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Ongoing
Art Exhibitions.
Student Photo Show. Through April 11. Room 309 Gallery, Tate Student Center (open 8 a.m.-midnight daily). Sponsored by Student Activities. 542-6396.

Ackamism. Through April 18. Broad Street Gallery, 257 W. Broad St., opened weekdays, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Sponsored by School of Art. 542-0069.

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.

Scientific and Medical Illustration: The 2003 Annual Juried Student Exhibition. Through April 4. Main gallery, visual arts building (open 8 a.m.-5 p.m. weekdays). Sponsored by School of Art. 542-1511.

Lesbian Emergences. Through April 10. Athens Institute for Contemporary Art. Sponsored by Women’s History Month Committee. 542-2846.

Paintings by Donna Bland. Through April 27. Conservatory. Open Tuesday-Saturday, 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m.; Sunday 11:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Sponsored by State Botanical Garden. 542-1244.

Exhibit.
“The Women Have Leaped from Their Spheres”: Women’s Search for a Place in Public Life. Through March 31. Turner Gallery, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, third floor, main library (open 8 a.m.-5 p.m. weekdays, 1-5 p.m. Saturdays). Sponsored by UGA Libraries. 542-7123.

Monday, March 31
50th Anniversary Symposium.
“Celebrating 50 Years of Microbiology at the University of Georgia.” 1 p.m. Ecology auditorium. Sponsored by department of microbiology. 542-2677.

CLACS Seminar.
“Athens’s Growing Hispanic Community: Opportunities for Collaboration.” Heidi Davison, mayor. 1-2:30 p.m. 145 Tate Student Center. Sponsored by Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. 583-0619.
Davison will assess her role in addressing the challenges and opportunities of the growing Hispanic population of Athens-Clarke County. Topics will include education, health care and affordable housing, and ways in which the university, county and service providers can work together to address priority areas of concern to the Hispanic community.

International Affairs Lecture.
“Is War in Iraq Legal? International Law and Preemptive Military Strikes.” Michael Byers, Duke University School of Law. 2 p.m. Chapel. Sponsored by Center for International Trade and Security. 542-2985.
Recent events in Iraq have brought to the forefront questions regarding international law and the commitment of states to comply with international obligations. Byers is one of the world’s leading experts on these issues.

Women’s History Month Lecture.
“Naked in the Promised Land.” Lillian Faderman. 7 p.m. Chapel. Sponsored by Women’s Studies Program. 542-2846.
Winner of the American Association of University Women’s 2002 Founders Distinguished Senior Scholar Award for lifetime achievement, Faderman is professor of English at California State University, Fresno. Her groundbreaking studies of lesbian culture include Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America (1991), which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, and To Believe in Women (1999). She will speak on Naked in the Promised Land (2003), a memoir that ranges from her childhood as the daughter of a Jewish Latvian immigrant mother to her life as a stripper and college student, a mother, an award-winning teacher, a dean and university vice president, and a pioneer in gay and ethnic studies.

Guest Artist Recital.
Marco Schiavoni, percussion. 8 p.m. Ramsey Hall. Sponsored by School of Music. 542-3737.

Tuesday, April 1
Professional Development Presentation.
“The Nature of the Mentoring Relationship.” Sylvia Hutchinson, higher education and reading education, and Pam Kleiber, Honors Program and Center for Undergraduate Research Opportunities. 10 a.m. Russell Library Auditorium. Sponsored by UGA Libraries. 542-5788.

Campus Conversation.
“Financing College Attendance in the United Kingdom: The New Fee Structure.” David Palfreyman, Oxford University. 3:30 p.m. 101 Meigs Hall. Sponsored by Institute of Higher Education. 542-0579.
Palfreyman will focus on the new challenges facing citizens of the United Kingdom and how they will pay for their higher education. There will be refreshments following the lecture in the Meigs Hall Commons Room.
Palfreyman serves as director of the Oxford Centre for Higher Education Policy Studies as well as bursar and Fellow, New College, the University of Oxford. He will be visiting the Institute of Higher Education the week of March 31. During this time, he will be lecturing in various classes, meeting with students and faculty, and planning future cooperative initiatives between OxCHEPS-New College and the institute.

