu or call 412-624-7529.

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Brendan Froeschl remembers being amazed when he first set foot in the Waldorf School of Pittsburgh, housed in a stately post-Civil War mansion in Bloomfield.

Froeschl is the school’s building man-ager and an alumnus of Belmont Technical College in Ohio, a nationally renowned school for building-preservation technol-ogy. He recognized a treasure when he saw it. The Waldorf School is an independent, not-for-profit school with an arts-based cur-riculum for children in preschool through fifth grade.

“This place just has to be a laboratory for some sort of architectural research,” Froeschl remembers thinking as he gazed at the mansion’s 14-foot high tin ceilings, carved corbels, sta ined-glass windows, moldings, and etched glass panels on the front doors.

P ropel led by h is impressions, Froeschl con-tacted Drew Armstrong, director of Pitt’s Archi-tectural Studies Program, and expressed interest in pursuing a partnership with Pitt. The result: two course offerings where Pitt students use the Waldorf School as a hands-on class-room, with the promise of more courses to come.

This past summer, Froeschl used the school to teach a three-credit class on window restora-tion. It allowed students to document the condition of some of the mansion’s 130 windows—to remove them, learn how to restore them, and understand how restoration functions in a building.

Art of Historic DocumentationIn the second course, Pitt Instructor

Jeff Slack, a historic preservation specialist at Pfaffmann + Associates PC, Downtown, had the students trace the architectural his-tory of the 21-room house at 201 S. Wine-biddle St., built for Henry J. Lynch around 1867. While currently housing the Waldorf School, the building also has been known

Hands-on HistoryBloomfield mansion serves as lab for Pitt’s new architectural research classes

as Victoria Hall, a venue for wed-dings and parties (1993-2001), and the Ursuline Academy for Young Women, (1895-1993), an exclusive college prepara-tory school administered by the Ursuline Sisters.

Slack’s students pored over old documents and photos, conducted deed searches at the Allegheny County Real Estate Office, scrutinized old city maps, and reviewed census records. They heard from guest lecturers on masonry, wood, and methods for documenting old buildings.

Bu t , m o s t importantly, they inter-acted with the building itself—study-ing its condi-tion right down to the bricks and mortar, in an effort to determine whether the structure had been altered—and, if so, when and why.

After 11 weeks of care-fully directed research, the students compiled their historical documentation findings into a substantial Historic Structure Report. Submitting the report is a step toward having the house ultimately placed on the National Register of Historic Places.

“It was rewarding to see young people so excited about old buildings,” said Slack, who has a master’s degree in historic preser-

vation from Cornell University. “I enjoyed watching them make their discoveries.”

To give the students a taste of the real world of historic preservationists, Slack began each class with a project meeting to review progress and discuss the next steps. There were weekly assignments in addition to the task of drafting the final report. An old physics lab in Pitt’s Thaw Hall was converted into a studio, to place the students in the actual environment of an architect. Accord-

ing to Slack, these students now have skills they could use in the pres-

ervation of historic buildings.

More Courses AheadThis delving into the past

is actually propelling Pitt’s history of art and architecture

department forward. The his-toric preservation and documen-

tation course will be offered every summer, and two other six-credit architectural studio courses are on

the schedule for the spring and fall terms. The hope is to have more students back at the Wal-dorf School in summer 2009, studying and documenting the carriage house, chapel, and auditorium.

A r mst rong hopes to expand historic preservation

as a component in the School of Arts and Sciences. This would

help position Pitt undergraduate stu-dents for master’s degree programs

in historic preservation. Indeed, a number of the students who graduated from the Architectural Studies Program this past year will continue their studies at the master’s level at Penn State, Cornell, and Columbia universities.

In fact, Pitt is laying the groundwork for what could be a Master of Historic Pres-ervation program. According to Armstrong, he envisions a unique interdisciplinary degree program that would capitalize on the strengths of the University as well as the wealth of on-site study opportunities in Pittsburgh that could attract students from across the country.

“This is trailblazing—to offer these courses at the undergraduate level,” said Armstrong, referring to the new courses taught this past summer. He added that the window-restoration class is a model for future hands-on courses in materials conservation. It is his hope that similar joint ventures could be formed with other institutions.

Studying historic preservation seems a natural for students in Pittsburgh, with its real-life textbook of historic homes and churches, grand architecture, and three active preservation organizations, including the nationally renowned Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation.

Keeping Site Memories Alive“Sites are more than just property,”

said Armstrong. “Since the late 1960s and early ’70s, we’ve had an awareness that a building needs to be thought about in a more complex way. Documentation is a big part of that. Without it, the significance of the building disappears.” Documentation keeps the memory of a site alive, according to Armstrong, and provides information to the public and scholars.

“It’s the real cornerstone of proper preservation,” he said. “It helps us under-stand what to preserve and why.”

On July 31, the nine students taking the course presented their findings to a group of about 50 Bloomfield residents, preservationists, and reporters. They dis-covered that Lynch, a dry goods merchant with a business Downtown, had paid $11,150 in 1865 to buy seven acres of land at the Waldorf School site from Harriet Winebiddle. In 1872, after the Second Empire-style mansion had been built, Lynch sold the mansion along with one acre to William Smith for $22,500. The property would eventually change hands eight more times.

The student team had researched each architect of the home’s separate additions, and they revealed the possibility that the unknown architect of the main house may have been Isaac Hobbs, architect of the Dollar Savings Bank on Fourth Avenue, Downtown. The students’ research showed that Hobbs and Lynch worked closely together when Lynch sat on the bank’s board of directors, from 1864 to 1906.

Pitt student Denise Duryea said find-ing long-lost information about the house and its owners was “very exciting.” The course was extremely informative and very effective at imparting a practical under-standing of the field, said Duryea, who has applied to a number of Master of Architec-ture programs, with a focus on sustainable architecture and preservation.

“Jeff promised that by the end of the summer, we would be employable as preservation assistants,” she smiled. “And he delivered.”

Drew Armstrong

Jeff slack

From left: the façade of the Waldorf school and the entrance hall’s grand staircase.

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By Morgan Kelly

When the war was over, I’d probably look back at the sacrifices I made and see them for how small they really were, but right now, in the fray, every one of us needed something forbidden, not because we were greedy pigs who didn’t care about our boys abroad but because we needed to be reminded of how normal life once was. (Rosie Winter in The Winter of Her Discontent)

If you imagine 1943 as a time when people blissfully sacrificed comfort for vic-tory, then Rosie Winter will set you straight. Keep your ration stamps and dim-outs—she just wants a good steak and a decent man to chew it with.

A sharp New York “dame” with a blunted acting career, Rosie is the fictional star of a mystery series by Pitt staffer Kath-ryn Miller Haines, associate director of the Center for American Music. In the books,

The War According to Ms. HainesPitt staffer Kathryn Miller Haines’ novels unravel sentimentality about 1940s

Rosie passes the time between stalled pro-ductions and the next ration by unraveling murders.

Haines, whose second Rosie Winter book, The Winter of Her Discontent (Harper), was published in June, is working on the third installment of the well-received series that once seemed impossible.

A longtime actress and a playwright, Haines began her writing career with a stalled Master of Fine Arts thesis. After receiving that degree from Pitt in 1998, she spent two years chopping and shopping her would-be book. As the rejection letters mounted, Haines realized that her (very long) book had a twisted and confusing plot that changed each time she revised it.

Haines, in a recent interview, attributed the plot problems to her background as a playwright: “Playwrights learn to focus on dialogue and let the director handle every-thing else,” she said. “I really had to push myself to write narrative description, but I wasn’t ready to give up on writing yet. This is really what I want to do.”

The two genres, plays and novels, are worlds apart, said Haines. In writing for

the stage, Haines develops the story, sets the scene, and writes the dialogue. The plot moves along with the help of actors and directors. And nuances, such as mood and what characters look like, audience members can see for themselves. It’s a cooperative experience.

Novels, said Haines, are a far lonelier endeavor, as every scene, gesture, expression, and conflict is the creation of the author.

For a crash course on tight plotting, she turned to mystery novels, where storylines spiral in wild, uncertain directions before looping around to a tidy conclusion. After months of cramming on whodunits, Haines thought that writing her own mystery was a logical next step and abandoned the first project, which wasn’t selling.

Enter Rosie Winter. The spunky young actress gave Haines a fresh start. After three years of writing, she had her first book, The War Against Miss Winter (Harper, 2007)—and a possible series.

But with the rejection of her earlier would-be book still stinging, Haines wasn’t sure Rosie would do any better—misgivings familiar to Rosie in Miss Winter as she wrestles with her boss’ baffling murder and her fading Broadway aspirations.

“When I look back on it, I put Rosie in my place,” Haines said. “Rosie and I found ourselves on bigger stages than we thought we’d find ourselves on—and fearing that we don’t belong there. Writing the first book, I had a sense of getting my sealegs back. In art, rejection of your creation can feel like rejection of you as a person.”

New Year’s Eve [1942] was a bust. The war had muted it as though we’d all come to the silent conclu-sion that any joy was disrespectful. Everywhere we looked were soldiers with their girls, fiercely embracing, kissing, and dancing as though they had a lifetime of those activities to cram into one evening. (Rosie Winter in The War Against Miss Winter)

Haines’ 1940s New York is saturated with detail and stripped of nostalgia, as readers and reviewers happily note.

To achieve this, Haines pored over mem-oirs, autobiographies, and back-issues of The New York Times for the sights and sounds of the time. She filled her head with day-to-day information from radio programs, like the price of codfish cakes (85 cents).

