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Symposium
Schedule
 Friday, October 11. The registration
and continental breakfast will begin at 8 a.m. on Friday, October 11. The
Symposium itself will begin at 8:45 a.m. After the final session, which will
end at about 5:30 p.m., there will be a reception (sponsored by University
of Michigan Press) and a dinner (included in the registration) in the Purdue
Memorial Union.
Saturday, October 12. Continental
breakfast will be served from 8 a.m., and sessions will begin at 9:00 a.m.
The Symposium concludes at about 5:30 p.m.
Sunday, October 13.
Contrastive
Rhetoric Roundtable, a free event sponsored by
the Indiana Center
for Intercultural Communication, will take place between 9 a.m. and
1 p.m. on Sunday, October 13.
Accommodations
Rooms will be available from
Thursday through Sunday night at 1)
the Union Club Hotel in the Purdue Memorial Union, adjacent to Stewart
Center, or 2) the University Inn. The Union Club Hotel will
start accepting reservations on April 1, 2002. Please mention this symposium when
making your reservation to receive a special conference rate. For more
information, contact:
For information
regarding other hotels and motels in the vicinity, please check out
The Greater Lafayette Convention
and Visitors Bureau.
Purdue University is not
responsible for costs incurred due to cancellation.
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Getting to Purdue
From
Purdue University Airport
(LAF), the
CityBus is available by
calling 742-7433. The Union Club Hotel provides complimentary shuttle
service to Purdue University Airport. (Purdue University Airport is
also known as Lafayette Airport, but please be sure to book your
ticket to Lafayette, Indiana--NOT Louisiana!)
From
Indianapolis International Airport (IND),
Lafayette Limo
provides transportation to the Union Club Hotel every two hours, nine
times a day.
If you are driving,
directions are available from
Purdue University Visitor Information Center.
Parking
Parking is available in
the Grant Street Parking Garage, which is across the street from the
Purdue Memorial Union. The daily fee is $5. Parking is free to Union
Club Hotel guests. Please have your garage ticket validated at the
Union Club desk prior to leaving the garage.
For More
Information
Links to visitor information
are available at the following websites:
For symposium information,
please contact:
Paul Kei Matsuda
Department of English
University of New Hampshire
Durham, NH 03824-3574 USA
Email:
pmatsuda@unh.edu
For registration information, please
contact:
Tony Silva
Department of English
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN 47906-1356
Email: tony@purdue.edu
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