Canadian violinist Angéle Dubeau performs Feb. 11 in Hogdson Concert Hall UGA’s Performing Arts Center presents the Athens debut of Canada’s famed violinist Angéle Dubeau (right) and the all-female ensemble La Pietá on Feb. 11 at 8 p.m. in Hodgson Concert Hall. The award-winning musicians will perform a program entitled Passion, which features music from a broad spectrum of composers including Georges Bizet, Astor Piazzolla and Dave Brubeck. Tickets, $16 (rear balcony) and $21 (orchestra/front balcony), are half price for UGA students with valid IDs. Violinist Dubeau is a graduate of the Montreal Conservatory of Music and the Juilliard School of Music and has become one of Canada’s most prominent artists. In addition to winning several major international competitions, she has appeared in concert halls in more than 25 countries. One of the rare classical music soloists to have certified gold for number of albums sold in one year, Dubeau created and hosted her own weekly show on the French CBC television network. Dubeau has been named a member of the Order of Canada, a knight of the Ordre National du Quebec and was awarded the Calixa-Lavallée Prize, prestigious honors bestowed upon her for her exceptional contribution to classical music. In 1997, she created La Pietá, a 12-member string ensemble (with piano) bringing together some of the finest women musicians in Canada. The group is named after the Venetian convent orchestra for which Vivaldi wrote many of his works. Dubeau and La Pietá’s first five CDs, released on the Analekta label, were the best-selling records in their categories in Canada. A pre-concert lecture will be given by Lisa Prodan, an adjunct professor at Agnes Scott College and Georgia College and State University. The lecture begins at 7:15 p.m. and is free and open to the public. —Bobby Tyler Pianist Katia Shanavi in concert on Feb. 10 The university’s Performing Arts Center presents internationally acclaimed pianist Katia Skanavi on Feb. 10 at 8 p.m. in Ramsey Concert Hall. A native of Moscow, the award-winning musician returns to Athens, where she performed to a sold-out house following her bravura performance in the finals at the 1997 Van Cliburn Piano Competition. Tickets are $22 (half price for UGA students with valid IDs). The program includes Handel’s Chaconne in G Major; Liszt’s Tre sonetti di Petrarca and Vallée d’Obermann; Chopin’s Andante Spianato and Grande Polonaise; and Rachmaninoff’s Etudes-Tableaux, Op. 39. Skanavi comes from a culturally rich Greek-Russian family and began her musical studies at the School for Gifted Children in Moscow. At the age of 17 she was urged by her father to enter the Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud Competition in Paris. She was the only Russian and the youngest contestant to be accepted into the finals, and on her 18th birthday was awarded both third prize and the Audience Prize. She was then selected as concerto soloist for the gala evening at the Salle Pleyel, an honor usually reserved for the first prize winner. Skanavi studied at the Conservatoire National in Paris and the Moscow Conservatory, then continued her studies at the Cleveland Institute. In 1994, she won the Maria Callas Competition in Greece, home of her great-grandfather, and was awarded Greek citizenship. She currently lives in Moscow with her husband, the actor Genia Stychkin, and their three children. Skanavi has performed at most of the major festivals throughout Europe, North America and Japan. In 2003, she made her highly acclaimed New York recital debut at the Frick Collection, followed by an equally well-received debut with the San Francisco Symphony at Davies Hall. During the current 2005-06 season, she is touring the Netherlands with the Holland Symfonia, and she performs in Paris and Luxembourg with the Orchestra National de France, led by famed conductor Kurt Masur. Her Athens engagement is part of her recital tour throughout North America. —Bobby Tyler

Art exhibitions.
American Streamlined Design: The World of Tomorrow. Through Feb. 19. 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.

Color in Winter. Through Feb. 28. Reception: Feb. 17, 5-7 p.m. G14 Caldwell Hall. Sponsored by the College of Environment and Design.

Local photographer Rinne Allen was born in Athens and studied photography and art at Sewanee in Tennessee. For the past nine years, she has lived in Athens in the former home of the late architect, landscape architect and UGA professor John Linley. She has spent time getting to know Linley’s garden and building on the legacy that he left behind.

