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Journey of Hope: Children Affected by HIV/AIDS
7:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Journey of Hope presentations allow children affected by HIV/AIDS to speak about their experiences with the disease. Since 1994, the Journey of Hope AIDS Awareness Program has traveled throughout the United States with the goal of increasing HIV awareness, prevention, education and testing. In addition to sharing personal stories, the children recite poetry, sing and perform skits. Their national tour is sponsored by One Heartland, the largest camping and care program for children who experience HIV/AIDS, based in Willow River, Minnesota. The public talk has been scheduled in conjunction with a display of the AIDS quilt December 2 & 3, 2008, in the Great Hall of the Memorial Union.

CANCELLED! Globalization and the Multilateral System: The New Aid Environment - Gary Stahl
6:00 PM – Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall - DO TO A WEATHER-RELATED ACCIDENT THIS SPEAKER WAS CANCELLED. Gary Stahl is the deputy director for UNICEF's program funding office at the United Nations. He has been working for children's rights in a variety of settings. He has helped provide basic education, water and protection services to those in refugee camps in post-genocide Rwanda and has identified innovative ways to include the peoples of the Amazon and the Atlantic coast of Nicaragua in national basic social services system. Part of the Technology, Globalization, and Culture Series.

Magnetic Refrigeration and Cooling - An Energy Efficient and Green Cooling Technology for the 21st Century - Karl Gschneidner
8:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Karl Gschneidner is the Anson Marston Distinguished Professor in Materials Science and Engineering at Iowa State and Senior Metallurgist with the Ames Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy. Gschneidner's primary research interests include the physical metallurgy of rare-earth metals and alloys, theory of alloy phase formation, magnetic refrigeration, and passive and active magnetic regenerator materials. He has published more than 400 journal articles, 136 book chapters, and written or edited 43 books. Gschneidner was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2007 and is the 2008 recipient of the Acta Materialia Gold Medal, considered the top international award in materials science. He received his Ph.D. from Iowa State and worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory before returning to Iowa State to join the faculty. Sigma Xi Lecture.

Election 2008 and the Future of American Politics - A Forum with Arnie Arnesen and Steffen Schmidt
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Join Iowa Public Radio talk show personalities Steffen Schmidt and Arnie Arnesen for a public discussion on the historic November 4 elections. Share your reflections on the presidential campaigns, comments on our electoral process, and projections for the new administration, Congress, and the future of our political parties. Iowa State Political Science Professor Steffen Schmidt is perhaps best known as "Dr. Politics," the longtime commentator and cohost of WOI Radio's weekly political call-in show. He is also a CNN en Espanol election analyst. Schmidt will be joined by political commentator and former New Hampshire gubernatorial candidate Arnie Arnesen. Arnesen hosts the New Hampshire television show "Political Chowder," is a regular commentator on WBUR's "Greater Boston" with Emily Rooney and on SBS TV Australia. She is also a frequent guest with Schmidt on "Talk@12," Wednesdays at noon on 640 WOI, Iowa Public Radio. Nonperishable food items will be accepted at the door for donation to the community food bank, and there will be opportunities to show your support for Iowa Public Radio.

Tough Choices: Women, Leadership and Power - Carly Fiorina
7:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Carly Fiorina, as the CEO of Hewlett Packard, was the first woman to lead a Fortune 20 company and was named the "Most Powerful Woman in Business" by Fortune magazine. She succeeded as an outsider - she was neither an engineer nor a man in an industry dominated by both. Her leadership at HP culminated in the hotly contested acquisition of Compaq, followed by an ambitious transformation project. Prior to joining HP, Fiorina spent nearly twenty years at AT&T and Lucent Technologies, where she directed Lucent's IPO and subsequent spin-off from AT&T. She has also served on the boards of Cisco Systems, Kellogg Company and Merck. She heads up Carly Fiorina Enterprises, which includes the Fiorina Foundation, Fiorina Group, and Fiorina Education and Outreach programs on such topics as leadership, globalization and corporate citizenship. The author of Tough Choices: A Memoir, Fiorina serves as John McCain's Victory 08 Chair, appearing frequently in the media to speak on behalf of the presumptive Republican Party presidential candidate. The Fall 2008 Mary Louise Smith Chair.

A Nation Hungry for Corporate Social Responsibility - Ed Nicholson
8:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Ed Nicholson is Director of Communication and Public Relations for Tyson Foods. He will speak about corporate social responsibility and Tyson’s work for hunger relief, including a partnership with RAGBRAI to raise funds and awareness of hunger in Iowa. As of February the company had donated more than 50 million pounds of Tyson products to hunger and disaster relief efforts since the year 2000. Nicholson has been at Tyson Foods since 1995. Prior to that he owned the marketing and advertising firm The Works and worked as a creative director, writer and producer for Smith and Jennings. He has a degree in English from Hendrix College. Nonperishable food items will be accepted at the door for donation to Mid-Iowa Community Action, Inc. (MICA).

Public Scholarship and the Future of the Humanities - Gregory Jay
8:00 PM – Campanile Room, Memorial Union - Gregory Jay is the Director of the Cultures and Communities Program and Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Jay's research focuses on issues of multiculturalism and curriculum reform in literature and American Studies. His publications include American Literature and the Culture Wars and America the Scrivener: Deconstruction and the Subject of Literary History. Jay is a founding member of Teachers for a Democratic Culture, a coalition of academics committed to preserving education as a force for social change and cultural pluralism. He has a Ph.D. in English from SUNY-Buffalo. Part of the Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities Series: Sustaining the Earth.

Our Changing Climate: Myths and Realities - Bill Gutowski
7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Bill Gutowski, Iowa State University Professor of Geological and Atmospheric Sciences, uncovers the myths and realities of our world's climate. He will present information on polar ice caps and weather patterns as well as temperature changes. His research focuses on the role of atmospheric traits in climate, especially the dynamics of the hydrologic cycle and regional climate. His work entails a variety of modeling and data analysis and has included regional modeling of African, Arctic and East Asian climates. Gutowski has a BS from Yale University in astronomy and physics and a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Part of the Global Citizenship Symposium.

Excavating the Ancient Greek City - Peggy Mook
7:30 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Peggy Mook, associate professor of classical studies in the Department of World Languages and Cultures, will speak on the major excavation of a settlement that existed on the Greek island of Crete from the Late Bronze Age through early Archaic. Mook began work on the excavation as a doctoral student at the University of Minnesota and has continued to help the team expose and complete restoration of the architectural remains of the village. Her analysis of the pottery in particular has helped provide evidence for the nature of daily life in the village and indicate social and economic variation across the settlement and through time. Mook’s research has been funded through the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Philosophical Society. College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Dean's Lecture Series.

Humanitarian Action in the Twenty-first Century - James Orbinski
8:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Dr. James Orbinski is a humanitarian advocate and former president of the world's largest independent medical humanitarian organization, Doctors Without Borders, for which he accepted the Nobel Peace Prize in 1999. He offers firsthand testimony from the front lines in Peru, Somalia and Afghanistan as well as a compelling look at the ravages of genocide and civil war and the role of humanitarianism. He is the founder and president of Dignitas International, an NGO launched to research and provide community-based care for people living with HIV in the developing world. He is currently a research scientist and associate professor of family and community medicine and political science at St. Michael's Hospital at the University of Toronto and the author of An Imperfect Offering: Humanitarian Action for the 21st Century. Humanitarian groups and student organizations will have tables with information, sign-up sheets, and displays before and after the lecture. Part of the World Affairs Series: Why Should We Care? An audio tape of this presentation will not be available.