She also absorbed the general mood of a nation locked in a massive war whose outcome no one knew. In her books, Haines peels back the popular sentimentality about a complex era that she admires too much to be dishonest about. Contemporary perception of the American homefront—a grand time of sacrifice and camaraderie—is shaped by the knowledge of victory. But at the time, as the nation pulled together to defeat the Axis powers, people also succumbed, quite understandably, to a feeling of foreboding and frustration.

As Life magazine lamented in the fall of 1942: “Suddenly the country is aware of what war is doing to children. American youth is on the same kind of lawless rampage that swept England during 1940.”

Thousands of men and women shipped out with no certainty of return. The national media and law enforcement agencies, from the FBI to locals, fretted over juvenile delin-quency. Kids too young to serve gallivanted about while their parents worked or served overseas. Racial tension festered into riots in New York City, Detroit, and Los Angeles. Japanese and, on a smaller scale, German and Italian citizens were interned. Many of those citizens also were declared “enemy aliens,” faced the seizure of personal prop-erty and forced relocation inland, and were required to carry an ID card.

And, as Rosie Winter learns, there were plenty of unsavory characters about to exploit society’s fears and losses for their own gain. She grows despondent that the good fight has such an ugly side to it, a feeling that Haines suspects was not uncommon.

“Rosie’s fed up and she’s tired, as many people were,” Haines said. “People in 1943 didn’t know the war wasn’t going to drag on for 15 years. A friend told me, ‘The war was a big bother’—and she’s Jewish! But that was her reaction as a 17-year-old girl at the time who couldn’t go to parties and whose friends were going away.

“When I tell this story, some people are offended, but not everyone was planting [Victory gardens] with a smile, like on the posters. There was constant fear as to whom and what we would lose next.

“We think that everyone who lived during World War II were good people, but that wasn’t true,” Haines continued. “There were terrible people involved, just like any other war or disaster. After Sept. 11, we heard of people scamming insurance compa-nies and setting up fake charities. That hap-pened then, too. Now, we hear Tom Brokaw talk about the Greatest Generation, and we think there’s been a decline in decency since then, when really we’re the same people.”

None of us wanted to acknowl-edge that maybe the country our men were fighting for didn’t deserve that degree of sacrifice. We weren’t all good people. We sold forged bonds, collected for phony charities, and gave soldiers venereal disease. We preyed on the grieving with over-priced funerals and the hungry with black market meat. We could be worse than the enemy. I certainly wouldn’t have risked my life for us. (Rosie Winter in The Winter of Her Discontent)

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September22Tina Brown, author, 7:30 p.m., Carnegie Music Hall, 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland, Drue Heinz Lecture Series, 412-624-4187, www.pittsburghlec-tures.org.

Ann Fessler, author, artist, and filmmaker, discusses adoption prior to Roe vs. Wade, 8 p.m., Frick Fine Arts Auditorium, Pittsburgh Consor-tium for Adoption Studies, Pitt’s Women’s Studies Program and Department of English, www.wstud-ies.pitt.edu.

A Panorama of Pittsburgh: Nineteenth Century Printed Views, exhibition, through Oct. 5, Frick Art and Historical Center, 7227 Reynolds St., Point Breeze, 412-371-0600, www.thefrickpitts-burgh.org.

Abstract Art Before 1950: Watercolors, Draw-ings, Prints, and Photographs, through Oct. 18; 55th Carnegie International, through Jan. 11; Carnegie Museum of Art, 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland, 412-622-3131, www.cmoa.org.

Painting in the United States, exhibition, through Oct. 19, Westmoreland Museum of American Art, 211 N. Main St., Greensburg, 724-837-1500, www.wmuseumaa.org.

We Are Survival Machines, installation documenting the near-future battle for humanity between undead and sentient machines, through Nov. 16, Andy Warhol Museum, 117 Sandusky St., North Side, 412-237-8300, www.warhol.org.

Eloquent Eggs & Disintegrating Dice: Photo-graphs by Rosamond Purcell, through Nov. 29, Silver Eye Center for Photography, 1015 E. Carson St., South Side, 412-431-1810, www.silvereye.org.

Inner & Outer Space, Mattress Factory, through Jan. 11, 500 Sampsonia Way, North Side, 412-231-3169, www.mattress.org.

23Steel Pan Drummers, 6-8 p.m., William Pitt Union Ballroom, Pitt’s International Week, Pitt’s Global Studies Program and African Studies Pro-gram, 412-648-2058, www.ucis.pitt.edu/africa/.

24 “Who Cooked the Last Supper? Bodies, Boundaries, and New Questions of Female Leadership in Early Christianity,” Rebecca I. Denova, visiting lecturer, Pitt Department of Religious Studies, noon, 2201 Posvar Hall, Pitt’s Women’s Studies Program, www.wstudies.pitt.edu.

“Flamencos en El Aire,” noon-1 p.m., flamenco dance and music, free lunch, Nordy’s Place, Lower Level, William Pitt Union, Artful Wednesdays, PITT ARTS, 412-624-4498, www.pittarts@pitt.edu.

“Recreating the Past: The Controversies Sur-rounding the Refashioning of the Medieval Castle of Castelvecchio in Verona under the Fascist Regime,” Maria D’Anniballe, history of art and architecture PhD student, noon, Room 203, Frick Fine Arts, History of Art and Architecture Colloquium, 412-648-2400, www.haa.pitt.edu.

El Metodo (2005), film directed by Marcelo Pineyro, 7:30 p.m., Frick Fine Arts Auditorium, Latin Ameri-can Film Series, Pitt’s Center for Latin American Studies, amigoscinelatinoamericano08@blogspot.com, clas@pitt.edu.

University of Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, 8 p.m., featuring Beethoven’s Symphony No. 4, Bellefield Hall Auditorium, Pitt Department of Music, 412-624-4125, www.music.pitt.edu.

25RAD Days at the Pittsburgh Opera, free concert by PO’s resident artist program, 7 p.m.; open house, 10:30 a.m.- 3:30 p.m. Oct. 4, PO’s new performance space, 2425 Liberty Ave., Strip District, Allegheny County Regional Asset District RADical Days, reserve tickets in advance, 412-281-0912, www.pittsburghopera.org.

26Bled Number One, French film (2006) directed by Rabah Ameur-Zaimeche, 7 p.m., Frick Fine Arts Auditorium, Beur Is Beautiful: Maghrebi-French Filmmaking series, Pitt’s Global Studies Program, 412-624-2918, www.ucis.pitt.edu/global/.

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October412-622-8866, www.pittsburghlectures.org.

“President’s Own” U.S. Marine Band, 7:30 p.m., Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall and Museum, 4141 Fifth Ave., Oakland, Soldier and Sailors Military Band Concert Series; free admis-sion to museum 10 a.m.-6 p.m. as part of RADical Days, Allegheny County Regional Asset District, 412-621-4253, www.soldiersandsailorshall.org.

Over the Rainbow-Linda Eder Sings Judy Garland’s Songbook, through Oct.5, featuring Linda Eder, vocals, Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., Downtown, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, 412-392-4200, www.pittsburghsymphony.org.

Radio Golf by August Wilson, through Nov. 2, Pitts-burgh Public Theater, 621 Penn Ave., Downtown, 412-316-1600, www.ppt.org.

3RAD Day at Pittsburgh Glass Center, glassblow-ing demonstrations and art exhibitions, 10 a.m.-9 p.m., free admission, 5472 Penn Ave., Friendship, Allegheny County Regional Asset District RADical Days, www.pittsbrghglasscenter.org.

RAD Day at Pittsburgh Filmmakers, screenings from Ann Arbor Film Festival, 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m., free admission, 477 Melwood Ave., Oak-land, Allegheny County Regional Asset District’s RADical Days, www.pghfilmmakers.org.

Cultural District Gallery Crawl, 5:30 p.m., throughout the Cultural District, Downtown, 412-456-6666, www.pgharts.org.

RAD Day at Attack Theater, free admission 8-11 p.m., free performances at 9 p.m. and 10 p.m., 4805 Penn Ave., Garfield, Allegheny County Regional Asset District’s RADical Days,www.attacktheatre.com.

Magic Tree House: The Musical, through Oct. 4, Byham Theater, 101 Sixth St., Downtown, Pitts-burgh Cultural Trust, 412-456-6666, www.pgharts.org.

4RAD Day at Bulgarian Cultural Center, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., free admission, 449-451 West Eighth Ave., West Homestead, Allegheny County Regional

Asset District’s RADical Days, www.bmnecc.org.

RAD Day at the National Aviary, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., free admission, Allegheny Commons West, off Arch Street, North Side, Allegheny County Regional Asset District’s RADical Days, www.aviary.org.

Linda Sue Park, author, 10:30 a.m., Carnegie Library Lecture Hall, 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland, Pittsburgh Arts and Lectures, Black, White, & Read All Over series, 412-622-8866, www.pitts-burghlectures.org.

1958, art exhibition, through Jan. 11, Andy Warhol Museum, 117 Sandusky St., Northside, 412-237-8300, www.warhol.org.

Born of Fire: The Life and Pottery of Marga-ret Tafoya, art exhibition, through Jan. 4, R.P. Simmons Family Gallery, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland, 412-622-3131, www.carnegiemnh.org.

Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes, art exhibition, through Jan. 18, Heinz Architectural Center, Carnegie Museum of Art, 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland, 412-688-8690, www.cmoa.org.

