Conference

Making the System Work: Urban Violence and Legal Solutions. Featured speakers include the Rev. Jesse Jackson, president and founder, National Rainbow Coalition; the Rev. Calvin Butts, pastor, Abyssinian Baptist Church, New York; and the Hon. Glenda Hatchett Johnson, chief presiding judge, Fulton County Juvenile Court, Georgia. Preregistration is required. $55 for students. Call 628-1530 or 491-4401 for more information. Through Saturday, Apr. 22.

Exhibits

Fogg Art Museum. Through July. "Shades of Significance: Tonal Values in Abstract Art." From its perceived origins in Cubism, through its dominance of the post-war American art scene, to its current coexistence with other approaches to imagemaking.

Through summer 1995. "Selections from the Joseph H. Hazen Collection." This exhibition offers viewers a rare opportunity to view privately owned works by some of the great masters of the late 19th and early 29th centuries. Included are works by Braque, van Gogh, Kandinksky, Modigliani, Leger, Picasso, and Toulouse-Lautrec.

"France and the Portrait, 1799-1870." This installation of works from the permanent collections explores the changing conventions and practice of portraiture in France between the rise to power of Napoleon Bonaparte and the fall of the Second Empire.

Through September 1995. "Body Sights: A Symposium on Vision, the Body and Video Art" is offered in connection with "Between Cinema and a Hard Place." This exhibition features artist Gary Hill's video/sound sculpture installation consisting of twenty-three modified video monitors of various sizes, posing questions about the relationships of space and time.

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. 280 The Fenway, Boston. 566-1401. Through June 4. "Dennis Miller Bunker and His Circle" features more than 30 works of Bunker and some of the most celebrated names in American painting in the late 19th century.

Museums of Cultural and Natural History. Ongoing. "Birthstones" Explores the cultural and natural history of birthstones, and how perceptions of these precious and semiprecious gems have been influenced by mythology and astronomy.

Peabody Museum. Ongoing. "Encounters with the Americas."

Ongoing. "Ju/wasi: Bushmen of the Kalahari."

Ongoing. "Worlds in Miniature, Worlds Apart: Dioramas, Models, and Mannequins in the Peabody Museum."

Ongoing. "The Hall of the Northern American Indian."

Ongoing. "Ware Collection of Glass Flowers."

Sackler Museum. Through Dec. 30. "American art at Harvard: Cultures and Contexts." The first major survey of Harvard University's art collections in over 20 years provides a critical examination of art and material culture drawn from Harvard's museums and libraries in the context of interdisciplinary studies and revisionist scholarship.

Through Oct. 8. "The Art of the Fan: China, Korea, Japan." Traces the evolution of the fan in East Asia, from the circular "lollipop" fan to the better-known folding fan that was produced throughout East Asia from the thirteenth century onward.

Through May 21. "Impressions of Mesopotamia: Seals from the Ancient Near East. This display of ancient Near Eastern seals charts their development over 3,000 years of Mesopotamian history.

Through May 21. "Introduction to Byzantine Coinage." Showcases the Whittemore collection of Byzantine coins, including over 3,000 gold, silver, and bronze coins that cover the range of Byzantine numismatics from A.D. 491 to 1453.

Film

Harvard Film Archive. Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts. 24 Quincy St. 495-4700. $5 for students, unless a special event. "Don Giovanni" at 7 p.m.

Adams House Gender-bending on the Big Screen Series. Will present "Law of Desire" at 7:30 p.m. and "Longtime Companion" at 10 p.m. in the Claverly Hall Common Room.

Talk

The Dilemma of Double Consciousness: Women Lawyers and the Challenge of Sexual Equaltiy, 1865-1935. Virginia Drachman, Schlesinger Library Visiting Scholar and Associate Professor of History, Tufts University. Schlesinger Library, 4 p.m.

Beach Birds for Camera. Video screening and discussion with Merce Cunningham, Ruth Page Visiting Artist. Science Center B, 3 p.m.

Theatre

Guys and Dolls. Cabot House, 8 p.m. $5 for students; $3 for Cabot residents. Call 495-8749 for more information

The Trial. A comedy by Allan Piper. Loeb Experimental Theatre, 7:30 p.m. Free.

Posthumous Improvisations. By J. Eric Marler, graduate student in English. Leverett Old Library, 8 p.m. Tickets are available at the Holyoke Center ticket Office or at the door. 21 April Friday

Comedy

Immediate Gratification Players. help welcome the pre-frosh with some hilarious improv comedy. Boylston Auditorium, 8 p.m. Free.

Concert

New House Opera Theatre Ensemble. Perform "Camptown Ladies Sing the Songs of the Civil War." Adams House Lower Common Room, 8 p.m. $7.

Mendelssohn String Quartet. Performs works by Smetana, Rands and Janacek. Paine Concert Hall, 8 p.m. Admission is free but passes from the Holyoke Center Ticket Office are required. Call 495-2663 for more information.

North House Music Society. Presents a program of Bach cantatas. North House Dining Hall, 8 p.m. Free.

Conference

University and School Connections: Historical Perspectives. A celebration of the Graduate School of Education's 75th birthday includes talks by Vito Perrone, director, Harvard Teacher Education Programs; and Arthur Powell, former associate dean, GSE, senior associate, Annenberg Institute for School Reform. Gutman Conference Center, 10:30 a.m.

