Weekly Calendar

Colloquia | Conferences | Dance | Discussion/Talks | Lectures | Music | Seminars | Special Events | Sports | Symposia | Theater | Workshops and Training

 

Colloquia

Members of the JHU Modern Dance Company take to the air in a rehearsal for their Spring Concert, scheduled for this weekend. The troupe, which has been dancing at Homewood for 26 years, will perform pieces choreographed by Marilyn Byers, its artistic director since its founding, and by Larissa Miller. The dances are built upon the Nikolais/Louis tradition, which emphasizes "motion creates emotion." See Dance. Photo by Will Kirk / HIPS

Tues., March 27, 4 p.m. "Kohlhass/Coalhouse; Race, Politics and the State of Exception," an Anthropology colloquium with Michael Hanchard, KSAS; 400 Macaulay. HW

Tues., March 27, 4:15 p.m. "Interfacial Dynamics of Polymers, Metals and SAMS: Nano-scale Assembly, Glassy Dynamics and the Quest for Perfection," a Chemistry colloquium with Steven Sibener, University of Chicago; 233 Remsen. HW

Wed., March 28, 3:30 p.m. "Spitzer Survey of the Large Magellanic Cloud Surveying the Agents of a Galaxy's Evolution (SAGE)," an STScI colloquium with Margaret Meixner, STScI; STScI Auditorium. HW

Wed., March 28, 4:30 p.m. "Pain and the Body Politic: Taiko Players Talk About Blisters and More," a Peabody Musicology colloquium with Deborah Wong, University of California, Riverside; 308 Conservatory. Peabody

Thurs., March 29, 3 p.m. "A History of Qi: 'Vital Energy' in China and the United States," a History of Science, Medicine and Technology colloquium with Ruth Rogaski, Vanderbilt University; Seminar Room, 3rd floor, Welch Library. EB

Thurs., March 29, 4 p.m. "The History and Politics of Historiography," a Political and Moral Thought Seminar colloquium with J.G.A. Pocock, KSAS; 348 Gilman. HW

 

Conference

Sat., March 31, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. "Working Affect," a graduate student conference with Hirokazu Miyazaki, Cornell University. Sponsored by Anthropology. Sherwood Room, Levering. HW

Sat., March 31, 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. "Our Community, Our Health, Our Voice," the annual SALUD leadership conference with keynote speaker Stuart Ray Stuart, SoM. Co-sponsored by OLE, HOPE, LEM, BSU and Habitat for Humanity. Mattin Center. HW

Mon., April 2, 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Conference for the Dissemination of Student Research on Addictions, Infectious Disease and Public Health, with Wilson Compton, NIDA; Linda Cottler, Washington University School of Medicine; David Vlahov, New York Academy of Medicine. Co-sponsored by the Dean's Office, Drug Dependency Epidemiology Training Program, Mental Health, and Population, Family and Reproductive Health. E2014 SPH (Sommer Hall). EB

 

Dance

Sat., March 31, 8 p.m. JHU Modern Dance Spring Concert. $5 general admission, $3 for students. Shriver Hall. HW

 

Discussion/Talks

Tues., March 27, 1:30 p.m. "Imagination in Pascal," a roundtable discussion with Jack Abecassis, Pomona College (visiting professor at JHU); Sean Greenberg, KSAS; and John Lyons, University of Virginia. Sponsored by German and Romance Languages and Literatures. 161 Mattin Center. HW

Tues., March 27, 5 p.m. Pre-Health discussion with Robert Ruiz, director of admissions, University of Michigan School of Medicine; Sherwood Room, Levering. HW

Wed., March 28, 4 p.m. "The Otherness of the Inner Voice," a Program for the Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality discussion with Denise Riley, University of East Anglia, UK; 113 Greenhouse. HW

Fri., March 30, 3 p.m. "Telomerase: From Graduate Studies to Lasker Award," a talk wiith Carol Greider, SoM. Sponsored by the Graduate Student Association (SoM). WBSB Auditorium. EB

 

Lectures

Wed., March 28, 12:30 p.m. "$how Me the Money: Tips on Finding Funding Resources," a Welch Library lecture by Stella Seal, Welch Medical Library; Alumni Auditorium, Anne M. Pinkard Bldg. EB

Wed., March 28, 5:15 p.m. "Litterature et Mondanite: les Salons Parisiens au XVIIIe Siecle," a German and Romance Languages and Literatures lecture by Antoine Lilti, Ecole Normale Superieure; 336 Gilman. HW