5RAD Day at Frick Art & Historical Center, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., free admission, tours, and family activities, 7227 Reynolds St., Point Breeze, Allegheny County Regional Asset District RADi-cal Days, www.thefrickpittsburgh.org.

RAD Day at Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., free admission, “Clay Olympics,” 1-4 p.m., 6300 Fifth Ave., Shadyside, Allegheny County Regional Asset District RADical Days, www.thefrickpittsburgh.org.

RAD Day at the Andy Warhol Museum, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., free admission, 117 Sandusky St., North Side, Allegheny County Regional Asset District RADical Days, ww.carnegiemuseums.org.

1Elie Kihonia & Wacongo Dance Company, noon-1 p.m., musicians and dancers from Congo perform ancestral songs and dances of Central Africa, free lunch, Nordy’s Place, Lower Level, Wil-liam Pitt Union, Artful Wednesdays, PITT ARTS, 412-624-4498, www.pittarts@pitt.edu.

Department of Studio Arts Faculty Exhibition, through Nov. 21, University Art Gallery, Frick Fine Arts Building, Pitt’s School of Arts and Sciences, 412-648-2430, www.studioarts.pitt.edu.

Adoption Consortium Film and Discussion: Gay and Lesbian Adoptive Parents, includes showing of award-winning film Daddy and Papa, 4:30 p.m., Danforth Room, University Center, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh Consortium for Adoption Studies, Carnegie Mellon English department.

Valentin (2002), film directed by Alejandro Agresti, 7:30 p.m., Frick Fine Arts Auditorium, Latin Amer-ican Film Series, Pitt’s Center for Latin American Studies, amigoscinelatinoamericano08@blogspot.com, clas@pitt.edu.

Steve Forbes, editor in chief of Forbes Magazine,

8 p.m., Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., Downtown, Robert Morris University’s Pittsburgh Speakers Series, 412-392-4900, www.pitts-

burghspeakersseries.org.

2RAD Day at Phipps Conservatory

and Botanical Gardens, 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m., free admission, One Schenley Park, Oak-

land, Allegheny County Regional Asset District RADical Days, 412-622-6914, www.phipps.conservatory.org.

RAD Day at Society for Contemporary Craft, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., free admission, 2100 Small-man St., Strip District, Allegheny County Regional Asset District RADical Days, www.contemporary-craft.org.

Pittsburgh in Words, literary readings about Pittsburgh, 7:30 p.m., WYEP Community Broadcast Center, 67 Bedford Square, South Side, Pittsburgh Arts and Lectures, American Shorts Reading Series,

Luis Bravo’s Forever Tango, theatrical perfor-mance, through Sept. 27, Byham Theater, 101 Sixth St., Downtown, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, 412-456-6666, www.pgharts.org.

Manfred Honeck-A Grand Beginning, through Sept. 28, conducted by Manfred Honeck, featur-ing Joshua Bell, violin; pieces by Adams, Tchai-kovsky, and Mahler; Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., Downtown, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, 412-392-4200, www.pittsburghsymphony.org.

27RAD Day at the Audubon Society of West-ern Pennsylvania, 10 a.m.- 4 p.m., celebrate AppleJamm with games, entertainment, crafts, and activities, 614 Dorseyville Rd., Fox Chapel, Allegheny County Regional Asset District RADi-cal Days, www.aswp.org.

The 29th Latin American and Caribbean Festival, noon to midnight, William Pitt Union, Center for Latin American Studies, 412-648-7394, lavst12@pitt.edu.

The Hound of the Baskervilles, through Oct. 5, New Hazlett Theater, 6 Allegheny Square East, North Side, 412-320-4610, www.newhazletttheater.org.

28Pittsburgh’s Hidden Treasures: An Antiques Appraisal Show, noon, Senator John Heinz His-tory Center, 1212 Smallman St., Strip District, 412-454-6373, www.pghhistory.org.

The Iliad, performed by the Aquila Theater Com-pany, 4 p.m., through Sept. 29, Byham Theater, 101 Sixth St., Downtown, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, 412-456-6666, www.pgharts.org.

29Maxine Hong Kingston, reading, 8:30 p.m., David Lawrence Hall, Pittsburgh Contemporary Writers Series, 412-624-6506, www.english.pitt.edu.

RAD Day at the National Aviary,

October 4

Pittsburgh’s Hidden Treasures: An Antiques Show

September 28

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RAD Day at Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, noon-5 p.m., free admission, 10 Children’s Way, North Side, Allegheny County Regional Asset Dis-trict RADical Days, www.pittsburghkids.org.

RAD Day at the Mattress Factory, noom-5 p.m., free admission, 500 Sampsonia Way, North Side, Allegheny County Regional Asset District RADical Day, www.mattress.org.

RAD Day at Carnegie Museums of Art and Natural History, noon-5 p.m., free admission and parking, 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland, Allegheny County Regional Asset District RADical Days, 412-622-3131, www.cmoa.org, www.carnegiemnh.org.

6Edwidge Danticat, author, 7:30 p.m., Carnegie Music Hall, 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland, Drue Heinz Lecture Series, 412-624-4187, www.pittsburghlec-tures.org.

8Namoli Brennet, singer and songwriter, noon-1 p.m., free lunch, Nordy’s Place, Lower Level, Wil-liam Pitt Union, Artful Wednesdays, PITT ARTS, 412-624-4498, www.pittarts@pitt.edu.

25 Watts (2002), film directed by Juan Pablo Rebella and Pablo Stoll, 7:30 p.m., Frick Fine Arts Auditorium, Latin American Film Series, Pitt’s Center for Latin American Studies, amigoscinelati-noamericano08@blogspot.com, clas@pitt.edu.

Patrizio Buanne, Italian baritone, 8 p.m., Benedum Center, 719 Liberty Ave., Downtown, 412-456-6666, www.pgharts.org.

9“Quid Is Veritas? Trying to Disentangle the Real From the Mythical Pilate,” 3:30 p.m., Colum Hourihane, Princeton University, 3:30 p.m. Room 203 Frick Fine Arts Bldg., Pitt’s Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program, 412-624-5220.

Memories of October 17, 17-minute film (2002) directed by Faiza Guene and Bernard Richard, in Arabic with English subtitles, 7 p.m.; followed by Memoire D’Immigres, part one of French documen-tary (1997) directed by Yamina Benguigui, Frick Fine Arts Auditorium, Beur Is Beautiful: Maghrebi-French Filmmaking series, Pitt’s Global Studies Program, 412-624-2918, www.ucis.pitt.edu/global/.

I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change, through

Feb. 1, Theatre Square Cabaret, 655 Penn Ave., Downtown, CLO Cabaret Theater, 412-325-6766, www.clocabaret.com.

10Chang & Rachmaninoff, through Oct. 11, featur-ing Andris Nelsons, conductor; Sarah Chang, violin; pieces by Theofanidis, Adams, and Rachmanioff; Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., Downtown, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, 412-392-4200, www.pitts-burghsymphony.org.

Islam and Popular Culture in Indonesia and Malaysia, conference addressing relationship between Islam and popular culture in the Malay world, through Oct. 12, free to the public, sponsored by Pitt’s Office of the Provost, University Center for International Studies, Global Studies Program, and others, 412-624-4184, www.ucis.pitt.edu.

Ballet Maribor: Radio and Juliet, through Oct. 11, Byham Theater, 101 Sixth St., Down-town, Pittsburgh International Festival of Firsts, 412-456-6666, www.pifof.org.

11Legendary Dangdut Superstar Rhoma Irama and His Band Soneta, 8 p.m., Bellefield Hall Auditorium, free, Pitt Department of Music, 412-624-4125, www.music.pitt.edu.

12Heinz Chapel Choir, 3 p.m., Heinz Chapel, Bellefield Hall Auditorium, free, Pitt Department of Music, 412-624-4125, www.music.pitt.edu.

Robin Williams, comedian, 8 p.m., Ben-edum Center, 719 Liberty Ave., Downtown, 412-456-6666, www.pgharts.org.

14Music on the Edge Chamber Orchestra, music by John Adams, Amy Williams, Jonny Greenwood (Radio-head), and others, 8 p.m., Bellefield Hall Auditorium, Pitt Department of Music, 412-624-4125, www.music.pitt.edu.

15Kenia & Company, noon-1 p.m., Brazilian jazz band, free lunch, Nordy’s Place, Lower Level, Wil-liam Pitt Union, Artful Wednesdays, PITT ARTS, 412-624-4498, www.pittarts@pitt.edu.

Drue Heinz Literature Prize Reading and Award Ceremony, featuring 2008 Drue Heinz Litera-

ture Prize winner Anthony Varallo and 2008 Drue Heinz Literature Prize judge Scott Turow, 7:30 p.m., Frick Fine Arts Auditorium, Pittsburgh Contemporary Writers Series, 412-624-6506, or www.english.pitt.edu.

Temporada de Patos (2004), film directed by Fernando Eimbcke, 7:30 p.m., Frick Fine Arts Audi-torium, Latin American Film Series, Pitt’s Center for Latin American Studies, amigoscinelatinoameri-cano08@blogspot.com, clas@pitt.edu. Paul Muldoon, poetry reading, 8 p.m., Carnegie Library Lecture Hall, 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland, International Poetry Forum, 412-621-9893, www.thepoetryforum,org. The Clean House, Pulitzer Prize finalist play, through Oct. 26, Henry Heymann Theatre, Stephen Foster Memorial, 4301 Fifth Ave., Oakland, Univer-sity of Pittsburgh Repertory Theatre, 412-624-7529, www.pitt.play.edu.

