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The company of Salia nï Seydou, West African choreographers, will perform at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts. Read the story. This is a one-evening-only performance Oct. 7 at 8 p.m. Tickets in advance are $25 for seniors and students and $30 for the general public. Call or visit the Schwartz Center box office, 430 College Ave., weekdays, 12:30-5:30 p.m.; or call 254-ARTS.emeritus/retired
The Cornell Association of Professors Emeriti will tour the Lab of Ornithology, Oct. 2 at 10:30 a.m. Ronald Rohrbaugh, director of Citizen Science, will give a talk on the history of the laboratory. For further information, contact Janice McBride at 255-6608 or by e-mail cape@cornell.edu.exhibits
The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, on the corner of University and Central avenues, is open Tuesday through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is free. Telephone: 255-6464.
* "Surrealist Drawings From the Drukier Collection," through Oct. 19.
* "Images of Women in Degas' Paris," through Oct. 19.
* "Francesca Woodman: Photographs," through Oct. 26.
* "Indian Folk Textiles," through Nov. 2.
* "Earthbound Flight: Winged Creatures in the Art of Leonard Baskin," through Nov. 2.
* Art for Lunch: Oct. 2 at noon, tour the exhibition "Earthbound Flight: Winged Creatures in the Art of Leonard Baskin," with curator Andy Weislogel.
* Lecture: Oct. 2 at 5:15 p.m., "Degas' Little Dancer Aged Fourteen: The Troubled Face of Modern Paris," Douglas Druick, Art Institute of Chicago.
* Art-Full Family Saturday: Oct. 4 from 10 a.m. to noon, join Tom Knight and his crew of puppets as they perform skits and songs for a morning of fun and art. Free for museum members, $5 per family for nonmembers.
* Art for Lunch: Oct. 9 at noon, tour the exhibition "Francesca Woodman: Photographs" with Woodman's close friend - and the subject of many of her photographs - Sloan Rankin.
* Lecture: Oct. 9 at 5:15 p.m., Sloan Rankin, whose collection of photographs by Francesca Woodman currently is on view, will discuss their friendship and share experiences of the time when the photos were taken.
Cornell in Rome student exhibit, with works from the fall 2002 and spring 2003 semesters in Italy, through Oct. 3.Films listed are sponsored by Cornell Cinema and held in Willard Straight Theatre, except where noted, and are open to the public. All films are $6 ($5 for undergraduates and seniors; $4 for Cornell graduate students and kids 12 and under). Visit the Cornell Cinema Web site at http://cinema.cornell.edu. films
"September 11" (2002), various directors, introduced by Eric Cheyfitz, English, 7 p.m. Read the story.
"28 Days Later" (2003), directed by Danny Boyle, with Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris and Christopher Eccleston, 10:15 p.m.
"September 11," 6:45 p.m., Uris.
"My Architect: A Son's Journey," screening with the short film "The Snell Show," presented by the Cornell Environmental Film Festival (CEFF), 7 p.m.
"28 Days Later," 9:30 p.m. and midnight, Uris.
"Raising Victor Vargas" (2003), directed by Peter Sollett, with Victor Rasuk, Judy Marte and Silvestre Rasuk, 9:45 p.m.
"Shorts and Stories," with storyteller Kelly Riley, presented by CEFF, 2 p.m., free.
"The Bilby Brothers: The Men Who Killed the Easter Bunny," screening with the short film "AquaBillyJoelLand," with filmmaker Aaron McGuire, CEFF, 4 p.m.
"The Yes Men: A Live Multimedia Performance," presented by CEFF, 7 p.m.
"She Done Him Wrong," directed by Lowell Sherman, with Mae West and Cary Grant, 7:15 p.m., Uris.
"28 Days Later," 9 p.m., Uris.
"Finding Nemo" (2003), directed by Andrew Stanton, with the voices of Albert Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres and Willem Dafoe, 10 p.m.
"Finding Nemo," 4:30 p.m.
"Raising Victor Vargas," 7:15 p.m.
"The Shaman's Apprentice" directed by Miranda Smith, with producer Abigail Wright, presented by Pentangle, 7:30 p.m., Uris, free.
"The Friendship Village," CEFF, 4:30 p.m., free.
"An Injury to One," with Jefferson Cowie, CEFF, 7:30 p.m., Robert Purcell Community Center Auditorium, free.
"Three Canonical Works: Un Chien Andalou, L'Age d'Or & Las Hurdes," directed by Luis Buñuel, introduced by Associate Professor Don Fredericksen, 7 p.m.
