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Benter gift creates visiting
professorship............. 2
Kathleen Blee appointed
Distinguished Professor... 2
Volume VIII • Number 1 • January 8, 2007
Digitizing Pitt’s
Darlington
Library... 3
Pitt student
wins international
screenwriting
fellowship... 3
Korean movie
poster exhibition
at the Frick... 4
Pitt Rep’s Vinegar
Tom... 4
Spring Arts and Culture
Calendar... 5-8
Kuntu Rep’s
Sarafina!... 10
Pitt’s Asian Studies
Center presents Aoi no Ve
(The Lady Aoi), Feb. 23.
See page 9.
Arts&CultureIssue
BrieflyNoted
• Pitt Chronicle • January 8, 2007
executive vice president of the Pittsburgh World
Federalist Association chapter, now Global Solutions Education Fund, Pittsburgh.
This lecture has been approved by the
Pennsylvania Continuing Legal Education Board
for one hour of substantive Continuing Legal
Education (CLE) credits. There is a $25 fee for
credit. For CLE details, call 412-648-7023 or
e-mail [email protected].
The Pitt School of Law’s Center for
International Legal Education and the Global
Solutions Education Fund will present the 15th
Annual McLean Lecture on World Law featuring
Irwin Cotler, a member of Canadian House of
Commons, at noon Jan. 11 in the Barco Law
Building’s Teplitz Memorial Courtroom.
SAO Produces Documentary
Cotler’s free public lecture is titled “Hate, About Travel Opportunities
Genocide, and Human Rights.”
For Students With Disabilities
Cotler has been a member of Canada’s
Parliament since 1999 and was appointed the
Pitt’s Study Abroad Office (SAO) has created
country’s Minister of Justice
a documentary that depicts students
and Attorney General in 2003.
with disabilities who took advantage
A fervent advocate for human
of study-abroad opportunities in
rights, gender equality, and
such countries as Spain, Ireland, and
minority representation, Cotler
England.
is the founder of the Save
The documentary reinforces the
Darfur Parliamentary Coalition,
office’s motto, “Study abroad is for
cochair of the Parliamentary
everyone,” showing how students with
Human Rights Group, executive
disabilities can enhance their academic
member of the Inter-Parliamencareers by studying abroad.
tary Union, and an honorThe SAO team interviewed
Irwin Cotler
ary member of the Liberal
students with apparent and nonapparWomen’s Caucus.
ent disabilities in Pittsburgh who have
He also is a preeminent international
studied abroad. The team then traveled overseas
human rights lawyer, having served as counsel
to show facilities and accommodations available
to Andrei Sakharov in the Soviet Union, Nelson through a variety of study-abroad providers and
Mandela in South Africa, Jacobo Timmerman in universities.
Latin America, and Muchtar Pakpahan in Asia.
By including Pitt and foreign students with
Cotler also was international legal counsel disabilities, study-abroad providers, and staff within
to imprisoned Russian environmentalist Alekforeign institutions, the documentary presents a
sandr Nikitin, Nigerian playwright and Nobel
broad look at the international educational opportuLaureate Wole Soyinka, the Chilean-Canadian
nities for students with disabilities.
group Vérité et Justice in the Pinochet case, and
Following SAO’s Feb. 7 by-invitation premiere
Chinese Canadian political prisoner Professor
of Making It Happen: Study Abroad for Students
KunLun Zhang.
With Disabilities, the film will be made available for
More recently, Cotler served as counsel
screening at international education and disability
to Professor Saad Edin Ibrahim, the leading
service conferences and for use by educational
democracy advocate in the Arab world. institutions.
Cotler is the director of the Human Rights
The project, which includes a Web site and
Programme, chair of InterAmicus, and a law
handbook, has already gained national attention
professor at McGill University in Montreal. He
from institutions and program providers in the field
has been a visiting professor at Harvard Law
of international education, including an award from
School and a Woodrow Wilson Fellow at Yale
Mobility International USA.
Law School; he has received eight honorary
For more information, contact Carol Larson
doctorates.
at 412-648-7413 and [email protected], or Jeff
The McLean Lecture on World Law honors Whitehead at 412-648-2299 and whitehead@
the memory and contributions of Maclean W.
ucis.pitt.edu.
—Amanda Leff
McLean, a founder, executive director, and
Schlör Named Interim Director of UCIS
By Amanda Leff
CIDDE
Wolfgang Schlör was named interim from such agencies as the Ford Foundation,
director of Pitt’s University Center of Inter- U.S. Department of Education, and Pew
national Studies (UCIS), effective Dec. 31. Charitable Trusts. He was an adjunct faculty
He had been serving as the associate director member in Pitt’s Graduate School of Public
and International Affairs and
of UCIS, providing strategic
the director and principal
and policy advice and managinvestigator of the Internaing a range of research and
tional Affairs Network for
fellowship programs.
the University’s International
Schlör has played signifiManagement Development
cant roles in the development of
Institute.
a number of key international
Prior to his appointment
programs and initiatives at the
at Pitt, Schlör was a research
University. In addition, he has
associate at the International
been instrumental in the develInstitute for Strategic Studies
opment of policies and procein London and a postdoctoral
dures for the Faculty Developresearch fellow at the John F.
ment Scholarship Competition,
Wolfgang Schlör
Kennedy School of GovernInternational Studies Fund,
Global Academic Partnership, and Research ment at Harvard University.
Schlör received his Ph.D. and M.A.
Abroad Program—all of which provide funding for international research. Schlör also has degrees from Freie Universität Berlin,
Germany.
led UCIS’ communications efforts.
A search committee chaired by Pitt Vice
He came to Pitt in 1992 as a research
associate for the Matthew B. Ridgway Center Provost for Research George E. Klinzing
for International Security Studies. Schlör hopes to identify a new UCIS director by
has written and managed a number of grants August.
UCIS professorship will bring to Pitt renowned scholars on international issues
By Amanda Leff
Pitt has received a $1 million gift from
Pittsburgh business executive William F.
Benter to establish The University Center
for International Studies (UCIS) Endowed
Visiting Professorship in Contemporary
International Issues.
The visiting professorship will bring
to Pitt renowned scholars with expertise
in international issues affecting influential
regions of the world. The University initially
will seek academics with a special interest
in the Middle East to fill the professorship,
which will be directed by Pitt’s Global Studies Program.
“The University of Pittsburgh has long
been committed to scholarship in international studies and to an even more fundamental mission—preparing today’s students
to become tomorrow’s world leaders,” said
Pitt Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg. “This
generous gift from Bill Benter, who has a
special appreciation for this mission because
of his own international involvements, will
provide a big boost to those efforts, and we
are deeply grateful for his support.”
A Pittsburgh native, Benter is chair
and international CEO of Acusis, a Pittsburgh-headquartered medical transcription
company with hospital clients throughout
the United States. During the past year,
Acusis has been honored as a finalist in the
Pittsburgh chapter of the Society of Financial Service Professionals’ Annual Greater
Pittsburgh Business Ethics Awards, as a
Medical Transcription Industry Association Beacon Award finalist for excellence
in billing practices, and in the Pittsburgh
Business Times 2006 Pittsburgh 100, which
honors the fastest-growing, privately held
companies in the region.
“In an increasingly globalized society,
it is essential to explore varied perspectives
on critical international issues,” said Albert
J. Novak Jr., vice chancellor for Pitt’s Office
of Institutional Advancement. “Having this
new resource at Pitt will allow us to expose
the academic and broader communities to
a fuller range of questions and potential
answers to pressing worldwide concerns.”
This gift contributes to Pitt’s continued
commitment to increase the number of
endowed funds to support students and faculty in their academic and research pursuits.
Since 1997, the University has increased its
endowed funds by 95 percent.
The federal government has designated
five UCIS centers as National Resource
Centers, recognizing them among the few
centers of this kind in the nation.
In addition, UCIS is home to one of
only 10 European Union Centers of Excellence in the United States, funded by the
European Union. UCIS offers a variety of
international programs through its centers
and affiliates.
Blee Named Distinguished Professor of Sociology
By Sharon S. Blake
Pitt Professor of Sociology
Pittsburgh Racial Justice
Kathleen Blee, one of the counAward. She has been elected
try’s leading experts on gender,
to the governing council of
race, and hate groups, has been
the American Sociological
named Distinguished ProfesAssociation for four consecusor of Sociology in the School
tive years. She directed Pitt’s
of Arts and Sciences, effective
Women’s Studies Program
Jan. 1. The new title recognizes
from 1996 to 2001.
Blee’s extraordinary scholarly
Blee earned the B.A.
attainment in her field.
degree in sociology at Indiana
Kathleen Blee
Blee, who joined the Pitt
University and M.S. and Ph.D.
faculty in September 1996, has spent much degrees in sociology at the University of
of her career researching racist movements Wisconsin, Madison.
and hate groups. Her latest book, Inside
Organized Racism: Women in the Hate
Movement (University of California Press,
2002), was based on lengthy interviews
with 34 unidentified women from racist and
anti-Semitic groups in the United States.
The book revealed that, contrary to popuNewspaper of the University of Pittsburgh
lar assumptions, many women who joined
such groups were educated, did not grow
PUBLISHER Robert Hill
up poor, had not suffered childhood abuse,
ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER John Harvith
and were not initially deeply racist. The New
EXECUTIVE EDITOR Linda K. Schmitmeyer
York Times Book Review called the work “a
EDITOR Bruce Steele
meticulous job of historical sleuthing.”
ART DIRECTOR Gary Cravener
Blee is also the author of Women of the
STAFF WRITERS
Sharon S. Blake
Klan: Racism and Gender in the 1920s (Uni
John Fedele
versity of California Press, 1991), which was
Morgan Kelly
nominated for a Pulitzer Prize; coauthor of
Amanda Leff
The Road to Poverty: The Making of Wealth
Patricia Lomando White
and Hardship in Appalachia (Cambridge
CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Yvonne Hudson
University Press, 2000); and editor of No
Carol Mullen
Middle Ground: Women and Radical Pro
Lisa Rossi
test (New York University Press, 1998) and
HAPPENINGS EDITOR Audra Sorman
Feminism and Antiracism: International
Struggles for Justice (New York University
Pitt Chronicle is published throughout the year by University
Press, 2001). Blee has published articles
News and Magazines, University of Pittsburgh, 400 Craig
on topics ranging from racial violence to
Hall, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, Phone: 412-624-1033,
managing emotion in the study of right-wing
Fax: 412-624-4895, E-mail: [email protected]
extremism and has been invited to speak at
Web: www.umc.pitt.edu/media/pcc/
conferences and other settings around the
The University of Pittsburgh is an affirmative action, equal
world.
opportunity institution that does not discriminate upon any
In 2004, she received the Pitt Chanbasis prohibited by law.
cellor’s Distinguished Research Award
for a Senior Scholar as well as the YWCA
CIDDE
Canadian Parliament Member
To Speak at Law School About
Hate, Genocide, Human Rights
Pittsburgh Business Executive
William F. Benter’s $1M Gift
Creates Visiting Professorship
PittChronicle
Arts&CultureIssue
January 8, 2007 • University of Pittsburgh • Reading, Writing—
And Winning
“I do owe a large debt to this University,”
says Pitt grad student Stephanie Lord, recent
recipient of an international Don and Gee
Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting
By Patricia Lomando White
Pitt’s Darlington Memorial Library—a treasure trove of historically important books, photos,
maps, letters, pamphlets, and other materials—soon will be accessible online
DARLINGTON MEMORIAL LIBRARY
Digitizing Darlington
As a child in Panama, Stephanie Lord
would crawl between a wall and her parents’ bed, among what she calls the “dust
bunnies,” to escape her five siblings. Down
there on the floor, with her head resting on
a stack of magazines, she would read the
short stories in her mother’s McCall’s and
Redbook magazines.
Lord, a Pitt graduate student who works
for the University of Pittsburgh Medical
Center (UPMC), says it was this early
reading that led to her current passion for
writing.
In November, she was among six new
screenwriters selected for the 21st Don and
Gee Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting for
her script Palau Rain. She received the first
installment of the $30,000 prize during a
gala held by the Academy of Motion Picture
Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills, Calif.
