Wed., Sept. 17

8:00 P.M. "Strindberg's Hostility Towards the Jews," by Nina Solomin, Svenska Dagbladet. Swedish Program. Deutsches Haus.

Fri., Sept. 19

3:10 P.M. "Anomalous Transport and Maxwell Demon," by George Zaslavsky, NYU. Plasma Physics Colloquia. 214 Mudd.

3:30 P.M. "Levy Walks on Pore Surfaces: NMR Experiments and Computer Simulations," by Rainer Kimmich, Univ. of Ulm, Germany. Polymer and Interface Science Seminar, sponsored by dept. of chemistry, chemical engineering and applied chemistry. 209 Havemeyer.

Mon., Sept. 22

Noon. "Discerning Qualities of Democracy in Korea and Postcommunist Countries," by Richard Rose, Univ. of Strathclyde. East Asian Institute Brown Bag Lunch and Lecture Series. 9th Floor, IAB.

4:10 P.M. "On the Phenomenon of Quasi-Biennial Oscillations," by K.K. Tung, Univ. of Washington. Applied Mathematics Colloquia. 214 Mudd.

Tues., Sept. 23

3:00 P.M. "In the Dust of Kilimanjaro—A Personal Account of Wildlife Conservation," by David Western, director, Kenya Wildlife Service. CERC Conservation Research Talks. 1012 Schermerhorn.

8:00 P.M. "La Mémoire de L'amour dans la Poésie des Troubadours," by Michel Zink, College de France. Maison Française. In French. Buell.

Walk to Cure Diabetes On Sun., Sept. 28 at 9:00 A.M., the Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center will sponsor a 7.2 mile walk beginning in downtown Manhattan to raise money for diabetes research. Registration required. Information: 689-2860. Battery Park.

Wed., Sept. 24

12:15 P.M. "New Thinking in the Arab World," by Muhammad Muslih, CW Post College. Middle East Institute Brown Bag Lunch and Lecture Series. 1118 IAB.

4:00 P.M. Rio Branco Chair Inauguration. Speakers will include Luiz Felipe Lampreia, Foreign Minister of Brazil; Lisa Anderson, dean, SIPA; Kenneth Maxwell, Council of Foreign Relations; Alfred Stepan, former dean of SIPA. Institute of Latin American and Iberian Studies. Dag Hammarskjold Lounge, IAB.

Thurs., Sept. 25

Noon. "The Prospects for Russian Federalism After Chechnya: A View from Bashkoristan," by Ildus Ilyshev, Russian Academy of Sciences. Harriman Institute Brown Bag Lunch and Lecture Series. 1219 IAB.

4:30 P.M. "MDSRS Imaging—An Optical Analog of MRI," by Pamela Aker, Univ. of Pittsburgh. Dept. of Chemistry Colloquia. 209 Havemeyer.

6:30 P.M. "King Kong and the Palace of the Supreme Soviets," by Susan Buck-Morss, Cornell. Buell Evening Lecture. Sponsored by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill. Wood Auditorium, Avery.

8:00 P.M. "L'histoire Culturelle en France," by Jean-Pierre Rioux, Vingtieme Siecle-Revue d'histoire. Maison Française. In French. Buell.

Fri., Sept. 26

1:30 P.M. Symposium in Memory of C.S. Wu, world-renowned Columbia physicist who died February 1997. Speakers include University Professor T.D. Lee; Evelyn Hu, U.C.-Santa Barbara; Noemie Koller, Rutgers Univ.; David Hitlin, California Institute of Technology. Dept. of physics. 301 Pupin.

3:10 P.M. "National Spherical Tours Experiment," by Masayuki Ono, Princeton. Plasma Physics Colloquia. 214 Mudd.

Mon., Sept. 29

4:10 P.M. "High Order Methods for Computational Electromagnetics," by Jan Hesthaven, Brown. Applied Mathematics Colloquia. 214 Mudd.