"North by Northwest" (1959), directed by Alfred Hitchcock, with Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint, 9:30 p.m.
"Drowned Out," with Ron Herring, CEFF, 4 p.m., free.
"September 11," 7 p.m.
"The Leech and the Earthworm," screening with the short film "Grandmother," with producer Debra Harry, CEFF, 7:30 p.m., Robert Purcell Community Center Auditorium, free.
"Two by Jean Vigo," 7:30 p.m., Schwartz Center Film Forum, $3.
"She Done Him Wrong," 9:45 p.m.
"Green," with Sandra Steingraber, CEFF, 4:30 p.m., free.
"The Hole" (1998), directed by Tsai Ming Liang, with Yang Kwei-mei and Lee Kang-sheng, 7:15 p.m.
"Coca Mama," directed by Jan Thielen, presented by LASP and CUSLAR, 8 p.m., Uris, free.
"28 Days Later." 9:30 p.m.
"Pratte's Reef" and "Quartzite's Fall," with representatives from Cornell Outdoor Education, CEFF, 4:30 p.m., Robert Purcell Community Center Auditorium, free.
"North by Northwest," 4:45 p.m.
"The Return of Navajo Boy," featuring Elsie Cly, subject of the feature, and "Fake Clouds," with filmmaker Andrea Campbell, CEFF, 7:30 p.m., Robert Purcell Community Center Auditorium, free.
"How to Be Eccentric: The Films of Richard Massingham," 7:30 p.m.
"Punks" (2001), directed by Patrik-Ian Polk, with Seth Gilliam, Dwight Ewell and Renoly Santiago, with filmmaker Patrik-Ian Polk, 9:45 p.m.lectures
"Challenges for Chemists," Charles Casey, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Oct. 2, 4:40 p.m., 119 Baker Laboratory.
"Fun With Botanical Names," John Manion, public garden management, Oct. 8, 7:30 p.m., James Law Auditorium, Schurman Hall.
"Envisioning Global Justice," Starhawk, priestess, Oct. 8, 10 a.m., Auditorium, Anabel Taylor Hall.
"Piers Plowman From A to Z: An Experiment in Literary History," Anne Middleton, University of California-Berkeley, Oct. 2, 4:30 p.m., Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall.
"Postmortem Vagueries: Chinese Memorial Architecture in the 20th Century," Rudolf Wagner, European Center for Digital Resources in Chinese Studies, Oct. 6, 4:30 p.m., Kaufmann Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall.
"The Networked, High-Tech Economy: New Systems Require New Thinking," James Morgan, Applied Materials Inc., Oct. 2, 4:30 p.m., Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall.
"Turkish-U.S. Relations: New Political Landscape of the Middle East Since the Collapse of the USSR," Süleyman Demirel, former president and four-time premier of Turkey, Oct. 7, 8 p.m., David L. Call Alumni Auditorium, Kennedy Hall.
"Legislation to Prevent Terrorism: India's Terrorism Act of 2002," Soli Sorabjee, attorney general of India, Oct. 2, 6 p.m., G90 Myron Taylor Hall.
TBA, Susan Conway, Parsons School of Design and New York University, Oct. 2, 12:20 p.m., Kahin Center, 640 Stewart Avenue.
"Reconciliation and Reinvention: The Resurgence of Tradition in Post-Conflict North Maluku, Indonesia," Christopher Duncan, University of Missouri-Columbia, Oct. 9, 12:20 p.m., Kahin Center, 640 Stewart Avenue.
"Building a Political Movement to End the War on Drugs," Ethan Nadelmann, Drug Policy Alliance, Oct. 7, 4:30 p.m., 165 McGraw Hall. Read the story.music
* Oct. 2, 12:30 p.m., B20 Lincoln: Midday Music: Judith Kellock, soprano, and Xak Bjerken, piano. Read the story.
* Oct. 4, 8 p.m., Barnes Hall: Jean-Baptiste Lully's opera-ballet Le Carnaval Mascarade (1675), Beth Milles, stage director; Paul O'Dette, music director; and Ken Pierce, choreographer.
* Oct. 9, 12:30 p.m., B20 Lincoln: Midday Music: TBA.
Shabid Parvez, sitar, accompanied by Akram Khan, tabla, will present a concert Oct. 4 at 6 p.m. in Statler Auditorium. Tickets are $10 for students and $15 for the general public. For more information visit the Web site http://www.ashanet.org/cornell/dhun.
