Weekly Calendar
Colloquia
A night of a cappella
About 100 students sing in a cappella groups on the
Homewood campus, and this week they — and you, too
— get the opportunity to hear a dean hit the right
notes as well. Saturday night's concert features the
award-winning Tone Rangers, above, whose members include
John Bader (center), associate dean for undergraduate
academic affairs in the Krieger School. JHU's Vocal Chords
and Sirens open the show. See
Music.
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Tues., Nov. 11, 4 to 7 p.m. Presentation of summer
fieldwork by second-year anthropology graduate
students. Sponsored by Anthropology. 400 Macaulay. HW
Tues., Nov. 11, 4:15 p.m. The Ephraim and Wilma Shaw
Roseman Colloquium — "It Takes Alkynes to Make
a World — New Methods for the Formation of Annulenes,
Cinnolines and Isoindazoles" with Michael
Haley, University of Oregon. Sponsored by Chemistry. 233
Remsen. HW
Thurs., Nov. 13, 3 p.m. " 'Excrement, and the
Origins of Forgetfulness': Rethinking the History of
Humors," a Program in the History of Science, Medicine and
Technology colloquium with Shigehisa
Kuriyama, Harvard University. Seminar Room, 3rd floor,
Welch Medical Library. EB
Fri., Nov. 14, 2 p.m. "Asymmetry and Change in
Future Warfare," an Applied Physics Laboratory
colloquium with LTG David Barno, U.S. Army (retired) and
National Defense University. Parsons
Auditorium. APL
Fri., Nov. 14, 4 p.m. "Carnap and Quine on Truth by
Convention" a Philosophy colloquium with Gary Ebbs,
Indiana University. 102A Dell House. HW
Conference
Sat., Nov. 15, 8:15 a.m. "A Woman's Journey," annual
one-day women's health conference, sponsored by
Johns Hopkins Medicine. For information or to register, go
to:
www.hopkinsmedicine.org/awomansjourney or
call 410-955-8660. Registration for Hopkins employees
is $85.50; $95 for non-Hopkins employees
and $75 for students. Hilton Baltimore Convention Center
Hotel.
Dance
Sat., Nov. 15, 7 p.m. "Nritya Mala," an exhibition
of classical Indian dance with the Shakti Dance
Troupe, JHU student dance company. All proceeds go toward
C.R.Y., an Indian child relief organization.
Shriver Hall. HW
Discussion/Talks
Wed., Nov. 12, 12:15 p.m. "Access to Experts," an
Academic Careers panel discussion on careers in the
academic field; panelists will also answer questions from
students. Sponsored by Career Services.
W4019 SPH. EB
Mon., Nov. 17, noon. "Moving Toward Universal Health
Care: Alternative Approaches to Reform in the
U.S.," a panel discussion with David Himmelstein, Harvard
University; Diane Rowland, Kaiser Family
Foundation; and Brad Herring, SPH. W1214 SPH (Sheldon
Hall). EB
Film/Video
Mon., Nov. 10, 5 p.m. Screening of The Business of
Being Born, a documentary about birthing policy in
the U.S., followed by discussion and refreshments.
Sponsored by the Women's Health Action Group.
W1214 SPH (Sheldon Hall). EB
Fri., Nov. 14, 7 p.m. The Film and Media
Studies Program presents a screening of
Chris and Don: A Love Story, followed by a
discussion with Don Bachardy, one of the
subjects of the film, and filmmakers Guido
Santi and Tina Mascara. Co-sponsored by
the Homewood Arts Program; Homewood Art
Workshops; Department of English; Program
for the Study of Women, Gender and
Sexuality; the Writing Seminars; and
the Diverse Sexuality and Gender Alliance.
