March 5, 2012
Calendar — March 5, 2012
COLLOQUIA
Tues., March 6, 4 p.m. “Inter-Religion in Sri Lanka: Buddhist Nationalism, Christian Evangelism and the Politics, Ethics and Aesthetics of Encounter,” an Anthropology colloquium with Neena Mahadev, KSAS. 404 Macaulay. HW
Tues., March 6, 4:15 p.m. “Laboratory Astrochemistry,” a Chemistry colloquium with Stewart Novick, Wesleyan University. 233 Remsen. HW
Wed., March 7, noon. “The Decline of Magic: Challenge and Response in Early Enlightenment England,” a History of Science, Medicine and Technology colloquium with Michael Hunter, University of London. 300 Gilman. HW
Wed., March 7, 3:30 p.m. “The Formation of the First Black Holes,” an STScI colloquium with Judith Lean, Naval Research Laboratory. Bahcall Auditorium, Muller Bldg. HW
Wed., March 7, 4:30 p.m. “Hopes and Fears: Transposons in the Germline,” a Biology colloquium with Alex Bortvin, Carnegie Institution of Washington. Mudd Auditorium. HW
Thurs., March 8, 3 p.m. “Casebooks in Early Modern England, Astrology, Medicine and Written Records,” a History of Science, Medicine and Technology colloquium with Lauren Kassell, University of Cambridge. Seminar Room, 3rd floor, Welch Library. EB
Fri., March 9, 2 p.m. “Bending History?” an Applied Physics Laboratory colloquium with Michael O’Hanlon, Brookings Institution. Parsons Auditorium. APL
Mon., March 12, 4 p.m. “The Physics and Metaphysics of Talismans (Imagines Astronomicae) in Marsilio Ficino’s De vita libri tres,” a History of Science, Medicine and Technology colloquium with H. Darrel Rutkin, Stanford University. Co-sponsored by the Singleton Center for Premodern Europe. 388 Gilman. HW
CONFERENCES
Fri., March 9, 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. “Food Justice at the University Level,” a Campus Kitchen conference with speakers on the topic of feeding the world sustainably, workshops on how to start or expand food justice initiatives at Maryland campuses and locally sourced food. Cost is $5 and includes conference materials, breakfast, lunch and transportation for an optional campus community garden site visit. All proceeds go to Campus Kitchen at JHU. Co-sponsored by the Center for Social Concern and the Maryland-DC Campus Compact. For more information or to register, go to www
.jhu.edu/csc/specialinitiatives/sfng
.html. Charles Commons Conference Center. HW
DISCUSSION/
TALKS
Tues., March 6, 12:15 p.m. “I Know the Risks, But I Will Have Unprotected Sex,” a Social and Behavioral Interventions faculty candidate talk with Nanlesta Pilgrim, SPH. Sponsored by International Health. W4013 SPH. EB
Tues., March 6, 5 p.m. “Polish Foreign Policy Between East and West,” a SAIS European Studies Program discussion with Wess Mitchell, president, Center for European Policy Analysis. (Reception follows at 6:15 p.m., 812 Rome Bldg.) Co-sponsored by the SAIS Center for Transatlantic Relations, the Washington Foundation for European Studies and the American Consortium on EU Studies. For information, call 202-663-5796 or email
ntobin@jhu.edu. 806 Rome Bldg. SAIS
Wed., March 7, 12:45 p.m. “Brazil’s Internal Party Politics and Upcoming Municipal Elections: Implications for the 2014 Presidential Race,” a SAIS Latin American Studies Program discussion with Joao Augusto de Castro Neves, The Brazilian Economy. For information, call 202-663-5734 or jzurek1@jhu.edu. 517 Nitze Bldg. SAIS
Mon., March 12, 12:30 p.m. “Tracking Development: African Power and Politics,” a SAIS African Studies Program discussion with David Henley, University of Leiden, the Netherlands; and David Booth, Overseas Development Institute. For information, call 202-663-5676 or email itolber1@jhu.edu. 500 Bernstein-Offit Bldg. SAIS
