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Ongoing
Art exhibitions.
Strange Deal II. Through Feb. 14. Main gallery, visual arts building (open 8 a.m.-5 p.m. weekdays). Sponsored by School of Art. 542-0069.

Ghana in Photographs. Through Feb. 28. Broad Street Gallery, 257 W. Broad St., open weekdays, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Sponsored by School of Art. 5420069.

Visualizing the Blues: Images of the American South, 1862-1999. Through March 23. • Spirit Yard: Sculptures by Harold Rittenberry. Through March 23. • There Is No Eye: Photographs by John Cohen. Through March 23. • Alfred Stieglitz’s America. Through June 15. Georgia Museum of Art. Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday; 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Wednesday; and 1-5 p.m. Sunday. 542-4662.

Glenn Dasher: Recent Sculpture. Through Feb. 28. William Thompson Gallery, South Thomas Street Art Complex. Sponsored by School of Art. 5421665.

Nature References. Through March 23. Conservatory. Open Tues.-Sat., 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m.; Sun. 11:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Sponsored by State Botanical Garden. 542-1244.

Primitive Pop: Social Bombs and Cross Hairs. Steven Craig Chandler. Through March 6. Room 309 Gallery, Tate Student Center (open 8 a.m.-midnight daily). Sponsored by Student Activities. 542-6396.

Monday, February 10
Winter Evolutionary Biology Lecture.
“Symbiosis in Insects: From Interaction to Union.” Nancy Moran, University of Arizona. 11:10 a.m. C127 life sciences building. Sponsored by department of entomology. 542-1417.
Moran is Regents’ Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and professor of entomology at Arizona and a 1997 winner of a MacArthur “genius” award. Her pioneering work has focused on the evolution of interactions between parasites and their animal hosts.

Community, Ethnicity, and Identity in Context Seminar.
“Community Contact: Establishing Partnerships between Academics and Community-Based Organizations.” Ray McNair, sociology. 11:45 a.m. 106 Barrow Hall. Sponsored by Institute for Behavioral Research. 542-1806.

Methods and Models Seminar.
“Measurement Error Evaluation of Self-Reported Drug Use: A Latent Class Analysis of the U.S. National Household Survey of Drug Abuse.” Pat Horan. 1:30 p.m. 206 Barrow Hall. Sponsored by Institute for Behavioral Research. 542-1806.

Digital Workshop.
“Presenting Video and Audio Data in Macromedia Director.” 2:30-4 p.m. 124B Aderhold Hall. Sponsored by Digital Language Research Laboratory. 583-8128.

Inside Stories Taping.
Interview with Robert Pratt, history. 3 p.m. Studio 1, journalism building. Sponsored by Center for Humanities and Arts. 542-3966.

IBR Seminar.
“Neuroscience as a Heuristic Framework for Other Areas of Social Science Research.” Phil Holmes, psychology. 3:30 p.m. 106 Barrow Hall. Sponsored by Institute for Behavioral Research. 542-1806.

Tuesday, February 11
Art Exhibition.
Drawings of Choice from a New York Collection. Through March 23. Georgia Museum of Art. Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday; 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Wednesday; and 1-5 p.m. Sunday. 542-4662.

Blood Drive.
Noon-5 p.m. Oglethorpe House. Conducted by American Red Cross; sponsored by University Health Service. 546-0681, extension 225.

Science Library Orientation.
3:30-4:20 p.m. Science library interactive center, second floor. Sponsored by UGA Libraries. 542-0696.

Black History Month Lecture.
Betty Bush, attorney and author. 7 p.m. 407 Memorial Hall. Sponsored by Minority Services and Programs. 542-5773.

Archaeology Lecture.
“University of Georgia Excavations at Carthage: What We Know Now and What We Wish We Knew.” Naomi J. Norman, classics. 7:30 p.m. 117 visual arts building. Sponsored by Athens Society, Archaeological Institute of America.
Norman directed the UGA excavations in the Yasmina Cemetery at Carthage (Tunisia) from 1992 to 2000. Her lecture will highlight the major discoveries of the excavation and put them into their cultural and historical context.

