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Voices from the Land: Gardens and the Making of Americans - Patricia Klindienst
8:00 PM – Hughes Auditorium, Reiman Gardens - Patricia Klindienst is the author of The Earth Knows My Name: Food, Culture, & Sustainability in the Gardens of Ethnic Americans, winner of the 2006 American Book Award. She has also published essays that connect gardening to conservation, the construction of memory, and ethnic cleansing. Klindienst has taught at Yale, Wesleyan and Connecticut College, and her distinguished record of academic publication includes the landmark feminist essays "The Voice of the Shuttle is Ours," originally published in the Stanford Literature Review, and "Philomela's Loom," the epilogue to Coming to Light: American Women Poets in the Twentieth Century. Part of the Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities Series: Sustaining the Earth.

Liberal Fascism - Jonah Goldberg
7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Jonah Goldberg is the author of Liberal Fascism, a contributing editor to the National Review and the founding editor of National Review Online. He is also a weekly syndicated columnist for the Los Angeles Times, and his writing regularly appears in newspapers across the country. He was the senior producer of the award-winning series Think Tank with Ben Wattenberg on PBS, and the 2001 recipient of the Lowell Thomas Award. Part of the National Affairs Series: How Will America Change?

Global Citizenship: Compassion with Common Sense - Chris Morrison
6:00 PM – South Ballroom, Memorial Union - Chris Morrison is the founder and director of Care Highway, a humanitarian aid organization that focuses on improving health through medical missions, enhancing education in developing countries, and delivering aid to areas devastated by conflict and catastrophe. Care Highway accomplishes its mission by sending volunteers into the field to work one-on-one with those in need. They now have projects in Bosnia, Serbia, Africa, South America, and Mexico. Twice a year Chris returns to the U.S. to speak to groups and university students. He has an honors degree in Education and a master's degree in Psychology.

Why Wait until Election Day? The Importance of Early Voting – John Kerry
12:45 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - John Kerry, 2004 Democratic nominee for president, has been a U.S. Senator from Massachusetts since 1984. A veteran of the Vietnam War, he has served on Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs and is the ranking Democrat on the East Asian and Pacific Affairs Subcommittee. He has been a leading voice on American policy in Iraq and Afghanistan, the war on terrorism, and the Middle East peace process. Kerry is the author of A Call to Service and The New War, an in-depth study of America's national security in the 21st Century. Part of the 2008 Campaign Series which has the goal of providing the university community with opportunities to question candidates or their surrogates before election day.

What's Popping in Hollywood - Tim Menke
8:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Tim Menke is Senior Publicist at 20th Century Fox Entertainment. He was previously Senior Publicist for Paramount Pictures, where he was responsible for strategic development and execution of the publicity marketing campaigns for over 100 films. He has received the Maxwell Weinberg Showmanship Award for outstanding achievement in motion picture publicity for Braveheart and Titanic as well as the Les Mason Award, the highest honor bestowed upon publicists. Upcoming projects include Australia, The Day The Earth Stood Still and Marley & Me. Menke is a graduate of Iowa State. The Public Relations Student Society of America will be providing popcorn.

White House Images - Susan Biddle
7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Susan Biddle is a Washington Post staff photographer and was a White House staff photographer in the Reagan and George Bush administrations. She began her career photographing for the Peace Corps and later worked as a staff photographer at the Topeka Capital-Journal and the Denver Post. In 1987 she joined the White House staff where she documented the Presidency during the last year of Reagan’s administration and the entire Bush administration. Her work has appeared in Time, Newsweek, Life, National Geographic as well as several book including Day in the Life of America, Hong Kong-Here be Dragons, and America at Home. She has won awards with White House News Photographers Association and National Press Photographers Association. Her talk is being held in conjunction with The American President, an Associated Press exhibition of presidential photographs, past and present. The 2008 Chamberlin Lecture.

Food and Health: The Continuing Search for Connections - Richard Hall
4:00 PM – Cardinal Room, Memorial Union - Richard L. Hall is the former Vice-President of Science and Technology for McCormick & Company and currently serves as a consultant to the food and flavor industries. He speaks widely on the issues of food safety, toxicology, and nutrition. Hall is a past president of the International Union of Food Science and Technology and of the Institute of Food Technologists, where he organized the food safety and nutrition information program. He is also a past president of the Flavor and Extract Manufacturers Association, in which he played a key role in organizing a program to review the safety-in-use of flavor ingredients. Hall is the author, coauthor, or coeditor of more than ninety scientific and professional articles and books. He earned his Ph.D. at Harvard University.

The Global Agricultural Crisis of the 21st Century - Sir Gordon Conway
8:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Sir Gordon Conway, agricultural ecologist, was one of the first to define the concept of sustainable agriculture. He pioneered integrated pest management in Borneo (Malaysia) in the 1960s and developed agroecosystems analysis in Thailand. As president of the Rockefeller Foundation from 1998 to 2005, he worked to increase that organizations attention to ecological and food security issues, particularly the promise and challenges presented by biotechnology in the context of world hunger. Sir Gordon Conway was Professor of Environmental Technology at the Imperial College of Science and Technology in London and directed the Sustainable Agriculture Program of the International Institute for Environment and Development in London before becoming a representative of the Ford Foundation in New Delhi from 1988 to 1992. Among his publications are: Unwelcome Harvest: Agriculture and Pollution, The Doubly Green Revolution: Food For All in the 21st Century and Islamophobia: A Challenge for Us All. The 2008 Norman Borlaug Lecture Prior to the Lecture, there will be a reception and student poster display from 7 to 8 p.m. in the Oak Room of the Memorial Union.

Immigration Reform: Competing Rights and Difficult Questions - Tom Chapman
7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Tom Chapman is Executive Director of the Iowa Catholic Conference which serves, under the direction of the bishops of Iowa, as an advocate for the common good in the state and encourages people to inform their conscience and participate in the political process. Tom Chapman previously served as chancellor and director of communications for the Diocese of Des Moines, as well as editor of The Catholic Mirror newspaper. Msgr. James A. Supple Lecture.

Managing Multiple Species in a Changing Environment: A New Conservation Model - Karen Root
1:00 PM – Cardinal Room, Memorial Union - Conservation biologist Karen Root studies the ecological requirements of species and what makes them vulnerable to extinction. She examines where they live, identifies what they need for long-term viability, and develops recommendations for conservation and management. Recently, she has been exploring a new model for multispecies assessments as part of a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service effort in South Florida. Her research combines fieldwork with the application of quantitative techniques such as GIS and risk assessment. Root is an associate professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Bowling Green State University. She earned an MS in behavioral Ecology from the University of Michigan and a PhD in conservation biology and population ecology from the Florida Institute of Technology. Part of the 2008 Iowa Conservation Symposium.