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Conference

The Ecology of Commerce: Changing the Nature of Business. Keynote speaker will be Paul Haken, author of The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability and Growing a Business. Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, 6 p.m.

Exhibits

Fogg Art Museum.. Through July 1995. "Shades of Significance: Tonal Values in Abstract Art." From its perceived origins in Cubism, through its dominance of the post-war American art scene, to its current coexistence with other approaches to imagemaking.

Through summer 1995. "Selections from the Joseph H. Hazen Collection." This exhibition offers a rare opportunity to view privately owned works by some of the great masters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Included are works by Braque, Kandinsky, Leger, Modigliani, Picasso, Toulouse-Lautrec and van Gogh.

Ongoing. "France and the Portrait, 1799-1870." This installation of works from the permanent collections explores the changing conventions and practice of portraiture in France between the rise to power of Napoleon Bonaparte and the fall of the Second Empire.

Through September 1995. "Body Sights: A Symposium on Vision, the Body and Video Art" is offered in connection with "Between Cinema and a Hard Place." This exhibition features artist Gary Hill's video/sound sculpture installation consisting of twenty-three modified video monitors of various sizes, and poses questions about the relationships of space and time.

Museums of Cultural and Natural History. Ongoing. "Birthstones" Explores the cultural and natural history of birthstones, and how perceptions of these precious and semiprecious gems have been influenced by mythology and astronomy.

Peabody Museum. Ongoing. "Encounters with the Americas."

Ongoing. "Ju/wasi: Bushmen of the Kalahari."

Ongoing. "Worlds in Miniature, Worlds Apart: Dioramas, Models, and Mannequins in the Peabody Museum."

Ongoing. "The Hall of the Northern American Indian."

Ongoing. "Ware Collection of Glass Flowers."

Sackler Museum. Through Dec. 30. "American Art at Harvard: Cultures and Contexts." The first major survey of Harvard University's art collections in over 20 years provides a critical examination of art and material culture drawn from Harvard's museums and libraries in the context of interdisciplinary studies and revisionist scholarship.

Through May 21, 1995. "Impressions of Mesopotamia: Seals from the Ancient Near East." This display of ancient Near Eastern seals charts their development over 3,000 years of Mesopotamian history.

Through May 21, 1995. "Introduction to Byzantine Coinage." Showcases the Whittemore collection of Byzantine coins, with over 3,000 gold, silver and bronze coins that cover the range of Byzantine numismatics from A.D. 491 to 1453.

Film

Adams House Gender-Bending on the Big Screen Series. "Maedchen in Uniform" at 7:30 p.m. Claverly Common Room. Free.

Poetry and prose

Harvard University Extension School Writing Program Faculty Readings. Tom Bailey, Blessed, a novel in progress; Jane Brox, Here and Nowhere Else, Gail Mazur, The Common; and Myra McLarey, Water from the Well. Grossman Common Room, 51 Brattle Street. Call 495-8338 for more information.

Talk

Reporting on the War on Drugs: Mortality of Injecting Drug Users. Carlo Perucci, visiting lecturer, Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights. Rm. 502, Kresge Building, Harvard School of Public Health, 12:30 p.m.

Interstitial Integrity: Asian American Women's Theology. Rita Nakashima Brock, assistant professor endowed chair in the humanities, Hamline University. Sperry Room, Andover Hall, 45 Francis Ave., 5 p.m.

The Demonization of Adolescent Sexuality: Moving toward a Sex-positive Approach to Adolescent Health and Education. Keynote speakers include Jonathan Mann, Francois Xavier-Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights; Rafael Sainz, Latino Health Institute/Positive Youth; Elaine Young, Institute for Health Professions, MGH; and Sherry Turner, Mt. Holyoke College. Kresge Building, 6:30 p.m. Buffet dinner, 5:30 p.m. Call 629-0140 for information.

The Contract with America: A Conversation with Conservatives. Tom Korologos, president, Timmons and Company, and deputy assistant to the president for senate relations (Nixon and Ford Administrations); Frank Luntz, Republican pollster, and president, the Luntz Research Companies; John Schall, Institute of Politics fellow and Republican nominee for the U.S. House of Representatives (MI-13, 1994). ARCO Forum, 7 p.m.

March of the Living: Commemmorating the Holocaust and Celebrating Renewal. Howard Katz, associate dean, McGill University. Wiener Auditorium, 7:30 p.m.

Imagination, Mythology and Ecopsychology. An evening program with Jungian analyst and architect Vernon Woodworth, storyteller Blackhawk and dream specialist Robert Bosnak. Macht Auditorium, Cambridge Hospital, 1493 Cambridge St., Cambridge. Suggested donation is $8. Call 497-1553 for information.

Theatre

A Streetcar Named Desire. By Tennessee Williams. Agassiz Theatre, 8 p.m. $5 for students.

Guys and Dolls. Cabot House, 8 p.m. $5 for students; $3 for Cabot residents.

The Living. Anthony Clarvoe's historical drama in which the struggle of Londoners during the plague year of 1665 mirrors the modern reality fo the age of AIDS. Loeb Mainstage, 8 p.m. $5. Creative black tie attire. Call 547-8300 for more information and tickets. 28 April Friday

Concert

Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra. Will perform Debussy's La Damoiselle Elue with the Radcliffe Choral Society, Mendelssohn's Symphhony No. 3 "Scottish" and Vaughan Williams' Five Mystical Songs with the Harvard Glee Club, Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum and Radcliffe Choral Society. Sanders Theatre, 8 p.m. Call 496-2222 for tickets and more information.

