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THIS WEEK AT THE UO.

Byline: The Register-Guard

Wednesday, May 28

Speaker - Noon. Sociology graduate student Shannon Bell will discuss "Our Roots Run Deep as Ironweed: Women and the Fight for Environmental Justice in the Appalachian Coalfields." Room 330, Hendricks Hall. Free. 346-5015.

Speaker - 5 p.m. Award-winning journalist John Pomfret will discuss "Notes From a Gambling Nation: Why China Is Not Going to Be the World's Next Superpower." Pomfret was an Associated Press reporter in China during the Tiananmen Square protests in the late 1980s and served as Beijing bureau chief for The Washington Post from 1998 through 2003. Room 282, Lillis Hall. Free. 346-1521.

Thursday, May 29

Speaker - 4 p.m. Political science professor Cas Mudde, University of Antwerp, Belgium, will discuss "The Populist Radical Right: A Pathological Normalcy." Room 185, Lillis Hall. Free. 346-4864.

Film - 6:30 p.m. The Night With Oscar international film series presents Federico Fellini's "The Road," (won 1956, Italy, 104 min.). Mills International Center, Erb Memorial Union. Free. 653-6557.

Friday, May 30

Speaker - 10 a.m. Kari Westlund, CEO of the Convention & Visitors Association of Lane County Oregon, will discuss the legacy of track and field in Oregon and plans for the future, starting with the Olympic Trials this summer in Eugene. South building, Baker Downtown Center. Free. 346-0697.

Film - 5 p.m. The Oregon Humanities Center presents a video premiere of Parts Two and Three of its documentary "A History of the University of Oregon, 1857-1989." Room 41, Media Services, Knight Library. Free. 346-3934.

Ballroom dance - 7:30 p.m. Dress- up or casual; leather-soled shoes advised. No partner needed. Lessons during the first hour. Room 220, Gerlinger Hall. $5 general public, $4 students and UO faculty. 346-6025.

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