February 1, 2008

Purdue Events Calendar

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

EVENTS

** -- Feb. 1. 7 p.m. Mock Indian Wedding. Purdue Memorial Union South Ballroom. The event will show what a traditional wedding ceremony is like in India. Everyone that attends the event will be assigned a role to play as a friend or distant relative. A free, traditional Indian meal will be served and the Purdue Indian Dance Club and the Purdue Di Shaan, a Bhangra dance team, will perform.

-- Feb. 2. 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Purdue Armory. Junior ROTC Invitational Drill Meet. Sponsored by the Purdue Army ROTC Boiler Battalion. More than 20 high school Junior ROTC drill teams from Indiana, Michigan and Illinois will perform in a variety of events.

-- Feb. 6. 2 p.m. Black Cultural Center, 1100 W. Third St., West Lafayette. Difficult Dialogue series sponsored by the BCC and American Studies Program.  Graduate students and faculty present research to public to help build relations between the university and the community. Series will continue on first Wednesday of each month at 2 p.m.

** -- Feb. 11. 6:30 p.m. Peace Corps information session. Beering Hall, Room 2280. Peace Corps regional recruiter Cliff Johnson, who served with his wife in the Kingdom of Tonga, will lead the session and answer questions about the application process and benefits of Peace Corps service. For information, contact Johnson at (312) 353-9094 or cjohnson2@peacecorps.gov.

** -- Feb. 18 to March 1. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Hiroshima-Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Exhibition. Thirty poster panels will be on display in the first-floor hallways of Stanley Coulter. There also will be an origami making station for senbazuru, which means 1,000 cranes, on the first floor of Stanley Coulter. Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures.

-- Feb. 22. 7 p.m. Multipurpose Room of Black Cultural Center, 1100 Third St., West Lafayette. "Women's Art, Women's Vision, Women's Dreams … A Womanist Poetry Event!" Project Respect collaboration between the BCC and the Women's Resource Center.  Poets share poems about women.  Call (765) 494-3092.

-- Feb. 23. 10:30 a.m. Purdue Armory. The 25th annual regional Rube Goldberg Machine Contest. Purdue students will create complex machines to accomplish a simple task. This year's task is to assemble a hamburger consisting of no less than one precooked meat patty, two vegetables and two condiments, sandwiched between two bun halves. The winner will advance to the April 5 national competition, also held at the Purdue Armory. The contests, sponsored by Phi Chapter of Theta Tau fraternity, are free and open to the public.

ENTERTAINMENT

-- Feb. 1. 7:30-10 p.m. Elliott Hall of Music. Swing Dance at Elliott. Sponsored by Purdue Bands. The American Music Repertory Ensemble and Purdue's Lab and Concert jazz bands will perform music for dancing. Members of the Purdue Night Train Swing Dance Club will offer free swing dance lessons and a demonstration beginning at 6:30 p.m.

-- Feb. 2. 12:30-2 p.m. Purdue Memorial Union, Room 118. Lunch with the Tippecanoe Storytellers Guild. Sponsored by Purdue Convocations as a special pre-show event before "The Velveteen Rabbit." The lunch and stories are recommended for children ages 5-8. Cost is $15 for adults and $12 for children. To make reservations, call (765) 494-9712 by Jan. 28.

-- Feb. 2. 3 p.m. Stewart Center's Loeb Playhouse. "The Velveteen Rabbit" by the Enchantment Theatre Company. Presented by Purdue Convocations. Ticket-holders will be able to see real velveteen rabbits from the Columbian Park petting zoo in the Stewart Center West Lobby before the show at 2 p.m. Tickets are $14 for adults and $10 for children 18 years and younger, Purdue students and Ivy Tech Lafayette students. Tickets are available at the Elliott Hall and Stewart Center box offices at (765) 494-3933 or (800) 914-SHOW or at Ticketmaster outlets.

-- Feb. 7. 7:30 p.m. Stewart Center's Loeb Playhouse. Academy of Ancient Music. Based out of London, this group will perform a program of J.S. Bach, Handel and Telemann on period instruments. Presented by Purdue Convocations. Tickets are $26 for adults and $16 for children 18 years and younger, Purdue students and Ivy Tech Lafayette students. Call (765) 494-3933 or (800) 914-SHOW or visit the Elliott Hall and Stewart Center box offices.

-- Feb. 9. 5 p.m. Fowler Hall in Stewart Center. University of Southern Indiana gospel choir, Designed by Grace, performs. Part of a cultural exchange with the Purdue Black Voices of Inspiration Choir. Call (765) 494-3092.

-- Feb. 14. 7:30 p.m. Stewart Center's Loeb Playhouse. John Jorgenson Quintet. The concert will feature gypsy jazz music, and Jorgenson will talk about the origins of gypsy jazz and his group at a pre-show discussion at 6:30 p.m. in the Stewart Center Gallery. Presented by Purdue Convocations. Tickets are $25 for adults and $16 for children 18 years and younger, Purdue students and Ivy Tech Lafayette students. Call (765) 494-3933 or (800) 914-SHOW or visit the Elliott Hall and Stewart Center box offices.

