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Walker Evans in "Memory and the Photographic Image."

Islam Awareness Week

Cornell's Muslim Educational and Cultural Association will bring scholars, comedians, travelers and authors to campus during Islam Awareness Week, April 6-12, to share their experiences and help change stereotypes against Muslims.

Events include "30 Mosques, 30 Days," April 6, 4 p.m., 101 Phillips Hall, with travelers Bassam Tariq and Aman Ali; "Crossing the Line: NYPD Surveillance," with Cyrus McGoldrick of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, April 7, 4 p.m., Kaufmann Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall; the 2010 film "Mooz-lum," April 8, 8 p.m. in 101 Phillips Hall, in which an African-American college freshman struggles in post-9/11 America.

Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan of Oxford University will give three free lectures in the Messenger Lecture Series: "What Would the Prophet Do?" April 10, 4:30 p.m., Statler Auditorium; "Muslims in the West," April 11, 5 p.m., Call Auditorium, Kennedy Hall; and "Arab Revolution: What Next," April 12, 4:30 p.m., Kaufmann Auditorium.

A Jummah sermon, April 13, 1:15 p.m. in the One World Room of Anabel Taylor Hall, will feature visiting scholar Imam Rasheid on the ways ordinary Muslims have given back to their community.

Business ideas

Entrepreneurially minded students, faculty and professionals at Cornell will show off their business ideas and startup companies, talk about entrepreneurship and find out what others are doing across campus at Pulse, April 7, 12:30-6 p.m. in Sage Hall Atrium.

Those interested in having a table at the event should contact Jesse McElwain at jdm299@cornell.edu. Sponsored by Entrepreneurship@Cornell.

Life stories

Cornell Cinema celebrates the lives of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender individuals with three new films this month.

The documentary "Paul Goodman Changed My Life," April 7 and 10, chronicles the inspiring life of bisexual New York intellectual Paul Goodman, a poet, critic, psychologist, early crusader for gay rights and author of the '60s classic "Growing Up Absurd."

Also showing this month: "Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same," April 20-23, and "Pariah," April 27-30, a coming-of-age and coming-out story. Adepero Oduye '99 received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for her portrayal of a shy, black, straight-A student with no doubt about her sexual orientation, but who has yet to explore her identity.

To the streets

The Department of City and Regional Planning will sponsor a two-part workshop April 9 on advocacy, education and policy change using interactive media, with two leading voices in the sustainable transportation community.

Ben Fried, editor-in-chief of Streetsblog.org and Clarence Eckerson, lead producer/videographer of Streetfilms.org, will lead the workshop, "Blogs … Camera … Action! Advocacy Through Interactive Media: Using Blogging and Web Video to Effect Change," 4:15-5:30 p.m. in 213 Kennedy Hall.

Fried and Eckerson also will screen a selection of Streetfilms productions, "Documenting the Livable Streets Movement," at 7 p.m. in Milstein Auditorium, followed by a discussion. The events are open to the Cornell community.

Streetfilms, founded in 2006, has produced hundreds of short films on sustainable transport and livable streets issues, showing how smart urban design, planning and policy build better communities and more sustainable cities. Streetsblog has covered transit funding campaigns, transportation issues in local elections and the day-by-day transformation of New York City streets, among other stories.

In search of community

Cultural sociologist Felicia Wu Song will deliver the Spring 2012 Alan and Linda Beimfohr Lecture, "Facebook, Friendship and the Search for Real Community," April 10, 5 p.m. in Lewis Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall.

Song is an assistant professor at the Manship School of Mass Communication at Louisiana State University, where she teaches courses in mass media, advertising and persuasion. She is the author of "Virtual Communities: Bowling Alone, Online Together" (2009), which examines the social and cultural effects of the Internet on community, identity and the public sphere.

Beimfohr Lectures bring intellectuals to campus to address issues related to faith in a pluralistic society and are sponsored by Chesterton House, the Christian studies center affiliated with Cornell United Religious Work. Information: http://www.chestertonhouse.org/.

Rise up singing

Daphne Brooks of Princeton University will present "'One of These Mornings You're Gonna Rise Up Singing': The Secret Black Feminist History of 'Porgy and Bess,'" April 11, 4:45 p.m., Kaufmann Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall. Free. Sponsored by the Institute for Comparative Modernities Lecture Series.

Brooks will explore performances of the George and Ira Gershwin folk opera by black women artists across the 20th century, and the ways in which the racially fraught work has galvanized legacies of black women's avant-garde music making from the swing era to the present day.

Brooks also leads a seminar, April 12, 10 a.m. at Toboggan Lodge, 38 Forest Home Drive.

A professor of English and African-American studies, Brooks is the author of "Bodies in Dissent: Spectacular Performances of Race and Freedom, 1850-1910" and "Jeff Buckley's Grace," and is working on her next book, "Subterranean Blues: Black Women and Sound Subcultures -- From Minstrels Through the New Millennium."

Heroes and villains

Prize-winning novelist and poet Robert Morgan, the Kappa Alpha Professor of English at Cornell, will discuss his recent nonfiction book "Lions of the West," April 12, 4 p.m. in Olin Library's Amit Bhatia '01 Libe Café.

Morgan provides colorful biographical sketches of heroes and villains, profiling presidents, generals, statesmen and adventurers in telling the story of the annexation and settling of the American West, from Thomas Jefferson's birth in 1743 to the California Gold rush in 1849.

Morgan will lead a question-and-answer session and sign books following his talk, which is presented by Cornell Library's "Chats in the Stacks" book series.