Thu., Nov. 20 - "Hitchcock's Mountain: Technologies of Engagement in 'North by Northwest.'" (Carpenter Center) Film history and theory seminar with Murray Pomerance. Room B04, 24 Quincy St., 4 p.m. (617) 495-3251, http://www.ves.fas.harvard.edu.
Thu., Nov. 20 - "Still Time for Mortgage Securitization? The U.S. and Spain Experience: A Legal Approach." (Real Colegio Complutense) Agustin Madrid, Universidad Pablo de Olavide. Conference room, 26 Trowbridge St., 7:30 p.m. Free and open to the public. http://www.realcolegiocomplutense.harvard.edu.
Award-winning photographer Sally Mann discusses the thoughts and the processes that lie behind her haunting work, from her early series of photographs of her children to her recent landscapes of the American South, using nineteenth-century photographic processes.
MFA members, seniors, students $18; nonmembers, general admission $22
Thu., Nov. 20 - "The Ultimate Test: European Soft Power and the Future of Liberal Democracy in the Balkans and Turkey." (Kokkalis Program) Gerald Knaus, chairman, European Stability Initiative. Fainsod Room, Littauer 324, HKS, 79 JFK St., 4 p.m. Free and open to the public. http://www.hks.harvard.edu/kokkalis/.
Thu., Nov. 20 - William Belden Noble Lectures: "The Work of Doing Nothing: Wandering as Practice and Play." (The Memorial Church) Lecture 3 of 3. "Wandering Home: Reckoning and Return," Stephen R. Prothero, Boston University. The Memorial Church, Harvard Yard, 8 p.m. Free and open to the public. (617) 495-5508, http://www.memorialchurch.harvard.edu.
