February 13, 2012
Calendar — February 13, 2012
BLOOD DRIVES
Tues., Feb. 14, 7:30 a.m. to 5:45 p.m., and Wed., Feb. 15, 10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Valentine’s Day Homewood campus blood drive, sponsored by Work, Life and Engagement. Blood donors are urgently needed. Bring a friend to make a donation and be entered into a raffle for a gift card to Ms. Shirley’s restaurant. Glass Pavilion, Levering. HW
COLLOQUIA
Tues., Feb. 14, 4 p.m. “The ‘Secret’ (Gsang Ba) Emerging: Unraveling Intertextualities Across Incommensurate Ideologies,” an Anthropology colloquium with Urmila Nair, KSAS. 404 Macaulay. HW
Wed., Feb. 15, 3:30 p.m. “High-Redshift Galaxy Formation: The High-Resolution View,” an STSci colloquium with Sadegh Khochfar, Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics. Bahcall Auditorium, Muller Bldg. HW
Thurs., Feb. 16, 3:45 p.m. “Neural Representations of Word Meanings,” a Cognitive Science colloquium with Tom Mitchell, Carnegie Mellon University. 111 Krieger. HW
Thurs., Feb. 16, 4 p.m. “The Urban Miniature and the Feuilleton in Kracauer and Benjamin,” an ELH colloquium with Andreas Huyssen, Columbia University. 130D Gilman. HW
Fri., Feb. 17, 2 p.m. “SnoMotes: Robotic Scientific Explorers for Understanding Climate Change,” an Applied Physics Laboratory Black History Month colloquium with Ayanna Howard, Georgia Institute of Technology. Kossiakoff Center. APL
DISCUSSION/
TALKS
Mon., Feb. 13, 12:30 p.m. “Renewing America’s Focus on a Secure, Sustainable Energy Future,” a SAIS Energy, Resources and Environment Program discussion with Thomas Farrell, chairman and CEO, Dominion Resources. For information and to RSVP, email saisereglobal@jhu
.edu. Kenney Auditorium, Nitze Bldg. SAIS
Tues., Feb. 14, 4:30 p.m. Visiting scholar David Satter and Ben Ginsberg of SAIS will discuss Satter’s new book, It Was a Long Time Ago and It Never Happened Anyway: Russia and the Communist Past. Sponsored by the Foreign Policy Institute at SAIS. For information and to RSVP, call 202-663-5772 or email ckunkel@jhu.edu. Kenney Auditorium, Nitze Bldg. SAIS
Wed., Feb. 15, noon. The Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Program in Jewish Studies presents a talk by Gershon Baskin, initiator of the secret talks between Israel and Hamas for the release of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit five years after his capture. Smokler Center for Jewish Life (Hillel). HW
Wed., Feb. 15, 12:30 p.m. “The Congo Botched Election: Where Do We Go From Here?” a SAIS African Studies Program panel discussion with Anthony Gambino, Eastern Congo Initiative; Mvemba Phezo Dizolele, Stanford University’s Hoover Institution; Jason Stearns, Yale University; and Maja Bovcon, University of Oxford. For information, call 202-663-5676 or email itolber1@jhu
.edu. Kenney Auditorium, Nitze Bldg. SAIS
Wed., Feb. 15, 12:30 p.m. “Due Diligence: Separating Fact From Fiction in Microfinance,” a SAIS International Development Program discussion with David Roodman, SAIS. For more information or to RSVP, email
developmentroundtable@jhu
.edu. 203 Rome Bldg. SAIS
Wed., Feb. 15, 12:45 p.m. “Confronting the Maras: Policy Responses to Organized Crime and Violence in Central America,” a SAIS Latin American Studies Program discussion with Thomas Bruneau, Naval Postgraduate School. For information, call 202-663-5734 or email jzurek1@jhu.edu. 517 Nitze Bldg. SAIS
Fri., Feb. 17, 6:30 p.m. “Egyptian Administration During the Old Kingdom,” a SAIS African Studies Program discussion with Leslie Ann Warden, West Virginia University Institute of Technology. For information, call 202-663-5676 or email itolber1@jhu
