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How Stereotypes Affect Intellectual Performance - Claude Steele
8:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Claude Steele is the Lucie Stern Professor in the Social Sciences at Stanford University, where he has been on the faculty since 1991. He is a professor of social psychology and director of Stanford's Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. Steele's research interests focus on how group stereotypes, such as racial or gender stereotypes, can influence academic performance. He is the coauthor with Theresa Perry and Asa G. Hilliard III of Young, Gifted, and Black: Promoting High Achievement among African-American Students and a participant in the PBS Frontline series Secrets of the SAT. Steele was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in spring 2003. He has been awarded honorary doctorates from the University of Michigan, University of Chicago, Yale University, and Princeton University. A social hour will precede the lecture at 7:00 in the South Ballroom and a reception and book signing will follow the talk.The Annual Fritz Lecture

Cultural Relics, Intellectual Property and Intangible Heritage - Peter Yu
4:30 PM – Ensminger Room, 1204 Kildee Hall - Peter Yu holds the Kern Family Chair in Intellectual Property Law and is the founding director of the Intellectual Property Law Center at Drake University Law School. Born and raised in Hong Kong, Professor Yu is a leading expert in international intellectual property and communications law whose work focuses on international trade, international and comparative law and the transition of the legal systems in China and Hong Kong. He is the author or editor of three books, including the four-volume reference book Intellectual Property and Information Wealth: Issues and Practices in the Digital Age. Before joining Drake University, he taught at Michigan State University College of Law and founded its nationally renowned Intellectual Property and Communications Law Program. Part of the Bioethics Program Series.

Children and Families in the 2008 Campaign - Tom LaPointe
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Tom LaPointe is the director of Every Child Matters in Iowa. The Every Child Matters Education Fund is a public education campaign in the early presidential primary states. Its sole purpose is to help raise the visibility of children's issues and to make them a priority topic of policy debate throughout the 2008 presidential campaign. Issues to which attention is being drawn include the prevention of child abuse and neglect, improving the health of low-income children, and finding solutions in child care, early childhood education, after-school programs, and responsible decisions on federal budget and tax issues.

Technology, Globalization, and Culture - Jon Grannis
6:30 PM – Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall - Jon Grannis is the president of Logical Performance, based in Ankeny, Iowa. The company provides personalized business services ranging from web and software development to employee and brand development. Technology, Globalization, and Culture Series.

Letters from Nuremberg: My Father's Narrative of a Quest for Justice - Christopher Dodd
6:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - At the Nuremberg trials of Nazi leaders after World War II, young attorney Thomas Dodd's inquisition of the brilliant Hermann Goring provided the centerpiece of the trials. Walter Cronkite, who covered Nuremberg, said years later that Dodd had saved the day. In 1990, his children discovered his voluminous correspondence from Nuremberg to his wife, Grace. These letters describing the trial and events leading up to it is the writer's unfussy concern for righteousness, which under the circumstances meant winning the case-and in the proper way. Thomas Dodd, like his son presidential hopeful Christopher Dodd, later became a senator. Senator Dodd will discuss his father's excerpted letters. Part of the Presidential Caucus Series, providing the university community with opportunities to question presidential candidates or their representative before the precinct caucuses.

THANKSGIVING BREAK
8:00 AM – No events planned - No events planned the week of November 19-23.

The Ethical, Philosophical, and Legal Implications of Genomic Research - A Symposium
9:30 AM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Featured speakers in this daylong symposium include: Lori Andrews, J.D., a Distinguished Professor of Law at Chicago-Kent College of Law and director of the Institute for Science, Law and Technology at the Illinois Institute of Technology; Troy Duster, the director of the Institute for the History of the Production of Knowledge and a professor of sociology at New York University; Jeffrey Murray, MD, a professor of pediatrics at the University of Iowa whose research in human molecular genetics focuses the identification of genes and environmental factors involved in birth defects; and Karen-Sue Taussig, faculty in the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Department of Anthropology and in the U of M Medical School. Part of the Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities series "The Book of Life in a Genomic Age."

The Best of What We Are: John Brentlinger and the Painters of Solentiname, Nicaragua - Gary Tartakov
8:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Gary Tartakov, Iowa State professor emeritus and art historian, will discuss the exhibit The Ideal and the Real: Folk Art from Solentiname, Nicaragua. The exhibit of oil paintings is from one of the most important folk art movements in the world that sprang into being along with Liberation Theology and the Sandinista Revolution. Tartakov will also reflect on the impact of the late John Bretlinger, founder of the Solentiname Nicaragua Friendship Group and author of The Best of What We Are: Reflections on the Nicaraguan Revolution. The exhibit is on display November 15, 2007 - January 2, 2008.

The Physics of Baseball - Eli Rosenberg
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Eli Rosenberg is a professor of physics and the chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Iowa State University. His research area is experimental high-energy physics, and he has served as a consultant to the U.S. Department of Energy in reviewing programs at Argonne National Laboratory and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Rosenberg is the author or coauthor of over five hundred refereed scientific journal articles; is a Fellow of the American Physical Society; and is a past chair of the SLAC User's Organization, which represents over 1,300 U.S and international scientists. He received his undergraduate degree in physics from the City College of New York and his master's and doctorate in physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Fall 2007 Dean's Lecture.

How Did Petroleum Source Rocks Accumulate? Insights from Deep-Sea Sediments - Philip A. Meyers
7:00 PM – Gallery, Memorial Union - Philip A. Meyers is a professor of geological sciences at the University of Michigan. He is an organic geochemist who is interested in the processes that are involved in the origin, delivery, and accumulation of organic matter in sediments and the evidence for global climate changes recorded in the composition of sedimentary organic matter. His research focuses on paleoenvironmental reconstructions based on organic matter in Cretaceous black shales, Mediterranean sapropels, and Holocene lake sediments. The Fall 2007 Sigma Xi Lecture.