Purdue Events Calendar

February 13, 1998

EDITORS: This calendar lists selected events on Purdue's West Lafayette campus or involving people or programs off campus during the next four weeks. Events are free and open to the public, except where noted, and all are open to news media coverage. New or updated listings have two asterisks (**).

All events in this calendar, plus many others, are listed in Purdue's on-line calendar at https://www.purdue.edu/calendar/

EVENTS

** Tuesday Feb. 17. Golden Taps, a ceremony to remember students who have died during the past month. 10 p.m. Spitzer Court, Cary Quadrangle.

• Wednesday, Feb. 25. Evolution of a Revolutionary: Remembering Malcolm X. 3:30 p.m. Room 204, Stewart Center. This 10th annual Malcolm X commemorative program is sponsored by Purdue's African-American Studies and Research Center as a Black History Month event.

• Friday, Feb. 27. Black Cultural Center ceremonial groundbreaking 1-3 p.m. North Ballroom, Purdue Memorial Union.

• Saturday, Feb. 28. Math Counts regional competition. 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Stewart Center. Math Counts is a nonprofit program that aims to foster interest and competency in mathematics in seventh- and eighth-grade students.

• Saturday, Feb. 28. Science Olympiad regional tournament. 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Wetherill Laboratory of Chemistry. Eight high schools and six junior high schools from northern and central Indiana will take part in the competition.

** Saturday, March 14. Math Counts state competition. 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Stewart Center. Math Counts is a nonprofit program that aims to foster interest and competency in mathematics in seventh- and eighth-grade students.

ENTERTAINMENT

• Wednesday, Feb. 18. My People! My People! 7 p.m. Fowler Hall, Stewart Center. This play by Purdue graduate Aquila Barnes takes a look at the serious yet humorous condition of present day Black America. This free event is part of Black History Month and the Black Cultural Center's Spring Cultural Arts Series.

• Friday, Feb. 20. Purdue Jazz Band Concert, Purdue Memorial Union Ballroom. 8 p.m.

• Friday, Feb. 20-Saturday, Feb. 28. A Midsummer Night's Dream -- Purdue Theatre. 8 p.m. Loeb Playhouse, Stewart Center. Tickets: $12 for the public; $8 for students and senior citizens at Purdue box offices, (765) 494-3933 or 1-800-914-SHOW.

• Sunday, Feb. 22. Windworks I. 2:30 p.m. Long Center, 111 N .Sixth St., Lafayette. The University Concert Band, the Collegiate Band and the Varsity Band present a free performance of traditional and contemporary concert band music.

• Sunday, Feb. 22. Chicago a cappella performs an all-Renaissance program. 3 p.m. First Baptist Church, 411 N. 7th St., Lafayette. Tickets are $8, available at campus box offices or by phone at (765) 494-3933 or 1-800-914-SHOW. Part of Purdue Convocations' Discovery Concerts Series featuring young performers.

• Friday, Feb. 27. American Music Review and Variety Band Concert. 8 p.m. Long Center, 111 N. Sixth St., Lafayette.

• Friday, Feb. 27. Cinema Now: The White Balloon. 7:30 p.m. Fowler Hall, Stewart Center. From director Panahi, this is a story of a little girl in Iran, looking for the money she has lost in the bustling streets of the crowded marketplace. Tickets: $4 for faculty and staff, $3 for Purdue students.

• Saturday, Feb. 28. BCC Coffee House. 8 p.m. Fowler Hall, Stewart Center. A free evening of theater and song with the New Directional Players and the Black Voices of Inspiration choir, two of the Black Cultural Center's performing arts ensembles. This event is co-sponsored by the Purdue Student Union Board. Part of Black History Month and the BCC Spring Cultural Arts Series.

• Sunday, March 1. Purdue Symphony Orchestra Concerts. 2:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Long Center for the Performing Arts, 111 N. Sixth St., Lafayette. A high school concert band joins the Purdue symphony for these free concerts.

• Thursday, March 5. Purdue Bands Recital Hour. Noon. Room 30, Elliott Hall of Music. Lunchtime concert features performances by Purdue instrumentalists. Bring your lunch or share in refreshments provided by Tau Beta Sigma.

** Sunday, March 15. Clint Black with Trace Adkins and The Kinleys. 7 p.m. Elliott Hall of Music. Tickets are $23.50 at campus box offices or by phone at (765) 494-3933 or 1-800-914-SHOW. Sponsored by Purdue Convocations.

