September 14, 2007

Purdue Events Calendar

Events in this calendar, plus many others, are listed in Purdue's online calendar at https://calendar.purdue.edu

EVENTS

-- Sept. 14. 4-6 p.m. Latino Cultural Center, 600 N. Russell St. Latino Heritage Month kicks off with an open house and visit from Purdue President France A. Córdova. Food, music and tours kick off the monthlong celebration. Contact the LCC at (765) 494-2530.

** -- Sept. 15. Family Day. Various campus locations. A day of activities will include a number of events for all ages. Highlights include:

- 8-9 a.m. Pancake Breakfast. Purdue Armory. President France A. Córdova will serve up pancakes during the meal. Cost is $5 per person and reservations are required. To make reservations, visit https://www.purdue.edu/eventrsvp or call (800) 213-3044.

- 9-11 a.m. Tours and open houses of various campus departments and colleges. A listing of each school's events is available at https://www.union.purdue.edu/psub.

- Noon. Purdue vs. Central Michigan football game.

- Halftime of football game. Ross-Ade Stadium. Twenty-three high school bands will join the Purdue "All-American" Marching Band for a half-time show featuring almost 1,500 performers.

- Following game. Purdue Sings: An American Salute. Purdue Mall outside Hovde Hall. High school vocalists will join with performers from Purdue Musical Organizations and the Purdue "All-American" Marching Band for a salute to America. In case of rain, the concert will take place in the Purdue Armory.

- Following game. Boilermaker BBQ. Academy Park behind Purdue Memorial Union. Blues musician Keith Scott will perform and other family activities will be offered for free. The cost for the meal is $10.99 for adults and $6.99 for children under 10. Meal tickets available only at event.

- Following the game. Friends and Family Day with the theme "Now that's the blues!" Black Cultural Center, 1100 Third St. Participants will meet at Miss Bessie's Juke Joint and listen to blues music and learn the history that created it through performers, storytelling, children's activities and a sampling of Southern cuisine. Contact the BCC at (765) 494-3092.

** -- Sept. 21. 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Komen on the Go. Memorial Mall. The Susan G. Komen for the Cure community education and outreach tour will offer an interactive learning center, breast cancer educational materials, volunteer information and more.

** -- Sept. 24. 5 p.m. Heart to Heart program. Stewart Center's Loeb Playhouse. Indiana first lady Cheri Daniels will be on campus to speak about the Heart to Heart program, which encourages women to lead heart-healthy lifestyles. Educational materials will be available, and at 4:30 p.m. screenings will be provided for women.

ENTERTAINMENT

-- Sept. 16. 3 p.m. Long Center for the Performing Arts, 111 N. Sixth St., Lafayette. Dan Zanes. Grammy-winning and Playhouse Disney stars Dan Zanes and Friends to perform music suitable for both children and grown-ups. Presented by Purdue Convocations. Tickets are $24 for general public, $15 for children/students. For tickets, call (765) 494-3933, (800) 914-SHOW or visit https://www.convocations.org.

-- Sept. 20. 7 p.m. Stewart Center's Fowler Hall. The Juneteenth Legacy Theatre from Louisville, Ky., will present the "Juneteenth Cotton Club Revue," a musical tribute to legendary blues singers Bessie Smith, Ethel Waters, Billie Holiday, Dinah Washington and Lena Horne.  Songs performed will include "St. Louis Blues," "Summertime," "God Bless the Child" and many others. Free and open to the public. Contact BCC at (765) 494-3092.

-- Sept. 21-22. 8 p.m. Loeb Playhouse. "Macbeth." Actors from the London stage will bring William Shakespeare's tragedy to life in this production in which five actors take on all the roles using minimal sets and costumes. Presented by Purdue Convocations.  Tickets are $26 for the general public and $19 for students. For tickets, call (765) 494-3933, (800) 914-SHOW or visit https://www.convocations.org.

-- Sept. 21-30. Nancy T. Hansen Theatre. The Foreigner. Larry Shue's comedy uncovers a sinister plan to snatch an old hotel resort in the back hills of Georgia from its rightful owners, and only the dubious presence of a foreigner may uncover the truth about the aims of their corrupt plot. Performances are at 7:30 p.m. on Sept. 21, 22, 27, 28, 29; at 3 p.m. Sept. 23, 30 and at 2 p.m. Sept. 29. Tickets are $17 for the general public, $10 for students and $13 for seniors 62 and older. For tickets, call (765) 494-3933 or (800) 914-SHOW.

