Lectures
IMAGING WITH X-RAY LASERS - Dr. Stefano Marchesini, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, describes how novel x-ray sources will be used for high resolution three dimensional tomographic imaging required for developing nanoscience and nanotechnology. What Physicists Do Lecture Series. 4 p.m. Mon., March 9. Reception, 3:30 p.m. Darwin 103. http://www.phys-astro.sonoma.edu/wpd/.
ONLY SIX DEGREES? SEXUAL NETWORKS AND HIV PREVENTION IN QUEER MALE COMMUNITIES - Scholar-activist Kyriell Noon (left), Executive Director of STOP AIDS Project, describes how even in major metropolitan areas, queer men are more closely connected to each other through sexual networks than previously thought. Working these networks to guide HIV prevention allows agencies to support existing friend groups, maximize community assets, and shape healthy community norms. Women's Health Lecture Series. Noon-12:50 p.m., Tues., March 10. Carson 68. http://www.sonoma.edu/WomenStudies/current_lectures.htm.
PANDEMIC FLU - Dr. Mark Netherda, Sonoma County Dept. of Health Services, examines the danger of a flu pandemic. Biology Colloquium Lecture Series. Noon to 1 p.m. Tues., March 10. Darwin 103. http://www.sonoma.edu/biology/home/colloquium.shtml.
SAFE HARBOR? CULTURAL PLURALISM AND A CONTESTED LANDSCAPES IN A HISTORICAL FIJIAN PORT-O-CALL - Anthropology professor Margie Purser explores the cultural landscape of Levuka, Fiji, a port town that demonstrates the complex development history of one 19th century Pacific port of call in the context of later British colonialism. School of Social Sciences Brown Bag Series. Noon to 1 p.m., Tues., March 10. Stevenson 2011. http://www.sonoma.edu/socsci/.
BREAKING THE SILENCE: A HOLOCAUST CHILDHOOD - Author Paul A. Schwarzbart (left) presents a lecture on the years of his childhood spent in hiding at a Catholic boys school. 26th annual Holocaust and Genocide Lecture Series. 4 - 5:40 p.m., Tues., March 10. Warren Auditorium, Ives 101. http://www.sonoma.edu/holocaust/center.htm.
WHY CERTAIN INTEGRALS ARE "IMPOSSIBLE" - Pete Goetz, California State University Humboldt, explains why certain integrals are "impossible." The proofs rely on a 19th century theorem due to Liouville, and can be phrased in the language of differential Galois theory. M*A*T*H* Colloquium Lecture Series. 4 p.m., Wed., March 11. Reception, 3:45 p.m. Darwin 103. http://www.sonoma.edu/math/nsf/colloquium.shtml.
PI DAY - SSU's Math Club holds its once-a-year tribute to the number Pi by with a pie-throwing fundraiser. The club provides an opportunity for participants to throw pies at the math faculty. For $1, students can throw a pie at a faculty member. For $5, students can walk up and smash the pie directly onto their target. A video from last years Pi Day fundraiser can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dtw-IDBfh8. Noon, Thurs., March 12, outside the west entrance to Darwin Hall.
"'BELOVED COMMUNITY IN THE TECHNOLOGICAL AGE" - Kim Hester-Williams, chair of the English Department, explores "Oprah, Obama, and the Popularization of 21st Century African American Expressive Iconography." She suggests that arguing that possessing expressive "blackness" through language, media, and music seems to suggest an unremitting belief that African-American expressive discourses can save a spiritually deprived, alienated, and tenuous "technological age." Arts and Humanities Forum. Noon, Thursday, Mar. 12. Schulz 3001. (707) 664-2146 or http://www.sonoma.edu/a_h/AHForum.htm.
RUBY: AN INTRODUCTION - Ytha Y. Yu, California State University East Bay, offers a quick tour of Ruby, an interpreted object oriented programming language that has become popular recently. The Ruby on Rails framework is designed for fast and easy development of websites. Computer Science Colloquium Lecture Series. Noon, Thurs., March 12. Salazar 2016. http://www.cs.sonoma.edu/cs_dept/events/index.html.
"AIR: THE ANTIDOTE TO NATURE DEFICIT " - Rocky Rohwedder, Professor of Environmental Studies and Planning, leads a panel discussions on the increasingly important role of experiential, outdoor and community-based approaches to teaching and learning to offset the injury done to the human body by excessive exposure to electronic devices, especially among young people. Rohwedder calls this "nature deficit" and the first step is fresh air. Panelists include Ethnobotanist Kathleen Harrison and Craig Anderson, Executive Director of Landpaths, experts who work to connect students with outdoor classrooms. Six Elements of Sustainability Lecture Series. 4 - 6 p.m. Thurs., March 12. Environmental Technology Center. Rocky Rohwedder, (707) 664-2249.
THE DEEPENING ECONOMIC CRISIS: CAUSES, EFFECTS, SOLUTIONS - Richard Becker, the Western Regional Coordinator for the A.N.S.W.E.R. coalition, explores the "real causes of the present recession" - the housing bubble, the deliberate inflation of housing prices and loans, and wild speculation - and more long-term underlying problems. He will address how millions of people are being negatively affected and what needs to be done to help the growing numbers of people who are being harshly affected by the crisis. $5 optional donation at the door accepted for expenses. Students and low-income guests admitted free. Project Censored, Students for Media Democracy, and Media Freedom Foundation.7 p.m. Thurs., March 12. Jean and Charles Schulz Information Center. Peter Phillips. (707) 664-2588.
