'REDISCOVERING GRAZIA DELEDDA': Margherita Heyer-Caput is inviting people to rediscover Grazia Deledda, the Nobel Prize winner for literature in 1926.
Heyer-Caput, a professor of French and Italian, and film studies, is the author of Grazia Deledda's Dance of Modernity.
At a program she is calling "Rediscovering Grazia Deledda," Heyer-Caput plans to give a talk and sign books, and show a short, silent film, Cenere (1916), inspired by Deledda's novel of the same name.
The program, free and open to the public, is set for 5 p.m. Oct. 8 in the Community Room at the International House, 10 College Park, Davis.
LANDSCAPE PLAN: °ÅÀÖÊÓƵ' new Landscape Heritage Plan is the focus of a Centennial Academic Showcase program set for Oct. 10.
The guest speaker is listed as Rachel Evans Lloyd, an associate with EDAW, the company that prepared the °ÅÀÖÊÓƵ plan. Her talk, sponsored by the Landscape Architecture Program, is scheduled from 3 to 4 p.m. in MU II at the Memorial Union, with admission free and open to the public.
The Landscape Heritage Plan, funded by a $175,000 grant from the Getty Foundation, covers the evolution of the Davis Campus's designed and agricultural landscapes, and includes a preservation plan for historic trees, plus recommendations for the management of historic landscape resources in and around the Quad.
HORSES, POULTRY
-- Horse Day Symposium (Oct. 4) and Farriers Workshop (Oct. 5), presenting the latest information on horse health and care. $30 for the symposium; $150 for the farriers lecture and lab, or $50 for the lecture only. More information is available from the Department of Animal Science: (530) 752-1250 or (click on "Events").
-- Avian Science Day, for backyard poultry enthusiasts. Oct. 4. Free. More information: (530) 752-1250.
All seminars and colloquia:
Media Resources
Dave Jones, Dateline, 530-752-6556, dljones@ucdavis.edu