Happenings

Concerts

Entelechron, trio performs music by Harrison Birtwistle, Jonathan Bailey Holland, Daron Hagen, Gilda Lyons, and Toru Takemitsu, 8 p.m. Sept. 23, Bellefield Hall Auditorium, Pitt Department of Music, www.music.pitt.edu

University of Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, performing Fauré’s Pelleas and Melisande and Britten’s Cello Symphony with cellist David Russell, 8 p.m. Sept. 25, Bellefield Hall Auditorium, Pitt Department of Music, www.music.pitt.edu

Joy Ike, Pittsburgh-based soul-folk singer/songwriter, noon Sept. 26, Cup and Chaucer Café, Hillman Library, The Emerging Legends Concert Series, www.library.pitt.edu/emerging-legends

OvreArts, “Odd Pairings,” quirky and surprising performance by OvreArts, Pittsburgh-based classical chamber sinfonia, 7:30 p.m. Sept. 26, Heinz Memorial Chapel Free Community Concert Series, www.heinzchapel.pitt.edu

Exhibitions

Senator John Heinz History Center, From Slavery to Freedom, Antislavery Movement to the Modern Quest for Civil Rights, including material from Pitt-produced exhibition Free at Last? Slavery in Pittsburgh in the 18th and 19th Centuries displayed at Heinz History Center in 2008-09, ongoing, 1212 Smallman St., Strip District, www.heinzhistorycenter.org

Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens, Summer Flower Show: Glass in the Gardens, featuring lifelike floral forms, whimsical long-legged birds, rotating stained-glass towers, and a large, articulated woolly mammoth skeleton, through Oct. 6, One Schenley Park, Oakland, 412-622-6914, www.phipps.conservatory.org

University Art Gallery, Rediscover: The Collection Revealed, artwork from the University addressing conservation issues within the collection, through Oct. 19, Frick Fine Arts Building, www.haa.pitt.edu

Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Roads of Arabia: Archaeology & History of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, archaeological materials exploring cultural history of the Arabian Peninsula, through Nov. 3, 4400 Forbes Ave. Oakland, 412-622-3131, www.carnegiemnh.org

Lectures/Seminars/Readings

“Thermodynamic Strategies for Designing New Catalytic Processes: Coupling Methane to Ethylene, & Biofuel Processing,” Tobin Marks, professor of chemistry and materials science and engineering, Northwestern University, 4 p.m. Sept. 23, 150 Chevron Science Center, 35th Annual Bayer Lecture Series, Department of Chemistry, www.chem.pitt.edu

“Connecting Macromolecular Structure and Function: Recent Developments in the VanDemark Lab,” Andy VanDemark, Pitt assistant professor of structural biology, 4:15 p.m. Sept. 23, 169 Crawford Hall, Department of Biological Sciences Fall ’13 Seminar Series, www.biology.pitt.edu

“Perspectives on Haiti,” Marcus Rediker, Pitt Distinguished Professor of Atlantic History, and John Walsh, Pitt assistant professor of French, 5 p.m. Sept. 23, 602 Cathedral of Learning, Department of History, www.history.pitt.edu

“Discussions on Governance,” Stephen Zimmermann, director of operations, World Bank’s Integrity Vice Presidency, noon Sept. 24, 107 Barco Law Building, Discussions on Governance Lecture, Dick Thornburgh Forum for Law and Public Policy, www.thornburghforum.pitt.edu

“The Philosophy of Space and Time and the Metaphysics of Presence,” Ori Belkind, visiting fellow and assistant professor of philosophy, University of Richmond, 12:05 p.m. Sept. 24, 817R Cathedral of Learning, Center for Philosophy of Science, www.pitt.edu/~pittcntr

“Shakespeare. Same-sex. Marriage.” Julie Crawford, associate professor of English and comparative literature, Columbia University, 12:30 p.m. Sept. 24, 602 Cathedral of Learning, Dietrich School’s Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program, www.medren.pitt.edu

"Plastic’ Solar Cells with Interface Engineering,” Tobin Marks, professor of chemistry and materials science and engineering, Northwestern University, 2:30 p.m. Sept. 24, 150 Chevron Science Center, 35th Annual Bayer Lecture Series, Department of Chemistry, www.chem.pitt.edu

“Absolute, True, and Mathematical Time in Newton’s Principia,” Katherine Brading, associate professor of philosophy, University of Notre Dame, 3:30 p.m. Sept. 24, 817R Cathedral of Learning, Center for Philosophy of Science, www.pitt.edu/~pittcntr

“Merkel Cell Polyomavirus: Discovery and Implications,” Yuan Chang, Pitt Distinguished Professor of Pathology, 4 p.m. Sept. 24, Lecture Room 6, Scaife Hall, Provost’s Inaugural Lecture Series.

