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Cornell Cinema hosts "A Tribute to Don Fredericksen" Sept. 9, featuring a memorial screening of Ingmar Bergman's "Persona."

Qawwali Night

The Pakistani Student Association in collaboration with the South Asia Program presents “Qawwali Night” featuring the Fareed Ayaz and Brothers Qawwali Troupe from Pakistan, Sept. 5 at 8 p.m. in Alice Statler Auditorium. Admission: $10 general, $3 students at the door.

The concert is funded by the Cornell Council for the Arts and cosponsored by the Religious Studies Program, the departments of Near Eastern Studies and Performing and Media Arts, the Asian and Asian-American Center, the Martin Hatch Fund, ALANA and CU Tonight.

Tribute to Don Fredericksen

The Department of Performing and Media Arts and Cornell Cinema will celebrate the life and career of professor of film Don Fredericksen – who taught, advised and mentored generations of Cornell students – Sept. 9 at 7:15 p.m. in Willard Straight Theatre. Free and open to the public.

Fredericksen, who died May 15, began teaching at Cornell in 1971. He also was a faculty affiliate in religious studies and visual studies, and an adviser and seminar teacher in the College Scholar Program. His honors included the College of Arts and Sciences’ Paul Award for excellence in advising. His scholarly output included a 2012 book (and several essays) on Ingmar Bergman’s “Persona” (1966).

“A Tribute to Don Fredericksen” will feature a screening of “Persona,” a selection of clips from student films in which Fredericksen appeared, and colleagues and former students speaking in his honor. A reception will follow.

Art and Vonnegut

The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art celebrates its new and continuing fall 2015 exhibitions with an opening reception Sept. 10 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. The museum is open to the Cornell community and the public free of charge.

In addition to “Imprint/In Print” now on display, three new exhibitions open Sept. 5: Photographs of urban environments in “The City: Works from the Collection;” art by James Siena ’79 in “Labyrinthian Structures;” and film and video works by Gordon Matta-Clark ’68 in “CUTS.”

Artist Huang Hsin-chien will speak Sept. 9 at 5:15 p.m. about his work, in conjunction with his exhibition “The Inheritance.”

The museum also presents “A Conversation about Kurt Vonnegut,” Sept. 10 at 6 p.m., in conjunction with the exhibition “’So it goes’: Drawings by Kurt Vonnegut” – and this year’s New Student Reading Project selection, Vonnegut ’44’s novel “Slaughterhouse-Five.”

The discussion features exhibition co-curator Nancy Green; George Hutchinson, the Newton C. Farr Professor of American Culture in Cornell’s Department of English; Ginger Strand, author of “The Brothers Vonnegut: Science and Fiction in the House of Magic;” and “Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time” filmmaker Robert B. Weide.

Rhodes Symposium

Leading scholars will discuss demographic trends in parenting at the second annual Rhodes Symposium hosted by the Cornell Population Center (CPC), “Demography and Gender: International Perspectives,” Sept. 11, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Cornell Plantations.

The speakers are demographer Letizia Mencarini of Bocconi University, Milan, on “The Parent Happiness Puzzle;” Maria Stanfors, professor of economic history at Lund University, on “Gender, Parenthood and Changing Time Use Patterns in Sweden, 1990-2010;” and sociologist Oriel Sullivan, co-director of the University of Oxford’s Centre for Time Use Research, on “Changing Cross-national Differences in Fathers’ Child Care Contributions.”

The annual symposium honors President Emeritus Frank H.T. Rhodes, who will attend, and highlights CPC’s core themes: families and children; health behaviors and disparities; poverty and inequality; immigration and diversity.

Drawing a museum

Architect Sergei Tchoban will discuss the conceptualization, development and creation of the new Museum for Architectural Drawing in Berlin in a public lecture, “Drawing a Museum for Drawing,” Sept. 9 at 5:15 p.m. in Milstein Auditorium.

The museum, designed by Tchoban and Sergey Kuznetsov, houses a collection of 20th- and 21st-century architectural drawings – in a building tattooed with its own drawings.

The building and examples of the museum’s holdings are featured in the exhibition “Treasury, Legacy: A Museum for Architectural Drawing,” through Sept. 25 in the John Hartell Gallery in Sibley Dome (“Legacy”) and Bibliowicz Family Gallery in Milstein Hall (“Treasury”). Preceding Tchoban’s lecture Sept. 9, a reception will be held in the galleries at 4:30 p.m. Free and open to the public.

Day of Statistics

The Department of Statistical Sciences presents the first-ever Cornell Day of Statistics Friday, Sept. 11 at the Statler Hotel, with leading researchers and practitioners in the field discussing new directions and discoveries. The event is free and open to the public, and registration is required.

Following remarks by CIS Dean Greg Morrisett at 9:30 a.m., Bill Strawderman, MS ’65, will be presented with the Distinguished Alumni Award and will give a talk about his career. He received his doctorate in statistics in 1969 from Rutgers University, where he has been a statistics professor since 1970.

“I look at statistics as a science in organizing, presenting and analyzing data from essentially any field,” Strawderman says. “Statistics has become more sexy, no question about it.”

The day also features presentations from the field’s best and brightest, including Dominique Fourdrinier of the University of Rouen; Marty Wells (Cornell), Liza Levina (University of Michigan), Harry Zhou (Yale), Richard Davis (Columbia) and Adoardo Airoldi (Harvard).

Cornell statistics professors Giles Hooker and Florentina Bunea co-organized the event, which celebrates the department’s 10th anniversary and “showcases Cornell's continuing tradition of excellence in statistical research,” Hooker said.