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Akinwumi Adesina will speak at Purdue’s Scale Up Conference, an Ideas Festival event that will explore ways to answer the question of feeding billions. As an alumnus, key official in the agribusiness of Africa, and World Food Prize winner, he will invite others to share his broad vision in that challenge. Taking up such a challenge is a decision to have purpose. Don’t Miss It!

SEPTEMBER 24

The exhibition "Native Voices: Native Peoples' Concepts of Health and Illness" recently opened in HSSE Library, Periodicals Reading Room on first floor. Through Oct. 24. There are several related events; see Purdue Libraries article.

"Defamation," an audience-participation drama, presents a legal trial scenario and asks the audience to be the jury. It's designed to elicit examination of issues of race, gender, class and law. 7 p.m. STEW, Loeb Playhouse. Article

The Scale Up Conference has its opening day of three days, using the theme "Innovations in Agriculture: Scaling Up to Reach Millions." Primarily for academic, research and business people, this is an event in the Sustainable Economy & Planet theme of the Ideas Festival, the centerpiece of Purdue's yearlong Giant Leaps Sesquicentennial Campaign. Check-in: 1-4 p.m.; program at 4 p.m. Keynote (keynote session free and open to the public): Akinwumi Adesina, World Food Prize laureate, president of the African Development Bank and Purdue alumnus. 4 p.m. STEW, Loeb Playhouse. News release with link to registration and more | Live streaming of keynote address

SEPTEMBER 26

Giant Leaps Series: Opposing Politics on America's Future. Moderated by President Mitch Daniels. Discussion by Ben Domenech, publisher of The Federalist and co-founder of Redstate, and Ezra Klein, editor-at-large and founder of Vox. Initial focus: Supreme Court's function in the U.S. 6:15 p.m. STEW, Fowler Hall. Calendar

Purdue Theatre's "By the Way, Meet Vera Stark" tells uproariously what transpires when a Hollywood star and her African-American maid land roles in the same film. 7:30 p.m. Pao Hall, Carole and Gordon Mallett Theatre. Performances also at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 27, 28, 29; also at 2:30 p.m. Sept. 30. Tickets: public, $19.50; student, $12.50; senior (62+), $15.50. Theatre season

SEPTEMBER 28

The fifth annual Institute for Drug Discovery Symposium will feature three invited speakers and Purdue expertise weighing questions such as "What If We Could Treat Every Disease?" This is an event in the Health, Longevity and Quality of Life theme of the Ideas Festival, the centerpiece of Purdue's yearlong Giant Leaps Sesquicentennial Campaign. 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. STEW, Room 218. Free but registration required. Information | Schedule

Listening to the Alfredo Rodriguez Trio is an excursion into elegant, vibrant Cuba-rooted jazz. 8 p.m. STEW, Loeb Playhouse. Tickets: $20-$26. Pre-show meetup at 7 p.m. in PMU, 1869 Tap Room. Event

SEPTEMBER 29

Purdue's Black Voices of Inspiration from the Black Cultural Center will contribute their fine sounds to the inaugural Ouibache Music Festival, which has the theme "American Roots Music," from bluegrass to gospel to Cajun and more. Noon. Tippecanoe County Amphitheater, 4449 North River Road. BCC

The Philharmonic and Symphony orchestras fill the air and the heart with rich beauty. 8 p.m. Long Center, 111 N. Sixth St., Lafayette. Free. Bands & Orchestras events

SEPTEMBER 30

The Symphonic Band and Wind Ensemble will bring their energetic and soothing harmonies to the stage. 2:30 p.m. Long Center, 111 N. Sixth St., Lafayette. Free. Bands & Orchestras events

 

A PEEK AHEAD

OCTOBER 1

An exhibition of artworks made using vinyl records, created by Walter Lobyn Hamilton, will be on display Oct. 1-30 during building hours at the Black Cultural Center's Formal Lounge. BCC

OCTOBER 2 and 3

"Frankenstein" presented by Aquila Theatre Company, along with pre-show and post-show "meetups," will ask questions about creating life and artificial forms of intelligent beings. This is an event in the "Health, Longevity and Quality of Life" theme of the Ideas Festival, the centerpiece of Purdue's yearlong Giant Leaps Sesquicentennial Campaign. 7:30 p.m. STEW, Loeb Playhouse. Tickets: $22-$28. Pre-show meetup at 6:30 p.m. in STEW, Room 214, with faculty experts discussing ethical questions of innovation and the continued relevance of "Frankenstein." Post-show meetup in PMU, 1869 Tap Room. News release | Event

OCTOBER 3

Safiya Noble, an expert on bias in internet search engines, will give the inaugural lecture in the Critical Data Studies Distinguished Lecture Series from Purdue University Libraries. The lecture title is "Intellectual Freedom and Racial Inequality as Addressed in 'Algorithms of Oppression.'" Noble is assistant professor at University of Southern California Annenberg School of Communications and co-founder of the Information Ethics & Equity Institute. This is an event in the Artificial Intelligence, Algorithms, and Automation theme of the Ideas Festival, the centerpiece of Purdue's yearlong Giant Leaps Sesquicentennial Campaign. 6 p.m. STEW, Fowler Hall. News release

 

SPORTS IN SEASON

Intercollegiate Athletics home
Football | Tickets
Women's volleyball | Tickets
Women's soccer | Free admission
Cross country | No home events in 2018

These and other events, plus other timely information, are listed in the Purdue Today calendars under "Events" under the Campus News pulldown at www.purdue.edu/newsroom/purduetoday.