110 Hodson. HW
Fri., Nov. 14, 8 p.m. Friday Night Films presents
the action-comedy Pineapple Express. Mudd
Auditorium. HW
Grand Rounds
Thurs., Nov. 13, 4 p.m. "New Ideas About Human
Behavior in Economics and Medicine," Preventive
Medicine grand rounds with Peter Orszag, director,
Congressional Budget Office. W1214 SPH
(Sheldon Hall). EB
Information Sessions
Wed., Nov. 12, 4:30 p.m. Information session for the
Diversity Summer Internship Program with
Kimberly Saunders, director of student diversity at the
School of Public Health. Sponsored by the
Public Health Studies Program. 101 Shaffer. HW
Thurs., Nov. 13, 12:15 p.m. Information session on
employment opportunities at Health Core, with
representatives from the company. Sponsored by Career
Services. W4019 SPH. EB
Thurs., Nov. 13, 4 p.m. Information session for
Urban Health Institute Small Grants Program for
Research, Development and Education. Open to Hopkins
faculty and students partnered with a
community agency or community leader. E4611 SPH. EB
Lectures
Mon., Nov. 10, 5:30 p.m. "Ritualizing Death in
Third-Millennium Syria: Textual Evidence From Ebla," a
Near Eastern Studies public lecture by Maria Giovanna Biga,
Universita degli Studi di Roma. 202A Dell
House. HW
Tues., Nov. 11, 4 p.m. Dean's Lecture Series —
"Global Sensitivity Analysis: A Paradigm for Reporting
Honest Inferences About Treatment Effects From
Observational Data" by Daniel Scharfstein, SPH.
Sponsored by the Dean's Office. W1214 SPH (Sheldon Hall).
EB
Wed., Nov. 12, 4 p.m. "Political Theory and Fiction
in 'The King's Two Bodies' " a Tudor and Stuart
lecture by Victoria Kahn, University of California,
Berkeley. Sponsored by English. 201C Dell House.
HW
Thurs., Nov. 13, 7:30 a.m. The Alfred Blalock
Lectureship — "Valve-sparing Aortic Root Replacement
—
Where Are We Heading and What About BAV and the Arch?" by
D. Craig Miller, Stanford University
School of Medicine. Tilghman Auditorium. EB
Thurs., Nov. 13, 12:30 p.m. "Tackling Non-Adherence
With Immunosuppressive Drugs: A Crucial
Pathway to Improve Outcomes in Solid Organ
Transplantation," a Center for Collaborative
Intervention Research brown bag lecture by Sabina DeGeest,
University of Basel, Switzerland. No
registration is required. 10 SoN. EB
Fri., Nov. 14, 3 p.m. The 2008 AEESP Distinguished
Lecture — "Membrane Technology in the Water
Industry: Achievements and Challenges" by Tony Fane,
University of Massachusetts. 234 Ames. HW
Fri., Nov. 14, 5:15 p.m. The Prodigious Muse:
Women's Writing in Counter-Reformation Italy," a German
and Romance Languages and Literatures lecture by Virginia
Cox, NYU. 101A Dell House. HW
Music
Wed., Nov. 12, 8 p.m. Violinist Herbert Greenberg
performs music by Bach, Beethoven, Brahms and
Bartok. $15 general admission, $10 senior citizens, $5
students with ID. Griswold Hall. Peabody
Fri., Nov. 14, 8 p.m. The Sirens, an all-female JHU
a cappella group, presents its fall concert. Schafler
Auditorium, Bloomberg Center. HW
Sat., Nov. 15, 3 p.m. The Shriver Hall Concert
Series@the BMA, the Discovery Series, presents
Richard Egarr, harpsichord, who will perform selections
from Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier.
Auditorium, Baltimore Museum of Art.
Sat., Nov. 15, 8 p.m. A cappella concert featuring
Dean John Bader and the Tone Rangers, an all-male a
cappella group. Concert will include opening acts by two
Homewood student a cappella groups, the Vocal
Chords and Sirens. $8 general admission; $3 students.
For ticket information or reservations, e-mail Eric
Beatty at
ebeatty@jhu.edu. Sponsored by Homewood Arts
Programs. Schafler Auditorium, Bloomberg Center. HW
Reading
Thurs., Nov. 13, 7 p.m. Robert L. Park, University
of Maryland physics professor, will discuss and sign
copies of his latest book, Superstition: Belief in the Age
of Science. (See "In Brief,"
in this week's issue.) Barnes & Noble Johns Hopkins. HW
Seminars
Mon., Nov. 10, noon. "Advancing Out of Poverty:
Social Class Worldview and Its Relation to Resilience,"
an Institute for Policy Studies brown bag seminar with
Melissa Abelev, Tulane University. 526 Wyman
Park Bldg. HW
Mon., Nov. 10, 12:15 p.m. "Sensing Sterol and Oxygen
in the Control of Cell Metabolism," a Carnegie
Institution Embryology seminar with Peter Espenshade, SoM.
