At Harvard

Thursday

Theater

Salome--by Oscar Wilde. At 7:30 p.m. at the Loeb Experimental Theatre.

Other People's Money--at the Poets' Theatre through Oct. 20.

Lectures

The USAID Democracy Initiative in Africa--with David Gordon of Abt Associates. At 12:30 p.m. in room 2 of Coolidge Hall.

The Bar at the Center of the Galaxy--with Leo Blitz of the University of Maryland. At 4 p.m. in the Phillips Auditorium at 60 Garden St.

The Culinary Dostoevsky: Appetite, Anthropophagy and Apocalypse--with Professor Ronald LeBlanc of the University of New Hampshire. At 4:15 p.m. in room 4 of Coolidge Hall.

Exploration of Ascetism in Culture and Patristic Greek Religion--with Richard Valentassis of the Divinity School. At 4:15 p.m. at the Center for Literary and Cultural Studies at 61 Kirkland St.

Parody and Later Comedy--with Heinz-Gunther Nasselrath, research fellow with the University of Cologne. At 5 p.m. in Boylston Hall.

Managing Your Career in a Recession: Strategies for Professional Women--a panel. At 7 p.m. in the Cronkhite Graduate Center at 6 Ash St.

Constructive and Destructive Uses of Film Propaganda: Case Studies from Jewish History--with Marilyn Koolik of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. At 8 p.m. in the forum room at Lamont Library.

Exhibits

Fragments of China: Pictures by Mark Leong--at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at 24 Quincy St. until Oct. 27. Call 495-3251

Friday

Theater

Salome--by Oscar Wilde. At 7:30 p.m. at the Loeb Experimental Theatre.

Film

Funeral Ceremony--by Zdenek Sirovy. At 7 p.m. at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at 24 Quincy St. Call 495-4700.

The Wall--by Jurgen Bottcher. At 9 p.m. at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at 24 Quincy St. Call 495-4700

Funeral Ceremony--is the stark drama of one woman against an entire town. At the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at 24 Quincy St. Call 495-4700. At 7 p.m.

Lectures

Exertion, Obesity and Estuarine Wilderness--a brown bag lunch with Robert and Lois Orchard Professor in the History of Landscape Development John Stilgoe. At 12:30 p.m. in room 109 of Gund Hall.

Physical and Biological Analogies in the Social Sciences--with Bernard Cohen, professor EMERITUS in the History of Science department. At 3 p.m. in room 226 in the Science Center.

To Care for the Stranger--with Marc Gopin. At 8:30 p.m. in Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel.

Saturday

Theater

Salome--by Oscar Wilde. At 7:30 p.m. at the Loeb Experimental Theatre.

Music

The Bach Society Orchestra--performs Bartok, Beethoven and Haydn. At 8 p.m. in Paine Hall. Tickets are available at the Holyoke Center Ticket Office, or call 495-2663.

Film

All My Good Countrymen--is a lyrical, mournful and bitterly funny monument to wasted lives. At the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at 24 Quincy St. Call 495-4700. At 9 p.m.

End of a Priest--is the portrait of a village choked to death by ideology. At the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at 24 Quincy St. Call 495-4700. At 7 p.m.

Sunday

Film

Male and Female--by Cecil B. DeMille. At 8 p.m. at the Harvard-Epworth United Methodist Church at 1555 Mass. Ave.

Birds, Orphans, Fools--explores the impossibility of reacting honestly in a world gone mad. At the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at 24 Quincy St. Call 495-4700. At 4 and 8:30 p.m.

Monday

List in the What is to be Done!!-- People are looking for something to do, when they could be at your concert, lecture, etc.

Tuesday

Lectures

Power and Piety: The Political Dimensions of Religion in Latin America--with Margaret Crahan, Luce professor of religion, power and politics at Occidental College. At noon in room 2 at Coolidge Hall.

Religion in the Early Tibetan Kingdom--with Hugh Richardson, honorary fellow at the British Academy. At 2 p.m. in room 18 in the Harvard Yenching Institute at 2 Divinity Ave.

International Trade: The Boston Scene in the '90s--at 4 p.m. in Agassiz House in Radcliffe Yard.

Wednesday

Music

Pianist Judith Gordon--performs SONATA by Harbison and 24 PRELUDES by Chopin at Lehman Hall. Call 495-4162.

Lectures

Columbus Day: Coming to Terms with the American Holocaust--a panel discussion with three prominent Native American scholars. Call 628-0012.