Calendar of events
April 11-17, 2005
Monday, April 11
Lectures
4 p.m. Applied and computational mathematics lecture. "Modeling of Large-Scale Neuroral Network Dynamics."Pino Martin. 214 Fine.
4:30 p.m. Institute for the Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia lecture. “An Ambiguous Discourse of Rights: The Case of Single Mothers in Morocco.” Jamila Bargach. 1 Robertson.
4:30 p.m. Princeton Justice Project panel discussion on “An Unjust Sentence?” “The New Apartheid State? The Effect of Racial Discrimination on Sentencing, Incarceration and Re-entry.” David Cole, Georgetown University; and Cornel West; Bruce Western; and Devah Pager. 46 McCosh.
4:30 p.m. Woodrow Wilson School lecture. “American Dream.” Jason DeParle, New York Times. 16 Robertson.
Tuesday, April 12
Arts
4:30 p.m. Visual arts illustrated lecture. Cavin Jones, painter, mural artist and printmaker, talking about his work. 219, 185 Nassau St.
[F] 8 p.m. McCarter Theatre performance. Viktoria Mullova, violin, and Katia LaBeque, piano. Matthews Theatre.
Lectures
Noon. Population research/demography seminar. “Biomarkers, Stress and Health: New Findings and Plans for the Second Wave of the Taiwan Study.” Noreen Goldman and Cassio Turra. 300 Wallace.
12:15 p.m. Latin American studies lecture. “J. Sousandrade’s Poetry and the Politics of Latin American Exile in 19th-Century New York.” Jussara Quadros. 107, 58 Prospect Ave.
12:30 p.m. Princeton Environmental Institute seminar. “Beyond Green Building.” Stanley Allen. 10 Guyot.
4 p.m. Chemistry seminar. “Using Physical Chemistry to Enhance the Functional Diversity of RNA.” Philip Bevilacqua, Pennsylvania State University. DuPont Seminar Room, 324 Frick.
4:15 p.m. Astrophysical sciences astronomy colloquium. “Stars and Planets: More From MOST.” Dimitar Sasselov, Harvard University. Auditorium, Peyton. Social gathering at 5:15 p.m., main hallway.
4:30 p.m. Institute for International and Regional Studies/Adam Smith Global Television Goodman Lecture on Media and Global Affairs. “Al Jazeera: How It Sees the World.” Abderrahim Foukara, Al Jazeera; George Goodman, Adam Smith Global Television; Michael Doran; and Amaney Jamal. Dodds Auditorium, Robertson.
Sports
[F] 3:30 p.m. Baseball vs. Seton Hall University. Clarke Field.
Wednesday, April 13
Arts
12:30 p.m. Chapel music afternoon concert. Chapel.
4:30 p.m. Creative writing/Althea Ward Clark reading series. Gabe Hudson, author, reading his work. Introduced by Edmund White. Stewart Film Theater, 185 Nassau St.
[F] 8 p.m. McCarter Theatre performance. Pilobolus. Matthews Theatre.
[F] 8 p.m. University concerts. Hopkinson Smith, lute. Taplin Auditorium, Fine.
Lectures
[G] Noon. Information technology seminar. “What’s New on Macs?” Donna Sanclemente. Multipurpose Room B, Frist. For information, visit <www.princeton.edu/lunchnlearn>.
Noon. Molecular biology lecture. “The Morphogenesis Checkpoint: How Yeast Cells Watch Their Figures.” Daniel Lew, Duke University. 3 Thomas Lab.
2 p.m. East Asian studies/Institute for International and Regional Studies roundtable discussion. “Russian Strategic Thought Toward Asia (Country by Country).” 309 Frist.
[G] 2:50 p.m. Bendheim Center for Finance/Civitas Foundation finance seminar. “A Unified Bayesian Theory of Equity ‘Puzzles.’” Martin Weitzman, Harvard University. 26 Prospect Ave.
4 p.m. Chemical engineering seminar. “Structure Control in Polymer-Inorganic Hybrids.” Ulrich Weisner, Cornell University. A224 Engineering Quadrangle. Social gathering at 3:30 p.m.
4:30 p.m. Ecology and evolutionary biology colloquium on the biology of populations. “Molecular and Genomic Analyses of Social Behavior in the Honey Bee.” Gene Robinson, University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign. 10 Guyot.
