We have plenty of music, film, drama and talks to entertain, enlighten and inform you during October.\u00a0 Please scroll through the highlights and links below from the College of Arts and Sciences calendar.<\/p>\n
Oct. 1: Professor Maria DeGuzman discusses her latest book, Buenes Noches, American Culture.<\/em> Free to the public. 10 a.m. Pleasants Family Assembly Room, Wilson Library. http:\/\/go.unc.edu\/Sr4a9<\/p>\n Oct. 1:\u00a0 Jose Viera Linares, former Cuban diplomat and policy adviser, will discuss the evolving process of reform in Cuba. Brown-bag lunch. 12 noon, 4003 FedEx Global Education Center. http:\/\/isa.unc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n Oct. 2:\u00a0 Tommy Edwards, Stan Brown and Michael Aldridge of The Bluegrass Experience, with Dewey Brown and Lanelle Davis, in concert. 11 am, Wilson Library, Pleasants Family Assembly Room. wferris@unc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n Oct. 2: Guest Artists Recital by Matthew Postle, trumpet, and Radoslaw Rudnicki, electronics. 7:30 pm, Kenan Music Building Rehearsal Hall.\u00a0 http:\/\/music.unc.edu\/events<\/a><\/p>\n Oct. 2:\u00a0 Novelist Josephine Humphreys will present the Thomas Wolfe Lecture. 7:30 pm, Genome Sciences Building, GS 100 Auditorium, Bell Tower Drive. http:\/\/englishcomplit.unc.edu\/wolfe<\/a><\/p>\n Oct. 2:\u00a0 Hanes Visiting Artist lecture by Stephen Vitiello, electronic music and sound artist.\u00a0 6 pm, Hanes Art Center Auditorium. gruffat@unc.edu<\/a>, http:\/\/art.unc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n Oct. 3: UNC Wind Ensemble and UNC Symphony Band, $10-$15. 919.843.3333. 7:30 pm, Memorial Hall. http:\/\/music.unc.edu\/events<\/a><\/p>\n Oct. 4: Ewa Wampuszyc, Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures, will discuss Mapping Warsaw: Literary Topography in Post-War Poland. 12:30 pm, 3009 Fed Ex Global Education Center. Lunch provided for those who RSVP by Oct. 1 to vmanders@email.unc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n Oct. 4:\u00a0 Ambassador C. Boyden Gray will discuss Cap and Trade: The Evolution of Market-Based Pollution Solutions in the US. 3:30 pm, Toy Lounge, Dey Hall. mchall@email.unc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n Oct. 4: Southern Research Circle: Center for Study of the American South presents a poster session of graduate student research in fields of history, geography, anthropology, religious studies and folklore.\u00a0 4 pm, Love House and Hutchins Forum.\u00a0 http:\/\/www.uncsouth.org<\/p>\n Oct. 4: Immigration and Identity in the US and Europe, a roundtable discussion with Michael Privot, EU expert on Muslim-West relations, and UNC professors\u00a0 Sahar Amer,\u00a0 Asian Studies; Juliane Hammer,\u00a0 Religious Studies; Jeff Spinner-Havel, Political Science;\u00a0 moderated by Paul Cuadros, UNC Journalism. 6 pm, Wilson Library, Pleasants Family Assembly Room. http:\/\/www.unc.edu\/depts\/europe\/calendar\/1210.html<\/p>\n Oct. 4: UNC Symphony Orchestra performing works by Beethoven, Stravinsky and Hanson. $10-$15. 919.843.3333. 7: 30 pm, Memorial Hall. http:\/\/music.unc.edu\/events<\/a><\/p>\n Oct. 4-12: Latin American Film Festival at UNC, Duke and NC State.<\/p>\n Oct. 5: British Imperialism and Its Negative Consequences, a discussion with Wake Forest Professor David Coates. 12 noon. 4003 Fed Ex Global Education Center. http:\/\/www.unc.edu\/depts\/europe\/calendar\/1210.html<\/p>\n Oct. 5: UNC Jazz Combos with Stephen Riley, tenor saxophone,\u00a0 Jazz for a Friday Afternoon. 4 pm, Kenan Music Building Rehearsal Hall. http:\/\/music.unc.edu\/events<\/a><\/p>\n Oct. 5-6: Way Down East, performance by Stephen Vitiello, electronic music and sound artist (see Oct. 2 lecture). 