FILM/VIDEO
Thurs., March 8, 7 p.m. Screening of Letters From Iwo Jima, directed by Clint Eastwood. Sponsored by East Asian Studies. 113 Greenhouse. HW
Fri., March 9, 2 p.m. Screening of Broken Tower, about the life and work of the poet Hart Crane, directed by James Franco. (See story, p. 5.) Co-sponsored by the Program in Film and Media Studies, the Writing Seminars and the JHU Press. Shriver Hall. HW
LECTURES
Mon., March 5, 12:15 p.m. “Modeling Tobacco Policy Effects: What Has Worked and What Has Not Worked,” an Institute for Global Tobacco Control lecture by David Levy, Georgetown University. Part of the Innovations in Tobacco Control series. Co-sponsored by the Johns Hopkins Global Center on Childhood Obesity. E2030 SPH. EB
Thurs., March 8, 5 p.m. “Apelles and the Painting of Language,” a Classics lecture by Katherine Gutzwiller, University of Cincinnati. 108 Gilman. HW
Mon., March 12, 4:30 p.m. The Kempf Lecture—“Mean Curvature Flow” by Tobias Colding, MIT. Sponsored by Mathematics. 308 Krieger. HW
MUSIC
Wed., March 7, 7:30 p.m. The Peabody Chamber Winds performs music by Samuel Adler, Claude Arrieu and Joachim Raff. Griswold Hall. Peabody
Sun., March 11, 4 p.m. Organ concert with Donald Sutherland, and the C Street Brass Quintet. $15 general admission, $10 for senior citizens and $5 for students with ID. Griswold Hall. Peabody
READINGS/
BOOK TALKS
Tues., March 6, 6 p.m. Poetry reading by Alice Notley. Sponsored by English. 132 Gilman. HW
SEMINARS
Mon., March 5, 9 a.m. “Glycemia, Race and Liver Disease in the General Population,” an Epidemiology thesis defense seminar with Andrea Schneider. W2008 SPH. EB
Mon., March 5, noon. “Maintaining Repression of Genes During Development: The Structure of Silence,” a Biophysics seminar with Robert Kingston, Massachusetts General Hospital. 111 Mergenthaler. HW
Mon., March 5, 12:15 p.m. “Hormonal Control of Energy Balance,” a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with William Wong, SoM. Rose Auditorium, 3520 San Martin Drive. HW
Mon., March 5, 12:15 p.m. “Community Risk for Antimicrobial-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus,” an Environmental Health Sciences thesis defense seminar with Meghan Frost. W3008 SPH. EB
Mon., March 5, 4 p.m. “Disability and Disclosure: The Public Life and Private Ailments of Mary Church Terrell,” a History seminar with Alison Parker, SUNY, Brockport. 308 Gilman. HW
Mon., March 5, 4:30 p.m. “2-Nilpotent Real Section Conjecture,” a Topology seminar with Kirsten Wickelgren, Harvard University. Sponsored by Mathematics. 308 Gilman. HW
Tues., March 6, 10 a.m. “Regulation and Function of BLM SUMOylation During DNA Damage Response,” a Biochemistry and Molecular Biology thesis defense seminar with Jianmei Zhu. W2030 SPH. EB
Tues., March 6, 10:45 a.m. “Scalable Bayesian Learning for Complex Tensor-Valued Data,” a Computer Science seminar with Alan Qi, Purdue University. B17 Hackerman. HW
Tues., March 6, noon. “Fast, Accurate and Robust Multilingual Syntactic Analysis,” a Center for Language and Speech Processing seminar with Slav Petrov, Google. B17 Hackerman. HW
Tues., March 6, noon. “Sensing Everything at Once: Gating and Pharmacology of Two-Pore Potassium Channels,” a Physiology seminar with Sviatoslav Bagriantsev, University of California, San Francisco. 203 Physiology. EB
Tues., March 6, 12:10 p.m. “Injury and Violence Prevention: The Public Health Achievement of the Decade,” a Graduate Seminar in Injury Research and Policy with Linda Degutis, director, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control. Sponsored by the Center for Injury Research and Policy. W2008 SPH. EB