16Memoire D’Immigres, parts two and three of French documentary (1997) directed by Yamina Benguigui, 7 p.m., Frick Fine Arts Auditorium, Beur Is Beautiful: Maghrebi-French Filmmaking series, Pitt’s Global Studies Program, 412-624-2918, www.ucis.pitt.edu/global/.

KASSYS’ Liga, theatrical performance by Dutch theater company, through Oct. 18, New Hazlett The-ater, Allegheny Square East, Northside, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, 412-471-6930, www.pgharts.org.

Diane’s Heart, through Nov.1, Kuntu Repertory Theatre, Seventh-Floor Auditorium, Alumni Hall, 412-624-7298, www.kuntu.org.

17The New World & Pittsburgh 250, also Oct. 19, featuring Leonard Slatkin, conductor; Hila Plitman, soprano; and the Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh, Heinz Hall; 600 Penn Ave., Downtown, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, 412-392-4200, www.pittsburgh-

symphony.org.

Defending the Caveman, theatrical perfor-mance, through Oct. 18, Byham Theater, 101 Sixth St., Downtown, 412-456-6666, www.

pgharts.org.

18Tallis Scholars, 8 p.m., Calvary Epis-

copal Church, 315 Shady Ave., Shadyside, Renaissance & Baroque Society of Pittsburgh, 412-682-7262. www.rbsp.org.

Sampson & Dalila, opera, through Oct. 26, Benedum Center, 719 Liberty Ave., Down-

town, Pittsburgh Opera, 412-281-0912, www.pghopera.org.

Fall Flower Show, through Nov. 9, Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens, One

Schenley Park, Oakland, 412-441-4442, www.phipps.conservatory.org.

19If You Give a Pig a Pancake, through Oct. 27, five locations including Byham Theater, 101 Sixth St., Downtown, Pittsburgh International Children’s Theater, 412-321-5520, www.pghkids.org.

OctoberThe Clean House

Pitt Repertory Theater,October 15-26

20Richard Russo, author, 7:30 p.m., Carnegie Music Hall, 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland, Drue Heinz Lec-ture Series, 412-624-4187, www.pittsburghlectures.org.

22The Pillow Project, noon-1 p.m., dance group, free lunch, Nordy’s Place, Lower Level, William Pitt Union, Artful Wednesdays, PITT ARTS, 412-624-4498, www.pittarts@pitt.edu.

23Wesh Wesh Qu’est ce qui se Passe? French film (2001) directed by Rabah Ameur-Zaimeche, 7 p.m., Frick Fine Arts Auditorium, Beur Is Beautiful: Maghrebi-French Filmmaking series, Pitt’s Global Studies Program, 412-624-2918, www.ucis.pitt.edu/global/.

The Department, performed by the Norwegian theater company Jo Stromgren Kompani, through Oct. 24, New Hazlett Theater, Allegheny Square East, Northside, Pittsburgh International Festival of Firsts, 412-471-6930, www.pgharts.org.

Long Story Short, by Brendan Milburn and Valerie Vigoda, through Nov. 16, Pittsburgh City Theatre, 1300 Bingham St., South Side, 412-431-2489, www.citytheatrecompany.org.

24Shakespeare & Steinbacher, through Oct. 26, featuring Marek Janowski, conductor; Arabella Steinballer, violin; Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., Downtown, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, 412-392-4200, www.pittsburghsymphony.org.

25From Michelangelo to Annibale Carracci: A Cen-tury of Italian Drawings, through Jan. 4, Frick Art and Historical Center, 7227 Reynolds St., Point Breeze, 412-371-0600, www.frickart.org.

Fall Flower ShowOctober 18-November 9

The Pillow ProjectOctober 22

Robin WilliamsOctober 12

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1Jan Brett, author and illustrator, 10:30 a.m., Carnegie Library Lecture Hall, 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland, Pittsburgh Arts and Lectures, Black, White, & Read All Over series, 412-622-8866, www.pittsburghlectures.org.

Annual Jazz Seminar and Concert, 8 p.m., Carnegie Music Hall, 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland, Pitt Department of Music, 412-624-4187, www.music.pitt.edu.

Inbal Pinto: Shaker, dance performance, 8:30 p.m., Byham Theater, 101 Sixth St., Downtown, Pittsburgh Dance Council, 412-456-6666, www.pgharts.org.

Giovanni Battista Piranesi: Architecture and the Spaces of the Imagination, art exhibition, through Feb. 15, Scaife Works on Paper Gallery, Carnegie Museum of Art, 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland, 412-688-8690, www.cmoa.org.

2Capitol Steps, political satire theatrical troupe, 4 p.m., Byham Theater, 101 Sixth St, Downtown, 412-456-6666, www.pgharts.org.

Music on the Edge: Franz Lehar Composer-in-residence Betsy Jolas, 8 p.m., Bellefield Hall Auditorium, Pitt Department of Music, 412-624-4125, www.music.pitt.edu.

5Musuhalpa, noon-1 p.m., music from Peru, Bolivia, and Ecua-dor, free lunch, Nordy’s Place, Lower Level, William Pitt Union, Artful Wednesdays, PITT ARTS, 412-624-4498, www.pittarts@pitt.edu.

Las Doce Sillas (1962), film directed by Tomas Gutierrez Alea, 7:30 p.m., Frick Fine Arts Auditorium, Latin American Film Series, Pitt’s Center for Latin American Studies, amigoscinelatino-americano08@blogspot.com, clas@pitt.edu.

Paul Rusesabagina, humanitarian and feature character of film Hotel Rwanda, 8 p.m., Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., Down-town, Robert Morris University’s Pitts-burgh Speakers Series, 412-392-4900, www.pittsburghspeakersseries.org.

Mamma Mia! musical, through Nov. 9, Benedum Center, 719 Liberty Ave., Downtown, PNC Broadway Across America, 412-456-6666, www.broad-wayacrossamerica.com.

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Heinz Chapel Choir, November 29

27“What Is the European Genizah? A Survey of Hebrew Manuscript Discoveries in Italy and Spain and Their Importance for Jewish Stud-ies,” Mauro Perani, University of Bologna profes-sor of Hebrew codicology and palaeography, 4 p.m., 501 Cathedral of Learning, Jewish Studies Program and the Department of French and Italian Languages and Literatures, 412-624-5520.

Lista de Espera (2000), film directed by Juan Carlos Tabio, 7:30 p.m., Frick Fine Arts Auditorium, Latin American Film Series, Pitt’s Center for Latin American Studies, amigoscinelatinoamericano08@blogspot.com, clas@pitt.edu.

Emerson String Quartet, featuring pieces by Haydn, Shostakovich, and Dvorak, 8 p.m., Carnegie Music Hall, 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland, Pittsburgh Chamber Music Society, 412-624-4129, www.pitts-burghchambermusic.org.

28Ken Burns, lecture by award-winning documentar-ian, 7:30 p.m., Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall and Museum, 4141 Fifth Avenue, Oakland, Gerald McGinnis Cardiovascular Institute Speaker Series, 412-621-4253, www.soldiersandsailorshall.org.

Downtown, Pittsburgh Opera, 412-281-0912, www.pghopera.org.

17Jackie Kay, Scottish-Nigerian adoptee poet and fiction writer, reading, 7 p.m., Power Center Ballroom, Duquesne University, 1015 Forbes Ave., Uptown, Pitt’s Department of English, Women’s Studies Program, and the Pittsburgh Consortium for Adoption Studies, www.wstud-ies.pitt.edu.

David Macaulay, author, 7:30 p.m., Carnegie Music Hall, 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland, Drue Heinz Lecture Series, 412-624-4187, www.pittsburghlectures.org.

18Jackie Kay, Scottish-Nigerian adoptee poet and fiction writer, reading, 8:30 p.m., 501 Cathedral of Learning, Pitt’s Department of English, Women’s Studies Program, and Pittsburgh Consortium for Adoption Studies,

www.wstudies.pitt.edu.

Al Jarreau, November 14

LysistrataPitt Repertory Theater,October 29-November 9

Carlos Mencia, November 15

NovemberPeg Boyers, poetry read-ing, 8 p.m., Carnegie Library Lecture Hall, 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland, Interna-tional Poetry Forum, 412-621-9893, www.thepoetryforum.org.

13Fred R. Brown Literary Award Reading and Ceremony, novelist Sabina Murray, 8:30 p.m., Frick Fine Arts Auditorium, Pittsburgh Contempo-rary Writers Series, 412-624-6506, www.english.pitt.edu.

The Lady With All the Answers, through Dec. 14, Pittsburgh Public Theater, 621 Penn Ave., Down-town, 412-316-1600, www.ppt.org.

The Brothers Size, through Dec. 21, Pittsburgh City Theatre, 1300 Bingham St., South Side, 412-431-2489, www.citytheatrecompany.org.

14Al Jarreau, singer and seven-time Grammy Award winner, 8 p.m., Byham Theater, 101 Sixth St., Downtown, 412-456-6666, www.pgharts.org.

15Carlos Mencia, comedic performance, 7 p.m., Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., Downtown, 412-392-4200, www.pgharts.org.

The Grapes of Wrath, opera based on the novel by John Steinbeck, through Nov. 23, Benedum Center, 719 Liberty Ave.,

29Mata String Quartet, noon-1 p.m., free lunch, Nordy’s Place, Lower Level, William Pitt Union, Artful Wednesdays, PITT ARTS, 412-624-4498, www.pittarts@pitt.edu.

