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Emerging from Obscurity: The Ioway Nation in the New Millennium - Lance Foster
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Lance Foster, a member of the Ioway Nation, is a traditional storyteller, artist, and involved in the preservation of the Ioway language. He has held positions with the National Park Service in New Mexico, Alaska, and Hawaii and is a contributor to The Worlds between Two Rivers: Perspectives on American Indians in Iowa, Native Americans in the 20th Century, and Ancient Muses. Foster earned a Master's degree in anthropology as well as a Master's of Landscape Architecture from Iowa State. He currently lives in Helena, Montana. The 2008 Richard Thompson Memorial Lecture and part of the Iowa State 150th Anniversary Alumni Lecture Series.

Lost Nation: The Ioway - Documentary Film and Panel Discussion
7:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Lost Nation explores the dramatic saga of the Ioway Indians from their ancestors - known as the Oneota - to their present day locations in Kansas and Oklahoma. It tells the dramatic true story of two brothers' struggle to save their people from inevitable American conquest, and the Ioway's current fight to reclaim and maintain their unique history and culture. Filmmakers Kelly and Tammy Rundle are perhaps best known for their award-winning documentary Villisca: Living with a Mystery, which won Best Documentary at the 2006 CRI Film Festival. The 50-minute screening of Lost Nation will be followed by a panel discussion with the filmmakers Kelly and Tammy Rundle; Lance Foster, a member of the Ioway tribe; and David Gradwohl, professor emeritus of anthropology at Iowa State.

Spirituality on Campus - Arthur Chickering and Jon Dalton
11:00 AM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - According to a national study of college freshmen, there is a growing interest among students in dealing with issues of faith, spirituality, meaning, and purpose, and many leaders in the field of student development argue that institutions of higher education need to find ways to integrate discussions regarding religion and spirituality into campus culture. Arthur Chickering and Jon Dalton will serve as the featured presenters of this conference, which will address spirituality as it applies to research, theory, curriculum, and student affairs at the university. Arthur Chickering serves as Special Assistant to the President of Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont. He is the author of many publications, including Education and Identity and has received numerous awards for his work in the field of college student development. Jon Dalton is an associate professor in educational leadership and director of the Hardee Center for Leadership and Ethics at Florida State University. He directs the annual institute on college student values that focuses on moral and civic education in college student learning and development. Dalton and Chickering coauthored the recently published Encouraging Authenticity and Spirituality in Higher Education. Keynote address for the Creating an Inclusive Campus Conference.

Remembering Alex the African Grey Parrot: More than Just a Birdbrain - Irene Pepperberg
7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Irene Pepperberg is an adjunct professor of psychology at Brandeis University and a research associate at Harvard University. She studies Grey parrots, focusing on how the cognitive and communicative abilities of these birds compare to those of great apes, marine mammals, and young children. She is best known for her work with the famous African Grey parrot Alex, who passed away in April 2006. Alex possessed more than one hundred vocal labels for different objects, actions, and colors; could count object sets up to the total number six; exhibited math skills that were considered advanced in animal intelligence; and was learning to read the sounds of various letters. Alex's accomplishments proved that African Grey parrots have an intelligence far beyond what was previously thought before his decades-long work with Pepperberg.

Say Something: Poetry Slam with E. G. Bailey
7:00 PM – Maintenance Shop, Memorial Union - This event, featuring poet E. G. Bailey, will include an open microphone session where attendees are encouraged to speak poetry. Bailey is a poet originally from Liberia who now lives in the Twin Cities and has cofounded several spoken word and music collectives. He is the owner of a music label named Speak Easy Records. Musician and singer Kate Kennedy will also perform. The event is sponsored by UHURU, a student-run magazine that brings a multicultural perspective to politics, art, music, food, love, and health.

Life without Ed: How One Woman Declared Independence from Her Eating Disorder - Jenni Schaefer
7:30 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Jenni Schaefer often says that she has never been married, but she is happily divorced. A recovered bulimic, she coauthored Life Without Ed with her psychotherapist, Thom Rutledge, who taught her to treat her eating disorder as a relationship rather than an illness or condition. Schaefer actually named her anorexia/bulimia "Ed," an acronym for "eating disorder." Jenni Schaefer is a consultant with the Center for Change in Orem, Utah, and a contributing author to Chicken Soup for the Recovering Soul. She is a regular guest on national radio and television, including appearances on Dr. Phil and Entertainment Tonight. Her work has been recognized in national publications, including the Chicago Tribune, Cosmopolitan, Washington Times, and Woman's World. National Eating Disorders Awareness Week.

The Color of Our Future - Farai Chideya
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Farai Chideya is a multimedia journalist who has worked in print, television, online, and radio and is currently host of National Public Radio's News & Notes. Chideya has been a correspondent for ABC News, anchored the prime time program Pure Oxygen on the Oxygen women's channel, and contributed commentaries to CNN, Fox, MSNBC, and BET. She got her start as a researcher and reporter at Newsweek magazine. She is the author of Don't Believe the Hype: Fighting Cultural Misinformation About African Americans and The Color of Our Future. Chideya's newest book, Trust: Reaching the 100 Million Missing Voters, shows why half of Americans are cut out of the political system - and what we can do about it.

Family Farms in an Era of Global Uncertainty - John Ikerd
7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - John Ikerd was raised on a small dairy farm in southwest Missouri and received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in agricultural economics from the University of Missouri. He worked in private industry for a time and spent thirty years in various professorial positions at North Carolina State University, Oklahoma State University, University of Georgia, and University of Missouri before retiring in early 2000. Since retiring, he has spent most of his time writing and speaking on issues related to sustainability, with an emphasis on economics and agriculture. Ikerd is the author of Sustainable Capitalism, A Return to Common Sense, Small Farms are Real Farms, and Crisis and Opportunity: Sustainability in American Agriculture. The 2008 Shivvers Memorial Lecture

Forum on Sustainability - Richard Howarth and Bryan Norton
3:30 PM – Ensminger Room, Kildee Hall - The term "sustainability" is widely used in agriculture, environmental policy, and economic development, but it is often difficult to know what the term means. This forum brings to campus two scholars who are renowned for their practical as well as their theoretical work on the concept of sustainability. Richard Howarth is an economist who earned his doctorate from the Energy and Resources Program at the University of California at Berkeley. He has put his background in resource economics to work analyzing issues of sustainability and intergenerational fairness. He directs the Environmental Studies Program and is a member of the Department of Economics at Dartmouth University. Bryan Norton, a professor in the School of Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology, is is one of the nation's most important scholars in the field of ethics and environmental policy. He is the author of numerous books and articles on philosophy and environmental philosophy, including Searching for Sustainability and Sustainability: A Philosophy of Ecosystem Management.

Dreaming the Future: Trends and Technologies for the Next 150 Years - Lowell Catlett
7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Lowell Catlett is dean of the College of Agriculture and Home Economics at New Mexico State University. He holds the New Mexico State University Regents Professorship in Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Business and is a 1990 winner of the Westhafter Award for Teaching, NMSU's top faculty honor. He has been a consultant for the U.S. Departments of the Interior, Defense, and Labor and has traveled internationally to consult and speak on new technologies and their implications for the way we live and work. Catlett received his PhD in economics at Iowa State University. The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Sesquicentennial Lecture and part of the Iowa State 150th Anniversary Alumni Lecture Series.