The Nicholl Fellowship program is an
international competition open to screenwriters who have not earned more than $5,000
writing for film or television. Scripts must
be the original work of a sole author or of
a team of two collaborative authors. Up to
five $30,000 fellowships are awarded each
year.
Born and raised in Panama City, Lord
was always reading ahead of her grade. “At
nine, I was reading [Maya Angelou’s] I Know
Why the Caged Bird Sings,” she recalls. “My
older sister took it from me and said that
a nine-year old shouldn’t be reading that
book.” Three years later, Caged Bird would
be the first book that Lord made a point of
reading in junior high school.
By Sharon S. Blake
From a ledger of Fort Pitt business
transactions during the 1750s to early
published accounts of the Lewis and Clark
expedition, the treasures that make up Pitt’s
Darlington Memorial Library soon will be
accessible far beyond the library’s physical
location on the Cathedral of Learning’s
sixth floor.
Digitizing the Darlington library’s
massive collection—comprising some
11,000 books, 3,000 photographs, hundreds
of maps, letters, rare pamphlets, and other
materials pertaining to the history of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Colonial America,
and more—is the latest undertaking of Pitt’s
Digital Research Library (DRL), part of the
University Library System.
DRL’s goal is to make the Darlington
material accessible and searchable online
to scholars, researchers, and history buffs
worldwide. The collection, representing
the first major library gift to Pitt, was
donated in 1918 and 1925 by the daughters
of Pittsburgh attorney William McCullough
Darlington and his wife, Mary O’Hara
Darlington.
Boxes of rare books, many pertaining
to the French and Indian War, are being
trucked intermittently to the DRL site in
Point Breeze, where DRL staff check them
in and carefully place each volume on one
of two large scanners. The machines are
equipped with cradles to accommodate the
spines of books, so they won’t be damaged
during the digitization process.
The scanning project began with books
because “it’s what we know best,” explains
DRL director Ed Galloway, who supervises
a staff of six. Books are also easiest to handle
and move around, Galloway adds, although
many are fragile, with brittle pages.
After books are scanned, usually two
pages at a time (approximately 200 pages
an hour), DRL staff members correct and
enhance images on some pages to make
sure that text is readable. Next, Pitt graduate students collect and insert descriptive
metadata—chapters, tables of contents, and
the like. They use optical character recognition, computer software designed to translate
images of scanned text into machine-searchable text. Then the books are indexed and,
finally, mounted.
“It takes more than 50 steps from the
time a book comes in the door until it’s actually online, ready for you to use,” Galloway
points out. “It’s not just that you scan a book
and it becomes available.”
The Darlington collection is full of rare
and remarkable items. For example, one day
last month Michael Dabrishus, assistant
University librarian for archives and special
collections, was examining a broadside—a
large document printed only on one side,
typically with a limited distribution. It was
a proclamation, dated 1774, by John Penn,
(grandson of William Penn), who was governor and commander-in-chief of the Province
Continued
on Page 9
Top: An 1852 lithograph titled Old Pittsburgh Market &
Court House. Above: A cartouche from a map that appeared
in the 1815 London edition of Lewis and Clark’s account of
their expedition.
of Pennsylvania.
“We have a significant series of these
various proclamations. They were printed
and distributed throughout the city of
Philadelphia and the region,” explains
Dabrishus.
Another broadside in the Darlington
collection is the text of the farewell address
that President-elect Abraham Lincoln
delivered to the people of Springfield, Ill.,
as he was departing for his inauguration in
Washington, D.C. It reads, in part, “…I hope
you, my friends, will all pray that I may
receive that Divine assistance without which
I cannot succeed, but with which success
is certain. Again, I bid you an affectionate
farewell.”
Yet another broadside in the Darlington collection is an announcement of a
celebration, held in Pittsburgh on Feb. 22,
1832, marking the centennial of George
Washington’s birth. Dabrishus points out
Continued on Page 9
Nicholl Fellowship
Award winner
Stephanie Lord
• Pitt Chronicle • January 8, 2007
Arts&Culture
Pitt Rep’s Vinegar Tom to Offer
Acidic Take on Sexuality, Fear
Advertising a Dream: Pitt Hosts Exhibition Of
Movie Posters From Post-war South Korea
Karaoke-style song and dance will infuse a chilling tale of English witch hunts
The University of Pittsburgh Repertory
Theatre’s 2006-07 season continues with
Obie Award-winning English playwright
Caryl Churchill’s Vinegar Tom, Jan. 31-Feb.
11 in the Stephen Foster Memorial’s Henry
Heymann Theatre.
Vinegar Tom tells the story of two
17th-century farmwomen accused of being
witches by a man they spurned sexually.
The connection between fear of female
sexuality and witch hysteria is shown to
fuel societal problems.
Director Ryan Howe, a Pitt teaching
fellow pursuing his Ph.D. in theatre arts and
performance studies, says he was attracted
to the play’s timeliness and theatricality.
“Churchill depicts a society where fear is
a driving factor, so there is a great deal of
relevance to our times,” he declares.
The playwright wrote Vinegar Tom for
a British feminist theatre company that had
requested a play about witches. Following
the Feb. 7 Pitt Rep performance, director
Howe, dramaturge Melissa Porterfield, and
City Theatre Artistic Associate Kellee Van
Aken will lead a Women’s Studies Night
panel discussion about Vinegar Tom and the
issues it raises.
Despite some potentially grim subject
matter Vinegar Tom also offers a great deal
of fun, according to Howe, who took inspiration from karaoke clubs and the popular
TV singing competition American Idol;
Churchill’s disturbing lyrics will be inserted
into familiar pop songs, and audiences will
vote on which actors they want to sing the
musical numbers.
Howe’s concept is consistent with the
imaginative style of Churchill, who has
been known to employ traditional music
hall numbers in exploring gender roles in
society.
“There are many short, Brecht-like
scenes along with musical numbers,” Howe
says. “The play portrays a dark, twisted,
messed-up world, juxtaposed with song
and dance.”
The artistic staff of the Pitt Rep’s Vinegar Tom includes Annmarie Duggan as
sound designer; Joseph Walker, set designer;
Elizabeth Ryan, costume designer; Nicole
YVONNE HUDSON
By Yvonne Hudson
From left: Chaya Gordon, Tom Auillo, and Britney Murphy
in the Pitt Rep’s production of Vinegar Tom.
Zoellner, lighting designer; and Catherine
DiGirolamo, stage manager. The cast of
Pitt graduate and undergraduate students
includes: Brittany Andrews (Alice), Justin
Honard (Man), Lizzie Donaldson (Margery), Tom Chun (Jack), Meredith Conti
(Joan/Kramer), Lauren Deitsch (Susan),
Chaya Gordon (Ellen/Sprenger), Ryan
Ben (Doctor/Bellringer), Clare Fogerty
(Betty), Erin Carr (Goody), and Tom Aulino
(Packer).
Vinegar Tom continues Pitt Rep’s
“Global Crossings” season. Produced in
partnership with Pitt’s University Center
for International Studies and spotlighting
plays from around the world, the season will
conclude with a production of three farces
by Russia’s Anton Chekhov—The Proposal,
The Wedding, and The Bear—March 21April 1 in the Stephen Foster Memorial’s
Charity Randall Theatre.
For more information and to order
tickets, call 412-624-PLAY (7529) or visit
www.play.pitt.edu.
Above: Poster for the movie Hongdoya Ujimara (My Dear Sister Hongdo, Don’t Cry). Below: Other posters from the
Advertising a Dream: Movie Posters From Post-war Korea exhibition.
University to Celebrate Stephen Foster Day Jan. 12
America’s first professional songwriter to be remembered with wreath-laying, lectures,
sing-a-long, museum tours
By Sharon S. Blake
The life and accomplishments of Pittsburgh native Stephen
Foster, the country’s
first professional songwriter, will be celebrated Jan. 12 with free
public events at Pitt’s
Stephen Foster Memorial
and Allegheny Cemetery.
Jan. 13 is the actual date of
the 143rd anniversary of Foster’s
death.
Foster was born in Lawrenceville on
July 4, 1826, and became a world-renowned
songwriter, portraying life in mid-19th
century America through such legendary
compositions as “Old Folks at Home,” “Oh!
Susannah,” “Camptown Races,” and “Beautiful Dreamer.” Foster died at age 37 and is
buried in Allegheny Cemetery.
Foster’s music is still widely used in
television and films. The CD Beautiful
Dreamer: The Songs of
Stephen Foster (American Roots Publishing,
2004) won the 2005
Grammy Award in the
category Best Traditional
Folk Album. Pitt’s Center
for American Music was
closely involved in the project, which features 17 performances of Foster songs. Pitt
provided copies of Foster’s original
sheet music to the producers as well as
many images and documents that helped
form the basis for the album notes.
The following Stephen Foster Day
events are sponsored by Pitt’s Center for
American Music and Department of Theatre
Arts, part of Pitt’s School of Arts and Sciences, as well as the Allegheny Cemetery
Association.
Continued on Page 11
By Amanda Leff
An exhibition titled Advertising a
Dream: Movie Posters From Post-war
Korea will continue through March 1 in the
foyer of Pitt’s Hillman Library. It features 23
full-color movie posters from the late 1950s
and the 1960s. The posters offer a window
into a society that looked to film to help heal
the social and psychological scars left by the
Korean War, according to the Korea Society
(www.koreasociety.org), which organized
and curated the traveling exhibition.
The exhibition features posters from
11 Korean films. As South Korea recovered from the war, so did its film industry.
Melodramas like Hongdoya Ujimara (My
Dear Sister Hongdo, Do Not Cry! 1965)
and Chikekkun (An A-Frame Coolie, 1963)
allowed millions of South Koreans to vent
their collective feelings and look to the
future, according to a statement released by
the Korea Society.
Korean films of the period also reflected
the tight social control exercised by South
Korea’s authoritarian government, says
Ebru Türker, visiting professor of Korean
language, linguistics, and pedagogy in Pitt’s
Department of East Asian Languages and
Literatures.
The exhibition also includes South
Korean posters for 12 American classics,
among them Gone With the Wind (1939),
The Sound of Music (1965), and Roman
Holiday (1953). These films offered South
Koreans a glimpse into the land of starlets
and leading men.
Cosponsors of the free public exhibition
include Pitt’s Asian Studies Center in the
University Center for International Studies,
Department of East Asian Languages and
Literatures, and University Library System’s
East Asian Library.
The exhibition is running in conjunction with the spring 2007 Pitt course Introduction to Korea, taught by Türker.
For additional information about the
exhibition, contact the Asian Studies Center
at 412-648-7370 or [email protected]. For
the Hillman Library’s hours of operation,
call 412-648-3330 or visit www.library.pitt.
edu/libraries/hours/hillman.html.
January 8, 2007 • University of Pittsburgh • Arts&CultureCalendar
January 8
January 9
Charlotte’s Web, theatrical performance,
PostSecret Postcard Day, anony-
6 p.m., Gemini Theatre, 7501 Penn Ave.,
Brushton, 412-243-6464,
www.geminitheater.org.
Creative Writing Workshops, Mondays at 7 p.m. and Thursdays at 9:30 a.m.,
through March 12, Birch Center, 1931
E. Carson St., South Side, 412-381-0116,
www.birchcenter.com.
Forbidden Broadway, 7:30 p.m., continues
through Jan. 31, Theatre Square Cabaret,
655 Penn Ave., downtown,
412-325-6769, www.pgharts.org.
Louis Comfort Tiffany: Artist for the
Ages, art exhibition, through Jan. 15,
Carnegie Museum of Art, 4400 Forbes
Ave., Oakland, 412-622-3131, www.cmoa.
org.
The Great Flood of 1936, photography
exhibition, through Jan. 28, Senator John
Heinz Pittsburgh Regional History Center,
1212 Smallman St., Strip District,
412-454-6000, www.pghhistory.org.
Factory Installed 2006-2007, art exhibi-
tion, through Jan. 28, Mattress Factory, 500
Sampsonia Way, North Side,
412-231-3169, www.mattress.org.
