Academic, Arts, and Cultural Events At UC San Diego

Renowned musicians from San Diego Symphony and UCSD music faculty perform works by Bach, Strauss, and Brahms.

The “Immortal Life” of Henrietta Lacks asks us to consider if a woman who has been dead for 60 years remains in some sense “alive” because descendants of her cells continue to exist and propagate. This claim captures the complex ethical and legal issues at the heart of the book: What does it mean to be “alive”? MODERATOR: Chris Frost, Professor of Religion and Associate Dean, Division of Undergraduate Studies, San Diego State University PANELISTS: Michael Lodahl, Professor of Theology and World Religions, Point Loma Nazarene University Khaleel Mohammed, Associate Professor of Religion, San Diego State University Karma Lekshe Tsomo, Associate Professor of Theology and Religious Studies, University of San Diego This will be the eighth of 9 programs that will focus on the book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. A panel of distinguished religious scholars will discuss how some major world religions’ views of life, death, and the afterlife intersect with theological and ethical issues that lie at the heart of the Henrietta Lacks story. You can SIGN UP though our Ethics Center webpage at: http://www.ethicscenter.net/HeLa_Program8 OR directly through eventbrite at: http://helaprogram8.eventbrite.com/

Running from 1:00-7:00pm at the Visual Arts Facility, UC San Diego artists will welcome the public into their studios. Open Studios is the annual pinnacle event for the MFA and Art Practice PhD students to share their artistic process and finished pieces. Visitors will be able to step inside approximately 50 artist studios and interact with the emerging talent on campus. Artists will be on site to contextualize their work and engage in conversations to deepen the viewer's understanding of their artistic practice. In addition to the open studios, the department highlights the collaborative nature of the PhD program and the MFA program with an exhibition at the Visual Arts Facility Gallery. This exhibition explores the theme of “New Institutions” and will curated by PhD candidates Lara Bullock, Sascha Crasnow, and MFA candidate Elmira Mohebali. For more information about open studios please visit: http://ucsdopenstudios.com/2012/ or contact Sheena Ghanbari, sghanbari@ucsd.edu Open Studios Participating Artists: ADRIENNE GARBINI ALLISON SPENCE ASH ELIZA SMITH BECKY MONARREZ BENJAMIN LOTAN BRIAN ZIMMERMAN CARA BALDWIN CHRISTOPHER KARDAMBIKIS DANIEL REHN DANNY CANNIZZARO EDWARD KIHN ELA BOYD ELIZABETH CHANEY ELMIRA MOHEBALI EMILY VERLA BOVINO EMILY GRENADER EMILY SEVIER FRANKIE MARTIN GARY GARAY HERMIONE SPRIGGS HYEYEON KIM J NOLAND JAEKYUNG JUNG JAMILAH ABDUL-SABUR JESSE HARDING JESSICA SLEDGE JOE YORTY JOSH AARON JOSHUA TONIES KATE CLARK KRISTEN GALLERNEAUX BROOKS MATT SAVITSKY MATTEO ORSINI MIKE CALWAY-FAGEN MISAEL DIAZ NICHOLE SPECIALE NINA PREISENDORFER RAYYANE TABET SADIE BARNETTE SAM KRONICK SCOTT LYNE STEPHANIE LIE TOMAS MORENO VABIANNA SANTOS VANESSA ROVETO WALTER SUTIN YA XIAO

RESEARCH EXPO 2012 SCHEDULE POSTER SESSION 1:30 – 4:30 p.m. More than 230 M.S. and Ph.D. students will display their engineering research results at the poster session. FACULTY PRESENTATIONS 2:30 – 4:30 p.m. Faculty from each of the Jacobs School’s six departments will give ten-minute talks. NETWORKING RECEPTION 4:30 – 6:00 p.m. Get to know graduate students and faculty and see who won the best poster awards. Expand your network. Begin a research collaboration. Identify possible future employees.

Breakfast forum sponsored by the Department of Economics features the perspective and expertise of Darrell Duffie, Dean Witter Distinguished Professor of Finance at Stanford University Graduate School of Business. Darrel Duffie is the author of books and research articles on asset valuation, credit risk, derivative securities, banking, and over-the-counter markets. He is a fellow and member of the Council of the Econometric Society, a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the Financial Advisory Roundtable of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, and was President of the American Finance Association in 2009. Duffie is widely published and his three most recent books are: How Big Banks Fail - And What to Do About It, Measuring Corporate Default Risk, and Dark Markets. He received his Ph.D. in Engineering Economic Systems from Stanford University in 1984.

Cesar Chavez confidant LeRoy Chatfield talks about his experiences working with the United Farm Workers and shares the on-line archive he created.

