Coffee with Homer
9:00 AM · Wilson Commons, 409 Havens Lounge
Discuss Homer’s Iliad over coffee or breakfast; consult the event page for this week’s assigned reading.
RSVP REQUIRED
STAFF PICKS
Seven starting points for the week.
Thursday · Economics
Pablo Peña: Human Capital for Humans
3:30 PM · Morey 321. The University of Chicago economist presents an accessible introduction to the economic science of people.
Thursday–Thursday · Theater
Big Love
Opens tonight at 8 PM in Smith Theatre and runs six times in this week’s window. Fifty brides, fifty cousin-grooms, Greek myth, comedy, brutality, and the costs of resisting tradition. TICKETED.
Friday–Monday · Music
Gateways Music Festival weekend
George Taylor’s 40th-anniversary recital, Black sacred music, a BLACKSOUND lecture, Shana Tucker’s ChamberSoul, Ric’key Pageot, and young musicians across Eastman.
Saturday · Sports
Rowing and a NYU soccer doubleheader at home
Head of the Genesee rowing starts at 10 AM in Genesee Valley Park; men’s soccer hosts NYU at 11 AM and women’s soccer hosts NYU at 1:30 PM at Fauver.
Saturday & Sunday · Music / Theater
Peer Gynt with John de Lancie
Saturday 7:30 PM and Sunday 2 PM · Kodak Hall. The Star Trek actor narrates a semi-staged English-language Peer Gynt with the RPO. TICKETED.
Monday · AI / Health
Healthcare in the Age of Frontier Models
3:30 PM · Class of ’62 Auditorium. Coalition for Health AI CEO Brian Anderson on medicine in the frontier-model era.
Thursday, October 15 · Politics / Technology
Disrupting Politics
Noon–1 PM · Online. Former Facebook elections-policy leader Katie Harbath joins David Primo to discuss technology, democracy, misinformation, AI, and the 2026 midterms. FREE · RSVP REQUIRED.
Thursday, October 8
Careers in Finance: Alumni Perspectives and Career Pathways
12:00–1:00 PM · Online
Simon alumni share finance career paths, day-to-day work, and practical advice for breaking into the industry.
RSVP REQUIRED
Wallis Political Economy Seminar: Jeffery Jenkins (USC)
3:00–4:30 PM · Harkness 112
Popular Support for Disenfranchisement in the United States: Voting on Constitutional Referendums. The series is aimed primarily at faculty and graduate students.
Chambers Distinguished Lecture: Positive Thinking in Organic Chemistry
3:30–4:30 PM · Hutchison Hall 140
Nuno Maulide of the University of Vienna on energetic intermediates, carbocations, and new routes to complex molecules.
Mathematics Colloquium: Semyon Dyatlov (MIT)
3:30–4:30 PM · Hylan Building 1106a
MIT’s Semyon Dyatlov on uncertainty principles in quantum chaos.
Pablo A. Peña: Human Capital for Humans
3:30 PM · Morey Hall 321
The University of Chicago economist discusses his accessible introduction to the economic science of people.
Meet Your Research Ambassadors and Subject Librarians
4:00–6:00 PM · Rush Rhees Library, Hawkins-Carlson Room
An information session, student panel, and open house for undergraduates trying to find a path into research.
FREE · RSVP REQUIRED
Fall Writer’s Lounge
5:00–7:00 PM · Rush Rhees Library, Humanities Center Lounge
Bring writing, exchange ideas, get feedback, and have refreshments.
RSVP REQUIRED
OpenAI Student Collective: URochester Tech Night
6:00–8:00 PM · Venue shown after CCC sign-in
A student tech night hosted by the Computer Science Undergraduate Council and the OpenAI Student Collective.
CCC SIGN-IN FOR VENUE
Mindful MAGiC: Candlelit Consciousness Concert
6:30–7:45 PM · Memorial Art Gallery auditorium
Gongs, more than 200 candles, and spoken-word meditation with Harold Taddy and Theo Trombulak. No late entry; ticket sales end at 6:15 PM.
