Through April 9. "The Renaissance in France: Drawings from the Ecole des Beaus-Arts, Paris" is the first comprehensive exhibition in North America devoted to drawing during the French Renaissance, and the accompanying catalogue will be the only book available in English on French drawings of the 16th century.

Through March 5. "Women and the Arts of Asia." Highlights the role of women in the arts of Asia from, five different perspective.

Schlesinger Library. Through March 29. "Exhibition of Ceramics by the Eight Eldest Members of the Radcliffe College Ceramics Studio."

Through March 30. "Drawings. Paintings, and Pastels by Ann Strieby Philips; Treasure Maps and other Works on Folded Paper by X. Bonnie Woods."

Film

Gender-Bending on the Big Screen Series. "Forbidden Love" at 7:30 p.m. "Paris is Burning" at 10 p.m. Adams House Pool Theatre. Free.

Graduate School of Education. "Island of the Giant Bear" at 7 p.m. Sven Haakanson, doctoral student in the Department of Anthropology, will comment on the film. Longfellow Hall, Room 100. Free.

Harvard Film Archive. 24 Quincy St., Carpenter Center for the Visual VideoSpace" at 8 p.m.

Poetry and Prose

A Reading by Henri Cole. Cole, Briggs Copeland Lecturer in English. Forum Room, Lamont Library, 5:30 p.m.

Talk

A Manifesto for the Charles Rives. Sam Bass Warner, Jr., urban historian. Piper Auditorium, 6:30 p.m.

Schindler's List Is Not Shoah: Bilderverbot, Popular Modernism and Public Memory. Miriam Hansen, University of Chicago, Carpenter Center, RoomB-04, 6 p.m.

The Last Word. Thomas Nagel, professorof philosophy, New York University. Emerson Hall,Room 105, 4 p.m.

Does and Asian American Agenda Exists?Cheryl Lau, general counsel to the United StatesHouse of Representatives; Michael Woo, Westernstates director, Corporation for National Serviceand former member, Los Angeles City Council. StarrAuditorium, Kennedy School of Government, 7 p.m.