All JOA Scholars are required to attend a minimum of two events per semester – at least one event must be of an intellectual nature. Approved events are listed by month and date below, but events are added frequently, so check back often! (If you know of an upcoming event that you think might qualify, please email Mrs. Kasunic with relevant information.)

Links to various organizations for ticket information, directions, venue description, etc. are available immediately following this paragraph. After attending a particular event, please email Mrs. Kasunic to verify your attendance. Many events are free to the public, but others require reservations or tickets. When purchasing a ticket to a performance or lecture, be sure to request a student discount since many venues offer one to those with a student ID. (Your key tag is your student ID card.) If a significant number of JOA Scholars are interested in a particular performance, see Mrs. Kasunic well in advance and she will investigate the possibility of discounted group tickets.

Link to Darwin at 200: Contributions and Challenges, A Duquesne Speaker Series, Spring 2009
Organized by The Bayer School of Natural and Environmental Sciences and the McAnulty College and Graduate School of Liberal Arts. All lectures are free and open to the public and will take place on the Duquesne University campus except the Feb. 9 lecture by Janet Browne sponsored by the Drue Heinz Lecture Series. The idea of evolution is one of the most powerful and influential intellectual achievements in human history. Evolutionary theory is the framework for all of modern biology, but it has also escaped its scientific confines and has greatly impacted other areas of thinking. This series of lectures is designed to explore some of those other areas and explain how Darwin’s ideas have changed human thinking both within and outside of the biological sciences.

Link to The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust for ticket information, directions, dates, times, and discounts. (Click on one of the venues listed on the pgharts page and then scroll down for information, descriptions of performances, etc. If you cannot find a list of performances with links, type in the venue’s name in the Event Search box to the left.)

Link to CMU lectures for the University Lecture Series that is free and open to the public. You can do an on-site search for CMU’s campus map for the locations of the lectures. You can also view additional CMU lectures offered via the School of Art Lecture Series, which are also free to the public.

Link to information on tickets and brief biographies/additional links on speakers for the Drue Heinz Lecture Series. Ticket purchase is required, but a student discount makes it very affordable.

Link to Pittsburgh Irish Classical Theatre to view upcoming performances in the Charity Randall and Henry Heyman Theaters. A ticket purchase is required.

Link to information on performances at the Pittsburgh Playhouse on Craft Avenue in Oakland. Ticket purchase is required.

Link to view upcoming concerts sponsored by the Calliope Concerts that play in the Carnegie Auditorium located near the back entrance to the Carnegie Museum and Library complex. Ticket purchase is required. (These events have not yet been added to the calendar below, but will be shortly. They qualify as cultural events.)

Link to the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council to view upcoming events around the city. The site is updated every week and offers a comprehensive look at exhibits, performances, and other events that promote the arts. You can subscribe to their email list to receive notice of upcoming events every two weeks.

Link to the Senator John Heinz History Center to view upcoming exhibits or special events. Membership or entrance fee is required.

Link to information on performances held at the New Hazlett Theater.

Link to information on those speaking at the Pittsburgh Speakers Series this year. Only those who have subscribed to the entire series can attend these events; single tickets cannot be purchased. Although not listed in the JOA Events calendar below, these presentations will count as intellectual events for those who have the opportunity to attend any of the talks. Please email Mrs. Kasunic to inform her of your attendance.

Link to the Carnegie Museum lecture series offered in conjunction with Duquesne University on Evidence for Evolution: A Celebration of Charles Darwin’s 200th Birthday
2009 marks the bicentennial of the birth of Charles Darwin. The life and intellectual impact of Charles Darwin will be celebrated in Pittsburgh with a citywide series of events for children, teachers, students, and the general public. Darwin’s legacy in fossils, living plants and animals can be absorbed through learning activities and interactive experiences. In partnership with Duquesne University, the following lectures will take place on Saturday afternoons at Carnegie Museum of Natural History. All talks begin at 1:00 p.m. Admission to the lecture is included with fee for admission to museum or membership card.

Link to the Pittsburgh Contemporary Writers Series to view a schedule of authors and poets who will do readings of their works. The authors and dates are not listed in the JOA Events Calendar, but those JOA Scholars who are interested in writing, or would like to attend a reading to experience exactly what it is, should explore the site to investigate this series and the participating authors. Please email Mrs. Kasunic to inform her of your attendance; one reading will count toward one of your required events.

