Tucson Weekly: Lectures (April 5

LECTURES
Events This Week
BALKAN PEACE SUPPORT GROUP. Unitarian Church. 4831 E. 22nd St. 623-8905. Episcopal Refugee Services job developer Mukadesa Muftic presents Refugee Job Placement April 10 at 7 p.m. Muftic discusses employment for Tucson's growing refugee and immigrant population. Ildiko Melis presents Arts of the Hungarian Contact Zone April 11 at 7 p.m. Melis discusses the ways that small nations survive the shifting of large empires across their territory and mental landscape. Admission is free and open to the public. Refreshments are served before the programs.
FENG SHUI. Bookman's Used Books. Ina Road. Bring questions and paper and pencils for this information- packed lecture. Jane Jung of Eastern Feng Shui discusses prosperity, harmony, abundance, romance and more April 10 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Admission is free. Call 401-0626 for more information.
FLY-FISHING. Dry Creek Outfitters. 5450 E. Broadway Blvd. 326-7847. Baja on the Fly owner Gary Graham serves up a taste of saltwater fly-fishing April 7 at noon. Graham's free two-hour audio/visual program features fly-fishing from the beach, small boats and blue water cruisers along the East Cape area of Baja California. Graham also conducts a fly-casting demonstration showing techniques for hooking and landing saltwater species.
IMPACT SERIES. UA Swede Johnson building, Room 205. Noshir Contractor, professor of speech communication and psychology at the University of Illinois, discusses Co-evolution of Knowledge Networks and 21st-Century Organizational Forms April 9 from 3 to 4:40 p.m. Admission is free. Call 626-7761 for more information.
NAFTA FOR THE AMERICAS. UA Law School, Room 140. Tom Hansen, Latin American activist and national coordinator of the Mexico Solidarity Network, presents this talk April 6 from 7 to 9 p.m. Hansen discusses the potential expansion of NAFTA to the rest of the western hemisphere, calling it the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). Admission is free. Hansen presents a six-hour workshop called Corporate Agenda vs. People's Agenda April 7 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Quaker House at 931 N. Fifth Ave. The workshop focuses on globalization and its impacts on ordinary people. Cost of the workshop is $10 and includes lunch. Call Alicia Weber at 623-9141 to register and for more information.
SELF WORTH. University Medical Center DuVal auditorium. 1501 N. Campbell Ave. 886-6046. How Lack of Self Worth Makes Us Unavailable to Each Other is part of the Unresolvable Losses series by Patti Harada. The series presents a health-promoting, self-reverent model of resolving the chronic conflict that prevents us from forming loving relationships with each other. The lecture takes place April 11 from 7 to 9 p.m. Admission is $10 at the door.
GEORGE OLIN. University Medical Center DuVal auditorium. 1501 N. Campbell Ave. Author and photographer Olin presents a free slide show titled Up Close: A Lifetime of Observing and Photographing Desert Animals April 9 at 7 p.m. Olin also signs copies of his books House in the Sun and Mammals of the Southwestern Deserts. Call 629-0510 for more information.
TREASURE TROVE TIPS. Nanini Branch Library. 7300 N. Shannon Road. 791-4626. Librarian Sharla Darby discusses proper care and storage of books, photographs, scrapbooks, genealogy materials and more April 6 from 3 to 4 p.m. The program provides basic information on the proper handling, environment, and storage for books, paper and photographic materials. Admission is free.
WEATHER FORCASTING. In celebration of Math Awareness Week, David Bright discusses Forecasting Thunderstorms during the Monsoon April 5 at 4 p.m. in the UA Mathematics building, Room 101; Chuck Weidman presents Weather Phenomena at 5:30 p.m. in Room 501; and William Hubbard discusses Mathematical Models of Planetary Atmospheres at 6 p.m. in Room 501. Admission is free and open to the public. For more information call Chris Mikel in the Math Center at 621-2056.
WOLVES IN THE SOUTHWEST. UA Water Resources building. 350 N. Campbell Ave. The Sky Island Alliance presents Michael Robinson, wolf recovery specialist, with a slide show highlighting the history and reintroduction of the Mexican gray wolf to this region April 10 at 7 p.m. Admission is free. Call 624-7080 for more information.
WOMEN AND MONEY. Tucson Public Library. 101 N. Stone Ave. 742-7361. The Common Sense Forum presents Women in a World of Money: Making the Local-Global Connections April 7 from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. Author Sally Flax discusses economic literacy for women as a tool for political action and essential resources for women and men to understand today's global economy. This event is free.
Out of Town
HOPI LANGUAGE. Tubac Center of the Arts. 9 Plaza Road, Tubac. (520) 398-2371. Anthropologist and Hopi tribal judge Emory Sekaquaptewa presents The Hopi Language and its Impact on Culture and Art April 5 at 2 p.m. Admission is $10 for center members and $15 for non-members. Proceeds help Hopi children retain their native language.
Upcoming
ASTRONOMY AND PHILOSOPHY. Steward Observatory. 933 N. Cherry Ave., Room N210. There Is More Astronomy in Our Philosophy Than We Have Dreamt. April 16, 7:30 p.m.
QUILT TALK. Tubac Center of the Arts. 9 Plaza Road, Tubac. (520) 398-2371. ACA Hopi quilt exhibition. April 17, 10:30 a.m.