Holiday Toy and Train Exhibition,
through Jan. 28, Westmoreland Museum of
American Art, 211 N. Main St., Greensburg, 724-837-1500, www.wmuseumaa.org.
Small Works, through Feb. 2, Bright and
Shiny Holiday, through Feb. 3, art exhibi-
tions, Digging Pitt Gallery, 4417 Butler St.,
Lawrenceville, 412-605-0450,
www.diggingpitt.com.
Small Works Part Two and Bright and
Shiny Holiday Part Two, art exhibitions,
through Feb. 3, Digging Pitt Gallery Too,
45th and Plummer streets, Lawrenceville,
412-605-0450, www.diggingpitt.com.
Multiple Entry Visa: To Vietnam and
Back, photography exhibition, through
mously contribute a secret to be
displayed in the William Pitt
Union’s Kimbo Art Gallery,
1-4 p.m., William Pitt Union’s
Ballroom, 412-648-7900,
www.postsecret.com.
Visions and Miracles,
chamber music performance, 8 p.m., Katz
Performing Arts
Center, 5738 Darlington Rd., Squirrel Hill,
412-392-4900, www.culturaldistrict.org.
Late Night Catechism, theatrical performance,
8 p.m., continues through Jan. 28, City Theatre
Company, 1300 Bingham St., South Side, 412431-2489, www.citytheatrecompany.org.
January 11
Irish Set Dancing, 7-9 p.m. every Monday,
Irish Centre of Pittsburgh, 6886 Forward Ave.,
Squirrel Hill, 412-243-6856.
January 12
Stephen Foster Commemoration, 10 a.m.:
medley of Foster songs, remarks by Foster
experts, and placing of wreaths at the Foster
gravesite, Allegheny Cemetery’s Temple
of Memories Mausoleum, 4715 Penn Ave.,
Lawrenceville; noon: musical performances
and remarks by music scholars in the Stephen
Foster Memorial’s Charity Randall Theatre,
followed by tours of the Foster Memorial;
Pitt’s Center for American Music and Department of Theatre Arts, 412-624-4100. (For more
information, see p. 4.)
Good Friday at the Warhol Museum, 5-10 p.m.,
special late hours and cash bar, 117 Sandusky
St., North Side, 412-237-8300, www.warhol.
org.
Edward Scissorhands, 8 p.m., continues
through Jan. 14, Benedum Center, 719 Liberty
Ave., downtown, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust,
412-456-6666, www.pgharts.org.
Feb. 10, Silver Eye Center for Photography,
1015 E. Carson St., South Side,
412-431-1810, www.silvereye.org.
Lisa Lampanelli, comedy performance,
8 p.m., Byham Theatre, 101 Sixth St., downtown, Pittsburgh Musical Theater, 412-4566666, www.pittsburghmusicals.com.
Rembrandt’s Great Subjects: Prints From
the Collection, art exhibition, through
January 13
Forum 58: Jonathan Borofsky, art exhibi-
Abbey Simon, pianist, 7:30 p.m., Blaisdell
Hall’s Bromeley Family Theater, Pitt-Bradford,
UPB’s Spectrum Series,
814-362-5027.
Feb. 11, Carnegie Museum of Art, 4400
Forbes Ave., Oakland, 412-622-3131,
www.cmoa.org.
tion, through Feb. 18, Carnegie Museum of
Art, 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland,
412-622-3131, www.cmoa.org.
Holiday Toy and
Train Exhibition,
through Jan. 28
La Cultura Dinner, benefits the Pitt-Greensburg Study Abroad Program, 6 p.m., PittGreensburg’s Wagner Dining Hall, 724-8367497, www.pitt.edu/~upg.
January 14
Sweet Honey in the Rock, a cappella
ensemble, 7 p.m., Byham Theatre, 101 Sixth
St., downtown, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust,
412-456-6666, www.pgharts.org.
January 17
The Fray, musical performance,
7:30 p.m., Benedum Center, 719 Liberty Ave.,
downtown, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust,
412-456-6666, www.pgharts.org.
January 18
Chris Botti, jazz trumpeter, 7:30 p.m., Heinz
Hall, 600 Penn Ave., downtown, Pittsburgh
Symphony, 412-392-4900,
www.pittsburghsymphony.org.
Cats, 7:30 p.m., continues through Jan. 28,
Byham Theatre, 101 Sixth St., downtown,
Pittsburgh Musical Theater, 412-456-6666,
www.pittsburghmusicals.com.
January 19
Good Friday at the Warhol Museum,
5-10 p.m., special late hours and cash bar,
117 Sandusky St., North Side, 412-237-8300,
www.warhol.org.
Pittsburgh Symphony Chamber Orchestra,
8 p.m., Bellefield Hall Auditorium, Pitt Concert
Series, 412-624-4125, www.music.pitt.edu.
January 22
Alice Hoffman, author, 7:30 p.m., Carnegie
Music Hall, 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland, Drue
Heinz Lecture Series, 412-622-8866,
www.pittsburghlectures.org.
Terra Incognita: Photographs of the
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge by
Sabhankar Banerjee, through
Monte Broaded, Butler University professor,
“Does a Rising Tide Lift Boats? Economic
Growth and Inequality in China,” 7 p.m., La
Cultura Lecture, Pitt-Greensburg’s Hempfield
Room, 724-836-7497,
www.upg.pitt.edu/lacultura.html.
March 10, Michael Berger Art
Gallery, 415 Gettysburg St.,
Point Breeze, 412-441-4282,
www.mbergerart.com.
Pittsburgh Symphony
Chamber Orchestra,
Jan. 19
Louis Comfort
Tiffany exhibition,
through Jan. 15
January 23
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, 7:30 p.m., continues
through Jan. 28, Benedum Center,
719 Liberty Ave, downtown,
Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, 412-456-6666,
www.pgharts.org.
January 24
The Ninja Variations by Steven Dietz and
Family Stories by Bilijana Srbljanovic, Pitt
Repertory Lab Show Double Bill,
7:30 p.m., continues through Jan. 28, Studio
Theatre, B-72 Cathedral of Learning,
412-624-7529, www.pitt.edu/~play.
Rascher Saxophone Quartet, 8 p.m.,
Bellefield Hall Auditorium, Pitt Concert
Series, 412-624-4125, www.proartstickets.
org.
January 25
Snoopy, directed by Paul Lukach, 7 p.m.,
continues through Jan. 27, Pitt-Titusville’s
Drake Well Museum Auditorium, Titusville
Winter Theatre Spotlight Series, 814-8274503, www.upt.pitt.edu/upt_newspub/20062007%20Speaker%20Series.pdf.
The Music of Gershwin, performed by
Kevin Cole, 7:30 p.m., continues through
Jan. 28, Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., downtown, Pittsburgh Symphony, 412-392-4900,
www.pittsburghsymphony.org.
Sarafina! by Mbongeni Ngema, 8 p.m.,
continues through Feb. 10, Alumni Hall’s
7th-Floor Auditorium, Pitt’s Kuntu Repertory Theatre, 412-624-7298. (For details,
see p. 10.)
• Pitt Chronicle • January 8, 2007
Arts&CultureCalendar
Muckle Man, 8 p.m., continues through
Feb. 18, City Theatre Company, 1300
Bingham St., South Side, 412-431-2489,
www.citytheatrecompany.org.
January 26
Good Friday at the Warhol Museum,
5-10 p.m., special late hours and cash bar,
117 Sandusky St., North Side,
412-237-8300, www.warhol.org.
Gallery Crawl, 5:30-9 p.m., Cultural
District, downtown, Pittsburgh Cultural
Trust Education and Community Engagement, 412-456-6666, pgharts.org.
Cabaret, 8 p.m., continues through
Feb. 25, Pittsburgh Public Theater,
O’Reilly Theatre, 621 Penn Ave., downtown, 412-316-1600, www.ppt.org.
January 27
Sine Nomine, musical performance,
8 p.m., Calvary Episcopal Church,
315 Shady Ave., Shadyside, The Hilliard
Ensemble, 412-628-7262, www.rbsp.org.
Skin of Our Teeth, 8 p.m., through
Feb. 18, Pittsburgh Playhouse, 222 Craft
Ave., Oakland, Point Park University,
412-621-4445, www.pointpark.edu.
January 31
Vinegar Tom by Caryl Churchill, 8 p.m.,
continues through Feb. 11, Stephen Foster
Memorial’s Henry Heymann Theatre,
Pitt Repertory Theatre, 412-624-PLAY
(7529), www.pitt.edu/~play. (For details,
see p. 4.)
Pitt alumnus
Michael Chabon,
who appears
Feb. 5 with wife
and fellow writer
Ayelet Waldman.
February 1
Nordic Nights, classical music perfor-
Distinctive Desk Sets, art exhibition, through
April 29, Carnegie Museum of Art, 4400
Forbes Ave., 412-622-3131, www.cmoa.org.
February 2
February 16
Good Friday at the Warhol Museum, 5-10 p.m.,
special late hours and cash bar, 117 Sandusky
St., North Side, 412-237-8300, www.warhol.
org.
Music for Two Organs, organists Carlo Curely
and Christopher Pardini, 7:30 p.m., Shadyside
Presbyterian Church, 5121 Westminster Place,
Shadyside, 412-731-0266, www.pitago.org.
1964…The Tribute, Beatles concert re-
creation, 8 p.m., Benedum Center, 719 Liberty
Ave., downtown, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust,
412-456-6666, www.pgharts.org.
February 3
Fascinating Rhythm, children’s concert,
11:15 a.m., Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., downtown, Pittsburgh Symphony, 412-392-4900,
www.pittsburghsymphony.org.
Bodiography Innovation 2007, ballet perfor-
mance, Byham Theatre, 101 Sixth St., downtown, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, 412-456-6666,
www.pgharts.org.
The Prints of Tsukioka Kogyo, exhibition of
Japanese woodblock prints, through April 7,
Frick Art and Historical Center, 7227 Reynolds
St., Point Breeze, 412-371-0600, www.frickart.
org.
February 5
Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman,
authors, 7:30 p.m., Carnegie Music Hall, 4400
Forbes Ave., Oakland, Drue Heinz Lecture
Series, 412-622-8866, www.pittsburghlectures.
org.
Pittsburgh Piano Trio, featuring members of
the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra,
7:30 p.m., Pitt-Titusville’s Henne Auditorium,
Pitt-Titusville Spotlight Series, 814-8274503, www.upt.pitt.edu/upt_newspub/20062007%20Speaker%20Series.pdf.
Good Friday at the Warhol
Good Friday, every
Friday at the
Warhol Museum
Peter Pan, 8 p.m., continues
February 8
The King’s Singers, a cappella ensemble,
7:30 p.m., Byham Theatre, 101 Sixth St., downtown, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust,
412-456-6666, www.pgharts.org.
February 9
Good Friday at the Warhol Museum, 5-10 p.m.,
special late hours and cash bar, 117 Sandusky
St., North Side, 412-237-8300, www.warhol.
org.
Ax Plays Brahms, pianist Emanuel Ax performing Brahm’s Piano Concerto
No. 1, 8 p.m., Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave.,
downtown, Pittsburgh Symphony, 412-3924900, www.pittsburghsymphony.org.
February 10
JazzMagic, magician Paul Gertner, 2:30 p.m.,
Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild, 1815 Metropolitan St., North Side, MCG Jazz, www.pitt.
edu/~pittarts/tickets/index.html. February 12
formance, 8 p.m., Gemini Theatre, 7501 Penn
Ave., Brushton, 412-243-6464, www.geminitheatre.org.
Music Monday, 8 p.m., Bellefield Hall Audito-
Bug, theatrical performance, through
Jane Eyre, theatrical performance, 7:30 p.m.,
February 14
can Jewish Museum, 5738 Forbes Ave.,
Squirrel Hill, Jewish Community Center,
412-521-8011, www.jccpgh.org/museum.
asp.
Deadly Machine: Creating the Master
Race, photography exhibition, through
March 18, Andy Warhol Museum, 117
Sandusky St., North Side, 412-237-8300,
www.warhol.org.
Masters of Their Domain: Little Steel,
1750-Present, photography exhibition,
through March 31, Rivers of Steel Visitor
Center, 623 E. 8th Ave., 412-464-4020,
www.riversofsteel.com.
