The series for 2000-01 is looking at the issue of violence from a number of different perspectives featuring major figures in the fields of anthropology, psychology, history, comparative literatures and law. It will include lectures, as well as film screenings.

All events are free of charge and open to the public. Lectures will take place at 4 p.m. and screenings at 7 p.m. in the Screening Room in the Center for the Arts on the North Campus.

Tuesday's lecture by Martin Daly and Margo Wilson, both professors of psychology at McMaster University in Ontario, will consider the role of risk-taking in behavior-especially violent interpersonal behavior-in mating and parental effort, and in life histories and physiology.

The rest of the schedule for the spring semester:

- Feb. 12: "How the Law of the Jungle has Created a Need for Reconciliation: Lessons from the Primates," Frans B. M. de Waal, C. H. Candler Professor of Primate Behavior and director of the Living Links Center in the Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center at Emory University. In the lecture, de Wall will suggest the general idea that turning off hostility and replacing it with friendliness-or, at least non-hostility-in order to resume cooperative relationships is an old concept-older than humans' appearance on the planet.

- Feb. 20: Screening of the film "Mr. Death," Errol Morris' award-winning documentary of execution specialist and Holocaust denier Fred Leuchter Jr.

- March 13: Screening of the film "Seven," in which Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt star as two police officers set to work on a baffling and gruesome collection of serial killings.

- March 27: "How We Talk about the Holocaust," Peter Novick, professor emeritus of history at the University of Chicago. In this lecture, which was rescheduled from Nov. 21, Novick will discuss the way the Holocaust is regarded today versus the way it was viewed at the time it took place.

- April 3: "Alien-Nation: Zombies, Immigrants and Millennial Capitalism in South Africa," Jean Comaroff, professor of anthropology and social sciences; chair of the Department of Anthropology, and Bernard E. and Ellen C. Sunny Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. Comaroff will explore the connections among seemingly exotic issues and the hard-edged material, cultural and epistemic realities of our times.