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Traitors I Have Known - Jim Olson
8:00 PM – Campanile Room, Memorial Union - Jim Olson is a senior lecturer and the CIA Officer in Residence at the Bush School of Government and Public Service in College Station, Texas. He joined the Central Intelligence Agency in 1969 and served for thirty-one years, mostly overseas in clandestine operations, and is the author of Fair Play: The Moral Dilemmas of Spying. He held the positions of Deputy Chief of Station in Moscow and Chief of Station in Vienna and Mexico City. He also served as Chief of Counterintelligence at CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia. Professor Olson received his law degree from the University of Iowa in 1969. Part of the World Affairs Series.

The Lost History of the Civil Rights Movement - Modupe Labode
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Modupe Labode is the Public Scholar of African American History and Museums at the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis campus. Previously, she was chief historian for the Colorado Historical Society, and she has taught in the Department of History at Iowa State University. Labode was named a Rhodes Scholar in 1988, the fourth student and first woman from ISU to receive the honor. She graduated from Iowa State in 1988 with a BS in history and received her Ph.D. from Oxford University. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Keynote Address and part of the Iowa State 150th Anniversary Alumni Lecture Series.

Classroom Climate for Students and Faculty of Color at Iowa State - A Panel Discussion
12:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Modupe Labode, Iowa State alum and former faculty member, joins Iowa State Engineering Professor Derrick Rollins and students Jaymes Barnett and Jowelle Benson for a discussion about the experience of students and faculty of color on campus. Michael Whiteford, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, will moderate the discussion. Audience member are encouraged to participate.

Black History Month Gospel Choir Extravaganza
7:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - The 2008 Black History Month Gospel Choir Extravaganza will feature the Restoration & Prayze Gospel Choir from Des Moines, the Gospel Soul Innovators, and the New Birth Baptist Church Children's Choir.

Immigration and Survival: An Alternative Perspective from Central America - John Donaghy
8:00 PM – Cardinal Room, Memorial Union - John Donaghy was Director of Campus Ministry and Coordinator of Charity, Justice, and Peace Ministry at St. Thomas Aquinas Church and Catholic Student Center at Iowa State University from 1983 to spring 2007. In June 2007 he began ministry in southwestern Honduras with the diocese of Santa Rosa de Copan. In addition to his current work in Latin America, he has spent time in El Salvador as a leader of educational delegations and doing pastoral work in the parishes of Santa Lucia, Suchitoto, and San Roque, San Salvador. He was a volunteer with a program for Catholic and Protestant children in Northern Ireland sponsored by the Irish Fellowship of Reconciliation and has participated in Campus Ministry Across the Americas in Peru and Bolivia. Donaghy has a PhD in philosophy from Boston College. His scholarly interests are in agriculture and Catholic social teaching, the ethics of development, and nonviolence and nonviolent movements.

The Science, Technology, and Economics of Climate Change: A Forum on Global Warming Solutions
7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - This forum, led by distinguished Iowa State faculty, has been organized in coordination with over 1,400 institutions participating in "Focus the Nation," a nationwide teach-in on climate change. The panelists include Gene Takle, professor of geological and atmospheric sciences; John Miranowski, professor of agricultural economics; and Vikram Dalal, a professor of electrical engineering whose work in the field of energy includes groundbreaking research on solar cells. The event is being sponsored by the Students for Iowa PIRG (Public Interest Research Group).

Visions of Freedom: A Forum
7:00 PM – Gallery, Memorial Union - Photographs depicting both personal and historic moments of freedom will be on display, and members of the university community will discuss the impact of those moments and share personal stories of freedom. Speakers include Dean of Students Dione Somerville, associate professor of journalism Barbara Mack, assistant professor of curriculum and instruction Warren Blumenfeld and Latinosamericanos members David Ernesto Romero and Claudia Marcela Prado-Meza.

Wisdom of the Mystic Saints - Ralph Martin
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Ralph Martin is the author of several books on spirituality, including The Fulfillment of All Desire, as well as audio albums on the teaching of the saints. He is Director of Graduate Programs in The New Evangelization at Sacred Heart Seminary in Detroit, assistant professor of theology at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in the Archdiocese of Detroit as well as visiting professor of theology at Franciscan University of Steubenville. Martin is the president of Renewal Ministries and the host of the weekly television program The Choices We Face.

Running on Ice: Stories from a Warming Arctic - Elizabeth Andre
7:00 PM – Gallery, Memorial Union - Elizabeth Andre will share stories, slides and videos from her 1,200 mile dogsled trek across the Canadian Arctic's Baffin Island with renowned polar explorer Will Steger and a team of Inuit hunters, explorers and educators. Her experience included encounters with polar bears, sleds falling through the ice, snowstorms, and mushing a team of ten huskies through mountain passes and over frozen ocean. She will also recount stories shared by Inuit people living in a rapidly warming climate and offer insights to how we can respond to the challenge of global warming. Elizabeth Andre is an Ames native and graduated from Iowa State in 1998 with degrees in Spanish and International Studies. Iowa State 150th Anniversary Alumni Lecture Series.

Legacies of Repression: Archives and Human Rights - Trudy Huskamp Peterson
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Trudy Huskamp Peterson, retired director of the National Archives, is a leader among international efforts to preserve records of governmental truth commissions and international criminal tribunals. In South Africa she served as an advisor for the records of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which was established to serve victims of violence and human rights abuses under Apartheid. She has served as the director of Archives and Records Management for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and led efforts to preserve and make available archives from the countries of the former Soviet bloc. Most recently she worked with government police records in Guatemala. Peterson received her B.A. in English from Iowa State University in 1967. She is the author of Final Acts: A Guide to Preserving the Records of Truth Commissions. Part of the World Affairs Series and the Iowa State 150th Anniversary Alumni Lecture Series.