Kathy Griffin, comedian, 7:30 p.m., Byham
Theatre, 101 Sixth St., downtown, Pittsburgh
Cultural Trust, 412-456-6666, www.pgharts.
org.
Leon Redbone, jazz musician, 8 p.m., Theater
Square Cabaret, 665 Penn Ave., downtown,
Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, 412-456-6666, www.
pgharts.org.
Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 (“Eroica”),
University of Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra,
conducted by Roger Zahab, 8 p.m., Bellefield
Hall Auditorium, Pitt Concert Series, 412-6244125, www.music.pitt.edu.
Eric Rohmann, painter, 10:30 a.m., Carnegie Library Lecture Hall, 4400 Forbes Ave.,
Oakland, Pittsburgh Arts and Lectures’ Black,
White and Read All Over children’s series,
412-622-8866, www.pittsburghlectures.org.
Velveteen Rabbit, theatrical performance,
6 p.m., through March 18, Gemini Theater,
7501 Penn Ave., Brushton, 412-243-6464,
www.geminitheater.org.
Ormindo, by Cavalli, opera performance,
Byham Theatre, 101 Sixth St., downtown, Pittsburgh Dance Council, 412-471-6930,
www.pgharts.org.
February 6
February 7
February 17
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, 8 p.m.,
Stomp, musical performance, 7:30 p.m.,
If My Eyes Speak: Photographs by
Adam Nadel, through Feb. 23, Ameri-
Bronfman performs Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1, 8 p.m., continues through Feb.
18, Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., downtown,
Pittsburgh Symphony, 412-392-4900,
www.pittsburghsymphony.org.
Aaron McGruder, creator of the comic strip
The Boondocks, 8 p.m., Byham Theatre, 101
Sixth St., downtown, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust,
412-456-6666, www.pgharts.org.
Amish Monkeys, children’s theatrical per-
Acting Company, Byham Theatre, 101 Sixth
St., downtown, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust,
412-456-6666, www.pgharts.org.
Bronfman Plays Beethoven, pianist Yefim
Synod Hall, 125 N. Craig St., Oakland, Renaissance and Baroque Society, 412-628-7262,
www.rbsp.org.
mance, 1:30 p.m., continues through
Feb. 3, Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., downtown, Pittsburgh Symphony, 412-3924900, www.pittsburghsymphony.org.
Feb. 18, Brew House, 2100 Mary St.,
South Side, 412-363-5847, www.brewhouse.org.
through Feb. 18, Benedum
Center, 719 Liberty Ave., downtown, Pittsburgh
Ballet Theatre, 412-281-0360,
www.pbt.org.
Beowulf, spoke-sung by Ben Bagby, 8 p.m.,
Frank Warren, founder of the PostSecret
Project, Post-Secret.Com Lecture, 8:30 p.m.,
William Pitt Union’s Assembly Room, 412648-7900, www.postsecret.com.
Benedum Center, 719 Liberty Ave., downtown,
Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, 412-456-6666, www.
pgharts.org.
Museum,
5-10 p.m., special late hours
and cash bar, 117 Sandusky St.,
North Side, 412-237-8300,
www.warhol.org.
rium, Pitt Concert Series, 412-624-4125,
www.music.pitt.edu.
8 p.m., continues through Feb. 25, CAPA
Theatre’s Main Stage, 111 9th St., downtown,
Pittsburgh Opera, 412-281-0912, www.pittsburghopera.org.
February 18
Chamber Choir Festival, 3 p.m., Heinz
Chapel, Pitt Concert Series, 412-624-4125,
www.music.pitt.edu.
February 19
Colson Whitehead, author, 7:30
p.m.,
Carnegie Music Hall, 4400
Forbes Ave.,
Oakland, Drue Heinz
Lecture Series,
412-622-8866, www.
pittsburghlectures.org.
Michael Feinstein, pianist and vocalist,
7:30 p.m., Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., downtown, Pittsburgh Symphony, 412-392-4900,
www.pittsburghsymphony.org.
Irvin Mayfield, jazz trumpeter, 7:30 p.m.,
Byham Theatre, 101 Sixth St., downtown, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, 412-456-6666,
www.pgharts.org.
February 15
An Evening with Ivan Lins and Friends, jazz
performance, 7:30 p.m., continues through
Feb. 18, Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild, 1815
Metropolitan St., North Side, MCG Jazz,
www.pitt.edu/~pittarts/tickets/index.html. Irvin Mayfield,
jazz trumpeter,
Feb. 14
January 8, 2007 • University of Pittsburgh • March 4
Nancy Wilson With the Clayton-Hamilton
Jazz Orchestra, 7:30 p.m., Benedum Center,
719 Liberty Ave., downtown, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, 412-456-6666, www.pgharts.org.
Daron Hagon, Franz Lehar Composer-inResidence, 8 p.m., Bellefield Hall Auditorium,
Pitt’s Music on the Edge Series, 412-624-4125,
www.music.pitt.edu.
Women’s Work
Art Exhibition,
March 2
February 20
March 1
Light in the Piazza, 7:30 p.m., continues
University of Pittsburgh Symphony
Orchestra, directed by Roger Zahab, 8 p.m.,
Bellefield Hall Auditorium, Pitt Concert Series,
412-624-4125, www.music.pitt.edu.
through Feb. 25, Benedum Center, 719 Liberty
Ave., downtown, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust,
412-456-6666, www.pgharts.org.
February 21
War With the Newts by Emily Solomon, and
The Real Inspector Hound by Tom Stoppard,
Pitt Repertory Theatre Lab Show Double Bill,
7:30 p.m., continues through Feb. 25, Studio
Theatre, B-72 Cathedral of Learning, www.
pitt.edu/~play, 412-624-7529.
La Seine: Photographs by Bruno Requillart, through May 26, Silver Eye Center for
Photography, 1015 E. Carson St., South Side,
412-431-1810, www.silvereye.org.
February 22
Footloose, 7:30 p.m., continues through
March 4, Byham Theatre, 101 Sixth St., downtown, Pittsburgh Musical Theatre,
www.pittsburghmusicals.com.
Music of John Williams, Pittsburgh Symphony, conducted by Erich Kunzel, 7:30 p.m.,
continues through Feb. 25, Heinz Hall, 600
Penn Ave., downtown, Pittsburgh Symphony,
412-392-4900, www.pittsburghsymphony.org.
February 23
Good Friday at the Warhol Museum, 5-10 p.m.,
special late hours and cash bar, 117 Sandusky
St., North Side, 412-237-8300, www.warhol.
org.
Noh, theatrical performance, 7 p.m., Stephen
Foster Memorial’s Charity Randall Theatre,
Pitt’s Asian Studies Center, 412-624-7529,
www.play.pitt.edu. (For details, see p. 9.)
2007 Master’s in Fine Arts Exhibition,
through April 22, Regina Gouger Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Forbes and
Morewood avenues, 412-268-3618,
www. millergallery.cfa.cmu.edu/~miller/.
February 24
To Kill a Mockingbird, through March 4, New
Hazlett Theater, 6 Allegheny Square East,
North Side, ProArts Tickets, 412-394-3353,
www.newhazletttheater.org.
February 28
36 Views, theatrical performance, 7:30 p.m.,
continues through March 2, Helen Wayne Rauh
Studio Theater of the Purnell Center for the
Arts, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Fifth
Ave., Oakland, 412-268-2000, www.cmu.edu.
Moments & More;
Mixed Repertory,
March 15
Bugs! A Rainforest Adventure, scientific
exhibition, through May 1, Carnegie Science
Center, 1 Allegheny Ave., 412-237-3400, www.
carnegiesciencecenter.org.
Risk, scientific exhibition, through May 28,
Carnegie Science Center, 1 Allegheny Ave.,
412-237-3400, www.carnegiesciencecenter.org.
Adrenaline Rush: The Science of Risk, scien-
March 5
Michael Pollan, author, 7:30 p.m., Carnegie
Music Hall, 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland, Drue
Heinz Lecture Series, 412-622-8866, www.
pittsburghlectures.org.
March 6
Doubt, with Cherry Jones, theatrical perfor-
mance, 7:30 p.m., continues through March 11,
Benedum Center, 719 Liberty Ave., downtown,
Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, 412-456-6666, www.
pgharts.org.
March 8
Life x 3, theatrical performance, 8 p.m.,
continues through April 8, O’Reilly Theatre,
621 Penn Ave., downtown, Pittsburgh Public
Theatre, 412-316-1600, www.ppt.org.
tific exhibition, film screening, through May
28, Carnegie Science Center, 1 Allegheny Ave.,
412-237-3400, www.carnegiesciencecenter.org.
Mezzulah, 1946, theatrical performance,
Soul Soldiers: African Americans and the
Vietnam Era, photography exhibition, through
March 9
Oct. 31, Senator John Heinz Pittsburgh
Regional History Center, 1212 Smallman St.,
Strip District, 412-454-6000,
www.pghhistory.org.
March 2
Good Friday at the Warhol Museum, 5-10 p.m.,
special late hours and cash bar, 117 Sandusky
St., North Side, 412-237-8300, www.warhol.
org.
The Joffrey Ballet, 8 p.m., continues through
March 3, Benedum Center,
719 Liberty Ave., downtown, Pittsburgh Dance
Council, 412-471-6930,
www.pgharts.org.
Janowski & Brahms, Brahms’ Symphony No.
2, conducted by Marek Janowski, 8 p.m., Heinz
Hall, 600 Penn Ave., downtown, Pittsburgh
Symphony, 412-392-4900, www.pittsburghsymphony.org.
Woman’s Work, art exhibition,
through March 30, 709 Penn Gallery, 412-456-6666, www.pgharts.
org.
March 3
Vera B. Williams, poet, artist,
and author, 10:30 a.m., Carnegie
Library Lecture Hall, 4400
Forbes Ave., Oakland,
Pittsburgh Arts and
Lectures’ Black,
White and Read
All Over children’s
series, 412-6228866, www.pittsburghlectures.org.
8 p.m., through April 1, City Theatre Company,
1300 Bingham St., South Side, 412-431-2489,
www.citytheatrecompany.org.
Joe Lovano Quartet/The Bad Plus, jazz
performance, 8 p.m., also March 17, Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild, 1815 Metropolitan St., North Side, MCG Jazz, www.pitt.
edu/~pittarts/tickets/index.html.
March 17
Rolling in the Isles, Gaelic music per-
formed by Quadriga Consort, 8 p.m., Synod
Hall, 125 N. Craig St., Oakland, Renaissance and Baroque Society,
412-628-7262, www.rbsp.org.
March 18
Bach and the Baroque: Music of Georg
Benda and J.S. Bach, 3 p.m., Heinz
Chapel, Pitt Concert Series, 412-624-4125,
www.music.pitt.edu.
March 19
Deborah Tannen, professor of linguistics,
Georgetown University, 7:30 p.m., Carnegie
Music Hall, 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland,
Drue Heinz Lecture Series,
412-622-8866, www.pittsburghlectures.org
March 21
The Proposal, The Wedding, and The
Bear by Anton Chekhov, 8 p.m., continues
Good Friday at the Warhol Museum,
5-10 p.m., special late hours and cash bar, 117
Sandusky St., North Side, 412-237-8300, www.
warhol.org.
The Follies, theatrical performance,
7:30 p.m., continues through March 10, PittTitusville’s Henne Auditorium, Pitt-Titusville
Winter Theatre Spotlight Series, 814-8274503, www.upt.pitt.edu/upt_newspub/20062007%20Speaker%20Series.pdf
March 13
Celtic Women, musical performance, 8 p.m.,
also March 14, Benedum Center, 719 Liberty
Ave., downtown, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust,
412-456-6666, www.pgharts.org.
Mother Courage, 8 p.m., continues through
April 1, Pittsburgh Playhouse, 222 Craft Ave.,
Oakland, Point Park University, 412-621-4445,
www.pointpark.edu.
March 15
Moments & More; Mixed Repertory,
ballet performance, 7:30 p.m., continues
through March 18, Byham Theatre, 101
Sixth St., downtown, Pittsburgh Ballet
Theatre, 412-281-0360, www.pbt.org.