.edu. Rome Auditorium. SAIS
FILM/VIDEO
Fri., Feb. 17, 3:30 p.m. Screening of the film Black in Latin America, as part of the African Diaspora Association’s Black History Month movie series. Sponsored by the SAIS African Diaspora Association. For information or to RSVP, email ada.hopkins@
gmail.com. 806 Rome Bldg. SAIS
GRAND ROUNDS
Wed., Feb. 15, noon. “HPV Vaccine: Public Health and Ethics Analysis,” Public Health Practice grand rounds with Nancy Kass, SPH, and Connie Trimble, SoM. Sponsored by the Mid-Atlantic Public Health Training Center and the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. (A live webcast will be available at www.jhsph.edu/maphtc.) W1214 SPH. EB
LECTURES
Mon., Feb. 13, 12:15 p.m. Sheila Hutzler Rives Memorial Lecture—“Whose Autonomy, Whose Empowerment? Bioethics in the ICU” by John Lantos, University of Missouri–Kansas City School of Medicine. Sponsored by the Berman Institute of Bioethics. Lunch will be provided.W3008 SPH. EB
Mon., Feb. 13, 4 p.m. Dean’s Lecture—“Academia, Industry and the Health of the Public” by Frederick Brancati, SoM. Sponsored by the School of Medicine. Owens Auditorium, CRB. EB
Mon., Feb. 13, 4 p.m. “Formative Fictions: Imaginative Literature and the Training of the Capacities,” a Humanities lecture by Joshua Landy, Stanford University. 208 Gilman. HW
Mon., Feb. 13, 5 p.m. “Why Theory Failed in Latin America,” a German and Romance Languages and Literatures lecture by Brett Levinson, Binghamton University. 479 Gilman. HW
Tues., Feb. 14, noon. The Jerome Frank Lecture—“Persuading the Healer: Jerome Frank’s Legacy in an Age of Evolutionary Biology” by Julia Frank, George Washington University. Sponsored by Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Hurd Hall. EB
Tues., Feb. 14, 3 p.m. The Charles and Mary O’Melia Lecture in Environmental Science—“A Risk Forecasting Framework for Nanomaterials” by Mark Wies-ner, Duke University. Sponsored by Geography and Environmental Engineering. 234 Ames. HW
Fri., Feb. 17, 5 p.m. The Samuel H. Kress Lecture—“Stonehenge: New Discoveries” by Michael Parker Pearson, University of Sheffield, UK. Sponsored by History of Art and the Baltimore Society of the Archaeological Institute of America. 50 Gilman. HW
Mon., Feb. 20, 4 p.m. Dean’s Lecture II—“The Widening Gyre: Biomedical Education in the Age of Information Overload” by Jon Lorsch, SoM. Hurd Hall. EB
MUSIC
Tues., Feb. 14, 8 p.m. “Garden of Joys and Sorrows,” a chamber music concert with Marina Piccinini, flute, and guest artists Sivan Magen, harp, and Kim Kashkashian, viola. $15 general admission, $10 for senior citizens and $5 for students with valid ID. Friedberg Hall. Peabody
Wed., Feb. 15, 7:30 p.m. Peabody Wind Ensemble performs works by Toch, Zhangyi, Mackey, de Meij and Schoenberg. $15 general admission, $10 for senior citizens and $5 for students with valid ID. Friedberg Hall. Peabody
Thurs., Feb. 16, 7:30 p.m. The Peabody Improvisation and Multimedia Ensemble performs. $15 general admission, $10 for senior citizens and $5 for students with valid ID. East Hall. Peabody
Thurs. to Sat., Feb. 16 to 18, 7:30 p.m.; Sun., Feb. 19, 3 p.m. The American Opera Theatre performs Handel’s Giulio Cesare in Egitto, with the Baltimore Baroque Band, a Peabody ensemble. $25 general admission, $15 for senior citizens and $10 for students with ID. To purchase tickets, call 410-752-8558 or go to www
.theatreproject.org. Theatre Project, 45 W. Preston St.
