Update

OCTOBER AT PENN


CONFERENCE

21 Analysis of Non-Muscle Cell Motility; 9 a.m.-8 p.m.; includes annual Robert E. Davies Distinguished Lecture: Kinesin and Myosin: Common Themes of Two Molecular Motors; Ronald Vale, UCSF, 4 p.m.; Robert Austrian Auditorium, Clinical Research Building; registration required for evening reception, dinner, lecture; $30/senior investigators, $20/junior investigators; for information/schedule, call 898-9137 (Pennsylvania Muscle Institute).

EXHIBIT

15 Sarah Van Keuren & Harry Kalish: Parallel Paths; Photographic exhibition of silver gelatin prints by Harry Kalish and non-silver prints from pinhole negatives by Sarah Van Keuren; Esther M. Klein Art Gallery, 3600 Market St. Through November 15.

FITNESS/LEARNING

21 Discount Medical Book Sale; 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m.; Penniman Room, Penn Tower Hotel; information: 482-1904. Through October 23.

TALKS

16 Adhesion and Adsorption of Uniform and Mixed Surfaces of Self-Assembling Molecules; Roger Quon, chemical engineering; Structure Seminar Series; 12 p.m.; LRSM Reading Room (Physics).

Still Life with Rice; Helie Lee, author; 3 p.m.; Room B-26, Graduate School of Education (GSE).

Life On the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet; Sherry Turkle; 4:30 p.m.; Penniman Library, Bennett Hall (English).

20 Donuts and Discussion; serial presentation of the life and times of Jesus Christ, with a short clip from Zeffirelli's Jesus of Nazareth; 11-11:50 a.m.; Newman Center, 3720 Chestnut St. (Newman Center).

21 Historical Sociology; Richard Biernacki, University of California-San Diego; 12-2:30 p.m.; History Lounge, Room 329A, 3401 Walnut Street (History).

22 Coffee, Croissants and Christianity; faculty, staff and student discussion; 7:45-8:50 a.m.; Newman Center (Newman Center).

A Feminist Critique of Personal Status Law Codes in Muslim Countries; Azizah al-Hibri, University of Richmond; 4:30 p.m.; Room 421, Williams Hall (Middle East Center; Religious Studies).


Calendar Deadlines: Material for the November at Penn Calendar is due today, October 15, for the December at Penn Calendar by Tuesday, November 12. Updates are published weekly only as space allows, and copy is due one week prior to publication. Submissions may be made by fax, e-mail or hand carried to the locations listed below right. Telephone submissions are not permitted.


Almanac

Volume 43 Number 8
October 15, 1996


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