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January 5 FOR THE BOYS AND GIRLS: YOUTH CULTURE IN AMERICA, film clip-illustrated lecture by National Institute of Media Research Film Programmer Tomas Naturo on films made by Hollywood targeting Generation X; Room 1910 Friday at noon. Free. 8 FROM OZZIE AND HARRIET TO AL AND PEGGY BUNDY: AMERICAN FAMILIES IN THE MEDIA, panel discussion includes Human Rights Campaign Manager Eliza Birch, Newsweek magazine columnist Andy Dickenson Room 1910; Monday at 7:30 p.m. Free. 19 BOOK: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF A CHINESE IMMIGRANT, lecture by the author, Sun Yung-Lee on her life in New York's Chinatown; Oxon Atlas Library ;Friday at 5:30 p.m. 21 THE CABLE LEGACY, slide-illustrated lecture led by a panel of Cable show producers, hosts and actors; Sunday at 2 p.m. Free. Location TBA 21 GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOOD: SHOULD WE WORRY ABOUT IT? Lecture Sunday at 3 p.m. Free. Location TBA 27 A BREATH OF FRESH AIR, lecture by the Director of the Fresh Air Initiative; Global Warming and CO2 in the atmosphere Saturday 3 p.m. Oxon Atlast Library February LECTURE 6 TITLE: AFRO-CONFEDERATES: MYTHS and FANTASIES, Lecture by Asia Gordon on African-Americans in the Civil War. Oxon Atlas Library, Wednesday at 7 p.m. Free. 17 THE LIMITS OF KNOWLEDGE, participatory philosophical discussion led by Ken Greenblatt Room 1910 Saturday at noon. Free. 21 THE REAL THREAT IN RUSSIAN FOREIGN POLICY: lecture by University of Notre Dame Department of Economics assistant professor Margaret Miller. Kennan Wilson Center, Sixth-Floor Auditorium, Wednesday at noon. Free. 27 THE COURT AND THE CONQUEROR: THE SUPREME COURT AND AMERICAN INDIAN NATIONS lecture by BriarWood College assistant professor Stephanie Bragley Gunston Auditorium; Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. Free. 27 CULTURES ON THE EDGE OF EXTINCTION, lecture by explorer Wayne Davis on indigenous cultures around the world. Cosponsored by Nat'l Geog Soc, Sixth-Floor Auditorium, Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. March 8 FAMILY RITUALS AND TEMPLE CEREMONIES OF BALI, lecture by Steven Wollmer, Travel Book Author Room 1910 Thursday at 7 p.m. Free. 13 HUMAN RIGHTS AND POLITICAL PRISONERS, panel discussion includes National Conference of Af Am Lawyers Justice Division Co-Chair Gertrude Alisson; Includes a screening of the film "Eyes of the Rainbow." Sixth-Floor Auditorium Tuesday at 6 p.m. 14 IMAGES FOR THE MIND'S EYE: THE THRESHOLD OF VIRTUE IN ROMAN CHURCH DECORATION, lecture by Hopkins University Art professor Herman Kessler. Dumbarton Room, Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. Free. 19 CONTRIVED SOCIETY: ADVERTISING AND CULTURE, lecture by Adjunct Associate Professor Clement Golding; Monday at 2 p.m. Free. Location TBA 31 INVESTIGATING MODERN ART, discussion led by Foundation staff member Susan Sherman. Meet at the Foundation's Gallery of Art, Saturday at 1 p.m. Free.