Tues., March 6, 1:30 p.m. “From Smile Wings to Market Risk Measures,” an Applied Mathematics and Statistics seminar with Stephan Sturm, Princeton University. 304 Whitehead. HW
Tues., March 6, 2 p.m. “Case Studies in Costs and Access to Health Services to Inform Health Management and Planning Decisions,” an International Health thesis defense seminar with Benjamin Johns. W3031 SPH. EB
Tues., March 6, 2 p.m. “Migration and Differentiation of CD8+ T Cells Against Malaria Sporozoites,” a Molecular Microbiology and Immunology thesis defense seminar with Sze-Wah Tse. W1214 SPH. EB
Tues., March 6, 3 p.m. The M. Gordon Wolman Seminar—“Rotavirus: Deposition, Aggregation and Inactivation Kinetics” with Thanh “Helen” Nguyen, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Sponsored by Geography and Environmental Engineering. 234 Ames. HW
Tues., March 6, 4 p.m. “Unraveling the Mechanism of Hedgehog Signal Reception,” a Biology special seminar with Xiaoyan Zheng, Stanford University School of Medicine. 100 Mudd. HW
Wed., March 7, 8:30 a.m. “Til Death (From Any Cause) Do Us Part?” a Center for Clinical Trials seminar with Nancy Geller, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. W4030 SPH. EB
Wed., March 7, 9 a.m. “Evaluation of an HIV Peer Education Program Among Yi Minority Youth in China,” an International Health thesis defense seminar with Shan Qiao. W2008 SPH. EB
Wed., March 7, 12:15 p.m. Mental Health Noon Seminar—“Advancing the Field of Implementation Science” with C. Hendricks Brown, University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine. B14B Hampton House. EB
Wed., March 7, 2 p.m. “Non-Canonical Expression and Post-Transcriptional Regulation of Vitellogenin Genes in Mosquitoes,” a Molecular Microbiology and Immunology thesis defense seminar with Katie Provost-Javier. W1214 SPH. EB
Wed., March 7, 4 p.m. “Large-Scale Analysis of Yeast Invasive Growth…and Other Fun Things,” a Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences seminar with Anuj Kumar, University of Michigan. West Lecture Hall (ground floor), WBSB. EB
Wed., March 7, 4 p.m. “Score and Pseudo-Score Confidence Intervals for Categorical Data Analyses,” a Biostatistics seminar with Alan Agresti, University of Florida (emeritus). W2030 SPH. EB
Wed., March 7, 4 p.m. “You #$%^&’s Will Think You Invented Baseball: Hank Aaron and the 1970s Discourse of Racial Resentment,” a History seminar with historian and journalist Rick Perlstein. 308 Gilman. HW
Wed., March 7, 5 p.m. “The Project of Critical Phenomenology,” a Philosophy seminar with Michael Marder, University of the Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz. Co-sponsored by German and Romance Languages and Literatures. 288 Gilman. HW
Wed., March 7, 6:30 p.m. Tropical Medicine Dinner Club of Baltimore—“Estimating the Impact of Scaling Up Interventions on Maternal and Child Health: The Lives Saved Tool (LiST)” with Neff Walker, SPH. Tickets are $20 for members for the seminar and buffet, $25 for non-members, $15 for residents and fellows and $10 for students. RSVP by noon on March 5 to mksmith@jhsph.edu. Johns Hopkins Club. HW
Thurs., March 8, noon. The Bromery Seminar—“Petrologic and Geochemical Evidence for Fluid-Rock Interactions and Mass Transfer in Subduction Zone Metamorphic Rocks” with Sarah Penniston-Dorland, University of Maryland. Sponsored by Earth and Planetary Sciences. Olin Auditorium. HW