Neel Reid Lecture.
“Design under the Full Moon: The Art of Ecology.” Grant Jones. 4 p.m. Ecology auditorium. Sponsored by College of Environment and Design. 542-8292.
Jones is co-founder of Jones and Jones Architects and Landscape Architects in Seattle. The title of his lecture is indicative of the combination of art and science he typically brings to his design and planning projects.
Jones received his bachelor of architecture degree from the University of Washington and then stayed for two years to work on writing poetry in Theodore Roethke’s class during the last two years of Roethke’s tenure as poet in residence. Jones received his M.L.A. from Harvard’s School of Design and won the Frederick Sheldon Traveling Fellowship to research environmental determinism in South America and Western Europe.
He has practiced ecological design for 30 years, pioneering in river planning, scenic highway design, zoo design and landscape aesthetics. He has held academic positions at the University of California at Berkeley, Harvard, the University of Virginia, Texas A&M and the University of Washington. Grant has recently worked on the Paris Pike Historic Highway in Kentucky, the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum in Tuscon, Disney’s Animal Kingdom in Orlando, the Mountains-to-Sound Greenway across the Cascade Mountains in Washington, the Commons Park in Denver (with Civitas, Inc.), and America’s first wildlife highway, U.S. highway 93 through the Flathead reservation in western Montana.

Art History Lecture.
“The Poetic Imagination of Michelangelo’s Art, Part I: Michelangelo and the Metamorphoses of Marble.” Paul Barolsky, University of Virginia. 5:30 p.m. Griffith Auditorium. Sponsored by Georgia Museum of Art. 542-4662.
Barolsky is Commonwealth Professor of Art History at the University of Virginia. One of the world’s leading authorities on the art of Renaissance Italy, he will give three public lectures about Michelangelo in conjunction with the release of his book Michelangelo and the Finger of God, published by the Georgia Museum of Art.

Baseball.
vs. College of Charleston. 7 p.m. Foley Field. 542-1231.

Wednesday, April 2
Georgia Summer Employment Fair.
Summer jobs in the Athens-Atlanta area. 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Georgia Hall, Tate Student Center. Sponsored by Career Center. leann@uga.edu.

Vinson Research Speaker.
“International Labor Standards.” Marisa Pagnattaro, business. 11 a.m. Green Room, Seney-Stovall Chapel, Lucy Cobb Institute. Sponsored by Institute of Government. pitts@cviog.uga.edu.

Blood Drive.
Noon-6 p.m. Veterinary medicine student lounge. Conducted by American Red Cross; sponsored by University Health Service. 546-0681, extension 225.

Africatalk.
“Reflections on the Boom in West Africa Oil and Gas Exploration.” Valentine Nzengung, geology. 12:20-1:10 p.m. 325 Holmes-Hunter Building. Sponsored by African Studies Institute. akinloye@uga.edu.

Engineering Seminar.
“Integrated Approaches for Bioprocessing Research and Education.” Terry Walker, Clemson University. 12:20-1:10 p.m. Driftmier auditorium. 542-0866.

Staff Council Meeting.
2 p.m. Ecology auditorium. 542-7222.

Baseball.
vs. College of Charleston. 4 p.m. Foley Field. 542-1231.

Softball.
Double-header vs. Georgia Tech. 5 and 7 p.m. Women’s athletic complex. 542-1231.

Art History Lecture.
“The Poetic Imagination of Michelangelo’s Art, Part II: Michelangelo and the Creation of Adam.” Paul Barolsky, University of Virginia. 5:30 p.m. Griffith Auditorium. Sponsored by Georgia Museum of Art. 542-4662.