TICKETED · $25; $20 MAG members
A Short History of Voting and Voter Suppression in the United States
6:30 PM · Online
A virtual conversation on the laws, policies, and political practices that have shaped access to the ballot.
FREE · RSVP REQUIRED
Big Love — opening night
8:00 PM · Sloan Performing Arts Center, Smith Theatre
Charles L. Mee’s collision of Greek myth, comedy, brutality, freedom, and desire. Opening-night reception follows.
TICKETED · $10–$20
Late Night × Quiz Bowl: Trivia Night
10:00–11:00 PM · Venue shown after CCC sign-in
Thursday-night trivia from Late Night and Quiz Bowl.
CCC SIGN-IN FOR VENUE
Friday, October 9
Chambers Distinguished Lecture: The Long and Short of Total Synthesis
9:00–10:00 AM · Hutchison Hall 140
A second lecture from Nuno Maulide of the University of Vienna on synthetic chemistry and bioactive structures.
Ableton Educators Day
10:30 AM · Eastman School of Music
A day for teachers and music-makers exploring Ableton tools, creative practice, and music technology.
FREE · RSVP REQUIRED
MAG’s Birthday Bash
5:00–8:00 PM · Memorial Art Gallery
MAG turns 113 with cake while it lasts, cocktails, 5:30 and 6:30 mini-tours, and the current exhibitions.
TICKETED · half-price museum admission
Kobrin, Jang & Ying: The Complete Beethoven Piano Trios (1 of 3)
7:30 PM · Kilbourn Hall
Alexander Kobrin, YooJin Jang, and David Ying begin a season-long chronological cycle with Beethoven’s Op. 1 trios.
TICKETED · LIVESTREAM
George Taylor at 40 with the Gateways Chamber Players
7:30 PM · Hatch Recital Hall
A Faculty Artist Series recital celebrating violist George Taylor’s 40 years at Eastman.
TICKETED · LIVESTREAM
Big Love — IPA Night
8:00 PM · Sloan Performing Arts Center, Smith Theatre
Friday’s performance includes a post-show International Theatre Program reception.
TICKETED · $10–$20
Saturday, October 10
Women’s Rowing: Head of the Genesee
10:00 AM · Genesee Valley Park
Rochester’s home regatta on the Genesee River.
HOME
Men’s Soccer vs. New York University
11:00 AM · Edwin Fauver Stadium
UAA conference match.
HOME
Gateways: SANCTUARY — A Celebration of Black Sacred Music
11:00 AM · Hatch Recital Hall
Hymns, spirituals, gospel, sacred jazz, classical repertoire, and contemporary devotional music through the voices of Gateways artists.
TICKETED
Field Hockey at Skidmore College
12:00 PM · Saratoga Springs, NY
Liberty League match.
AWAY
Football at Ithaca College
1:00 PM · Ithaca, NY
Liberty League road game.
AWAY
Gateways: BLACKSOUND with Matthew D. Morrison
1:00 PM · Hatch Recital Hall
A Paul J. Burgett Lecture and community conversation on Black sound, culture, and the history of listening.
TICKETED
Women’s Soccer vs. New York University
1:30 PM · Edwin Fauver Stadium
UAA conference match.
HOME
RPO: Peer Gynt with John de Lancie
7:30–9:00 PM · Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre
A semi-staged English-language Peer Gynt with John de Lancie—the actor behind Star Trek’s Q—as narrator. Pre-concert chat at 6:30 PM.
TICKETED
Gateways: Shana Tucker — ChamberSoul
8:00 PM · Kilbourn Hall
Cellist, vocalist, and composer Shana Tucker blends classical, jazz, soul, folk, and acoustic pop with storytelling.
TICKETED
Big Love
8:00 PM · Sloan Performing Arts Center, Smith Theatre
Saturday-night performance of Charles L. Mee’s unruly reworking of Aeschylus’s The Suppliants.
TICKETED · $10–$20
Sunday, October 11
Women’s Volleyball vs. Emory University
10:00 AM · New York, NY
UAA Round Robin match at NYU.