6:00 P.M. "Men Becoming Women: the Gandhian Configuration," by Kumkum Sangari, Nehru Memorial Library and Museum. Southern Asian Institute. 517 Hamilton.

Tues., Sept. 30

3:00 P.M. "How to Avoid Pseudoreplication in Experimental Design," by John Glendinning, professor of environmental science. CERC Conservation Research Talks. 1015 Schermerhorn.

4:00 P.M. "How Well Can We Predict Climate Changes?" by Edward N. Lorenz. Earth Institute and International Research Institute. Davis Auditorium, Schapiro Engineering.

Autobiography in Word and Vision: New York Women in the 1990s. Works by Shane Newmark, Nancy and Nina Ross. Liberal Studies Master of Arts Program. Through Oct. 17. Opening reception 7:00 P.M., Tues., Sept. 23. 301 Philosophy.

Jerome Lagarrigue: Recent Works. Newspaper collages with oil, acrylic, or pen and ink. Maison Française. Opening reception 7:00 P.M., Mon., Sept. 22. Through Oct. 18. Buell.

Masks from the Brander Matthews Dramatic Museum. Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Through Sept. 26. West Gallery, Butler.

Pare Lorentz, Documentary Filmmaker: The Plow that Broke the Plains and The River. Original still and related location photographs from Lorentz's first two films, the first documentaries produced by the U.S. government. Includes work by Ralph Steiner, Paul Strand, Leo Hurwitz, Stacy Woodward, Floyd Crosby, Willard Van Dyke, Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange and Arthur Rothstein. Mon.: noon-7:45 P.M.; Tues.-Fri.: 9:00 A.M.-4:45 P.M. Through Oct. 17. Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Kempner Exhibition Room, 6th Floor Butler Library.

Synthetic Landscape and the Textualized Landscape: Projects by Smith-Miller and Hawkinson Architects. Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. Through Oct. 10. 9:00 A.M.-5:00 P.M., Mon.-Fri. 100 Level, Avery.

American Documentary Bam White (above), a native of the Great Plains, in Pare Lorentz's film, The Plow that Broke the Plains. Part of the Rare Book and Manuscript Library's fall exhibit (see Exhibits for details).

Thurs., Sept. 18

5:00 P.M. Unveiling of Renaissance poet Sir Philip Sidney's portrait. Reception to follow. Rare Book and Manuscript Library. 6th Floor, Butler.

Tues., Sept. 23

8:00 P.M. Film screening, Trop Belle pour Toi," directed by B. Blier. Maison Française. In French with subtitles. Free admission for Maison Française members, $1 students/seniors, $2 general public. 2nd Floor, Buell.

Tues.-Thurs., Sept. 23-25

10:00 A.M. Security Awareness Days. Talks, vendors, raffle. Dept. of security. Hamilton Lawn, South Field.

Wed., Sept. 24

6:30 P.M. Film screening, Grand Hotel, directed by Edmund Goulding. Dept. of Germanic Languages 'Berlin in Video' Series. In English. Free admission. Deutsches Haus.

Thurs., Sept. 25

3:30 P.M. Café y Conversacion. Weekly informal gathering for student practice of Spanish. Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese. 2nd Floor Lounge, Casa Hispanica.

5:30 P.M. Fiction Reading, by Cynthia Ozick, novelist. Selections from her new book, The Puttermesser Papers. Barnard Center for Research on Women and The Ingeberg, Tamara and Jonina Rennert Women in Judaism Forum. Sulzberger Parlor, Barnard.

Fri., Sept. 26

1:15 P.M. University Senate Meeting. Tickets available at Senate Office, 406 Low, morning of meeting. CUID required. Information: 854-2023. 501 Schermerhorn.

Fri.-Sat., Sept. 26-27

9:30 A.M. (Fri.); 10:00 A.M. (Sat.). International Colloquium—"To Overcome a Past: Vichy France and the Historians." Sterling Currier Fund and Maison Française. Information: 854-4172. Buell.

