HIV/AIDS Awareness Week

Malinda Beety, a social worker with the Denver Children’s Hospital, will be speaking tonight about healthcare and support that is available for youth living with HIV/AIDS in Sturm 453 at 7 p.m. Tomorrow, there will be free cookies and ribbons available on Driscoll Bridge from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. On Thursday, the South African film “Yesterday,” about the stigmas attached to being HIV positive, will be showing in Davis Auditorium at 8 p.m. courtesy of the HIV/AIDS Awareness Committee and DUPB. There will also be a raffle for prizes including an iPod. On Friday from 5 to 8 p.m., an African photo exhibit depicting three DU students’ recent experiences in Kenya and Malawi will be held in the GSIS Cyber Cafe. Pictures will be up for silent auction and the proceeds will go to Ripples International, a nonprofit organization in Kenya. Refreshments will be provided. At the end of the week on Saturday, run or walk in the 5K Mamma Mia run at City Park. The city-wide event will benefit HIV Care Link. Sign-ups will be on Driscoll Bridge from Monday to Friday.

Contact Jenny Oertell at joertell@du.edu with questions.

Jewish traditions

Attend “Letters to a Buddhist Jew” tonight at 7 p.m. in Sturm Hall, room 451. Presented by Hillel at the University of Denver, this extraordinary exchange with David Gottlieb, speaking from a Zen perspective, pinpoints the critical questions modern Jews are moved to ask of their tradition, which Gottlieb answers with the voice of a fully developed spiritual Jew. Contact Jamie Polliard at jpolliar@du.edu with questions.

Kabbalah discussion

A lecture by world-renowned visiting scholar Elliot R. Wolfson, “Picturing God in Kabbalah,” will be held tomorrow from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in Sturm Hall room 451. Wolfson, one of the world’s leading voices in Jewish mysticism, the history of religions, and gender theory, will explore the very different ways that God is “pictured” in Kabbalistic texts on the one hand, and Kabbalistic diagrams on the other. The Center for Judaic Studies presents for-credit Kabbalah classes with Wolfson, running from May 10 to 14 as part of “Decalogues:10 Judaic Studies Scholars in Conversation.” All events are free and open to the public. RSVPs are requested. Please call (303) 871.3660 or e-mail palarsen@du.edu. For more information, visit www.du.edu/cjs.

E-commerce lecture

Tomorrow at 6 p.m. in the Driscoll Commons, the Digital Media Student Group welcomes Dr. Paul Bauer, clinical professor, Information Technology and Electronic Commerce, Daniels College of Business. All students, faculty and staff are welcome to attend, regradless of concentration, in this open forum discussion about the integration of technology in business, specifically in terms of e-commerce. Learn about best practices, current trends and available opportunities.

Food will be provided. For more information about our speaker, Dr. Bauer, please visit: http://www.du.edu/~pbauer/.

Hot topic lunch

Tomorrow, bring your lunch and have a conversation with peers and Seth Masket, professor of political science, on “2006 Election: What’s Possible? What’s Probable?”

Meet at Nelson Hall private dining room from 11:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. Contact Karen Bensen at kbensen2@du.edu with questions.

Dark comedy to play

Thursday through Sunday at 8 p.m. and May 14 at 2 p.m. on the Margery Reed mainstage, a theatre PINS project directed by Department of Theatre student Jeffrey Graves will be performed. “Largo Desolato,” a modern comedy written by Vaclav Havel and translated by Tom Stoppard, is a hilarious and absurd piece that examines the life of a dissident under a totalitarian regime. When a professor publishes a philosophy book which contains a chapter on “intellectual hooliganism,” the government takes offense and threatens to drag him off to the mysterious “there.” There will be a short talk-back after each show. All tickets are free of charge. For reservations, call (303) 871-2108 or e-mail dureservations@hotmail.com. Produced with generous support from the DU Theatre Department and the PINS Fund. Contact Tricia Stevens at pstevens@du.edu with questions.

Leadership training conference

For all student leaders on campus, the Office of Campus Activities and the AUSA Senate are presenting the Student Leadership Training Conference. The conference requires one student from each student organization to be at the conference, but anyone that wants to learn about the resources available at DU are welcome to attend. To RSVP or get more information, go to www.du.edu/orgs/senate. The event will be held on Friday starting at 9 a.m. For more information, contact Jillian Marchi at jmarchi@du.edu.

“Voices of Experience” lecture on corporations

On Friday from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m., the Daniels College of Business will host the lecture “Corporate Governance and Enron-Past, Present and Future” at part of the “Voices of Experience” series. Visiting speaker Charles M. Elson is the Edgar S. Woolard Jr. Chair in Corporate Governance and the director of the John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance at the University of Delaware. His fields of expertise include corporations, securities regulation and corporate governance. He is a graduate of Harvard College and the University of Virginia Law School, and served as law clerk to Judges J. Harvie Wilkinson III and Elbert P. Tuttle of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth and Eleventh Circuits. A frequent visiting professor, noted litigator, prolific scholar-teacher and contributor to publications, Elson has written extensively on the subject of boards of directors.

In his presentation, Elson will give context to the recent reforms in corporate governance and discuss future trends that every investor should find of interest. Registration is free but required at http://www.daniels.du.edu/busethics/voicesregistration.cfm. Contact Jordan Ames at jorames@du.edu with questions.

Lecture on victim trauma

On Friday from 7 to 9 p.m. in Boettcher Auditorium, the DU Graduate School of Professional Psychology’s International Center for Disaster Psychology will host visiting scholar Nomfundo Walaza, who will give his lecture, “International Center for Disaster Psychology: Must Forgiveness Precede Reconciliation?” Walaza is the former executive director of the Trauma Centre for Survivors of Violence and Torture in Cape Town. The event is free and open to the DU community, and reservations are requested and can be made by calling Samara at (303) 871.3873 or emailing sferber@du.edu.