Purdue News Service

EDITORS: This calendar lists events on Purdue's West Lafayette campus or involving people or programs off campus during the next four weeks. Events are free, except where noted, and are open to news media coverage. New or updated listings are designated by two asterisks (**).

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

EVENTS

-- Nov. 2. 4-7 p.m. Morton Community Center, 222 N. Chancey Ave. Purdue's Latino Cultural Center celebrates Dia de los Muertos with the community. There will be crafts, music and food to honor those who have departed. Contact LCC, (765) 494-2530.

-- Nov. 5. 8 p.m. Hillenbrand Hall. All-Campus Reception for the 2007 Old Masters. The Old Masters include Beth Brooke, Sally A. Brown, Glenn Campbell, Lt. Gen. John Hudson, Mike Jackson, Tom Keiser, Marjorie Randolph, Scott Serota and Carolyn Woo.

** -- Nov. 6. 7:30 p.m. Matthews Hall Auditorium, Room 210. Writers Harvest. Author of the "Murder, She Wrote" series will join Purdue University creative writing faculty members for a reading in support of the local food bank Food Finders. This event, sponsored by Sycamore Review, the Department of English and the Creative Writing Program, is open to the public. Voluntary donations of $5 for students and $7 for adults, or five non-perishable food items, are requested. All proceeds will benefit Food Finders, an organization that distributes 3 million pounds of food and supplies to 175 nonprofit agencies in 18 Indiana counties.

ENTERTAINMENT

-- Nov. 8. 7 p.m. Stewart Center, Room 214. Sterling Plumpp will present poetry based on blues and jazz rhythm. He has won numerous awards including the Richard Wright Literacy Excellence Award. Plumpp has published twelve volumes of work including "Velvet Be Bop Kente Cloth,"" Blues Narratives," and "Black Rituals." Contact BCC at (765) 494-3092.

-- CANCELED -- Nov. 9. 8 p.m. Stewart Center's Loeb Playhouse. An Evening With Rosanne Cash. Cash, the daughter of Johnny Cash, will intertwine stories with songs, including hits from her new album "Black Cadillac." Presented by Purdue Convocations. Tickets are $35. For tickets, call (765) 494-3933, (800) 914-SHOW or visit https://www.convocations.org

** -- Nov. 14. 7 p.m. Stewart Center, Fowler Hall. There will be a concert featuring music from Muslim and Jewish Spain. The musicians are from Indiana University and are directed by Juan Carlos Arango. The event is part of "An Encounter with Islam: Religion & Culture" is sponsored by the Purdue Liberal Arts Community Engagement program, which is known as PLACE.

** -- Nov. 16. 7 p.m. Stewart Center, Fowler Hall. There will be a performance of folk dances from countries of the Middle East. The dance troupe is directed by Kat Lebo. The event is part of "An Encounter with Islam: Religion & Culture" is sponsored by the Purdue Liberal Arts Community Engagement program, which is known as PLACE.

** -- Nov. 16. 7 p.m. Stewart Center, Room 314. Acoustic blues recording artist Fruteland Jackson will present All About the Blues, sponsored by the Black Cultural Center Library. Call Dorothy Washington, (765) 494-3093.

-- Nov. 17. 7:30 p.m. Stewart Center's Loeb Playhouse. Stefon Harris. The jazz band will pay tribute to Duke Ellington. Presented by Purdue Convocations. Tickets are $27 for the public, $22 for students. For tickets, call (765) 494-3933, (800) 914-SHOW or visit https://www.convocations.org

-- Nov. 18. 3 p.m. Stewart Center's Loeb Playhouse. Russian American Kids Circus. Trained by members of the Moscow Circus, these circus artists will include acrobatics, tightrope walking, juggling and clowning in their performance. Presented by Purdue Convocations. Tickets are $24 for the public, $15 for students. For tickets, call (765) 494-3933, (800) 914-SHOW or visit https://www.convocations.org

-- Nov. 30. 7 p.m. Stewart Center's Loeb Playhouse. The Black Cultural Center's annual Cultural Arts Festival centers on a semester-long look at the blues. Tickets are $7 for the general public and $5 for Purdue students. Contact BCC at (765) 494-3092.

EXHIBITS

-- Through Dec. 2. 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. "Dried — Cracked — Wet — Dripping — Blooming: Installations by Charles A. Gick." Gick, an associate professor of art and design in Purdue's Patti and Rusty Rueff Department of Visual and Performing Arts, has exhibited his interdisciplinary installations nationally and internationally.

