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Iowa Caucus Workshop - How to Participate in the Iowa Caucuses
4:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Unon - Speakers will provide an overview of the Iowa process and lead a community-wide training session. Iowa Republican and Democratic Party officials will explain their parties' caucuses. The one-hour workshop will include practice exercises, and a candidate information resource fair will follow.

Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America - Susan Faludi
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Susan Faludi, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and former reporter for the Wall Street Journal, is the author of Backlash: The Undeclared War against American Women, which won the 1992 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. She is also the author of Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man. Her new book, The Terror Dream examines the post-9/11 outpourings in the media and popular culture and how America's fear of home-soil terrorism has been the foundation of first one war and then another. A book signing and the Women's Studies Program 30th Anniversary reception will follow.

Eating Genes: Global Ethics and Equity Issues in Genetically Modified Food and Sustainability - Lisa Weasel and Virginia Walbot
7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Lisa Weasel is an associate professor of biology at Portland State University. Her work draws on social science methodologies and perspectives from the humanities to better understand the intersection between science and society. Weasel's current research focuses on global ethics and equity issues relating to agricultural biotechnology and food security and sustainability. This research compares the standpoints of different stakeholders in the debates over agricultural biotechnology in Europe, Asia, Africa and the United States. Virginia Walbot is a professor of biological sciences at Stanford University. A broad theme of her research is the interplay of environment and development in the life cycle of plants. Walbot manages the NSF-funded Maize Gene Discovery project and is interested in how genomic diversity is created and how biochemical pathways are assembled through gene duplication and promoter evolution. Part of the Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities series "The Book of Life in a Genomic Age."

A Town Hall Meeting with Rudy Giuliani
3:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani has been praised for his leadership in the post-9/11 New York City recovery efforts, and honored with the Ronald Reagan Presidential Freedom Award, knighted by the Queen of England, and named Person of the Year by TIME magazine. He was born and raised in New York and attended Manhattan College and New York University Law School. The Reagan administration named him Associate Attorney General, where he supervised all U.S. attorney offices' law enforcement agencies. He also served as United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. In 1993 he became the first Republican elected Mayor of the City of New York in a generation. He is the author of Leadership. Part of the Presidential Caucus Series, providing the university community with opportunities to question presidential candidates before the precinct caucuses.

King Corn - Panel Discussion
8:00 PM – LeBaron Hall Auditorium, Room 1210 - Curt Ellis and filmmaker Aaron Woolf will discuss King Corn, Woolf's documentary that follows college friends Curt Ellis and Ian Cheney as they grow a bumper crop of America's most productive, most-subsidized grain on one acre of Iowa soil, and then try to follow it through the food system. The panel discussion follows a screening of the 80-minute film at 6:30 pm in the LeBaron Hall Auditorium.

King Corn - A Documentary Film
6:30 PM – LeBaron Hall Auditorium, Room 1210 - One acre of corn tells the story of the crop reigning over the American countryside - and the American diet. In King Corn, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, best friends from college on the East Coast, move to the heartland to learn where their food comes from. With the help of skeptical neighbors, genetically modified seeds, nitrogen fertilizers, and powerful herbicides, they plant and grow a bumper crop of America's most productive, most subsidized grain on one acre of Iowa soil. But when they try to follow their pile of corn into the food system, what they find raises troubling questions about how we eat - and how we farm. The 80-minute film will be followed by a discussion with Curt Ellis and filmmaker Aaron Woolf.

Evolution and Human Origins: The Late Divergence Hypothesis - Milford Wolpoff
6:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Milford Wolpoff is a professor of anthropology at the University of Michigan. He has studied fossils and tool making but is most noted for his study on human evolution. Wolpoff, a paleoanthropologist, believes in multiregional evolution states - that for about two million years humans have lived in several areas of the world and have evolved together because they met and interbred. He is the author of Paleoanthropology and Human Evolution and coauthor with Rachel Caspari of Race and Human Evolution, which won the 1999 W. W. Howells Book Prize in Biological Anthropology, presented by the American Anthropological Association. In 2002 Wolpoff was named a Fellow of the American Anthropological Association.

Open Sesame: How the Evolution of Outsourcing Is Changing Business - James Bernard, Jr., and Jamie Thingelstad
6:00 PM – Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall - James Bernard, Jr., is general manager at the Internet company MarketWatch.com, owned by Dow Jones. His responsibilities include managing the licensing sales of data and news to the top financial firms and media companies including Fidelity, Ameritrade, American Express, New York Times, Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal Online. Jamie Thingelstad is the chief technology officer and vice president at Dow Jones Online. Technology, Globalization, and Culture Series.

Immigration: Human Rights in Our Neighborhood - Panel Discussion
7:00 PM – Hoover Hall 1227 - This panel will focus on the human dimension of immigration, specifically the impact of immigration policy on human rights and the effect of immigration on our local communities. Panelists include Loreto Prieto, director of Iowa State's Latino/a Studies Program; Ryan Gildersleeve, an assistant professor of educational leadership and policy studies at Iowa State; immigration attorney Ferzana Hashmi; and Lieutenant Mike Brennan of the Ames Police Department. Moderated by Hillari Hoerschelman from the University of Iowa Center for Human Rights. The event is part of a series of discussion panels the University of Iowa Center for Human Rights is presenting at Iowa, Iowa State, and UNI.

Globalization Backlash: How Politics, Culture and Sovereignty Complicate Real Globalization - Christine Romans
6:30 PM – Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall - Christine Romans is the host of In the Money, CNN's weekend business roundtable program, and a featured reporter and substitute anchor for Lou Dobbs Tonight. Romans has covered such topics as immigration reform, homeland security, American foreign policy with China and Latin America, and the war on terrorism's effect on markets. Her "Exporting America" reporting earned Lou Dobbs Tonight an Emmy for outstanding coverage of a business story. Prior to joining CNN, she reported for Reuters and Knight-Ridder Financial News. Romans received her B.A. in journalism and French from Iowa State University. Technology, Globalization, and Culture Series and part of the Iowa State 150th Anniversary Alumni Lecture Series.