This year's Muir Musical Ensemble presents, Rent a story of love and loyalty among a group of starving artists in New York's East Village. Among the group are the narrator, a filmmaker named Mark who tells the struggles of his closest friends: Roger, a young, struggling musician/songwriter trying to write one final song before AIDS claims his life. Mimi, a drug addict and club dancer fighting love and disease. Collins, a computer genius plagued by AIDS and his love interest Angel, a transvestite and street musician also suffering from the disease. Maureen, a performance artist, and her lover Joanne. This fast-paced production moves through a collection of vignettes that are united by a rent strike against the landlord of the run-down tenement where some of the characters live. During the course of the play, the characters protest the landlord's plans to evict them and face other obstacles that are more difficult to fight, including drug addiction, AIDS, and troubled relationships. The characters do not overcome all their problems, but those that they do overcome provide them with a sustaining sense of community and the will to endure. Book, music and lyrics by Jonathan Larson.

The Department of Bioengineering and Institute of Engineering in Medicine invite you to attend the Skalak Memorial Lecture:

The 5th Annual Great Campus Race. This is not your average race. While you will need to move quickly, success in this race depends as much (if not more) on how quickly you can solve the clues and how well you can chart your course as on how fast you can move. We challenge anyone who thinks they know our campus to come out, have some fun, and compete for some great prizes. The Great Campus Race consists of teams of 2 competing to solve clues directing them to locations around campus. The first team to be photographed at each of the checkpoints and return wins. Hundreds of dollars in prizes available, including prizes just for participating. For more details about the race, examples of clues, and to sign up, visit libguides.ucsd.edu/greatcampusrace.

Through extensive writings and lectures at both academic and grassroots levels, Tariq Ramadan contributes to the debate on the issues of Muslims in the West and Islamic revival in the Muslim World. He emphazies the differences between religion and culture, which he believes are too often confused, arguing that citizenship and religion are separate concepts. He claims that there is no conflict between being both a Muslim and a European; a Muslim must accept the laws of his country. Co-sponsors: "Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies (IICAS) Middle East Speaker Series." “Program for the Study of Religion”. “Dept of Literature”.

Through extensive writings and lectures at both academic and grassroots levels, Tariq Ramadan contributes to the debate on the issues of Muslims in the West and Islamic revival in the Muslim World. He emphazies the differences between religion and culture, which he believes are too often confused, arguing that citizenship and religion are separate concepts. He claims that there is no conflict between being both a Muslim and a European; a Muslim must accept the laws of his country. Co-sponsors: "Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies (IICAS) Middle East Speaker Series." “Program for the Study of Religion”. “Dept of Literature”.

Presented by the Guatemala Human Rights Commission/USA......Militarization, Human Rights and Threats to Justice in Guatemala: Since the election of General Otto Pérez Molina to the presidency in Guatemala, the country has seen disturbing trends toward re-militarization and repression of social movements. Iduvina Hernández, a Guatemalan journalist and human rights defender, will discuss the impact of powerful retired military officers implicated in crimes against humanity on national security policy as well as the recent moves to criminalize indigenous activists defending their right to their ancestral lands......

Indonesia's foreign policy has always registered a strong desire to play an active regional and international role. In the post-1998 era, after a brief period of difficult democratic transition, Indonesia once again tried to regain appropriate place in the regional and international arena by playing a more active role in Southeast Asia, projecting its international image as the world's third largest democracy and the largest moderate Muslim majority country, and positioning itself as a

Join us on this popular overnight trip. By day we will explore mud caves, palm oases, wildflowers, vistas and Native American Pictographs. By night, we indulge in delicious food from a Dutch oven, soak in the hot springs, and take in the amazing star display far from the contamination of city lights. We will spend Saturday exploring the corners of Arroyo Tapiado caves with our headlamps. Sunday will find us picking our way through the desert canyons in search of one of the many oases or desert vistas. No Anza-Borrego trip is complete without a stop for famous Julian pie on the way home. This is a fantastic desert adventure for anyone who loves to explore the hidden treasures of the dry country. This trip has a waiting list every time, so sign up early. Pre-trip meeting: Tuesday, April 17 at 6pm at Outback Rental Shop. Signup online under Caving and Hiking at: https://recreation.ucsd.edu/outback-adventures/ Or in person at the Rental Shop (behind Pepper Canyon) or the Surf Shop (in PC) Or by phone at 858-534-0684 Early Bird Pricing (Before close on April 16th): Current UCSD students and Rec Card Holders $95. All others $110. After April 16th: Current UCSD students $135. All others $150. This event brought to you by Outback Adventures and UCSD Recreation.

Scientists from around the country will discuss their research on human bipedalism at CARTA’s next installment in its public symposium series on human origins, “The Upright Ape: Bipedalism and Human Origins.” Topics range from anatomy of early hominids to the importance of human running, from adaptive strategies to obstetrics, and from limb strength to body fat. CARTA, the UCSD/Salk Institute Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny is a transdisciplinary research unit investigating where we came from, how we got here, and how this knowledge can be applied to humans today.