4:30 p.m. Institute for International and Regional Studies/contemporary European politics and society and European Union lecture. “Spain One Year After the Madrid Bombings.” William Chislitt, Financial Times and London Times. 64 McCosh.
4:30 p.m. Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination/Woodrow Wilson School lecture. “The United States, Europe and the New Middle East.” Dominique Moisi, French Institute of International Relations. 1 Robertson.
4:30 p.m. Mathematics colloquium. “The Inverse Problem in Invariant Theory.” Michael Larsen, Indiana University. 314 Fine.
4:30 p.m. Tang Center for East Asian Art lecture. “The Cultural Climate of Late Ming-Early Qing China and Play With Strange Characters.” Qianshen Bai, Boston University. 106 McCormick.
4:30 p.m. Woodrow Wilson School/Policy Research Institute for the Region lecture. “Metro Patterns: An Agenda for Community and Stability.” Myron Orfield, University of Minnesota. 16 Robertson.
7 p.m. Committee on Palestine/Institute for the Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia/Said lecture. “Forgotten Histories of Post-Zionism: Universalism, Judaism and the Messianic.” Judith Butler, University of California-Berkeley. Helm Auditorium, McCosh 50.
7:30 p.m. Princeton Varsity Club/Women’s Center lecture. “Gender and Competition: How Men and Women Approach Work and Play Differently.” Kathy DeBoer, former coach and athletic administrator. 302 Frist.
8 p.m. Applied and computational mathematics lecture. “More Unknowns Than Equations? Bring It On!” David Donoho, Stanford University. A02 McDonnell.
Sports
3 p.m. Softball vs. Towson University. 1895 Field.
Thursday, April 14
Arts
8 p.m. Composers Ensemble at Princeton concert. Taplin Auditorium, Fine.
[F] 8 p.m. McCarter Theatre performance. Pilobolus. Matthews Theatre.
[F] 8 p.m. Theatre Intime play. Eugene Ionesco: “The Bald Soprano” and “The Chairs.” Theater, Murray-Dodge.
Lectures
[G] 3:30 p.m. McGraw Center workshop. “Teaching Portfolios.” 328 Frist.
4 p.m. Computer science lecture. Justine Cassell, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 105 Computer Science.
4 p.m. Mathematics joint analysis seminar. Vladimir Sverak, University of Minnesota. 214 Fine.
4:30 p.m. Art and archaeology lecture. “Aeneas the Ape: Visual Parody in Elite Houses at Pompeii, 40 B.C.-A.D. 45.” John Clarke, University of Texas-Austin. 106 McCormick.
4:30 p.m. Art Museum symposium. “Working Through the ’80s.” Dara Birnbau, James Casebere, Sarah Charlesworth, Allan McCollum and Helene Winer, artists; and Hal Foster; Johanna Burton, moderater. 101 McCormick.
4:30 p.m. Institute for the Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia lecture. “Women With Mustaches and Men Without Beards: Gender and Sexual Anxieties of Iranian Modernity.” Afsaneh Najmabadi, Harvard University. 1 Robertson.
4:30 p.m. Mathematics topology seminar. “The Reduced Algebraic K-Theory of Square-Zero Extensions by Free Modules.” Ayelet Lindensrauss, Indiana University. 314 Fine.
4:30 p.m. Near Eastern studies lecture. “The Recently Discovered Book of Curiosities: A Medieval Islamic View of the Cosmos.” Yossef Rapoport. 307 Frist.
4:30 p.m. Physics colloquium. “Charge Inversion of DNA via Fractionalization of Charge and Gene Therapy.” Boris Shklovskii, University of Minnesota. A10 Jadwin.
4:30 p.m. Woodrow Wilson School lecture. “High Noon at the United Nations: Will the World’s Leaders Agree to a New Consensus on Development, Security and Human Rights?” Robert Orr, United Nations. Dodds Auditorium, Robertson.
6 p.m. Sigma Xi lecture. “Autism: New Understandings and a Research Strategy for the 21st Century.” Eric London, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. 10 Guyot.
8 p.m. University Public Lectures/Vanuxem lecture. “Personal Identity, Neuroethics and the Human Brain.” Michael Gazzaniga, Dartmouth College. Helm Auditorium, McCosh 50.
