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March 13, 1998

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

All events in this calendar, plus many others, are listed in Purdue's on-line calendar at https://www.purdue.edu/calendar/

EVENTS

  • Thursday-Saturday, March 19-21. Fifth Women's Studies Symposium during Women's History Month. Workshops, exhibits, lectures and panel discussions will examine the theme of "Women's INterVENTIONS in Science, Art and Technology." Reception and information table available each day in Room 107, Stewart Center. Symposium opens at noon Thursday with a welcoming address and concludes with a roundtable discussion at 4:45 p.m. Saturday. A full schedule is available on the Web at https://www.sla.purdue.edu/academic/idis/womens-studies/symp98.html. Some of the highlights (all events on the third floor of Stewart Center, unless noted otherwise):

    -- Thursday-Saturday, March 19-21. An exhibit of multimedia works by 13 women artists from the Greater Lafayette area. 9 a.m.-7 p.m. Watson's Crick Gallery, Room 1-125, Lilly Hall of Life Sciences. A symposium reception will be held in the gallery at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, March 19.

    -- 1 p.m. Thursday, March 19. "Programs for Women Students in Science and Engineering." Presentation by Barbara Clark, director of Purdue's Women in Science Program, and Jane Daniels, director of Purdue's Women in Engineering Program. Current students also will discuss their experiences.

    -- 3 p.m. Thursday, March 19. "Teaching in the Belly of the Beast: Feminism in the Best of All Places," a lecture by Anne Balsamo, assistant professor in the School of Literature, Communication and Culture at Georgia Institute of Technology, about teaching feminism to a predominantly male audience.

    -- 8 p.m. Thursday, March 19. Room 239, Stanley Coulter Hall. Screening of documentary film "It's Elementary," directed by Debra Chasnoff, about how teachers and students grapple with homophobia and gay invisibility in elementary and middle schools.

    -- 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday, March 20. Cyber Archives. An exhibit by Silvia Malagrino, a native of Buenos Aires who is an associate professor in the School of Art and Design at the University of Illinois, Chicago. The exhibit is a series of video monitors playing different digital animations combined with video footage and still photographs.

    -- 1:15 p.m. Friday, March 20. "Alternative Interventions in Healing," a workshop featuring Susan Cekarmis Schoon, Purdue assistant professor of nursing, discussing Therapeutic Touch, an ancient healing art of the "laying on of hands."

    -- 3 p.m. Friday, March 20. 3 p.m. Two lectures about women and AIDS policy. Paula Treichler, professor of medicine, communications and research and of women's studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will talk about "Women's Interventions in Medicine and HIV/AIDS Policy." Maya Rockeymoore, Purdue political science doctoral student who also is a Congressional Black Caucus Fellow, will speak about "African-American Women and HIV/AIDS Policy."

    -- 1:15 p.m. Saturday, March 21. Diane Glancy, poet, essayist and novelist, reads from her latest novel, "Flutie." She is an associate professor of English at Macalaster College, St. Paul, Minn., and much of her writing focuses on her Cherokee heritage.

    -- 3 p.m. Saturday, March 21. Screening of the video "When You're Smiling," by former Purdue faculty member Janice Tanaka, now an assistant professor of telecommunication at the University of Florida at Gainesville. The video documents the psychological effects that the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II had on their children.

  • Saturday-Sunday, March 21-22. Holocaust Remembrance Conference. Various on- and off-campus locations. All sessions are free and open to the public. Participants include: Mel Mermelstein, a California businessman and survivor of Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps who sued the Institute for Historical Review (which denied the truth of the Holocaust) and won; Richard H. Weisberg, professor of constitutional law at the Cardozo School of Law in New York and author of "Vichy Law and the Holocaust in France"; and Charlotte Guthmann Opfermann, survivor of the Theresienstadt ghetto, playwright and teacher. For a schedule of events, contact Rabbi Gedalyah Engel, conference coordinator, (765) 743-1716.