** -- Sept. 27. 7:30 p.m. Stewart Center, Fowler Hall.  Tom Curley, president and CEO of the Associated Press, will discuss how the news business has changed in recent years and how other organizations can cope with similar changes. The talk, titled "The Upside of Change Management," is sponsored by the student group the Purdue Association of Leaders and the Department of Organizational Leadership and Supervision.

-- Sept. 28. 8 p.m. Elliott Hall of Music. "Hairspray." The Broadway hit takes the audience back to 1962 as a teenage girl seeks to dance her way onto a popular TV show. A big girl has dreams to change the world and still have time to win the boy she loves. Presented by Purdue Convocations. Tickets are $20-$45 for the general public and $20-$32 for students. For tickets, call (765) 494-3933, (800) 914-SHOW or visit https://www.convocations.org.

-- Oct. 3. 7 p.m. Stewart Center's Fowler Hall. The August Wilson Song Book, a collection of songs from Wilson's 10-play dramatic cycle. Each character sings of how they either lost their song or identity or re-discovered it.

** -- Oct. 4. 7:30 p.m. Loeb Playhouse. Anoushka Shankar. Daughter of sitar legend Ravi Shankar has deep roots in the classical Indian tradition, and blends traditional sounds with jazz and electronica. Presented by Purdue Convocations. Tickets are $26 for the public and $19 for students. For tickets, call (765) 494-3933, (800) 914-SHOW or visit https://www.convocations.org.

** -- Oct. 12. 8 p.m. Loeb Playhouse. The Calder Quartet. This group combines traditional Western chamber music and the avant-garde. The ensemble's program focuses on Beethoven's String Quartet No. 15 in A Minor, op. 132. Presented by Purdue Convocations. Tickets are $12. For tickets, call (765) 494-3933, (800) 914-SHOW or visit https://www.convocations.org.

EXHIBITS

-- Through Oct. 7. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday to Saturday; 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Thursdays; and 1-5 p.m. Sundays. Stewart Center Gallery. Deborah Muirhead: Fly Away. This exhibit includes paintings, drawings, prints and artist books that explore the use of archaelogical findings, particularly the colonial-era African burial ground in lower Manhattan.

-- Through Oct. 7. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday to Saturday; 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Thursdays; and 1-5 p.m. Sundays. Robert L. Ringel Gallery in Purdue Memorial Union. The Beaded Prayers Project. This community-centered outreach project is based on an African tradition of sealed amulets containing powerful contents such as sacred text and medicines.

-- Sept. 17-28. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday to Friday. Patti and Rusty Rueff Galleries. Florence Knoll: Defining Modern. Originally exhibited at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, this exhibit features 10 pieces of furniture designed by Florence Knoll. As an architect, interior space planner and furniture designer, Knoll had a big influence on postwar design.

LECTURES

** -- Sept. 18. 7:30 p.m. Matthews Hall Auditorium. Purdue Literary Reading Series. Fiction reading by Kate Bernheimer, author of "The Complete Tales of Ketzia Gold" and "The Complete Tales of Merry Gold." She also will discuss fiction writing at 10:30 a.m. on Sept. 19 in the Hicks Undergraduate Library Bookstall. Sponsored by the Department of English, the Creative Writing Program and the Jewish Studies Program.

** -- Sept. 19. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Stewart Center, Room 210. Latino Scholars Forum. Hosted by the Latino Faculty and Staff Association, the multidisciplinary forum will give Latino faculty and graduate students an opportunity to present their diverse scholarly interests in an academic setting and discuss research with their peers for purposes of promoting Latino scholarship activity and the Latino community. President France A. Córdova will give welcoming remarks before a roundtable discussion on career development issues. Contact the LCC at (765) 494-2530.

** -- Sept. 21. 11:30 a.m. -12:20 p.m. Jerry S. Rawls Hall, Room 1086. Krannert Executive Forum presents Young Lee, financial advisor, Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc. "Success is a Choice – Lessons after Krannert."

** -- Sept. 24. 8 p.m. Krannert Auditorium. Norman M. Finkelstein, a professor of English at Xavier University, will present "The Sacred, the Secular, and the Book: The Problem of the Jewish Literary Imagination." Finklestein's talk is presented by the College of Liberal Arts' Jewish Studies Program. For information, visit https://www.cla.purdue.edu/jewish-studies/.