Lecture.
John Hockenberry. $20 (includes dinner; tickets must be purchased in advance). 7:30 p.m. Georgia Center for Continuing Education. Journalism and Mass Communication. 542-5038.
Hockenberry will speak as this year’s recipient of the Distinguished Achievement Award in Broadcasting from the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. The public is invited to attend the dinner and speech.
He will address the state of war coverage in the media.
At National Public Radio, Hockenberry spent more than a decade as a general assignment reporter, Middle East correspondent and host of several programs. During the Gulf War (1990-91), he was assigned to the Middle East, where he filed reports from Israel, Tunisia, Morocco, Jordan, Turkey, Iraq and Iran. Hockenberry was one of the first Western journalists to report from Kurdish refugee camps in northern Iraq and southern Turkey, and he spent two years (1988-90) in Jerusalem during the Palestinian uprising.
Hockenberry, who lost the use of his legs as the result of spinal cord injury 27 years ago, is a two-time Peabody Award winner and Dateline NBC correspondent. He is also the author of Moving Violations: War Zones, Wheelchairs and Declarations of Independence, his memoir of life as a foreign correspondent. In 1996, Hockenberry performed Spokeman, the one-man, off-Broadway show, based on his book.

Theater.
Forte: As You Like It by William Shakespeare, performed by the Acting Company. $10-$15 ($5-$8 students); tickets available at Tate Student Center cashier’s window, 542-8074, open 9 a.m.-4 p.m. 8 p.m. Fine Arts Theater. Sponsored by University Union. 542-6396.
The Acting Company has been breathing life into the works of the Bard for 30 years. The troupe has garnered critical acclaim in more than 100 productions.

Wednesday, February 12
Arbor Day: Free Trees.
Arbor Day celebration: free bald cypress, dogwood, red cedar and white oak seedlings through Feb. 21 to the first 350 visitors. State Botanical Garden. 542-1244.

Blood Drive.
11 a.m.-4 p.m. Brumby Hall lobby. Conducted by American Red Cross; sponsored by University Health Service. 546-0681, extension 225.

Lunch-in-Theory.
“Demonic and Divine in Chinese Painting.” Karin Myhre, comparative literature. 12:20 p.m. 410 journalism building. Sponsored by Center for Humanities and Arts. 542-3966.

Main Library Orientation.
12:20-1:10 p.m. Instruction lab A, first floor, main library. Sponsored by UGA Libraries. 542-1114.

Engineering Seminar.
“Mapping Bioprocess Metabolism: Managing Biochemical Complexity.” David Mousdale, Beocarta. 12:20-1:10 p.m. Driftmier Engineering Center conference room. 542-0866.

Charter Lecture.
“One View from the Federal Reserve.” Roger W. Ferguson Jr., vice chair, Federal Reserve Board of Governors. 4 p.m. Chapel. Sponsored by Academic Affairs. 542-0015.

Film and Music.
“An Evening of Film and Music with John Cohen and Art Rosenbaum.” 5:30 p.m. Georgia Museum of Art. 542-4662.

Open Studio: Life Drawing.
$3. Live models; no instruction; participants must provide their own supplies. 5:30 p.m. Forio Studio Classroom. Sponsored by Georgia Museum of Art. 542-4662.

Black History Month Reading.
Fire in a Canebrake: The Last Mass Lynching in America read by author Laura Wexler. 7 p.m. Chapel. Sponsored by Women’s Studies Program. 542-0066.
Wexler is a former assistant editor of Georgia Magazine. Her new book deals with the 1946 Moore’s Ford lynchings in Walton County.

University Theatre.
The Birds by Aristophanes, directed by Charles B. Davis. $12 ($10 students) at the box office in Fine Arts. Feb. 12-15 and 18-22, 8 p.m.; Feb. 16, 2:30 p.m. Seney-Stovall Chapel. Sponsored by drama department. 542-2838.

Thursday, February 13
Blood Drive.
11 a.m.-4 p.m. Russell and Reed lobbies. Conducted by American Red Cross; sponsored by University Health Service. 546-0681, extension 225.

CHA Lecture and Poetry Reading.
Marjorie Agosín. 4 p.m. 265 Park Hall. Sponsored by Center for Humanities and Arts. 542-3966.
Peabody Award winner and human rights activist Marjorie Agosín is professor of Spanish at Wellesley College. She has written books of poetry, fiction, non-fiction and essays, and is co-editor, with Betty Jean Craige, of To Mend the World: Women Reflect on 9/11.

Romance Languages Colloquium.
“Preparing an Edition of the Complete Poetic Works of Spanish Writer Rafael Montesinos: Observations on His Life, Art and Legacy.” John Ross. 5-6 p.m. 350K Gilbert Hall. Sponsored by department of Romance languages. 542-3177.

Women’s Basketball.
vs. South Carolina. 7 p.m. Stegeman Coliseum. 542-1231.

Black History Month Reading.
Stephanie Chrismon, poet. 7 p.m. 407 Memorial Hall. Sponsored by Minority Services and Programs. 542-5773.

Black History Month Screening.
“The Flip Wilson Show from Sept. 17, 1970.” 7 p.m. Athens-Clarke County Public Library. Sponsored by Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection. 583-0212.