  • ** Wednesday, March 25. Astronauts or Astrobots? 7 p.m. Loeb Playhouse. A public forum on the topic of extended human exploration of space vs. extended robotic exploration of space. Presenting the case for astronauts will be Robert Zubrin, author of the book "The Case for Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must." Arguing for astrobots will be Louis Friedman, director of the Planetary Society. A panel of professors and people from the community, as well as audience members, will participate in a question and answer period. Sponsored by the Purdue chapter of Students for the Exploration and Development of Space.

  • Tuesday, March 31. School of Liberal Arts celebrates 25 years of the Learning Center. 10 a.m.-2 p.m. East Foyer, Stewart Center. The celebration will consist of a speaker on motivation and history, various booths and workshops with handouts and folders for students, and presentation of awards/certificates.

  • Saturday, April 4. Investing in Your Tomorrow. 8:30 a.m. Stewart Center, Room 214. A conference for all women students and faculty in Purdue's Schools of Science, Engineering and Technology. The day will be filled with motivational speeches and breakout sessions on a variety of topics. Sponsored by Women in Science and Women in Engineering programs.

  • Saturday, April 4. National Rube Goldberg contest. 11:30 a.m. Elliott Hall of Music. National contest sponsored by Theta Tau Fraternity and Amoco. Student organizers maintain a World Wide Web page at https://expert.cc.purdue.edu/~thetatau/RUBE/

ENTERTAINMENT

  • Wednesday, March 18. Cirque Eloize. 7 p.m. Loeb Playhouse, Stewart Center. This show provides the acrobatics, comedy and spectacle of the Big Top. Tickets are $18 for the public, $14 for Purdue students, at campus box offices or by phone at (765) 494-3933 or 1-800-914-SHOW. Purdue Convocations' Patron's Choice Series.

  • Friday, March 20. The Daughter of the Regiment. 8 p.m. Elliott Hall of Music. The New York City Opera National Company production of this opera by Donizetti. Tickets are $28, $23 and $18 for the public, $18 and $14 for Purdue students, at campus box offices or by phone at (765) 494-3933 or 1-800-914-SHOW. Purdue Convocations' Lively Arts Package.

  • Sunday, March 22. Cinema Now: Cold Comfort Farm. 7:30 p.m. Fowler Hall, Stewart Center. Set in England of the 1930s, this film tells the story of a sophisticated woman who dramatically changes the lives of each of her unmannerly relatives at Cold Comfort Farm. Tickets: $4 for faculty and staff, $3 for Purdue students.

  • Thursday, March 26. B-Tree. 7 p.m. Room 210, Stewart Center. The Black Cultural Center welcomes special guest poet B-Tree for a free performance. Part of BCC Spring Cultural Arts Series.

  • Friday, March 27. Haraka Fest '98. 8 p.m. East Faculty Lounge, Purdue Memorial Union. A free evening of original poetry from the Haraka Writers, one of the Black Cultural Center's four performing arts ensemble. Part of BCC Spring Cultural Arts Series.

  • Friday, March 27. Bye Bye Birdie. 8 p.m. Elliott Hall of Music. Tickets for this musical comedy are $30, $23 and $18 for the public, $18 and $14 for Purdue students, at campus box offices or by phone at (765) 494-3933 or 1-800-914-SHOW. Presented by Purdue Convocations.

  • Sunday, March 29. Free concert by Purdue Jazz Bands. 2:30 p.m. Loeb Playhouse, Stewart Center.

  • Thursday, April 2. Purdue Bands Recital Hour. Noon. Room 30, Elliott Hall of Music. Lunchtime concert features performances by Purdue instrumentalists. Bring your lunch or share in refreshments provided by Tau Beta Sigma.

  • Thursday, April 2. The Australian Chamber Orchestra with cellist Steven Isserlis. 8 p.m. Loeb Theater, Stewart Center. Tickets are $20 for the public, $14 for Purdue students, at campus box offices or by phone at (765) 494-3933 or 1-800-914-SHOW. Part of Purdue Convocations' Loeb Music Collection Series.