Rose Auditorium, 3520 San Martin
Drive. HW
Mon., Nov. 10, 12:15 p.m. "When Epidemiology Field
Trials Fail — Are Our Interventions Too Weak or
Our Controls Too Strong?" an Epidemiology seminar with
David Celentano, SPH. W3030 SPH. EB
Mon., Nov. 10, 3 p.m. "The Psychological, Family and
Sexual Experiences of Young People in Uganda:
Does Orphanhood Play a Role?" a Population, Family and
Reproductive Health thesis defense seminar
with Esther Kaggwa. W3031 SPH. EB
Mon., Nov. 10, 3 p.m. "Kahler-Ricci Flow and
Stability," an Analysis seminar with Valentino Tosatti,
Harvard University. Sponsored by Mathematics. 304 Krieger.
HW
Mon., Nov. 10, 4 p.m. "Live Hard and Die Young:
Trade-offs Between Reproductive Success and
Susceptibility to Hantavirus Infection in Rats," a
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology seminar with
Sabra Klein, SPH. W2030 SPH. EB
Mon., Nov. 10, 4 p.m. "Opportunity and Choice in the
Construction of Manchu Power," a History seminar
with Nicola Di Cosmo, Institute for Advanced Study. 102B
Dell House. HW
Tues., Nov. 11, noon. "The TRP Channel Superfamily:
From Sensory Signaling to Neurodegenerative
Disease," a Biological Chemistry seminar with Craig
Montell, SoM. 612 Physiology. EB
Tues., Nov. 11, noon. "The Role of Redox Chemistry
in Protein Import in the Mitochondrial
Intermembrane Space," a Physiology seminar with Carla
Koehler, UCLA. Physiology Research
Conference Room. EB
Tues., Nov. 11, noon. "Active Shooter Incidents," a
CEPAR Emergency Preparedness seminar, co-
sponsored by Corporate Security and JHSPH Support Services.
W1214 SPH (Sheldon Hall). EB
Tues., Nov. 11, 12:10 p.m. "Exploring Relationships
Between Organizational Safety Climate and Nurse
Injury," a Health Policy and Management seminar with
Jennifer Taylor, Drexel University School of
Public Health. Co-sponsored by the Education and Research
Center for Occupational Safety and
Health. W4030 SPH. EB
Tues., Nov. 11, 12:15 p.m. "Working Effectively With
the Congress — Tips From Inside," a Health Policy
and Management seminar with Fatema Sumar, congressional
fellow in the office of Sen. Robert Casey
Jr. (D-PA). Co-sponsored by the J.B. Grant International
Society and the SPH Student Assembly.
W2030 SPH. EB
Tues., Nov. 11, 3 p.m. "From Volumes of Line Bundles
to Equidistribution," a Topics in Complex
Geometry seminar with Robert Berman, Chalmers University.
Sponsored by Mathematics. 300 Krieger.
HW
Wed., Nov. 12, noon. "The Author As a Theoretical
Problem for Feminism," a Humanities seminar and
discussion based on papers by Toril Moi and Jacques
Derrida. 202B Dell House. HW
Wed., Nov. 12, noon. "HIV/AIDS and Adolescent Girls
Engaging in Sexual Activity With Minibus
Drivers in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa" with Amy Goh (SoN);
and "Evaluation of Surgical and
Anesthesia Access and Appropriate Technology in the Gambia"
with Adam Iddriss (SoM), Framework
Program in Global Health research presentations. Sponsored
by the Center for Global Health. W2015
SPH. EB
Wed., Nov. 12, 1:03 p.m. "Two Structures of the
B-2-Adrenergic Receptor," a Biophysics and
Biophysical Chemistry seminar with William Weis, Stanford
University School of Medicine. 517 PCTB.
EB
Wed., Nov. 12, 3 p.m. The David Bodian Seminar
— "Whisker-mediated Texture Classification: The
Transformation Carried Out by the Sensory System" with
Mathew Diamond, International School for
Advanced Studies. Sponsored by the Krieger Mind/Brain
Institute. 338 Krieger. HW
Wed., Nov. 12, 3:30 p.m. "Organic Photovoltaic Cells
and Light Emitting Devices on Fiber," a Materials
Science and Engineering seminar with Max Shtein, University
of Michigan. 110 Maryland. HW
Wed., Nov. 12, 4 p.m. "A Protein Chip Approach to
Unraveling Networks and Pathways," a Pharmacology
and Molecular Sciences seminar with Heng Zhu, SoM. West
Lecture Hall (ground floor), WBSB. EB
Wed., Nov. 12, 4 p.m. Giulia Sissa, UCLA, discusses
her book Sex and Sexuality in the Ancient World.
