Job Search Support Group: How to find or create your own--with phyllis Stein, director of Radcliffe Career Services. In Agassiz House in Radcliffe Yard at 4 p.m. Admissions is $5, free for Harvard students.

Wednesday, Oct.30

THEATER

Joycity--a Poets' Theatre production of a Ulick O'Connor play celebrating the life and work of James Joyce. In a virtuosic one-person performance, Irish actor and mime Vincent O'Neill brings joyce and a multitude of the bard's characters to life. At the Poets' Theatre at the Hasty Pudding at 12 Holyoke St. at 8 p.m. Tickets are $12 to $20 and are available at the box office.

LECTURES

The Arab World After the Gulf Crisis--with Ahmed Abdalia. In Coolidge Hall at 4 p.m.

Newton and Cleopatra--with Mary Hamer, fellow on history of representation. In the Bunting Institute at 34 Concord Ave. at 4 p.m.

Reconstructing the Urban Public Sphere: Gender, the Household and Progressive-Era Political Participation--with Charles Warren Fellow Philip Ethington. In the Robinson Hall downstairs seminar room at 4 p.m.

Oratory: The Art of Illusion--with Harry Gotoff, professor of classics at the University of Cincinnati. In the Boylston Hall auditorium at 5 p.m.

A Few Ounces of Divinity: Rice, the Emperor, and Cosmological Exchange of Self in Japanese Culture--with Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney, professor in the University of Wisconsin Department of Anthropology. In the Common Room at 42 Francis Ave. at 7:30 p.m.