  • Friday, April 3. Paquito D'Rivera and the United Nation Orchestra. 8 p.m. Loeb Theater, Stewart Center. D'Rivera is a 1997 Grammy winner. Tickets are $21 for the public, $13 for Purdue students, at campus box offices or by phone at (765) 494-3933 or 1-800-914-SHOW. A Purdue Convocations' Jazz Set event.

  • Sunday, April 5. Windworks II. 2:30 p.m. Purdue Memorial Union Ballrooms. The University Concert Band, the Collegiate Band and the Varsity Band present a free performance of traditional and contemporary concert band music.

  • Sunday, April 5. Black Voices of Inspiration Spring Concert. 3 p.m. Loeb Playhouse, Stewart Center. Under the direction of artist-in-residence Marshall White, this Black Cultural Center performing arts ensemble will present an afternoon of uplifting and joyful music. Tickets are $5 for the public, $3 for students, at campus box offices or by phone at (765) 494-3933 or 1-800-914-SHOW. Part of BCC Spring Cultural Arts Series.

  • ** Wednesday, April 8. The Tibetan Monks from Drepung Loseling Monastery in India. 8 p.m. Loeb Playhouse. Nine Buddhist lamas from Tibet, robed in bright costumes, play traditional long horns, trumpets, drums and bells to promote world healing through ancient music, songs and dances. Tickets are $15 for the public and $10 for students at campus box office or by phone at (765) 494-3933 or 1-800-914-SHOW. Presented by Purdue Convocations.

  • ** Sunday, April 12. New Directional Players Spring Production. 3 p.m. Fowler Hall, Stewart Center. This free event is part of the BCC Spring Cultural Arts Series.

LECTURES

** Wednesday, March 18. The Internet in the 21st Century. 7:30 p.m. Class of '50 Lecture Hall. Speaker: Vinton Cerf, senior vice president of Internet architecture and engineering for MCI Communications Corp. and co-inventor of the computer networking protocol, TCP/IP, which has become the language for Internet communications. Sponsored by the Purdue Connectivity Club.

  • Thursday, March 19. Inner Work: A Discipline of Leadership. 10-11:30 a.m. Room 210, Stewart Center. Speaker: Katherine Tyler Scott, executive director of Trustee Leadership Development in Indianapolis. Women's Resource Office Leadership Series.

  • Thursday, March 19. Immortality: The Views of Kant and Some Others. 4:30 p.m. Room 210, University Hall. Speaker: Rolf George from the University of Waterloo. Purdue Philosophy Colloquium Series.

  • Thursday, March 19. Le Chambon-sur-Lignon: How and Why a Protestant Community Saved Thousands of Jews in Occupied France. 4:30 p.m. Krannert Building Auditorium. Speaker: Professor Patrick Henry, Department of French, Whitman College. Jewish Studies Lecture Series.

  • Friday, March 20. Entrepreneur + Trust + Success. 11:30 a.m.-12:20 p.m. Krannert Building Auditorium. Speaker: Terry L. Van Der Aa, president and chief executive officer, ATC/Vancom Inc., Oakbrook Terrace, Ill. Krannert Executive Forum.

  • Monday, March 23. Louis Martin Sears Lecture Series. 7:30 p.m. Fowler Hall, Stewart Center. Professor Alonzo Hamby of Ohio University will address the circumstances and political atmosphere surrounding President Harry S Truman's formal 1948 recognition of the newly independent state of Israel. The theme of the four-part lecture series is "U.S.-Israeli Relations: Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the U.S. Recognition of the State of Israel."

  • Tuesday, March 24. Conversations About Teaching. 3:30 p.m. East and West Faculty Lounges, Purdue Memorial Union. Speaker: Olivia Bennett Wood, Purdue associate professor of foods and nutrition.

  • ** Wednesday, March 25. Haggadot: Old, New, and Different. An Illustrated Lecture. 12:30 p.m. Room 204, Stewart Center. Speaker: Professor Edward H. Simon, Purdue Department of Biological Sciences. Jewish Studies Discussion Series. (New speaker and topic.)