2nd Thursday Concert.
Shostakovich Duos: Levon Ambartsumian, violin, and Anatoly Sheludyakov, piano. $12 ($7 students). 8 p.m. Hodgson Hall, Performing Arts Center. Sponsored by School of Music. 542-4400.

Friday, February 14
Science Library Orientation.
10:10-11 a.m. Science library interactive center, second floor. Sponsored by UGA Libraries. 542-0696.

Campus Coffee Hour.
11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Memorial Hall Ballroom. Hosted this week by Minority Services and Programs; sponsored by International Student Life. 542-5867.

WSP Friday Speaker.
“Reflections on Race, Religion and the Oblate Sisters of Providence.” Diane Batts Morrow, history. 12:20 p.m. 140 Tate Student Center. Sponsored by Women’s Studies Program. 542-0066.

Baseball.
vs. Gardner Webb. 4 p.m. Foley Field. 542-1231.

Softball: Georgia Home Tournament #1.
Georgia hosts Maryland, Boston College and Drexel. Through Feb. 16. Women’s athletic complex. 542-1231.

Black History Month Theater.
Hunter. Black Theatrical Ensemble. $7 ($5 students). Through Feb. 16. 7:30 p.m., plus 2:30 p.m. on Feb. 16. Morton Theatre, downtown Athens. Sponsored by Minority Services and Programs. 542-8468.

Saturday, February 15
Baseball.
vs. Gardner Webb. 1 p.m. Foley Field. 542-1231.

Men’s Basketball.
vs. Vanderbilt. 4 p.m. Stegeman Coliseum. 542-1231.

Recital.
Alexander Fiterstein, clarinet. $17 (half-price students). 8 p.m. Ramsey Hall. Sponsored by Performing Arts Center (Ramsey Series). 542-4400.
A native of Minsk in the former Soviet Union, Fiterstein won first prize in the 2001 Young Concert Artists International Auditions. He recently performed debut recitals in Washington, D.C., at the Kennedy Center, in New York at the 92nd Street Y, and in Boston at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
The program for the recital includes the Sonata in E-flat Major, Op. 167, by Saint-Saëns; Stravinsky’s Three Pieces
for Solo Clarinet, Martinu’s Sonatine for Clarinet and Piano, Brahms’s Sonata in F minor, Op. 120, No. 1, and Lovreglio’s Fantasia on Motives from Verdi’s La Traviata.

Sunday, February 16
Baseball.
vs. Gardner Webb. 1 p.m. Foley Field. 542-1231.

Winter Evolutionary Biology Lecture.
“Treasure Your Exceptions: Lateral Gene Transfer in Plants and Runaway Mutation Rates in Mitochondrial DNA.” Jeffrey Palmer, Indiana University. 7:30 p.m. C127 life sciences building. Sponsored by departments of plant biology and genetics. 542-1417.
Palmer, Distinguished Professor of Biology at Indiana, is one of the pioneers of plant molecular systematics. His current work focuses on gene and genome evolution and the transfer of gene functions from the mitochondria to the nucleus.

Monday, February 17
Blood Drive.
10 a.m.-3 p.m. Pharmacy building and 116 Aderhold Hall. Conducted by American Red Cross; sponsored by University Health Service. 546-0681, extension 225.

Winter Evolutionary Biology Lecture.
“Evolutionary Transfer of Mitochondrial Genes to the Nucleus: When, What, How and Why?” Jeffrey Palmer, Indiana University. 11:10 a.m. C127 life sciences building. Sponsored by departments of plant biology and genetics. 542-1417.

Science Library Orientation.
4:40-5:50 p.m. Science library interactive center, second floor. Sponsored by UGA Libraries. 542-0696.

Black History Month Scholars Recognition Ceremony.
7-9 p.m. 407 Memorial Hall. Sponsored by Minority Services and Programs. 542-5773.

Coming up
CHA International Symposium.
“Globalization and Change in Central Asia.” Feb. 19-21. Masters Hall, Georgia Center for Continuing Education. Sponsored by Center for Humanities and Arts. 542-3966.

International Symposium Concert.
Kazakh State Chamber Orchestra Academy of Soloists. Feb. 20, 8 p.m. Masters Hall, Georgia Center for Continuing Education. Sponsored by Center for Humanities and Arts. 542-3966.

Franklin College Chamber Music Concert.
Prazak Quartet. Feb. 21, 8 p.m. Hodgson Hall. Sponsored by Performing Arts Center. 542-4400.

Dance Concert.
Atlanta Ballet. $29-$33 (half-price students). Feb. 22, 8 p.m. Fine Arts Theater. Sponsored by Performing Arts Center (Dance Festival Series). 542-4400.