Wed., March 28, 5:30 p.m. "Women Don't Ask: Negotiation and the Gender Divide," a Women of Whiting (WoW) lecture by author Sara Laschever; 272 Bloomberg Center. HW

Fri., March 30, 11 a.m. "Architectural Fluid Dynamics," a CEAFM lecture by Paul Linden, University of California, San Diego; 110 Maryland. HW

Mon., April 2, 4 p.m. "Seized by the Spirit: The Mystical Foundation of Squatting Among Pentecostals in Caracas, Venezuela," a Humanities Center lecture by Rafael Sanchez, New York University. Co-sponsored by Anthropology. 111 Gilman. HW

 

Music

Thurs., March 29, 7:30 p.m. The Peabody Singers perform music by Brahms, Haydn, Mendelssohn, Petrassi and Rudow. $18 general admission, $10 for senior citizens, $8 for students with ID. Griswold Hall. Peabody

Sat., March 31, 8 p.m. The Peabody Symphony Orchestra performs music inspired by dance. Program includes works by Rachmaninoff, Verdi, de Falla and Peabody student Baris Perker, winner of the 2006 Macht Composition Competition. $18 general admission, $10 for senior citizens, $8 for students with ID. Friedberg Hall. Peabody

Sat., March 31, 3 p.m. Shriver Hall Concert Series presents soprano Dana Vachharajani, cellist Evan Drachman and pianist Richard Dowling. Part of the Discovery series. BMA Auditorium.

Sun., April 1, 5:30 p.m. The Shriver Hall Concert Series presents an early music concert with the Tallis Scholars. $33 general admission, $17 for students; free for all JHU students. A pre-concert lecture will be held at 4:30 p.m. in the Clipper Room. Shriver Hall Auditorium. HW

 

Seminars

Mon., March 26, noon. "3-D Cloud Properties and Climate," an Earth and Planetary Sciences seminar with Robert Cahalan, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; Olin Auditorium. HW

Mon., March 26, 12:15 p.m. "Dismantling the Poverty Trap: Disability Policy for the 21st Century," with David Stapleton, Cornell University. Second in the Disability Across the Life Span series, sponsored by Health Policy and Management, and Population, Family and Reproductive Health. W1030 SPH. EB

Mon., March 26, 12:15 p.m. "Signaling Mechanisms in Nerve Guidance," a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with Guo-Li Ming, SoM; Rose Auditorium, 3520 San Martin Drive. HW

Mon., March 26, 1 p.m. "Reward Timing in the Visual Cortex," a Neuroscience special seminar with Marshall Shuler, MIT; West Lecture Hall, WBSB. EB

Mon., March 26, 3 p.m. "The Chemical Synapse Goes Electric: Ca2+ and Voltage-Sensitive GPCRs Control Neurotransmitter Release," a Neuroscience research seminar with Hanna Parnas and Itzchak Parnas, Hebrew University, Jerusalem; West Lecture Hall (ground floor), WBSB. EB

Mon., March 26, 4 p.m. "Instability of Graphical Strips and a Positive Answer to the Bernstein Problem in the Heisenberg Group," an Analysis seminar with Donatella Danielli, Purdue University; 308 Krieger. HW

Mon., March 26, 4 p.m. The David Bodian Seminar in Neuroscience — "Visual Processing in the Developing Zebrafish" with Florian Engert, Harvard University. Sponsored by Krieger Mind/Brain Institute. 338 Krieger. HW

Mon., March 26, 4 p.m. "The Writing of Paranoia: Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the Paradoxes of Celebrity," a History seminar with Antoine Lilti, Ecole Normale Superieure; 315 Gilman. HW

Mon., March 26, 4 p.m. "Dementia and the Risk of Suicide in Older Adults," a Mental Health seminar with Annette Erlangsen, SPH; B14B Hampton House. EB

Tues., March 27, noon. "Viral Genetic Switches: How Noisy Transcriptional Feedback Controls Latency in HIV and Herpes," a Center for Cell Dynamics/Molecular Biology and Genetics seminar with Leor Weinberger, Princeton University; Suite 2-200, 1830 Bldg. EB

Tues., March 27, 3 p.m. "Transformation of Wastewater-Borne Antibacerial Agents During Chlorination and Ozonation Processes: Kinetics, Reaction Pathways and Toxicological Consequences of Structural Modifications," a Geography and Environmental Engineering seminar with Michael Dodd, EAWAG; 234 Ames. HW