Bulldog Brass Society Recital.
Brass quintet. 6 p.m. Edge Recital Hall. Sponsored by School of Music. 542-3737.

Guest Artist Recital.
Jan McKay, bassoon. 6:30 p.m. Edge Recital Hall. Sponsored by School of Music. 542-3737.

Film.
Días Contados (“Running Out of Time”). 7:30 p.m. Georgia Museum of Art. Cosponsored by Romance languages department. 542-2846.

UGA Choral Concert.
8 p.m. Hodgson Hall. Sponsored by School of Music. 542-3737.

Lecture.
Christopher Buckley. $2 (students free). Tickets required, available at Tate Student Center cashier’s window (542-8074, open 9 a.m.-4 p.m.). 9 p.m. Georgia Hall, Tate Student Center. Sponsored by University Union. 542-6396.
Political satirist Christopher Buckley has been called “one of the wittiest--and most fearless--men of our day.” He was named a managing editor of Esquire at 24, and since then he has served as a speechwriter for Vice President George Bush and authored six best-selling books. He is currently editor of Forbes FYI as well as a popular humor columnist for the New Yorker.

University Theatre.
Cheshire Cat Moon by Shannon H. Rood, directed by Tim Harris. $10 ($8 students) at the box office in Fine Arts. April 2-9, 8 p.m.; April 6, 2:30 p.m. Cellar Theatre. Sponsored by drama department. 542-2838.
Both funny and poignant, this new play by one of UGA’s own M.F.A. playwriting candidates explores life through the veil of mental illness and its effect on three generations of Southern women. A violent tornado rips through a small town, leaving a trail of debris that stirs up old secrets and past wounds. These women must find new courage and old wisdom in order to heal.
“To me, the play is realistic, though there are both magical and surreal moments,” says director Tim Harris. “The play is really about the will to survive innumerable obstacles--natural disasters, financial setbacks, psychological roadblocks. . . . [It] speaks to a kind of common, universal need for family.”

Thursday, April 3
Fiction Reading.
Ben Marcus, author of The Age of Wire and String and Notable American Women. 4 p.m. 265 Park Hall. Sponsored by Creative Writing Program. bhenr@uga.edu.

Art History Lecture.
“The Poetic Imagination of Michelangelo’s Art, Part III: Michelangelo and the Gravity of Art.” Paul Barolsky, University of Virginia. 5:30 p.m. Griffith Auditorium. Sponsored by Georgia Museum of Art. 542-4662.

Guest Artist Recital.
Kristi Becker, piano, Detmold Hochschule fur Musik. 8 p.m. Ramsey Hall. Sponsored by School of Music. 542-3737.

Georgia Poetry Circuit Reading.
Rodney Jones and Melisa Cahnmann. 8 p.m. Tasty World, downtown Athens. Sponsored by Georgia Review. 542-0397.
Jones, winner of the National Book Award for Transparent Gestures (1989), is also the author of Kingdom of the Instant (2002), Elegy for the Southern Drawl (1999), Things That Happen Once (1996), Apocalyptic Narrative and Other Poems (1993), The Unborn (1985) and The Story They Told Us of Light (1980). Among his other awards are the Jean Stein Award of the National Institute of Arts and Letters and the Kenyon Review Poetry Award. A graduate of the fine arts program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, he has for many years been professor of English at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale.
“Jones speaks with what appears to be virtually miraculous ease and confidence,” says T.R. Hummer, editor of the Georgia Review. “He is a poet with a near-perfect pitch.”

Friday, April 4
Women’s Golf.
Liz Murphey Collegiate. Through April 6. UGA Golf Course. 542-1231.

Art Exhibition.
Faculty Choice: UGA Graphic Design Student Exhibition 2003. Through April 18. Front foyer gallery, visual arts building, and two floors in Tanner Building (open 8 a.m.-5 p.m. weekdays). Sponsored by School of Art. 542-1511.