NEUTRAL
Gateways Family Concert: Ric’key Pageot
1:00 PM · Hatch Recital Hall
An interactive all-ages concert introducing music by groundbreaking Black composers through performance and storytelling.
TICKETED
Going for Baroque
1:30 PM and 3:00 PM · Memorial Art Gallery, Fountain Court
Two short performances on MAG’s Italian Baroque organ.
INCLUDED WITH MUSEUM ADMISSION
Big Love — ASL-interpreted matinee
2:00 PM · Sloan Performing Arts Center, Smith Theatre
Sunday’s matinee is ASL interpreted.
TICKETED · $10–$20
RPO: Peer Gynt with John de Lancie
2:00–3:30 PM · Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre
Sunday matinee of the semi-staged Peer Gynt with John de Lancie narrating.
TICKETED
Women’s Volleyball at New York University
2:00 PM · New York, NY
UAA Round Robin match.
AWAY
ISO Game Club: Video Game Social
4:00–6:00 PM · Susan B. Anthony Halls, Gamer Den
A casual Sunday video-game meetup hosted by the International Students’ Office Game Club.
Gateways Piano Recital: Ric’key Pageot
5:00 PM · Kilbourn Hall
Pageot’s Classic Black recital centers Black classical composers and the musical traditions they shaped.
TICKETED
Compline with Schola Cantorum
9:00 PM · Christ Church
A quiet late-evening service with chant and choral music.
FREE
Monday, October 12
Gateways Young Musicians Institute: Rochester Day for Strings and Showcase
8:30 AM; showcase 6:30 PM · Eastman School of Music; Kilbourn Hall
A day of string study concludes with a 6:30 PM Young Musicians Institute showcase in Kilbourn Hall.
TICKETED
Men’s Golf: Carnegie Mellon Tartan Invitational, Day 1
8:30 AM · Laurel Valley Golf Club, Ligonier, PA
First round of the two-day invitational.
AWAY
Healthcare in the Age of Frontier Models
3:30–6:00 PM · School of Medicine and Dentistry, Class of ’62 Auditorium
Brian Anderson, CEO of the Coalition for Health AI, delivers the Taubman Dean’s Lecture.
Chess Club weekly meeting
6:00–7:30 PM · Douglass Commons 302
Drop in for casual and competitive chess.
Tuesday, October 13
Men’s Golf: Carnegie Mellon Tartan Invitational, Day 2
8:30 AM · Laurel Valley Golf Club, Ligonier, PA
Final round of the invitational.
AWAY
Tuesday Pipes
12:10 PM · Christ Church
Eastman’s weekly lunchtime organ series.
FREE
Field Hockey at Hamilton College
5:00 PM · Clinton, NY
Non-conference road match.
AWAY
Men’s Soccer vs. Hamilton College
7:00 PM · Edwin Fauver Stadium
Home non-conference match.
HOME
China Stories — piano recital by Liu Liu
8:30 PM · Hatch Recital Hall
A special piano recital by Liu Liu.
FREE · LIVESTREAM
Wednesday, October 14
Grammars of Crisis: Madness and Responsibility in Sunni-Islamic Maldives
12:30–2:00 PM · Rush Rhees Library, Humanities Center Conference Room D
Anthropologist Anu Ahmed on mental illness, ethics, modernization, gender, class, and responsibility in the Maldives.
RSVP REQUIRED
AI in Education Across the World
3:30 PM · Online
The LiDA Colloquium looks beyond U.S. assumptions about the potential and limits of AI in schools and universities.
FREE
Lewis Henry Morgan Lecture: Living with Toxic Development
7:00–9:00 PM · Wegmans Hall 1400
Camelia Dewan of Uppsala University examines ship recycling, toxic exposure, livelihoods, and the unequal promises of development in coastal Bangladesh.
FREE
George Abraham: CELEBRATE — Opus 90 Completed
7:30 PM · Kilbourn Hall
A 90th-birthday two-piano recital and Wilmot Cancer Institute fundraiser with Liu Liu, Cahill Smith, Alan Chow, and George Abraham; works for four, six, and eight hands.
