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Weekly Calendar
Colloquia
No kidding
Comedian Will Ferrell is this week's speaker in the 2008 Milton
S. Eisenhower Symposium, whose theme is 'A More Perfect Union:
Partnership, Progress & Prosperity in a Changing America.' All
tickets have been
distributed, but there will be a live screening to accommodate
others. For the screening location, go to www.jhu.edu/mse. For other
information, see Special Events.
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Tues., Nov. 4, 4 p.m. "Lessons From Hell: Punishment
and Governmentality in India's Visual Culture," an
Anthropology colloquium with Christopher Pinney,
Northwestern University/University College London.
Co-sponsored by German and Romance Languages and
Literatures. 400 Macaulay. HW
Tues., Nov. 4, 4:15 p.m. The Ephraim and Wilma Shaw
Roseman Colloquium — "Interrogating a Protein
Cavity by EPR: Heads, You Win; Tails, You Win" with Betty
Gaffey, Florida State University.
Sponsored by Chemistry. 233 Remsen. HW
Wed., Nov. 5, 4:30 p.m. "Rapid Induction of Cell
Death and Suppression of Metastasis of Cancer Cells
by M4N and Specific Metabolic Modulators," a Biology
colloquium with Ru Chih Huang, KSAS. Mudd
Auditorium. HW
Thurs., Nov. 6, and Fri., Nov. 7, 9 a.m. to 4:30
p.m. The Lavy Colloquium — "Nationhood and the
Jews"
with various speakers. Sponsored by the Leonard and Helen
R. Stulman Jewish Studies Program.
Smokler Center for Jewish Life. HW
Thurs., Nov. 6, 3 p.m. "Shear Banding in Metallic
Glasses and Granular Media," a Physics and Astronomy
colloquium with Michael Falk, WSE. Schafler Auditorium,
Bloomberg Center. HW
Fri., Nov. 7, 2 p.m. "Crossed Swords: Pakistan, Its
Army, and the Wars Within," an Applied Physics
Laboratory colloquium with strategic analyst Shuja Nawaz.
Parsons Auditorium. APL
Film/Video
Mon., Nov. 3, 7 p.m. Screening of the EmmyÐnominated
documentary The Day My God Died, followed by
a Q&A and reception with Anuradha Koirala, founder of Maiti
Nepal. Sponsored by the Hopkins AIDS
Alliance; Vision XChange; JB Grant International Health
Society; the Sommer Scholars Program;
AMWA; and Friends of Maiti Nepal. Donations welcome. 210
Hodson. HW
Information Sessions
Tues., Nov. 4, 12:15 p.m. Information session for
the Academy for Educational Development, with a
representative from AED who will discuss employment
opportunities. Sponsored by Career Services.
W2033 SPH. EB
Lectures
Mon., Nov. 3, 12:15 p.m. Native American Heritage
Month lecture by Oren Lyons, a faithkeeper of the
Onondaga Nation. Sponsored by the Johns Hopkins Center for
American Indian Health. W1214 SPH
(Sheldon Hall). EB
Mon., Nov. 3, 5:15 p.m. "The Voltaire Problem," a
German and Romance Languages and Literatures
lecture by Nicholas Cronk, Oxford University. 201C Dell
House. HW
Mon., Nov. 3, 5:30 p.m. The 2008 Iwry Lecture
— "Prophets and Temples in Ancient Near Eastern and
Biblical Texts" by Martti Nissinen, University of Helsinki.
Sponsored by Near Eastern Studies. 101
Remsen. HW
Tues., Nov. 4, 5:15 p.m. "Insulaires en Mouvement:
Saint-Exupery, Michaux, Calvino, Glissant," a
German and Romance Languages and Literatures lecture by
Frank Lestringant, Universite de Paris IV,
Sorbonne. 201C Dell House. HW
Thurs., Nov. 6, 7:30 a.m. The 25th Annual Howard W.