Fri., Feb. 17, 7:30 p.m. “The Music of Michael Formanek,” performed by the Peabody Jazz Orchestra. $15 general admission, $10 for senior citizens and $5 for students with valid ID. East Hall. Peabody
Sat., Feb. 18, 7:30 p.m. Peabody Camerata performs music by Stravinsky, Xenakis and Boulez. Griswold Hall. Peabody
Sun., Feb. 19, 3 p.m. The Hopkins Symphony Orchestra performs Mozart’s Jupiter Symphony. $8 general admission, $6 for senior citizens, JHU affiliates and non-JHU students; free for JHU students and Maryland state employees. SDS Room, Mattin Center. HW
SEMINARS
Mon., Feb. 13, noon. “Is There a Stem Cell Niche in the Adult Drosophila Midgut?” a Biochemistry and Molecular Biology seminar with Benjamin Ohlstein, Columbia University. W1020 SPH. EB
Mon., Feb. 13, 12:15 p.m. “Neurometabolic Control of Behavior,” a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with Michael Wolfgang, SoM. Rose Auditorium, 3520 San Martin Drive. HW
Mon., Feb. 13, 1:30 p.m. “Melanopsin Signaling in the Eye,” a Biomedical Engineering seminar with King-Wai Yau, SoM. 709 Traylor. EB (Videoconferenced to 110 Clark. HW)
Mon., Feb. 13, 4 p.m. “African Captives,” a History seminar with Edda Fields-Black, Carnegie Mellon University. 308 Gilman. HW
Tues., Feb. 14, 11 a.m. “Computational Wave-Field Imaging,” an Electrical and Computer Engineering seminar with Laura Waller, Princeton University. 320 Hackerman. HW
Tues., Feb. 14, 12:10 p.m. “Litigation for Injury Prevention,” a Graduate Seminar in Injury Research and Policy with Stephen Teret, SPH. Sponsored by the Center for Injury Research and Policy. W2008 SPH. EB
Tues., Feb. 14, 1:30 p.m. “Corner Polyhedra and Maximal Lattice-Free Convex Bodies: A Fresh Geometric Approach to Cutting Plane Theory,” an Applied Mathematics and Statistics seminar with Amitabh Basu, University of California, Davis. 304 Whitehead. HW
Tues., Feb. 14, 1:30 p.m. “La Recherche du Temps Perdu: Why a Novel?” a Humanities Center seminar with Joshua Landy, Stanford University. 208 Gilman. HW
Wed., Feb. 15, 12:15 p.m. Mental Health Noon Seminar—“Coping Power Outcome and Evaluation Studies” with John Lochman, University of Alabama. B14B Hampton House. EB
Wed., Feb. 15, 1:30 p.m. “Self-Assembly and Partitioning of Multiprotein Complexes in Bacteria,” a Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry seminar with Victor Sourjik, University of Heidelberg. 701 WBSB. EB
Wed., Feb. 15, 4 p.m. “Charting the Mammalian Epigenome,” a Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences seminar with Bing Ren, University of California, San Diego. West Lecture Hall (ground floor), WBSB. EB
Wed., Feb. 15, 4 p.m. “Regularized Higher-Order Principal Components Analysis,” a Biostatistics seminar with Genevera Allen, Baylor College of Medicine, Rice University and Texas Children’s Hospital. W2030 SPH. EB
Thurs., Feb. 16, 9 a.m. “The Relationship Between Electrocardiographic QT Interval Duration and Mortality,” an Epidemiology thesis defense seminar with YiYi Zhang. W2030 SPH. EB
Thurs., Feb. 16, noon. The Bromery Seminar—“Modeling Water Waves and Other Free Surface Flows With SPH” with Tony Dalrymple, WSE. Sponsored by Earth and Planetary Sciences. Olin Auditorium. HW
Thurs., Feb. 16, noon. “Bialik and the Awakening of a Language,” a Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Program in Jewish Studies seminar with Tamar Sovran, Tel Aviv University. Smokler Center for Jewish Life (Hillel). HW
Thurs., Feb. 16, 1 p.m. “Function and Dysfunction in the Hippocampal/Prefrontal Circuit,” a Neuroscience research seminar with Joshua Gordon, Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute. West Lecture Hall (ground floor), WBSB. EB
