University Lectures
cmu.edu/uls/
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
4:30 pm • Adamson Wing, Baker Hall 136A
CENTER FOR THE ARTS IN SOCIETY
Signs of Violence:Messaging, Media and Politics in Mexico’s ‘Drug War’
Paul K. Eiss, AssociateProfessor of Anthropology and History; Director, Center for the Arts inSociety, Carnegie Mellon University
In this talk, Iexplore some of the linkages between violence, politicalrepresentation, and the new media in contemporary Mexico. I will consider theimplications of avariety of new medial forms that have arisen in connectionwith drug- and drug-war related violence, which I term the “narcomedia.”Debates over the narcomedia, and diverse attempts to control or censor them,quickly move from discussion of the drug traffickers or of the “war” againstthem to complicated discussions of the far-reaching implications ofglobalization in contemporary Mexico: of the beleaguered sovereignties of stateand people; of rights and the rule of law; and of the tenuous claims of historyand nation in the conflict’s wake.
http://www.cmu.edu/uls/march/eiss.html
http://www.cmu.edu/uls/march/eiss.html
Thursday, March 22, 2012
4:30 pm • Porter Hall 100
The Humanities Center Lectures,2011-2012: Imagining Planetarity
The Beneficiary:Cosmopolitanism and Inequality
Bruce Robbins, ColumbiaUniversity
"Under the capitalist system, in order that England may live incomparative comfort, ahundred million Indians must live on the verge ofstarvation– an evil state of affairs, but you acquiesce in it every time youstep into a taxi or eat a plate of strawberries and cream. The alternative isto throw the Empire overboard and reduce England to a cold and unimportantlittle island where we should all have to work very hard and live mainly onherrings and potatoes. That is the very last thing that any left-winger wants.”George Orwell wrote this in 1936. What do we think of it now?
Thursday, March 22, 2012
4:30 pm • McConomy Auditorium,University Center
Hunger of Memory
Hunger of Memory is a documentary done by Prof. Gilbert Gonzalez(university of California Irvine) and Prof. Vivian Price (California StateUniversity, Dominguez Hill), it is about the Bracero Program a guest workersprogram that brought Mexican workers to the US between 1942 and 1964, the filmlays the foundation for discussion aboutimmigration connecting past historywith current present debates. This award winning film has been aired at PBS andreceived the 2012 Peter Rollins FilmAward for best documentary, the CinelatinoAudience Choice Award for best documentary at the Los Angeles Film Festival2010,and the Best Educational Film Award at the Amsterdam Film Festival 2011.After the screening, there will be a Q&A session with Vivian Price, one ofthe producers.
Sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages
March 22 - April 15, 2012
Times and Locations availableon the website: http://www.cmu.edu/faces/
There is an admission fee for the films.
The 2012 Carnegie Mellon International Film Festival, Faces of Othersis the sixth in a series of international film festivals launched through theDietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Carnegie MellonUniversity. New award-winning, independent films and documentaries from allaround the world as well as an international student short film competition will be presented,accompanied by receptions with food anddrink, expert panels, and liveperformances! Each weekend hosts films that challenge the audience tocontemplate the perspectives of others from cultures across the globe, including:Dutch, Polish, Latin American, French, Finnish, Germanic, Norwegian, African,Middle Eastern, Romanian, Hungarian, Austrian, Greek, Russian, and Chinese.
For a full description of the films, venues, and ticket information(ticket discounts for seniors and students!), please visit our website, http://www.cmu.edu/faces. For further information regarding the festival, you may contactFestival Director Jolanta Lion, mailto:jola@cmu.edu, (412) 445-6292.
Friday, March 23, 2012
12-1:00 pm • Philip ChoskyTheater, Purnell Center for the Arts
TheInstitute for the Management of Creative Enterprises presents
THE STEINERSPEAKER SERIES
featuring award-winning director Rob Marshall (A'82)
Attendance is free, but TICKETS ARE REQUIRED. To reserve yourtickets call the School ofDrama Box Office at 412-268-2407. Box Office hoursare noon to 5 pm, Mondaythrough Friday.
Monday, March 26, 2012
4:30 pm • Porter Hall 100(Gregg Hall)
From Transylvania to Pennsylvania: My Personal Journey
Edith Balas, Professor of Art History, Carnegie MellonUniversity; Research Associate at the University of Pittsburgh
Edith Balas, a native of Cluj, Transylvania, professor of Art Historyfor the last 34 years, is the only eyewitness survivor of Nazi concentrationcamps currently at CMU. She will be sharing her experience there and glimpsesof her life under theCommunist regime in Romania. She will then speak of someof her art historical research, which benefitted from her East-Europeanbackground.