Color in Winter features Allen’s large format botanical and landscape photographs shot mostly in that garden and other places around Athens that have influenced her.

Focus on the Permanent Collection: Romare Bearden and Jacob Lawrence. Through Feb. 28 (except Feb. 17-18). Sponsored by the Georgia Museum of Art. 542-4662

Works from the Permanent Collection. Through March 19. Sponsored by the Georgia Museum of Art. 542-4662.

From Sideboard to Pulpit: Silver in Georgia. Through March 26. Georgia Museum of Art. 542-4662.

Feeling the Familiar Pull, Andrew T. Crawford. Through May 21. Georgia Museum of Art. 542-4662.

Exhibit.
“Power to the People—Rural Electrification in Georgia.” Through Sept. 30. 8 a.m.-5 p.m., weekdays; Saturday, 1-4:45 p.m. Russell Library. Sponsored by the Russell Library and UGA Libraries.

Monday, February 6
Heartsaver CPR Training.
Advance registration required. $25 (CPR on adults), $40 (CPR on adults, children and infants). 1-5 p.m. University Health Center. 542-8695.

Lecture.
“Genomics Population Health: Developing a Roadmap for the 21st Century.” Muin Khoury, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Sponsored by the Institute for Behavioral Research, the College of Public Health, the Biomedical and Health Sciences Institute and the Department of Genetics. 2-4 p.m. 111 Barrow Hall. 542-1806.

Commemorative Program.
A celebration of Rosa Parks’s life, reflections from current students and historical information for students to learn more about her role in the U.S. civil rights movement. 3:30-5 p.m. Reception Hall, Tate Student Center. Sponsored by the Office of Institutional Diversity. 583-8195.

Film Festival.
Winged Migration. Discussion led by a representative from the local chapter of the Audubon Society follows the film. 7:30 p.m. 101 Student Learning Center. Sponsored by Speak Out for Species.

Film Screening.
Confidences trop intimes (Intimate Strangers, 2004). Directed by Patrice LeConte. $1. 8 p.m. Tate Student Center Theatre. Sponsored by the UGA French Film Festival. 542-2890.

A troubled young wife (Sandrine Bonnaire) visits an analyst for the first time, but mistakenly enters the wrong door. The occupant (Fabrice Luchini) is too smitten by the beautiful woman to correct her mistake, and so begins this rich drama.

Tuesday, February 7
Workshop.
Glycerin Soap Making. $23 ($20 members). 6-8 p.m. Visitor Center, classroom A. State Botanical Garden. 542-6156.

Colloquium.
Isiah M. Warner, Louisiana State University. Noon. 400 Chemistry Building. Sponsored by the Department of Chemistry.

Warner is the vice chancellor in the Office of Strategic Initiatives and the Boyd Professor and Philip W. West Professor of Analytical and Environmental Chemistry at LSU.

Born in DeQuincy, La., Warner attended Southern University in Baton Rouge, La., on full scholarship, majoring in chemistry and graduating cum laude with a B.S. degree in 1968. He received his Ph.D. in chemistry in 1977 from the University of Washington and began his teaching career at Texas A&M University. He joined the faculty of Emory University in 1982, becoming the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Chemistry in 1987. In 1992, he joined LSU.

His primary research interest is the development and application of improved chemical, mathematical and instrumental methodology for studies of complex chemical systems.

His speech at UGA will focus on three ongoing programs at LSU that have been developed to enhance the participation and education of the diverse graduate and undergraduate students in the areas of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. In the past 10 years, LSU has consistently led in producing African-American Ph.D.s in chemistry, and Warner plans to discuss the elements that contribute to this success.

Lecture.
Speaker: Quentin Schaffer, HBO. 5:30 p.m. 148 Student Learning Center. Sponsored by the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication’s Peabody Awards Program and the Cable Center.

Concert.
Famous Quintets. 8 p.m. Ramsey Concert Hall. Faculty Chamber Series. Sponsored by the Hugh Hodgson School of Music. 542-3737.