Scottish band The Capercaillie will perform Oct. 2 at 8 p.m. in Kulp Auditorium, Ithaca High School. Tickets are $17 in advance, $19 at the door, and are available at Ithaca Guitar Works, Colophon Books, GreenStar, Small World Music and Bound for Glory, or online at http://www.rso.cornell.du/folksong/order.html.
The four-musician group Palenque will perform Colombian folk music, Oct. 4 at 7 p.m. in the auditorium of Anabel Taylor Hall. The concert is free.
Oct. 5: Mark Rust performs.
Bound for Glory is broadcast Sundays from 8 to 11 p.m. from the Café at Anabel Taylor Hall, with live sets at 8:30, 9:30 and 10:30 p.m. Admission is free; kids are welcome. Listen to Bound for Glory on WVBR-FM, 93.5 and 105.5.reading
The Creative Writing Program presents a poetry reading by Joe Survant, Oct. 8, 4:30 p.m., 258 Goldwin Smith. Survant teaches poetry writing and literature at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, Ky.religion
Chief Arvol Looking Horse, spiritual leader of the Lakota, Dakota and Nakota People, will lead the service Oct. 5 at 11 a.m. in Sage Chapel.
Sundays, 5:30 p.m., Anabel Taylor Chapel.
Fridays, 7:30 p.m., meet in the lobby of Willard Straight Hall, speakers, open discussion, games and service-oriented activities. Classes, speakers, prayers, celebrations at alternating locations. For more information, call 272-3037 or send e-mail to bahai@cornell.edu.
Weekly Bible studies meet Wednesdays at 8 p.m., in 314 Anabel Taylor Hall. For more information contact Keith Bowman at kcb29@cornell.edu or 277-2283.
* Meditations: Monday, Wednesday and Thursday, 12:15-1 p.m., Founders Room, Anabel Taylor Hall.
* Zen Meditation practice is Mondays and Wednesdays, 5:30-6:30 p.m., Founders Room, ATH. For information, call Anne Marie at 266-7256.
Weekend Mass schedule: Sundays, 10 a.m., 12:15 p.m. and 5:15 p.m., Anabel Taylor Hall Auditorium.
* Daily Masses: Monday-Friday, 12:20 p.m., ATH Chapel.
* Sacrament of Reconciliation: Sundays, 4 p.m., G-22 ATH.
* Evening Prayer: The Liturgy of the Hours; Tuesdays and Thursdays, 6-6:30 p.m., ATH Chapel.
Testimony meetings: Tuesday, 7:15 p.m., Anabel Taylor Hall. Church services: Sundays, 10:30 a.m., and Wednesdays, 7:30 p.m., First Church of Christ Scientist, 101 University Ave., Ithaca.
The InterVarsity chapter meets Fridays at 7:30 p.m. in Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall. For information visit the Web site at http://www.ccfiv.org.
Wednesdays, worship and Eucharist, 5 p.m., Anabel Taylor Chapel. Sundays, worship and Eucharist, 9:30 a.m., ATH Chapel. For more information, call 255-4219 or send e-mail to eccu@cornell.edu.
Meeting for worship, Sunday, 11 a.m., at the Edwards Room, Anabel Taylor Hall. Child care provided. For rides or directions, call 273-5421.
The InterVarsity chapter meets Fridays at 7 p.m., B11 Kimball Hall. For more information visit the Web site at http://www.curw.cornell.edu/gcf.
Weekly religious service is Saturday at 4 p.m. in the Edwards Room, Anabel Taylor Hall, followed by a Gita reading at 5 p.m.
* For information about services during Yom Kippur visit the Web site at http://www.hillel/cornell.edu.br> * Conservative and Reform: Fridays, 5:15 p.m., Welcoming in Shabbat with song, in the lobby of Anabel Taylor Hall, followed by a community Shabbat dinner at 6:45 p.m. in the Kosher Dining Hall. Saturdays, 9:45 a.m., Conservative services in the Founders Room, ATH. Call the Hillel office at 255-4227 for more information.
* Orthodox: Friday, Center for Jewish Living, call 272-5810 for weekly times; Saturday, 9:15 a.m., Edwards Room, ATH. For daily services, call 272-5810.
Sundays, 11 a.m., One World Room (in English), and 1 p.m., chapel (in Korean), Anabel Taylor Hall. Call 255-2250 for more information.
Cornell student branch: Sundays, 11 a.m. Call 272-1564 or 255-2928 for information.