Jones Jr., M.D. and Georgeanna Seegar Jones,
M.D. Lecture — "Out of the Freezer and Into the Fire:
How Cryopreservation and Other ART Advances
Test and Transform the Law" by Susan Crockin, Crockin Law
and Policy Group, LLC. 240 Phipps. EB
Thurs., Nov. 6, 4 p.m. The 2008 Wenk Lecture —
"Making Forensic Science More Scientific: Statistics
and the Evaluation of Forensic Evidence" by Stephen
Fienberg, Carnegie Mellon University. 304
Whitehead. HW
Thurs., Nov. 6, 5 p.m. "The Self-Same and the
Foreign: Hospitality as the Ethical Aim of the
Translating Act," a German and Romance Languages and
Literatures lecture by Franca Cavagnoli,
University of Milan. 101A Dell House. HW
Fri., Nov. 7, 5 p.m. " 'Ad occhi asciutti nella
notte scura,' Presentazione del romanzo di Franca
Cavagnoli, non si e seri a 17 anni," a German and Romance
Languages and Literatures lecture by Franca
Cavagnoli, University of Milan. Lecture is in Italian, with
a Q&A in English and/or Italian following the
presentation. 101A Dell House. HW
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
Music
Tues., Nov. 4, 7:30 p.m. The Peabody Singers perform
music by Aaron Copland and Benjamin Britten.
$15 general admission, $10 senior citizens, $5 students
with ID. Griswold Hall. Peabody
Wed., Nov. 5, 7:30 p.m. Peabody Chamber Winds
performs music for woodwinds and brass by Krommer,
Harbison and Lambert. Griswold Hall. Peabody
Fri., Nov. 7, 7:30 p.m. The Peabody Latin Jazz
Ensemble performs. $15 general admission, $10 senior
citizens, $5 students with ID. East Hall. Peabody
Sat., Nov. 8, 7:30 p.m. Peabody Camerata performs
music by Schoenberg and Adams. Griswold Hall.
Peabody
Sun., Nov. 9, 3 p.m. Hopkins Symphony Orchestra
Chamber Concert; featured work is Mozart's
Serenade No. 9 in D Major. $8 general admission, $6 for
senior citizens. Bunting-Meyerhoff
Interfaith Center. HW
Sun., Nov. 9, 4 p.m. Performance by organist Donald
Sutherland. $15 general admission, $10 senior
citizens, $5 for students with ID. Griswold Hall.
Peabody
Reading
Thurs., Nov. 6, 7 p.m. Discussion and book signing
by Baltimore Sun columnist and WYPR news analyst
C. Fraser Smith of his latest book Here Lies Jim Crow:
Civil Rights in Maryland. (See
"In Brief," in this
issue.) Barnes & Noble Johns Hopkins. HW
Seminars
Mon., Nov. 3, 12:15 p.m. "Genetic Manipulations in
the Fruit Fly Fight Club: Love and War in a Single
Gene and Other Stories," a Carnegie Institution Embryology
seminar with Edward Kravitz, Harvard
Medical School. Rose Auditorium, 3520 San Martin Drive.
HW
Mon., Nov. 3, 3 p.m. "The Weighted-Heat Equation
With Applications," an Analysis seminar with
Andrew Raich, University of Arkansas. Sponsored by
Mathematics. 304 Krieger. HW
Mon., Nov. 3, 3:30 p.m. "Metabolic Stability and the
Evolution of Life Span," a Center on Aging and
Health seminar with Lloyd Demetrius, Harvard University/Max
Planck Institute for Molecular
Genetics. Suite 2-700, 2024 E. Monument St. EB
Mon., Nov. 3, 4 p.m. "Unraveling the Molecular
Mechanisms of DNA Helicases Associated With Cancer,
Aging and Human Disease," a Biochemistry and Molecular
Biology seminar with Robert Brosh,
NIA/NIH. W2030 SPH. EB
Mon., Nov. 3, 4 p.m. The David Bodian Seminar
— "Mapping the Microcircuitry of Attention:
Attentional
Modulation Varies Across Cell Classes in Visual Area V4"
with John Reynolds, the Salk Institute. 338
Krieger. HW
Tues., Nov. 4, 10:30 a.m. "Coordination of Robotic
Networks," a Computer Science seminar with
Francesco Bullo, University of California, Santa Barbara.