MARY LIGHTFINE: NURSE WITHOUT BOUNDARIES - Mary Lightfine, author of "Nurses, Nomads and Warlords," founder of Nurses Without Boundaries and a seasoned veteran of the Nobel Prize-winning organization Doctors Without Borders, presents an inspiring multimedia presentation that illustrates how one person can make a difference in the world. Lightfine has felt the inhumanity of war, starvation and desperation from an up close and has lived among dozens of the world's most fascinating cultures in Countries like Afghanistan, Somalia and Sudan. She will be speaking about all that she has encountered on her journeys, encouraging a new generation of leaders who intend to make a difference in the world around them. 7:30 p.m. Thurs., March 12. Cooperage. (707) 664-2382. http://www.sonoma.edu/as/asp/more/0312730.shtml.
THE TYRANNY OF OIL: THE WORLD'S MOST POWERFUL INDUSTRY-- AND WHAT WE MUST DO TO STOP IT - Antonia Juhasz discusses her new book, "The Tyranny of Oil: The World's Most Powerful Industry- And What We Must Do to Stop It" and "What Now" for U.S. oil and energy policy with the new Obama administration. Modern Media Censorship Lecture. 7 p.m., Fri., March 13. Stevenson 1002. (707) 664-3160. simsk@sonoma.edu.
STAND-UP COMEDY WITH MARGARET FRANCE - Maragaret France draws on her experiences as teh smart, saucy, lesbian next door. She has become a variety show until herself by including costumes, singing and dancing into her act. Fri., March 13, 8 p.m. The Pub. http://www.sonoma.edu/as/asp.
PUBLIC VIEWING NIGHT - Join amateur and professional astronomers to observe the Orion Nebula and the Beehive Cluster. 8 - 10 p.m. Friday, March 13. The Observatory is located inside the stadium area at the southeast corner of the campus. Call before coming if it appears possible that clouds or fog may force cancellation. (707) 664-2267. http://www.phys-astro.sonoma.edu/observatory/pvn.html.
Films
SILENT COMEDIES: CHAPLIN, KEATON AND LANGDON! - A selection of three silent comedies featuring Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Harry Langdon. A DOG'S LIFE - (left) Regarded by many as Charles Chaplin's first masterpiece, the Little Tramp rescues a mutt from a dogfight. (1918, 40 min., silent). THE GOAT - A mistaken-identity crisis precipitates an almost continuous - and continuously brilliant - chase through two adjoining towns where Buster Keaton is taken for Dead Eye Dan, Public Enemy. (1921, 23 min., silent). THREE'S A CROWD - Rarely shown film by the baby-faced silent clown Harry Langdon. This sentimental comedy that finds Langdon caring for a young woman and her child lost in a snowstorm. (1927, 60 min., silent) Screenings on Thurs., March 12 at 7 p.m. in Darwin 103 and Fri., March 13 at 7 p.m. and Sun., March 15 at 4 p.m. Warren Auditorium, Ives 101. (707) 664-2606, http://www.sonoma.edu/sfi/contact.html.
NICK AND NORAH'S INFINITE PLAYLIST - (2008) (right) A comedy about two people thrust together for one hilarious, sleepless night of adventure in a world of mix tapes, late-night living and live, loud music. Scene It Big Screen Movie Night. 9 p.m., Sat., March 14. Cooperage. (707) 664-2804.
Galleries
HIDDEN TREASURES: SELECTIONS FROM THE SSU ART GALLERY PERMANENT COLLECTION - Many of the 16 artists shown are household names - Picasso, Miro, Kandinsky; others are names known to those more familiar with 20th century art history - Dubuffet, Appel, Bellmer; and many others are renowned Bay Area artists - Morehouse, De Forest, Linhares. These works have come to the SSU Art Gallery from generous donors - some who have been collectors their whole lives, some who have donated one piece, all of whom believe in public education and access to art. The University Library Art Gallery is open Monday-Friday, 8 am - 5 pm; weekends, noon-5 p.m. Through Fri., March 13. Karen Brodsky, (707) 664-4240.
CONTEMPORARY WARRIOR: SCULPTURE BY WANXIN ZHANG - With a collection of clay figures intended as a reference to the first Chinese emperor Qin Shi Huang, whose mausoleum was discovered through four pits excavated starting in 1974, Zhang explores his own inner warrior and represents the world he sees through an artistic kaleidoscope. On view until Sun., March 22. Tues.- Fri., 11 a.m.- 4 p.m.; weekends, noon- 4 p.m. University Art Gallery. Carla Stone. (707) 664-2295.
MIGRATION IMMIGRATION: HUNG LIU - Born in China, Oakland painter Hung Liu combines Western and Chinese traditions to create larger-than-life images that often make use of anonymous Chinese historical photographs, particularly those of women, as subject matter. Many of her paintings and prints incorporate imagery from photographs taken during China's Cultural Revolution of the late 1960s. Thurs., Feb 26 through Sun., March 22. Tues.- Fri., 11 a.m.- 4 p.m.; weekends, noon- 4 p.m. University Art Gallery. Carla Stone. (707) 664-2295.
