Drag queens, kings to share insight into their lives at forum tonight
WHAT: “More Than Drag: The Life of a Drag Performer”\nWHEN: 8:30 p.m. today\nWHERE: Collins Living-Learning Center’s Edmondson Formal Lounge\nMORE INFORMATION: Sponsored by OUT, the event will feature drag performers such as Vicki St. James, Miss Gay IU 2006 Vanessa Vale, Bianca Defy and Xavier Brooks. A special surprise guest will also be attending.
Student-organization teams compete for cash
WHAT: Asian Knowledge Bowl Competition\nWHEN: 6 p.m. today\nWHERE: Kelly School of Business, Room BU 111\nMORE INFORMATION: Student groups will face each other in a competition testing their knowledge of Asian-American history and culture. The winning team’s student organization will win $250, and the student organization whose team finishes second will receive $100.
American author to \ndiscuss Chinese poetry
WHAT: “In Search of Ways: The Poetry of Chinese Hermits and the Art of Translation”\nWHEN: 2:30 p.m. Friday\nWHERE: Ballantine Hall 340\nMORE INFORMATION: Bill Porter, an American author who writes under the name Red Pine, will talk about the poetry of Chinese hermits. This East Asian Studies Center Colloquium talk will be followed at 4 p.m. by a slide show titled “A Photographic Journey in Search of the Zen Tradition in Contemporary China.”
IU-South Bend professor to discuss social \ninformatics, sociology
WHAT: Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics Speaker Series\nWHEN: 2 to 3:30 p.m. Friday\nWHERE: Herman B Wells Library, Room 001\nMORE INFORMATION: Paul-Brian McInerney, an assistant professor from IU-South Bend, will present “The Powers of Association Revisited: Moral Claims, Mobilization, and Worth in the Circuit Rider Technology Movement, 1995-2001.” Cookies, tea and coffee will be available at 1:45 p.m.\nProfessor visits campus to present lecture on ‘Modernity’
WHAT: Department of History and Philosophy of Science Westfall Lecture\nWHEN: 4 to 6 p.m. Friday\nWHERE: Ballantine Hall 003\nMORE INFORMATION: Roger Ariew, a professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Southern Florida, will discuss the connection between Rene Descartes’ philosophy and modern science, among other topics. This talk is part of a colloquium series put on by the Department of History and Philosophy of Science.
What anti-Vietnam War activists learned abroad
WHAT: “Eldridge Cleaver goes to Pyongyang, Hanoi, and Peking: Third World Internationalism and Radical Orientalism during the Vietnam Era”\nWHEN: 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. Friday\nWHERE: Ballantine Hall 006\nMORE INFORMATION: Judy Wu, an associate professor at Ohio State University, will present this lecture about American anti-war activists who traveled abroad during the Vietnam War. Wu will discuss how multiracial interactions and other experiences shaped the identities and agendas of those people. A reception will follow the talk.
