Fall 2014
October
Wednesday, October 1
Dust, Drought and Dreams Gone Dry/Sonora Babb: Whose Names are Unknown
7:00-9:00 PM - Hicks Undergraduate Library, Rm G980D
Tuesday, October 7
PSGSA Graduate Luncheon
12:00-2:00 PM - BRNG 2243 - Details TBA
Wednesday , October 8
PSGSA Coffee Break
2:30-3:30 PM - BRNG 2243
Wednesday, October 22
PSGSA Coffee Break
2:30-3:30 PM - BRNG 2243
Friday, October 24
Social Science Mechanics Seminar
Purdue Communications Professor Steven R. Wilson presents:
"Do Family Communication Patterns Buffer Children from Difficulties Associated with a Military Parent's Deployment?"
Journal of Family Communication 2014 (with Skye M. Chernichky, Kristi Wilkum, and Jennifer Sue Owlett)
Volume 14, Issue 1, January 2014, pages 32-52
Sponsored by the Political Science Graduate Student Association (PSGSA)
For more information email us at: psgsa@purdue.edu
12:00-1:30 PM - BRNG 2243, Lunch will be provided
Meet & Greet with Purdue Alumna Leah Kegler,
BA 2000, Political Science and Communications
Director of Government Affairs at Edwards Lifesciences, the global leader in the science of heart valves and monitoring.
1:30-2:30 PM - BRNG 2243
Tuesday, October 28
Women's Gender, & Sexuality Studies
2014 Fall Lecture Studies
Dr. Bell Hooks, Distinguished Professor,
in Residence in Appalachian Studies at Berea College
Dream Team Class Lecture
1:30-2:45 PM - FORNEY G140
Public Lecture
5:00-6:30 PM - LOEB Theatre
Thursday, October 30
Is the United States a Counterexample to the Secularization Thesis?
Talk Sponsored by the Sociology Department Colloquium Committee and the Informal Seminar in Sociology of Religion
4:00 PM - Wetherill 160
Contact: Dan Olson, dolson@purdue.edu for information
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5:00-6:00pm - PGSC Rm 105
November
Tuesday, November 4
PSGSA Luncheon
12:00-2:00 PM - BRNG 2243
Details TBA
Election Night Watch Party
6:00-10:00 PM - Hicks Library Room G980D
Tuesday, November 5
PSGSA Coffee Break
2:30-3:30 PM - BRNG 2243
Friday, November 71:30-2:20 PM
Meet & Greet Purdue Alum Penelope Farthing
BA 1967, Political Science
Sr. Advisor for Bose Public Affairs Group
2:30-3:30 PM - BRNG 2243
Penelope Farthing Bio
Graduate Student Placement Seminar
How to Get--or, alternatively, Not Get--a Job at a Liberal Arts College
Dr. Bruce Stinebrickner, DePauw University
View from the Search Committee(s): Thoughts on Getting a Position at a Research University
Dr. Leigh Raymond, Purdue University
1:30-2:20 PM - BRNG B206
Teaching and Learning at a Liberal Arts College
Dr. Bruce Stinebrickner, DePauw University
2:30-3:20 PM - BRNG B206
Wednesday, November 12
Town Hall Discussion
"Mental Health in Diverse Populations"
Moderated by Joel Ebarb
Associate Professor and Chair, Division of Theatre
4:30-6:00 PM - STEW 214
Friday, November 14
Meet & Greet Purdue Alumnus Kevin Speer
BA 1986 Political Science
President and CEO of Hendricks Regional Health, Indianapolis, IN
1:30-2:20 PM - BRNG 2243
Kevin Speer Bio
Sunday, November 16-Tuesday, November 18
C-SPAN Archives: Advancing the Research Agenda
STEW 3-314
Agenda and Information
Monday, November 17
Seminar/Luncheon with Ben Self
12:00-1:00 PM - BRNG 2243
Seminar with Ben Self
7:00 PM - Krannert Auditorium
Wednesday, November 19
"Do American Partisans Live More in a Political 'Echo Chamber'?
Partisan Polarization and Its Political Discussion Roots in Comparative Perspective"
Dr. Paul Beck, Ohio State University
12:00-1:15 PM - BRNG 2243
December
Wednesday, December 3
Brown Bag Presentation
"Building an Environmental Sustainability Partnership between Purdue and Africa University"
Dr. Fanuel Tagwira, Visiting Scholar at Purdue University for AY 2014-15,
Retired President of Africa University, Mutare, Zimbabwe
12:00 PM - BRNG 2243
Light Lunch will be served
Tuesday, December 9
Dream Team Lecture Series:
"Aesthetic Acts: The Production and Politics of Social Spaces"
Dr. Shannon McMullen
1:30-2:45 PM - Forney G140