-- Through Dec. 2. 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. "Does Gender Still Matter?" Exhibit examines current constructs of masculinity, femininity, androgyny, etc., from the viewpoints of seven artists. At 5:30 p.m. Nov. 1, Elizabeth Mix, contemporary art historian at Butler University who helped select the artists for the exhibit, will speak in Purdue Memorial Union, Room 118. A reception will follow the lecture in the Ringel Gallery.

LECTURES

-- Nov. 8. 9:30-11 a.m. and 3-5 p.m. Lawson Building, commons. Science Journalism Laureates. Purdue University will honor leading science journalists from around the world during the second annual Science Journalism Laureates Program Nov. 7-9. The laureates will participate in a public town hall meeting and will address the campus.

-- Nov. 12. 8 p.m. Stewart Center's Loeb Playhouse. Sears Lecture Series. Former CIA director R. James Woolsey will present "Energy, Security and the Long War of the 21st Century."

-- Nov. 16. 11:30 a.m. to 12:20 p.m. Jerry S. Rawls Hall, Room 1086. Krannert Executive Forum presents Leslie Bauer, director of internal audit, The Washington Post Co. "Personal Choices: Shaping You, Your Career, Your Life."

-- Nov. 30. 11:30 a.m. to 12:20 p.m. Jerry S. Rawls Hall, Room 1086. Krannert Executive Forum presents Steve Bonta, Indianapolis central site director, Department of Defense Finance and Accounting Services. "DFAS."

STUDENTS

-- Ongoing. Student registration for spring semester under way. The semester will run from Jan. 7 to May 3. Students should make an appointment with their academic advisers unless the school in which they are enrolled provides them with special instructions for registration.

-- Nov. 14. 5:30-6:30 p.m. Stewart Center, Room 218. The Ultimate Money Skills presentation shows students how to develop smart money management skills in college. The program shows students how to understand appropriate credit card use; understand the basics of banking; design a budget; take control of student loan debt; minimize debt to maximize wealth; and protect identity. Sponsored by the Women's Resource Office. For information, contact (765) 494-9879 or wro@purdue.edu.

SEMINARS

-- Nov. 3. Black Cultural Center, 1100 Third St. "Connecting Culturally in Engineering, Math and Technology" with presentations and discussions led by scholars in the field of science and technology. Third in the series offered by the Black Cultural Center Library. For information, call (765) 494-3093.

CONFERENCES

-- Nov. 8. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Ross-Ade Pavilion. Discovery Lecture Series event, titled "Global Business Development in Life Sciences," will include keynote lecture at 12:30 p.m. by leading life sciences venture capitalist G. Steven Burrill, chief executive of California-based Burrill and Co., and a talk on technology commercialization by Purdue President France A. Córdova. David Johnson, president of BioCrossroads, will moderate a panel discussion at 2:30 p.m. on life sciences intellectual property and the world markets. The morning session includes the Kauffman Campus Initiative workshop on equipping the next-generation of entrepreneurship leaders. Ted Ashburn, senior director of corporate development at pharmaceuticals giant Genzyme Corp., and Michael Kurek, partner at Biotechnology Business Consultants LLC, will lead the Kauffman workshop. Daylong Discovery Park event is being offered in collaboration with BioCrossroads, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and Lilly Endowment. For registration information, go to https://www.purdue.edu/dp/dls

-- Nov. 15-16. Stewart Center, Hicks Undergraduate Library, West Lafayette Public Library. Discovery Park's Oncological Sciences Center and the Department of English present inaugural Cancer Culture and Community Symposium, with keynote speaker Terry Tempest Williams, author of "The Power of Story: Finding Refuge in Change," at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 15 at Stewart Center's Fowler Hall. Poet Sue Ellen Thompson will give a poetry reading and discuss the Poetry of Cancer from 10:30-11:30 a.m. and 1:30-2:30 p.m. Nov. 16 in the Hicks Undergraduate Library. Author S.L. Wisenberg will lead a workshop, Capture Your Stories, and read from her work at 10:30 a.m. Nov. 16 in the West Lafayette Public Library. The two-day event is in conjunction with the new Cancer Culture and Community Program, which is exploring the humanity of cancer revealed through literature and the visual and performing arts. For information, contact Kris Swank at (765) 494-4674, kswank@purdue.edu .

OTHER

-- Nov. 7. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Purdue Memorial Union ballrooms. Pharmacy Days career fair. The School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences offers a series of events for students and employers during Pharmacy Days. More information is available at https://www.pharmacy.purdue.edu/oss/PharmacyDays.php

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