Eu tu Eles (2000), film directed by Andrucha Wad-dington, 7:30 p.m., Frick Fine Arts Auditorium, Latin American Film Series, Pitt’s Center for Latin American Studies, amigoscinelatinoamericano08@blogspot.com, clas@pitt.edu.

University of Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, featuring Janacek’s The Village Fiddler’s Child Ballad and Ives’ Symphony No. 2, 8 p.m., free, Bellefield Hall Auditorium, Pitt Department of Music, 412-624-4125, www.music.pitt.edu.

Russell Banks, fiction writer and poet, 8:30 p.m., David Lawrence Hall, Pittsburgh Contemporary Writers Series, 412-624-6506, or www.english.pitt.edu.

Lysistrata, political comedy, through Nov. 9, Studio Theatre, Room B-72 Cathedral of Learning, Univer-sity of Pittsburgh Repertory Theatre, 412-624-7529, www.pitt.play.edu.

30“Reading and Writing Chinese,” Charles Perfetti, director of Pitt’s Learning Research and Development Center, noon, 4130 Posvar Hall, Asia Over Lunch Lecture Series, 412-648-7370.

Voisins, Voisines, French film (2005) directed by Malik Chibane, 7 p.m., Frick Fine Arts Auditorium, Beur Is Beautiful: Maghrebi-French Filmmaking series, Pitt’s Global Studies Program, 412-624-2918, www.ucis.pitt.edu/global/.

31Biss Plays Mozart, through Nov. 2, featuring Marek Janowski, conductor, and Jonathan Biss, piano, Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., Downtown, Pitts-burgh Symphony Orchestra, 412-392-4200, www.pittsburghsymphony.org.

The Great Gatsby, ballet, through Nov. 2, Benedum Center, 719 Liberty Ave., Downtown, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, 412-456-6666, www.pgharts.org.

6Reading on Mars, literary readings celebrating Life on Mars, the 2008 Carnegie International, 7:30 p.m., Carnegie Library Lecture Hall, 400 Forbes Ave., Oakland, American Shorts Reading Series, 412-622-8866, www.pittsburghlectures.org.

“Mrs. Polonius Goes to Italy: An Intimate Guide to Shakespeare’s Europe,” Julia Reinhard Lupton, professor of English and comparative literature, University of California, Irvine, 4 p.m., also Nov. 7, G24 Cathedral of Learning, Department of French and Italian Languages and Literatures, 412-624-5220.

Michael Cavanaugh Sings the Music of Billy Joel & More, through Nov. 9, Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., Downtown, PNC Pittsburgh Symphony POPS! Series, 412-392-4200, www.pittsburghsym-phony.org.

Cinderella, by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, through

Nov. 9, Byham Theater, 101 Sixth St., Downtown, Pitts-burgh Musical Theater, 412-539-0900, www.pitts-burghmusicals.com.

10Emerson String Quartet, 8 p.m., featuring pieces by Haydn, Shostakovich, and Dvorak, Carnegie Music Hall, 4400 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh Chamber Music Society, 412-624-4129, www.pittsburghchamber-music.org.

Hee-Sun Kim and K’ Arts Korean Music Ensemble,

traditional and contempo-rary Korean music and dance, 8 p.m., free, Bellefield Hall Auditorium, Pitt Department of Music, 412-624-4125, www.music.pitt.edu.

12Dance Alloy, Pittsburgh modern dance company, noon-1 p.m., free lunch, Nordy’s Place, Lower Level, William Pitt Union, Artful Wednesdays, PITT ARTS, 412-624-4498, www.pittarts@pitt.edu.

Cenizas del Paraiso (1997), film directed by Marcelo Pineyro, 7:30 p.m., Frick Fine Arts Auditorium, Latin American Film Series, Pitt’s Center for Latin American Studies, ami-goscinelatinoamericano08@blogspot.com, clas@pitt.edu.

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NovemberLang Lang in Recital, featuring famous pianist, 7:30 p.m., Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh Symphony, Downtown, 412-392-4200, www.pitts-burghsymphony.org.

19Duende Camaron, Bolivian guitarists play flamenco music, noon-1 p.m., free lunch, Nordy’s Place, Lower Level, William Pitt Union, Artful Wednesdays, PITT ARTS, 412-624-4498, www.pittarts@pitt.edu.

The Velveteen Rabbit, 2 p.m., through Nov. 23, five locations including Byham Theater, 101 Sixth St., Downtown, Pittsburgh International Children’s Theater, 412-321-5520, www.pghkids.org.

20Honeck & Ohlsson, through Nov. 23, featuring Manfred Honeck, conductor, and Garrick Ohlsson, piano, Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh Sym-phony Orchestra, Downtown, 412-392-4200, www.pittsburghsymphony.org.

22Mark Teague, author, 10:30 a.m., Carnegie Library Lecture Hall, 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland, Pittsburgh Arts and Lectures, Black, White, & Read All Over Series, 412-622-8866, www.pittsburghlec-tures.org.

Doug Varone and Dancers, 8 p.m., Byham Theater, 101 Sixth St., Downtown, Pittsburgh Dance Council, 412-456-6666, www.pgharts.org.

Music on the Edge: NOW, 8 p.m., Bellefield Hall Auditorium, tickets required, Pitt Department of Music, 412-624-4125, www.music.pitt.edu.

Frank Caliendo, comedic performance, 8:30 p.m., Benedum Center, 719 Liberty Ave., Downtown, 412-456-6666, www.pgharts.org.

25Monty Python’s Spamalot, through Nov. 30, Ben-edum Center, 719 Liberty Ave., Downtown, PNC Broadway Across America 412-456-6666, www.broadwayacrossamerica.com.

28Late Night Swing with the Boilermaker Jazz Band, 10:30 p.m., Late Night Cabaret Theater, Cabaret at Theater Square, 655 Penn Ave., Down-town, 412-325-6769, www.pgharts.org.

Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, also on Nov. 30, Manfred Honeck, conductor, and Lars Vogt, piano, Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., Downtown, 412-392-4200, www.pittsburghsymphony.org.

Winter Flower Show, through Jan. 4, Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens, One Schenley Place, Oakland, 412-441-4442, www.phipps.conser-vatory.org.

C A L E N D A R

December

Hill, The Pittsburgh Camerata, 412-421-5884, www.pittsburghcamerata.org.

The Nutcracker, through Dec. 27, Benedum Center, 719 Liberty Ave., Downtown, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, 412-281-0360, www.pbt.org.

14And the Angels Sing, 3 p.m., River City Brass Band, Pasquerilla Performing Arts Center, Uni-versity of Pittsburgh Johnstown, 412-322-7222, www.rcbb.com.

17Highmark Holiday Pops: Holiday Memo-ries With the PSO, Daniel Meyer, conductor, Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh, Attack Theater, Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., Downtown, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, 412-392-4200, www.pittsburghsymphony.org.

18THE SECOND CITY in Prat Fall of Civilization,

improvisational theater troupe, through Dec. 20, Pittsburgh Public Theater,

621 Penn Ave., Downtown, 412-316-1600, www.ppt.org.

A Lyrical Christmas Carol, through Dec. 21, New Hazlett Theater, Allegheny Square East, Northside, Pittsburgh Musical The-

ater, 412-539-0900, ww.pittsburghmusicals.

com.

23Annie, through Dec. 28, Benedum Center, 719 Liberty Ave., Downtown, PNC Broadway Across America,

412-456-6666, www.broadway-acrossamerica.com.

The Nutcracker December 12

Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra

November 28 and November 30

29American Idol Christmas Show, featuring past finalists of hit television series, 8 p.m., Byham Theater, 101 Sixth St., Downtown, 412-456-6666, www.pgharts.org.

Heinz Chapel Choir Holiday Concerts, 8 p.m. Nov. 29; 3 p.m. Nov. 30; 8 p.m. Dec. 5; and 3 p.m. Dec. 7, advance tickets required, Pitt Department of Music, 412-624-4125, www.music.pitt.edu.

atre, Stephen Foster Memorial, Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theatre,412-561-6000, www.pictheatre.org.

5African Music and Dance Ensemble Fall Concert, Bellefield Hall Auditorium, ticket information to be announced, Pitt Department of Music, 412-624-4125, www.music.pitt.edu.

Slatkin Conducts West Side Story, through Dec. 6, featuring Leonard Slatkin, conductor; pieces by Bernstein, Higdon, and Copland; Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., Downtown, Pitts-burgh Symphony Orchestra, 412-392-4200, www.pittsburghsymphony.org.

Dirty Little Secrets, through Dec. 8, New Hazlett Theater, Allegheny Square East, North Side, Pittsburgh Dance Alloy, 412-320-4610, www.dancealloy.org.

6Men’s Glee Club Holiday Concert, 8 p.m., tickets required, First Baptist Church, 159 Bellefield Ave., Oakland, Pitt Department of Music, 412-624-4125, www.music.pitt.edu.

Rebel, 8 p.m., Synod Hall, Fifth Avenue and North Craig Street, Oakland, Renaissance & Baroque Society of Pittsburgh, 412-682-7262. www.rbsp.org.

Women’s Choral Ensemble Holiday Concert, 8 p.m., Heinz Chapel, tickets required, Pitt Department of Music, 412-624-4125, www.music.pitt.edu.

8Jupiter String Quartet, 8 p.m., featur-ing pieces by Haydn, Shostakovich, Gubaidulina, and Beethoven, Carnegie Music Hall, 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland, Pittsburgh Chamber Music Society, 412-624-4129, www.pittsburghchamber-music.org.