Wednesday, February 8
Book Discussion and Signing.
James Cobb, UGA’s Spalding Distinguished Professor in the History of the American South, will discuss his most recent book, Away Down South: A History of Southern Identity. 10 a.m.-noon. Athens Regional Library Auditorium. Sponsored by the UGA Retirees Association. 548-2712.

Lunch-in-Theory Lecture.
“New Work in Constructed Drawing,” Imi Hwangbo, Lamar Dodd School of Art, 12:20-1:10 p.m. 153 Student Learning Center. Sponsored by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts. 542-3966.

Getzen Lecture in Government Accountability.
Speaker: David M. Walker, U.S. Comptroller General. 3-4 p.m. Chapel. Sponsored by the School of Public and International Affairs. 542-7849.

As comptroller general, Walker, who began his 15-year term in 1998, is the nation’s chief accountability officer and head of the U.S. Government Accountability Office, a legislative branch agency founded in 1921. GAO’s mission is to help improve the performance and assure the accountability of the federal government for the benefit of the American people.

A certified public accountant, Walker received his a B.S. degree in accounting from Jacksonville University and a Senior Management in Government Certificate in public policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.  He is the author of Retirement Security: Understanding and Planning Your Financial Future (1996) and a co-author of Delivering on the Promise: How to Attract, Manage and Retain Human Capital (1998).

Lecture.
“Are the Archives Doomed?,” Rick Prelinger, archivist, writer, filmmaker and founder of Prelinger Archives in San Francisco. 4 p.m. 150 Student Learning Center. Sponsored by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts. 542-3966.

Johnstone Lecture.
Carleton Wood, executive director, Hills and Dales Estate in LaGrange. Free admission (pre-registration requested). Dessert reception follows lecture. 7:30 p.m. Callaway Building, State Botanical Garden. Sponsored by the Friends of the Garden. 542-6138.

Hills and Dales Estates is a historic property of the Fuller E. Callaway Foundation. The focal point of the estate is a beautiful Georgian Italian villa, designed by the noted Atlanta architectural firm of Hentz and Reid in 1914. The classically inspired architecture and remarkable craftsmanship have made it one of the most photographed and admired houses in the Southeastern U.S. As important as the house, Hills and Dales Estate is the home of the historic Ferrell Gardens. Created by Sarah Coleman Ferrell, the formal boxwood garden is among the best preserved 19th century gardens in the Southeast.

Woods describes the history of both the house and the garden and the families that made them possible.

Lecture.
“It Takes a Polis. . . The Art of Adolescence in Early Greece,” Susan Langdon, professor of Greek art archaeology, University of Missouri-Columbia. 7:30 p.m. 116 Visual Arts Building. Sponsored by the Department of Classics and the Athens Society of the Archaeological Institute of America. 542-9264.

One of the most important developments in Greek art during the Late Geometric period (c. 750-700 BCE) was the return of figural images, after a long absence during the post-Mycenaean “Dark Age,” to objects of ceremonial and everyday use. The reappearance of animal and human figures on funerary pottery suggests that an underlying purpose of these vessels was to bridge social transitions by providing visual models for an ideal, correctly gendered social order.

Building on this assumption, a survey of the archaeological and functional contexts for Late Geometric imagery finds that figural art was similarly employed for other social rituals in the emerging poleis. Since social construction fundamentally depends on rites of personal transition—birth, adolescent maturation, marriage and death—the sweeping social changes that accompanied the rise of the polis in the late eighth century would have been established and reaffirmed by such ritual occasions.

Langdon’s talk draws across the spectrum of Geometric material culture to reconstruct contemporary strategies for transforming boys and girls into properly gendered men and women.

Thursday, February 9
Lecture.
“Catherine the Great: translatio imperii and the Translation of Gender,” Vera Proskurina, Georgia Institute of Technology. 3:30 p.m. 213 Brown Hall. Sponsored by the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages. 542-3663.

University Council Meeting.
3:30 p.m. 300 Fine Arts Building.

