Happenings

Concerts

Music of Burr Van Nostrand, performing Fantasy Manual for Urban Survival, Phaedra Antinomaes, and Voyage in a White Building 1, 8 p.m. Feb. 22, Bellefield Hall Auditorium, Pitt Department of Music, www.music.pitt.edu 

Exhibitions 

Filmmakers Galleries, Pittsburgh je t’aime, features more than 100 small printed images taken in and around Pittsburgh by artist Hilary Robinson with her iPhone, through Feb. 21, 477 Melwood Ave., http://pfm.pittsburgharts.org

Carnegie Library, Inside Out: The Art of the Students of Greater Pittsburgh Literary Council, through Feb. 28, Carnegie Library, 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland, Greater Pittsburgh Literary Council, http://www.gplc.org

Phipps Conservatory, Orchid and Tropical Bonsai Show, featuring elegant orchids planted in garden beds and hanging baskets alongside tropical bonsai trees, through March 9, 1 Schenley Park, Oakland, http://phipps.conservatory.org

Carnegie Museum of Art, 2013 Carnegie International, preeminent exhibition of new international art in the United States, through March 16, 4400 Forbes Ave, Oakland, www.carnegiemuseums.org 

Lectures/Seminars/Readings

“Making the Right Decision: Repairing DNA Breaks During C. Elegans Meiosis,” Diana Libuda, professor of developmental biology, Stanford University, 4 p.m. Feb. 17, 169 Crawford Hall, Pitt Department of Biological Sciences, www.biology.pitt.edu

“Postsynaptic Molecular Organization and Kinase Dynamics at Single, Living Synapses,” Thomas Blanpied, associate professor of physiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 4 p.m. Feb. 17, A219B Langley Hall, Pitt Department of Neuroscience, http://cnup.neurobio.pitt.edu

“Race, Equity, and Urban Education: Issues that Divide,” H. Richard Milner, Helen Faison Professor of Urban Education and director, Pitt Center for Urban Education, noon Feb. 18, 2017 Cathedral of Learning, Reed Smith Speakers Series, Center on Race and Social Problems, Pitt School of Social Work, www.crsp.pitt.edu

“The Most Recent ‘New Sappho’ and Its Indo-European and Greek Resonances,” Edwin D. Floyd, professor, Pitt Department of Classics, 4 p.m. Feb. 18, 337 Cathedral of Learning, Pitt Department of Classics, www.classics.pitt.edu

“The Sensorimotor Basis for Primate Vocal Communication,” Asif A. Ghazanfar, associate professor, Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University, 4 p.m. Feb. 18, S210 Biomedical Science Tower, Pitt Department of Neuroscience, http://cnup.neurobio.pitt.edu

“Perspectives on Tourism: Defining the Self and the Other in Interwar Hungary and Socialist Romania,” discussion led by Emanuela Grama, assistant professor of history, Carnegie Mellon University, 4 p.m. Feb. 19, 3703 Posvar Hall, Pitt Department of History European Colloquium, www.history.pitt.edu

“The Many Faces of Death: the Removal of Unwanted Cells by Phagocytosis or Extrusion,” Daniel Denning, postdoctoral scholar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 4 p.m. Feb. 19, 169 Crawford Hall, Pitt Department of Biological Sciences, www.biology.pitt.edu

“The Design, Implementation, and Verification of an Extensible Hypervisor Framework,” Limin Jia, assistant research professor of electrical and computer engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 3 p.m. Feb. 19, 5317 Sennott Square, Pitt Department of Computer Science Departmental Colloquium, http://cs.pitt.edu

“Looking Back and Thinking Forward: Policies and Practices that Treat Juveniles as Adults in the Justice Systems,” Jeff Shook, Pitt professor of social work, 12:30 p.m. Feb. 20, Teplitz Memorial Courtroom, Barco Law Building, Pitt School of Law Rubash Distinguished Lecture, www.law.pitt.edu

“Dynamics in Complex Environments: Rods and Janus Particles,” Rigoberto Hernandez, professor of chemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2:30 p.m. Feb. 20, 150 Chevron Hall, Pitt Department of Chemistry, www.chem.pitt.edu

“Mock K Award Study Section,” Christine Milcarek, Pitt professor of immunology, 3 p.m. Feb. 20, S100 Starzl Biomedical Science Tower, Pitt Office of Academic Career Development’s National Institutes of Health Mentored Career Development Award Series, www.oacd.health.pitt.edu

