COLLOQUIA

Wed., Feb. 16, 4 p.m. "Evolution of Parental Behaviors and Neuroendocrine Correlates in Mammals," a Psychology colloquium with Kathy Wynne-Edwards, Queen's University; 234 Ames. HW

Thurs., Feb. 17, 3 p.m. "'Be Fruitful and Multiply': Representing Reproduction in 16th-Century Germany," a History of Science, Medicine and Technology seminar with Kathleen Crowther-Heyck; Seminar Room, 3rd floor, Welch Medical Library. JHMI

Fri., Feb. 18, 2 p.m. Millennial Challenges: Colloquium 2000--"A Telecommunications Architecture for the 21st Century" with Richard Roca; Kossiakoff Center. APL Simulcast to 218 Maryland Hall on the Homewood campus.

FILM

LECTURES

Tues., Feb. 15, noon. "Beyond Boundaries: Feminists Worldwide Fighting the Backlash," a Program for Studies of Women, Gender and Sexuality lecture by Eleanor Smeal, Feminist Majority Foundation. Co-sponsored by the Hopkins Organization for Women and several other departments and student groups. 110 Gilman. HW

Tues., Feb. 15, 4 p.m. "Quality and Price in the Global Consumer Market: How Nigerians Define a Fake," an Anthropology lecture by Jane Guyer, Northwestern University; 404-BA Macaulay. HW

Wed., Feb. 16, noon. "Bubble to Bottle, Pontil to Prism: Early Glass in Maryland," a lecture by Jennifer Faulds Goldsborough, Smithsonian-Cooper Hewitt and Parson's School of Design. Part of the Wednesday Noon Series sponsored by Special Events. Shriver Hall. HW

Wed., Feb. 16, 7 p.m. The Alpha Sigma Lambda Honors Lecture--"American Ruins," a slide-illustrated lecture by Camilo Jose Vergara; Shaffer Hall. HW

Thurs., Feb. 17, 1 p.m. "PubMed," a Welch Lecture by Bradley Otterson. Part of the series "Information Tools for Science and Medicine." Mountcastle Auditorium, PCTB. JHMI

Thurs., Feb. 17, 5:15 p.m. "Isabella's Blood: Achim von Arnim's Isabella vongypten," a German lecture by Dorothea von M'cke, Columbia University; 111 Gilman. HW

MUSIC

Tues., Feb. 15, 8 p.m. Peabody Conservatory Faculty Chamber Music Recital with Alan Stepansky, cello; Mark Sparks, flute; Martin Beaver, violin; Victoria Chiang, viola; Paul Johnson, contrabass; and Boris Slutsky, piano. Tickets are $16, $8 for senior citizens and $5 for students with I.D. Friedberg Concert Hall. Peabody

Wed., Feb. 16, 7:30 p.m. Peabody Wind Ensemble Concert, featuring the world premiere of Ty Alan Emerson's Concerto for Harp (with soloist Michaela Trnkova); and music by Iannacone, Copland, Grainger and Ives/Sinclair. $16, $8 for senior citizens and $5 for students with I.D. Friedberg Concert Hall. Peabody

Thurs., Feb. 17, 8 p.m. Peabody Preparatory Faculty Recital, performances by Michaela Trnkova, harp; David Drosinos, clarinet; Bradley Permenter, piano; Alison Potter, flute; Vicki Downer, voice. Leakin Hall. Peabody

Sat., Feb. 19, 7:30 p.m. Peabody Camerata Concert, featuring music by von Webern, Cowell, Coleman, Brandt, Cage and Schoenberg. 410-659-8124. Griswold Hall. Peabody

Pianist Kevin Kenner will perform in "Fifteen Scenes from the Life of Chopin," a commemoration of the 150th anniversary of Chopin's death, on Sun., Feb. 20, in Shriver Hall.

Sun., Feb. 20, 3 p.m. Guest Artist Series 2000--"Fifteen Scenes from the Life of Chopin" with pianist Kevin Kenner, commemorating the 150th anniversary of Chopin's death. $16, $13 for senior citizens and $10 for full-time students with I.D. Shriver Hall. HW

SEMINARS

Mon., Feb. 14, 12:15 p.m. "Epidemiology As a 'Variable' in Minority Health," a Center for Epidemiology and Policy seminar with Shiriki Kumanyika, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine; W3030 SPH. JHMI

Mon., Feb. 14, 4 p.m. "Thrift, Greed and Panic: Or How Paul Gauguin Came to be a Full-time Painter," a History seminar with Stephens Broening; 315 Gilman. HW