10Cleopatra (2003), film directed by Eduardo Mignona, 7:30 p.m., Frick Fine Arts Auditorium, Latin American Film Series, Pitt’s Center for Latin American Studies, amigoscinelatinoamericano08@blogspot.com, clas@pitt.edu.

Yannis Simonides, perform-ing his one-man show “The Apology Project,” 8 p.m., Carnegie Library Lecture Hall, 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland, International Poetry Forum, 412-621-9893, www.thepoetryfo-rum.org.

12Handel’s Messiah, featuring Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh, 8 p.m., also Handel’s Messiah Sing-Along on Dec. 13, Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., Downtown, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, 412-392-4200, www.pittsburgh-symphony.org.

Illuminare-The Light of Christ-mas, 8 p.m., Sixth Presbyterian Church, 1688 Murray Ave., Squirrel

Winter Flower Show November 28-

January 4

Garrison Keillor December 3

1History Center Holiday Book Fair, 10 a.m., John Heinz History Center, 1212 Smallman St., Strip District, 412-454-6373, www.pgh-history.org.

Will Shortz, crossword puzzle editor for The New York Times, 7:30 p.m., Carnegie Music Hall, 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland, Drue Heinz Lecture Series, 412-624-4187, www.pittsburghlectures.org.

2Frost-Nixon, theatrical performance, through Dec. 7, Benedum Center, 719 Liberty Ave., Downtown, PNC Broadway Across America, 412-456-6666, www.broadwayacrossamerica.com.

3Acoustic Rootz, music of the islands played by vibrant acoustic quartet, noon-1 p.m., free lunch, Nordy’s Place, Lower Level of William Pitt Union, Artful Wednesdays, PITT ARTS, 412-624-4498, www.pittarts@pitt.edu.

University of Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, featuring Berlioz’s Symphony Fantastique, 8 p.m., free, Bellefield Hall Auditorium, Pitt Department of Music, 412-624-4125, www.music.pitt.edu.

Garrison Keillor, humorist and radio host, 8 p.m., Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., Down-town, Robert Morris University’s Pitts-burgh Speakers Series, 412-392-4900, www.pittsburghspeakersseries.org.

Dublin Carol by Conor McPherson, through Dec. 20, Henry Heymann The-

September 22, 2008 • University of Pittsburgh • 9

By Amanda Leff

Pitt’s International Week 2008 will celebrate the cultural diversity of the Uni-versity, Oakland, and the greater Pittsburgh community Sept. 22-28. The week features panel discussions, lectures, and international food, dance, art, music, and films.

International Week aims to expand the awareness of and interest in global learning opportunities by celebrating the intercultural diversity of campus life. It also supports and complements the University’s academic and public service missions.

This year’s International Week lineup includes four lectures of global interest by renowned experts in the fields of interna-tional public health, business, and law, and on the war on terror. More information on these events as well as other highlights follow.

Sept. 23Lecture

“The Eradication of Smallpox: What We Should Have Learned but Didn’t”

3 p.m., Frick Fine Arts AuditoriumThe 2008 John C. Cutler Memorial

Lecture in Global Health will feature D.A. Henderson, Pitt University Distinguished Service Professor and Resident Scholar at UPMC’s Center for Biosecurity, on the eradi-cation of smallpox—a remarkable victory for international public health. Henderson was director of the World Health Organization’s global smallpox eradication campaign and the founding director of the Center for Civil-ian Biodefense Strategies at Johns Hopkins University. The Graduate School of Public Health (GSPH) is sponsoring the event.

PerformanceSteel Pan Drummers6-8 p.m., William Pitt Union (WPU)

BallroomSteel pan drummers will perform in

celebration of the Afro-Caribbean culture. The African Studies Program and the Afri-can Student Organization are cosponsoring the event.

Oakland International Restaurant Tour

6-9 p.m., various Oakland restaurantsSample a variety of international

foods at participating restaurants with the

International Week Sept. 22-28 Celebrates Cultural Diversity

purchase of a ticket ($10 in advance/$15 at the door). Only 300 tickets are available for purchase.

Sept. 24 Presentations

International Research by Pitt Stu-dents

All-day event, WPUUndergraduate and graduate students

will present their research on a variety of international topics. Pitt’s GSPH, Interna-tional Business Center (IBC), and University Center for International Studies (UCIS) Area Study Center are cosponsoring the event.

Lecture and Panel Discussion “Chindia Rising: How China and India

Will Benefit the Global Economy”11:30 a.m.-1 p.m., WPU Lower

LoungeJagdish Sheth, the Charles H. Kellstadt

Professor of Marketing in the Goizueta Business School at Emory University, will discuss how the rise of China and India (Chindia) is not only inevitable, but also will be beneficial to the world. Sheth’s talk will be followed by a discussion. Panelists are Pitt faculty members Thomas Rawski, professor of economics; Ravi Madhavan, professor of business administration; and Bopaya Bidanda, professor and chair of industrial engineering. Lawrence Feick, director of UCIS, senior director of interna-

tional programs, and professor of business administration, will moderate the panel. Pitt’s IBC and Asian Studies Center are cosponsoring the event.

Sept. 25 Lecture

“The Rule of Law in Modern Iraq: Personal Perspectives”

6 p.m., Teplitz Memorial Courtroom, Barco Law Building

Haider Ala Hamoudi, Pitt professor of law, and U.S. Marine Colonel Paul Amato will present the first lecture in the Center for International Legal Education Rule of Law Lecture Series for the 2008-09 academic year. Hamoudi served as project manager for the DePaul University/USAID program to reform legal education in Iraq and as legal advisor to the finance committee of the Iraqi Governing Council. Amato served as the Marine Rule of Law Officer and later, the senior advisor for a Military Transition Team in Anbar Province. Amato worked to develop the criminal court system in Anbar and later trained, advised, and mentored members of the Iraqi Army.

Lecture“A Status Report on the Global War

on Terror”7 p.m., WPU Lower LoungeThe Ridgway Center for International

Security Studies Speaker Series will present

By Patricia Lomando White

Between the end of World War II and the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court Roe v. Wade decision, 1.5 million American women gave up their children for adoption because of enormous family and social pressure.

Ann Fessler, author, artist, and film-maker, will discuss her film in progress based on her book The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women

Rand Beers, founder and president of the National Security Network. Previously, Beers served as the national security adviser to the Kerry-Edwards 2004 presi-dential campaign and was a civil servant for 35 years. The Matthew B. Ridgway Center for International Security Studies and the National Security Network are cosponsoring the event.

Sept. 26 Study Abroad Information Session: International Fair

11 a.m.–3 p.m., WPU Ballroom and Kurtzman Room

Students who are interested in study-ing abroad can discover the thousands of study abroad options available. Study abroad providers and student cultural organizations will be available to answer questions. Participants also will be able to enjoy cuisine from around the globe.

Sixth Annual African Festival2–10 p.m., WPU Assembly RoomStudents will display photo journals

and artifacts from trips to Africa. Other highlights include a performance and dance workshop, an African experience and research panel discussion, dinner fea-turing tastes of the Congo and Ethiopia, and a lecture on Africa’s infrastructure.

Sept. 27 29th Annual Latin American and Caribbean Festival

Noon-midnight, WPUThe diversity of Latin American

and Caribbean cultures will be displayed through exhibitions, food, arts and crafts, fine art, music, and dance. The festival will feature special guest Lula das Vassouras, a Brazilian carnival mask artist since the 1960s. He will display his masks and dem-onstrate how he creates them. Masks will be available for sale to the public. At 10 p.m., salsa dancing with Marlon Silva will begin in the WPU Assembly Room.

For more information about Inter-national Week, contact Global Studies at 412-648-5085 or global@pitt.edu. Visit www.ucis.pitt.edu/global/international-week for a complete calendar of events.

Sept. 22 Pitt Forum to Feature Author Discussing Adoption Prior to Roe v. WadeWho Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade (Pen-guin Press, 2006) at 8 p.m. Sept. 22 in the University of Pittsburgh Frick Fine Arts Auditorium.

Lucy Fischer, Pitt Dis-tinguished Professor of Film in the School of Arts and Sciences, and Jeanne Hood, of Adoption Network Cleve-land and a birth mother, will offer brief responses follow-ing the film’s screening.

T h i s s h o w i n g o f Fessler’s as-of-yet-untitled film likely will be the only screening until its release in 2009. The film explores the gap between the pri-vate experiences and public images of single women who became pregnant in the three decades leading up to the feminist movement of the 1970s.

“This film is a heart-breaking collision of the authoritative ‘educational’ films and scripted ‘news-reels’ of the time that rein-forced shame and perpetu-ated the notion that babies born outside of

marriage were unwanted, and the voice-over testimony of the mothers who lived through

the experience,” said Fessler, who is an adop-tee.

T he Gir l s W ho Went Away is based on oral history inter-views Fessler conducted between 2002 and 2005 with “surrendering” mothers across the coun-try. She was awarded a prestigious Radcliffe Fellowship for 2003-04 at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, where she conducted extensive research for the book. In 2006, her book was selected by the National Book Critics Circle as one of the top five nonfiction books of the year.

Fessler is a profes-sor of photography at Rhode Island School of Design and a specialist in installation art. She also is the recipient of

grants from the National Endowment for

the Arts, the LEF Foundation, the Rhode Island Foundation, Rhode Island Council for the Humanities, and Art Matters, New York. In 2008, Fessler received the Ballard Book Prize given annually to a female author who advances the dialogue about women’s rights.

The Pittsburgh Consortium for Adop-tion Studies (PCAS) and Pitt’s School of Arts and Sciences, Women’s Studies Program, Department of English, and Cultural Studies Program are sponsoring the event.

