September 10, 2007
College celebrates liberal arts in October
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - |
"Experience Liberal Arts month aims to highlight the ubiquity and variety of the liberal arts on the Purdue campus," says John Contreni, Justin S. Morrill Dean of the College of Liberal Arts. "Throughout October, faculty, students and guests will exemplify different threads in the rich tapestry of the arts, humanities, behavioral sciences and social sciences that make up Purdue's liberal arts programs."
The month will feature a variety of lectures, films, performances, events and exhibits that reflect the college's ongoing coursework and research in 11 departmental and 14 interdisciplinary programs. The keystone events feature the Dalai Lama and award-winning author Joyce Carol Oates, who are speaking on Oct. 26 and 30, respectively.
West Lafayette Mayor Jan Mills is proclaiming October as Experience Liberal Arts month.
Information about the upcoming events and parking is available online at https://www.cla.purdue.edu/experience or by calling (765) 494-7884 to request a program guide. All events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.
The events are:
* Continuing through Oct. 7. Stewart Center Gallery "Deborah Muirhead: Past is Present." Galleries are open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday, and 1-5 p.m. Sunday.
* Continuing through Oct. 7. Robert L. Ringel Gallery in the Purdue Memorial Union. Beaded Prayers Project, a community-centered, collaborative outreach project based on an African tradition of sealed amulets containing powerful contents, such as sacred text and medicines. The tradition seeks to bring together people of many cultures, creeds and ethnicities through collaborative art, said Sonya Clark, artist curator. Galleries are open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday, and 1-5 p.m. Sunday.
* Oct. 1. 3:30 p.m. Black Cultural Center. Miriam dos Santos Jorge, associate professor from the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais in Belo Horizante, Brazil, will present "Affirmative Action in Brazil: Affirming Rights or Ideologies." Sponsored by the African American Studies and Research Center and the College of Education. The Diversity Resource Center and the Office of Affirmative Action also are co-sponsoring the event.
* Oct. 1. 7 p.m. Fowler Hall, Stewart Center. College of Liberal Arts Distinguished Lecture Series. John Coatsworth, professor of history and Monroe Gutman Professor of Latin American Affairs and interim dean at Harvard University, will present "Inequality, Intervention and Immigration: The Future of U.S.-Latin American Relations." Sponsored by the Department of History and the Latino Cultural Center.
* Oct. 3. 4:30 p.m. Krannert Building, Krannert Auditorium. Leonora Woodman Lecture Series. Eric Sundquist, UCLA Foundation professor of literature and a member of the Department of English at UCLA, will present "King's 'Dream' – Whose Country 'Tis of Thee?"
* Oct. 4. 6-7:30 p.m. Stewart Center, Room 206. Liberal Arts Career Panel. Alumni from the departments of Communication, English, and Foreign Languages and Literatures, as well as the Patti and Rusty Rueff Department of Visual and Performing Arts, will offer career advice for students.
* Oct. 4. 3 p.m. Pfendler Hall, The Deans Auditorium. Barry G. Rabe, professor of public policy at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, professor of environmental policy, School of Natural Resources and Environment, and faculty associate in the Program in the Environment at the University of Michigan, will present "States on Steroids: The Intergovernmental Odyssey of American Climate Policy." Sponsored by the Department of Political Science and the Purdue Climate Change Research Center.
* Oct. 8-12. Pao Hall of Visual and Performing Arts, Rueff Galleries. Annual university Visual Art Committee Poster Exchange. Faculty and staff members may borrow from the 4,675 posters in the collection. The artwork is loaned for a period of 12 to 24 months. More information is available at https://engineering.purdue.edu/uvac/campusart/posters/
* Oct. 11. 6-7:30 p.m. Stewart Center, Room 218AB. Liberal Arts Career Panel. Alumni from the departments of Health and Kinesiology, Psychological Sciences, and Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences will offer career advice for students.
* Oct. 15-19. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Pao Hall of Visual and Performing Arts, Rueff Galleries. The Purdue Students National Art Education Association Group will exhibit a variety of artwork created by Purdue students majoring in art education. Sponsored by the Patti and Rusty Rueff Department of Visual and Performing Arts.
* Oct. 17. 5:30 p.m. West Lafayette Public Library, 208 W. Columbia, West Lafayette. World Film Forum featuring "Excellent Cadavers," which is directed by Marco Turco. After the film, Elena Coda, assistant professor of Italian, will discuss how American and Italian directors represent organized crime. Sponsored by the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures.
* Oct. 18. 3:30-5 p.m. Purdue Memorial Union, Anniversary Drawing Room. Michael T. Turvey, Board of Trustees' Distinguished Professor of Ecological Psychology, Center for the Ecological Study of Perception and Action at the University of Connecticut and Haskins Laboratories, will present "Theory of Brain and Behavior in the 21st Century: No Ghost, No Machine." Sponsored by the departments of Health and Kinesiology, Psychological Sciences, and Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences.
* Oct. 18. 6-7:30 p.m. Stewart Center, Room 314. Liberal Arts Career Panel. Alumni from the departments of Philosophy, Political Science, and Sociology and Anthropology will offer career advice for students.
* Oct. 18. 7:30 p.m. Hicks Undergraduate Library Bookstall. Purdue Literary Reading Series. A poetry reading with Adam Zagajewski. Sponsored by the Department of English and the Creative Writing Program.