Co-sponsored by Women, Gender and Sexuality and Classics.
113 Greenhouse. HW
Thurs., Nov. 13, 10:45 a.m. "The Changing Face of
Programming," a Computer Science seminar with
Brian Kernighan, Princeton University. B17 CSEB. HW
Thurs., Nov. 13, noon. The Randolph Bromery Seminar
— "Magma at the Yucca Mountain Nuclear
Respository" with Bruce Marsh, KSAS. Sponsored by Earth and
Planetary Sciences. Olin Auditorium.
HW
Thurs., Nov. 13, noon. "Insecticides and Drugs for
Malaria Control: Steps to Avoid Another Century of
Evolutionary Mismanagement," a Molecular Microbiology and
Immunology/Infectious Diseases seminar
with Andrew Read, Pennsylvania State University. W2030 SPH.
EB
Thurs., Nov. 13, noon. "Cross Talk Between
Inflammation and Cancer: Role of Transcription Factor
IRF-5," a Cell Biology seminar with Paula Pitha-Rowe, SoM.
Suite 2-200, 1830 Bldg. EB
Thurs., Nov. 13, 12:15 p.m. "HIV/AIDS Issues in the
United States," a Health, Behavior and Society
second-term seminar with Renata Arrington Sanders, SoM. B14
Hampton House. EB
Thurs., Nov. 13, 1 p.m. "Impact of Stress on
Synapses in the Amygdala: Implications for Anxiety
Disorders," a Neuroscience research seminar with Sumantra
Chattarji, National Centre for Biological
Sciences, India. West Lecture Hall (ground floor), WBSB.
EB
Thurs., Nov. 13, 4 p.m. "Statistical Assessment of
the Influence of Climate Change and Climate
Variability on Hurricane Hazards," an Applied Mathematics
and Statistics seminar with Seth Guikema,
WSE. 304 Whitehead. HW
Thurs., Nov. 13, 4 p.m. "The Death Penalty in Late
Medieval Catalona Reality and Significations," a
European History seminar with Flocel Sabate, University of
Lleida. 102B Dell House. HW
Thurs., Nov. 13, 4 p.m. "Rise of the Actin
Machines," a Biology seminar with Bruce Goode, Brandeis
University. 100 Mudd. HW
Mon., Nov. 17, noon. "China and the Global Aid
Regime," a Political Science seminar with Deborah
Brautigam, American University. Co-sponsored by the East
Asian Studies Program. 366 Mergenthaler.
HW
Mon., Nov. 17, 12:15 p.m. "Fat and Feeding
Regulatory Circuits in C. elegans," a Carnegie Institution
Embryology seminar with Kaveh Ashrafi, University of
California, San Francisco. Rose Auditorium,
3520 San Martin Drive. HW
Mon., Nov. 17, 3 p.m. "Impact of Prescription Drug
Insurance on Health Care Utilization and
Expenditures Among Elderly Medicare Beneficiaries With
Depression," a Health Policy and
Management thesis defense seminar with Megan Alice O'Brien.
688 Hampton House. EB
Special Events
Thurs., Nov. 13, 4 p.m. "Mark: Beauty and Fashion
Bash," an event sponsored by Cosmopolitan magazine,
with guest speaker Amy Pigliacampo, handbag designer and
founder of Freddy and Ma. There will be
free Cosmo tote bags, free coffee, a special sweepstake and
photos taken by a Cosmo photographer.
The event will be featured in the March issue of Cosmo.
Barnes & Noble Johns Hopkins. HW
SPORTS
Sat., Nov. 15, 1 p.m. Football, Blue Jays vs.
McDaniel. Homewood Field. HW
Symposia
Wed., Nov. 12, 4:30 p.m. "Redesigning East
Baltimore," an Urban Health Institute quarterly symposium,
a discussion about redevelopment efforts in East Baltimore
with panelists Douglas Miles, bishop,
Koinonia Baptist Church and clergy co-chair, BUILD; Edward
Sabatino, executive director, HEBCAC;
Jack Shannon, president and CEO, East Baltimore Development
Inc.; and Marie Washington, president,
East Baltimore Community Corp. (See "In Brief," in this
week's issue.) W1214 SPH (Sheldon Hall). EB
Workshops
Thurs., Nov. 13, 1 p.m. "Introduction to Google
Sketchup," a Center for Educational Resources
workshop. To register, go to www.cer.jhu.edu. Garrett
Room, MSE Library. HW
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