University Theatre’s final production honors late playwright August Wilson When playwright August Wilson died in October 2005, he left a literary legacy that includes a celebrated cycle of 10 plays, of which two—Fences and The Piano Lesson—won the Pulitzer Prize. The second play in this cycle, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, will be presented as the capstone of the 2006–2007 University Theatre season. Joe Turner’s Come and Gone will open in the Fine Arts Theatre April 12 at 8 p.m. It will run April 13–14, 18–21 at 8 p.m. and April 22 at 2:30 p.m. Regular admission is $12; tickets for UGA students and senior citizens with ID are $10. Tickets may be purchased at the University Theatre box office in the lobby of the Fine Arts Building. The box office is open noon–5 p.m. weekdays. Tickets also will sold at the theatre door one hour before show time. Reservations may be made in advance by calling (706) 542-2838. Set in 1911, less than 50 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, Joe Turner captures a group of wayfarers who have stopped at Seth and Bertha Holly’s boarding house. Each has a uniquely individual story based in a universal need for self-definition, human connection and companionship. One especially wounded and damaged person, Herald Loomis, is the catalyst for a series of events that brings disruption to Seth and Bertha’s house, but ultimately leads to fresh starts and second chances for the inhabitants. Considered one of the greatest American playwrights, Wilson died of cancer just after finishing Radio Golf, the final play in the cycle. —Michelle Smith

Art exhibitions.
Modern Threads: Fashion and Art by Mariska Karasz. Through April 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. (706) 542-4662. www.uga.edu/gamuseum.

Ancestors and Foundlings. Featuring photography of Mary Ruth Moore. Through April 20. Broad Street Gallery, Lamar Dodd School of Art. (706) 542-0069, nwendl@uga.edu.

Wild Ride: Artistic Lessons of Nature by Eric Strauss. Through April 22. Georgia Museum of Art. (706) 542-4662.

Master of Fine Arts Degree Candidates Exhibition. Through May 6. Georgia Museum of Art. (706) 542-4662, jmcginty@uga.edu, www.uga.edu/gamuseum.

My World, paintings by David Kontra. Through May 12. 232 Aderhold Hall. Open 7:45 a.m.–
8 p.m. Monday–Thursday and 7:45 a.m.– 6 p.m. Friday.

Monday, April 9
exhibition.
Volume, a series of five week-long solo exhibitions featuring the works of master’s and bachelor of fine arts degree candidates from the Lamar Dodd School of Art. Through May 11. Main Gallery, Lamar Dodd School of Art. (706) 542-0069, nwendl@uga.edu, www.art.uga.edu.

Volume 1, which runs through April 13, features John Powers’ kinetic installation entitled Remember. An opening reception will be held April 12 from 7–9 p.m.

CURO Symposium.
Keynote speaker: Conrad Fink, Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. 4 p.m. Georgia Hall, Tate Student Center. (706) 542-3240, www.uga.edu/honors/curo/symposium/index.html.

entomology Lecture.
“Invasive Insects: The Source of Our Problems.” 11:15 a.m. 404-A Biological ­Sciences Building. (706) 542-1238, entomolo@uga.edu.

Lecture.
Photojournalist David Burnett will discuss his career and his current exhibition Measures of Time. 7 p.m. Masters Hall, Georgia Center for Continuing Education Conference Center and Hotel. Sponsored by the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication and the Georgia Center for Continuing Education Conference Center and Hotel. (706) 542-5038, murrayd@uga.edu.

Swing Dancing.
8 p.m. Memorial Hall Ballroom. www.uga.edu/ugaswingclub.

Tuesday, April 10
Ecology Seminar.
“Disturbance, Noise Color and Food Chain Length in Stream Ecosystems,” John Sabo, Arizona State University. Reception at 3:30 p.m.; seminar at 4 p.m. Ecology Auditorium. (706) 542-6013, anisaj@uga.edu.

Blood Drive.
Noon–6 p.m. Creswell Hall lobby. Sponsored by the American Red Cross. (678) 227-4650.

lanier speaker series (1 of 2).
“From Text to Context through the Organism-Person Surround: Edgar Allen Poe, Arakawa, Madeline Gins and Helen Keller,” Jondi Keane, Griffith University (Australia). 4 p.m. 265 Park Hall.

Baseball.
vs. Savannah State. 5 p.m. Foley Field.

Lecture.
“It’s Not Quite Calculated to Charm: Sargent’s Gilded Age Portraits,” Susan Sidlauskas,
Rutgers University. 5:30 p.m. Georgia Museum of Art. Sponsored by the Lamar Dodd School of Art, the Association of Graduate Art Students and the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences. (706) 542-1511, artinfo@uga.edu.

Performance.
Visiting artist Mikhail Bronner will present a performance and demonstration of his work.
6 p.m. Ramsey Hall. Sponsored by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts.
(706) 542-3966, jdingus@uga.edu.