“The Right to Fail: On the Cold War Career of Shirley Graham and W.E.B. Du Bois,” Vaughn Rasberry, assistant professor of English, Stanford University, 5 p.m. Sept. 24, 602 Cathedral of Learning, Pitt Humanities Center, www.humcenter.pitt.edu

“Life and Limb: The Toll of the American Civil War,” Jeffrey Reznick, head of History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine, 6 p.m. Sept. 24, 1105 Scaife Hall, Civil War Disabilities Lectures, Center for Bioethics and Health Law, www.bioethics.pitt.edu

“Coats, Tethers, Rabs, and SNAREs Work Together to Mediate the Specificity of Vesicle Traffic,” Susan Ferro-Novick, professor of cellular and molecular medicine, University of California, San Diego, and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, noon Sept. 26, Lecture Room 6, Scaife Hall, 2013 Laureate Lecture Series, Schools of the Health Sciences, www.svc-laureate.pitt.edu

“The Charisma of Literary Institutions: Morrison on Oprah,” Günter Leypoldt, professor of American literature and culture, University of Heidelberg, 12:30 p.m. Sept. 26, 602 Cathedral of Learning, Department of English, www.english.pitt.edu

“Rational Design of Molecular Materials: Molecular Springs, Solar Cells and More,” Geoffrey Hutchison, Pitt assistant professor of chemistry, 4 p.m. Sept. 26, 150 Chevron Science Center, Department of Chemistry, www.chem.pitt.edu

“Out of Place. Displacement, Modernism, and Prehistory in 19th Century Germany,” John Lyon, professor and chair, Pitt Department of German, and Eric Downing, professor of German, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, 5 p.m. Sept. 26, 602 Cathedral of Learning, Pitt Humanities Center, www.humcenter.pitt.edu

“The State and Ideology of Kinship,” Dmitri Bondarenko, professor of ethnology, Russian State University for the Humanities, Lomonosov Moscow State University, 3 p.m. Sept. 27, 3106 Posvar Hall, Anthropology Colloquium Series, www.anthropology.pitt.edu

“Why Are There So Many Songs?” Robert Walser, professor of musicology, Case Western Reserve University, 4 p.m. Sept. 27, 132 Music Building, Department of Music, www.music.pitt.edu

Miscellaneous

Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens, Farmers at Phipps, shop for organic produce from local farms and meet the farmers who grew them, 2:30-6:30 every Wednesday through October, One Schenley Park, Oakland, 412-622-6914, www.phipps.conservatory.org

“Conversation on Europe: The German Elections,” videoconference panel discussion, noon Sept. 26, 4217 Posvar Hall, European Union Center of Excellence and European Studies Center, 2013-2014 Interactive Conversations on Europe Virtual Roundtable Series, www.ucis.pitt.edu/euce

Opera/Theater/Dance

 A Skull in Connemara, a comic whodunit complete with flying skulls and bloody scenes, through Sept. 28, Charity Randall Theatre within Stephen Foster Memorial, www.play.pitt.edu

Pitt PhD Dissertation Defenses

Gina Villamizar, Dietrich School’s Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures, “Entre el Caribe Colombiano y el Río de la Plata: Modernidad y Literatura Fantástica,” 10 a.m. Sept. 23, 1528 Cathedral of Learning.

Hannah Burdette, Dietrich School’s Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures, “Insurgent Poetics: Literature and Alternative Textualities in Contemporary Abya Yala,” 10 a.m. Sept. 25, 1528 Cathedral of Learning.

David Byrne, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences’ Department of Communication Science and Disorders, “Influence of Earcanal Occlusion and Air-Conduction Feedback on Speech Production in Noise,” 12:30 p.m. Sept. 25, 6012 Forbes Tower.