February 12, 2009

Today's events

Thursday, Feb. 12
 
-- Valentine Jewelry Sale: Two-day sale Thursday and Friday (Feb. 12-13) by Purdue Art Jewelry and Metalsmithing Association (PAJAMA). Items themed to Valentine's Day and made by members of PAJAMA. 9 a.m.-4 p.m. each day. Outside Room 2115, Pao Hall. Questions: Rachel Ketzner at rketzner@purdue.edu; or Sharon Massey at 49-43067 or smmassey@purdue.edu.

-- Workshop: "What's Age Got to Do With It? Generational Diversity in the Workplace." Diversity Resource Office. Facilitator: Suzanne Thompson Clemenz, diversity resource specialist. Relationships, challenges and advantages in intergenerational workplaces. 10 a.m.-noon. Room 310, STEW. More including registration at www.purdue.edu/humanrel/dro/GenerationsatWork.shtml. (Workshop also offered March 13.)

-- Purdue Center for Serious Games and Learning in Virtual Environments opening reception. Discovery Learning Center, Office of the Vice President for Research, College of Education. 3-5 p.m. Room 3288, Beering Hall. RSVP requested; contact William Watson, director, at brwatson@purdue.edu.

-- Physics Department General Colloquium. Robin Santra, Univ. of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory. "High-intensity Laser Control of X-ray Processes." 3:30 p.m.: Refreshments in Room 242, Physics Building. 4 p.m.: Talk in Room 203, Physics Building. More at www.physics.purdue.edu/colloq.

-- Books and Coffee. Dorsey Armstrong, associate professor of English and assistant chair of the Medieval and Renaissance Studies program, on Ursula K. Le Guin's "Voices." Department of English and Purdue Student Union Board. 4-4:30 p.m.: Coffee, tea, baked goods. 4:30-5 p.m.: Talk. Rooms 302-206, STEW. Series weekly Feb. 5-26. Prize drawing at each event available to those present. Podcast to be available after each event at www.cla.purdue.edu/english/bookscoffee.

-- Exhibition opening reception and performance. "Sad Girl/Clever Boy." 5-7 p.m. Rueff Galleries, Pao Hall. More below under Ongoing events, Monday-Friday.

-- "Visual Democracy: How Dorothea Lange Used Photography to Promote Equality." Linda Gordon, New York Univ. Department of History and the Purdue chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. 7 p.m. Krannert Auditorium, Krannert Building. More at http://news.uns.purdue.edu/x/2009a/080923GabinSpeaker.html.

All week

-- Purdue University Galleries. "Kristy Deetz: 'Earth Texts.'" Wood relief sculptures based on words and characteristics associated with books. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Saturday, plus Thursday until 8 p.m.; 1-5 p.m. Sunday. Stewart Center Gallery. 49-67899 or galleries@purdue.edu or www.purdue.edu/galleries. Exhibition through Feb. 22.

-- Purdue University Galleries. "Shrouds, Masks, and the Floating World: Selections from the Permanent Collection." This is the first exhibition in a new annual format allowing more extensively researched presentation of works contributed by donors, as well as dedicated use of a gallery for this purpose. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Saturday, plus Thursday until 8 p.m.; 1-5 p.m. Sunday. Robert L. Ringel Gallery. 49-67899 or galleries@purdue.edu or www.purdue.edu/galleries. Exhibition through Dec. 6.

Monday-Friday

-- John Purdue Room Lunch Special. This week, the featured specials in the John Purdue Room are cream of tomato (soup) and chicken pot pie (entrée). 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Stone Hall. Reservations encouraged; call 49-46845. To access the full menu and learn about other dining options from the Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management: www.cfs.purdue.edu/htm/about/restaurants.shtml.
 
-- Rueff Galleries: West Gallery. "Sad Girl/Clever Boy." A collaborative performance-based project that seeks to explore two popular trends among emerging contemporary artists, mainly post-feminist representation and prolonged or glorified adolescence, in female and male artists respectively. An opening reception featuring a series of live performance by Katherine Cunningham will take place from 5-7 p.m. Thursday (Feb. 12). Cunningham also will give a Brown Bag Lecture at noon Feb. 19 in the gallery. Patti and Rusty Rueff Department of Visual and Performing Arts. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday. Pao Hall. 49-62958. Through Feb. 20.

-- Project Respect exhibition "To Know My Mother's Name." African American Studies and Research Center, Black Cultural Center. Portraits by Delita Martin, graduate student in visual and performing arts. 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Monday-Friday through Feb. 25. Lounge, BCC.

TICKETS
 
Events are free unless noted (except that conference registrations may be omitted here). Ticket prices are for single events, not any series or discount offers. An exception to the following will be noted in the listing.
 
For varsity athletics tickets, call the Athletic Ticket Office, (765) 494-3194 or (800) 49-SPORT [497-7678]; or visit the office in the Intercollegiate Athletic Facility. The office is open 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday and before ticketed events at IAF, Mackey Arena and Ross-Ade Stadium. For ticketed sports events at other Purdue venues, tickets will be on sale before the event at the venue. More at www.purduesports.com.
 
For Purdue Convocations and Purdue Theatre events and some others as announced, go to ticket offices in Elliott Hall (lower level, northeast end by Hovde Hall) or Stewart Center (west lobby), or call (765) 494-3933 or (800) 914-SHOW [914-7469]. The Elliott Hall box office is open 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Monday-Friday and before ticketed events there. The Stewart Center box office is open 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday-Friday and before ticketed events there.
 
Purdue Theatre tickets are sold also at the Pao Hall box office. It is open 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday-Friday and before Purdue Theatre performances there.
 
More about box offices and venues is at www.housing.purdue.edu/HTML/HallOfMusic/Welcome.html.