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How the Media Teach about Diversity - Carlos E. Cortés
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Carlos E. Cortés is the author of The Children Are Watching: How the Media Teach about Diversity and The Making - and Remaking - of a Multiculturalist. He is Creative/Cultural Advisor for Nickelodeon's award-winning children's television series Dora the Explorer and its sequel, Go, Diego, Go!, as well as coauthor of the Houghton Mifflin Social Studies series and senior consultant for the McDougal Littell World History series. Cortés is professor emeritus of history at the University of California, Riverside. He also serves on the summer faculty of the Harvard Institutes for Higher Education and on the faculty of the Summer Institute for Intercultural Communication. An audio tape of this presentation will not be available.

An African Childhood - Alexandra Fuller
8:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Alexandra Fuller, author of Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood and Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African Soldier, grew up on several farms in southern Africa. Her father sided with the colonial government in the Rhodesian civil war and was often away fighting black guerilla factions. Her memoirs tell of a white family clinging to lives in Africa as Rhodesia became Zimbabwe and illustrate how turmoil and injustice in society distort the lives of families and individuals. Alexandra Fuller was born in England and in 1972 moved with her family to a farm in Rhodesia. After that country's war for independence in 1980, the Fullers moved first to Malawi, then to Zambia. In 1994, she married and moved to Wyoming, where she currently lives and writes. Her recent book is The Legend of Colton H Bryant, the story of a boy who comes of age in the oil fields and open plains of the American West. Part of the World Affairs Series: Why Should We Care?

One for All and All for One: The Rhetoric of Climate Change and Sustainability - Tarla R. Peterson
8:00 PM – Campanile Room, Memorial Union - Tarla Rai Peterson holds the Boone and Crockett Chair in Wildlife Conservation and Policy at Texas A&M University, where she is a professor in the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences. She is the editor of Green Talk in the White House: The Rhetorical Presidency Encounters Ecology. Her research focuses on the intersections between communication, environmental policy, and democracy. She will discuss the rhetorical strategies of 1Sky, a coalition dedicated to building a national movement for a set of comprehensive policies addressing climate change. Peterson earned an M.A. and Ph.D. from Washington State University. Part of the Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities Series: Sustaining the Earth.

Understanding Energy Supply and Demand in the United States - Clair J. Moeller
7:00 PM – Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall - Clair J. Moeller is Vice President of Transmission Asset Management at Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator, Inc. He is responsible for the transmission planning functions, transmission services and tariff administration. Moeller has more than twenty-five years of experience in the operation of power systems in the Upper Midwest and is particularly skilled at identifying and implementing best practices in transmission operations. Under his leadership, the Midwest ISO adopted an innovative business framework for the participation of independent companies in a regional transmission organization known as Appendix I. He completed the Executive Management program at the University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Business and earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Iowa State University. Part of the Engineering Thematic Year on Energy and Sustainability.

An Outlook to Nature: Recovering Liberty Hyde Bailey's Agrarian Environmentalism - Ben Minteer
7:30 PM – South Ballroom, Memorial Union - Ben Minteer is the author of The Landscape of Reform: Civic Pragmatism and Environmental Thought in America; Reconstructing Conservation; and the forthcoming Nature in Common? Environmental Ethics and the Contested Foundations of Environmental Policy. He is currently at work on a book on the legacy of Liberty Hyde Bailey, one of the most important figures to have written in the field of agricultural and environmental ethics and the inventor of the idea of agricultural extension. Ben Minteer is an assistant professor in the Human Dimensions of Biology Program and affiliated assistant professor of philosophy at Arizona State University.

Putin's Petrostate: Power, Patronage and the New Russia - Marshall Goldman
7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Marshall I. Goldman is a recognized authority on Russian economics, politics, and environmental policy and best known for his analysis of the careers of Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin. He is the author of over a dozen books on the former Soviet Union, including The USSR in Crisis: The Failure of an Economic System and Gorbachev's Challenge: Economic Reform in the Age of High Technology. His most recent book is Petrostate: Putin, Power and the New Russia. Goldman is the Kathryn Wasserman Davis Professor of Russian Economics (Emeritus) at Wellesley College, and he served for more than thirty years as the associate director of the Davis Center for Russian Studies at Harvard University. Goldman received M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Russian studies and economics from Harvard University. The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Program Distinguished Speaker and part of the World Affairs Series.

Centering the Human in Virtual and Augmented Reality: The Role of Psychophysics - Roberta Klatzky
12:00 PM – Alliant-Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall - Roberta Klatzky is a professor of psychology at Carnegie Mellon University, where she is also on the faculty of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute. Her research interests are in human perception and cognition, with special emphasis on spatial cognition and haptic perception, or, recognizing objects through touch. Her work has application to navigational aids for the blind, exploratory robotics, teleoperation, and virtual environments. She received a B.S. in mathematics from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. in experimental psychology from Stanford University. Part of the Human Computer Interaction Lecture Series and Women in STEM Series.

A Canadian Conversation with the New U.S. President - Lloyd Axworthy
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Lloyd Axworthy is President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Winnipeg. He has previously held several Cabinet positions in the Canadian government, notably Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of Employment and Immigration, and Minister Responsible for the Status of Women. Minister Axworthy became internationally known for his advancement of the human security concept, in particular, the Ottawa Treaty - a landmark global treaty banning anti-personnel landmines for which he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. For his efforts in establishing the International Criminal Court and the Protocol on Child Soldiers, he received the North-South Institute's Peace Award. UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan appointed Minister Axworthy as his special envoy for Ethiopia-Eritrea to assist in implementing a peace agreement between the East African countries in 2004. The Manatt-Phelps Lecture in Political Science and part of the World Affairs Series

Religious Upheaval and Its Effects on U.S. Policy Toward the Middle East - Arthur Waskow
8:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Rabbi Arthur Waskow, director of The Shalom Center, is involved in numerous interreligious projects that address issues of peace and social justice, the environment, and community building. He is recognized as a writer and teacher of Jewish history and theology and a leader in the movement for Jewish renewal. In 2007, Newsweek magazine named him one of the fifty most influential American rabbis. For fourteen years Waskow was a Resident Fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies, a center for independent analysis of governmental policy and social change. He is the author or editor of over two dozen books, including Godwrestling, Down-to-Earth Judaism, and, most recently, The Tent of Abraham: Stories of Hope and Peace for Jews, Christians, and Muslims. He earned a PhD in U.S. history from the University of Wisconsin. Part of the World Affairs Series: Why Should We Care?

The Cultural and Health Benefits of a Vegan Diet - A Panel Discussion with Will Tuttle
6:30 PM – Oak Room, Memorial Union - Will Tuttle, author of The World Peace Diet, will speak on the spiritual, cultural, and health benefits of eliminating animal agriculture. He will be joined by two panelists: Erica Fuchs, director of the Center for Plant-Based Diet Development and research associate in the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition at Iowa State, will discuss vegan nutrition. Harold Brown, a former farmer, rancher, and founder of Farm Kind, will speak on his conversion from animal- to plant-based agriculture. William Tuttle was trained in Korea as a Zen Buddhist monk. He has a doctorate in the philosophy of education from the University of California, Berkeley, and is cofounder of Karuna Music & Art and the Prayer Circle for Animals. Part of the Sustainable Food Conference: A New Paradigm for a Peaceful Planet.