City Calendar: Week of 2/5

May 9, 2012 1:29 pm

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
TUESDAY

BLUFF: The Duquesne University Christian-Muslim Dialogue Committee will host a symposium, "Building Interreligious Relationships," from 4 to 6:30 p.m. in the Africa Room on the third floor of the Duquesne Union. The symposium will focus on women and minorities in interreligious dialogue. Keynote speakers will be Daisy Khan, executive director of the American Society for Muslim Development, and Peter C. Phan, who holds the Ignacio Ellacurio Chair of Catholic Social Thought at Georgetown University. The symposium is free and open to the public. For more information or to register, www.duq.edu/theology/christian-muslim-dialogue.

DOWNTOWN: "The Anthropology of Modernity: The Colonization of Culture and the Culture of Colonization" will be the topic for a program in Point Park University's Global Cultural Studies Lecture Series. Dwight Hines, assistant professor in the university's Department of Humanties and Human Sciences, will speak at 6 p.m. in the JVH Auditorium on the Point Park campus. Mr. Hines will draw upon a diverse group of thinkers -- from Mahatma Gandhi to George Orwell to Martin Luther King Jr. -- to discuss the implications of their actions for people contesting inequality worldwide. The lecture is free and open to the public. The lecture series features university faculty members from the humanities and human sciences department discussing a wide range of topics. For more information, 412-392-3480 or kjulian@pointpark,edu.

THURSDAY

DOWNTOWN: The next presenter in the Business Program Series, sponsored by the Downtown & Business Branch of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, will be Patrick N. Price, tax specialist with the Pittsburgh office of the Internal Revenue Service. He will discuss "Federal Tax Credits: Which Ones Can You Claim?" at 12:15 p.m. at the branch library, 612 Smithfield St. The program is free and open to the public. For more information, 412-281-7141 or www.carnegielibrary.org

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First Published February 6, 2012 12:00 am
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