Calendar
March 2004
Wednesday
4:30-6 p.m.
Morgan Room, 2nd floor, Food Science Building, Purdue
Talk on "Alternative Agriculture in Cuba" by Kris Wyckhuys, Entomology, Purdue.
Thursday
12:00-1:00 PM
Purdue Memorial Mall
A rally on the Purdue Memorial Union in support of:
Events will start at Noon (12:00 PM) and will go on until 1:00. There will be street theatre, speakers, and a space for students to speak out. Everyone is invited to come out and voice their opposition to the war on Iraq.
Sunday
7:30 p.m.
Wesley Foundation (435 West State Street, at corner of Sheetz Street) (Click for a map.)
The Haghighi family, who are from Iran, will speak on the topic of "Iran Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow." Kamyar Haghighi is head freshman engineering and professor of agricultural and biological engineering at Purdue.
Wednesday
4:30-6 p.m.
Morgan Room, 2nd floor, Food Science Building, Purdue
Film: Pastor Vega's "Portrait of Theresa"
Saturday
2 p.m.
St. Rd. 26 & Creasy Lane in Lafayette
Bring your own sign or use one of ours
March in Chicago: The Midwest STILL says no to war!
12 noon
March
step-off from Michigan & Pearson (One block north of Chicago Ave.) 1:30 p.m.
Rally
Federal Plaza, Dearborn & Adams, Chicago
Downloadable flyer available.
Interested in going to the rally? Please contact Sheila at info@lafayettepeace.org.
United For Peace and Justice calls for major protests in New York, San Francisco, and Chicago. For more information including outreach materials, endorsers, and local and regional events, see the UFPJ website.
Sunday
7:30 p.m.
Wesley Foundation (435 West State Street, at corner of Sheetz Street) (Click for a map.
Saturday
7:00 p.m.
Tippecanoe County Public Library, Meeting Room B (Please park in west end of parking lot or on street)
- Special music by Traveler's Dream
- Refreshments provided by Jane's Gourmet Deli & Catering
- Sponsored by the Laafayette March for Women's Lives (www.lafayettemarch.org)
- FREE!
Wednesday
4:30-6 p.m.
Morgan Room, 2nd floor, Food Science Building, Purdue
Talk on "Conducting business in Cuba" by Mohammed Bouras, Marsh Supermarkets, Inc. (to be confirmed)
Thursday
a talk by Kevin Kamps, Nuclear Waste Specialist, Nuclear Information and Resource Service, Washington, D.C.
12:10 p.m.
Wesley Foundation
Part of the Science and Theology brown bag lunch talk series. Map for Wesley - Click for a map.
From the speaker: "Indiana, with no nuclear power plants within its borders, is already targeted for over 17,000 truckloads or nearly 6,000 trainloads of high-level radioactive waste from other states bound for proposed dumps on geologically unsuitable, Native American lands in Utah and Nevada. Pointing to Yucca Mountain as the "solution" to the insoluble radioactive waste dilemma, the nuclear power estabishment hopes to run old deteriorating reactors harder and for decades longer than originally licensed, and to build the first new reactors in decades (including one upwind from West Lafayette in central Illinois). If accomplished, this nuclear power relapse would more than double the already huge stockpile of high-level radioactive waste -- making Indiana even more of a crossroads of America for "Mobile Chernobyl" trains and trucks, and replacing old waste shipped away from reactors with new waste with nowhere to go (meaning, for instance, de facto permanent storage on the shorelines of the Great Lakes). On the eve of the 25th anniversary of the Three Mile Island nuclear disaster, come learn how energy conservation, efficiency, and renewables are a sustainable alternative to nuclear power, and what you can do to help."
World Potluck
6:00 p.m.
Wesley Foundation at Purdue (435 West State Street, at corner of Sheetz Street) (Click for a map.)
World Potlucks will now be held on the fourth Thursday of every month (February 26, March 25, April 22).
Click here to download a flyer (.doc file).
Tonight's World Potluck will feature another talk by Kevin Kamps, Nuclear Waste Specialist from the Nuclear Information and Resource Service, Washington, D.C., called "Crossroads and Crosswinds: Indiana and the New Nuclear Danger."