  • Wednesday, March 25. Dinosaurs Among the Ivy: Gender and Ageism in the University. 12:30 p.m. Stone Cellar (Room B-2), Stone Hall. Speaker: Kathleen Sernak, assistant professor of multicultural education, Purdue Department of Curriculum and Instruction. Women's Studies Program Brown Bag Series.

  • Friday, March 27. Getting Back to Basics: Simple but Effective Organizational, Managerial and Operational Processes. 11:30 a.m. Krannert Building Auditorium. Speaker: Marc C. Hansen, president, Lockheed Martin Management & Data Systems, King of Prussia, Pa. Krannert Executive Forum.

  • Friday, March 27. Feeling, Knowing, and Memory: A Clinical and Psychophysiological Perspective. 3:30 p.m. Room 277, Peirce Hall. Lecture by Purdue Professor Scott Vrana of the Department of Psychological Sciences. Department of Psychological Sciences colloquium.

  • Monday, March 30. Louis Martin Sears Lecture Series. 7:30 p.m. Fowler Hall, Stewart Center. Professor Mark Tessler of the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee will discuss U.S.-Israel relations in the 1967-1977 decade, from the start of the June War through the election of Likud. The theme of the four-part lecture series is "U.S.-Israeli Relations: Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the U.S. Recognition of the State of Israel."

  • Tuesday, March 31. Mediating Campus Conflict. 10-11:30 a.m. Room 314, Stewart Center. Speaker: Becky Herrnstein, director of the Purdue Women's Resource Office. Women's Resource Office Leadership Series.

  • Thursday, April 2. The Jewish Technocrat: Harold Loeb. 4:30 p.m. Krannert Building Auditorium. Speaker: Professor Howard Segal, Bird & Bird Professor of History, University of Maine. Jewish Studies Lecture Series.

  • Friday, April 3. Re-engineering a 130-Year-Old Company. 11:30 a.m. Krannert Building Auditorium. Speaker: Allen M. Nixon, president and chief executive officer, The Torrington Co., Torrington, Conn. Krannert Executive Forum.

  • ** Tuesday, April 7. Louis Martin Sears Lecture Series. 7:30 p.m. Fowler Hall, Stewart Center. Professor Burton I. Kaufman of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University will examine the role of President Jimmy Carter and the United States in the Camp David Accords. The theme of the four-part 1998 lecture series is "U.S.-Israeli Relations: Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the U.S. Recognition of the State of Israel."

  • ** Wednesday, April 8. Philip Roth's Ambiguous Pastoral. 12:30 p.m. Room 204, Stewart Center. Speaker: Derek Royal, Ph.D. student, Purdue Department of English. Jewish Studies Discussion Series.

  • ** Friday, April 10. Start-Up Management. 11:30 a.m. Krannert Building Auditorium. Speaker: Ronald R. Smith, president and chief executive officer, Blue Grass Cellular Inc., Elizabethtown, Ky. Krannert Executive Forum.

  • ** Monday, April 13. Building Trusting Relationships. 10-11:30 a.m. Room 314, Stewart Center. Speaker: Janet Ayres, Purdue professor of agricultural economics and Cooperative Extension Service program leader for community development. Women's Resource Office Leadership Series.

WORKSHOPS

  • Thursday, March 19. Researching the Black Experience in Cyberspace. 9 a.m., noon, 2:30 and 4:30 p.m. BCC library, 315 University St. Four, free, hour-long workshops will teach participants about searching on the World Wide Web. Registration is required. Part of the BCC Spring Cultural Arts Series. CONTACT: Renee Thomas, BCC director, (765) 494-3091; e-mail, rathomas@hfs.purdue.edu

  • Thursday-Friday, March 26-27. Workshop for Rural Caregivers and Professionals, Indianapolis. This workshop is sponsored by Purdue's Breaking New Ground Resource Center, which assists people in agriculture who have disabilities. A half-day training session March 26 will be for the professional caregiver who works in rural areas. Family caregivers will be the focus of a full-day of session March 27. Cost is $85 for the first day and $40 for the second day. After March 5, there is a $20 late fee. Preregistration is required by March 20. To register, call (800) 825-4264. Scholarships are available to people with disabilities through the Indiana Governor's Council for People With Disabilities, (317) 232-7770.