Friday, April 15
Arts
12:30 p.m. Art Museum gallery talk. “Early Renaissance Images of the Madonna.” James Deneen, docent. Art Museum.
4:30 p.m. Irish studies poetry reading. Cathal O’Searcaigh, reading his work in Irish, with translations into English. Stewart Film Theater, 185 Nassau St.
[F] 7:30 p.m. Expressions Dance Co. spring show. “Let’s Talk About X.” Theater, Frist.
[F] 7:30 p.m. McCarter Theatre performance. Flying Karamazov Brothers. Matthews Theatre.
8 p.m. Modern Improvisation Music Appreciation concert. Guitarists Bill Frisell and Greg Liesz. Chapel.
8 p.m. Music/Friends of Music student recital. Lauren Carpenter, violin; with David Carpenter, viola, and Cullen Bryant, piano. Music by Mozart, Brahms, Bruch and Handel. Taplin Auditorium, Fine.
[F] 8 p.m. Theatre Intime play. Eugene Ionesco: “The Bald Soprano” and “The Chairs.” Theater, Murray-Dodge.
Lectures
2 p.m. Mathematics/Institute for Advanced Study number theory seminar. “The Inverse Galois Problem for P-adic Lie Algebras.” Michael Larsen, Indiana University. 801 Fine.
2:30 p.m. Mechanical and aerospace engineering seminar. “Mechanics of Self-Healing Materials Systems.” Nancy Sottos, University of Illinois-Urbana. 222 Bowen. Social gathering follows, J223 Engineering Quadrangle.
3 p.m. Mathematics geometric analysis seminar. “Minimal Desingularizations of Planes in Space.” Michael Wolf, Rice University. 314 Fine.
4 p.m. Philosophy seminar. “Desires Across Time: A Reflection Principle for Desires?” Elizabeth Harman, New York University. 4 McCosh.
4:30 p.m. Mathematics geometry, representation theory and moduli seminar. “Relative Gromov-Witten Invariants and Symplectic Field Theory.” Eric Katz, Duke University. 314 Fine.
4:30 p.m. University Public Lectures/Edge lecture. “Insider Perspectives on Afro-Pessimism: Rethinking Our Role as Contemporary Self-Critics.” Chinua Achebe, Bard College. 101 Friend.
Notices
8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Community and state affairs/Woodrow Wilson School/Policy Research Institute for the Region symposium on New Jersey Issues. “The Unhealthy State of Health Insurance for Children.” Dodds Auditorium, Robertson. For more information, visit <web.princeton.edu/sites/pucsa/pucsa_reg/index.html>.
Sports
2 p.m. Men’s tennis vs. Dartmouth College. Lenz Tennis Center.
7 p.m. Men’s volleyball vs. Mercyhurst College. Dillon Gym.
Saturday, April 16
Arts
11 a.m. Art Museum talk for children. “Paints-R-Us.” Earlene Cancilla, docent. Art Museum.
[F] 2 and 8 p.m. Theatre Intime play. Eugene Ionesco: “The Bald Soprano” and “The Chairs.” Theater, Murray-Dodge.
[F] 7 and 9:30 p.m. Expressions Dance Co. spring show. “Let’s Talk About X.” Theater, Frist.
[F] 8 p.m. Music performance. University Glee Club, Richard Tang Yuk, conductor; with Sarah Pelletier, soprano; Daniel Bubeck, countertenor; David Kellett, tenor; and Lawrence Long, bass. Music by Bach. Richardson Auditorium, Alexander.
8 p.m. Physics music recital. Taplin Auditorium, Fine.8 p.m. Physics music recital. Taplin Auditorium, Fine.
Sports
9 a.m. Men’s heavyweight crew vs. Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Carnegie Lake.
Noon. Men’s outdoor track vs. Villanova University. Weaver Track Stadium.
Noon. Men’s tennis vs. Harvard University. Lenz Tennis Center.
1 p.m. Softball vs. Harvard University. 1895 Field.
1 p.m. Women’s lacrosse vs. Harvard University. 1952 Stadium.
[F] 3 p.m. Men’s lacrosse vs. Harvard University. 1952 Stadium.
Sunday, April 17
Arts
[F] 2 p.m. McCarter Theatre performance. Trout Fishing in America. Matthews Theatre.
