"A Definite Claim to Beauty: William Morris' Kelmscott Press and Its Influence." Through Jan. 29. Olin Library, Special Collections, fifth floor. 935-5495.

"The Genius of Jean-Antoine Houdon." Through March 21.Steinberg Hall. 935-4523.

"The Getty Center: Photographs by Joe Deal, Models by Richard Meier." Through March 21. Steinberg Hall. 935-4523.

"International Abstraction: Art of the 1950s From the Washington University Collection." Through March 28. Steinberg Hall. 935-4523.

"Writers Reading Stein." Feb. 5-March 19. Olin Library, Special Collections, fifth floor. 935-5495.

Films

Friday, Jan. 29

Midnight. Filmboard Midnight Series. "When Harry Met Sally." (Also Jan. 30, same time, and Jan. 31, 9:30 p.m.) Cost: $3 first visit; $2 subsequent visits. Room 100 Brown Hall. 935-5983.

Lectures

Thursday, Jan. 28

1:10 p.m. School of Social Work spring lecture series. Daphne Scholinski, artist, discussing her book, "The Last Time I Wore a Dress." Brown Hall Lounge. 935-4909.

2:30 p.m. Mechanical Engineering seminar. "On the Mechanics of Stress-Softening Materials." Shankar Krishnaswamy, asst. visiting prof., U. of Nebraska-Lincoln. Room 100 Cupples II Hall. 935-7096.

4 p.m. Education/African and Afro-American studies lecture. "African-American Education: Historical Meaning and Contemporary Issues." James Anderson, prof. of history and chair, educational policy studies dept., U. of Ill., Urbana-Champaign. Women's Bldg. Formal Lounge. 935-6730. (See story)

4 p.m. Cancer Center seminar series. "The Functional Properties of BRCA1, a Tumor Suppressor Implicated in Hereditary Breast Cancer." Richard Baer, cancer research chair, U. of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. Third Floor Aud. Children's Hosp. 747-0359.

4 p.m. Cardiovascular research seminar. "Homeoprotein Regulation of Osteoblast Gene Expression." Dwight A. Towler, assoc. prof. of molecular biology and pharmacology. Room 801 Clinical Sciences Research Bldg. 362-3365.

4 p.m. English lecture. "The Poetics of Whiteness: Poe and the Racial Imaginary." Betsy Erkkila, chair, English dept., Northwestern U. of Ill-Evanston. Hurst Lounge Duncker Hall. 935-5190.

5 p.m. Vision science seminar. "Regulation of Lens Cell Proliferation in the Embryo: The Jak-STAT Signalling System and Beyond." David Beebe, prof. of ophthalmology and visual science. East Pavilion Aud. 362-3365.

Friday, Jan. 29

Noon. Cell biology and physiology seminar. "Regulation of Lymphocyte Function by Kinases and Adaptors." Andrew Chan, asst. prof. of medicine and Howard Hughes Medical Institute assistant investigator in medicine. Room 426 McDonnell Medical Sciences Bldg. 362-6950.

Noon. Gastrointestinal Research Conference. "Alpha-1-Antitrypsin Deficiency and Liver Disease." David Permutter, prof. of pediatrics and of cell biology and physiology. Room 901 Clinical Sciences Research Bldg. 362-3365.

4 p.m. Anatomy and neurobiology seminar. "Diverse Roles for Myosin in the Nervous System." Paul Bridgman, assoc. prof of anatomy and neurobiology. Room 928 McDonnell Medical Sciences Bldg. 362-3365.

4 p.m. Hematology Division seminar. "Cloning and Expression of N-Acetylglucosamine-1-Phosphodiester a-N-Acetylglucosaminidase, a Key Enzyme in Formation of the Mannose-6-Phosphate Targeting Signal." Rosalind Kornfeld, prof. of biochemistry and molecular biophysics. Room 8841 Clinical Sciences Research Bldg. 362-3365.

Saturday, Jan. 30

Monday, Feb. 1

3:30 p.m. Molecular biophysics program seminar. "Protein Crystallography in Four Dimensions." Gregory A. Petsko, prof. of chemistry and biochemistry, Brandeis U. Cori Aud., 4565 McKinley Ave. 362-3963 or 362-4565.

4 p.m. Biology lecture. "An Integrative Approach to Studying the Impacts of Predators on Prey." Andrew Sih, prof. of behavioral ecology, U. of Ky. Room 322 Rebstock. 935-6860.

Tuesday, Feb. 2

Noon. Molecular microbiology and microbial pathogenesis seminar series. "The Listeria Monocytogenes Hemolysin: Role in Pathogenesis and Utilization for the Delivery of Macromolecules to Mammalian Cell." Darren Higgens, research assoc., U. of Calif.-Berkeley. Cori Aud., 4565 McKinley Ave. 362-2772.

Wednesday, Feb. 3

11 a.m. Assembly Series lecture. "What Can We Expect from a Theory of Consciousness?" Patricia Churchland, prof. of philosophy, U. of Calif.-San Diego. Graham Chapel. 935-5285. (See story)

3:45 p.m. Physics colloquium. "The Tree of Life: The Origin of Universal Scaling Laws in Biology from Molecules and Cells to Whales." Geoffrey B. West, Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory. Room 204 Crow Hall (coffee, 3:30 p.m., Room 241 Compton Hall). 935-6276.

4 p.m. Biochemistry and molecular biophysics seminar. "Comparative Protein Structure Modeling in Genomics." Andrej Sali, asst. prof., Rockefeller U., New York. Cori Aud., 4565 McKinley Ave. 362-0261.

7:30 p.m. School of Art slide lecture. "Humanism and Psychosis in Post-Millennium Madness." Visiting artist Rosetta Brooks, writer and critic. Steinberg Aud. 935-5884 or 935-7497.

Thursday, Feb. 4

4:30 p.m. Mathematics Roever colloquium. Raghavan Narasinhan, prof., U. of Chicago. (tea 4 p.m., Room 200 Cupples I Hall). Room 199 Cupples I Hall. 935-6760.

Friday, Feb. 5

4 p.m. Biology seminar. "Transcriptional and Post-Transcriptional Regulation of ABA Response Genes of Maize." Montserrat Pages, Barcelona, Spain. Room 212 McDonnell Hall (Hilltop Campus). 935-6860.

6 and 8:30 p.m. Travel lecture series. "Portugal's Places and Faces." Dale Smith. Cost: $4.50. Graham Chapel. 935-5212. (See story)

Music

Saturday, Jan. 30

Monday, Feb. 1

Saturday, Feb. 6

Performances

Friday, Jan. 29

Thursday, Feb. 4

Miscellany

Thursday, Feb. 4

Sports

Friday, Jan. 29

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