PCAS is a group of scholars and writ-ers in the Pittsburgh area who want to advance the understanding of adoption in both academic and nonacademic settings and includes faculty members from Pitt, Duquesne, Carlow, and Carnegie-Mellon universities. Units at all of these universi-ties have contributed to funding. Through a coordinated series of events, the consortium provides a prominent forum for students and faculty whose research, writing, and/or teaching deals with adoption, spreads information about adoption-related courses, and also serves the public need for more understanding of adoption.

Information about PCAS is available on www.english.pitt.edu/adoption_studies/index.html. For information on the event, contact Marianne Novy at mnovy@pitt.edu.

“This film is a heart-breaking collision of the authoritative ‘educational’ films and scripted ‘newsreels’ of the time that reinforced shame and perpetuated the notion that babies born outside of mar-riage were unwanted, and the voice-over testimony of the moth-ers who lived through the experience.”—Ann Fessler

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By Patricia Lomando White

The 2008-09 Pittsburgh Contemporary Writers Series launched its 11th season on Sept. 12 with a reading by poet Claudia Rankine. The schedule for the remainder of the series follows.

Sept. 29 Maxine Hong Kingston8:30 p.m., David Lawrence HallA writer of fiction and nonfiction,

Kingston is the author of China Men (Knopf, 1980) and The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (Knopf, 1976).

Oct. 15 Drue Heinz Literature Prize Read-

ing and Award Ceremony With Anthony Varallo and Scott Turow

7:30 p.m., Frick Fine Arts AuditoriumVarallo, the 2008 Drue Heinz Litera-

ture Prize winner for the short story collec-tion OutLoud (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008), is also the author of the story collection This Day in History (University of Iowa Press, 2005).

Turow, the 2008 Drue Heinz Literature Prize judge, is the author of Limitations (Picador, 2006), Ordinary Heroes (Farrar Straus Giroux, 2005), and Reversible Errors (Farrar Straus Giroux, 2002), as well as several other books.

Oct. 29 Russell Banks8:30 p.m., David Lawrence HallA writer of both fiction and poetry,

Banks is the author of The Reserve (Harper Collins, 2008), Cloudsplitter (Harper Col-lins, 1998), and Rule of the Bone (Harper Collins, 1995), as well as other books.

Nov. 13 Fred R. Brown Literary Award Read-

ing and Award Ceremony8:30 p.m., Frick Fine Arts AuditoriumNovelist Sabina Murray, the author

of Forgery (Grove Press, 2007), A Car-nivore’s Inquiry (Grove Press, 2004), and The Caprices (Houghton Mifflin, 2002), will read.

Feb. 6 Microconference on African Ameri-

can PoetryOpening Remarks by Arnold Ramp-

ersadNoon, 501 Cathedral of LearningRampersad, a biographer and literary

critic, is the author of several books, includ-ing Ralph Ellison (Knopf, 2007), Jackie Robinson: A Biography (Knopf, 1997), and Days of Grace: A Memoir (Knopf, 1993).

Panel Discussion: Tradition and the New

2 p.m., 501 Cathedral of Learning Mendi Obadike, a poet and interdis-

ciplinary artist, is the author of Armor and

Pittsburgh Contemporary Writers SeriesCelebrates Literature and Creative Thought

Flesh (Lotus Press, 2004). Her work has appeared in such publications as the Art Journal, Artthrob, and Black Arts Quar-terly.

G.E. Patterson, a poet and freelance writer, is the author of To and From (Ahsahta Press, 2008) and Tug (Graywolf Press, 1999). His work has appeared in such publications as Bum Rush the Page, Poetry 180, and American Letters and Commentary.

Carl Phillips, a poet, is the author of Quiver of Arrows: Selected Poems 1986-2006 (Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2007), Pastoral (Graywolf Press, 2000), In the Blood (Northeastern University Press, 1992), and other books.

Poetry Readings7 p.m., Giant Eagle Auditorium, Carn-

egie Mellon University’s Baker Hall, 5000 Forbes Ave., Oakland

Obadike, Patterson, Phillips, and Rampersad

Feb. 26 William Henry Lewis8:30 p.m., 501 Cathedral of Learning A writer of fiction and nonfiction, Lewis

is the author of the short story collection I Got Somebody in Staunton (Amistad/Harper Collins, 2005) as well as In the Arms of Our Elders (Carolina Wren Press, 1995). His works of fiction have appeared in such publications as Ploughshares, African American Review, and Best American Short Stories 1996. His works of nonfiction have appeared in Black Issues in Higher Educa-tion, Washington Post Book World, and O Magazine.

April 2 2008-09 William Block Sr. Writer

Reading and Presentation With Paul Muldoon

8:30 p.m., Frick Fine Arts AuditoriumMuldoon, a poet and editor, is the

author of more than 25 collections of poetry and two children’s books and has served as an editor of various anthologies and literary publications. He has been described by The Times Literary Supplement as “the most significant English-language poet born since the Second World War.”

The 2008-09 Pittsburgh Contemporary Writers Series season is cosponsored by Pitt’s University Center for International Studies, Asian Studies Center, China Coun-cil Confucious Institute, Cultural Studies Program, Women’s Studies Program, and Book Center, and by the Carnegie Mellon University Creative Writing Program.

All events in the Writers Series are free and open to the public. For more informa-tion, contact Nicole Wolinsky at nrw1@pitt.edu or Jeff Oaks at oaks@pitt.edu.

Neil M. Resnick (left), director of Pitt’s institute on Aging, talks with Thomas Detre (right), Distinguished senior Vice Chancellor emeritus for the Health sciences and Distinguished service Professor emeritus of Psychiatry at Pitt, during a sept. 2 reception at the Duquesne Club, Downtown. The event celebrated Resnick being named the Thomas Detre endowed Chair in Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine. Resnick also is a professor and chief of the Division of Geriatric Medicine in Pitt’s school of Medicine. On sept. 11, Resnick delivered a speech, “From the Bench to Bedside and Beyond: A Vision for Geriatrics,” as part of the Provost’s inaugural Lectures series.

His excellency Pierre Vimont (left), France’s ambassador to the united states, visited Pitt’s Oakland campus on sept. 15 and delivered an address about the european union. He stands with Pitt Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg (right). The event was sponsored by Pitt’s european union Center of excellence and european studies Center.

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But Rosie and her compatriots never lose sight of the war’s scope and their con-nection to it. Haines spins a world of constant exposure, where cooperation and sacrifice are expected—V-mail, posters, rubber drives, Frank Capra’s “Why We Fight” movies, casualty lists in the newspaper with mail-ing addresses. A girl cannot help but feel involved.

In tailing murderers, Rosie wrestles with the guilt of pursuing her dream career while helping her country. As an actress herself, Haines knows the inherent narcis-sism of the craft and wanted to pit it against a societal call for altruism. With such a gulf, Rosie and her plucky thespian pals compro-mise—entertain soldiers at the famed Stage Door Canteen; rub shoulders with a director, producer, or reviewer while they’re there.

As Haines immersed herself in the 1940s, though, she realized the extent to which modern Americans can insulate themselves from today’s wars.

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War According to Ms. Haines“In the 1940s, everything was pulled

back for the war effort,” Haines said. “Today, we’ve been told to stimulate the economy and spend, spend, spend. We see bumper stick-ers, magnets, and small rallies, but not the mandated exposure. It’s not the same, and I don’t know what to make of that.”

I hated news bulletins that inter-rupted our regular programs with tales of sunken ships, downed planes, and bombs ripping apart the London skyline… The message was clear—the end was nowhere in sight. (Rosie Winter in The Winter of Her Dis-content)

For more information, visit Haines’ Web site at www.kathrynmillerhaines.com.

A recently dedicated mural in Blaisdell Hall at the university of Pittsburgh Bradford depicts each of the fine arts taught in that building. The work was designed and painted by a summer-term mural class taught by Kong Ho, uPB art professor and a well-known muralist. A.J. Laganosky (right), a senior interdisciplinary arts major from Carlisle, Pa., and ‘BioDun Ogundayo (left), a professor of French and comparative literature, dis-cuss the mural’s imagery. Laganosky was one of 10 students who worked on the mural under Ho’s guidance.

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Happenings

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Lectures/Seminars/ReadingsTina Brown, author, 7:30 p.m. Sept. 22, Carnegie Music Hall, 4400 Forbes Ave., Drue Heinz Lecture Series, 412-624-4187, www.pittsburghlectures.org.

“Patient Choice Cesarean: The Role of Evidence and Ethics,” Frank A. Chervenak, Cornell University Given Foundation Professor and chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecol-ogy at New York Presbyterian Hospital, 7:30 a.m. Sept. 23, Magee Women’s Hospital Auditorium, Grand Rounds Fall 2008, 412-647-5785. www.pitt.edu/~bioethics.

“Ethical and Legal Challenges of Decision Making During Pregnancy: Intact and Impaired and Intact Capacity,” Frank A. Chervenak, Cornell University Given Foundation Professor and chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at New York Presbyte-rian Hospital, noon Sept. 23, Room 113 School of Law, Pitt’s Center for Bioethics and Health Law, Grand Rounds Fall 2008, 412-647-5785, www.pitt.edu/~bioethic.

“Harnessing Possible Selves: Identity-based Motivation and Improved Academic Attainment,” Daphna Oyserman, research professor in The University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research, noon Sept. 23, School of Social Work Conference Center, 2017 Cathedral of Learning, Pitt’s Center on Race and Social Problems, Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC Fall 2008 Speaker Series, 412-624-7382, www.crsp.pitt.edu.