September
3-10/5 Benedum Center Wicked (PNC Broadway Across America)
5-21 Pittsburgh Playhouse on Craft Avenue in Oakland Death of a Salesman (Pgh. Playhouse Repertory Company)
16 Byham Theater High Kings of Dublin (Trust Guest Attraction)
16-21 O’Reilly Theater The Chief (Pittsburgh Public Theater)
16 Heinz Hall, 8pm Thomas Friedman (Pgh. Middle East Conference/World Affairs Council)
17 Theater Square Cabaret Shear Madness (Pittsburgh Cultural Trust)
18 CMU-Baker Hall, 4:30pm What the rhetoric of the 2008 campaign reveals (Kathleen Jamieson, University of Pennsylvania)
18 Byham Theater, 8pm Great Big Sea (Pittsburgh Cultural Trust)
18-21 Pump House Theater, 7:30pm (3pm on Sunday)Pittsburgh Project REMIX (Sprout Fund; Rivers of Steel National Heritage Area; new play by Megan Carney)
19 Heinz Hall, 7:30pm A Golden Gala (Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra)
21 Heinz Hall, 7pm Teena Marie (Heinz Hall Special Presentation)
22 Pitt-Posvar Hall, 6pm Lecture: Are Entrepreneurs Born or Made? (Thomas Boyle PhD, European Studies Ctr; Intntl Business Ctr; Global Studies Ctr)
22 Carnegie Music Hall, 7:30pm Author/Editor/BiographerTina Brown (The Drue Heinz Lectures)
24 CMU-Porter Hall 100, 4:30pm Steven Greenhouse, NY Times – The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker (University Lecture Series)
25 CMU-Baker Hall, 4:30pm Toward a More Peaceful World (Harriet Fulbright, J. William & Harriet Fulbright Center)
26-27 Byham Theater Forever Tango (Trust Presents/Dance)
26-28 Heinz Hall Manfred Honeck (Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra)
28 Byham Theater, 4pm Aquila Theater Company in The Iliad (Trust Presents)
30 CMU-Baker Hall (Giant Eagle Aud.), 5pm Haegue Yang/Life on Mars Artist (School of Art Lecture Series)

October
2-11/2 O’Reilly Theater August Wilson’s Radio Golf (Pittsburgh Public Theater)
2-5 Heinz Hall Linda Eder Sings (Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra)
2 CMU-Breed Hall, Margaret Morrison 103, 4:30pm Why Care About Equality? (Larry Temkin, Rutgers University)
2 Pitt-107 Barco Law Bldg., School of Law, 6pm Slavery: An Old Crime in the New Global Economy (Author Ben Skinner; Kevin Bales, Roehampton University; sponsored by the Global Studies Program and the Intntl. Business Ctr. at the Univ. of Pgh.)
6 CMU-Baker Hall, 4:30pm A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Narratives of Emancipation at Carnegie Mellon (David Blight, Yale University)
6 Carnegie Music Hall, 7:30pm Edwidge Danticat, Haitian-born author (Drue Heinz Lectures)
8 Benedum Center, 8pm Patrizio Buanne (Pittsburgh Cultural Trust)
10-11 Byham Theater Ballet Maribor: Radio and Juliet (Pittsburgh Dance Council)
11 Heinz Hall Chang & Rachmaninoff (Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra)
10-11 New Hazlett Theater Rudresh Mahanthappa (Pittsburgh International Festival of Firsts)
13 CMU-Baker Hall, 4:30pm Understanding Conditions in Iraq after the Surge (Robert Behrman, Engineering and Public)
13 New Hazlett Theater, 8pm Vieux Farka Toure (CD Live, Andy Warhol Museum)
14 CMU-McConomy Auditorium, 5pm Jeffrey Kastner (School of Art Lecture Series)
18 Stephen Foster Memorial, Charity Randall Theatre,8pm Elaine Stritch: At Libery (PICT – Tickets available, but expensive)
18-26 Benedum CenterSamson & Dalila (Pittsburgh Opera)
21 CMU-Baker Hall, Giant Eagle Auditorium, 5pm Yellow: Asian Americans and the Changing Face of Our Nation (Frank Wu, University of Maryland)
25 Benedum Center, 8pm Smokey Robinson (Trust Presents)
27 CMU-Baker Hall, 4:30pm Mobility in the 21st Century: Challenges and Promises (Bill Reinert, Toyota Motor Sales, USA)
29 Byham Theater, 7:30pm Angelique Kidjo (Trust Presents; August Wilson Center for African American Culture)
30 CMU-McConomy Auditorium, 4:30pm The Changing Shapes of Lives (Mary Catherine Bateson, author of “Composing a Life”)
30 Pitt- Room 1500 Posvar Hall, 7:30pm National Security Policy: Challenges for the New Administration and Congress (William Danvers, former Senior Director of Legislative Affairs for the National Security Council; sponsored by the National Security Network and UCIS – University Center for International Studies)
31-11/2 Benedum Center The Great Gatsby (Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre)