** -- Feb. 14-24. Nancy T. Hansen Theatre, Pao Hall of Visual and Performing Arts. "The Underpants." Purdue Theatre will perform "The Underpants," a Steve Martin adaptation of a play originally written by German playwright Carl Sternheim. Performances are at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 14-16; at 3 and 7:30 p.m. Feb. 17; at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 21-22; at 3 and 7:30 p.m. Feb. 23 and at 3 p.m. Feb. 24. Tickets for the Feb. 14 preview are $6. Tickets to the other performances are $17 for the general public, $13 for seniors and $10 for students. Tickets are available at the Stewart Center, Elliott and Pao Hall box offices or by calling (765) 494-3933 or (800) 914-SHOW.

** -- Feb. 15. 8-10:30 p.m. University Plaza Hotel Grand Ballroom, 3001 Northwestern Ave., West Lafayette. Evening of Romance. Sponsored by Purdue Bands & Orchestra. The cabaret-style event will include a dessert buffet and music for dancing by the Purdue Jazz Band. Tickets are $19.50 per person. For ticket information, call (765) 494-3933 or (800) 914-SHOW.

-- Feb. 18. 7 p.m. Fowler Hall in Stewart Center.  "Pouring Tea: Black Gay Men of the South Tell Their Tales." One-man show features E. Patrick Johnson, based on oral histories from black gay men. Call (765) 494-3092.

** -- Feb. 24. 5 p.m. Elliott Hall of Music. Annie. The 30th anniversary tour of "Annie" will be on stage. Presented by Purdue Convocations and the musical is produced by Networks Presentations, LLC. Tickets are $20-45 for adults and $20-32 for children 18 years and younger, Purdue students and Ivy Tech Lafayette students. Tickets are available at the Elliott Hall and Stewart Center box offices at (765) 494-3933 or (800) 914-SHOW. Tickets also are available through Ticketmaster outlets. Discount tickets for groups of 10 or more can be ordered at (765) 496-1977.

-- Feb. 29. 8 p.m. Elliott Hall of Music. Ben Folds. Purdue's Student Concert Committee is presenting the performance. Tickets are $30 for the general public and $27 for Purdue and Ivy Tech Lafayette students with a current ID. Tickets go on sale to Purdue and Ivy Tech Lafayette students, and Purdue faculty and staff with a current ID at 10 a.m. Jan. 18 at the Elliott Hall of Music and Stewart Center box offices at (765) 494-3933. Tickets for the general public will go on sale at 10 a.m. Jan. 19 at Ticketmaster at (765) 743-5151 and https://www.ticketmaster.com

** -- March 1. 7:30 p.m. Stewart Center's Loeb Playhouse. Second City. The performance will feature some of the best sketches, songs and improvisations from Second City's 45-plus year history. Tickets are $10 for students with a Purdue ID and $20 for non-Purdue students. Call (765) 494-3933.

** -- April 10. 7:30 p.m. Elliott Hall of Music. Dierks Bentley with special guests Bucky Covington and Luke Bryan. The Throttle Wide Open Tour is presented by Purdue Convocations with cooperation with Bravo Entertainment. Tickets are $36.50 for the general public and $29.50 for Purdue and Ivy Tech students and children under age 19. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Feb. 15 for Purdue and Ivy Tech students, and Purdue faculty, staff and retirees with a current ID at (765) 494-3933 or the Stewart Center and Elliott box offices. Tickets for the general public go on sale at 10 a.m. Feb. 16 through Ticketmaster at (765) 743-5151 and https://www.ticketmaster.com. Friends of Convocations may order advance tickets through 5 p.m. Feb. 11 by calling (765) 494-9712.

Exhibits

-- Through Feb. 17. "Insights into Suburbia" Stewart Center Gallery. Juried exhibition of 55 works in various media by 27 contemporary women artists. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday to Saturday, plus Thursday until 8 p.m., and 1-5 p.m. Sunday. Call (765) 496-7899.

-- Through Feb. 17. "60 Square Inches: 16th Biennial North American Small Print Competition." Robert L. Ringel Gallery, Purdue Memorial Union. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday to Saturday, plus Thursday until 8 p.m., and 1-5 p.m. Sunday. Call (765) 496-7899.

-- Feb. 4-15. 2nd Inklandia Print Exhibition. Patti and Rusty Rueff Galleries, Pao Hall. The exhibition features fine art prints by contemporary American artists and is curated by Laura Foster and Delita Martin. The gallery show includes original prints from the Purdue Galleries permanent collection and across the United States. Open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday to Friday. Call (765) 496-2958.