Free Speech and Hearing Screenings.
For children (3 and older) and adults. 9 a.m.-3 p.m. 593 Aderhold Hall. Sponsored by Speech and Hearing Clinic. Call for appointment. 542-4598.

Guest Artist Lecture.
“Report from Darmstadt 2002.” Kristi Becker, Detmold Hochschule fur Musik. 11:15 a.m. Dancz Center for New Music. Sponsored by School of Music. 542-3737.

Campus Coffee Hour.
11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Memorial Hall Ballroom. Hosted this week by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and the Brazilian Student Association; sponsored by International Student Life. 542-5867.

Andrea Carson Coley Lecture.
“Writing with Pride: Theatre as an Agent for Social Change and Lesbian and Gay Activism.” Shirlene Holmes, Georgia State University. 12:20 p.m. Griffith Auditorium, Georgia Museum of Art. Sponsored by Women’s Studies Program. 542-0066.

Women’s Tennis.
vs. South Carolina. 2 p.m. Magill Tennis Complex. 542-1231.

Friday Tours.
4 p.m. Georgia Museum of Natural History. Not suitable for children younger than five; tour group size is limited.
542-1663.

UGA Symphony Orchestra Concert.
Mark Cedel, conductor. 8 p.m. Hodgson Hall. Sponsored by School of Music. 542-3737.

Saturday, April 5
Art Exhibitions.
Alfred H. Maurer: American Modern. 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.

Master of Fine Arts Degree Candidates Exhibition. Through May 4. 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.
The annual exhibition at the Georgia Museum of Art features work by 13 students in the M.F.A. program at the Lamar Dodd School of Art. It provides an opportunity to view the work of groundbreaking contemporary artists; most have already exhibited across the United States and, in many instances, in Europe as well.
“The works in this exhibition are always challenging to the viewer,” says Greg Benson, in-house curator for the exhibition.
Artists included are Bob Abernathy, drawing and painting; Samantha Barnum, drawing and painting; Brian Blevins, sculpture; Bridget Conn, photography; James Grimsley, ceramics; Jill Johnson, drawing and painting; Kelly King, ceramics; Sang-Wook Lee, fabric design; Jennifer Lyon, fabric design; Ryan Roth, drawing and painting; Roxie Veasey, drawing and painting; Charles Warnock, drawing and painting; and Mike Wsol, sculpture.

Workshop.
“Xeriscape for New and Existing Yards.” $17 (members $15). 8:15 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Callaway Building. Sponsored by State Botanical Garden. 542-6156.

Children’s Workshop.
“Native American Tales and Trails.” Debbie Mitchell and Jessica Wilson, garden staff. Ages 8-12. $6 (members $5). 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Conservatory, Classroom A. Sponsored by State Botanical Garden. 542-6156.

International Street Festival.
Noon-5 p.m. College Avenue, downtown. Sponsored by International Student Life. 542-5867.
The festival will feature student organizations from more than 20 countries with displays of artwork, crafts, costumes, photographs, jewelry and other artifacts. In addition, there will be cultural performances by international students and community groups.

Football.
G-Day Spring Game. 2 p.m. Sanford Stadium. 542-1231.

Softball.
Double-header vs. Florida. 1 and 3 p.m. Women’s athletic complex. 542-1231.

Concert.
Butch Thompson Trio. $17-$21 (students half-price). 8 p.m. Hodgson Hall. Sponsored by Performing Arts Center (Traditions Series). 542-4400. See story above.

Sunday, April 6
Softball.
vs. Florida. 1 p.m. Women’s athletic complex. 542-1231.

Women’s Tennis.
vs. Florida. 1 p.m. Magill Tennis Complex. 542-1231.