Click here to download a flyer (.doc file).
From the speaker: "The nuclear power industry and its friends in government are rushing full steam ahead with their long-sought "nuclear power renaissance," more aptly described as a relapse. The nuclear establishment proposes building the first new reactors in decades, including one upwind from West Lafayette in Clinton, Illinois. They are also running old, deteriorating reactors harder, and for decades longer, than originally designed and licensed. Recently, the Davis-Besse nuclear reactor near Toledo on the shore of Lake Erie came frighteningly close to a rupture of its reactor. The nuclear relapse would mean more "Mobile Chernobyl" high-level radioactive waste trains and trucks on Indiana's "crossroads of America," and increased risk of catastrophic accidents (or terrorist attacks) and routine radiation releases from reactors. On the eve of the 25th anniversary of the Three Mile Island meltdown, come learn how you can help stop the nuclear power relapse dead in its tracks."
Fair Trade Coffee: Caffeine and Justice
7 p.m.
Stewart Center, 218a
Purdue Organization for Labor Equality (POLE) is holding an informational/social about Fair Trade Coffee. We're going to be having presentations about international coffee crisis, how fair trade coffee is better for growers, less-developed economies and the environment. There will also be heaping servings of free food (vegan coffee cake...) and other fun. Everyone is invited!
American Studies 40th Anniversary Symposium
The Futures of American Studies: Open Round Table Discussion
10:30-noon
HVLN Hall, Rm 320
"Cultural Constructions of Identity"
1:00-2:15 p.m.
Black Cultural Center
"Politics of Popular Culture"
2:30-3:30 p.m.
Black Cultural Center
"The Academic Legacy of Cheryl Z. Orevicz"
3:45-5:50 p.m.
Black Cultural Center
Keynote Address-Eric Lott (University of Virgina)
7:00 p.m.
Krannert Auditorium
For info please visit the website.
Friday-Saturday
2004 Annual Student Peace Conference, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame
Accepting proposals until Monday February 23, 2004. Visit the conference website for more information, including online registration.
Friday
"The Poetics of Peace:Social and Justice Movements in the U.S"
1:00-2:15 p.m.
Black Cultural Center
"Looking Backward, Looking Forward--Round Table Discussion
2:30-3:30 p.m.
Black Cultural Center
"Sexing Culture:Gender and Race Articulations in U.S Popular Culture
3:45-5:00 p.m.
Black Cultural Center
For info please visit the website.
Saturday
American Studies Archives Course Presentations
10:00-noon
The Wetherill Historical Research Center
1001 South Street, Lafayette
Concluding Luncheon
1:00pm
Duncan Hall
619 Ferry St, Lafayette
Keynote Address-Julie Ellison (University of Michigan)
For info please visit the website.
Iranian New Year event
7:30 p.m.
Great Hall, Wesley Foundation at Purdue (435 West State Street, at corner of Sheetz Street) (Click for a map.)
- Live performance of Persian music by folksinger, Kristin Lems.
- Persian tunes played on traditional Iranian instruments.
- Cultural presentations of Norooz, the Iranian New Year celebration.
Sweets and beverages will be served. Admission is $10/$5 student. All proceeds go to build a school for the earthquake striken children of Bam, Iran. Tickets avavailable at bamquake2004@yahoo.com.
Tuesday
8 p.m.
University 301, Purdue
The Friends of Palestine at Purdue University will present "Jenin, Jenin" a 54 min documentary directed by Mohammed Bakri, winner of Best Film, Carthage International Film Festival (2002.
Wednesday
4:30-6 p.m.
Morgan Room, 2nd floor, Food Science Building, Purdue
Film: Tomas Gutierrez Alea's "Strawberry and Chocolate"
Talk by Jody Williams
8 p.m.
Loeb Theatre
Jodi Williams is the Nobel Prize Recipient (1997)for her work on international endorsement of the Landmines Treaty. A public recption will follow the lecture.
Part of the Louis Martin Sears Lecture Series on World Affairs.