-- Feb. 11-15. Social Issues and Poster Design. Patti and Rusty Rueff Galleries, Pao Hall. Organized by the School of Art, South Central University, China, and the Patti and Rusty Rueff Department of Visual and Performing Arts at Purdue, this exhibition includes poster designs from undergraduate and graduate students at both universities. The posters highlight social issues in the United States and China. A reception will be held from 1-2 p.m. Feb. 15. Open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday to Friday. Call (765) 496-2958.

-- Feb. 18-29. Art and Design Undergraduate Exhibition. Patti and Rusty Rueff Galleries, Pao Hall. A juried exhibition of undergraduate students from the Patti and Rusty Rueff Department of Visual and Performing Arts. It will include works in ceramics, photography and related media, visual communications design, industrial design, interior design, sculpture, metals, painting, drawing, fiber arts and printmaking. A reception and awards ceremony will be held from 5-6:30 p.m. Feb. 21. Open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday to Friday. Call (765) 496-2958.

LECTURES

-- Feb. 6. 12:30 p.m. Stewart Center, Room 320. Ana M. Gómez-Bravo, director of graduate studies and associate professor of Spanish at Purdue. "Jewish Disclosure and Converso Authorship in Late Medieval Spanish Literary Culture." Jewish Lecture Series.

** -- Feb. 7. 4:30 p.m. Physics Building Room 114. Mildred S. Dresselhaus, institute professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will present "The Potential of Nanostructured Materials to Address the Challenge of a Sustainable Energy Resource." This presentation is part of the College of Science Centennial Lecture Series.

-- Feb. 8. 5:30-7 p.m. Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship, Room 121, in Discovery Park. Barbara Karn, head of the Research Grant Program for Nanotechnologies at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and a member of the Wilson Center's Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies, will give a lecture in conjunction with Purdue University's Bioethics Lectures Series 2007-08. For information, contact Jonathan Beever and Nicolae Morar at https://www.purdue.edu/bioethics

** -- Feb. 8. 7:30 p.m. Krannert Auditorium. Robert Orsi, the Grace Craddock Nagle Chair in Catholic Studies at Northwestern University, will present "Growing up Catholic: A Case Study of Catholic Children in Mid-20th Century America."
Sponsored by the Aquinas Educational Foundation and the College of Liberal Arts' Religious Studies Program.

-- Feb. 11. 4 p.m. Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship, Room 121, in Discovery Park. Rebecca Shambaugh, a Purdue alumnus and president and founder of SHAMBAUGH, a company that provides leadership coaches and consultants, will speak about her book, "It's Not a Glass Ceiling, It's a Sticky Floor," which is based on women and leadership. A reception and book signing will follow the lecture. The event is sponsored by the Susan Bulkeley Butler Center for Leadership Excellence in the Discovery Learning Center at Discovery Park.

-- Feb. 15. 11:30 a.m. to 12:20 p.m. Rawls Hall, Room 1086. Krannert Executive Forum. Mark Silverman, president, Big Ten Network. Topic: "Why a Big Ten Network?"

-- Feb. 18. 8 p.m. Stewart Center's Loeb Playhouse. Tom Ricks, "Washington Post" military correspondent, will present "The Iraq War as a Failure of the American System?"

** -- Feb. 22. 7 p.m., Feb. 22 Stanley Coulter, Room 239. The movie "Face of Jizo: Chichi to Kuraseba," a 2004 Japanese film with English subtitles, will be shown. Kazumi Hatasa, Purdue professor of Japanese, will lead the discussion after the showing. The talk is part of the Feb. 18 to March 1. Hiroshima-Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Exhibition. Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures.

** -- Feb. 23. 1 p.m. Room 200 of Wetherill Laboratory of Chemistry. Sachiko Masuoka, an 85-year-old Hiroshima atomic bomb survivor and Chicago resident, will talk about her experience. The talk is part of the Feb. 18 to March 1. Hiroshima-Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Exhibition. Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures.

-- Feb. 26. 7 p.m. Fowler Hall in Stewart Center. Keith O. Boykin, host of the BET show "My Two  Cents," a syndicated columnist and bestselling author, will speak about "Diversity without Division: Building an Inclusive Campus." Call (765) 494-3092.

** -- Feb. 27. 7:30 p.m. Stewart Center, Room 206. Israeli filmmaker David Ofek will screen and discuss his award-winning film, "No. 17 is Anonymous." Sponsored by the Foreign Languages and Literatures Department and the Jewish Studies Program.

Conferences

** -- March 1. 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Latino Cultural Center,  600 N. Russell St., West Lafayette. The Indiana Latino Leadership Conference 2008. Purdue University and Indiana University are collaborating for the first time in hosting a conference that has been held in Bloomington since 1999. The 2008 conference, called "Lideres Sin Fronteras (Leaders Without Borders)," is expected to draw more than 200 students from Indiana colleges and high schools.

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

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