Tues., March 27, 3:30 p.m. "Ocean Controls on Atmospheric CO2," an Earth and Planetary Sciences seminar with Irina Marinov, MIT; Olin Auditorium. HW

Tues., March 27, 4:30 p.m. "A Synthesis of Logical Reasoning and Word Learning Abilities in Children and Adults," a Center for Language and Speech Processing seminar with Justin Halberda, KSAS; 3 Shaffer. HW

Wed., March 28, noon. "Recovery and Lung Injury: Changing Focus and Paradigms," an Environmental Health Sciences seminar with Landon King, SoM; W7023 SPH. EB

Wed., March 28, 12:15 p.m. "Systematic Review of Cohort Studies in Postnatal Depression," a Mental Health seminar with Pallab Maulik, SPH; B14B Hampton House. EB

Wed., March 28, 1:30 p.m. "Faith in Positive Action Against Stigma and Discrimination," a Center for Communication Programs seminar with J.P. Heath and Rev. Byamugisha, ANARELA; and Milicent Obaso, CARE International. Suite 310 (International Room), Candler Building, 111 Market Place.

Wed., March 28, 1:30 p.m. "Tubulin Homolog FtsZ Powers Bacterial Cytokinesis," a Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry seminar with Harold Erickson, Duke University Medical Center; 517 PCTB. EB

Wed., March 28, 3:30 p.m. "The Max Phases and Kinking Nonlinear Elastic Solids — A Newly Identified Class of Solids," a Materials Science and Engineering seminar with Michel Bausoum, Drexel University; 110 Maryland. HW

Wed., March 28, 4 p.m. "Molecular Control of Blood and Blood Vessels," a Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences seminar with Emery Bresnick, University of Wisconsin, Madison; West Lecture Hall (ground floor), WBSB. EB

Thurs., March 29, noon. "2-D Crystals of Membrane Proteins on Urothelial Apical Surface: Functional and Disease Implications," a Cell Biology seminar with Tung-Tien Sun, New York University Medical School; Suite 2-200, 1830 Bldg. EB

Thurs., March 29, 1 p.m. "Mammalian Taste: The Receptors, Cells and Coding Logic," a Neuroscience research seminar with Nicholas Ryba, NIDCR/NIH; West Lecture Hall (ground floor), WBSB. EB

Thurs., March 29, 3 p.m. "Therapeutic Ultrasound," a Mechanical Engineering seminar with Larry Crum, University of Washington; 210 Hodson. HW

Thurs., March 29, 3:30 p.m. "Equable Climate Dynamics," an Earth and Planetary Sciences seminar with Robert Korty, Caltech; Olin Auditorium. HW

Thurs., March 29, 4 p.m. "Inference on Interpoint Comparisons: An Application in Computational Anatomy," an Applied Mathematics and Statistics seminar with Carey Priebe, WSE; 304 Whitehead. HW

Thurs., March 29, 4 p.m. "Structure-Function of Novel Anti-HIV Agents," a Biology seminar with Sylvia Lee-Huang, New York University; 100 Mudd. HW

Fri., March 30, noon. "Polio Eradication in India — What Went Wrong?" an International Health seminar with T. Jacob John; W2017 SPH. EB

Fri., March 30, 12:15 p.m. "Psychosocial Hazards, the HPA Axis and Gene-Environment Interaction Toward the Cognitive Function of Older Adults," an Epidemiology doctoral proposal seminar with Brian Lee; W4030 SPH. EB

Mon., April 2, noon. "The Alkaline Solution to the Emergence of Life," an Earth and Planetary Sciences seminar with Michael Russell, Caltech; Olin Auditorium. HW

Mon., April 2, 12:15 p.m. "TACCling Novel Importin Beta Targets in Mitotic Spindle Assembly," a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with Christiane Wiese, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Rose Auditorium, 3520 San Martin Drive. HW

Mon., April 2, 4 p.m. "Recent Developments on the Two-Weight Problem for the Fourier Transform," an Analysis seminar with Ryan Berndt, Kansas State University; 302 Krieger. HW

Mon., April 2, 4 p.m. "Coupling Lipid Flip to Clathrin-Coated Vesicle Budding From the Golgi," a Biochemistry and Molecular Biology seminar with Todd Graham, Vanderbilt University; W2030 SPH. EB

