• The Eva Janzer Memorial Cello Center will hold its 24th annual celebration Sunday and Monday, Oct. 20-21, with a benefit concert Oct. 21 at Auer Concert Hall in Bloomington. http://www.music.indiana.edu/som/ejmccf
For ticket information: http://www.music.indiana.edu/boxoffice
• Cornell’s Savely Senderovich will give three lectures next week at IUB’s Ballantine Hall. “Nabokov and Schopenhauer” is Monday, Oct. 14, at 4 p.m. in BH005; “Tragic Comedy of Language in Nabokov’s ‘Pnin’” is at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 15, in BH217; and a
lecture on 11th-century Russian historiography is Wednesday, Oct. 16, at 7 p.m. in BH217.
• In 1943, five years before his first book on sex was published, IU zoologist Alfred Kinsey co-authored Edible Wild Plants of Eastern North America. Ah, sweet autumn. Here’s his favorite persimmon pudding recipe: http://www.iuinfo.indiana.edu/homepages/1205/text/recipe.htm
The IU Kokomo Art Gallery will open two exhibits, The Indiana Cycle and Funky-Functional Sunday, Oct. 20, with a reception from 2-4 p.m. Both shows continue through Nov. 17. http://www.iuk.edu/external-relations/ocm/news/sep02/OctArt.html
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