FREE · $20 suggested donation · LIVESTREAM
Big Love — English Night
8:00 PM · Sloan Performing Arts Center, Smith Theatre
Wednesday’s performance includes an English-department post-show reception.
TICKETED · $10–$20
Thursday, October 15
Experience Rochester: Disrupting Politics
12:00–1:00 PM · Online
Katie Harbath, a former political strategist and longtime Facebook elections-policy leader, joins David Primo on technology, democracy, misinformation, AI, and the 2026 midterms.
FREE · RSVP REQUIRED
Lunch and Labyrinth
12:30–2:00 PM · Venue shown after CCC sign-in
Religious and Spiritual Life hosts lunch and a walk through the labyrinth.
FREE · RSVP REQUIRED · CCC SIGN-IN FOR VENUE
Curator’s Tour of Hugo McCloud: to everything there is a season
6:00–7:00 PM · Memorial Art Gallery, meet at Admissions Desk
Curator Timothy Peterson explores McCloud’s examination of labor and his use of plastic, foil, tar paper, and other unconventional materials.
SOLD OUT · $10; free UR/MAG members
Haniel Anugerah, piano
6:30 PM · Hatch Recital Hall
Eastman student degree recital.
FREE · LIVESTREAM
Third Thursday: Anonymous — A Rose by Any Other Name
7:00 PM · Memorial Art Gallery
John Sheridan, organ, and friends perform at MAG.
FREE
Big Love
8:00 PM · Sloan Performing Arts Center, Smith Theatre
Thursday-night performance; the production continues October 16–17 after this digest window.
TICKETED · $10–$20
Late Night × Quiz Bowl: Trivia Night
10:00–11:00 PM · Venue shown after CCC sign-in
Another Thursday-night trivia session from Late Night and Quiz Bowl.
CCC SIGN-IN FOR VENUE
Art to catch during the week
Hugo McCloud: to everything there is a season
McCloud’s global examination of labor, migration, and material reuse runs at MAG; free admission for University of Rochester students with ID.
Fischli & Weiss: The Way Things Go
A delightfully elaborate chain-reaction film in MAG’s Media Arts Watch Gallery; included with museum admission.
Desire and Abundance: American Culture and the Still Life
American still lifes and the culture of consumption in MAG’s Forman Gallery; free to University of Rochester students with ID.
SOURCE HEALTH
- The central University calendar API returned 134 raw listings across both pages for October 8–15. Clinical screenings, employee training, routine wellness classes, and closed professional meetings were searched but not dumped into this student-facing digest.
- CampusGroups’ public event service returned 63 events for the window, including Tech Night, Chess Club, Lunch and Labyrinth, and both Late Night trivia sessions. Many venues remain hidden until sign-in; those entries are labeled rather than guessed.
- Eastman’s independent calendar supplied 24 listings in the window, most absent from the central calendar. The Gateways festival and Eastman pages are active; livestream and ticket labels above follow the current Eastman listings.
- Eastman calls the October 14 concert “George Abraham: CELEBRATE: Opus 90 Completed,” while the central calendar calls it a duo-piano fundraiser for Wilmot. The descriptions, time, venue, performers, and 90th-birthday framing establish that these are the same event, so they are deduplicated above.
- MAG currently marks its October 8 Kirigami workshop, October 9 pottery workshop, and October 15 Hugo McCloud curator tour SOLD OUT. The first two are omitted as unavailable; the curator tour remains listed because it is a notable event and the status is clearly flagged.
- Athletics’ official responsive calendar and individual sport schedules agree on all 11 varsity events in the window. Home, away, and neutral status are labeled; home venues are taken from the official event data.
- Arthur Satz Music is active but lists no River Campus concert between October 8 and 15; its next published concert is October 18. GIDS-AI and Dance/Movement also produced no separately confirmed public event for this window. Simon is active and supplied Thursday’s finance panel; Humanities supplied Wednesday’s Anu Ahmed seminar.
- Event pages remain the authority for last-minute changes, admission, and registration. This is a broad, curated campus digest—not every appointment, closed meeting, clinical training, or recurring workout.