Thurs., March 8, noon. “Interferon Lambda and the Regulation of the Human Th2 Response,” a Molecular Microbiology and Immunology/Infectious Diseases seminar with Grant Gallagher, Humigen LLC/Institute for Genetic Immunology. W1020 SPH. EB
Thurs., March 8, 1:30 p.m. “An Assessment of Maternal Health Service Needs of Immigrant Women Living in East Calgary,” an International Health thesis defense seminar with Seema Parmar. W2030 SPH. EB
Thurs., March 8, 1:30 p.m. “SKART: A Skewness- and Auto-regression-Adjusted Batch-Means Procedure for Simulation Analysis,” an Applied Mathematics and Statistics seminar with James Wilson, North Carolina State University. 304 Whitehead. HW
Thurs., March 8, 3 p.m. “Emergent Complexity of Multiscale Computational Modeling,” a Mechanical Engineering seminar with Willy Wiggers, Weill Cornell Medical College. 210 Hodson. HW
Thurs., March 8, 4:15 p.m. “What Is Explanation in Mathematics?” a Philosophy seminar with Marc Lange, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Co-sponsored by the Center for History and Philosophy of Science. 288 Gilman. HW
Fri., March 9, 8 a.m. “Transplant Education, Advocacy and the Search for Living Donors,” a Graduate Training Program in Clinical Investigation thesis defense seminar with Jacqueline Wang. E2527 SPH. EB
Fri., March 9, 11 a.m. “Relativistic Dissipative Fluid Dynamics Confronts Experiment,” a CEAFM seminar with Paul Romatschke, University of Colorado. 50 Gilman. HW
Fri., March 9, 12:15 p.m. “EpiSol Study Simulator 1.0—A Tool to Design Cost-Efficient Epidemiological Studies,” an Epidemiology thesis defense seminar with Lynn Huynh. W1214 SPH. EB
Fri., March 9, 1 p.m. “Lead and Child Health in Mining-Affected Communities,” an Environmental Health Sciences thesis defense seminar with Susan Moodie. W4030 SPH. EB
Fri., March 9, 3 p.m. “Robust Statistical Methods for the Study of Disease Through Complex Structural Outcomes,” a Biostatistics thesis defense seminar with Russell Shinohara. W2030 SPH. EB
Fri., March 9, 3 p.m. “The Clonogenic and Molecular Impact of Genomic Demethylation,” a Cellular and Molecular Medicine Graduate Program thesis defense seminar with Elisabeth Heuston. 3M42 CRB I. EB
Mon., March 12, 10 a.m. “Alcohol Outlets and Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drug Exposure in Children and Young Adults,” a Mental Health thesis defense seminar with Adam Milam. 188 Hampton House. EB
Mon., March 12, noon. “Recent Specialization of the Mammalian X Chromosome,” a Biochemistry and Molecular Biology seminar with Jacob Mueller, Whitehead Institute. W1020 SPH. EB
Mon., March 12, 12:15 p.m. “Bundles and Buds: New Views of mRNP Structure and Nucleocytoplasmic Export,” a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with Melissa Moore, University of Massachusetts Medical School. Rose Auditorium, 3520 San Martin Drive. HW
Mon., March 12, 12:15 p.m. “Medicaid: Safety Net Under Stress,” a Health Policy and Management faculty candidate seminar with Sheila Burke of Baker Donelson Bearman, Caldwell and Berkowitz, PC. B14B Hampton House. EB
SPECIAL EVENTS
The 2012 Tournees Festival of Contemporary French Cinema at JHU concludes. Co-sponsored by German and Romance Languages and Literatures, the Program in Film and Media Studies, and the Centre Louis Marin, with the support of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the French Ministry of Culture. Films are in French with English subtitles. 50 Gilman. HW
• Mon., March 5, 7:30 p.m. Potiche, directed by Francois Ozon. Presented by Laura Mason, KSAS.
• Thurs., March 8, 7:30 p.m. Gods and Men (Des hommes et des dieux), directed by Xavier Beauvois. Presented by William Egginton and Kristin Cook-Gailloud, both of KSAS.