Campus ministry at St. Luke Church, 109 Oak Ave., in Collegetown, Sundays, 10:45 a.m. and 5 p.m. Bible study Tuesday, 7 p.m. For more information call 273-6811 or e-mail rlb8@cornell.edu.
Daily congregational prayer at 218 Anabel Taylor Hall.
Weekly Halaqa, Thursdays, 6:30-7:30 p.m., ATH.
Weekly coffee hour Tuesdays, 74:30 p.m., Tower Café, Uris Library. For more information the web site at http://www.meca-onling.org/.
For information about United Pagan Ministries, call Cornell United Religious Work at 255-4214.
Sunday service at 11 a.m. in Anabel Taylor Chapel.seminars
"Peer Review: Political Governance and Poverty in Africa," Douglas Anglin, Carleton University, Canada, Oct. 2, 12:20 p.m., 153 Uris Hall.
"No-Arbitrage Pricing and Convertible Bonds," Steven Shreve, Carnegie Mellon University, Oct. 3, 3:45 p.m., 655 Rhodes Hall.
"Our Changing Views of Marine Microbiology," Jed Fuhrman, University of Southern California, Oct. 3, 4 p.m., Morison Room, Corson Hall.
"Clinical Medicine and Comparative Physiology: One Physician's Odyssey," Michael Singer, Queen's University, Oct. 7, 4 p.m., Lecture Hall III, Veterinary Research Tower.
"Molecular Simulation of Nanotechnology," Kristen Fichthorn, Pennsylvania State University, Oct. 6, 4 p.m., 165 Olin Hall.
"Nanoscience and Organic Conjugated Materials: Physics, Chemistry and Device," Paul Barbara, University of Texas-Austin, Oct. 9, 4:40 p.m., 119 Baker Laboratory.
Barbara Liskov, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will give the following two seminars Oct 2: "Large Scale Byzantine-Fault-Tolerant Storage in a Dynamic Environment," 4:15 p.m., B17 Upson Hall; and "Magnificent Pathways," 7 p.m., Statler Hotel Amphitheater.
"Applying Plant Population Ecology: Increasing the Suppression of Weeds by Cereal Crops," Jacob Weiner, Oct. 7, 4 p.m., 135 Emerson Hall.
"Sticklebacks Go Multimodal: Olfactory Cues and the Courtship Dialogue," Deborah McLennan, University of Toronto, Oct. 6, 12:30 p.m., A106 Corson Hall.
"Circuits and Their Integration: Future Challenges," Joy Laskar, Georgia Tech, Oct. 7, 4:30 p.m., 101 Phillips Hall.
"Strepsiptera: An Overview of Behavior, Morphology and Phylogeny," Hans Pohl, University of Rostock, Germany, Oct. 6, 4 p.m., Corson-Mudd Auditorium.
"Religion, Secular European Identity and European Integration," José Casanova, New School University, Oct. 7, 4:30 p.m., 201 A.D. White House.
"Risk Assessment and Mathematical Modeling of Foodborne Pathogens," Janelle Kause, USDA-FSIS, Oct. 7, 4 p.m., 204 Stocking Hall.
"Best Management Practices for Turf to Minimize Environmental Impacts," Marty Petrovic, horticulture, Oct. 2, 4 p.m., 404 Plant Science Building.
"Garlic Germplasm: Diversity and Preservation," Gayle Volk, USDA National Center for Genetic Resources Preservation, Oct. 9, 4 p.m., 404 Plant Science Building.
"Arte Primitivista en Nicaragua: Un Punto de Vista Desde Solentimane," Alejandro Cabrera, Nicaraguan primitivist painter, Oct. 7, 12:15 p.m., 153 Uris Hall.
"The Five DOE Nanoscale Science Research Centers: Instrument and Activities," Kristin Bennett, U.S. Department of Energy, Oct. 2, 4:30 p.m., 140 Bard Hall.
TBA, Tom Arsenlis, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Oct. 9, 4:30 p.m., 140 Bard Hall.
"How `Common' Is the Mucosal Immune System?" Volker Gerdts, University of Saskatchewan, Oct. 3, 12:15 p.m., Boyce Thompson Auditorium.
"Nanobiohybrids: Novel Drug and Gene Delivery Systems," Katherine Tyner, Giannelis Research Group, Oct. 7, noon, G01 Biotechnology Building.
"Vitamin E: Some Things Old, Some Things New," Danny Manor, nutritional sciences, Oct. 6, 4 p.m., 100 Savage Hall.