March 16
Good Friday at the Warhol
Museum, 5-10 p.m., special
late hours and cash bar,
117 Sandusky St., North
Side, 412-237-8300, www.
warhol.org.
through April 1, Stephen Foster Memorial’s
Charity Randall Theatre, Pitt Repertory
Theatre, 412-624-PLAY (7529),
www.pitt.edu/~play.
March 22
Relativity by Cassandra Medley, 8 p.m.,
continues through April 7, Alumni Hall’s
7th-floor Auditorium, Pitt’s Kuntu Repertory Theatre, 412-624-7298.
Patrick McCabe, novelist and the 2006-07
William Block Sr. Writer, 8:30 p.m., Frick
Fine Arts Auditorium, Pittsburgh Contemprary Writers Series, 412-624-6506, www.
english.pitt.edu.
March 23
Good Friday at the Warhol Museum,
5-10 p.m., special late hours and cash bar,
117 Sandusky St., North Side,
412-237-8300, www.warhol.org.
Theatrical Performance, Murder in the
Cathedral by T.S. Eliot, 7 p.m., Calvary
United Methodist Church, 971 Beech Ave.,
North Side, continues through March 31,
Poets Corner, 412-512-0589, www.calvarymethodistpittsburgh.org.
March 24
Patricia C. McKissack, author,
10:30 a.m., Carnegie Library Lecture Hall,
4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland, Pittsburgh Arts
and Lectures’ Black, White and Read All
Over children’s series, 412-622-8866, www.
pittsburghlectures.org.
Bugallo-Williams Piano Duo, 8 p.m.,
Bellefield Hall Auditorium, Pitt’s Music on
the Edge Series, 412-624-4125, www.
music.pitt.edu.
• Pitt Chronicle • January 8, 2007
Arts&CultureCalendar
April 1
Sydney Dance Company, 8 p.m.,
Byham Theatre, 101 Sixth St., downtown,
Pittsburgh Dance Council, 412-456-1380,
www.pgharts.org.
Tracks, Trestles & Trustees, railroad exhibi-
The Magic Flute by Mozart, 8 p.m., con-
Points in Time, Glass: Shattering Notions,
and Discovery Place, historical exhibitions,
tinues through April 1, Benedum Center,
719 Liberty Ave., downtown, Pittsburgh
Opera, 412-456-6666, www.pgharts.org.
March 25
Spring Concert, The Pitt Men’s Glee
Club, directed by Richard Teaser, 8 p.m.,
Heinz Chapel, Pitt Concert Series, 412624-4125, www.music.pitt.edu.
March 26
Music Monday, 8 p.m., Bellefield Hall
Auditorium, Pitt Concert Series,
412-624-4125, www.music.pitt.edu.
March 27
Hot House Jazz, musical performance, 7:30 p.m., Pitt-Titusville’s
Henne Auditorium, Pitt-Titusville’s
Spotlight Series, 814-827-4503, www.
upt.pitt.edu/upt_newspub/20062007%20Speaker%20Series.pdf.
Riverdance, 7:30 p.m., continues
through April 1, Heinz Hall, 600 Penn
Ave., downtown, PNC Broadway Across
America—Pittsburgh Special, 412-4566666, www.pgharts.org.
Spring Concert, African Music and
Dance Ensemble, directed by J.S. Kofi
Gbolonyo, 8 p.m., Bellefield Hall Auditorium, Pitt Concert Series, 412-624-4125,
www.music.pitt.edu.
March 29
She Said: Women’s Words, poetry reading by Sonia Sanchez, 7:30 p.m., Dowe’s
on Ninth, 121 Ninth St., downtown,
Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, 412-456-6666,
www.pgharts.org.
Kong Ho, professor at Pitt-Bradford,
“The Influence of Chinese Culture and
Philosophy on the Art of Kong Ho,”
7 p.m., Pitt-Greensburg’s Hempfield
Room, La Cultura Lecture Series, 724836-7497, www.upg.pitt.edu/lacultura.
html.
March 30
Good Friday at the Warhol Museum,
5-10 p.m., special late hours and cash bar,
117 Sandusky St., North Side, 412-2378300, www.warhol.org.
4-D Art in The Tempest, multimedia
theatrical performance, 8 p.m., also
March 31, Byham Theatre, 101 Sixth St.,
downtown, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust,
412-456-6666, www.pgharts.org.
March 31
Peter Pan, theatrical performance,
6 p.m., through April 29, Gemini Theatre, 7501 Penn Ave., Brushton, 412-2436464, www.geminitheater.org.
tion, through Dec. 30, Old Economy Village,
270 Sixteenth St., Ambridge, 724-266-4500,
www.oldeconomyvillage.org.
through Dec. 31, Senator John Heinz Pittsburgh
Regional History Center, 1212 Smallman St.,
Strip District, 412-454-6000, www.pghhistory.
org.
April 2
David Sedaris, author, 7:30 p.m., Carnegie
Music Hall, 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland, Drue
Heinz Lecture Series, 412-622-8866,
www.pittsburghlectures.org.
Mannheim Steamroller, musical performance, 8 p.m., Benedum Center, 719 Liberty
Ave., downtown, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust,
412-456-6666, www.pgharts.org.
April 3
Sweet Charity, starring Molly Ringwald,
7:30 p.m., continues through April 8, Heinz
Hall, 600 Penn Ave., downtown, PNC Broadway Across America—Pittsburgh Special,
412-456-6666, www.pgharts.org.
April 4
Hybrid Vigor: American Poetry Out of School,
discussion led by David St. John and Cole
Swenson, 2 p.m., 501 Cathedral of Learning,
Pitt Dept. of English, 412-624-6506, www.
english.pitt.edu.
Poetry Readings
by David St. John
and Cole Swenson, 8:30 p.m.,
Frick Fine Arts
Auditorium, Pitt
Dept. of English,
412-624-6506,
www.english.pitt.
edu.
The Rolling Stones
Project, Tim Ries
8 p.m., Manchester
Craftsmen’s Guild,
1815 Metropolitan
St., North Side, MCG
Jazz, www.pitt.edu/
~pittarts/tickets/index.
html.
April 6
Good Friday at the
Warhol Museum,
5-10 p.m., special late
hours and cash bar, 117
Sandusky St., North Side, 412237-8300, www.warhol.org.
April 10
Rachael Carson Saves the Day!
directed by Nona Gerard, 10 a.m.
and 7 p.m., Stephen Foster Memorial’s Henry Heymann Theatre,
Pitt’s Shakespeare-in-the-Schools
Program, 412-624-7529, www.play.
pitt.edu.
April 11
Romeo and Juliet, directed by
Holly Thuma, 10 a.m. and 7 p.m.,
Stephen Foster Memorial’s Henry
Heymann Theatre, Pitt’s Shakespeare-in-the-Schools Program,
412-624-7529, www.play.pitt.edu.
The Dreamer Examines His Pillow by John
Patrick Shanley and The Ghost in the Wire, an
ensemble-created project, 7:30 p.m., continue
through April 15, Studio Theatre (B-72 Cathedral of Learning), Pitt Department of Theatre
Arts Laboratory Productions, 412-624-PLAY
(7529), www.pitt.edu/~play.
University of Pittsburgh Symphony
Orchestra, conducted by Rodger Zahab,
8 p.m., Bellefield Hall Auditorium, Pitt Concert
Series, 412-624-4125, www.music.pitt.edu.
April 13
Good Friday at the Warhol Museum, 5-10 p.m.,
special late hours and cash bar, 117 Sandusky
St., North Side, 412-237-8300, www.warhol.
org.
Spring Concert, Pitt Women’s Choral Ensemble, conducted by Lorraine Milovac, 7:30 p.m.,
Heinz Chapel, Pitt Concert Series, 412-6244125, www.music.pitt.edu.
University Gamelan Ensemble, directed
by Andrew Weintraub, 8 p.m., also April 14,
Bellefield Hall Auditorium, Pitt Concert Series,
412-624-4125, www.music.pitt.edu.
April 14
Brian Selznick, author, 10:30 a.m., Carnegie Library Lecture Hall, 4400 Forbes Ave.,
Oakland, Pittsburgh Arts and Lectures’ Black,
White and Read All Over children’s series,
412-622-8866, www.pittsburghlectures.org.
Pop Music and Jazz, Tim Ries,
2:30 p.m., Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild,
1815 Metropolitan St., North Side, MCG Jazz,
www.mcgjazz.org/pages/concerts.htm.
Emio Greco PC, dance performance,
8 p.m., Byham Theatre, 101 Sixth St., downtown, 412-456-1390, www.emiogrecopc.
nl/public.
April 15
Kids Day in the
Cultural District,
featuring jugglers, clowns,
puppeteers, and
face painters,
before each
Willy Wonka
performance,
11:30 a.m. and
2 p.m., Byham
Theatre, 101 Sixth
St., downtown, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust,
412-456-6666, www.
pgharts.org.
Roald Dahl’s Willy
Wonka, theatrical per-
formance, 1 and 4 p.m.,
Byham Theatre, 101 Sixth
St., downtown, Pittsburgh
Cultural Trust, 412-4566666, www.pgharts.org.
Spring Concert, by the
Heinz Chapel Choir, con-
Pop Music and
Jazz, April 14
ducted by John Goldsmith, 7:30 p.m., Heinz
Chapel, Pitt Concert Series,
412-624-4125, www.music.pitt.edu.
April 19
Pitt Jazz Ensemble, directed by Nathan
Davis, 8 p.m., William Pitt Union’s Assembly Room, Pitt Concert Series,
412-624-4125, www.music.pitt.edu.
April 20
Good Friday at the Warhol Museum,
5-10 p.m., special late hours and cash bar,
117 Sandusky St., North Side, 412-237-8300,
www.warhol.org.
Balanchine Festival, 8 p.m., continues
through April 22, Benedum Center,
719 Liberty Ave, downtown, Pittsburgh
Ballet Theatre, 412-281-0360, www.pbt.org.
The Glorious Ones, theatrical performance,
8 p.m., continues through May 20, O’Reilly
Theatre, 621 Penn Ave., downtown, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, 412-316-1600, www.
ppt.org.
April 21
The Powerful Hand of George Bellows:
Drawings From the Boston Public Library,
through June 17, Frick Art and Historical
Center, 7227 Reynolds St., Point Breeze,
412-371-0600, www.frickart.org/home.
April 22
Carol Williams, organist, 4 p.m., Heinz
Memorial Chapel, Fifth and South Bellefield
avenues, Oakland, 412-731-0266, www.
pitago.org.
The Canterbury Tales, Aquila Theatre
Company, 4 p.m., Byham Theatre,
101 Sixth St., downtown, Pittsburgh Cultural
Trust, 412-456-6666, www.pgharts.org.
April 26
Philip Glass: The Sound of a Voice,
opera performance, 8 p.m., continues
through April 29, Andy Warhol Museum,
117 Sandusky St., North Side, Opera Theater
of Pittsburgh, 412-621-1499, www.operatheaterpittsburgh.org.
April 27
Good Friday at the Warhol Museum,
5-10 p.m., special late hours and cash bar,
117 Sandusky St., North Side,
412-237-8300, www.warhol.org.
April 28
Kids Day in the
Cultural District,
April 15
Bach on Water, Academy of Ancient Music,
directed by Richard Egarr, 8 p.m., Synod
Hall, 125 N. Craig St., Oakland, Renaissance and Baroque Society,
412-628-7262, www.rbsp.org.
January 8, 2007 • University of Pittsburgh • Arts&Culture
Just Say Noh: Pitt to Host
Japanese Classical Theater
Performance on Feb. 23
Continued from Page 3
Digitizing
Darlington
William Darlington’s signature on the
bottom of the document and the date Darlington acquired it—1870. Darlington’s
signature or personal bookplate on most of
the books and broadsides is helpful in identifying the core Darlington materials.