* Oct. 22 to Nov. 2. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday-Friday. Pao Hall of Visual and Performing Arts, Rueff Galleries. Patti and Rusty Rueff Department of Visual and Performing Arts Faculty Exhibition 2007.
* Oct. 22 to Dec. 2. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Thursday, and 1-5 p.m. on Sunday. Stewart Center Gallery. "Dried, Cracked, Wet, Dripping, Blooming: Charles Gick: Installations."
* Oct. 22 to Dec. 2. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Thursday, and 1-5 p.m. on Sunday. Purdue Memorial Union, Robert L. Ringel Gallery. "Does Gender Still Matter?"
* Oct. 22. 3:30 p.m. Stanley Coulter, Room 239. Leila Harris, a professor from State University, Rio de Janeiro, will present "The Deconstruction of Cultural Icons in the Fiction of Sandra Cisneros and Helena Maria Viramontes." Sponsored by the U.S. Consulate in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, and the American Studies Program.
* Oct. 22. 6-8 p.m. Physics Building, Room 114. Steve Robbins, owner of SLRobbins and Associates consulting firm specializing in the areas of diversity, inclusion and cultural competency, will present "Unintentional Intolerance." Sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts Diversity and Retention Program and DRIVEN, Diversity Retention Initiatives through Volunteering, Education and Networking.
* Oct. 23. 3-4 p.m. Purdue Memorial Union, Pappy's Sweet Shop. Michael Morrison, associate professor of history at Purdue, will present "Loud, Fast and Out of Control: The Politics of Rock, Race and Rebellion in the 1950s." Sponsored by the Department of History. The first 50 attendees will receive a complimentary Pappy's milkshake.
* Oct. 24. 3:30-5 p.m. Stewart Center, Room 218D. Alumni Law Panel. Participants include Margaret Hand, retired superior court judge and public defender for Tippecanoe County (English, 1975); Celeste Davis, attorney with the U.S. Department of Labor (Communication, 1983); Patrick Harrington, Tippecanoe County prosecutor (Political Science, 1980); and Deb Trice, partner at Stuart and Branigin, LLP (Psychology, 1985). Sponsored by the Pre-Law Society.
* Oct. 25. 3:30-5 p.m. Stewart Center, Room 313. W.E.B. Du Bois Pan African Lecture Series. Nadege Veldwatcher, assistant professor of foreign languages and literatures at Purdue, will present "Maryse Condé, Simone Schwarz-Bart, and Raphaël Confiant in English: Translation from the Margins." Sponsored by African American Studies and Research Center.
* Oct. 25-28. 7:30 p.m. Thursday and Friday, and 3 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Pao Hall, Mallett Theatre. Purdue Theatre presents "Six Degrees of Separation," written by John Guare and directed by Kristine Holtvedt. Tickets are available by calling (765) 494-3933 or (800) 914-SHOW.
* Oct. 25. 6-7:30 p.m. Stewart Center, Room 218AB. High Speed Networking. Liberal arts alumni will offer career advice to students in a speed-dating format.
* Oct. 26. 2 p.m. Elliott Hall of Music. The Dalai Lama will present "Cultivating Happiness." Tickets, which are $30 for general public and $20 for students, can be purchased at Purdue campus box offices at (765) 494-3933 or by calling Ticketmaster at (765) 743-5151 or visiting https://www.ticketmaster.com. Sponsored by the Tibetan Cultural Center in Bloomington and Purdue Convocations in cooperation with the College of Liberal Arts.
* Oct. 29-30. Stewart Center. Crossroads Conference on Communicative Disorders. One-day registration is $125, two-day registration is $200 and student registration is $25. Contact Nona Schaler for registration information, (765) 494-2756 or njschaler@purdue.edu. More information is available at https://www.cla.purdue.edu/experience/events/crossroads/. Sponsored by the Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences.
* Oct. 29. 8 p.m. Matthews Hall, Room 210. Film showing, "The Killer Within," co-produced by Liberal Arts alum Leonard Cox. For more information, go to https://dsc.discovery.com/promo/killerwithin/.
* Oct. 30. 7:30-9 p.m. Stewart Center, Loeb Playhouse. "An Evening with Joyce Carol Oates." Oates is the author of more than 100 books. Sponsored by the Creative Writing Program and the Department of English.
Writer: Amy Patterson Neubert, (765) 494-9723, apatterson@purdue.edu
Sources: John Contreni, (765) 494-3661, contreni@purdue.edu
Chris Sharp, director of alumni relations and special events, (765) 494-7884, ctsharp@purdue.edu
Purdue News Service: (765) 494-2096; purduenews@purdue.edu
PHOTO CAPTION:
Michael Morrison, a Purdue associate professor of history, will present "Loud, Fast and Out of Control: The Politics of Rock, Race and Rebellion in the 1950s" from 3-4 p.m. on Oct. 23 at Pappy's Sweet Shop in the Purdue Memorial Union. The first 50 attendees will receive a free Pappy's milkshake. The talk is one event in October celebrating Experience Liberal Arts, which will feature a variety of lectures, films, performances, events and exhibits that reflect the college's ongoing coursework and research in the arts, humanities, social and behavioral sciences. (Purdue News Service photo/David Umberger)
A publication-quality photograph of history professor Michael Morrison is available at https://www.purdue.edu/uns/images/+2007/morrison-rocknroll.jpg
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