Mon., Sept. 29

5:30 P.M. Party to Celebrate Jane Gould and Her New Book, Juggling: A Memoir of Work, Family and Feminism. The Feminist Press at CUNY and dept. of women's studies. Reservations: 854-2067. Sulzberger Parlor.

Tues., Sept. 30

8:00 P.M. Film screening, Le Dernier Métro, directed by F. Truffaut. Maison Française. In French with subtitles. Free admission for members of Maison Française, $1 students/seniors, $2 general public. 2nd Floor, Buell.

Wed., Oct. 1

6:30 P.M. Film screening, Cabaret, directed by Bob Fosse. Dept. of Germanic Languages 'Berlin in Video' Series. In English. Free admission. Deutsches Haus.

Thurs., Oct. 2

Noon. Organ Recital, by Adrienne Pavur. Works by Buxtehude, Bach and Vierne. Chapel Music Program. Free admission. St. Paul's Chapel.

3:30 P.M. Café y Conversacion. Weekly informal gathering for student practice of Spanish. Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese. 2nd Floor Lounge, Casa Hispanica.

Fri., Sept. 19

11:00 A.M. "Societal Cost Offset and Patient Outcome Preferences: Following in Emily Mumford's Footsteps," by Kenneth Wells, U.C.L.A. Dept. of Psychiatry Seventh Annual Emily Mumford Lecture. Alumni Auditorium.

Noon. "Assessing Sequence Comparison: the SCOP Database Shows How to Improve Pairwise Sequence Database Searching Ten-Fold," by Steven Brenner, Stanford. Dept. of biochemistry and molecular biophysics. 523 Black.

2:30 P.M. "Alloantigen Pretreatment—A Strategy for Tolerance Induction," by Kathryn J. Wood, Oxford. Immunogenetics Lecture. Fenoglio Library, PH 15 West.

Wed., Sept. 24

Noon. "Post-transcriptional Regulation of Genes of Iron Metabolism," by Tracey A. Rouault, National Institutes of Health. Division of Environmental Health Sciences Seminar. 724 Black.

Thurs., Sept. 25

9:30 A.M. "Creative Solutions for Women at HIV Risk Due to Partners' Behavior: Recent Studies," by Ann O'Leary, Rutgers Univ. HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies. 8th Floor Auditorium, NYSPI.

4:00 P.M. "Mechanism and Control of V(D)J Recombination," by Frederick Alt, Children's Hospital, Boston, MA. Dept. of biochemistry and molecular biophysics. 301 HHSC.

Fri., Sept. 26

Noon. "Particles of Mass, Particles of Charge: Studying Macromolecular Associations Using First Principles," by Thomas Laue, Univ. of New Hampshire. Dept. of biochemistry and molecular biophysics. 523 Black.

Tues., Sept. 30

Noon. "Molecular Mechanisms Involved in the Polarization of MDCK Cells and Retinal Pigment Epithelium," by Enrique J. Rodriguez-Boulan, Cornell. Physiology and Cellular Biophysics Seminar. Rover Physiology Conference Room, P&S 11-505.

Wed., Oct. 1

11:30 A.M. "Antisocial Behavior in Girls and Women: Stable Desistence in the Majority, Chronic Resistence in the Minority," by Rolf Loeber, Univ. of Pittsburgh. Child Psychiatry Grand Rounds. 8th Floor Auditorium, NYSPI.

Thurs., Oct. 2

12:30 P.M. "Female Genital Mutilation: Beyond the Basics. Update on Research and Interventions," by Nahid Toubia, assistant professor of public health. Center for Population and Family Health Seminar Series. 60 Haven Ave., B-3.

All events take place at Baker Field.,

Wed., Sept. 24

7:00 P.M. Men's Soccer vs. Hofstra.

Sat., Sept. 27

1:00 P.M. Varsity Football vs. Towson.

Tues., Sept. 30

7:00 P.M. Women's Soccer vs. Wagner.