Lecture.
“Wrong Turn After Nuremberg: An Alternative Account of Research Ethics,” Daniel Wikler, Harvard University School of Public Health. 4 p.m. 265 Park Hall. Sponsored by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts and the Biomedical and Health Sciences Institute. 542-3966.

2nd Thursday Concert.
“Giants of the Romantic Era,” with the UGA Symphony Orchestra performing Liszt and Mahler. $15 ($7 students). 8 p.m. Hodgson Hall. Sponsored by Hodgson School of Music. 542-4400.

Friday, February 10
Lecture.
“All the President’s Men as a ‘Women’s Film’ and Why it Matters,” Elizabeth Kraft, English. 12:20-1:10 p.m. 350 Student Learning Center. Friday Speaker Series. Sponsored by the Institute for Women’s Studies. 542-0066.

Workshop.
Cooking the Garden: Winter Squash. $25 ($22 members). 6-8 p.m. State Botanical Visitor Center/Café Trumps. Sponsored by the State Botanical Garden and the Friends of the Garden. 542-6156.

Recital.
Katia Skanavi, piano. $22 (half-price students). 8 p.m. Ramsey Hall. Sponsored by Performing Arts Center (Ramsey Series). 542-4400.

Saturday, February 11
Champion Tree Ramble.
Free and pre-registration is not required. 10 a.m. The Orange Trail Kiosk by the upper parking lot. State Botanical Garden. 542-6156.

Family Day.
Creative Collages. 10 a.m.-noon. Georgia Museum of Art. 542-4662.

Men’s Basketball.
vs. Tennessee. 4 p.m. Stegeman Coliseum.

Bridal Open House.
Reservations are required to attend. 1-3 p.m. Georgia Center for Continuing Education Conference Center and Hotel. 542-4766.

The Bridal Open House will include food tasting, door prizes, live entertainment and two wedding planning workshops by the Georgia Center’s wedding specialist and event designer.

Concert.
Angéle Dubeau and La Pietá. $16-$21 (half-price students). 8 p.m. Hodgson Hall. Sponsored by Performing Arts Center (Music Series I). 542-4400.

Sunday, February 12
Men’s Tennis.
vs. Furman. Noon. Lindsey Hopkins Indoor Tennis Stadium.

Gymnastics.
vs. Oklahoma. 2:30 p.m. Coliseum.

Monday, February 13
Film Festival.
El Caballo. 7:30 p.m. 101 Student Learning Center. Sponsored by Speak Out for Species.

This award-winning film documents one of the most complex wildlife management issues today and asks fundamental questions about the human relationship with wildlife species. Discussion, led by Jessica Gullett, follows film.

Performance.
The Pomegranate Seed. 7:30 p.m. Georgia Hall, Tate Student Center. Sponsored by the For Loving Yourself student organization, the University Health Center and the UGA Parents and Families Association. 542-8690.

Cosy Sheridan’s solo performance piece weaves together humor and music as she encounters messages from the media, from cultural icons and family. From Barbie dolls to fad diets, from Eve and her apple to the tragic-comedy of bathing suit shopping, Cosy as Everywoman comes to grips with her body, her self-image and all that it implies, finding a way to joyfully inhabit her own body.

Film Screening.
Notre Musique (Our Music, 2004). $1. 8 p.m. Tate Center Theatre. Sponsored by the UGA French Film Festival.

Set in post-war Sarajevo, Godard’s contemplation on war and its legacy confronts the Bosnian war but also the Middle East and World War II.

Coming up
University Theatre.
Children of an Idol Moon. Feb. 16-18, 22-25, 8 p.m. Feb. 26, 2:30 p.m. $12 ($10 students). Seney-Stovall Chapel. Sponsored by the Department of Theatre and Film Studies. 542-2838.

White Water Pool Session.
Feb. 16. $15 ($10 students). 7-10 p.m. Instructional pool, Ramsey Student Center. Sponsored by the Georgia Outdoor Recreation Program. 542-5060.

Workshop.
Feb. 18. Unit 3: The ABCs of Assembling a Beehive. $45 ($40 members). 9 a.m.-noon. Beekeeping For Beginners Series. Visitor Center, classroom A. State Botanical Garden. 542-6156.