3 p.m. Art Museum gallery talk. “Early Renaissance Images of the Madonna.” James Deneen, docent. Art Museum.
7:30 p.m. Near Eastern studies Israeli film. Shmuel Hasfarisame: “Woman Husband Wife.” 10 East Pyne.
8:00 p.m. Princeton atelier concert. "The Antient Concert: Chamber Opera by Daron Hagen and Paul Muldoon; performed and staged by Princeton students. Berlind Theater.
Notices
[FG] 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Prospect spring brunch. Prospect House.
11 a.m. Chapel service. Thomas Breidenthal. Chapel.
Sports
Noon. Softball vs. Dartmouth College. 1895 Field.
[F] 1 p.m. Men’s lacrosse vs. Butler University. 1952 Stadium.
Weekly
Alcoholics Anonymous
12:15 p.m. Mondays. East Room, Murray-Dodge.
9:30 a.m. Sundays, basement, Murray-Dodge. Membership not required to attend.
Art for Kids
10 a.m. to noon. Saturdays, Through May 1. Hands-on art projects. Art Museum.
Religious Life
Noon. Wednesdays. “Hour of Power: Interdenominational Service of Praise, Prayer and Proclamation.” East Room, Murray-Dodge.
Exhibits
Art Museum
Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sunday, 1 to 5 p.m. Closed Mondays and major holidays. Public tours, Saturdays, 2 p.m.
“Floating Above the Clouds: Mount Fuji in Japanese Prints.” Through July 10.
“For Presentation and Display: Some Art of the ’80s.” Through June 12.
“Recent Acquisitions in Asian Art 1998-2003.” Through July 12.
“Recarving China’s Past: Art, Archaeology and the Architecture of the ‘Wu Family Shrines.’” Through June 26.
“Songs, Psalms and Praises: An 18th-Century Ethiopian Manuscript.” Through June 5.
Firestone Library
Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Wednesday, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday, noon to 5 p.m.
Exhibition Gallery: “Portraits of the Lost Generation.” Through April 17.
Milberg Gallery: “Le Pas d’Acier (The Steel Step): Re-Creating a Lost Ballet.” Through Sept. 25.
Lobby: “McCarter Theatre: 75 Years in the Spotlight.” Through May 2.
Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library
Wiess Lounge, Olden Street. Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Wednesday until 8 p.m. Closed weekends.
“Clappers, Canes and Cats: Traditionally Princeton.” Through July 15.
Visual Arts Program
Lucas Gallery, 185 Nassau St. Monday-Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed weekends.
Senior thesis exhibitions: “Borderlands: Series and Sequences” by Jennifer Cheng and “Vestigia” by Clare Jan Ru Huang. Through April 15.
Women and Gender Studies
Lounge, 113 Dickinson Hall. Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Closed weekends.
“Pages From an Album,” by Sarah Stengle. Through May 2.
Et cetera
Art Museum
Hours: 258-3788. <www.princetonartmuseum.org>.
Athletic Ticket Office
Tickets and information: 258-3538.
Dillon Gymnasium
Hours: 258-4466.
Employee Health
G6B McCosh Health Center. Appointments: 258-5035, Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. After-hours emergencies: 258-3134.
Employment Opportunities
<jobs.princeton.edu>.
Frist Campus Center
Welcome Desk: 258-1766. <fristqna@princeton.edu>. University Ticketing: <www.princeton.edu/utickets/>.
Library
Hours: 258-3181. <libweb.princeton.edu>.
McCarter Theatre Box Office
Reservations: 258-2787, Monday-Saturday, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Sunday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. <www.mccarter.org>.
Orange Key Guide Service
Frist Campus Center Welcome Desk. Tours Monday-Saturday at 10 and 11 a.m., 1:30 and 3:30 p.m.; Sunday at 1:30 and 3:30 p.m. Information and tours: 258-1766.
Prospect Association
Reservations: 258-3686.
Richardson Auditorium
Reservations: 258-5000, Monday-Friday, noon to 6 p.m.; and two hours before events requiring tickets. <www.princeton.edu/richaud>.
Theater and Dance
Reservations: 258-3676. <www.princeton.edu/~visarts/the.html>.
Theatre Intime
Reservations: 258-4950. <www.theatre-intime.org>.
Tiger Sportsline
Current sports highlights and upcoming athletic events: 258-3545.
