September 21, 2004

Communication department offers speaker series

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – The Purdue University Department of Communication's Fall 2004 Colloquia Series continues through Nov. 29.

All sessions are free and open to the public.

  • Sept. 24, Noon-1:15 p.m., "Examining the Role of the Husband/Father: Gender, Power and Discourse in Constructions of the Work/Home Divide," by Alicia Dutta-Bergman, Purdue doctoral student, Beering Hall, Room B260.

  • Oct. 1, 2:30-3:45 p.m., "An Evolving Community: Changing Leadership Practices in Alternative Organizations," by Joshua Frye, Purdue doctoral student; and Lorraine Kisselburgh, School of Liberal Arts information technology director, Beering Hall, Room B260.

  • Oct. 15, 2:30-3:45 p.m., "Peer Social Support and the Management of Uncertainty for People living with HIV," by Dale Brashers, graduate studies director in the Department of Speech Communication at the University of Illinois, Rawls Hall, Room 1071.

  • Oct. 22, 2:30-3:45 p.m., "Preparing and Searching for a Non-Academic Job," by Leonard Cox, a 1995 Purdue alumnus. Cox is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and co-owner of River Films, Rawls Hall, Room 1071.

  • Oct. 29, 2:30-3:45 p.m., "Telehealth Research: The Need to Merge Communication into an Interdisciplinary Approach," by Pamela Whitten, a professor from the Department of Telecommunication and Institute for Healthcare Studies at Michigan State University, Rawls Hall, Room 1071.

  • Nov. 5, 2:30-3:45 p.m., "Flash Mobs, Globalization, and Risk: The Emerging Glocal Reflexivity of Risk in Grassroots Social Movements," Toby Arquette, assistant professor of communication at Purdue, Beering Hall, Room B260.

  • Nov. 19, 2:30-3:45 p.m., "Framing, Five Dogs, and Constructing Justification for War: Research through Graduate Student Collaboration," by Susan Brockus and Kasie Roberson, doctoral students at Purdue.

  • Nov. 29, 2:30-3:45 p.m., "How Can We Study the Interaction of Biology and Semiotics?" by Celeste Condit, professor from the Department of Speech Communication at the University of Georgia, Rawls Hall, Room 1071.

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    For more information, contact Steve Wilson, professor of communication and director of graduate studies, (765) 494-7547, swilson@sla.purdue.edu.

    Source: Steve Wilson, (765) 494-7547, swilson@sla.purdue.edu

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