Trio Combray will be performing a faculty and guest artist recital on Thursday evening from 7:30-9 p.m. in the Rock Hall auditorium. Trio Combray includes violinist Gregory Fulkerson, cellist Jeffrey Solow and pianist Jeffrey Swann.

     Fulkerson is a professor of violin at Oberlin College, where he graduated in 1971 before continuing his studies at the Julliard School. Solow is the current president of the Violonocello Society, Inc. of New York and former president of the American String Teachers Association. He is a professor of cello and chamber music and former chair of the Department of Instrumental Studies at Temple. Swann is also a fellow Julliard alumnus and currently serves on the piano faculty at NYU. The Trio Combray performance is free and open to all.

        The H. Wayne Snider Distinguished Guest Lecture Series continues tomorrow with Peter Hahn. Hahn is the Head of Predictive Analytics at Zurich Insurance Group.

       Zurich is a prominent multi-line insurer that serves all individual, small business and large company customers in both global and local markets.Hahn is responsible for building analytic capabilities intended to generate actionable risk insights to improve business decisions and performance. He earned his master’s of business administration from the Harvard Business School.

           Hahn will discuss his experience in the workplace and various career opportunities in Alter Hall Auditorium A031 from noon to 12:50 p.m. This lecture is free and open to all.

The Boyer College of Music and Dance is sponsoring a Dance Studies Colloquium Speaker Series starting tonight from 5:30 – 7 p.m. with Katherine Profeta.

An established performer, Profeta is an educator at City University of New York, Queens College, who has previously taught in the theater departments of Barnard and Yale Colleges and at the Yale School of Drama where she earned her MFA and DFA.

Her writing has been featured in Performing Arts Journal, Theater Magazine, Movement Research Performance Journal and Production Notebooks. Profeta will be leading the discussion on “Dance Dramaturgy and the Question of Research” on the 10th floor CHAT lounge of Gladfelter Hall. This lecture series is free and open to all.

The Venus Dance Company and Underground Danceworks will perform a series of three shows this weekend sponsored by the Boyer College of Music and Dance in the Conwell Dance Theater on the fifth floor of Conwell Hall.

Special guests will include artist Melissa Rex and appearances by Venus 2 and renowned visual artists Anthe. The first performance is Friday at 7:30 p.m. and the next two performances are Saturday at 2:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Tickets are available at danceboxoffice.com or at the door 30 minutes before each show. They are $15 for students, $10 with a Dance USA Philadelphia Dance Pass and $5 with an OWLcard. This event is open to all.

Boyer College of Music and Dance student Nick Wood will be performing Thursday night from 7:30 – 8:30 p.m. As part of his senior recital, Wood will be playing a jazz guitar arrangement in the Klein Recital Hall in Presser Hall.

This event is free and open to all students, faculty, staff and alumni. All Boyer events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.

The Tyler School of Art Department of Art History is sponsoring a discussion with Alison Hokanson on Thursday night at 5 p.m. on the significance of Belgian art. “The Soul of Things: Realism and Symbolism in Late Nineteenth-Century Belgian Art” will focus on the work of Xavier Mellery and his drawing series “The Soul of Things.”

In 1880, Belgium became a surprising lead in Europe’s creative front. “The Soul of Things” series expressed a new vision of modern art by revealing mysterious facets of the everyday world. This discussion is free and open to all in Anderson Hall Room 7.

The Feinstein Center for American Jewish History is hosting an evening of music, film and spoken word tomorrow night from 7-9 p.m. “Free to Be at 40!” will reflect on the album Free to Be You and Me and what it had to do with being Jewish in the 1970s and the meaning it still holds today.

Lori Rotskoff, the editor of When We Were Free to Be, singer-songwriter Chana Rothman and original album producer Carole Hart will all be present. The event is co-sponsored with Temple Beth Zion-Beth Israel. Tickets are between $8-10 and can be purchased on EventBrite.com. The celebration will take place in the Christ Church Neighborhood House on 20 N. American St.

The Fox School of Business is continuing their Entrepreneurship Fireside Chat series Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. with Alex Urevick-Ackelsberg. The chats are informal sessions where students can engage in dialogue with successful entrepreneurs for advice and feedback on their own entrepreneurial aspirations.

Students also have the opportunity to “learn about industry dynamics, funding sources, managing investors, creating advisory boards, negotiating skills and more.”  The guest speaker is founder and C.E.O. of Zivtech, a web design publication. Urevick-Ackelsberg will discuss his website and why he chose to live and operate in Philadelphia. The chat is free and open to all in Alter Hall Room 503D.

There will be a free screening today of “When I Walk,” the autobiographical documentary that was chosen as the Official Selection of the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. The film follows the life of independent filmmaker Jason DaSilva, who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis at 25 years old.

DaSilva chronicles his personal and professional life and the struggles to maintain both while his body grows weaker. DaSilva will be present after the screening to answer questions pertaining to his life. The movie and discussion will take place from 9:30 a.m. to noon today in The Reel. This event is free and open to all, but registration is required.