The Darlington Memorial Library
includes a number of books from Benjamin
Franklin’s print shop and many on travel
and expeditions throughout North America
and other parts of the world. The Lewis
and Clark expedition (1804-1806) is wellrepresented by the first-ever government
publication about it, written at the request
of President Thomas Jefferson, and the first
published account of the expedition, published in Pittsburgh in 1807 and written by
expedition member Patrick Gass, a Western
Pennsylvania resident.
Some Darlington library items already
are online as the result of earlier DRL
projects. For example, scanned Darlington
family photos and books about the history of
Pittsburgh have been added to the Historic
Pittsburgh Collection (http://digital.library.
pitt.edu/pittsburgh/), as have letters written
by George Washington during the French
and Indian War and the Whiskey Rebellion
(http://images.library.pitt.edu/g/gwletters/).
ULS is contributing digitized Darlington books to the Open Content Alliance, a
collaborative effort by cultural, technology,
nonprofit, and governmental organizations
to build a permanent archive of multilingual
digitized text and multimedia content.
The idea of making the entire Darlington Library available to people worldwide is
exciting to Galloway.
“Once you digitize books and other
materials and put them online, their usage
increases tenfold, maybe even higher,” he
says.
The Web site for the Darlington library
is expected to be launched this spring. By
then, the site should hold several hundred
books and some maps, images, and manuscripts. The broadsides won’t be digitized
until next year.
In the meantime, Dabrishus will continue to pore through items and oversee
their transfer to the DRL site, never losing
sight of the significance of these documents
and artifacts.
“I think the Darlingtons had an altruistic
interest in making all of this more widely
available beyond themselves,” he says. “It
was very thoughtful and considerate, when
you think about it.”
AA.M.P.A.S.
The title page of the first published account
(1807) of the Lewis and Clark expedition
written by Patrick Gass, a Western Pennsylvania resident.
By Amanda Leff
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented its Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting on Nov. 16 in Beverly
Hills. Pictured are Nicholl committee member Dan Petrie Jr. and Pitt awardee Stephanie Lord.
Continued from Page 3
Reading, Writing—and Winning
Lord attended elementary school
through junior college in the Canal Zone,
writing for and editing several school papers.
After studying at Panama Canal Community
College, Lord attended George Washington
University in Washington, D.C., but left
school in 1989 to begin working full-time
for the International Department at Special
Olympics International; there, she served
as program coordinator for the Asia-Pacific
region and Europe.
Lord came to Pitt in 1998 to complete
her undergraduate education, choosing the
University for its four-year writing program
after reading about it online. She also liked
Pitt because of its affordable tuition, urban
location, the fact that she could live near the
University and walk to class, and because
Pittsburgh is a four-hour drive from D.C.,
where her brother lives. Lord graduated
magna cum laude from Pitt in April 2001
with the Bachelor of Arts degree in English
writing and a certificate in film studies.
Currently, she is a part-time student in Pitt’s
M.F.A. program in fiction writing.
Palau Rain, Lord’s Nicholl Fellowshipwinning script, is about an African family
lacking access to medical care. Lord, who
had been a finalist in an ABC Disney-sponsored competition in 2004 for another teleplay, submitted Palau Rain to ABC Disney
in 2005. After the script was rejected, Lord
looked at it more objectively, noting that she
hadn’t introduced her main character until 15
pages into the script. She proceeded to cut
extraneous sections, maintaining focus on
her main character.
Lord had an altruistic reason for writing Palau Rain, she says. “I wanted to put a
face to people—kids and parents—who have
been, or who are, affected by HIV/AIDS. I
wanted them to see someone on screen who
is the same as they are,” explains Lord, who
works at UPMC as an assistant on the Ryan
White Grant that provides funds for uninsured HIV/AIDS patients.
According to Lord, many fledgling
screenwriters dream of winning a Nicholl
Fellowship.
“I always wanted to enter the competition,” she says. “My rewritten script was very
similar to my original idea. I felt my script
was strong, but I never really could foresee
winning. I knew if just one person read it,
though, it might do well.”
Lord’s script was selected from among
4,899 submitted in the 2006 competition.
“All you can hope for is that you get a good
first reader who takes the time to read the
whole thing and get to the end of the story,”
she observes.
According to Lord, one nice thing about
the Nicholl Fellowship is that judges don’t
know anything about the competing writers.
Each script is assigned a number, and writers receive progress reports as their scripts
proceed through the review process.
Another advantage of winning a Nicholl
Fellowship is that recipients are introduced
to people in the movie industry. Such contacts can be invaluable in getting a script
optioned or sold.
“I was among great writers and producers, rubbing elbows with them,” Lord
remembers. “For example, I met Robert
Shapiro and told him how much I had liked
The Goodbye Girl when I’d seen it, and how
it had influenced me. He said he’d produced
it.”
Lord partly credits Pitt writing program
faculty members for her success. During the
Nicholl Awards ceremony, she thanked English Professor Chuck Kinder and Pitt Visiting
Professor of Film Studies Carl Kurlander. “I
learned so much in Kurlander’s class,” she
recalls, “most importantly how to research
a story and get the confidence to write the
story.
“Pitt gave me a really great background
in writing, and everyday it helps me to
become a better writer. I do owe a large debt
to this University.”
Pitt’s Asian Studies Center will present
a double bill of Noh, the classical theater
of Japan, in the Stephen Foster Memorial’s
Charity Randall Theatre at 7 p.m. Feb. 23.
Aoi no Ue (The Lady Aoi) and Hagoromo (The Feather Cloak) will be performed by acclaimed Japanese Noh artist
Hisa Uzawa and a group of 12 actors and
musicians wearing elegant costumes and
masks.
Uzawa, an actor of the Tessenkai branch
of the Kanze School of Noh, first appeared
on stage at age three and made her first
performance as a Noh lead actor at 13. She
is one of the few women actors in what
has been until recently a male-dominated
profession.
For tickets to the Feb. 23 performance,
call the University of Pittsburgh Repertory
Theatre Box Office at 412-624-PLAY (7529)
or visit www.play.pitt.edu. Tickets prices are
$15 for reserved seats and $10 for students,
seniors, children under 12, and Pitt faculty
and staff members.
A local exhibition of Japanese woodblock prints, titled The Prints of Tsukioka
Kogyo, will complement Pitt’s Noh performance. The exhibition will be open
from Feb. 3 to April 7 in the Frick Art and
Historical Center, 7227 Reynolds St., Point
Breeze. Kogyo (1869-1927) was a master of
the Japanese woodblock print at the turn of
the 20th century. The exhibition showcases
his remarkably colorful images illustrating
virtually the entire range of Noh repertory
since the Meiji period (1868-1912), creating
an elegant record of the genre’s customs and
performances. For more information about
the exhibition, call 412-371-0600 or visit
www.frickart.org.
The University’s Noh performance is
cosponsored by Pitt’s Asian Studies Center
within the University Center for International Studies; the Japan
Iron and Steel Federation; Mitsubishi
Motors; and the
Toshiba International Foundation.
10 • Pitt Chronicle • January 8, 2007
Arts&Culture
Kuntu Repertory Theatre to Stage Sarafina!
Cast will include Pitt students from Africa
By Sharon S. Blake
Sarafina!—the musical depicting students involved in the 1976 anti-apartheid
riots of Soweto, South Africa—will be
performed by Pitt’s Kuntu Repertory Theatre from Jan. 25 to Feb. 10 in the 7th-Floor
Auditorium of Alumni Hall. The guest
director is Olusegun Ojewuyi, assistant
professor of theater at Southern Illinois
University.
To set the mood on campus, Sarafina!
actors, singers, and musicians will perform
from noon to 1 p.m. Jan. 10 and Jan. 17 in
the lobby of the Litchfield Towers.
The play is told from the point of view
of an ambitious student activist, Sarafina,
who attends Morris Isaacson High School
in Soweto. She feels shame at her mother’s
acceptance of her role as a domestic servant
in a White household and encourages her
peers to rise up in protest.
Kuntu has recruited actors, singers,
dancers, and musicians from Pitt’s African
Students Organization, and, as a result, a
number of cast members hail from South
Africa, the Congos, Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon, and Swaziland.
Sarafina! was written by Mbongeni
Ngema, a South African musician, choreographer, and director who began his
career as a theater guitarist. His first work,
Woza Albert! a South African treatment of
the New Testament, toured the world in the
1980s. His play Asinamali depicted the rent
strikes in Black townships near Durban, and
Sarafina!, written in 1984, became an international success. The Broadway production
was nominated for five Tony awards and the
original cast recording was nominated for a
Grammy Award. Sarafina! won 11 NAACP
Image Awards and was adapted into the 1992
movie starring Leleti Khumalo and Whoopi
Goldberg.
Ojewuyi’s directing career spans 20
years and includes projects throughout
the United States, Europe, and Africa. His
directing credits include King Lear, Waiting
for Godot, and Ceremonies in Dark Old
Men, among others. He assisted director
Marion McClinton in the Pittsburgh Public
Theater’s 1999 world premiere of August
Wilson’s King Hedley II.
Kuntu’s current season is being presented in partnership with Pitt’s Center for
Minority Health, part of the Graduate School
of Public Health.
After Sarafina!, remaining productions
this term will include Cassandra Medley’s
Relativity (March 22-April 7) and the world
premiere of Healthy Black Family, which
was commissioned by Kuntu.
For ticket and group sales information,
call 412-624-7298 or visit www.kuntu.org.
University to Host Pittsburgh
Symphony Chamber Orchestra
PITT ARTS offering Pitt student tickets for $10, faculty and staff tickets for $12.50
By Sharon S. Blake
The Pittsburgh Symphony Chamber
Orchestra will perform at 8 p.m. Jan. 19
in Pitt’s Bellefield Hall Auditorium. The
event is cosponsored by PITT ARTS, and
tickets are $10 for Pitt students and $12.50
for Pitt faculty and staff. Tickets for the
general public are $21.50.
Conducted by Andrés Cárdenes,
also the evening’s featured solo violinist,
the orchestra will include in its program
a new work, Visions and Miracles by
Christopher Theofanidis, the Pittsburgh
Symphony Orchestra (PSO) Composer
of the Year. Also on the program will be
Haydn’s Symphony No. 43 in E-flat Major
(“Mercury”), Mozart’s Adagio in E Major
for violin and orchestra, K.261; Mozart’s
Rondo in C Major for violin and orchestra, K.373; and Mozart’s Symphony No.
33 in B-Flat Major, K.319.
Concertmaster of the PSO since
1989, Cárdenes has garnered international
acclaim from critics and audiences alike
for his performances as solo violinist and
violist, conductor, chamber musician, and
Grammy-nominated recording artist. He
has served as artistic director and conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony Chamber
Orchestra since its inception in 1999.
PITT ARTS has been connecting
Pitt students to Pittsburgh’s cultural life
since it was founded in 1997. Funded by
Pitt Career Services Office
Annual Arts and Sciences Expo
Showcases Grad Student Research Ramping Up Its Efforts to
Help Graduates Land Jobs
By Carol Mullen
Jan. 17 is the deadline for graduate students in Pitt’s School of Arts and Sciences
to submit abstracts for the school’s seventh
annual Grad Expo, a celebration and showcase of graduate student research.
During the daylong event, scheduled for
March 1 in the William Pitt Union, students
will present papers and posters to be judged
by a panel of faculty members. First-place
winners in each category will receive a $500
stipend to attend the professional conference
of their choice.
The whole University community may
attend the event, which is sponsored by the
Office of the Provost, the Arts and Sciences
Graduate Studies Office, and the Arts and
Sciences Graduate Student Organization (GSO) with the goal of developing
the next generation of academics and
researchers.
“The Grad Expo is an excellent
opportunity for graduate students
from a variety of Arts and Sciences
departments and programs to
present their work in a professional but friendly setting,” said
Nicole Constable, Arts and
Sciences associate dean for
graduate studies and
research. “This can
serve as a practice
session before they
take part in professional
conferences outside of the
University. It is also a great
opportunity for students to
meet and network with colleagues
outside of the department.”
GSO President Lofty Durham,
a fourth-year M.A./Ph.D. student
in the Department of Theatre Arts,
said that when he first attended the
Grad Expo three years ago, he was
amazed by the variety of research
presented and immediately recognized the
value of the event.