Theatre

A Streetcar Named Desire. Agassiz Theatre, 8 p.m. $5 for students.

Guys and Dolls. Cabot House, 7:30 p.m. $5 for students; $3 for Cabot residents.

The Living. Loeb Mainstage, 8 p.m. $5. Call 547-8300 for information or tickets.

Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet). What if two of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies were really comedies? That is the question asked in Ann-Marie MacDonald's play of jealousy, rage, murder, love, lust, crossdressing and mutilated turtles named Hector. 7:30 at the Loeb Experimental Theater. Tickets are free.

Tribute

The Many Faces of Jack Lemmon: Tribute to Jack Lemmon. Harvard Film Archive, 7 p.m. Lemmon will be present to discuss his career in cinema. $15. 29 April Saturday

Concert

Currier House Music Society. Pianist Angela Au `97 performs a recital featuring works by Chopin, Ravel and Mozart. Senior Common Room, 6 p.m. Free.

Department of Music. The Harvard Group for New Music performs works by Kirchner, Tuli, Taddie, Clingan, Koczela and Rindfleisch. Paine Concert Hall, 8 p.m. Free.

Office for the Arts. Russ Gershon, the Either/Orchestra, and the Harvard Jazz Band perform works composed and arranged by Gershon, as well as a new work by Gershon specially commissioned by the Office for the Arts featuring Boston-based jazz trumpeter John Carlson. Lowell Hall, 10:30 p.m. Free.

Conference

Whither Enzymology? A Symposium in Honor of Jeremy Knowles on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday. Through Sunday, April 30. Nineteen 30-minute scientific lectures presented by guest speakers. Lecture Hall C, Science Center. $10. Call 495-5696 for more information.

Film

Harvard Film Archive. Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts. 24 Quincy St. 495-4700. $5 for students. "How to Murder Your Wife" at 3 p.m. "Some Like It Hot" at 7 p.m. "The Seamstress" at 9:15 p.m.

Talk

Four Modern Painters. A symposium on artists represented in the Joseph H. Hazen Collection, on loan to the Harvard University Art Museums. Vojtech Jirat-Wasiutynski, associate professor, Department of Art, Queen's University will speak about Vincent Van Gogh; Yule F. Heibel, independent scholar will speak about Wassily Kandinsky; Robert J. Boardingham, assistant curator, European Paintings, Museum of Fine Arts will speak about Pablo Picasso and Hollis Clayson, professor, Department of Art History, Northwestern University will speak about Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Sackler Museum Auditorium, 2:15 p.m. Free.

Theatre

A Streetcar Named Desire. Agassiz Theatre, 8 p.m. $5 for students.

Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet). Loeb Ex, 1:30 and 7:30. Free.

Guys and Dolls. Cabot House, 8 p.m. $5 for students; $3 for Cabot residents.

The Living. Loeb Mainstage, 7 p.m. $5. See previous listing for more information.

Workshop

Women in the Law: On Becoming a Leader.Women lawyers recognized for their professionalachievement and for enhancing the role of women inlaw disucss how they have achieved their goals.Radcliffe Career Services, 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.$60, includes lunch. Call 495-8631 for moreinformation or registration.30 April Sunday

Concert

Harvard Retirees Association. TheUniversity Jazz Band performs a program titled"Big Band Sounds from the Swing Era," whileBallroom Dance Club members perform the jitterbugand other dances from the period. Paine ConcertHall, 2 p.m. Tickets for $3 are available bysending a check payable to "HURA" and aself-addressed, stamped envelope to GertrudeKeenan, 127 Woodside Lane, Arlington, MA 02174.

Hilles Library. Ralph Samuelson,shakuhachi, and Mizuyo Komiya, koto, performtraditional Japanese music and new works by HirokoIto, Takashi Koto and Martin Schreiner. HillesLibrary Cinema, 3 p.m. Free admission, limitedseating. Call 493-5016 for reservations.

Toscanini Chamber Orchestra. Presents aconcert featuring works of Vivaldi, Haydn,Beethoven and Dvorak. Paine Concert Hall, 8 p.m.Free.

Film

Harvard Film Archive. Carpenter Centerfor the Visual Arts. 495-4700. $5 for students."The Apartment" at 3 p.m. "Missing" at 7 p.m."Vautrin" at 9:15 p.m.

Talk

Gandhi and Humanism. Mark Lindley,assistant humanist chaplain, United Ministry.Science Center D, 1 p.m.1 May Monday

Poetry and prose

New England Poetry Club. Ted and ReneeWeiss. Emerson Hall 105, 7:30 p.m. Call 643-0029for more information.2 May Tuesday

Talk

A Talk by Janice Jackson. Jackson,deputy assistant secretary for elementary andsecondary education, U.S. Department of Education.Eliot-Lyman Room, Longfellow Hall, 6 p.m.3 May Wednesday

Talk

Dialogues with Andrew Cohen. Cohen,spiritual teacher and author of the newly releasedbook, An Unconditional Relationship to Life.Harvard Divinity School, Sperry Room, AndoverHall, 8 p.m. Call 446-9770 for more information.

A Talk by John Engler. Engler is thegovernor of Michigan. Gutman Conference Center,Graduate School of Education, 7:30 p.m