** -- Sept. 25. 10:30 a.m. Stewart Center's Loeb Playhouse. Cynthia Lett, principal of The Lett Group, an event and meeting manager who teaches business and social etiquette courses at George Washington University, and a consultant for international corporations, will speak in the 2007 Darden Series. The talk is sponsored by the Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management as part of the department's Career Day. Contact Kelly Virginia Phelan, (443) 527-1725, kvphelan@purdue.edu.

-- Sept. 25. 8 p.m. Stewart Center's Loeb Playhouse. Michael Eric Dyson will present a lecture on "African Americans in the Academy:  Climate and Conflict," sponsored by the Black Graduate Association and the Office of the Provost. Dyson has been called a "street fighter in a suit and tie" and has written several national bestsellers on subjects ranging from Martin Luther King Jr. to "gangsta" rap. Dyson discusses topics such as Bill Cosby's comments and the Hurricane Katrina tragedy.

**-- Sept. 26. 10:30 a.m. The University Plaza Hotel (formerly University Inn and Conference Center) Grand Ballroom. Author and anthropologist Elizabeth Marshall Thomas will speak about relationships between people and animals as part of the Lilly Lectureship Series on the Human-Animal Bond. For information, contact the center at (765) 494-0854.

** -- Sept. 27. 10:30 a.m. Class of 1950 Lecture Hall, Room 224. Henry Wainer, president and owner of Sid Wainer & Sons Specialty Produce and Specialty Foods, who has been featured in countless major newspaper and magazine articles and appeared in several Food Network cooking and talk shows. He will speak as part of the 2007 Darden Series, sponsored by the department of hospitality and tourism management as part of the Hospitality and Tourism Management department's Career Day. Contact Kelly Virginia Phelan, (443) 527-1725, kvphelan@purdue.edu.

** -- Sept. 28. 11:30 a.m. -12:20 p.m. Jerry S. Rawls Hall, Room 1086. Krannert Executive Forum presents Jane King, correspondent, CNN and CNN Newsource. "Excellence not Perfection."

** -- Oct. 1. 7 p.m. Fowler Hall, Stewart Center. College of Liberal Arts Distinguished Lecture Series and Experience Liberal Arts. 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 and Experience Liberal Arts. 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. 7 p.m. Purdue Memorial Union, East Faculty Lounge. College of Liberal Arts Distinguished Lecture Series and Experience Liberal Arts. Gilberto Cárdenas, assistant provost and director of the Institute for Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame, will present "Latino Studies in the Academy." Cárdenas also is the Julián Samora Chair of Latino Studies and professor in the department of sociology.

** -- Oct. 4. 3 p.m. Pfendler Hall, The Deans Auditorium. Experience Liberal Arts. 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.

WORKSHOPS

-- Sept. 18. 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Stewart Center. The Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering will hold its fall symposium, "Transforming Health-Care Delivery: Advancing Multidisciplinary Research," for Purdue researchers to learn about the progress of health-care research on the Purdue campus. The Discovery Park event will highlight research advances in liberal arts, science, nursing, social sciences and management. The symposium is free to Purdue faculty, students, staff and collaborators. To register, go to https://www.purdue.edu/rche/fall2007. Contact Mary Schultz of the Regenstrief Center, mschult@purdue.edu, (765) 494-9828.

** -- Oct. 8-9. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day. Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship, Room 121. As part of ongoing Company Fundraising Boot Camp series offered by Discovery Park, experts from Purdue and industry will outline what it takes to start your own company. Day one will feature presentations on sources of capital, with testimonials from Purdue faculty. Day two will focus on presentation skills and coaching sessions for participants. A networking lunch also will be provided. Workshop is free and open to the public. To register or to get more information, contact Sue Grimes, (765) 494-5858, sgrimes@purdue.edu.

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** -- Oct. 13-14. Stewart Center. W. Edwards Deming Institute Fall Conference. Experts, students and business people from across the nation will gather at Purdue to explore the philosophy of the man credited with improving manufacturing processes and quality control in the United States and Japan. The cost to attend the conference is $250. The cost to attend the conference is $250. To register, visit https://www.conf.purdue.edu/deming. For registration information or questions, contact Kim Stockment, conference coordinator, at (765) 494-7225, kstockme@purdue.edu.

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Compiled by Christy Jones, (765) 494-1089, christyjones@purdue.edu

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