September 21, 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. 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. 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

** -- Sept. 30. 2:30 p.m. Purdue Bands "Moods of Music." Long Center, 111 N. Sixth St., Lafayette. The Purdue Symphonic Band and Fall Concert Band will perform a variety of pieces from composers including Percy Grainger, Michael Markowski and John Philip Sousa. Admission is free.

-- 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

** -- Oct. 17. 5 p.m. at the West Lafayette Public Library, 208 W. Columbia St. World Film Forum and Experience Liberal Arts. Elena Coda, an assistant professor of Italian, will present "Excellent Cadavers" (In Un Altro Paese, 2005). This documentary, directed by Marco Turco, tells the story of the big mafia trial that resulted in the 1992 assassinations of the first Sicilian prosecutors to take on the mafia and win.

** -- Oct. 19. 8 p.m. Vienna Boys Choir. Elliott Hall of Music. The Vienna Boys Choir will perform a variety of fold songs, classical masterpieces and world music. Presented by Purdue Convocations. Tickets are $15-35 for the public, $15-25 for students. For tickets, call (765) 494-3933, (800) 914-SHOW or visit https://www.convocations.org

** -- Oct. 19-20. 7 p.m. Black Cultural Center, 1100 Third St. The four performing arts ensembles will perform the semester "Coffee House Showcase" that centers around the semester-long study of the blues. Contact BCC at (765) 494-3092.

** -- Oct. 21. 2:30 p.m. Purdue Bands "Creepy Classics." Long Center, 111 N. Sixth St., Lafayette. Purdue Symphony Orchestra's Halloween concert. Admission is free.

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.

-- Through Sept. 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. 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.

** -- Oct. 18. 3:30-5 p.m. Purdue Memorial Union, Anniversary Drawing Room. Experience Liberal Arts. 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. Free and open to the public.

** -- Oct. 19. 11:30 a.m. to 12:20 p.m. Jerry S. Rawls Hall, Room 1086. Krannert Executive Forum presents Gary Moore, former president and owner, Materials Handling Equipment Co. "Advantages, Challenges, and Opportunities of Careers in Smaller Businesses."

** -- Oct. 22. 3:30 p.m. Stanley Coulter, Room 239. Experience Liberal Arts. 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. Experience Liberal Arts. 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.

WORKSHOPS

-- 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.

CONFERENCES

-- 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. 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.

** -- Oct. 15. Main sessions in Stewart Center's Loeb Playhouse, breakout sessions in Stewart Center. The 2007 INShape Indiana Health Summit, "Live Healthy, Work Healthy," features workshops and speakers to equip businesses for today's challenges, including strategies for the implementation of wellness programs, and methods for business to improve their bottom lines by reducing health-care costs and utilizing tax breaks. The cost before Sept. 15 is $25, or $35 until the Oct. 8 deadline. Contact Wendi Ailor, (765) 494-7890, wailor@purdue.edu.

OTHER

-- Sept. 24. Purdue Memorial Union South Ballroom. Big 10+ Graduate School Exposition. More than 40 institutions of higher education will converge Sept. 24 on the Purdue University campus. The event is a cooperative effort to provide students with information about graduate education and will feature several activities.

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

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