Update

OCTOBER AT PENN

CORRECTION

The October AT PENN incorretly listed the date of the reception for the exhibit, Master of Fine Arts 1st Year Preview. The reception will be on October 28. The exhibit runs through November 7.

POSTPONED

The lecture entitled Racial and Nonracial Republics: Comparisons of Race and Reconciliation in South Africa and the USA originally scheduled for October 23 has been postponed until spring.

EXHIBITS

28  Picture Stories; photography by Rita Bernstein that focuses on views of domestic life and the ambiguities of family relations; Burrison Gallery, Faculty Club; reception November 12, 4:30 p.m. Through November 30.

Liv, Sophie, and Charlotte by Rita Bernstein, 2003.
Carbon Print Image.

Ongoing

A Wonderful Life: A Daughter's Tribute to a Family of Educators; digital art by Joan Myerson Shrager that celebrates those who dedicated their lives to teaching; Student Lounge, GSE.

Pennsylvania Daughter by Joan Myerson Shrager. Digital art.

FILM

22  Cidade de Deus/City of God; Portuguese w/ English subtitles; 9 p.m.; Class of 1938 Lounge; free w/PennCard, others e-mail moiraf@sas.upenn.edu (Latin American Film Series).

SPECIAL EVENT

23  SPEC Crafts Fair; 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; Locust Walk (SPEC). Also October 24.

TALKS

22  Smallpox as a Weapon of Bioterrorism: Should You Be Afraid?; Mark Sifla, OHSU Vaccine Group and Gene Therapy; noon; Auditorium, CRB (Microbiology).

Mapping Augustine Rome: Towards the Digital Book; David Gilman Romano, UPM; Andrew Gallia, ancient history; Lothar Haselberger, history of art; 5 p.m.; rm. 113, Jaffe Bldg. (Center for Italian Studies).

23  Guns, Youth Violence, and Social Identity; Deanna Wilkinson, Temple University; 9:30 a.m.; rm. F55, Jon M. Huntsman Hall (Firearm and Injury Center at Penn).

A Philosophical Interpretation of a Late Ottoman Calligraphy from the Museum of Islamic Art in Raqqada (Tunisia); Valerie Gonzalez, author; 4:30 p.m.; rm. 104, Jaffe Bldg.; rsvp rholdo@sas.upenn.edu (Middle Eastern Center).

27  Regulation of Membrane Movement, Fusion, and Fission; Lois Weisman, University of Iowa; 2 p.m.; Reunion Hall, John Morgan Bldg. (Pennsylvania Muscle Institute).

Deadlines: The deadline for the weekly Update is each Tuesday, for the following Tuesday's issue. The deadline for December AT PENN is November 11. For Information, see www.upenn.edu/almanac/calendar/caldead-real.html.

  Almanac, Vol. 50, No. 9, October 21, 2003