Film.
Land in Anguish (1967, 106 minutes). 7:30 p.m. 171 Student Learning Center. Latin American Film Series. Sponsored by the UGA Libraries media department. (706) 542-7090, knowlton@uga.edu, www.titletk.com/latinamericanfilm.

Comedy SHOW.
Christian Finnegan. 8 p.m. Georgia Hall. $8 students ($10 day of show), $13 all others ($15 day of show). Comedy Central Campus Invasion Tour. Sponsored by University Union. (706) 542-6396, mlamotte@uga.edu.

Wednesday, April 11
Lecture.
Jonathan Shay. 11 a.m. Chapel. Shay’s presentation will focus on tragedy and its ability to provide psychologically safe spaces for military and political concerns in a democracy. Sponsored by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts and the department of classics. (706) 542-0417, sspence@uga.edu.

LECTURE.
“Plant Conservation,” Heather Alley, botanical garden coordinator. 12:15–12:45 p.m. Classroom A, Visitor Center, State Botanical Garden. Green Bag Lunch Series. (706) 542-6156, dbmitchl@uga.edu.

Apero Africana Brown Bag Lecture.
“Contemporary Afro-Hispanic Women’s Voices: Representations in Literature and Culture,” Lesley Feracho, Romance languages and African-American studies. 12:20–1:10 p.m. African-American Cultural Center (fourth floor, Memorial Hall). Sponsored by the Institute for African-American Studies, the African Studies Institute and the African-American Cultural Center. fsgiles@uga.edu.

Bulldog Book Club.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. 1:25 p.m. Student Lounge, main library. Blue card event. Sponsored by the English department and the UGA libraries. (706) 542-2192, fteague@uga.edu.

Psychology Seminar.
“Adolescence, the Developing Brain and Vulnerability to Drug Abuse,” Ken Winters, University of Minnesota. 3:30 p.m.142 Tate Student Center. Sponsored by the department of psychology and the Institute for Behavioral Research. (706) 542-6100, smalleyb@uga.edu.

Cantrell LectureS (1 of 3).
“Origami, Linkages and Polyhedra: Folding with Algorithms,” Erik Demaine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Refreshments at 3 p.m., lecture at 3:30 p.m. 202 Physics Building. (706) 542-2630, rr@math.uga.edu, www.math.uga.edu/seminars_conferences/cantrell.html.

Erik Demaine, the Esther and Harold Edgerton Professor at MIT, will deliver the 13th annual Cantrell lectures April 11-13 in the Franklin College of Arts and Science’s department of mathematics.

Demaine entered Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia at the age of 12 and completed his bachelor’s degree when only 14. His Ph.D., a seminal work in the field of “computational origami,” was completed at the University of Waterloo, also in Canada. This work was awarded one of the four NSERC Doctoral Prizes given in 2003 for the best doctoral thesis in Canada.

In the same year he was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship, and he joined the MIT faculty in 2001 at age 20, reportedly the youngest professor in the history of MIT. He is currently a member of the Theory of Computation group at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and is also an associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science.

Demaine has co-authored more than 100 papers on such topics as data structures, bio-informatics and the mathematical obstacles to winning at Tetris. He’s drawn to the unexpected: “You just look at something you normally see in a different way and think, ‘Gee, I wonder if there’s some mathematics behind that?’ ”

lanier speaker series (2 of 2).
“The First-Person Science of Practice as Research,” Jondi Keane, Griffith University (Australia). 3 p.m. Tanner Building.

genetics Seminar.
“Self-Renewal and Cell Fate Specification of Embryonic Stem Cells,” Steve Dalton, animal and dairy science. 4 p.m. B118 Life Sciences. (706) 542-8000.

Care in Families Lecture.
Hilde Lindemann, Michigan State University. 4 p.m. 175 Coverdell Center. Sponsored
by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, the Biomedical and Health Sciences Institute and the department of philosophy. (706) 542-3966, jdingus@uga.edu.

Lecture.
“Arnold von Harff: Medieval Pilgrim, Plagiarist, Linguist, Liar, Artist, etc.,” Peter Jorgensen, Germanic and Slavic languages. 4 p.m. 348 Student Learning Center. Sponsored by the department of Germanic and Slavic languages. (706) 542-3663, german@uga.edu.

In a two-year (three if you believe the pilgrim) journey, Arnold von Harff visited the three main pilgrimage sites of the Middle Ages—Rome, Jerusalem and Santiago de Compostela. But he also falsified his account with material from more than a half dozen other travelers, so that separating fact from fiction becomes an intriguing detective story. This lecture is illustrated with several dozen pictures stemming from the pilgrim’s original colored drawings.