Tues., March 6, 8 p.m. The 2012 Foreign Affairs Symposium—The Paradox of Progress: Chasing Advancement Amidst Global Crisis—presents an Occupy Wall Street panel, a chance for audience members to engage in discussion with representatives from Occupy sites across North America. The event was planned in partnership with Occupy Baltimore and its affiliate organization, B-HEARD. Shriver Hall. HW
Wed., March 7, 12:15 p.m. “On the Future of Food,” a lecture and book signing by author, former pro basketball player, ex-corporate sales leader and longtime farmer Will Allen, founder and CEO of Growing Power Inc., a farm and community food center in Milwaukee. (See photo, p. 12.) Sponsored by the Center for a Livable Future. To RSVP, email events@jhsph.edu. E2014 SPH. EB
Thurs., March 8, noon to 1:30 p.m. The Black Faculty and Staff Association’s annual Women’s Forum and Luncheon, featuring a talk, “From Annotto Bay to the Chesapeake Bay: What I’ve Learned About Superwoman, Wonderwoman and the Phenomenal Woman” by Cheryl A.M. Anderson, SPH. Tickets are $15 ($5 for current BFSA members and JHU students). To register, go to http://bfsa.jhu.edu, click on “Events” and then “Women’s Forum.” Powe Room, SPH. EB
Sun., March 11, 1 to 4 p.m. Opening celebration for Evergreen Museum & Library spring exhibitions: Alix Ayme: European Perception and Asian Poeticism, first American retrospective of the French female painter (continues through Sept. 30), and Tai Hwa Goh: Lullaby in Evergreen, an installation of works by Evergreen’s artist-in-residence, Korean print- and papermaker Tai Hwa Goh (continues through May 27). Sponsored by JHU Museums. To RSVP, call 410-516-0341 or email evergreenmuseum@jhu.edu. Evergreen Museum & Library.
Sun., March 11, 3 p.m. Digital Media Center Artist Talk—Installation artist Lexie Mountain on her artistic work and practice, and composer, producer and author David Revill on the topic “Art, the Future and Technology.” Discussion and Q&A to follow. 101 F. Ross Jones Bldg., Mattin Center. HW
Sun., March 11, 3 p.m. Applause for a Cause, benefit concert for Peabody Prep’s Tuned-In Program, with guests Brassivity, Eastern Edge Brass and the Latin American Trio. (See story, p. 10.) $20 general admission, $10 for students. An Die Musik, 409 N. Charles St.
SYMPOSIA
Mon., March 5, 8:15 a.m. to 5 p.m. Touch and the Visual Arts: Neuroscience, Art and Art History—A Johns Hopkins Medicine Brain Science Institute symposium bringing together researchers and artists in a conversation about aesthetics and beauty in music, architecture, art and dance. Co-sponsored by the Walters Art Museum, with additional sponsorship by Sothebys. For information, email bsmith13@jhmi.edu. Mason Hall Auditorium. HW
• “The Neuroscience of Touch and the Arts,” with Steven Hsiao, SoM; Steve Guest, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Francis McGlone, Liverpool John Moores University; and Charles Spence, Oxford University.
• “Touch and Tactility as Elements of Making Art and Art Appreciation,” with Joaneath Spicer, Walters Art Museum; Francesco Freddolini, the Getty Research Institute; Henry Howard-Sneyd, Sothebys; and Emily Braun, SoM.
Tues., March 6, 10 a.m. to noon. “Crossmodal Correspondences: Looking for Links Between Sound Symbolism and Synaesthesia and Their Application to Multisensory Marketing” by Charles Spence, Oxford University; and “The Two Sides of Touch: One Senses, One Feels…” by Francis McGlone, Liverpool John Moores University. Special mini-symposia sponsored by the Zanvyl Krieger Mind/Brain Institute. 338 Krieger. HW
THEATER
Fri., March 9 and Sat., March 10, 8 p.m., and Sun., March 11, 2 p.m. Johns Hopkins University Theatre presents the world premiere of Nicky Glossman’s Legion. (See story, p. 7.) $15 general admission, $5 for students with ID, $13 for senior citizens, JHU faculty, staff and alumni. Astin Theatre, Merrick Barn. HW