This lecture has been postponed.

The College of Arts and Sciences’ Center for the Humanities and the Animal Studies Research Group will host Laurie Shannon, associate professor of English and Wender Lewis Teaching and Research Professor at Northwestern University, who will lecture on “Night-Rule: Empires of the Nonhuman in Montaigne, Shakespeare, and Descartes”  on Wednesday, February 2, at 4:30 p.m. in the CAS Gallery.

The Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism will host a meeting of the Endocrinology Journal Club on Wednesday, February 2 at 7:30 a.m. in the Batchelor Building, sixth-floor seminar room. Marisabel Bravo, fellow in the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism, will present “Relationships between Vascular Calcification, Calcium Metabolism, Bone Density, and Fractures.” For more information, please contact Angie Saint Jean at [email protected] or 305-243-8417.

The Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism will present grand rounds on Wednesday, February 2 at 12 p.m. in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, fourth-floor auditorium. David L. Vesely, director of the Cardiac Hormone Center at the University of South Florida Health Sciences Center and chief of the Section of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism at the James A. Haley VA Medical Center in Tampa, will present “Cardiac Hormones and the Treatment of Cancer.” For more information, please contact Cristina Orbeta at [email protected] or 305-243-6484.

The School of Law’s Faculty Lecture Series continues on Wednesday, February 2 with professor Markus Wagner, who will present “Law Talk v. Science Talk: The Languages of Law and Science in WTO Proceedings” in the Law School’s fourth-floor faculty meeting room. The lecture begins at 12:35 p.m., following a lunch at noon in the same room. A question-and-answer session will come after the lecture.

Wagner’s scholarship focuses on international law and comparative law, namely in the areas of military contractors, modern technology in present-day conflicts, the interplay between law and science in the WTO, and the domestic impact of international law.

Wagner is an international and comparative law scholar. He taught at the Heidelberg Center Para America Latina in Chile, and was an independent legal consultant for the Brussels office of the WilmerHale law firm. In 2006 Wagner served as a clerk to then-President of the Supreme Court of Israel in Jerusalem, Aharon Barak. In addition, he was a legal counsel for the Permanent Mission of Germany to the United Nations in New York in 2003.

There is limited seating for this event. To attend, RSVP to Detra Davis Fleming at [email protected]. Priority will be given to those first to reply.

Andrew A. Pieper, assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, will present “In Vivo Discovery of Molecules for Treatment of Neuropsychiatric Disease” on Wednesday, February 2 from 12 to 1 p.m. as part of the Gail F. Beach Memorial Visiting Lectureship Series at the Lois Pope LIFE Center, seventh-floor auditorium. For more information, call 305-243-7108 or visit www.themiamiproject.org/lectures.