LECTURES

• Tuesday, Feb. 17. Black History Month keynote lecture. 3 p.m. Room 209, Stewart Center. Speech by Warren Swindell, professor of African-American studies at Indiana State University and president of the Indiana Coalition of Blacks in Higher Education. Presented by African-American Studies and Research Center.

• Wednesday, Feb. 18. Holocaust Education: The News From Russia. 12:30 p.m. Anniversary Drawing Room, Purdue Memorial Union. Speaker: Professor Gordon R. Mork, Purdue Department of History. Part of Jewish Studies Discussion Series.

• Thursday, Feb. 19. Books and Coffee series. 4 p.m. South Ballroom, Purdue Memorial Union. Johndan Johnson-Eilola, assistant professor of English, will discuss "Twilight, a Symphony" an interactive novel by Michael Joyce published on CD-ROM. Free coffee and tea at 4 p.m.; talk begins at 4:30 p.m. Sponsored by the Purdue Student Union Board and the Department of English.

• Friday, Feb. 20. The Global Corporation and How It Works. 11:30 a.m. Krannert Auditorium, Krannert Building. Speaker: Douglas R. Oberhelman, vice president and chief financial officer, Caterpillar Inc., Peoria, Ill. Krannert Executive Forum.

• Tuesday, Feb. 24. Conversations About Teaching. 3:30 p.m. East and West Faculty Lounges, Purdue Memorial Union. Speaker: Robert J. Joly, Purdue professor of horticulture. Part of the Focus on Teaching Lecture Series.

** Thursday-Friday, Feb. 26-27. Failed States and International Security: Causes, Prospects and Consequences. Eight presentations over two days by scholars from around the world about "failed states," those countries incapable of sustaining themselves as members of the international community. Conference is sponsored by the Army War College, the Indiana Consortium of International Programs, the Midwest Consortium for International Security Studies, the Louis Martin Sears Endowment, the Purdue Department of Political Science, and the Human Rights and Governance Program of Purdue's Office of International Programs. All presentations in Room 310, Stewart Center. The schedule: -- Thursday, 9 a.m. "Westphalia, the End of the Cold War and the New World Order: Old Roots to a 'New' Problem." Michael Stohl, Purdue dean of International Programs, and George Lopez, professor of political science, University of Notre Dame. -- Thursday 11 a.m. "Failed States and the Failure of States: Self-Determination, States, Nations and Global Governance." Chadwick F. Alger, Mershon Professor of Political Science and Public Policy Emeritus, Ohio State University. -- Thursday, 2 p.m. "Failing States: Failing Systems." Michael Nicholson, professor of international relations, University of Sussex, United Kingdom. --Thursday 3:45 p.m. "The Responsibility That Will Not Go Away: Weak States in the International System." Hans-Henrik Holm, professor of international relations, Danish School of Journalism, Aarhus , Denmark. -- Friday, 9 a.m. "The Failed States Project: A Report." Ted Robert Gurr, University Distinguished Professor, University of Maryland. -- Friday 11 a.m. "State Failure, Ethnocracy and Democracy: New Conceptions of Governance." Peter Wallensteen, Dag Hammarskj|ld Professor of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden. -- Friday, 1:30 p.m. "Grasping the Undemocratic Peace. The Relative Absence of International War in Latin America." Lothar Brock, professor of peace studies, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany. -- Friday 3:15 p.m. "Democratization in the Third World: The Role of Western Politics and Research." Georg Sorensen, professor of international politics and economics, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.

• Thursday, Feb. 26. Books and Coffee series. 4 p.m. South Ballroom of Purdue Memorial Union. Clayton Lein, professor of English and director of the School of Liberal Arts Honors Program, discusses "Music, the Brain, and Ecstasy: How Music Captures Our Imagination" by Robert Jourdain. Free coffee and tea will be served at 4 p.m. The 30-minute talk begins at 4:30 p.m. Sponsored by the Purdue Student Union Board and the Department of English.

• Thursday, Feb. 26. The Religious Rationalism of Benjamin Wichcote. 4:30 p.m. Room 210, University Hall. Speaker: Michael Gill, Purdue assistant professor of philosophy. Part of the Purdue Philosophy Colloquium Series.

• Thursday, Feb. 26. Growing Up Yiddish. 8 p.m. Krannert Auditorium. Lecture by Gabriel Weinreich, professor emeritus of physics, University of Michigan. Jewish Studies Lecture Series.

• Friday, Feb. 27. Where Does the Securities Industry Go From Here -- Boom or Bust? 11:30 a.m. Krannert Auditorium, Krannert Building. Speaker: James C. Redinger, senior managing director, McDonald & Co. Securities Inc., Cleveland. Part of the Krannert Executive Forum.

