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May 14, 2009
Vol. 28 No. 16

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    May Highlights


      
    Meresamun
      

    Oriental Institute Museum
    Under Wraps: An Autopsy of Three Egyptian Mummies screening and discussion
    2 p.m. Sunday, May 17

    Emily Teeter, curator of “The Life of Meresamun” exhibit, will lead a film screening and discussion. See how the mummies of an Egyptian priest, a temple cult-singer and 12-year-old girl underwent CT scanning to reveal their stories while leaving their wrappings intact. After the film, Teeter will discuss how research techniques shown in this 1998 film have advanced over the past decade, making enormous strides in the forensic study of mummies. Get a behind-the-scenes look at how the University Medical Center and Oriental Institute used the most recent high-resolution scanning and 3-D imaging techniques to study Meresamun, whose mummy and biography are the highlights of a special exhibition.
    Breasted Hall, 1155 E. 58th St.

      
      

    Office of the Provost
    “Motherhood & Success in Science & Engineering”
    4 to 6 p.m. Monday, May 18

    The event is the second of two panel discussions exploring the challenges of balancing a career in science and motherhood. The first panel will be held from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Northwestern University; Chicago panelists will include Leslie Kay, Associate Professor in Psychology; Amanda Petford-Long, Senior Sciences at Argonne National Laboratory; and Anita Blanchard, Associate Professor in Obstetrics & Gynecology. Contributors to the book Motherhood, The Elephant in the Laboratory: Women Scientists Speak Out, will also be part of the program, which is intended for younger scientists and engineers, especially graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and early-career faculty in STEM fields. The event is free, but registration is required at www.regonline.com/motherhood.
    Biological Sciences Learning Center, 924 E. 57th St., Room 109

      
    Stephanie Trick
      

    Rockefeller Memorial Chapel
    Tea and Pipes
    4 p.m. Tuesday, May 19

    Fourth-year Stephanie Trick will become the first student to give a public performance on the E.M. Skinner pipe organ since it was restored in 2008. Her concert will include works by Cesar Franck, Bach and Brahms. The organ can now boast being the largest in Chicago, with a count of 8,565 pipes distributed over its 132 ranks. Free public concerts on the organ will continue Tuesdays through June 2, and all are invited to hear and feel the magnificence of the 80-plus-year-old instrument while enjoying tea and biscuits.
    5850 S. Woodlawn Ave.

      
    Linda Williams
      

    Center for Race/Gender Studies and Film Studies Center
    “Brokeback Mountain: Primal Scenes on American Screens”
    7 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, May 28

    Linda Williams, professor of film studies and rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley, will speak. Since Deliverance, sex between men has been portrayed in mainstream American movies as a kind of “fate worse than death” that spoils the innocence and reputation of its male “victim.” Brokeback Mountain is the first simulated (non-hardcore) American film to ask audiences to witness sex between men as an irresistible and dangerous pleasure. In this chapter of her book, Screening Sex, Williams reads the film against its legal background in the Lawrence vs. Texas Supreme Court ruling that struck down sodomy laws and as a case study of the primal scene’s “first witnessing” of sexual pleasure originally understood as a form of violence and pain.
    Cobb Hall, 5811 S. Ellis Ave., Room 307