Mon., April 2, 4 p.m. The David Bodian Seminar in Neuroscience — "Four Conditions on Sufficient Experimental Evidence to Establish a Molecular Basis for a Cognitive Phenomenon" with John Bickle, University of Cincinnati. Sponsored by Krieger Mind/Brain Institute. 338 Krieger. HW

 

Special Events

Fri., March 30, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. "Chocolate Festival," a chance to sample gourmet truffles, ice cream, brownies and other chocolate delights. Sponsored by the Student Advocacy Board/Center for Social Concern. Glass Pavilion, Levering. HW

Fri., March 30, 7 p.m. to 2 a.m. "Spring Tonic," featuring international potluck, variety show and party. Sponsored by the SPH Student Assembly. Turner Concourse and Turner Auditorium, BRB. EB

Sat., March 31, noon to 2 p.m. "Find a Friend for Life With the Maryland SPCA," an opportunity to adopt a pet from the Maryland SPCA. Sponsored by Homewood Museum, in conjunction with the exhibition Feathers, Fins and Fur: The Pet in Early Maryland. Museum admission: free for JHU affiliates or with item on SPCA wish list (410-516-0341), $6 adults, $5 seniors, $3 students, children over 6. Wine Cellar, Homewood Museum. HW

Sat., March 31, 1 to 3 p.m. Historic Homewood Artwalk, a chance to discover the history of the landscape connecting the collections of American decorative arts at Homewood Museum and the BMA. Guided tours depart at 1 p.m. from Homewood Museum and 2 p.m. from the BMA. For reservations, call 410-516-5589. Self-guided brochure available at both museums. HW

Sat., March 31, 1:30 p.m. Professional storyteller and musician Walter Jones, of the Griot Society of Maryland, re-tells Aesop's Fables with flair. Program augments the exhibition Feathers, Fins and Fur: The Pet in Early Maryland. Homewood Museum. HW

Sat., March 31, 7 p.m. to midnight. Persian New Year Party, sponsored by the Iranian Cultural Society. RSVP to [email protected]. Hop Stop, Levering. HW

 

Sports

Wed., March 28, 7 p.m. Women's Lacrosse, Blue Jays vs. Pennsylvania; Homewood Field. HW

Sun., April 1, 10 a.m. Men's Tennis, Blue Jays vs. Mary Washington; Athletic Center. HW

Sun., April 1, noon. Women's Lacrosse, Blue Jays vs. Denver; Homewood Field. HW

 

Symposia

Mon., March 26, noon. Involving Communities in Research: A Matter of Ethics (Models From Urban and Native Communities), a symposium with Ann Macaulay, McGill University, and Stephen Thomas, University of Pittsburgh. Sponsored by SOURCE, the Berman Institute of Bioethics, the Center for Health Disparities Solutions, the Environmental Justice Partnership, the Office of the Vice Dean for Clinical Investigation (SoM) and the Office of Research Subjects (SPH). E2030 SPH. EB

Tues., March 27, 8 p.m. The 2007 Foreign Affairs Symposium presents a discussion on the current situation in Iraq with Rajiv Chandrasekaran, assistant managing editor at the Washington Post; Glass Pavilion, Levering. HW

 

Theater

Fri., March 30, Sat., March 31, 8 p.m., and Sun., April 1, 2 p.m. The Johns Hopkins University Theater presents a Lanford Wilson comedy, Book of Days. $15 general admission, $13 for senior citizens, faculty and staff, and $5 for students. Merrick Barn. HW

Fri., March 30, Sat., March 31, and Sun., April 1, 8 p.m. The JHU Barnstormers present the Tony Award-winning play Urinetown; Swirnow Theater, Mattin Center. HW

 

Workshops and Training

Mon., March 26, 2:30 p.m. Weekly life drawing session, sponsored by the Hopkins Art Club, with free food and art supplies. 208 Mattin Center. HW

Tues., March 27, 12:15 p.m. "Independent Public Health Consulting," a Career Services workshop with alumna Tiffany Tate. W3008 SPH. EB

Wed., March 28, 7 p.m. "Cultural Cooking," a workshop devoted to cooking a variety of cultural dishes. Sponsored by JHU Dining. Charles Commons kitchen. HW

Thurs., March 29, 1 p.m. "Bits and Bytes: Digital TV and HDTV," a Center for Educational Resources training session with Brian Cole, JHU; Garrett Room, MSE Library. HW

 

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