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A Rough Guide to Publishing: An Agents and Editors Panel
2:00 PM – Campanile Room, Memorial Union - This panel of agents and editors will provide a frank, instructive discussion, followed by a Q & A with the audience, about the publishing industry. The panel consists of three publishing insiders and one author: Jennifer Sahn, editor at Orion, an award-winning environmental magazine; Katherine Fausset, literary agent at Curtis Brown Ltd., one of the oldest and most prestigious agencies in the world; Patrick Thomas, editor at Milkweed Editions, a Minneapolis-based book publisher; and Debra Marquart, associate professor of English at Iowa State and author of several books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Part of the Symposium on Wildness, Wilderness and the Creative Imagination. A reception to welcome the visiting writers and artists participating in the Seventh Annual Symposium on Wildness, Wilderness and the Creative Imagination will follow.

Developing a Transformational Ethnic Studies in a Period of Crisis and Resistance - Rose M. Brewer
12:10 PM – Gallery, Memorial Union - Rose M. Brewer is the Morse-Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor in the African American & African Studies Department at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. She has written extensively on Black women and families, race, class and gender, and political change. She is the coauthor of The Color of Wealth and, most recently, The United States Social Forum: Perspectives of a Movement, 2010. She is the coeditor of Bridges of Power: Women's Multicultural Alliances and Is Academic Feminism Dead: Theory in Practice. Brewer earned her Ph.D. in sociology from Indiana University and completed postdoctoral studies at the University of Chicago. The Future of Ethnic Studies Summit Keynote Speaker. Registration is required to attend this event, which includes a free buffet luncheon: http://www.las.iastate.edu/cais.

DNA at the Dinnertable: The Global Politics of Genetically Modified Food - Lisa Weasel
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Lisa Weasel is the author of Food Fray: Inside the Controversy over Genetically Modified Food. She is interested in the social dimensions of science and technology, particularly how issues of ethics, equity and politics relate to the life sciences. Her work encompasses a broad range of interdisciplinary topics, from feminist science studies and gender equity, to public engagement with science, to the relationship between biotechnology and sustainable agriculture and food security in the developing world. Weasel earned a PhD in molecular biology from the University of Cambridge. She is an associate professor of biology at Portland State University. Part of the Sigma Xi Lecture Series and the Women in STEM Series.

The Religion of Thinness - Michelle Lelwica
7:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Michelle Lelwica looks at our culture's devotion to thinness, exploring how we struggle with body image and the cultural messages tied to America's obsession with weight and appearance. She is the author of The Religion of Thinness: Satisfying the Spiritual Hungers behind Women's Obsession with Food and Weight as well as Starving for Salvation: The Spiritual Dimensions of Eating Problems among American Girls and Women. Lelwica studied religion at Harvard Divinity School, where she received her Doctorate of Theology in the area of Religion, Gender, and Culture. She is currently an associate professor in the Religion Department at Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota. Part of Eating Disorder Awareness Week.

Business Innovation & the Environment - Kim Jordan
8:00 PM – Sun Room/South Ballroom, Memorial Union - Kim Jordan is CEO and cofounder of New Belgium Brewing, the third-largest craft brewer in the United States well known for its production of Fat Tire. New Belgium is also recognized for its environmental commitment and progressive business practices. These include producing electricity from solar and wind power as well as methane harvested from its process wastewater treatment plant, and diverting over 99% of brewery waste from the landfill. Under Jordan's leadership, New Belgium has developed a set of interwoven programs that include employee ownership, open-book management and high-involvement culture. She is on the board of 1% for the Planet whose member companies donate at least 1% of their annual net revenues to environmental organizations worldwide. She also serves on the Colorado Renewable Energy Authority. Part of the National Affairs Series on Innovation and the Live Green! Sustainability Series.

Poetry Slam with Paul Flores
7:00 PM – Maintenance Shop, Memorial Union - Paul Flores is a spoken word artist, poet, playwright, and award-winning author whose performance projects have taken him from international Hip-Hop festivals to HBO's Def Poetry Jam to his solo show, You're Gonna Cry. Raised on the Tijuana-San Diego border, issues of immigration and Latino identity are central to his work. He cofounded the Latino poetry performance group Los Delicados, is the author of the PEN Award-winning novel Along the Border Lies, and is the founding artistic director of Chicano Messengers of Spoken Word. His playwriting credits include REPRESENTA!, which has toured to seventeen cities. Flores holds an MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State and teaches at the University of San Francisco.

The New Color of Green: A Collective Voice Towards Change - Jerome Ringo
8:00 AM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Jerome Ringo worked for more than twenty years in the petrochemical industry before turning to a career in conservation and environmental justice. After observing the negative impacts of pollution on primarily poor and minority communities along the Gulf Coast, he became a vocal advocate for clean energy as well as increased minority participation in the environmental movement. Ringo has served as board chair for the National Wildlife Federation, was a representative at the 1999 United Nations Sustainable Development Conference, took part in the 1998 Kyoto Treaty negotiations, and appeared in the Academy Award-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth. He currently serves on the board of directors at Apollo Alliance and is the Senior Executive for Global Strategies with Green Port. University Symposium on Sustainability Keynote Address. The keynote address is free and open to the public. Advance registration for the other symposium activities is encouraged and free for Iowa State University students, faculty and staff. www.livegreen.iastate.edu/symposium/2011/

Diversity in the Environmental Movement: Our Collaborative Opportunities - Jerome Ringo
8:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Jerome Ringo worked for more than twenty years in the petrochemical industry before turning to a career in conservation and environmental justice. After observing the negative impacts of pollution on primarily poor and minority communities along the Gulf Coast, he became a vocal advocate for clean energy as well as increased minority participation in the environmental movement. Ringo has served as board chair for the National Wildlife Federation, was a representative at the 1999 United Nations Sustainable Development Conference, took part in the 1998 Kyoto Treaty negotiations, and appeared in the Academy Award-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth. He currently serves on the board of directors at Apollo Alliance and is the Senior Executive for Global Strategies with Green Port. Part of the 2011 Iowa State University Symposium on Sustainability. A reception and research poster display will precede the talk from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. in the South Ballroom.

Reflections on the Greensboro Four - Joseph McNeil
8:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - On February 1, 1960, four African American freshman from North Carolina A&T State University had had enough of continued segregation in the South and sat down at Greensboro's "whites only" Woolworth lunch counter. They promised to return to the lunch counter everyday until they were served. The number of sit-in student demonstrators increased each day and soon the movement spread to other lunch counters in fifty-four cities in nine states. The Greensboro sit-ins continued for five months until the F. W. Woolworth Company finally agreed to integrate their lunch counters. Joseph McNeil of the Greensboro Four who started it all, will tell his story.

Difficult Dialogues: Workshops on Conflict Management - Paul Ladehoff
12:10 PM – Campanile Room, Memorial Union - Paul Ladehoff is the director of training programs for the Center for the Study of Dispute Resolution at the University of Missouri School of Law and the director of the Campus Mediation Service. He is also a project leader for the Difficult Dialogues initiative at Missouri. The initiative is designed to stimulate rigorous intellectual inquiry and to empower students to express opposing views respectfully and in the spirit of open-mindedness. Ladehoff is an honors graduate of the University of Nebraska College of Law and served as a trial attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice. The CSDR is the premier law school dispute resolution center in the nation. While this is a Spring Faculty Forum, students and staff are welcome to attend. These sessions will prepare faculty to prevent unproductive or destructive conflict and from overwhelming the educational benefit of dialogue. There are two additional one-hour workshops scheduled on this subject at 9 a.m. and at 3:10 p.m. in the Campanile Room.