"The Caspian Region: From `Great Oil Game' to `Great Counter-Terrorist Game,'" Pavel Baev, Peace Research Institute of Oslo, Oct. 2, 12:15 p.m., G08 Uris Hall.
"New Physics at the LHC: Maybe the Little Higgs?" Martin Schmaltz, Boston University, Oct. 6, 4:30 p.m., Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall.
"Developing a Platform to Dissect Complex Traits in Maize," Ed Buckler, Plant, Soil and Nutrition Laboratory, Oct. 7, 12:20 p.m., 135 Emerson Hall.
"Turfgrass Anthracnose: An Old Disease Causing New Problems," Frank Wong, Oct. 8, 12:20 p.m., 404 Plant Science Building.
"Education, Personal Control, Lifestyle and Health," John Mirowsky, University of Texas-Austin, Oct. 9, noon, 114 Martha Van Rensselaer Hall.
"Feature Integration," Denis Pelli, New York University, Oct. 3, 3:30 p.m., 202 Uris Hall.
"Early Modern Indian Antecedents to Gay Marriage: The Case of Rekhti Poetry," Ruth Vanita, University of Montana, Oct. 6, 12:15 p.m., G08 Uris Hall.
"Nationalisms and Beyond: Discourses of Poverty, Development and Culture in 20th-Century India," Sumit Sarkar, Delhi University, Oct. 8, 12:15 p.m., G08 Uris. Hall.
"The Effect of [[beta]]-sheet Conformation in Protein-based Hydrogel: Characterization of Thermal and Rheological Properties," Sam Hudson, North Carolina State University, Oct. 2, noon, 317 Martha Van Rensselaer Hall.
"Designing the Air Warrior System for Optimized Human Performance," Betsy Dart, Oct. 9, noon, 317 Martha Van Rensselaer Hall.
"Concept Inventories: Uncovering Engineering Students' Misconceptions With Special Emphasis on Dynamics," Don Evans, Arizona State University, Oct. 3, 2:30 p.m., 205 Thurston Hall.symposiums
The International Institute for Peace Through Tourism Conference, "Tourism, Sustainable Tourism, Culture and Development in Africa," is Oct. 4 at 9 a.m. in McManus Lounge of Hollister Hall. The keynote speaker is Neel Inamdar of Stanford University, who will speak on "Tourism, Culture and Development in Africa."
Session topics for the free conference:
* Tourism, Economic Development and Poverty Alleviation
* Effective Structures for Multi-stakeholders
* Sustainable Tourism Within the Context of a Wider Sustainable Development Strategy
* Strategies That Address the Economic, Social and Environmental Sustainability of Tourism in a Country.
The Committee on U.S./Latin American Relations (CUSLAR) will be giving a free workshop on the "Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA)," Oct. 8, 7-8:30 p.m. at Greenstar Co-op. For more information contact Dana Brown at 255-7293 or cuslar@cornell.edu.
The Department of English presents a conference, "Making the Text: Medieval, Renaissance and Beyond," Oct. 3-4, Kaufmann Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall. For the complete schedule visit the Web site at http://www.arts.crnell.edu/english/making-text.html
As part of the celebration of the opening of the new Museum of the Earth, the Paleontological Research Institution, in collaboration with the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, will be hosting a half-day symposium, "The Future of the Past: Frontiers in Paleontology," Oct. 6, 1 to 5:50 p.m., G10 Biotechnology Building. For a complete list of speakers visit the Web site at http://www.priwe.org/museumoftheearth/symposium.html.theater
The Department of Theatre, Film & Dance presents Caryl Churchill's play, Far Away, as part of its Black Box Series. Read the story.sports
Oct. 4, Head of the Ohio, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Oct. 4, Head of the Ohio, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Oct. 4, Head of the Ohio, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Oct. 4, Paul Short Invitational, Bethlehem, Pa.
Oct. 4, Paul Short Invitational, Bethlehem, Pa.
Oct. 4, at Princeton, 1 p.m.
Oct. 4, at Lehigh, 1 p.m.
Oct. 4, Colgate, 1 p.m.
Oct. 4, at Pennsylvania, 2:30 p.m.
Oct. 4, at Pennsylvania, 11 a.m.
Oct. 8, Colgate, 7 p.m.
Oct. 3-5, ECAC Championships, TBA
Oct. 3, at Columbia, 5 p.m.
Oct. 4, Columbia, 7 p.m.