Concert.
National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, Gerhard Markson, conductor, John O’Conor, piano. $29-$33 (students half-price). 7:30 p.m. Hodgson Hall. Sponsored by Performing Arts Center (Music Series I). 542-4400.
The National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland is making its first visit to the United States and will appear in only nine other cities. The tour is under the direction of principal conductor Gerhard Markson, with guest pianist John O’Conor.
The program includes Wagner’s Prelude to Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Beethoven’s third piano concerto and Stravinsky’s Firebird.
A pre-concert lecture will be given by Bill Davis of the School of Music at 6:45 p.m.

Monday, April 7
IMACS Conference.
“Nonlinear Wave Equations and Wave Phenomena: Computation and Theory.” Through April 10. Georgia Center for Continuing Education. Sponsored by computer science department. 542-3477.
This will be the third IMACS international conference. It will focus on computational and theoretical aspects of nonlinear wave phenomena. Interdisciplinary aspects of the subject will be emphasized, as well as the interaction between computation, theory and applications. Keynote speakers will be A. Fokas (United Kingdom), C Menyuk (United States) and C. Sulem (Canada). For more information, check the Web page: www.cs.uga.edu/~thiab/waves2003.html.

IBR Seminar.
“Strategies for Examining Latent Variable Moderation.” Bob Vandenberg. 3:30 p.m. 106 Barrow Hall. Sponsored by Institute for Behavioral Research. 542-1806.

Classical Performance.
Book I of Vergil’s Aeneid and Catullus’s Cybele and Attis. Mark Miner, graduate student in classics. 6:30 p.m. Ballroom, Taylor-Grady House (634 Prince Avenue). Sponsored by classics department. 542-3839.
Mark Miner will perform Book I of Vergil’s famous heroic epic, the Aeneid, as well as Catullus’s scandalous fantasy on Roman masculinity, the erotic tale of Cybele and Attis. Each Latin performance will be prefaced by an English translation delivered by Charles Ciaccio Jr.
Miner, an M.A. candidate in classics who taught high school Greek and Latin until coming to UGA, has performed Greek and Latin classics over several years and at several venues, including University of California campuses. He is currently recording tapes of stories for Athenaze, America’s most popular textbook for introductory Greek.
This performance, which is sponsored by the UGA chapter of Eta Sigma Phi, the National Classics Honor Society, is free and open to the general public.

Archaeology Lecture.
“The Licinian Tomb, Rome: New Evidence for the Display of Portraits in Roman Chamber Tombs.” Frances Van Keuren, art. 7:30 p.m. 116 visual arts building. Sponsored by classics department. 542-3839.
Unpublished documents in the Archivio Centrale dello Stato in Rome refer to the theft of five Roman portraits and a sarcophagus from the tomb of the noble Licinii, on the Via Salaria in Rome. These antiquities can all be traced to the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen, where they reside today. Excavation reports allow that these portraits would have been placed within the façade and the two chambers from the tomb, and inscribed cinerary altars permit the identification of four of the five portraits. This new evidence not only identifies the origin of these pieces but also brings to light the first-known instance of noble Romans placing portraits in their tombs.
This lecture, which is sponsored by the Athens Society of the Archaeological Institute of America, UGA, is free and open to the general public.

Coming up
2nd Thursday Concert.
Angela Jones-Reus, flute, and Thomas McCutchen, with the Mass Marimba Ensemble. $12 ($7 students). April 10, 8 p.m. Hodgson Hall, Performing Arts Center. Sponsored by School of Music. 542-4400.

Concert.
Tonic. $20 ($10 students), at cashier’s window in Tate Student Center. April 10, 8 p.m. Legion Field. Sponsored by University Union. 542-6396.

Ballet.
Giselle with the UGA Ballet Ensemble. 8 p.m. April 10-12; 2 p.m. April 13. New Dance Theatre, dance building. Sponsored by dance department. 542-4415.

Concert.
Preservation Hall Jazz Band. $23-$27 (half-price students). April 12, 8 p.m. Hodgson Hall. Sponsored by Performing Arts Center (Showtime Series). 542-4400.