Purdue Events Calendar

February 20, 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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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. Fowler Hall, Stewart Center. Teams from seven high schools and middle schools will compete in the various mathematics contests. The winners advance to the state contest March 14 at Purdue. Contest sponsors are the Association of Professional Engineers, Purdue's mathematics department, and the School of Engineering.

** Saturday, Feb. 28. Science Olympiad regional tournament. 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Wetherill Laboratory of Chemistry. Teams from eight high schools and six junior high schools from northern and central Indiana will compete. Events include an egg drop, bottle rocket contest and bridge-building competition. Individual winners from the state's eight regionals advance to the state contest March 28 at Indiana University in Bloomington.

** Saturday, Feb. 28. Finals of Purdue's 11th annual Burton D. Morgan Entrepreneurial Competition. 9 a.m. Krannert Building auditorium. Ten teams of students will compete for a total purse of $8,000, with a $4,000 first prize. They will make business plan presentations and prototype demonstrations for a panel a judges. Prizes will be awarded at an evening banquet.

• 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.

** Saturday-Sunday, March 21-22. Holocaust Remembrance Conference. Various on- and off-campus locations. All sessions are free and open to the public. Participants include: Mel Mermelstein, a California businessman and survivor of Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps who sued the Institute for Historical Review (which denied the truth of the Holocaust) and won; Richard H. Weisberg, professor of constitutional law at the Cardozo School of Law in New York and author of "Vichy Law and the Holocaust in France"; and Charlotte Guthmann Opfermann, survivor of the Theresienstadt ghetto, playwright and teacher. For a schedule of events, contact Rabbi Gedalyah Engel, conference coordinator, (765) 743-1716.

ENTERTAINMENT

• Through 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.

• 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 Concert. 2:30 p.m. First United Methodist Church, 102 N. Chauncey Ave, West Lafayette. Floyd Central High School Orchestra joins the Purdue symphony for this free concert. This event originally was scheduled for the Long Center.

** Sunday, March 1. Purdue Symphony Orchestra Concert. 7 p.m. Long Center for the Performing Arts, 111 N. Sixth St., Lafayette. The North Central High School Symphonic Band joins the Purdue Symphonic Band for a free concert. Reception follows the concert.

• 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.

** Wednesday, March 18. Cirque Eloize. 7 p.m. Loeb Playhouse, Stewart Center. This show provides the acrobatics, comedy and spectacle of the Big Top. Tickets are $18 for the public, $14 for Purdue students, at campus box offices or by phone at (765) 494-3933 or 1-800-914-SHOW. Part of Purdue Convocations' Patron's Choice Series.

** Friday, March 20. The Daughter of the Regiment. 8 p.m. Elliott Hall of Music. The New York City Opera National Company production of this opera by Donizetti. Tickets are $28, $23 and $18 for the public, $18 and $14 for Purdue students, at campus box offices or by phone at (765) 494-3933 or 1-800-914-SHOW. Part of Purdue Convocations' Lively Arts Package.

** Sunday, March 22. Cinema Now: Cold Comfort Farm. 7:30 p.m. Fowler Hall, Stewart Center. Set in England of the 1930s, this film tells the story of a sophisticated woman who dramatically changes the lives of each of her unmannerly relatives at Cold Comfort Farm. Tickets: $4 for faculty and staff, $3 for Purdue students.

LECTURES

• 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, 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.

** Thursday, March 19. Inner Work: A Discipline of Leadership. 10-11:30 a.m. Room 210, Stewart Center. Speaker: Katherine Tyler Scott, executive director of Trustee Leadership Development in Indianapolis. Woman's Resource Office Leadership Series.

** Thursday, March 19. Immortality: The Views of Kant and Some Others. 4:30 p.m. Room 210 University Building. Speaker: Rolf George from the University of Waterloo. Purdue Philosophy Colloquium Series.

** Thursday, March 19. Le Chambon-sur-Lignon: How and Why a Protestant Community Saved Thousands of Jews in Occupied France. 4:30 p.m. Krannert Auditorium. Speaker: Professor Patrick Henry, Department of French, Whitman College. Jewish Studies Lecture Series.

** Friday, March 20. Entrepreneur + Trust + Success. 11:30 a.m.-12:20 p.m. Krannert Auditorium, Krannert Building. Speaker: Terry L. Van Der Aa, president and chief executive officer, ATC/Vancom Inc., Oakbrook Terrace, Ill. Krannert Executive Forum.

WORKSHOPS

** Thursday, March 19. Researching the Black Experience in Cyberspace. 9 a.m., noon, 2:30 and 4:30 p.m. BCC library, 315 University St. Four, free, hour-long workshops where participants will learn about searching on the World Wide Web. Registration is required. Part of the BCC Spring Cultural Arts Series. CONTACT: Renee Thomas, BCC director, (765) 494-3091; e-mail, rathomas@hfs.purdue.edu

MEETINGS

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

** Monday, March 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 19. 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. 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. March 17, Irish; March 18, German; March 19, Mexican.

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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