November
5-9 Benedum CenterMamma Mia! (PNC Broadway Across America)
13 Byham Theater, 7:30pm Birth of a Great City (River City Brass Band)
13 Carnegie Music Hall, 8pm Vivaldi Extravaganza (Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra)
14 Byham Theater, 8pm Al Jarreau (Trust Presents)
14 Heinz Hall, 8pm Ivan Lins (Heinz Hall Special Presentation)
15-23 Benedum Center The Grapes of Wrath (Pittsburgh Opera)
18 Heinz Hall, 7:30pm Lang Lang in Recital (Pianist) (Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra)
25-30 Benedum Center Spamalot (PNC Broadway Across America)

December
2-7 Benedum Center Frost/Nixon (PNC Broadway Across America)
12-13 Heinz Hall Messiah (Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra)
12-28 Benedum Center Nutcracker (Pittsburgh Ballet Theater)
17 Heinz Hall Highmark Holiday Pops (Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra)
23-28 Benedum Center Annie (PNC Broadway Across America)
27-28 Byham Theater Die Fledermaus (Opera Theater of Pittsburgh)

January
7-2/1 Benedum Center Jersey Boys (PNC Broadway Across America)
15-2/15 O’Reilly Theater Metamorphoses (Appropriate for upper high school students) (Pittsburgh Public Theater)
23 CMU-McConomy Auditorium, UC, 4:30pm Curators’ Talk: Visualizing Social Movement Cultures; A multi-media presentation by curators Dara Greenwald and Josh MacPhee (Dara Greenwald and Josh MacPhee)
23-25 Heinz Hall Rhapsody in Blue (Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra)
24 Carnegie Museum of Art Theater, 1pm Evidence for the age of the universe and the earth:Cosmic Timescales: How Do We Know What We Know? (Simonetta Frittelli, Duquesne University)
25 CMU-Posner Center, 2pm Justice Illuminated: The Art of Arthur Szyk
Exhibit Curator Irvin Ungar (US Holocaust Memorial Museum)
27 Heinz Hall, 8pm African American Heroes (Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra)
31 Carnegie Museum of Art Theater, 1pm Early evolution of life on earth:
Written in Stone: The First Three Billion Years of Evolutionary History (Shuhai Xiao, Virginia Tech.)

February
2 CMU-Adamson Wing, Baker Hall, 4:30pm Why Technology? (Journeys lecture by Joel Tarr, CMU prof)
5 Benedum Center, 8pm Batsheva Dance Company (Pittsburgh Dance Council)
6 Benedum Center, 8pm 1964…The Tribute (Strut Productions)
6-8 Heinz Hall Bolero! (Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra)
7 Carnegie Museum of Art Theater, 1pm Darwinian medicine:
Darwinian Medicine: A New Approach to Health and Disease (Paul Sherman, Cornell University)
9 Carnegie Music Hall, 7:30pm Janet Browne Janet Browne’s lecture honors the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of The Origin of Species. Browne’s in–depth, two–volume biography of Darwin, Voyaging and The Power of Place, “deserves the adjectives of praise traditionally used by reviewers to describe masterpieces,” said Stephen Jay Gould. Browne spent 17 years editing Darwin’s correspondence, and her work integrates Darwin’s science with his life and times. She is an Aramont professor of the history of science at Harvard and is currently at work on a visual and cultural history of the gorilla. More information can be found by calling 412-622-8866 or at www.pittsburghlectures.org. (Drue Heinz Lectures)
10 CMU-Adamson Wing, Baker Hall, 4:30pm Taking over: how the hip-hop generation changed the world (Jeff Chang)
12 CMU-Adamson Wing, Baker Hall, 5pm THow can the new administration succeed in Afghanistan? (Prof. Abdulkader Sinno, Indiana University)
12 Duquesne University, Union Ballroom, 7:30-10pm Humans as an evolutionary patchwork (Alan Walker, PSU – Duquesne Speaker Series)
12-15 Benedum Center Romeo & Juliette (Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre)
14-15 Byham TheaterPorgy & Bess (Opera Theater of Pittsburgh)
17-22 Benedum Center Fiddler on the Roof (PNC Broadway Across America)
18 Byham Theater, 7:30pm DRUMline Live (Trust Presents)
19 CMU-Adamson Wing, Baker Hall, 4:30pm Chasing Justice (Kerry Max Cook, author)
20 Duquesne University, Union Ballroom, 7:00-10pm Social Darwinism and Philanthropy in Pittsburgh’s Gilded Ages: The Untold History of Charles Darwin, Herbert Spencer, and Two of the “Richest Men in the World” (Paul Krause, U. of British Columbia – Duquesne Speaker Series)
20-22 Heinz Hall Carmina Burana (Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra)
21 Carnegie Lecture Hall, 1pm Biogeography as evidence for evolution: From a Hermit to a King: When and Where Did the Hermit Crab Lose Its Shell? (Cliff Cunningham, Duke University)
27-28 Heinz Hall Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1 (Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra)
27-3/1 Benedum Center Movin’ Out (PNC Broadway Across America)
28 Carnegie Lecture Hall, 1pm Early tetrapod evolution: Great Steps in the History of Life: Finding an Evolutionary Link between Fishes and Limbed Vertebrates (Ted Daeschler, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia)
28 Byham Theater, 8pm The National Acrobats of China (Trust Presents)

