Happenings

CONCERTS

Tchaikovsky Festival: Tchaikovsky and His Circle, featuring works by Taneyev, Arensky, and Pabst, 7:30 p.m. Feb. 8, Bellefield Hall, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, BNY Mellon Grand Classics, 412-392-4900, www.pittsburghsymphony.org, PITT ARTS Cheap Seats, 412-624-4498, www.pittarts.pitt.edu.

Tchaikovsky Festival: The Poetic Tchaikovsky, works for solo piano and for voice and piano, 7:30 p.m. Feb. 10, Duquesne University’s PNC Recital Hall, Mary Pappert School of Music, 600 Forbes Ave., www.pittsburghsymphony.org.

Joy Ike, singer/songwriter, noon Feb. 11, Cup & Chaucer Café, ground floor, Hillman Library, Emerging Legend Series, Pitt Library System, Calliope: The Pittsburgh Folk Music Society, www.calliopehouse.org.

Tchaikovsky Festival Finale, with conductor Manfred Honeck and violinist Serge Zimmerman, 1:30 p.m., also Feb. 11-12, Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., Downtown, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, BNY Mellon Grand Classics, 412-392-4900, www.pittsburghsymphony.org, PITT ARTS Cheap Seats, 412-392-4900, www.pittarts.pitt.edu.

Heinz Chapel Choir Chamber Choir Festival, free concert event, 3 p.m. Feb. 13, Heinz Chapel, Pitt Department of Music, 412-624-4125, www.music.pitt.edu.

EXHIBITIONS

Heinz History Center, America’s Best Weekly: A Century of The Pittsburgh Courier, Feb. 11-Oct. 2, 1212 Smallman St., Strip District, 412-454-6000, www.heinzhistorycenter.org.

University Art Gallery, Mind Space, Maximalism in Contrast, artwork by four Chinese artists; opening reception, 5 p.m. Feb. 14, Pitt’s Department of the History of Art and Architecture, Feb. 15-Mar. 18, Frick Fine Arts Building, 412-648-2400.

LECTURES/SEMINARS/READINGS

Charles Wolfe, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Pitt Department of History and Philosophy of Science, 12:05 p.m. Feb. 8, 817R Cathedral of Learning, Lunchtime Colloquium, Pitt Center for Philosophy of Science, 412-624-1052, pittcntr@pitt.edu.

“Italian Saints Against Bohemian Heretics: Heterodoxy, Witchcraft, and Mysticism c. 1500,” Tamar Herzig, senior lecturer, Tel Aviv University’s Department of History, 4:30 p.m. Feb. 8, 501G Cathedral of Learning, Pitt Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program, www.medren.pitt.edu.

Tara McPherson, associate professor, University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts and founding editor of Vectors: Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular, 5 p.m. Feb. 9, 324 Cathedral of Learning, Digital Media @Pitt speakers series, Pitt’s School of Arts and Sciences, Humanities Center, and Departments of English, Communication, and Rhetoric, jsb@pitt.edu, era22@pitt.edu.

“Africa in World History,” Rebecca Shumway, Pitt assistant professor of history, and Yolanda Covington-Ward, assistant professor of Africana Studies, 5-8 p.m. Feb. 9, 4130 Posvar Hall, Teaching World History Evening Workshop, Pitt World History Center, 412-624-3073, www.worldhistory.pitt.edu.

“An Update on Korean Studies Resources at the University of Pittsburgh,” Xiuying Zou, public services librarian, Pitt East Asian Library, and Ho Nam Choi, principal researcher, Korean Institute of Science and Technology Information, noon Feb. 10, 4130 Posvar Hall, Asia Over Lunch Series, Pitt Asian Studies Center, 412-648-7370, asia@pitt.edu.

“African American Perspectives on Russian and Slavic Studies,” symposium to explore experiences of African Americans who have studied, taught, and conducted research in Russia or who are focusing on Slavic languages, literatures, and cultures, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Feb. 11, 4130 Posvar Hall, Pitt Center for Russian and East European Studies, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, African Studies Program, Global Studies Center, preregistration required to gbpierce@pitt.edu.

“How Is. Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking Possible?” David John Baker, assistant professor of philosophy, University of Michigan, 12:05 pm, Feb. 11, 817R Cathedral of Learning, Lunchtime Colloquium, Pitt Center for Philosophy of Science, 412-624-1052, pittcntr@pitt.edu.

THEATER

The Well of Horniness by Holly Hughes, directed by Jeremy Enz-Doerschner, and Authorial Intent by Itamar Moses, directed by Allison Coldeway, Pitt Repertory Student Lab double feature, Feb. 11-13, Studio Theatre, Cathedral of Learning, Pitt Repertory Theatre, 412-624-6568, www.play.pitt.edu.

PITT PhD DISSERTATION DEFENSE

Amanda Clause, School of Medicine’s Center for Neuroscience/Neurobiology Graduate Program, 10 a.m. Feb. 10, “Development and Behavioral Significance of Precise Tonotopy in an Inhibitory Circuit of the Auditory Brainstem,” 2nd-Floor Auditorium, Learning Research and Development Center.