27 Today

“The Teen Brain,” by Diane Ash for the Lawrence Parent Network Junior High Connection, 7 p.m., Southwest Junior High School, 2511 Inverness Drive.

KU E-Fair, 11 a.m., Burge Union’s relays and courtside rooms, free, 864-7783.

Lenten Tuesday Noonday Recital, by Sharon Hettinger, organ, and Maurice Wright, flute, 12:15 p.m.-12:45 p.m., Trinity Lutheran Church, 1245 N.H.

Lawrence City Commission meeting, 6:35 p.m., City Hall, Sixth and Massachusetts streets.

Civil Air Patrol informational meeting, 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m., Kansas National Guard Armory, 200 Iowa, 841-0752.

Wakarusa Township Board meeting, 7 p.m., 300 W. 31st St.

Lecture: “The Photographer and Images of Society (Seydou Keita, Malick Sidibe and David Goldblatt),” by Okwui Enwezor, 7 p.m., Spencer Museum of Art auditorium, reception follows.

Lecture: “Does HIV Look like Me?” 7 p.m., Kansas Union’s Woodruff Auditorium, free, 864-7469.

Film: “The Constant Gardener,” with commentary by Garth Myers, associate professor of African and African-American studies, 7 p.m., Wescoe Hall, Room 3140, free, 864-3832.

Faculty recital: Steve Leisring, trumpet, 7:30 p.m., Bales Organ Recital Hall, free, 864-3436.

28 Wednesday

Safari Club, for 7- to 12-year-olds, 3:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m., Lawrence Public Library’s auditorium, 707 Vt., registration requested, 843-3833, ext. 117.

Study group: “Politics of Disasters,” led by Dole Fellow Scott Morris, director of FEMA’s Florida long-term recovery office, 4 p.m.-5:30 p.m., Dole Institute of Politics, KU’s West Campus, free, 864-4900.

Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission meeting: canceled.

Lawrence shelter benefit: Girl Parts, a concert in the round with Julie Loyd, Liz Clark and Melineh Kurdian, 7 p.m., Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave., $5 admission.

“Winning the Nomination,” with David Yepsen, leading authority on the Iowa caucuses and political reporter with the Des Moines Register; Tom Rath, national GOP political strategist; and Jonathan Epstein, national Democratic political strategist, part of the Dole Institute’s Presidential Lecture Series, 7:30 p.m.-9 p.m., Dole Institute of Politics, KU’s West Campus, 864-4900.

1 Thursday

“A Conversation with Kwame Anthony Appiah,” philosophy professor, Princeton University, 3 p.m., Kansas Union’s Alderson Auditorium, free, 864-4798.

Douglas County Commission, Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission discussion on subdivision regulations, 3 p.m., Douglas County Courthouse, 1100 Mass.