Marga Gomez will make you double over with laughter at her stand-up comedy performance, "Comedy, Cooking, and Latino Culture." Her hilarious performances and award-winning plays have been called "explosive" by The New York Times. Gomez has appeared on Comedy Central. (Fri., 8 p.m., Great Room, Blanchard Campus Center, Mt. Holyoke. No admission charge.)

Come enjoy a traditional African singing and drumming group, Agbekor Dance and Drum Society Ensemble. This music tradition originates from the Ewe nation, and music featured comes from Ghana, Togo and Benin. The works that will be performed include "Agbekor," "Yevevu," "Adjogbo," "Gahu" and "Kinka." The group is led by David Locke, a professor in Tuft University's music department. (Sun., 4:30 p.m., Sweeney Concert Hall, Smith College. No admission charge.)

The Lamont Lecture Fund and the LJST department has invited Professor Bernadette Meyler from Cornell Law School to give her talk, "Transparency and Textuality: Wilkie Collins' Law Books." This lecture is the first in a series of seminars about "The Secrets of Law." (Mon., 4:30 p.m., Clark 100. No admission charge.)

Novelist and essayist Salman Rushdie, presents "Heraclitus, or Character and Destiny." Rushdie holds the Book Prize for Fiction, the Austrian State Prize for European Literature, the Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger and eight honorary degrees. His novels include "Booker of Bookers" "Midnight's Children," which narrates the key events in the history of India through the story of a pickle factory worker. His other works include "The Satanic Verses," "Shame" and even an award-winning children's book, "Haroun and the Sea of Stories." He is currently Honorary Professor in the humanities at MIT. (Thurs., 4:30 p.m., Bowker Auditorium, Stockbridge Hall, UMass. No admission charge.)