“Bridge Builders: Black Women in the Pittsburgh Women’s Movement,” Patricia Ulbrich, Pitt visiting scholar, 4 p.m. Feb. 20, 2201 Posvar Hall, Gender and the Global Spring 2014 Events, Pitt Women’s Studies Program, www.wstudies.pitt.edu

“Connectedness in the Islamic World (661-1300 CE),” Maxim Romanov, postdoctoral associate of classics, Tufts University, 4 p.m. Feb. 20, 4130 Posvar Hall, Consortium for Educational Resources on Islamic Studies, Pitt Departments of History, Linguistics, Religious Studies, and Slavic Languages and Literatures, www.cerisnet.pitt.edu

“Reagent-Controlled Stereoselective and Stereospecific Glycosylation Reactions,” Clay S. Bennett, assistant professor of chemistry, Tufts University, 4 p.m. Feb. 20, 150 Chevron Hall, Pitt Department of Chemistry, www.chem.pitt.edu

“Catalysis for Sustainable Energy,” Jens Nørskov, Leland T. Edwards Professor of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, 5 p.m. Feb. 20, 102 Benedum Hall, 2014 Bayer Distinguished Lecturer, Swanson School Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, www.engineering.pitt.edu/chemical 

“In Search of the Catalyst Genome,” Jens Nørskov, Leland T. Edwards Professor of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, 9:30 a.m. Feb. 21, 102 Benedum Hall, 2014 Bayer Distinguished Lecturer, Swanson School Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, www.engineering.pitt.edu/chemical

“The Ethics of Effective Education,” Richard Gunderman, professor of radiology and vice chair, Department of Radiology Education, Indiana University School of Medicine, noon Feb. 21, Lecture Room One, Fourth Floor, Scaife Hall, Medical Education Grand Rounds, Pitt Office of the Vice Dean, School of Medicine, www.megr.pitt.edu

“Driving Detroit: The Quest for Respect in the Motor City,” George Galster, Clarence B. Hilberry Professor of Urban Affairs, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Wayne State University, noon Feb. 21, 3343 Forbes Ave., Oakland, Pitt Center for Social and Urban Research’s Urban and Regional Brown Bag Seminar, www.ucsur.pitt.edu 

“Ethnic Entrepreneurship, Intersectionality, and Household Economy,” Zulema Valdez, associate professor of social sciences, University of California, Merced, 1 p.m. Feb. 21, William Pitt Union, Lower Lounge, 2432 Posvar Hall, Pittsburgh Social Movements Forum, Pitt Department of Sociology, www.sociology.pitt.edu

“Gambling for Redemption and Self-Fulfilling Debt Crises,” Timothy Kehoe, consultant, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, 2 p.m. Feb. 21, 3911 Posvar Hall, Pitt Department of Economics’ Trade and Development Seminar, www.econ.pitt.edu 

“Anthony Coleman Discusses His Music,” talk by composer, pianist, and conductor, 4 p.m. Feb. 21, 132 Music Building, Pitt Department of Music, www.music.pitt.edu 

Miscellaneous

“European Cultural (Dis)Union,” conference led by Randall Halle, Klaus W. Jonas Professor of German and Cultural Studies, exploration of cultural unification fostered by the European Union, Feb. 21-22, Pitt European Union Center of Excellence, European Studies Center, Department of German, Humanities Center, www.ucis.pitt.edu/euce

PhD Dissertation Defenses 

Philip Joseph Vernon, School of Medicine’s Department of Immunology, “HMGB1, RAGE, and the Myeloid Response to Pancreatic Cancer,” 1 p.m. Feb. 18, S120 Biomedical Science Tower.

Takuzo Konishi, Dietrich School’s Department of Communication, “Dissociation in Reasoning and Argumentation,” 10 a.m. Feb. 20, 1128 Cathedral of Learning.

2014 McKay Lecture
Department of Economics
Nobel Laureate and Former Pitt Mellon Professor of Economics Alvin Roth
“Market Design: The Economist as Engineer”
3:30 p.m., Feb. 27
Frick Fine Arts Auditorium 

Roth is the Craig and Susan McCaw Professor of Economics at Stanford University and George Gund Professor of Economics and Business Administration Emeritus at Harvard University. The lecture is supported by a fund named in honor of the late Marion O’Kellie McKay, chairman emeritus of Pitt’s Department of Economics. The fund was established by friends of Dr. McKay in 1976 on the occasion of Dr. McKay’s 93rd birthday.