Mon., Feb. 14, 4 p.m. "Something I Love to Do: Measuring Breaking Waves by High Resolution Radar," an Earth and Planetary Sciences seminar with Owen Phillips; Olin Hall Auditorium. HW

Tues., Feb. 15, noon. "Molecular Genetic Studies of Human Photoreceptors: Function, Evolution and Disease Mechanisms," a Biological Chemistry seminar with Jeremy Nathans; 612 Physiology. JHMI

Tues., Feb. 15, 3 p.m. "The 1996 Controlled Flood in Grand Canyon: Setting a New Direction for River Management and River Restoration," a Geography and Environmental Engineering seminar with Jack Schmidt, Utah State University; 234 Ames. HW

Tues., Feb. 15, 4:30 p.m. "The HAIRCUT System for Cross-Language Information Retrieval," a Center for Language and Speech Processing seminar with James Mayfield; 100 Shaffer. HW

Wed., Feb. 16, 4 p.m. "Diversity of Inhibition in the Hippocampal Network," a Neuroscience special seminar with Gianmaria Maccaferri, Emory University School of Medicine; 811 WBSB. JHMI

Thurs., Feb. 17, 10 a.m. "From Genome to Organism: A Virus-World View," a Biomedical Engineering seminar with John Yin, University of Wisconsin, Madison; 709 Traylor. JHMI

Thurs., Feb. 17, 1 p.m. "Signaling Pathways Regulating Neuromuscular Synapse Formation," a Neuroscience research seminar with Steve Burden, Skirball Institute; 811 WBSB. JHMI

Thurs., Feb. 17, 3:30 p.m. "Crystal Structure of the Ribonucleoprotein Core of the Signal Recognition Particle," a Molecular Biology and Genetics seminar with Jennifer Doudna, Yale University; 517 PCTB. JHMI

Thurs., Feb. 17, 4 p.m. "Some Statistical Aspects of Space Debris Risk Assessment," a Mathematical Sciences seminar with David Brillinger, University of California, Berkeley; W2017 SPH. JHMI

Mon., Feb. 21, 12:15 p.m. "Data and Health Policy: Experiences from the National Center for Health Statistics," a Center for Epidemiology and Policy seminar with Manning Feinleib; W3030 SPH. JHMI

Mon., Feb. 21, 12:15 p.m. "bHLH Proteins, Blood Vessel and Blood Cell Development," a Carnegie Institution of Washington Embryology seminar with M. Celeste Simon, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center; Seminar Room, 115 W. University Pkwy. HW

Mon., Feb. 21, 4 p.m. "Imaging the Brain in Pain, Implications for Touch and for Clinical Pains," a Mind/Brain Institute seminar with Apkar Vania Apkarian, SUNY Health Science Center/ Neurosurgery Research Labs; 338 Krieger. HW

Mon., Feb. 21, 4 p.m. "Modified Lagrangian--Mean Diagnostic of Tracer Transport in the Stratosphere," an Earth and Planetary Sciences seminar with Jun Ma; Olin Hall Auditorium. HW

Mon., Feb. 21, 4 p.m. "Sex Change: The Early History of Transsexuality," a History seminar with Joanne Meyerowitz, University of Indiana, Bloomington; 315 Gilman. HW

SPECIAL
EVENTS

February--Black History Month Events

Tues., Feb. 15, noon. Talk by Elma Martin, director of the Great Blacks in Wax Museum of Baltimore; Sherwood Room, Levering Union. HW

Fri., Feb. 18, 8 p.m. Step Show and Unity Party with JHU fraternities and sororities. $7 general admission, $5 for JHU students. Shriver Hall. HW Unity Party follows the step show; $4 general admission, $2 for step show ticket holders. Glass Pavilion, Levering Union. HW

Sat., Feb. 19, 8 p.m. Dance performance by the Sankofa Dance Company. Sponsored by the Office of Multicultural Student Affairs. $15 general admission, $10 for groups of 10 or more, and free for JHU students who pick up tickets by Feb. 16 at the Office of Multicultural Student Affairs. Shriver Hall. HW

SPORTS

Sat., Feb. 19, TBA. Wrestling (the Centennial Conference Championships). 410-516-7490.

THEATER

WJHU
88.1 FM

Mon., Feb. 14, 1 p.m. A look at family psychology.

Tues., Feb. 15, noon. Sports Talk, with Keith Mills of WMAR and Milton Kent of The Sun, followed at 1 p.m. by an in-depth look at the Russian heartland, with Colin Thubron, author of In Siberia.

Wed., Feb.16, noon. A talk with members of The Sun's foreign staff.

Fri., Feb. 18, noon. Weekly News Review.