“The Eradication of Smallpox: What We Should Have Learned but Didn’t,” Donald Henderson, Pitt professor of public health and medicine, and resident scholar at UPMC’s Center for Biosecurity, 3 p.m. Sept. 23, Frick Fine Arts Audi-torium, 2008 John C. Cutler Memorial Lecture in Global Health, 412-383-8849, www.ucis.pitt.edu/global/international-week.

“Chindia Rising: How China and India Will Benefit the Global Economy,” lecture and panel discussion, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Sept. 24, Lower Lounge, William Pitt Union, Pitt’s Interna-tional Business Center and Asian Studies Center, Pitt’s Interna-tional Week 2008, 412-624-2918, www.ucis.pitt.edu/asc.

“Postpartum Depression: A 30-Year Odys-sey,” Michael O’Hara, University of Iowa professor of psychology, 3 p.m. Sept. 24, 4127 Sennott Square, Pitt’s Deparment of Psychology, 412-624-8792, www.psychology.pitt.edu.

“Why Is Pacific Islands Studies Part of Asian Studies? Asian Connections in Pacific Prehis-tory,” Richard Scaglion, Pitt professor of anthol-ogy, noon Sept. 25, 4130 Posvar Hall, Pitt Asian Studies Center, Asia Over Lunch Lecture Series, 412-648-7370, www.ucis.pitt.edu/asc.

“A Declaration of Independence,” Lawrence Lessig, Stanford University professor of law, 3 p.m. Sept. 25, Teplitz Memorial Courtroom, Barco Law Build-ing, Pitt’s School of Information Sciences, 2008 Sara Fine Institute Annual Lecture, 412-624-2677, www.ischool.pitt.edu.

“The Rule of Law in Modern Iraq: Personal Perspectives,” Haider Ala Hamoudi, Pitt professor of law, and Paul Amato, officer in the U.S. Marine Corps, 6 p.m. Sept. 25, Teplitz Memorial Court-room, Barco Law Building, 2008-09 Rule of Law Lecture Series, 412-383-6754, www.law.pitt.edu/cile.

“A Status Report on the Global War on Terror,” Rand Beers, founder and president of the National Security Network, 7 p.m. Sept. 25, Lower Lounge, William Pitt Union, Pitt’s Graduate School for International Affairs, Pitt’s International Week 2008, brizzi@gspia.pitt.edu, www.gspia.pitt.edu.

Seminar on Google Analytics, 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Sept. 26, register for first or second session for $25, or both sessions for $40, Mukaiyama University Room, Frame-Westerberg Commons, University of Pittsburgh at Bradford, Pitt-Bradford Entrepreneurship Program, register at www.pittpowerofe.com, 814-362-5056.

“Walking the Magazine, Reading the Street: The Birth of the Capital-ist Semiosis in Japanese Women’s Magazines, 1900-1930,” Miyako Inoue, Stanford University professor of anthropology, 3 p.m. Sept. 26, Anthropol-ogy Lounge, Posvar Hall, 412-648-7763, www.ucis.pitt.edu/asc.

“Edward K. Muller, The Scholar in the Community” panel discussion, 3:30-5:30 p.m. Sept. 26, Lower Lounge William Pitt Union, Pitt’s Department of History, Book Symposia Series, 412-648-7451, www.pitt.edu/%7epitthist/. (see p. 2)

“Responsible Conduct of Research for Emerging Investigators: Understand-ing Relations Between Academia and Industry,” Barbara E. Barnes, assistant vice chancellor for continuing educa-tion in Pitt’s School of Health Sciences, and Leland L. Glenna, professor of rural sociology at Penn State University, 9 a.m.-noon Oct. 1, Connolly Ballroom, Alumni Hall, SCIENCE 2008 Preview Event for Postdoctoral Fellows and Graduate Students, Pitt Office of Academic Career Development, 412-648-8486, register at www.science2008.pitt.edu/specialevents.html.

MiscellaneousHealth, Safety, and Security Day, 10:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Sept. 30, Wil-liam Pitt Union Patio and Lawn, Pitt Department of Environmental Health and Safety and Staff Association Council, 412-624-4236, sac@pitt.edu.

Pitt PhD DissertationDefensesDiane C. Frndak, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, “Developing and Implementing a Practical Model of Real-time, Redesign, and Problem Solving for Front-line Health Care Professionals,” 1 p.m. Sept. 23, Room 6035 Forbes Tower.

Lauren Johnson, Department of Bioen-gineering, “Contraction Dyssynchrony and Left Ventricular Mechano-energetic Function,” 8 a.m. Sept. 26, Second-floor Conference Room, Center for Biotechnol-ogy and Bioengineering, 300 Technology Dr., Hazelwood.

Health, Safety, and Security Day

September 30

By Sharon S. Blake

The 2008-09 season of the University of Pittsburgh’s Kuntu Reper tory Theatre will shine its spotlight on the legacy of late Pitt professor Rob Penny, Kuntu’s play-wright-in-residence for many years. Penny passed away on March 17, 2003.

The season will feature four mainstage productions that reflect on Penny’s career and different facets of the Black life in Pittsburgh that he examined, including family, music, and sports. Penny, who along with late playwright August Wilson founded the Kuntu Writer’s Workshop, wrote more than 300 poems and 30 plays, some of which were produced in New York, Chicago, and other venues across the country.

The Kuntu season will feature the following Penny plays.

Diane’s Heart Cries Out Still More

Oct. 16-Nov. 1Filled with dreams of

a happy future, newlyweds

Pitt’s Kuntu Repertory Theatre SeasonSpotlights Plays of the Late Rob Penny

Diane and Austin Williams struggle to find their way in a world of tempta-tions.

Clean DrumsJan. 22-Feb. 7The story of leg-

endary Pittsburgh drummer Joe Harris and the tensions that emerge between Harris, who performs in the traditional jazz style, and younger musicians and their free-form style.

Pain in My Heart and Reachings (two one-act plays)

April 2-18In Pain of My Heart, memories

of forgotten promises leave suc-cessful businesswoman Millicent Morrison feeling unsettled. An unexpected encounter with an ex-lover from the Black Nationalist Movement helps her see the past more clearly and face the future with a new perspective.

Reachings explores the story of jazz musician Lee Meredith, who has returned home from the Viet-nam War emotionally distraught.

With the help of his sister, Jean, and his ar t is-t ic gi rlf r iend, Cheryl, he finds the inspiration to move past the trauma of his war experience.

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June 13When legendary base-

ball players Josh Gibson, Satchel Paige, and Ted “Double Duty” Radcliffe come back to their old field, the wins and losses of the Negro National League are relived through the eyes of Greg and Kemiya, two eager young ballplayers.

Kuntu performances are held in the Seventh-Floor Aud itor iu m of Alumni Hall at 8 p.m. on Thursdays through Satur-days and at 4 p.m. Sundays. More information on mati-nees, tickets, group sales, or auditions is available by calling 412-624-7298.

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NOTE:Arts events are included in the Arts & Culture calendar, pages 5-8.

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By Sharon S. Blake

On the heels of its 10th anniversary, PITT ARTS has begun another academic year in which it will expose thousands of Pitt students to ballet, opera, art exhibi-tions, and other cultural gems, both on and off campus.

PITT ARTS Begins 11th Year of Exposing Students to Cultural Gems

Last year, more than 35,000 students took advantage of what PITT ARTS has to offer, including those who participated in more than one offering. This year, as Oak-land hosts Life on Mars, the 55th Carnegie International exhibition at the Carnegie

Museum of Art, and the T. Rex vs. T. Rex exhibition at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, PITT ARTS is expecting an encore year of brisk participation.

PITT ARTS programs follow.

Pitt Nights

Oct. 10, Nov. 1, Nov. 15, Jan. 30, and Feb. 18

Pitt faculty and staff are invited to join graduate and undergraduate stu-dents on these nights for outings to the symphony, ballet , opera, public theater, or other venues. The d iscounted t icket price includes free transportation, a free dessert recep-tion, and a visit with a cast member or artistic director.

Free Arts Encounters

Similar to Pitt Nights, these are offered exclusively to Pitt under-graduate students. More than 100 outings are offered throughout the academic year, ranging from film and dance to other arts events. Transportation; a dinner, buffet, or dessert; and tickets to the perfor-mance are free.

Artful Wednesdays

Sept. 24 -Dec. 3 Nordy’s Place, Lower Level, William

Pitt UnionA free lunch and performance will take

place for Pitt students from noon to 1 p.m. for 10 consecutive Wednesdays. The lineup includes flamenco dancers on Sept. 24 and master drummers, musicians, and dancers

from the Republic of Congo on Oct. 1.

The Cheap Seats Program

This program runs throughout the entire year and provides deeply discounted

tickets for a number of cultural venues to Pitt students, fac-ulty, and staff. Pitt people may pur-chase as many as four tickets and may buy for those not within the Pitt com-munity as long as the Pitt person pur-chaser attends the event. Tickets can be reserved in the PITT ARTS office in 929 WPU.

Last year, PITT ARTS sold 11,000 “cheap seats” to the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Pitts-burgh Ballet Theatre, Pittsburgh Opera, Pittsburgh CLO, CLO Cabaret, and other performance venues.

For more information, contact PITT ARTS at 412-624-4498 or visit www.pit-tarts.pitt.edu.

Last year, more than 35,000 students took advantage of what PITT ARTS has to offer, including those who participated in more than one offering.