Weekly Bulletin

Lecture examines challenges to translating Shakespeare into Portuguese

Lawrence Flores Pereira will speak on "Translating Shakespeare's Drama into Portuguese: poetry, prose and other problems" on Wednesday, Nov. 7 at 4 p.m. at the Renaissance Center, 650 East Pleasant St.

 

Oriana Singers to perform Nov. 4 at Renaissance Center

The Oriana Singers from Farmington High School in Connecticut will perform Sunday, Nov. 4, 2-4 p.m. at the Renaissance Center.

The concert is free and open to the public. Seating is limited, so early arrival is advised.

Oriana Singers is a select small ensemble of all-female voices that meets weekly. Members  demonstrate a high level of commitment and independent musicianship, devoting extra hours outside of the regular rehearsal to perfecting their music. Their director, Christen Hernandez, is a graduate of the University of Connecticut and has been teaching in Farmington since 2009.

Greensboro Justice Fund exhibit opens at Du Bois Library

The exhibit, “Waging Change: The Greensboro Justice Fund,” is on display through Jan. 11 in the Special Collections Reading Room on the 25th floor of the Du Bois Library.

A public reception will be held on Friday, Nov. 2 from 4:30-6 p.m. The reception will feature speakers Marty Nathan, former director of the Greensboro Justice Fund, and Rev. Nelson Johnso, executive director of the Beloved Community Center, Greensboro, N.C.
 
On Nov. 3, 1979, five activists were killed by members of the Ku Klux Klan at an anti-Klan rally in Greensboro, N.C.

Speakers to examine black conciousness and literature in Brazil

Afro-Brazilian writer Conceição Evaristo and professor Eduardo de Assis Duarte will talk about black consciousness and literature in Brazil, the Afro-Brazilian literary and cultural tradition, and the contemporary challenges for resisting the cultural politics of racism in Brazil and the Diaspora on Friday, Nov. 2 at 12:30 p.m. in 203 New Africa House.

Evaristo is from Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, now residing in Rio de Janeiro state. She started publishing poetry in the literary journal Cadernos Negros in 1990, where she has continuously published both poetry and short fiction.

Karlstrom to discuss forebrain and pituitary development in zebrafish

Professor Rolf O. Karlstrom of the Biology Department will speak on "Ventral Forebrain and Pituitary Development: A view from the zebrafish" on Wednesday, Oct. 31 at 4 p.m. in 222 Morrill Science Center II as part of the Neuroscience and Behavior Program's colloquium series.

Karlstrom's team is using a variety of genetic and experimental approaches to determine how Hedgehog/Gli (Hh/Gli) mediated cell-cell signaling induces and patterns the zebrafish forebrain. They are analyzing several mutations that affect both Hh/Gli signaling and cell differentiation in the forebrain.

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