B17 CSEB. HW
Tues., Nov. 4, noon. "Quantitative Phosphoproteomic
Dissection of Signaling Pathways Applied to T Cell
and Mast Cell Signaling," a Biological Chemistry seminar
with Arthur Salomon, Brown University. 612
Physiology. EB
Tues., Nov. 4, 3:30 p.m. "On the Monotone Likelihood
Ratio Property for the Convolution of
Independent Binomial Random Variables," an Applied
Mathematics and Statistics student seminar with
Andrey Rukhin. 304 Whitehead. HW
Tues., Nov. 4, 4:30 p.m. "K3-surfaces With Special
Symmetry," an Algebraic Complex
Geometry/Number Theory seminar with Alan Huckleberry, Ruhr
University of Bochum. 104 Maryland.
HW
Wed., Nov. 5, 8:30 a.m. "Challenges in Clinical
Trials Networks," a Center for Clinical Trials seminar
with Neil Bressler, SoM. Sponsored by Epidemiology. W2030
SPH. EB
Wed., Nov. 5, 2 p.m. "Microbial Rhodopsins:
Light-gated Ion Channels and Pumps as Tools in Neuro- and
Cell Biology," a Physiology seminar with Ernst Bamberg, Max
Planck Institute of Biophysics. 203
Physiology. EB
Wed., Nov. 5, 3 p.m. "Finite Symmetry Groups in
Complex Geometry," a Topics in Complex Geometry
seminar with Alan Huckleberry, Ruhr University of Bochum.
Sponsored by Mathematics. 300 Krieger.
HW
Wed., Nov. 5, 3:30 p.m. "Electrochemical Stability
of Nanometer-scale Metal Particles," a Materials
Science and Engineering seminar with Karl Sieradzki,
Arizona State University. 110 Maryland. HW
Wed., Nov. 5, 4 p.m. "Fourier-Domain Common-Path
Optical Coherence Tomography for Sensing and
Imaging in Microsurgery," an Electrical and Computer
Engineering seminar with Jae Ho Han, WSE. 114
Barton. HW
Wed., Nov. 5, 4 p.m. "Transatlantic Transsexuality:
Femininity and Feminism in Jan Morris' Conundrum
and Deirdre McClosky's Crossing," a Women, Gender and
Sexuality seminar with Dan O'Connor,
Greenwall Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in Bioethics and
the History of Medicine. Co-sponsored by
History of Medicine. 113 Greenhouse. HW
Wed., Nov. 5, 4:30 p.m. "Densities of Excitation and
ISI for Cortical Neurons via Laplace Transforms,"
a Center for Language and Speech Processing seminar with
Toby Berger, University of Virginia. B17
CSEB. HW
Thurs., Nov. 6, 10:30 a.m. "Motion of Droplets on
Surfaces Induced by Noise and a Bias," a Chemical
and Biomolecular Engineering seminar with Manoj Chaudhury,
Lehigh University. 110 Maryland. HW
Thurs., Nov. 6, noon. "The Lobbyist Panel," a Health
Policy and Management Fall Policy seminar with
lobbyists Barbara Brocato, Frank Boston, Don Murphy, Robin
Shaivitz and Pegeen Townsend. B14B
Hampton House. EB
Thurs., Nov. 6, noon. "Inside and Out: Microbial
Recognition and Signaling in Drosophila Immunity," a
Molecular Microbiology and Immunology/Infectious Diseases
research seminar with Neal Silverman,
University of Massachusetts Medical School. W2030 SPH.
EB
Thurs., Nov. 6, noon. "Heads and Tails: Regulation
of a Copper-Transporting P-type ATPase in Epithelial
Cells," a Cell Biology seminar with Ann Hubbard, SoM. Suite
2-200, 1830 Bldg. EB
Thurs., Nov. 6, noon. The Randolph Bromery Seminar
— "Magma at the Yucca Mountain Nuclear
Repository" with Bruce Marsh, KSAS. Sponsored by Earth and
Planetary Sciences. Olin Auditorium.
HW
Thurs., Nov. 6, 1 p.m. "Insight Into Stroke Damage
and Recovery From Imaging Individual Synapses
and Circuits in Mice in vivo," a Neuroscience research
seminar with Tim Murphy, University of British
Columbia. West Lecture Hall (ground floor), WBSB. EB
Thurs., Nov. 6, 3 p.m. "Design for Product-Embedded
Disassembly," a Mechanical Engineering seminar
with Kazuhiro Saitou, University of Michigan. 210 Hodson.