Leaping Cossacks! Flurries of Snowflakes! and a Legion of Rats! See them all swoop and soar across San Diego stages in America’s Favorite Holiday Event! In its 22nd year, this ballet fantasy features a cast of over 100 beautifully costumed dancers, reveling in Tchaikovsky’s beloved score. Come and join San Diego Ballet on an enchanting journey through a landscape of Yuletide dreams.

Whale Watching December 26 – April 15 9:45 a.m.-1:15 p.m. and 1:30-5 p.m. daily Join Scripps naturalists and Flagship Cruises & Events for our 12th season of whale watching as we venture out for twice-daily cruises to locate gray whales on their round-trip migration from their Alaska feeding grounds to Baja California. Search for seals, sea lions, dolphins, migrating birds, and more! Naturalists will showcase gray whale biofacts and will answer all of your marine animal questions. Dress in layers and don't forget your camera! RSVP: Flagship Cruises & Events at 619-234-4111 or online at flagshipsd.com Members: $30 daily Public: $35 weekdays, $40 weekends Youth (4-12 with paid adult): $17.50 weekdays, $20 weekends

Join Volunteer50 and UC San Diego community members for the Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service at the American Legion post #255 in National City. The service project will be held from 9 a.m. to noon. Volunteers will paint, clean and beautify the facility. For more information and to register for the project, visit volunteer50.ucsd.edu or the OneStop desk in the Price Center.

American composer Steve Reich is recognized internationally among the most legendary composers of our time. In honor of Reich’s 75th birthday, New York’s eclectic chamber ensemble Bang on a Can All-Stars team up with the composer himself, as well as USCD’s Steven Schick and red fish blue fish to perform Reich’s era-defining masterpiece Music for 18 Musicians. Scored for strings, percussion, woodwinds and voices, the piece “is one of the handful of late-twentieth-century works that can rightly claim to have altered the course of Western music.” (K. Robert Schwartz).

A ruthless Perugian businessman gets his comeuppance in this delectable romantic comedy. Mattia is a cost-cutting contractor who is being blackmailed by his injured employee, an Egyptian named Kamal. At fault for the mishap, Mattia is forced to attend a chocolate cooking class in Kamal’s name. When he catches the eye of fellow chef Cecilia, he takes advantage of being mistaken for the hardworking immigrant. [Claudio Cupellini, 2007, Italy, 98 min.] menu Falafel Salad with Baby Romaine, Shaved Red Onion and Yogurt-Harissa Dressing; Spaghetti Bolognese; Aged Parmesan Garlic Bread; Truffle Duo. Drinks not included.

The Calder Quartet has been a regular fixture of the Tentacle Sessions and Chamber series, performing a fascinating landscape of new work by young composers Fabian Svensson and Kate Moore as part of ArtPower!’s co-commission project with the Carlsbad Music Festival. Inspired by American artist Alexander Calder, the group was awarded the 2009 ASCAP Adventurous Programming Award in recognition of its exciting programming. This year’s bright young composer is Jacob Cooper, whose work has been described as gutsy, engrossing, and stunning.

Banned in China, Beijing filmmaker Liu Bingjian’s third feature has struck a chord for its equally humorous and honest portrayal of Chinese life. Guixiang, a strong and independent woman, moves back to her hometown after the arrest of her husband, whose debts catch up with her. When a gambler he crossed demands compensation, Guixiang breaks down in tears, giving her an idea to raise money through professional mourning. [Liu Bingjian, 2002, China, 100 min.]

Ben Russell, violinist, vocalist, and songwriter, has an unmistakable passion for music. A native of San Diego, Ben moved to New York City in 2006 to form the Bryant Park Quartet—a virtuosic string ensemble Philip Setzer of the Emerson String Quartet describes as “one of the most talented and interesting young string quartets I have heard.” In addition to his quartet, Ben is a member of the American Contemporary Music Ensemble [ACME], one of New York’s brightest new music indie-bands. Ben’s solo performance at The Loft will unfold his growing interest in his own songwriting and lush vocal style.

In 1973, choreographer Lin Hwai-min founded Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan and ignited a wholly irresistible new culture of dance techniques and theatrical concepts from the East and the West. More than two decades later, with an increasingly international touring schedule, Lin created Cloud Gate 2 so he could continue to bring his hybrid of Asian gesture, martial arts-inspired leaps, and modern dance vocabulary to local Taiwanese audiences. For their San Diego debut performance, Cloud Gate 2 will showcase a surprising range of works from Taiwan’s up-and-coming Generation Y choreographers.

Distinguished by its youth, open-mindedness, and versatility, France’s Quatuor Ebène has had a meteoric rise to the top. Now among the world’s most sought-after quartets, the ensemble made its U.S. debut tour in March 2009 to widespread, dazzling critical acclaim. In October 2009, the Ebène Quartet won “Recording of the Year” at the 2009 Classic FM Gramophone Awards for their CD of Debussy, Ravel, and Fauré string quartets. Don’t miss them for their debut performance with ArtPower!. Pierre Colombet, violin; Gabriel Le Magadure, violin; Mathieu Herzog, viola; Raphaël Merlin, cello.