Filled with political intrigue, love, betrayal, passion, and vengeance, Verdi’s Aida has captivated audiences for generations. The legendary Zubin Mehta conducts this spectacular new production of the beloved opera from the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in Florence, Italy. In Italian with English subtitles. Tickets are $22 regular admission and $18 discount admission. The film will screen Saturday, July 30 at 12 p.m.; Sunday, July 31 at 12:30 p.m.; and Monday, August 1 at 7:30 p.m. To purchase tickets online or for more information, visit www.cosfordcinema.com or call 305-284-4861.

There’s a tenuous balance between reality and fiction, particularly when it links a beautiful young woman and a powerful politico in a dark dance of money, murder, and suicide. A passionate filmmaker, creating a film based upon a true crime, casts a mysterious young woman bearing a disturbing resemblance to the femme fatale in the story. He soon finds himself drawn into a web of intrigue, obsessed with the woman, the crime, her possibly notorious past, and the shifting line between art and truth. As the story unfolds in settings ranging from North Carolina’s Smoky Mountains to Verona, Rome, and London, new truths are revealed and clues to other crimes and passions, darker and even more complex, are uncovered. The film will screen Friday, July 29 at 9:15 p.m.; Saturday, July 30 at 5:45 p.m.; and Sunday, July 31 at 6:15 p.m. Admission is $7 for seniors, University of Miami alumni, faculty, non-UM students, and staff. General admission is $9. Free for UM students. To purchase tickets online or for more information, visit www.cosfordcinema.com or call 305-284-4861.

Anita Feldman (Alejandra Manzo), a young woman with Down syndrome, lives a happy, routine life in Buenos Aires, being meticulously cared for by her mother (Norma Aleandro). But one tragic morning changes everything: Anita is left alone, confused, and helpless when the nearby Argentine Israelite Mutual Association is bombed. As she wanders through the city, she not only learns to care for herself but touches the lives of those around her, from an alcoholic to a family of Asian immigrants. In Spanish with English subtitles. This film will screen Friday, July 29 at 7 p.m.; Saturday, July 30 at 3:30 p.m. and 8:15 p.m.; and Sunday, July 31 at 4 p.m. and 8:45 p.m. Admission is $7 for seniors, University of Miami alumni, faculty, non-UM students, and staff. General admission is $9. Free for UM students. To purchase tickets online, or for more information, visit www.cosfordcinema.com or call 305-284-4861.

The UM Ethics Programs’ 19th annual Dialogues in Research Ethics Series continues on Monday, July 25 at noon in the Clinical Research Building, Conference Room 1179, with a presentation by Boris Yudin, professor and corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. Yudin, who serves on the International Research Panel of President Obama’s Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, will speak on “Human Subjects Ethics in Russia and Guatemala: Venereology and the Gaze of History.”

Russian writer, philosopher, and physician Vikenty Vikentyevich Veresaev (1867-1945) published Memoirs of a Physician in 1901. The book, which focuses on medical ethics, quickly generated great and sustained interest. After the first Russian-language publication, English, French, and German translations quickly followed. Indeed, Veresaev’s memoirs were arguably a catalyst for the growth of European interest in medical ethics. In a discussion of “medical experiments on humans,” he suggested that, unlike most other questions in the field of medical ethics, “for which there are no conclusive answers,” these questions “have only one unequivocal solution.” Veresaev chose to limit his analysis to one area of research, venereology, because it is exclusive to humans (i.e., there is no equivalent in animals). Veresaev’s work provides a noteworthy historical touchstone for analysis of recently revealed U.S. syphilis research abuses in Guatemala.

Dialogues in Research Ethics is a series of monthly conferences. For more information, call the UM Ethics Programs at 305-243-5723 or email [email protected].

The Department of Dermatology and Cutaneous will host grand rounds on Wednesday, July 27 from 11:45 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, Ioannides Library, Room 2090. Daniel Siegel, president-elect of the American Academy of Dermatology and a clinical professor of dermatology at the State University of New York (SUNY) Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, will present “What’s Up with Warts.” For more information, please contact 305-243-4472.