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Wednesday, 16 Sep 2009
Live Webcast: The World Before Darwin - Everett Mendelsohn,
7:00 PM – E164 Lagomarcino - A live webcast of a lecture by Everett Mendelsohn, Harvard University. A celebration of the 150th anniversary of Darwin's "Origin of the Species."
Tuesday, 15 Sep 2009
The Battle for Whiteclay: A Documentary and Panel Discussion
7:00 PM – Cardinal Room, Memorial Union - The State of Nebraska's refusal to halt alcohol sales to the dry Pine Ridge Indian Reservation from its border town of Whiteclay gets an in-depth look in this new documentary. Four off-sale beer stores in this 14-person hamlet sell over 11,000 cans of beer a day to an Indian clientele with virtually no legal place to drink it. Struggling with crippling poverty and epidemic alcohol abuse that afflicts four out of five families, the Oglala Sioux Tribe has for decades banned the sale and possession of alcohol on their reservation. The Battle for Whiteclay follows Indian activists Frank LaMere, Duane Martin Sr. and Russell Means through the streets of Whiteclay to the halls of Nebraska's State Capitol in their efforts to end alcohol sales in the place many have dubbed "skid row on the prairie." A panel discussion will follow the showing of this documentary with the director-producer Mark Vasina and Frank LaMere, one of the orchestrators of the movement and a member of the Winnebago tribe of Nebraska.
Monday, 14 Sep 2009
The Difficulty of Dating in a Hook-up Culture - Christine Whelan
8:00 PM – Gallery, Memorial Union - Christine Whelan is a professor, journalist and author of Why Smart Men Marry Smart Women and Marry Smart: The Intelligent Woman's Guide to True Love. She also writes a bi-weekly relationship advice column for BustedHalo. Whelan is a visiting assistant professor in the Sociology Department at the University of Iowa. She earned a master's and doctorate from the University of Oxford and has held teaching positions at Princeton University in the Sociology and Politics Departments. Whelan will discuss changing dating and marriage patterns in the United States and explore the myth of soul mates and talk about the implications of the hookup culture for young adults. Msgr. James A. Supple Lecture.
Friday, 11 Sep 2009
Numbers in the Court of Law - Panel Discussion
7:30 PM – Campanile Room, Memorial Union - This panel concludes the daylong event "Should We Trust the Numbers? A Workshop on Philosophy, Mathematics and Statistics in the Court of Law," which brings together multiple perspectives on the question of whether we can, or should, count on numbers in a court of law. Iowa State faculty Alicia Carriquiry, Statistics, and Kevin de Laplante, Philosophy, will join guest speakers Susan Haack and Joseph Kadane. Wolfgang Kliemann, chair of Mathematics, will moderate. Susan Haack is a noted expert on the philosophy of mathematics and the use of numbers. She is the Cooper Senior Scholar in Arts and Sciences and a professor of philosophy and law at the University of Miami. Joseph Kadane is an authority on legal statistics and the Leonard J. Savage University Professor of Statistics, Emeritus, at Carnegie Mellon University. Part of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences 50th Anniversary Celebration.
Thursday, 10 Sep 2009
Health Care Reform - A Faculty Forum
8:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Iowa State faculty will share their research contributing to the current debate on health care reform. Participants include associate scientist in Economics Liesl Eathington, author of a recent report on the uninsured; economist Mark Imerman with the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, who has conducted research on nursing labor markets and patient hospital choices; and marketing professor Doug Walker, who has researched the impact of pharmaceutical advertising. They will be joined by Dr. Michael Kitchell, McFarland Clinic physician and president of the Iowa Medical Society, who has testified before the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health. Dianne Bystrom, director of the Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics will moderate the discussion, with opening remarks on the role of political rhetoric in this process. Part of the Faculty Forum Series.
Wednesday, 9 Sep 2009
Your Global Mortgage - James Bernard
6:00 PM – Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall - James Bernard, Jr. is general manager of MarketWatch.com, where he is responsible for driving product development and innovation, design, operations, and general management of the web business. It is part of the Wall Street Journal Digital Network, the digital arm of Dow Jones's consumer media division. Part of the Globalization, Technology, and Culture Series.
Friday, 28 Aug 2009
COMEDY with Wyatt Cenac from THE DAILY SHOW
8:00 PM – Stephens Auditorium - Admission Free - Doors open at 7 p.m. - Wyatt Cenac joined Comedy Central's The Daily Show in 2008 and has been "reporting" on the presidential election, the economy, and black people's popularity among white supremacists ever since. He honed his talents performing stand-up, improv and sketch comedy at the Los Angeles Upright Citizens Brigade. He spent three seasons writing and contributing voice-over work for King of the Hill, and his movie credits include Medicine for Melancholy.
Saturday, 22 Aug 2009
Destination Iowa State Presents the Comedy of Jeff Dye
9:00 PM – Stephens Auditorium - Jeff Dye finished third in the last season of NBC's Last Comic Standing, and has opened for Shawn Wayans, Greg Giraldo, Jim Norton, Bill Burr, among others.
Tuesday, 28 Apr 2009
Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious - Gerd Gigerenzer
8:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Gerd Gigerenzer is the Director of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin. His work investigates reasoning and decision making under uncertainty at the levels of both individuals and social groups. His research group consists of psychologists, mathematicians, computer scientists, evolutionary biologists, economists, and sociologists, among others. Using different methodological techniques, such as experimental methods, computer simulation, and mathematical analysis, his research group has made great advances in our understanding of rationality. Among his recent books are: Rationality for Mortals: How People Cope with Uncertainty; Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious; Calculated Risks: How to Know When Numbers Deceive You; Adaptive Thinking: Rationality in the Real World; and Simple Heuristics that Make Us Smart. A 7:00pm reception will precede the lecture. The Annual Fritz Lecture
Monday, 27 Apr 2009
Plant-Insect Interactions Symposium Keynote - Edward Farmer
7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Edward (Ted) Farmer is a professor and researcher in the Department of Plant Molecular Biology Department at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. He will speak on Jasmonate signaling and the origns of herbivory. Part of the 2009 Loomis Lecture & the Office of Biotechnology 25th Anniversary Celebration