Jorgensen is a scholar of 14th- and 15th-century texts, and he has brought to light a half dozen previously unedited manuscript fragments, including one that is now known to be the oldest animal fable in Icelandic literature. He also has uncovered two 18th-century saga forgeries, but his favorite prevaricator is the pilgrim Arnold von Harff, who wrote in the Ripurarian dialect of German. The account presented in this lecture will include material from a manuscript previously unknown to scholars until the 1980s, which Jorgensen came across while in Oxford.

Discussion.
“MFA Speaks,” master of fine arts degree candidates at the Lamar Dodd School of Art discuss their works in the exhibition. 5:30 p.m. Georgia Museum of Art. (706) 542-4662.

open studio: life drawing.
$3. No instruction is offered; participants must provide their own supplies. No one under 18 is permitted. Forio Studio Classroom, Georgia Museum of Art. (706) 542-4662.

Debate.
“What Should Republicans Be Focused On?” 7 p.m. Demosthenian Hall. Sponsored by the College Republicans. dballard85@gmail.com.

film.
El Espiritu de la Colmena (The Spirit of the Beehive). Spanish with English subtitles.
(95 minutes). 7:30 p.m. Georgia Museum of Art. Spanish Language Film Series.
(706) 542-4662.

Anna, a 5-year-old girl living in the small town of Castille in 1940, is fascinated with James Whale’s 1931 Frankenstein after seeing the film in a traveling picture show. After her sister Isabel tells her that the monster lives nearby, they go looking for him, but find a wounded soldier instead. Co-sponsored by the department of Romance languages.

Thursday, April 12
Lecture.
“Creeks, Cherokees, Sovereignty and the South,” Jace Weaver and Craig Womack. Sponsored by the Institute of Native American Studies and Emory University. (706) 542-5356, www.uga.edu/inas.

University Theatre.
Joe Turner’s Come and Gone. $12 ($10 UGA students and senior citizens). April 12–14, and April 18–21 at 8 p.m.; and April 22, 2:30 p.m. Fine Arts Theatre. Sponsored by the department of theatre and film studies. www.drama.uga.edu.

Take Back The Night 2007.
10 a.m.–9 p.m. Tate Student Center Plaza. (706) 542-7233.

Georgia Writers Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony.
10:30 a.m. Fourth floor rotunda, Student Learning Center. Sponsored by the UGA libraries. (706) 542-2700, ddove@uga.edu.

Cantrell LectureS (2 of 3).
“Mathematics Meets Art, Puzzles and Magic: Fun with Algorithms,” Erik Demaine, MIT. 3:30 p.m. 328 Boyd Graduate Studies Building. (706) 542-2630, rr@math.uga.edu, www.math.uga.edu/seminars_conferences/cantrell.html.

Workshop.
“Mindfulness for Health.” 4:15–5:30 p.m. 139 Tate Student Center. Sponsored by the University Health Center. djennette@uhs.uga.edu.

Workshop participants primarily will have opportunities to practice guided mindfulness exercises, including meditation that can help deal with the rest of the semester.

Men’s Tennis.
vs. Baylor. 5 p.m. Dan Magill Tennis Complex.

Workshop.
“Wildflower Identification.” Session 3 of 4. $65 ($60 members). 5:30 p.m. Classroom A, Visitor Center, State Botanical Garden. (706) 542-6156, dbmitchl@uga.edu.

Lecture and Banquet.
“Drug Resistance in Tuberculosis,” Linda Parsons, a senior service fellow in the International Laboratory Branch of the Global AIDS Program at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Reception at 6 p.m.; lecture at 7 p.m. UGA Visitors Center. $8 ($10 at the door). Space is limited. Reservations should be made by April 9. Sponsored by the UGA chapter of Sigma Xi. jeffdean@uga.edu.

Annual Faculty Recognition Banquet.
5:45 p.m. reception, dinner and program at 6:45 p.m. Georgia Center for Continuing Education Conference Center and Hotel. slandrum@uga.edu.

Concert.
ARCO Chamber Orchestra. $15 ($7 UGA students with valid ID). 8 p.m. Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall. 2nd Thursday Scholarship Series. (706) 542-4400, www.music.uga.edu.

Observatory viewing.
9:30 p.m. Physics Building. The 24 inch telescope will be open to the public for viewing of the planets and stars. Sponsored by the department of physics and astronomy. (706) 542-7827, www.physast.uga.edu.

Track and Field.
Spec Towns Invitational and Bulldog Heptathlon. Through April 13. Spec Towns Track.

Friday, April 13
Conference.
“The Role of University Researchers in National Security.” 8:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Complex Carbohydrate Research Center auditorium. Sponsored by the Office of the Vice President for Research, the Office of International Education and the Office of Security and Emergency Preparedness. (706) 542-5941.

Discussion of data theft prevention, illegal transfer of intellectual property, export control laws governing faculty research collaboration and research activity compliance with export control laws.