“This is a homegrown opportunity
to practice for research and presentation,
two key aspects of any academician’s job
description,” Durham said. “I would consider it an important component of mentoring graduate students to ensure they make
a successful transition to the role of faculty
and contributor to a field.”
Benjamin Cavallari, a Ph.D. candidate
in the Department of Geology and Planetary
Science, submitted to the poster competition
last year. Though he did not receive an award
for his work, Cavallari says he benefited
from participating.
“I had the opportunity to display my
research to the greater school and
University proper—including the
undergraduate population—in a
forum and location that is heavily traveled and highly visible,”
Cavallari explained. “Furthermore,
I was able to interact with and
explain to people outside of my
department how exciting my
research is, what I am working on, and what I do as a
graduate student besides
[fulfilling] my class and
teaching requirements. It
shows the other side of
graduate life that is not
often seen by the undergraduate students.”
Grad Expo submission
guidelines and judging criteria
for papers and posters are available at the GSO Web site, www.
pitt.edu/~gradexpo.
For more information, contact
Jessica Smoker, GSO administrative assistant, at [email protected] or
412-624-6698.
By Patricia Lomando White
As Pitt students’ academic credentials
improve, so does the University’s approach
to helping its graduates land good first professional jobs.
Pitt’s Office of Career
Services will introduce its
new Employer Ser vices
Group during an event,
“Career Services Partners
Connect,” from 10 a.m. to
1 p.m. Jan. 11 in Pitt’s Willia m Pit t Un ion Lower
Lounge.
Comprising five professionals, the Employer
Services Group will take
a consultative approach to
helping employers meet their
recruiting needs. During
the event, the group, dedicated to helping
employers match Pitt graduates with their
jobs, will share its vision for delivering
more efficient and effective service to
employers.
“Through the integration of academic
advising and career services, we have been
very successful in encouraging students
to think about their career goals and in
providing the systems and resources to
support them from the moment they enter
the University,” said Kathy Humphrey, Pitt
vice provost and dean of students. “Now, we
are strengthening the employer side of the
equation in order to maximize our connections, build additional employer relationships, and, ultimately, further increase our
effectiveness in placing students.”
“We plan to meet and exceed the expectations of employers,” said Marvin Roth,
director of Pitt’s Career Services office.
“We’ve made a commitment to elevate our
program to reflect the University’s successes
Andrés Cárdenes
the Office of the Provost, it sponsors more
than 110 free student outings a year. Concert tickets can be purchased at the PITT
ARTS office, 929 William Pitt Union. For
more information, call 412-624-4498.
of the last 10 years.”
A key factor in the group’s ability
to address companies’ needs is Career
Services’ close network with the various
schools and academic departments at Pitt.
Career consultants and staff liaisons maintain communication links with faculty and
administrators in each school.
“Career Services Partners Connect”
will include a program to educate both
employers and the University about Career
Services’ new recruiting approach, designed
so Pitt representatives are
knowledgeable about an
employer’s business, assuring the right candidates
are recruited for particular
companies.
The group’s aim is to
be proactive and responsive,
down to the last detail. Services include staff introductions and a needs analysis
at the business or organization, databases of students’
and graduates’ résumés,
internship and job opening
postings on Pitt’s interactive
career Web site, and on-campus interviewing (OCI) experiences. For additional needs
or special requests, the Employer Services
Group will post the OCI job, provide a
résumé referral, identify a student group or
faculty member in a particular field of study,
or arrange a lunch with faculty.
In addition, Career Services offers the
following systems and programs:
On-campus recruiting in newly refurbished interview rooms;
An online database for posting positions, facilitating student access to oncampus interviews;
Four job fairs (two each in the fall
and spring);
Careers with …,” enhanced information sessions between students and employers; and
Employer-presented workshops to
explore job search topics or provide mock
interviews. For more information, visit
www.careers.pitt.edu.
January 8, 2007 • University of Pittsburgh • 11
Women Need to Operate Differently to Gain
CEO Status, New Book by Branson Suggests
Women must follow different paths in order to gain CEO status, Pitt law professor concludes
Science&Technology
Deal or No Deal?
Need for immediate rewards linked to
move active region of the brain
By Lisa Rossi
By Patricia Lomando White
Although women are completing MBA
and law degrees in record-high numbers,
success in achieving executive positions
continues to elude them.
Pitt law professor Douglas M. Branson’s
new book, No Seat at the Table: How Corporate Governance and Law Keep Women
Out of the Boardroom (New York University
Press, 2006), offers explanations for the
phenomenon and advice on how women can
break through the glass ceiling.
According to a recent Catalyst study,
women hold 14.7 percent of all Fortune 500
board seats, and if progress continues at the current rate, it will take
approximately 70 years for women
to attain equal representation with
men on corporate boards, suggesting that neither career counselors
nor scholars have paid enough
attention to the role that corporate
governance plays in maintaining
the gender gap in America’s executive quarters.
Branson, the W. Edward Sell
Chair in Business Law at Pitt,
examined corporate governance models
applied at Fortune 500 companies, hundreds
of Title VII discrimination cases, and proxy
statements, noting that women have been illadvised by experts, who tend to reinforce the
notion that females should act like their male,
executive counterparts. Instead, he suggests,
women who aspire to the boardroom should
focus on the decision-making processes that
nominating committees employ when voting
on board membership.
Branson concludes that women have to
follow different paths than men in order to
gain CEO status, and, as such, encourages
women to be flexible and make conscious,
frequent shifts in their professional behaviors and work ethics as they climb the corporate ladder.
No Seat at the Table is the latest volume
in New York University Press’ Critical
America Series. According to Branson,
the criteria—professional, social, cultural,
political—that women must meet and exhibit
in order to secure executive positions is con-
tinually shifting, whereas it remains static
for men. Contrary to popular belief, women
still struggle to achieve the same positions
that have always eluded them.
Before joining the Pitt faculty, Branson
taught for more than 20 years at Seattle
University. He also has been a visiting
professor at a number of schools, including
the University of Alabama as the Charles
Tweedy Distinguished Visiting Professor,
the University of Hong Kong as the Paul
Hastings Distinguished Visiting Professor,
Cornell University, Arizona State University, Washington University
in St. Louis and universities
in Australia, New Zealand,
Hong Kong, Belgium, Ireland,
France, Germany, Spain, South
Africa, and England. He holds a
permanent faculty appointment
at the University of Melbourne,
Australia, in its Masters of Law
Program.
In addition to No Seat at the
Table, Branson has published
numerous articles and books,
including the treatise Corporate Governance
(Lexis Law Pub. 1993, with annual supplements), Corporate Governance Problems
(Lexis Nexis, 1997), Understanding Corporate Law (Lexis Nexis, 1999, with A. Pinto),
and Questions and Answers on Business
Organizations (Lexis Nexis, 2003).
As an elected member of the American Law Institute since 1981, Branson was
influential in framing the institute’s recommendations for corporate governance and is
a leading expert on the corporate law aspects
of Alaska native corporations. Most recently,
he has been a USAID consultant to the Ministries of Justice in Indonesia, Ukraine, and
Slovakia, advising on corporate law, capital
markets law, corporate governance, and
securitization issues.
Branson received the Bachelor of Arts
degree from the University of Notre Dame
and the J.D. degree from Northwestern University. He also earned an LL.M. degree at
the University of Virginia, specializing in
corporate law and securities regulations.
Deal or No Deal? How people might
play this popular game show—whether
they would likely accept an offer for quick
cash or opt to hold out for the chance to
take home $1 million—probably has less
to do with what could be inside each briefcase than what’s inside each contestant’s
brain, a new Pitt study suggests.
Pitt investigators didn’t study any
of the game’s players nor did they offer
stakes nearly as high, but their research
on 45 normal adult volunteers, who were
taunted with the prospect of getting
between 10 cents and $105 at that very
moment or waiting one week to five years
for a sure $100, provides new insight
about reward-based decision making and
may have implications for understanding
and treating addiction disorders.
Not only do people differ in their
preferences for immediate over delayed
rewards of larger value, the researchers
wrote in the December Journal of Neuroscience, but these individual traits are
mirrored by the level of activity in the
ventral striatum, a key part of the brain’s
circuitry involved in mediating behavioral responses and physiological states
associated with reward and pleasure.
Research volunteers classified as more
impulsive decision makers, who tend to
seek rewards in the here and now, had
significantly more activity in the ventral
striatum.
The preference for immediate over
delayed rewards of larger value, which
researchers term “delay discounting,” has
already been linked to impulse-control
problems such as substance abuse, addiction, and pathological gambling. Separate
studies have shown that people with
addiction disorders have a more active
ventral striatum. The current study is the
first to look at the relationship between
individual differences in discounting
behavior and individual ventral striatum
activity, which in finding a strong connection between brain and behavior in
normal subjects suggests the same neurocognitive mechanism could contribute to
increased risk for addiction as well.
“The ventral striatum appears to be
a nexus where we balance acting impulsively to achieve instant gratification and
making prudent choices that may delay
rewards. Understanding what drives
individual differences in ventral striatal
sensitivity could aid efforts to treat people
who have difficulty controlling impulsive
behavior, by adjusting the circuitry,”
explained lead author Ahmad R. Hariri,
Pitt assistant professor of psychiatry and
director of the Developmental Imaging
Genetics Program in the Pitt School of
Medicine and Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic. Based on their findings, Hariri and
his colleagues are looking at whether
ventral striatum activity can help predict substance abuse disorders in those
at risk. Since the activity of the ventral
striatum is modulated by dopamine,
a brain chemical also associated with
reward, they plan to explore the role that
variations in dopamine-related genes may
play in determining differences in ventral
striatum reactivity.
“Addiction and problem gambling
represent behaviors on the extreme end
of the continuum,” Hariri said. “But
even in the most common, day-to-day
situations, reward-based decisions dictate
how we behave. For example, individual
preferences for immediate versus delayed
rewards could explain why some can’t
resist the temptation of dessert, an immediate gratification, while others will opt
for a five-mile run knowing it will help
shed pounds, a delayed gratification.
Food, sex, and money are all sources of
pleasure, yet individuals differ greatly in
the rewarding aspects they derive from
these pleasures.” The research was supported by the
National Institute of Mental Health and
the National Heart, Lung, and Blood
Institute and by a NARSAD Young Investigators Award given to Hariri.
Continued from Page 4
University to Celebrate Stephen Foster Day Jan. 12
10 a.m.
Temple of Memories Mausoleum,
Allegheny Cemetery, 4715 Penn Ave., Lawrenceville:
Remarks by Tom Starsenic, superintendent of Allegheny Cemetery;
Medley of Foster songs performed
by the St. John Neumann School Choir,
Lawrenceville;
Remarks by Jacqueline Longmore
of the Lawrenceville Historical Society;
Remarks by Kathryn Miller Haines,
associate director, Pitt’s Center for American
Music; and
Placing of wreaths at the Foster
gravesite.
Noon
Charity Randall Theatre, Stephen
Foster Memorial:
Welcome by Deane Root, director of
Pitt’s Center for American Music;
Music by the Stephen Foster Chorus
of Stephen Collins Foster School, Mt.
Lebanon;
Remarks by Mariana Whitmer, project coordinator for the Center for American
Music; and
Performance and group sing-a-long
led by guitarist and Pitt faculty member Joe
Negri, with special guest Thomas Douglas,
conductor of Carnegie Mellon University’s
Vocal Jazz Ensemble and a lecturer in voice
in Carnegie Mellon’s music department.
I m mediately following the pro gram, at approximately 1 p.m., attendees will be given a tour of the Foster
Memo r ia l. T h e Fo st e r Memo r ia l’s
museum, open weekdays from 9 a.m. to
4 p.m., will be open for self-guided tours. Its
archives contains a wide assortment of the
composer’s manuscripts, photographs, first
editions of sheet music, rare books, letters,
and personal possessions, including his flute,
a sketchbook, and the change purse he was
carrying when he died.
“People all over the world see Foster as
epitomizing American music,” says Root.
“He launched what we think of today as
popular music, and his influence is still
being felt.”
For more in for mation, ca ll
412-624-4100.