CONFERENCES

** Tuesday-Wednesday, March 24-25. 1998 Purdue Road School. Stewart Center. Annual highway conference for local, county and state highway officials. All sessions free and open to the public, but attendees should register in Stewart Center at 8 a.m. the first day. CONTACT: Kumares Sinha, professor of transportation and infrastructure systems engineering, (765) 494-2211; e-mail, sinha@ecn.purdue.edu. Some highlights:

-- Tuesday: U.S. Rep. Ed Pease talks about the reauthorization of the highway bill; a talk on current and future federal highway programs.

-- Wednesday: a discussion of Indiana's national achievement award for best highway project in the United States, a stretch of I-65 through downtown Indianapolis ; an overview of Indiana's "brownfields" program, the state's efforts to clean lands that have been lightly polluted.

  • Saturday, March 28. Third Annual Midwest Leadership Conference. 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Stewart Center. Interactive workshops will explore issues, innovations and training methods in the field of leadership education. Registration is $50, and includes refreshments, lunch, parking and welcoming reception on Friday, March 27. Sponsored by the Department of Organizational Leadership. Contact Bill Krug, (765) 494-5614; e-mail, egkrug@tech.purdue.edu

MEETINGS

  • Monday, March 23. University Senate. 2:30 p.m. Room 302, Stewart Center.

  • Friday, March 27. Board of Trustees meeting. 1:30 p.m. Room 304 (Anniversary Drawing Room), Purdue Memorial Union.

EXHIBITS

  • Through March 18. Weavings by Jim Wills. 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday. Watson's Crick Gallery, Room 1-125, Lilly Hall of Life Sciences.

  • Through March 22. Haitian Art Exhibit: paintings and other art forms from the Waterloo (Iowa) Museum of Art. Union Gallery, Main Floor, Purdue Memorial Union. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday, and 1 p.m.-4 p.m. Sunday. Exhibit co-sponsored by the Black Cultural Center, Purdue Galleries and the Greater Lafayette Museum of Art.

  • Through March 22. Vjacheslav Khomutov paintings and drawings, an exhibit from St. Petersburg, Russia. Stewart Center Gallery, West Lobby, Stewart Center. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and 7-9 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 1-5 p.m. Sunday. Khomutov will give a brown bag talk at noon Feb. 12.

  • Through March 22. "A Print Retrospective," an exhibit by Reynold Weidenaar. Krannert Drawing Room, Krannert Building. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday, 1-4 p.m. Sunday.

  • March 30-May 3. Faculty Focus. Annual exhibition featuring work in a variety of media by members of Purdue's art and design faculty. Stewart Center Gallery, West Lobby, Stewart Center. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and 7-9 p.m. Monday-Thursday; 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday; 1-4 p.m. Sunday.

  • March 30-May 3. Issues and Answers: Sue Buck and Mary LaPorte. Union Gallery, Main Floor, Purdue Memorial Union. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday, and 1 p.m.-4 p.m. Sunday.

OTHER

**Through April 9. International Dinner Series presented by food service management students in Purdue's Department of Restaurant, Hotel, Institutional and Tourism Management. 5:30-7 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday. John Purdue Room, Stone Hall. Call (765) 494-6845 for reservations or information. Coming up:
March 17, Irish; March 18, German; March 19, Mexican.
March 24, Cajun; March 25, Southwestern; March 26, Polynesian.
March 31, Italian; April 1, Spanish; April 2, Greek.
April 7, Mediterranean; April 8, Sicilian; April 9, French.

Compiled by Frank Koontz, (765) 494-2080; e-mail, frank_koontz@purdue.edu
Purdue News Service: (765) 494-2096; e-mail, purduenews@purdue.edu

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