HW
Fri., Nov. 7, 12:15 p.m. "Estimation of Premature
Mortality and Morbidity in Saudi Arabia From
Increased Particulate Matter Levels Associated with the
1990-91 Gulf War," an Epidemiology seminar
with Ronald White, Risk Sciences and Public Policy
Institute. W3030 SPH. EB
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
Special Events
Thurs., Nov. 6, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. JHSPH United Way
Thursday, free fountain soda from Jay's to anyone
who completes the United Way form. Stop by the United Way
table at the Monument Street entrance
of the Wolfe Street building to pick up a ticket. Donors
will also be included in a drawing (on 11/21)
for a $200 gift certificate to the Apple Store. Sponsored
by Office of External Affairs. 9th Floor
Cafe, SPH. EB
Thurs., Nov. 6, 2 p.m. Johns Hopkins Children's
Center's annual fall preview fashion show, highlighting
the Miracle Collection, a popular line of men's neckties.
(See "In Brief," in this issue.) The show will
feature the pediatric patients who designed the ties,
escorted by local celebrities. Turner Auditorium.
EB
Thurs., Nov. 6, 8 p.m. The 2008 Milton S. Eisenhower
Symposium presents comedian Will Ferrell.
Shriver Auditorium. HW
Fri., Nov. 7, 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Sixth Annual
Johns Hopkins Chili Cook-Off. Spectators can sample
chili — and bake-off items — while they last,
or pay $5 for lunch, which includes chili, cornbread,
dessert
and a drink. All proceeds benefit the Johns Hopkins
Neighborhood Fund and the United Way of
Central Maryland. 12:30 p.m. Winners announced. Glass
Pavilion, Levering. HW
Fri., Nov. 7, noon to 1:30 p.m. First Fridays
potluck for international spouses, sponsored by the JH
International Society. Each person should bring a food item
to share with four to six people. Children
are welcome to attend. RSVP to
internationalsociety@jhmi.edu. Reed Hall. EB
Sat., Nov. 8, 6 p.m. "Cultural Festival/Culture
Show," showcase of art and dance performances
sponsored by the Office of Multicultural Student Affairs.
Shriver Hall. HW
Sun., Nov. 9, 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Eighth Annual Day
of Master Classes and Ballet Teachers' Seminar,
sponsored by Peabody Dance, with guest artists Marcia Dale
Weary of the Central Pennsylvania Youth
Ballet; Barbara Sandonato, formerly with the Pennsylvania
Ballet and the National Ballet of Canada;
and Rafael Grigorian, former principal dancer and ballet
master with the Kirov and Bolshoi ballets.
Dance studios, Preparatory. Peabody
Sun., Nov. 9, 7 p.m. Diwali and Dandiya Nite '08,
the Indian festival of lights. Sponsored by the Indian
Graduate Students Association. $8. Glass Pavilion,
Levering. HW
Symposia
Fri., Nov. 7, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The Biology of
Molecules, the Chemistry of Life symposium, with Don
Cleveland, University of California, San Diego; C. Ronald
Kahn, Harvard Medical School; Marc
Kirschner, Harvard Medical School; Susan Lindquist,
MIT/HHMI; Thomas Pollard, Yale University; and
Joan Steitz, Yale University. Sponsored by Biological
Chemistry. Turner Auditorium and Concourse.
EB
Theater
Fri., Nov. 7; Sat., Nov. 8; and Sun., Nov. 9, 8 p.m.
The Barnstormers present Tom Stoppard's
intellectual farce Arcadia. $10 general admission, $5 for
students with ID. Swirnow Theater, Mattin
Center. HW
Sat., Nov. 8, 8 p.m. Buttered Niblets presents an
evening of comedy improvisation. Sponsored by
Student Development and Programming. Arellano Theater,
Levering. HW
Workshops
Thurs., Nov. 6, 1 p.m. "Google — More Than
Fast Searching," a Center for Educational Resources
workshop. To register, go to www.cer.jhu.edu. Garrett
Room, MSE Library. HW
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