Outside activities for report assignment

Wed, 03/11/2009 - 15:27 — mconnell

Hello all,

Here are two lectures I just heard about that some of you may be interested in attending for the required outside activity (see the report assignment sheet under "projects").

On Tuesday, March 31, 7:30 at Fowler Hall, Robert Laughlin, winner of the Nobel Prize for physics, will discuss his book The Crime of Reason and the Closing of the Scientific Mind.

On Wednesday, April 1st, 7pm at Fowler Hall (in Stewart Center), Professor Gary Gallagher from the University of Virginia will discuss "Hollywood's Treatment of the North's Civil War Since Glory."

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Wed, 03/25/2009 - 10:29 — mconnell

another option: "Asian American Superhero" presentation

The secret is out! Comic book artists and writers are coming to Purdue for an interactive presentation, book signing session, and discussion about “Secret Identities: The Asian American Superhero Anthology.” This book explores Asian American issues and identities through stories about comic book superheroes.

Please forward this information to your students!

“Secret Identities: The Asian American Superhero Anthology”
Monday, March 30 at 7:30pm in Fowler Hall
Free and open to the public

For more information, visit www.secretidentities.org or email kvanoost@purdue.edu.


This event is sponsored by the Council on Asian American Studies, the Asian American Network of Indiana, the Division of Art and Design, Rueff Department of Visual and Performing Arts, the Department of English, the Asian Studies Program, and the Women’s Studies Program.

Wed, 03/25/2009 - 10:30 — mconnell

and another: Middle East events

Panel will discuss events in Middle East, Afghanistan, Persian Gulf

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A panel discussion will focus on "Conversations on Israel & Palestine, Afghanistan, and the Persian Gulf: Proposals for President Obama" on Thursday (March 26) at Purdue University.

The event, which is free and open to the public, is 7:30-9:30 p.m. in Stewart Center, Room 206. The panel will feature:

 

* Introductory remarks by Lynn Johal, social concerns coordinator for the St. Thomas Aquinas Center at Purdue.

* "Israel and Palestine Today: Recent Experiences" by David Rosenthal, a Purdue student, and Brian Rosenthal of Northwestern University.

* "Afghanistan Today and Implications for U.S. Foreign Policy" by Zarjon Baha, Purdue professor and associate head of building construction management technology.

* "The Persian Gulf, Afghanistan, Israel/Palestine: Making Connections" by Berenice Carroll, professor of political science, women's studies and peace studies.

The event is sponsored by the Committee on Peace Studies, which is housed in the Department of Political Science. Other sponsors include the Lafayette Area Peace Coalition, Social Concerns Committee of St. Thomas Aquinas Center at Purdue, Lafayette Friends Meeting, Social Justice Committee of the Unitarian Universalist Church and Witness Commission of the Lafayette Church of the Brethren.

Thu, 03/26/2009 - 08:18 — mconnell

fiction reading

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

Join us tonight, Thursday, March 26 as the Literary Reading Series welcomes
nationally-acclaimed novelist Jane Hamilton at 7:30 p.m. in the Matthews Hall
Auditorium, Room 210.  There will also be a Q & A with Hamilton at 10:30 a.m.
tomorrow, Friday, March 27 in the Hicks Undergraduate Library Bookstall.  Both
events are sponsored by the Department of English and the Creative Writing
Program and are free and open to the public.

Jane Hamilton is the author of five novels, including The Book of Ruth, which
was awarded the PEN/Hemingway Award for First Fiction and selected for the
Oprah Book Club, the international bestseller A Map of the World, a New York
Times Notable Book of the Year, Disobedience, The Short History of a Prince,
and her most recent novel, When Madeline Was Young.  Her short stories have
appeared in Harper’s and Best American Short Stories.

The Atlantic Monthly calls Hamilton “among the most graceful and thoughtful
writers to work the fertile ground that is the Midwestern family.”  Hamilton
lives, works, and writes in an orchard farmhouse in Wisconsin.

We'd be grateful for you help getting the word out to students about this very
special event. 

Mon, 03/30/2009 - 15:57 — mconnell

rap "Canterbury Tales"

"Hip-hop artist Baba Brinkman will present "The Rap Canterbury Tales" on April 13 at Purdue University.

"The performance, which is free and open to the public, is 5:30 p.m. in the Krannert Auditorium. In addition to the event, Brinkman also will meet with Purdue students during a rap-writing workshop earlier in the day, says Robyn Malo, a Purdue assistant professor of English. Students interested in the rap-writing workshop must pre-register by e-mailing Malo at rmalo@purdue.edu. This session, which is co-presented by the Black Cultural Center, is limited to 25 students."

 

 

Writer: Amy Patterson Neubert

Thu, 04/02/2009 - 18:51 — mconnell

another event, from "Purdue Today"

 

 

Experts on infectious diseases and public health coming to Purdue

Three internationally recognized infectious disease experts will speak on April 15 at Purdue at the Infectious Diseases and Public Health Symposium.

 

The symposium will feature:

-- Max Essex, chair of the Harvard School of Public Health AIDS Initiative, speaking about the progress and problems in the fight against AIDS in Africa.

-- Guy Palmer, director of the School for Global Animal Health at Washington State University, speaking about the global health and the human-animal interface.

-- Thijs Kuiken of the Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, speaking about avian influenza.

Essex begins the series of lectures at 8:30 a.m. in Room 1136, Lynn Hall.

The symposium is part of the School of Veterinary Medicine's 50th anniversary celebration and an expanded Phi Zeta Research Day. Presentations are open to the public, but seating is limited.

More information about the event and other 50th anniversary activities is available at www.vet.purdue.edu/50thanniversary/index.html.