Mitzi will perform her internationally acclaimed solo show "SNAPSHOT: a true story of love interrupted by invasion".  SNAPSHOT was nominated for BEST ACTRESS at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, special selection at: Cape Town Festival South Africa and International Women's Festival Tornio Finland and recipient of: Brooklyn Arts Council Individual Artist Grant, and Kentucky Foundation for Women Arts Meets Activism Grant.

Fusing words, dance, music and film, this story chronicles the quest of a mixed-race daughter from Central Appalachia who eventually finds her homeless Veteran father suffering in Hawaii. SNAPSHOT is entertaining theatre that includes singing and dancing with an emotional ride that inspires positive change for a better future!

The variety of observations of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) show that the nuclear activity is powered by a central massive black hole that drives radio emitting jets and ionizes surrounding line-emitting clouds. This central engine is surrounded by an obscuring torus, comprised of optically thick dusty clouds in a rotating configuration. As a result, sources viewed pole-on have a direct sight-line to the central engine and their spectra show broad lines (~ 10,000 km/sec) that are missing from AGN observed edge-on.  Viewing angle was generally considered the only property controlling the AGN line spectrum. Instead, I will present evidence that line emission is actually evolving as the accretion rate to the central black-hole is decreasing and show that this evolution is explained naturally by the dynamical properties of the toroidal obscuration.

Join us in celebrating this year’s Luckens Prize Winner, Yoni Pomeranz, and hearing a presentation on his winning essay, The Humility of God in Rabbinic Judaism. One of Rabbinic Judaism's main theological innovations is the idea that God acts with humility. Biblical theology makes use of metaphors grounded in social relations: God is the father and Israel is the son; God is the king and Israel is the subject. In the Bible, God always has the superior position. Rabbinic theology sometimes reverses these dynamics to have God choose to take the inferior position in an act of humility. The talk will examine one of these cases, in which God shows deference to Moses, and explore how the rabbis, through their concept of a humble deity, relate to the text of the Bible and Roman and Christian concepts of honor and regret. You will not want to miss this opportunity.