THE RIVER - Jean Renoir's first film in color was shot in India and is based on Rumer Godden's novel about a young girl's growing pains in a foreign land. Sonoma Film Institute. 4 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 26, Warren Auditorium, (707) 664-2606.
EVIDENCE FOR THE WARMING OF THE WORLD'S OCEANS - Dr. Tim Barnett of the UC San Diego describes recent evidence for human-induced warming of the world's oceans. What Physicists Do Lecture Series. 4 p.m., Monday, Feb. 27, Schulz 3001, (707) 664-2119.
GAY LATINO HISTORIES/DYING TO BE DONE - Lecture by Dr. Horacio N. Roque Ramirez, Assistant Professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies at UC Santa Barbara. The lecture addresses the state of gay Latino history in the U.S., the teaching of this history, and the underused strategies and lack of research projects to document and archive this multigender social, cultural, and political history. Queer Studies Lecture Series. Noon, Tuesday, Feb. 28, Carson 68, (707) 664-2840.
THE SOCIOLOGY OF GENOCIDE - Lecture by Dr. Myrna Goodman of Sonoma State University. Holocaust Lecture Series. 4 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 28, Warren Auditorium, (707) 664-4076.
YIYUN LI - Beijing native and Writer Yiyun Li will discuss her craft as well as read from her latest novel, "A Thousand Years of Good Prayers." Writers on Writing Lecture Series. 5 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 28, SSU Art Gallery, (707) 664-2140.
HOW DO WE INFER A THREE-DIMENSIONAL FORM FROM A TWO-DIMENSIONAL OBJECT? - Lecture by Bruno Olshausen, Associate Professor at the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute and School of Optometry at UC Berkeley. Artist Lecture Series. Noon, Wednesday, Mar. 1, Art 102, (707) 664-2364.
SLICING BAGELS: PLANE SECTIONS OF REAL AND COMPLEX TORI - Lecture presented by David Sklar of San Francisco State University. M*A*T*H Colloquium. 4 p.m., Wednesday, March. 1, Stevenson 1002, (707) 664-2368.
CINEFORUM - This week's film is "Que He Hecho Yo Para Merecer!" or "What Have I Done to Deserve This?" 6:45 p.m., Wednesday, March 1, Stevenson 3072, (707) 664-2351.
CONSERVATION OF ECOLOGICAL PROCESSES: LESSONS FROM LONG-TERM STUDIES ON TROPICAL DEFAUNATION - Lecture with Dr. Rodolfo Dirzo of Stanford University. Biology Colloquium. Noon, Thursday, March 2, Stevenson 1002, (707) 664-2189.
WOMEN'S HISTORY LUNCHES - Lecturers include Dr. Randall Dodgen presenting "The New Chinese Entrepreneurial Woman: What Would Confucius Say? Or Mao?" and Dr. Catherine Nelson presenting "Is It Already Too Late? What Really Happened to Roe v. Wade?" Noon, Thursday, March 2, Salazar 2021, (707) 664-2313.
PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE EVOLUTION: PUSHING THE LIMITS OF TECHNOLOGY - Lecture by Carol Thompson Eidt of Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA. This talk will trace the evolution of programming languages, along with the technologies that both constrained and enabled that evolution, with an emphasis on the interplay between processor architecture and compiler design. Computer Science Colloquium. Noon, Thursday, March 2, Salazar 2016, (707) 664-2667.
LE TROU - Jacques Becker's last film is one of the great prison escape films, and a profound meditation on freedom and confinement. Sonoma Film Institute. 7 p.m. Thursday, March 2, Stevenson 1002, (707) 664-2606.
THE CRANES ARE FLYING - This film is a tale of war and lost love, of individuals who suffer because of the follies of their leaders. The heroine is a young Russian girl, Veronica, whose sweetheart, Boris, volunteers to fight for his country at the outbreak of World War II. Sonoma Film Institute. 7 p.m., Friday, March 3, Warren Auditorium, (707) 664-2606.
MELANIE KENT STEINHARDT: THE LIFE AND ART OF AN EMIGRE - The University Library Art Gallery at Sonoma State University is exhibiting the artworks of Melanie Kent Steinhardt (1899-1952) through March 24. Monday-Saturday: 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sunday: Noon - 5 p.m., University Library Art Gallery, (707) 664-4240.