March
5-7 Heinz Hall Dutoit & Piano Fireworks (Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra)
7 Byham Theater, 8pm Mariza (Trust Presents)
8 Byham Theater, 3pm The Lakota Sioux Dance Theatre (Trust Presents)
10-15 Benedum Center Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (PNC Broadway Across America)
14 Carnegie Museum of Art Theater, 1pm Primate evolution:
Documenting Early Primate Evolution: Recent Progress and Recurrent Problems (Chris Beard, Carnegie Museum of Natural History)
15 Byham Theater, 7pm She Said: Women’s Words Featuring Bernice Johnson Reagon (Trust Presents)
18 Duquesne University, Power Center Ballroom, 7:00-10pm Darwin in the History of Ideas: From Natural Theology to Natural Selection (Dr. Francisco Ayala, UC-Irvine; Natl. Acad. of Sciences – Duquesne Speaker Series)
19 Byham Theater American Rhythms (Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre)
19 Carnegie Music Hall, 8pm French Delights & Beethoven (Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra)
19-22 Heinz Hall Bernadette Peters (Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra)
27 Duquesne University, Power Center Ballroom, 7:00-10pm Is the Human Hand a Serious Evolutionary Topic? Darwin and Bell thought so – maybe we should, too (Frank Wilson, M.D., widely respected neurologist, author – Duquesne Speaker Series)
28 Carnegie Museum of Art Theater, 1pm Artificial selection as evidence for evolution: Building on Darwin’s Insight in Uncovering the Origins of Horse Domestication (Sandra Olsen, Carnegie Museum of Natural History)
28-4/5 Benedum Center La Boheme (Pittsburgh Opera)

April
4 Carnegie Museum of Art Theater, 1pm Rapid speciation in fishes:
Lake Malawi: A Natural Laboratory for the Study of Evolution and Biodiversity (Jay Stauffer, Penn State University)
6 Carnegie Music Hall, Drue Heinz Lecture Series, 7:30pm Judith Jones, Cookbook Publisher
7 CMU Lecture Series, 4:30pm, MMCH 103, Breed Hall, CMU Milton Fine Take what you HAVE and make of it what you CAN: An Introspection
8 CMU Lecture Series, 4:30pm, Adamson Wing, 136A, Baker Hall, CMU Stephen Hoover Good, Fast, Cheap in New Product Development: Don’t Settle for Just Two
7-12 Heinz Hall A Chorus Line(PNC Broadway Across America)
14 CMU Lecture Series, 4:30pm, Adamson Wing, 136A, Baker Hall, CMU James E. Rohr Thinking green: How PNC applies sustainability to create value for
stakeholders
14-19 Benedum Center Rent (PNC Broadway Across America)
16-5/17 O’Reilly Theater A Moon for the Misbegotten (Pittsburgh Public Theater)
18 Carnegie Museum of Art Theater, 1pm Early North American human colonization: Early Human Populations in the New World: A Biased Perspective (James Adovasio, Mercyhurst University)
20 CMU Lecture Series, 4:30pm, Adamson Wing, 136A, Baker Hall, CMU Alexander and Helen Astin Cultivating the Spirit: College and the Search for Meaning
21 Lecture at Andy Warhol Museum, 7pm, Doors open at 6:30pm. Free to Students with valid ID. William Drenttel Lecture During 2009-2010, Bill is the recipient of a $1.5 million Rockefeller Foundation grant to develop collective action and collaboration for social impact across the design industry.
23 Duquesne Speaker Series, 7-10pm, Power Center Ballroom Elizabeth Grosz Can You Believe in God and Evolution? A Guide for the Perplexed Sponsored by the McAnulty College and Graduate School of Liberal Arts (Go to internet for details and possible price of admission.)
23-26 Heinz Hall Gotta Dance! (Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra)
23 Carnegie Music Hall, 8pm Jon Kimura Parker (Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra)
24-26 Benedum Center Cinderella (Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre)

May
1-3 August Wilson Center for African American Culture Ronald K. Brown/Evidence (Pittsburgh Dance Council)
2-10 Benedum Center The Italian Girl in Algiers (Pittsburgh Opera)
28-6/28 O’Reilly Theater Harry’s Friendly Service (Pittsburgh Public Theater)