Dance

A Spring Thing. A medley of original choreography, contemporary and classical ballet presented by the Harvard-Radcliffe Ballety Company. Agassiz Theater, 8 p.m. $5 for students.

Film

Harvard Film Archive. Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts. 24 Quincy St. 495-4700. $5 for students, unless a special event. "Judex 1" at 7 p.m. "The Maestro Sworn to the Drum" at 9 p.m.

Poetry and prose

A Reading by Stuart Dischell and Marie Howe. Lamont Forum Room, 5 p.m.

Theatre

A Streetcar Named Desire. By Tennessee Williams. Agassiz Theatre, 8 p.m. $5 for students.

Guys and Dolls. Cabot House, 8 p.m. $5 for students; $3 for Cabot residents. Call 495-8749 for more information.

The Trial. A comedy by Allan Piper. Loeb Experimental Theatre, 7:30 p.m. Free.

Posthumous Improvisations. By J. Eric Marler, graduate student in English. Leverett Old Library, 8 p.m. Tickets are available at the Holyoke Center Ticket Office or at the door. 22 April Saturday

Concert

Currier House Music Society. Currier House students offer a program including works by Brahms, Milhaud and Mozart. Senior Common Room, 8 p.m. Free. Reception follows.

Dance

A Spring thing. A medley of original choreography, contemporary and classical ballet presented by the Harvard-Radcliffe Ballety Company. Agassiz Theater, 8 p.m. $5 for students.

Film

Harvard Film Archive. Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts. 24 Quincy St. 495-4700. $5 for students, unless a special event. "Judex 2" at 7 p.m. "The Maestro Sworn to the Drum" at 9 p.m.

Talk

Women in the Museums: Artists and Images. Ann Read, Art Museums docent. Fogg Art Museum, 11:30 p.m.

Theatre

A Streetcar Named Desire. By Tennessee Williams. Agassiz Theatre, 2 and 8 p.m. $5 for students.

Guys and Dolls. Cabot House, 8 p.m. $5 for students; $5 for Cabot residents. Call 495-8749 for more information.

The Trial. A comedy by Allan Piper. Loeb Experimental Theatre, 2:30 and 7:30 p.m. Free.

Posthumous Improvisations. By J. Eric Marler, graduate student in English. Leverett Old Library, 8 p.m. Tickets are available at the Holyoke Center Ticket Office or at the door. 23 April Sunday

Concert

University Art Museums. Presents pianist David Korevaar performing works by Faure, Stravinsky, Hindemith and Poulenc. Fogg Museum, 5:30 p.m. $4 forstudents.

Pandit Shivkumar Sharma and Ustad Shafaat AhmedKhan perform a concert of Indian classical vocalmusic. Sackler Auditorium, 7 p.m. $17 and $12 forstudents with ID.

Film

Harvard Film Archive. Carpenter Centerfor the Visual Arts. 24 Quincy St. 495-4700. $5for students, unless a special event. "Judex 1" at2 p.m. "Judex 2" at 4 p.m. "Judex 3" at 7 p.m."The Maestro Sworn to the Drum" at 9 p.m.

Poetry and prose

Journeys in Search of Flatbreads.Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid, authors,Flatbreads and Flavors. Agassiz Theatre, 2 p.m.24 April Monday

Film

Harvard Film Archive. Carpenter Centerfor the Visual Arts. 24 Quincy St. 495-4700. $5for students, unless a special event. "A Time forBurning" at 5:30 p.m. "8 1/2" at 7:30 p.m.

Talk

A Conversation with Marvin Kalb... A Visionof the Twenty-First Century: EconomicGlobalization and its Impact on Trade andSecurity. Kalb, Journalist and Kennedy SchoolProfessor; Prof. Susan Pharr, Harvard GovernmentDept.; Dr. Stanley Fischer, First Deputy ManagingDirector, International Monetary Fund; Dr.Lawrence Summers, Undersecretary for InternationalAffairs, United States Dept. of Treasury. ScienceCenter C. 8 p.m.

The Inner World of Mahler. GilbertKaplan. Music Building Davison Room, 4:15 p.m.25 April Tuesday

Film

Harvard Film Archive. Carpenter Centerfor the Visual Arts. 24 Quincy St. 495-4700. $5for students, unless a special event. "Strike" at5:30 p.m. "Forbidden Games" at 7:30 p.m. "TheMaestro Sworn to the Durm" at 9 p.m.

Poetry and prose

A Reading by Anderson, Rita Gabis and CarolPoetter. Adams House Senior Commonr Room, 7:30p.m.

Talk

Philosophical and Scientific Concerns withAnimal Experimentation. Holly Cheever, DVM.Phillips Brooks House parlor, 2:30 p.m. Free.26 April Wednesday

Film

Harvard Film Archive. Carpenter Centerfor the Visual Arts. 24 Quincy St. 495-4700. $5for students, unless a special event. "ForbiddenGames" at 5:30 p.m. "The Mestro Sworn to the Drum"at 7:30 p.m. "Strike" at 9 p.m.

Talk

Positions in Contemporary GermanPhotography. Ute Eskildsen, curator ofphotography, Museum Folkwang, Essen. SacklerMuseum, 6 p.m