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
4:30 pm • Breed Hall, MargaretMorrison Carnegie Hall 103
A Regulator’sPerspective on Nuclear Power in a Post–Fukushima World
CommissionerWilliam D. Magwood IV (S 1982, HS 1983), Commissioner, U.S. NuclearRegulatory Commission
The talk willreview the current status ofoperating and newly licensed reactors in the U.S.and discuss the pertinentissues before the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Mr. Magwoodhas a distinguished career in the nuclear field and in public service. He wasthe longest-serving head of theUnited States' civilian nuclear technologyprogram, serving two Presidents and five Secretaries of Energy from 1998 until2005.
Thursday, March 29, 2012
4:30 pm • PorterHall 100
Fiction/Nonfiction
Tom Kalin, filmmaker,writer and activist
Filmmaker,writer and activist Tom Kalin will discuss the tension between fact and fictionin his films. Kalin’s work traverses diverse forms and genres includingexperimental shorts and installations (Third Known Nest, Every Wandering Cloud)and nonfiction feature narrative films (Swoon, I Shot Andy Warhol and SavageGrace). Inspired by three notorious American crimes, his feature films test theboundaries between psychology and behavior; public and private identity;documentary fact and dramatic truth. In these features and in his experimentalvideo work, Kalinexplores (among other things) the evolution of copyright lawand cultural notions of authenticity. He will also speak briefly about hismembership in the AIDS activist collective Gran Fury, known for its provocativepublic art projects, which currently has a major survey of its work on view inNew York City as well as his recent collaboration with musician Thomas Bartlett(Doveman).
Other Lectures of Interest:
Thursday, March 22, 2012
5:00 pm • Rangos 2 & 3,University Center (2nd Floor)
Health Disparities Panel
The Multicultural Association of Pre-Health Students at Carnegie MellonUniversity will host the panel. We have invited speakers who have a strongfocus on this topic from different aspects of the healthcare field to discussthe issue of health disparities in the society. The event will be followed by areception with light refreshments. You will have the chance to talk to eachspeaker individually and have an in depth discussion. We invite you to join usat the event.
March 23-25, 2012
Russia Today weekend course
This course will take place on the University of Pittsburgh campus.
Thursday, March 29, 2012
4:30 pm • Giant Eagle Auditorium, Baker Hall A51
SpeakingTransnationally: Early Modern European Cross-Cultural Exchanges with IslamicSoutheast Asia
Dr. Su Fang Ng, Departmentof English, University of Oklahoma
“You taughtme language, and my profit on’t/ Is, I know how to curse,” thus Shakespeare’sCaliban accused his master Prospero of linguistic colonialism. But how accuratewas this picture of transnational communication? When Europeans entered thesphere of the Indian Ocean, in what language or languages did they speak? Thispaper considers early modern European translingual exchanges with SoutheastAsia, the aim of European long-distance voyaging as the ultimate source ofsought-after spices, examining in particular the role of Malay, a lingua francaof the spice trade, as a global language.
Dr. Ng isAssociate Professor of English at the University of Oklahoma. She specializesin early modern literature with a secondary interest in postcolonialliteratures. Her book, Literature and the Politics of Family inSeventeenth-Century England (Cambridge University Press, 2007), examines howthe putatively conservative analogy between state and family was used forradical political ends. Her second book project, GlobalRenaissance: EarlyModern Classicism and Empire from the British Isles to the Malay Archipelago,explores how Greek and Roman models of empire became part of native historiesof the early modern maritime kingdoms of England and in Southeast Asia.
Sponsored bythe Pittsburgh Consortium forMedieval and Renaissance Studies and theDepartment of English, Carnegie Mellon University. Co-sponsored by theUniversity of Pittsburgh Program in Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
March 30-April1, 2012
Porter Hall100, Carnegie Mellon University
Environment Today: Green Design and Garbage (Waste)
The "Environment Today" is anannual mini-course that brings students together over a weekend to discussenvironmental issues affecting our planet.
March 30-31,2012
La RocheCollege
Global Problems, Global Solutions
Poverty & Hunger: Global Plagues
Friday Night Keynote Speaker:Ambassador Donald Stein, Deputy Administrator at the U.S. Agency forInternational Development
For a schedule of events and toregister, please visit laroche.edu/global
CENTER FOR THEARTS IN SOCIETY
Animation Symposium
Sunday April1, 2012 • Melwood Screening Room
4:00 pm: Tom Sito Presentation
5:20 pm: Erin Cosgrove's "WhatManner of Person Art Thou?"
6:30 pm: Reception
7:30 pm: Special Preview Screening ofChris Sullivan's animated feature "Consuming Spirits"
Monday April2, 2012
5:00 pm• Giant Eagle Auditorium (Baker Hall A51)
Round Table with the Animators
Co-sponsors: Carnegie Mellon UniversitySchool of Art & Pittsburgh Filmmakers
April 10-13,2012
TEDMED2012 Live Simulcast from the Hunt LibraryInstruction Center, 1st Floor
Thanks to AAU(American Association of Universities) and AAMC (American Association ofMedical Universities), CMU will link to the live broadcast ofTEDMED2012 being held at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, April10-13.
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