Thurs., Feb. 16, 3 p.m. “To Adapt or Not to Adapt: The Power and Limits of Adaptive Sensing,” an Electrical and Computer Engineering seminar with Mark Davenport, Stanford University. 132 Gilman. HW
Thurs., Feb. 16, 4 p.m. “A Whole New ARRA? State and Local Government Finances and Federalism After the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act,” a JHU Social Policy seminar with Tracy Gordon, Brookings Institution. Sponsored by the Institute for Policy Studies, Economics, and Health Policy and Management. 311 Hodson. HW
Thurs., Feb. 16, 4 p.m. “How the Genome Folds,” a Biology special seminar with Erez Lieberman Aiden, Google Inc. and the Harvard Society of Fellows. 100 Mudd. HW
Fri., Feb. 17, 11 a.m. “The Effects of Turbulent Mixing on an Overturning Circulation,” a CEAFM seminar with Kial Stewart, KSAS. 50 Gilman. HW
Fri., Feb. 17, 12:15 p.m. “Patterns of Growth in Children Born Small for Gestational Age: Relationship With Hospitalization Risk and Cognition During Childhood,” an Epidemiology thesis defense seminar with Marcia Varella. W2029 SPH. EB
Fri., Feb. 17, 3:30 p.m. “Re–purposing Itraconazole as an Inhibitor of Tumor-Associated Angiogenesis and Hedgehog Signaling,” a Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences thesis defense seminar with Blake Aftab. 303 WBSB. EB
Mon., Feb. 20, noon. “Estrogen and Prostate Cancer—An Update,” a Biochemistry and Molecular Biology seminar with Shuk-mei Ho, University of Cincinnati. W1020 SPH. EB
Mon., Feb. 20, 12:15 p.m. “Looking Into the Dark: Understanding Melanoma Initiation Using the Zebrafish,” a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with Craig Ceol, University of Massachusetts Medical School. Rose Auditorium, 3520 San Martin Drive. HW
Mon., Feb. 20, 1 p.m. “Study of Risk Genes for Schizophrenia in Neural Development,” an Institute of Genetic Medicine/Human Genetics Graduate Program thesis defense seminar with Eunchai Kang. G-007 Ross. EB
Mon., Feb. 20, 1:30 p.m. “Iron Oxide Nanoparticles as MRI Contrast Agents to Track Immune Responses,” a Biomedical Engineering seminar with Chien Ho, Carnegie Mellon University. 709 Traylor. EB (Videoconferenced to 110 Clark. HW)
Mon., Feb. 20, 4:30 p.m. “Locally Standard Geometries and Algebraic Structures,” a Topology seminar with David Ayala, Harvard University. Sponsored by Mathematics. 308 Krieger. HW
SPECIAL EVENTS
Black History Month events, sponsored by the Office of Multicultural Affairs. HW
• Mon., Feb. 13, 6 to 8 p.m. “Love Jones: Spoken Word Night,” an evening of jazz and poetry featuring student performances. Nolans on 33rd.
• Fri., Feb. 17, 8 p.m. DBH Cabaret. Shriver Hall.
Tues., Feb. 14, 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. 2012 Summer Camp Discoveries Fair, an opportunity for prospective campers and their families to meet with local and regional camp organizations offering summer activities for children ages 4 to 18. (See In Brief, p. 2.) Sponsored by Work, Life and Engagement. For more information, call 443-997-7000. Turner Concourse. EB
Tues., Feb. 14, 12:15 p.m. Museum Chat—“Love in Ancient Rome,” a special Valentine’s Day look at Roman objects of love, both romantic and erotic, with Classics graduate students Laura Garofolo and Nicole Berlin. (See story, p. 3.) Sponsored by the JHU Archaeological Museum. 150 Gilman. HW
WORKSHOPS
Thurs., Feb. 16, 4:30 p.m. “Making the Best of Google,” an MSE Library workshop providing a tour of Google, Google Scholar and Google Books. Electronic Resource Center, M-Level, MSE Library. HW