Campus Coffee Hour.
11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m. Memorial Hall Ballroom. Hosted by Global Friends. (706) 542-5867, careyk@uga.edu.

Andrea Carson Coley Lecture.
Chris Cuomo, director of UGA’s Institute for Women’s Studies and professor of philosophy and women’s studies, will give the 13th annual Andrea Carson Coley Lecture April 13 at 12:30 p.m. in the M. Smith Griffith Auditorium of the Georgia Museum of Art. Her lecture is entitled “Religion and the Right to be Gay.”

Cuomo’s research focuses on ethics, feminist philosophies, race, sexuality, environmental ethics and art. Along with the work on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered rights that she will be presenting in the Coley lecture, Cuomo’s other current research involves indigenous knowledge concerning climate change in northern Alaska.

The Andrea Carson Coley Lecture in Women’s Studies was endowed through a donation made by Andrew and Kathy Coley in memory of their daughter Andrea Carson Coley (1972–1993), a certificate candidate in women’s studies. Each spring, the lecture brings to campus scholars doing cutting-edge research in lesbian and gay studies.

A reception honoring the Coley family will precede the lecture at 11:30 a.m. in the GMOA lobby. (706) 542-2846, momolly@uga.edu.

Cantrell LectureS (3 of 3).
“Linkage Folding: From Erdos to Proteins,” Erik Demaine, MIT. 3:30 p.m. 328 Boyd Graduate Studies Building. (706) 542-2630, rr@math.uga.edu, www.math.uga.edu/seminars_conferences/cantrell.html.

Lecture.
“Madonna Nihilism?,” William Maker, Clemson University. 3:30 p.m. 205 S Peabody Hall. Sponsored by Phi Sigma Tau. (706) 542-2823.

Concert.
African-American Choral Ensemble. 8 p.m. Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall. caseyjanice.hobbs@gmail.com. An array of African spirituals as well as contemporary gospel pieces will be performed.

Saturday, April 14
Exhibition soccer.
vs. UAB at 10 a.m., vs. Marshall at 1:30 p.m. and vs. Tennessee at 5 p.m. Soccer Stadium, South Milledge Avenue.

Spring Plant Sale.
8 a.m.–2 p.m. Visitor Center, State Botanical Garden. (706) 542-1244, garden@uga.edu.

Presentation.
“A Living Apothecary: Medicinal Plants in the Garden Collection.” 8:30 a.m.–3 p.m. Callaway Building, State Botanical Garden. $34 ($30 members). (706) 542-6156, dbmitchl@uga.edu.

Gardening for Kids.
Ages 6–12. 9:30 a.m.–11:30 a.m. Classroom B, Visitor Center, State Botanical Garden. $6 ($5 members). (706) 542-6156, dbmitchl@uga.edu.

Kids will conduct soil experiments, plant seeds and learn about life cycles and plants that attract butterflies.

International Street Festival.
“Bringing the World to Athens.” Noon–5 p.m. College Avenue, downtown Athens. Sponsored by the Office of International Student Life. (706) 542-5867, lapoole@uga.edu.

Sunday, April 15
Men’s Tennis.
vs. Tennessee. 2 p.m. Dan Magill Tennis Complex.

Concert.
The Performing Arts Center will present the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra on April 15 at 3 p.m. in Hodgson Concert Hall. Music director Robert Spano will conduct the Grammy Award-winning ASO in a program featuring Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 17 and two works by composer Igor Stravinsky: Dumbarton Oaks  Concerto and the notorious ballet score, The Rite of Spring. Tickets are $42 and $37 (half price for UGA students with valid ID). Discount tickets are available for groups.

Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring holds the distinction of causing the most famous riot in music history when it premiered on May 29, 1913, at the Théatre des Champs Élysées in Paris. The Dumbarton Oaks Concerto, was named for the elegant Washington, D.C., home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss who commissioned the piece to celebrate their 30th wedding anniversary.

Internationally acclaimed pianist Garrick Ohlsson will join the ASO for Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 17. A native of White Plains, N.Y., Ohlsson has come to be regarded as one of the finest pianists of his generation, and in 1994 he was awarded the Avery Fisher Prize.

A pre-concert lecture will be given by David Chapman, a graduate student in musicology at UGA. The lecture, which begins at 2:15 p.m., is open to the public. (706) 542-4400, www.uga.edu/pac.

Coming Up
15th Annual Albert W. Jowdy Memorial Golf Classic.
April 16. UGA Golf Course. Field limited to first 136 people who register. Play rain or shine. $175 per person. Sponsored by the College of Pharmacy. (706) 542-5303.

Concert.
April 17. The Takacs Quartet. 8 p.m. Hodgson Concert Hall. Franklin College Chamber Series. (706) 542-4400, www.uga.edu/pac.