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January 8
Reading, author Carl Weber,
noon, Macy’s, 400 Fifth Ave.,
downtown, 412-232-2000, www.
macys.com.
Art Exhibition, Hand to Hand,
through Jan. 11, 1416 Arch St.,
North Side, 412-682-0348,
www.moxiedada.com.
Lecture, “The Bureaucratization
of the European Community’s
External Aid,” Veronique
Dimier, professor, Institut
d’Etudes Europeennes at the Universite libre de Bruxelles, 3 p.m.,
4130 Posvar Hall, Pitt’s European
Union Center of Excellence,
412-648-1110, www.ucis.pitt.
edu/euce/euce.html.
Art Exhibition, Factory Installed
2006-2007, through Jan. 28, Mattress Factory, 500 Sampsonia Way,
North Side, 412-231-3169, www.
mattress.org.
Lecture, “Bose-Einstein Condensation of Polaritons,” David
Snoke, Pitt associate professor
of physics, 4:30 p.m., 102 Thaw
Hall, Pitt-Carnegie Mellon Physics Colloquium Series, www.
phyast.pitt.edu/Events.
Information Session, Mary
K. Biagini, associate dean and
a professor in Pitt’s School of
Information Sciences,
5:30 p.m., 522 Information Sciences Building, Pitt School of
Information Sciences, 412-6242746, www.sis.pitt.edu.
Cultural Discussion, author
Robert Lipsyte on jock culture
and its effects, 7 p.m., Carnegie
Library of Pittsburgh, 4400 Forbes
Ave., Oakland, 412-622-3114,
www.carnegielibrary.org.
Musical Performance, pianist
Abbey Simon, 7:30 p.m., Blaisdell
Hall’s Bromeley Family Theater,
Pitt-Bradford, 814-362-5027,
www.upb.pitt.edu.
Theatrical Performance,
Forbidden Broadway, 7:30 p.m.,
continues through Jan. 31, Theatre
Square Cabaret, 655 Penn Ave.,
downtown, 412-325-6769, www.
pgharts.org.
Theatrical Performance, Late
Nite Catechism, 8 p.m., continues
through Jan. 28, City Theatre,
57 South 13th St., South Side,
412-431-2489, www.citytheatrecompany.org.
Art Exhibition, Charles Burchfield: Path to Solitude, through
Feb. 28, Hoyt Institute of Fine
Arts, 124 E. Leasure Ave., New
Castle, 724-652-2282, www.
hoytartcenter.org.
Science Exhibition, Bugs! A
Rainforest Adventure, through
May 1, Carnegie Science Center, 1
Allegheny Ave., North Side, 412237-3400, www.carnegiesciencecenter.org.
January 9
Luncheon Discussion, “Lunch
Lecture: Turmoil in Washington
and Iraq,” Janne Nolan, Pitt
professor of international affairs,
noon, Allegheny HYP Club, 619
William Penn Place, downtown,
reservations required, 412-2815858.
Art Workshop, “Marbling Madness,” 1 p.m., Children’s Museum
of Pittsburgh, 10 Children’s Way,
Allegheny Square, North Side,
412-322-5058, www.pittsburghkids.org.
Art Workshop, “Drink and
Draw,” open studio live model
drawing session, 6 p.m., Brillobox, 4104 Penn Ave., downtown,
412-621-4900.
Chamber Music Performance,
Visions and Miracles, 8 p.m., Katz
Performing Arts Center, 5738
Darlington Rd., Squirrel Hill, 412392-4900.
Film Screening, “Film and Video
Shorts,” screening of clips used
to make one of Warhol’s films,
through Jan. 14, Andy Warhol
January 8—18, 2007
Museum, 117 Sandusky St., North
Side, 412-237-8300, www.warhol.
org.
January 10
Musical Performance, Elliot
Roth, 6 and 9 p.m., through
Jan. 11, Backstage Bar at Theater
Square, 655 Penn Ave., downtown, 412-325-6769, www.
pgharts.org.
Theatrical Performance,
Seussical, 7 p.m., Gateway High
School, 3000 Gateway Campus
Blvd., Monroeville, Pittsburgh
Children’s International Theater,
412-321-5520, www.pghkids.org.
Comedy Performance, “Best
of the Burgh,” 7:30 p.m., Funny
Bone, Station Square, 412-2813130, www.funnybonepgh.com.
Theatrical Performance,
Sesame Street Live: Super Grover
Ready for Action, 7:30 p.m.,
continues through Jan. 14, Mellon
Arena, 66 Mario Lemieux Place,
downtown, TicketMaster 412-3231919, www.ticketmaster.com.
January 11
15th Annual McLean Lecture
on World Law, “Hate, Genocide,
and Human Rights,” Irwin Cotler,
Canada’s Minister of Justice and
Attorney General, noon, Teplitz
Moot Courtroom, Pitt’s Barco
Law Building. (For details, see
p. 2.)
Workshop, “The ‘No-Pressure’
Cold Call,” 12:15 p.m., Carnegie
Library of Pittsburgh—Downtown Branch, 612 Smithfield St.,
downtown, 412-281-5945, www.
carnegielibrary.org.
Lecture, “Situation Awareness
in Emergencies,” Carey Balaban,
Pitt professor of otolaryngology,
3 p.m., Alumni Hall’s 5th-floor auditorium, Pitt Center for National
Preparedness, 412-624-8291,
www.cnp.pitt.edu.
Art Workshop, Japanese Fish
Printing, 1 p.m., Pittsburgh Center
for the Arts, Fifth and Shady
avenues, Point Breeze, 412-3610873, www.pittsburgharts.org.
Reading, author Jill Conner
Browne, 7 p.m., Joseph-Beth
Booksellers, 2705 E. Carson St.,
South Side, 412-381-3600, www.
josephbeth.com.
Gallery Tour, 7 p.m., Silver Eye
Center for Photography, 1015 E.
Carson St., South Side, 412-4311810, www.silvereye.org.
Book Signing by author William
Abbott, 2 p.m., Borders Books
and Music, 1170 Northway Mall,
North Hills, 412-635-7661, www.
bordersstores.com.
Comedy Performance, “Mark
Pipas As the Sleaze,” 10:30 p.m.,
Club Café, 56 S. 12th St., South
Side, 412-431-4950, www.clubcafelive.com.
Musical Performance, Romito
Brothers Band, 7:30 p.m., Shadow
Lounge, 5972 Baum Blvd., East
Liberty, 412-363-8277.
Musical Performance, The
Cranks, 7 p.m., Club Café,
56 S. 12th St., South Side, 412431-4950, www.clubcafelive.com.
January 16
January 12
Musical Performance, Guy
Davis and Mary Flower, 8 p.m.,
Carnegie Lecture Hall, 4400
Forbes Ave., Oakland, ProArts
Tickets, 412-394-3353, www.
proartstickets.org.
Theatrical Performance, Seussical, 5:30 and 7:30 p.m., Pine
Richland High School, 700 Warendale Rd., Gibsonia, Pittsburgh
Children’s International Theater,
412-321-5520, www.pghkids.org.
Stephen Foster Commemoration, 10 a.m. events in Allegheny
Cemetery, noon events in the
Stephen Foster Memorial. (For
details, see p. 4.)
Lecture, “From Tolerance to
Reciprocal Containment,” Thomas
Ricketts, Pitt professor of philosophy, 3:30 p.m., 817R Cathedral of
Learning, Pitt’s Department of
History and Philosophy of Science, 412-624-5896, www.pitt.
edu/~hpsdept.
Lecture, “What Do Gay Men
Want? Sex, Risk, and the Subjective Life of Male Homosexuality,”
David Halperin, W.H. Auden Collegiate Professor of History and
Theory of Sexuality, University of
Michigan, 4 p.m., 501 Cathedral
of Learning, Pitt Women’s Studies
Program, 412-624-6485, www.
pitt.edu/~wstudies.
Lecture, “Emerging Leaders,”
5 p.m., 224 William Pitt Union,
Pitt’s Office of Career Services,
registration required:
412-648-7130.
Theatrical Performance,
Edward Scissorhands, 8 p.m., continues through Jan. 14, Benedum
Center, 719 Liberty Ave., downtown, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust,
412-456-6666, www.pgharts.org.
Comedy Performance, Lisa
Lampanelli, 8 p.m., Byham
Theatre, 101 Sixth St., downtown,
Pittsburgh Musical Theater,
412-456-6666, www.pittsburghmusicals.com.
January 13
Art Workshop, Shibori Tie-Dye,
10 a.m., Society for Contemporary
Craft, 2100 Smallman St., Lawrenceville, 412-261-7003, www.
contemporarycraft.org.
Theatrical Performance,
Seussical, 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.,
Mount Lebanon High School, 155
Cochran Rd., Mount Lebanon,
Pittsburgh Children’s International
Theater, 412-321-5520, www.
pghkids.org.
Comedy Performance, Amish
Monkeys, 8 p.m., Gemini Theater,
7501 Penn Ave., Homewood, 412243-6464, www.geminitheater.org.
January 14
Art Workshop, “Three-Hour
Workshops,” 2 p.m., Pittsburgh
Glass Center, 5472 Penn Ave.,
East Liberty, 412-365-2145,
www.pittsburghglasscenter.org.
Nature Walk, “Family WalkAbout: Signs of Life,”
2 p.m., Beechwood Farms Nature
Reserve, 14 Dorseyville Rd.,
Allison Park, 412-963-6100,
www.aswp.org.
Musical Performance, Aeolian
Winds, 3 p.m., Depreciation Lands
Museum, 4743 S. Pioneer Rd.,
Allison Park, 412-486-0563,
www.fyi.net/~kcsellar/dlm.
Family Game Night, 6 p.m.,
Joseph-Beth Booksellers, 2705 E.
Carson St., South Side, 412-3813600, www.josephbeth.com.
Musical Performance, Sweet
Honey in the Rock a capella
ensemble, 7 p.m., Byham Theatre,
101 Sixth St., downtown, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, 412-4566666, www.pgharts.org.
Musical Performance, “Sunday
Night Jazz,” Gene Ludwig Organ
Quartet, 7 p.m., Rhythm House
Café, 3029 Washington Pike,
Bridgeville, Pittsburgh Jazz Society, 412-343-9555,
www.pittsburghjazz.org.
January 15
Martin Luther King Celebration, 11 a.m., Children’s Museum
of Pittsburgh, 10 Children’s Way,
Allegheny Square, North Side,
412-322-5058, www.pittsburghkids.org.
Eight-Week Workshops, calligraphy, 10 a.m.; wheelthrowing,
6:30 p.m.; Pittsburgh Center for
the Arts, Fifth and Shady avenues,
Point Breeze, 412-361-0873,
www.pittsburgharts.org.
January 17
Art Workshop, Pine Needle Baskets, 10 a.m., Society For Contemporary Craft, 2100 Smallman
St., Lawrenceville, 412-261-7003,
www.contemporarycraft.org.
Art Workshop, “Wheelthrowing
With Joe,” 1 p.m., Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Fifth and Shady
avenues, Point Breeze, 412-3610873, www.pittsburgharts.org.
Musical Performance, The Fray,
7:30 p.m., Benedum Center, 719
Liberty Ave., downtown, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, 412-4566666, www.pgharts.org.
January 18
Musical Performance, jazz
trumpeter Chris Botti, 7:30 p.m.,
Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., downtown, Pittsburgh Symphony, 412392-4900, www.pittsburghsymphony.org.
Musical Theater, Cats,
7:30 p.m., continues through
Jan. 28, Byham Theatre, 101 Sixth
St., downtown, Pittsburgh Musical
Theater, 412-456-6666, www.
pittsburghmusicals.com.
PUBLICATION NOTICE The next
edition of the Pitt Chronicle
will be published Jan 16.
The deadline for submitting
information is 5 p.m. Jan. 11.
Items for publication in the Pitt
Chronicle, including information for Happenings, should
be submitted to chron@pitt.
edu. Happenings items should
include the following information: title of the event, name
and title of speaker(s), date,
time, location, sponsor(s),
and a phone number and Web
site for additional information. Items also may be faxed
to 412-624-4895 or sent by
campus mail to 422 Craig
Hall. For more information,
call 412-624-1033.