8 pm, Gerrard Hall. Gruffat@unc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n Oct. 5-6: Rumpus in Rome, adult puppet theatre, presented by Creative Writing Professor Marianne Gingher. 8 pm, $10-$12, Carrboro Arts Center.\u00a0 http:\/\/jabberboxpuppettheater.com<\/a><\/p>\n Oct. 7:\u00a0 A Gathering in Honor and Memory\u00a0 of Doris Betts, the late Alumni Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus, 3 pm, Alumni Hall, George Watts Hill Alumni Center. http:\/\/englishcomplit.unc.edu\/creative<\/a><\/p>\n Oct. 8: A View of the Imperial Presidency: Developments from Korea to the War of the Drones, a discussion with Rutgers Professor Lloyd Gardner. 4 pm, 569 Hamilton Hall. http:\/\/www.unc.edu\/depts\/europe\/calendar\/1210.html<\/p>\n Oct. 9: Author Pam Durban, English and Comparative Literature, will read from her new novel, The Tree of Forgetfulness. 3:30 pm, Bulls Head Bookshop. BullsHead@store.unc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n Oct. 11: UNC Alumnus Jonathan Reckford, Habitat for Humanity, will discuss Finding Your Passion, for the Hillard Gold \u201939 Lecture. 7 pm, Sonja Haynes Stone Center auditorium.\u00a0 http:\/\/go.unc.edu\/Np78Q<\/a><\/p>\n Oct. 12: University Day. Jamie Bartram, Director of the Water Institute at UNC, will give the keynote address. 11 am, Memorial Hall. http:\/\/uncnews.unc.edu\/content\/view\/5594\/107\/<\/p>\n Oct. 12: Europe in Twenty Years\u2019 Time, a discussion with Claude Mosseri-Marlio, Professor of European Law at the American Business School in Paris. 12 noon, 4003 FedEx Global Education Center http:\/\/www.unc.edu\/depts\/europe\/calendar\/1210.html<\/p>\n Oct. 12-31: Allcott Undergraduate Gallery Exhibition: Art 356. Art students present their digital photography work. Exhibition and talk: 8 pm. on Oct. 12. http:\/\/art.unc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n Oct. 14: Thomas Bernhard\u2019s Critique of Austria, a seminar about the Austrian novelist, playwright and poet, led by German\u00a0 linguistics scholar Gregor Thuswaldner of Gordon College.5 pm, Hyde Hall. http:\/\/www.unc.edu\/depts\/europe\/calendar\/1210.html<\/p>\n Oct. 15: American Poverty: The Hidden Story, Frank Porter Graham Lecture by photojournalists Steve Liss and Jon Lowenstein, co-founders of AmericanPoverty.Org, dedicated to alleviating poverty in the US. 7:30 pm, Memorial Hall. http:\/\/honorscarolina.unc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n Oct. 23: Hanes Visiting Artist lecture by Dread Scott, who makes \u201crevolutionary art to propel history forward.\u201d He once burned $171 on Wall Street and encouraged those with money to add theirs to the pyre. 6 pm, Hanes Art Center auditorium. http:\/\/events.unc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n Oct. 24 \u2013 Nov. 11: PlayMakers presents Imaginary Invalid, the funniest play ever written about the healthcare industry. $15-$50. Center for Dramatic Art. http:\/\/www.playmakersrep.org<\/a><\/p>\n Oct. 25-26: Bak\u2019tun New Maya Perspectives in 2012, placing the calendric reckoning within a broad historical and cultural context including the voices of Maya people, Keynote, Symposium, Exhibitions. http:\/\/maya2012.unc.edu<\/p>\n Oct. 25: Resisting the Rite, keynote address by Richard Taruskin, Russian music historian at UC Berkeley, part of an academic conference on the centennial of the Rite of Spring.\u00a0 Reception at 5 pm at Ackland Art Museum, Program at 6:30 pm in Memorial Hall. More on the Oct. 25-28 conference schedule at https:\/\/www.theriteofspringat100.org\/conference-program\/<\/p>\n Oct. 29-Nov. 2: Water and Health 2012 Conference: Science, Policy and Innovation will bring together academic research, policy, practice and networking events.\u00a0 Sponsored by UNC\u2019s Institute for the Environment and the Water Institute.\u00a0 http:\/\/whconference.unc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n