Ganz Continues His Chopin Quest
Pianist Brian Ganz will play an all-Chopin program at 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 4, at Auerbach Auditorium at St. Mary’s Hall, a run-through of the program he will play at the Music Center at Strathmore Feb. 11, as he continues his quest to play every piece Frédéric Chopin composed.

Feminist Films and Women Filmmakers
St. Mary’s College of Maryland’s fifth annual film series, Out of Bounds: Feminist Films and Filmmakers, will focus on the work of women filmmakers and women's filmmaking collectives. It kicks off with Yun Suh, who will screen her film "City of Borders" at 8:15 p.m. Monday, Feb. 6, in Cole Cinema in the college’s Campus Center, and answer questions afterwards.

Johnson's Art on Exhibit at Oxford Museum
Art Professor Sue Johnson has a one-person show, “The Nature of Curious Objects: Sue Johnson’s Paper Museum,” at the Pitt Rivers Museum at the University of Oxford. “Just occasionally, an artist comes … with such a sympathetic but different take that it changes everyone’s way of seeing. Such an artist is Sue Johnson,” said Jeremy Coote, museum curator.

Pioneer of Underground Comics to Speak
Denis Kitchen, pioneer of underground comics and pop culture and founder of the Kitchen Sink Press, publisher of some of the most innovative comics for 30 years, shares his stories in a public lecture at 8 p.m. Monday, Feb. 6, in Auerbach Auditorium of St. Mary’s Hall at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. He will describe a period when comics became a vital part of the American counterculture and tested the limits of freedom of expression. Read press release.

Book on China Studies its Contradictions
A book on the paradoxes of China by Haomin Gong, assistant professor of Chinese, "Uneven Modernity: Literature, Film, and Intellectual Discourse in Postsocialist China," has been published by the University of Hawaii Press. The monograph talks of the economic boom, political conservatism, and cultural complexity of modern China. “‘Uneven Modernity’ makes a significant contribution to the burgeoning field of China studies,” says one review. “It addresses some of the most popular, yet understudied, cultural phenomena in contemporary China.”