** Friday, Feb. 27. Modeling the Cognitive Representation of Serial Order Information. 3:30 p.m. Room 2290, Liberal Arts and Education Building. Speaker: Professor Gordon D.A. Brown, University of Warwick, United Kingdom. A Department of Psychological Sciences colloquium.

• Tuesday, March 3. Teaching, Learning and Technology: What Works, What Doesn't, and Why. 7:30 p.m. Fowler Hall, Stewart Center. Stephen C. Ehrman, consultant, speaker and author of "Adult Learning in a New Technological Era," delivers the keynote address in the Focus on Teaching Lecture Series.

• Wednesday, March 4. Introducing Young Students to the Holocaust Through Literature. 12:30 p.m. Anniversary Drawing Room, Purdue Memorial Union. Speakers: Associate Professor Lynn R. Nelson, director of the James F. Ackerman Center for Democratic Citizenship, Purdue School of Education; Trudy Nelson, third-grade teacher at Mayflower Mill Elementary School, Lafayette; and Priya Mathew-Johnson and Tabatha Lisinicchia, graduate students, Purdue School of Education. Jewish Studies Discussion Series.

• Thursday, March 5. The Revival of Judaism in France: Spinoza's Ethics and Contemporary French Thinking. 4:30 p.m. Krannert Auditorium. Lecture by Professor Douglas Collins, French and Italian Studies, University of Washington. Part of Jewish Studies Lecture Series.

• Thursday, March 5. Sister Power: It's Time for Women of Color to Take Charge. 7 p.m. Room 206, Stewart Center. Speaker: Educator and author Patricia Reid-Merritt. Part of the BCC Spring Cultural Arts Series.

• Friday, March 6. Electricity Generation in Private Markets: Why Colombia. 11:30 a.m. Krannert Auditorium, Krannert Building.Speaker: Barbara J. Fagan, vice president and Latin American and Caribbean asset manager, Amoco Power Resources Corp., Houston. Krannert Executive Forum.

MEETINGS

• Monday, Feb. 23. University Senate. 2:30 p.m. Room 302, Stewart Center.

EXHIBITS

• Through Feb. 27. Pottery by Bernie Leinberger. 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday. Watson's Crick Gallery, Room 1-125, Lilly Hall of Life Sciences.

  Through Feb. 27. "Mastering the Arts," an exhibit of works in a variety of mediums by graduate students in art and design. Beelke Memorial Gallery (Room 206), Creative Arts Building 2. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday.

• Through March 22. Haitian Art Exhibit: paintings and other art forms from the Waterloo (Iowa) Museum of Art. Union Gallery, Main Floor, Purdue Memorial Union. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday, and 1 p.m.-5 p.m. Sunday. Exhibit co-sponsored by the Black Cultural Center, Purdue Galleries and the Greater Lafayette Museum of Art.

• Through March 22. Vjacheslav Khomutov paintings and drawings, an exhibit from St. Petersburg, Russia. Stewart Center Gallery, West Lobby, Stewart Center. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and 7-9 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 1-5 p.m. Sunday. Khomutov will give a brown bag talk at noon Feb. 12.

• Through March 22. "A Print Retrospective," an exhibit by Reynold Weidenaar. Krannert Drawing Room, Krannert Building. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday, 1-4 p.m. Sunday.

OTHER

• Tuesday, Feb. 24. Reception and book signing by Lisa Anderson and Tracy Sharpley-Whiting, assistant professors of African-American Studies. 4 p.m. Anniversary Drawing Room, Purdue Memorial Union. Anderson is author of "Mammies No More: The Changing Image of Black Women on Stage and Screen." Sharpley-Whiting wrote "Spoils of War: Women of Color, Cultures and Revolution" and "Franz Fannon: Conflicts and Feminisms." A Black History Month event.

• Saturday, March 7. Spring break begins. 12:15 p.m. Classes resume March 16.

** Through March 12. International Dinner Series presented by food service management students in Purdue's Department of Restaurant, Hotel, Institutional and Tourism Management. 5:30-7 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday. John Purdue Room, Stone Hall. Call (765) 494-6845 for reservations or information. Coming up: Feb. 17, Mediterranean; Feb. 18, Sicilian; Feb. 19, French. Feb. 24, Southeast Asian; Feb. 25, Caribbean; Feb. 26, Russian. March 3, Californian Fusion; March 4, Indiana Regional; March 5, British. March 10-12, Closed for spring break.

Compiled by Frank Koontz, (765) 494-2080; e-mail, frank_koontz@purdue.edu
Purdue News Service: (765) 494-2096; e-mail, purduenews@purdue.edu

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