Things to Do, March 2-9


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North Carolina folk duo Susan and Dana Robinson.

Wedding traditions

The Society for India, Pakistani Students' Association and Bengali Student Association will showcase the unique wedding traditions of three distinct cultures at South Asian Shaadi, March 2, 8-11 p.m. in the Physical Sciences Building's Clark Atrium. Free and open.

The event features music and dancing, hors d'oeuvres, free henna tattoos, a DJ and performances by Cornell Bhangra, Sitara, Tarana, Classic India and other groups.

Drawing 'Lines'

The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art will host major scholars and artists at a symposium in conjunction with the exhibition "Lines of Control: Partition as a Productive Space," March 3-4.

The opening event, March 3 at 4 p.m., features an introduction by co-curators Iftikhar Dadi and Ellen Avril of Cornell and Hammad Nasar of London; artist Amar Kanwar in conversation with Nasar; and Jolene Rickard, history of art, on "Indigenous Borders Visualized in the Americas." The first panel March 4, at 10 a.m., includes Salah Hassan, history of art, on "Sudan: Partition or Secession?"

Registration is free but seating is limited. Contact Elizabeth Saggese at eas8@cornell.edu to reserve a space. Information: http://museum.cornell.edu/calendar/all.

"Lines of Control" gathers international artistic inquiries into the dilemmas of the modern nation-state; partition- and border-making practices where nations are formed through forging new identities; and the patrolling of physical and psychological borders.

The exhibition, with video, prints, photographs, paintings, sculpture and installation, is on display through April 1.

The symposium is scheduled in coordination with the exhibition "Being Singular Plural," which opens to the public March 2 at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York.

V-Day

Cornell undergraduates, graduate students and staff members will perform Eve Ensler's "The Vagina Monologues," March 3 at 8 p.m. in Bailey Hall.

All proceeds will benefit Ithaca Advocacy Center. Tickets are $9 advance, $10 at the door (doors open at 7 p.m.), available online at http://www.baileytickets.com. Sponsored by the Cornell Women's Resource Center.

Ensler's award-winning play is an exploration and celebration of sexuality and the human experience, with monologues that are by turns passionate, amusing, devastating, emotional and empowering. It is presented in celebration of the 14th annual V-Day, centered on ending violence against women worldwide. Each year, V-Day increases awareness of and provides support to a specific group of women resisting violence; the 2012 Spotlight Campaign is on the Women and Girls of Haiti.

Folk roots

North Carolina folk duo Dana and Susan Robinson perform March 3, 8 p.m. in 165 McGraw Hall, presented by the Cornell Folk Song Society.

Devotees of old-time Appalachian music, the acclaimed duo writes contemporary folk songs set within the American tradition, with tight vocal harmonies accompanied by guitar, fiddle, clawhammer banjo and mandolin.

Tickets are $15 in advance at Ithaca Guitar Works, GreenStar, Autumn Leaves Bookstore and http://www.cornellfolksong.org/; $17 at the door; Cornell students $10/$12; children 12 and under free. Rebates for CFSC members, seniors and teens. Information: 607-279-2027 and online.

Anthrax and ethics

Russian Language Program Director Slava Paperno and associate professor of science and technology studies Kathleen Vogel will present "The Anthrax Diaries," their 30-minute documentary exploring the social and ethical contexts of weapon-making, March 5 at 4:30 p.m. in Willard Straight Theatre. Free and open to the public.

The film, part one of an ongoing project, examines the development of biological weapons in the Soviet Union. It focuses in particular on some of the ways in which the lives of scientists, who trained as doctors and therefore had taken the Hippocratic Oath, were affected by their work.

Vogel will introduce the screening and a brief discussion will follow.

Food policy

Nearly a billion people still suffer from hunger and poor nutrition while a billion more are overweight or obese -- an imbalance highlighting the need to focus on food production and to implement successful food policies.

Per Pinstrup-Andersen will discuss these issues from his 2011 book, "Food Policy for Developing Countries: The Role of Government in Global, National, and Local Food Systems," March 8 at 4 p.m. in 160 Mann Library. Free and open to the public.

Co-authored with economist Derrill Watson II of the American University of Nigeria, the Cornell University Press book is a comprehensive road map for understanding how governments and markets shape food policies and production, and addresses challenges related to poverty, globalization, climate change, food price volatility, natural resource degradation, demographic and dietary transitions and interest in local and organic food production.

Pinstrup-Andersen, the 2001 World Food Prize laureate and recipient of several research awards, is the H.E. Babcock Professor of Food, Nutrition and Public Policy; J. Thomas Clark Professor of Entrepreneurship; and professor of applied economics at Cornell.

Sports sale

Need a new used pair of skates? Cornell Athletics holds its annual Garage Sale, Friday, March 9, 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. in Bartels Hall Gymnasium with deals on hockey equipment and more.

Items for sale include sneakers and cleats from various sports, ice hockey skates and equipment, new and used sweats, uniforms and cold weather gear. Information: Pedro Trindade, 607-255-1046 or pnt3@cornell.edu.

 

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