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10 Realities of Doing Business Globally - Greg Churchill
6:30 PM – Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall - Greg Churchill is Vice President and Chief Operating officer at Rockwell Collins Government Systems, which provides defense communications and electronic systems to the U.S. Department of Defense. He provides leadership for all Government Systems businesses, including the company's international subsidiaries, China Business Development office and Government Operations in Washington, D.C. A native of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Churchill earned a B.S. in Industrial Administration from Iowa State University. Technology, Globalization, and Culture Series and part of the Iowa State 150th Anniversary Alumni Lecture Series.

Saints for Today and Everyday - Robert Ellsberg
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Robert Ellsberg is publisher of Orbis Books, the publishing arm of the Maryknoll Society. Since 1987 he has also served as Orbis's editor in chief. Ellsberg is the author of many books, including The Saints' Guide to Happiness and All Saints: Daily Reflections on Saints, Prophets, and Witnesses for Our Time, which won a Christopher Award and a Catholic Book Award. His most recent book, Blessed among All Women (2005), won three Catholic Book Awards. Ellsberg graduated from Harvard College with a degree in religion and literature and later earned a Masters in Theology from the Harvard Divinity School. The Mnsgr. Supple Endowed Lecture.

A Discussion on the 2008 Election - Cate Edwards and James Denton
12:45 PM – Campanile Room, Memorial Union - Cate Edwards, daughter of Elizabeth Edwards and presidential candidate John Edwards, will be joined by Desperate Housewives' James Denton. Part of the Presidential Caucus Series, providing the university community with opportunities to question presidential candidates or their representative before the precinct caucuses.

The Comedy of THE DAILY SHOW - Aasif Mandvi
8:00 PM – Stephens Auditorium, Iowa State Center - Admission Free - Doors open at 7:00 pm - Aasif Mandvi is the Baghdad Bureau Chief for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. His political reporting antics have been a highlight of the Emmy Award-winning show. He will bring clips of the show and talk about reporting on the best "fake" news show on television. In addition to his work on The Daily Show, he has won an OBIE Award for Sakina's Restaurant and has many movie and television roles to his credit, including appearances on The Sopranos, Law and Order, CSI, Jericho, and The Bedford Diaries.

A Conversation on Reproductive Rights - Karen Mulhauser
12:00 PM – Margaret Sloss Women's Center - Karen Mulhauser, senior policy advisor to the Obama campaign, will speak on Senator Obama's stance on the issue of reproductive rights and take questions. Karen Mulhauser previously served as executive director of the Center for Education on Nuclear War, Citizens aginst Nuclear War and National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL). Part of the Presidential Caucus Series, providing the university community with opportunities to question presidential candidates or their representative before the precinct caucuses.

Designing Humanity - Hamilton Cravens
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Hamilton Cravens is a professor of history at Iowa State and the 2007 Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities Distinguished Scholar. His teaching and research interests include American cultural and intellectual history and the history of science and technology. He is the author or editor of eight books, including the forthcoming "Designing Humanity: The Social and Behavioral Sciences, 1776-2001." Cravens has been a Ford Foundation Fellow, a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, and a Fellow of the Stanford Humanities Center and the Davis Humanities Center - University of California. He is also the recipient of three Fulbright Awards. Cravens is working on a new book about changing notions of race in America since reconstruction.

Life, Liberty, and Justice - Dr. Alveda C. King
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Dr. Alveda C. King, the niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is director of African American Outreach for Gospel of Life, an ecumenical ministry that defends the sanctity of life and rights of the preborn. She is the author of Sons of Thunder: The King Family Legacy and I Don't Want Your Man, I Want My Own, a collection of Christian testimonies. King served in the Georgia State House of Representatives and is also an accomplished actress and songwriter.

Forging New Ties: Shaping a New U.S. Policy Toward Latin America - Joy Olson and Vicki Gass
7:00 PM – South Ballroom, Memorial Union - Joy Olson, executive director of Washington Office on Latin America, and Vicki Gass, the organization's senior associate for rights and development, will discuss the WOLA's initiative to help shape the foreign-policy debate in the upcoming presidential campaign and lay the foundation for Latin American policy in the next administration. This initiative is the result of a consensus from people across the political spectrum and will be available for distribution at the event. Washington Office on Latin America has worked to shape U.S. foreign policy toward Latin America since 1974. Part of the World Affairs Series.

Entrepreneurial Considerations in a Global Economy: Competition, Culture, and Currency - Christopher Clover
6:00 PM – Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall - Christopher Clover has served as the president and CEO of Mechdyne Corporation since founding the company in 1996. Mechdyne is a global leader in virtual reality systems, with such clients as Boeing, Conoco Phillips, Ford Motor Company, John Deere, NASA, and the U.S. Army. The company developed the first commercial CAVE to be driven with personal computers, the first rear-projected curve screen systems used in immersive visualization applications, and the world's first reconfigurable immersive room. Clover earned a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering and an M.B.A. from Iowa State University. Technology, Globalization, and Culture Series and part of the Iowa State 150th Anniversary Alumni Lecture Series.

The Mess We're In: How U.S. leaders Have Failed Us in the Middle East and What You Can Do - James Zogby
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - James J. Zogby is founder and president of the Arab American Institute (AAI), a Washington, DC-based organization that has served as the political and policy research arm of the Arab American community since 1985. For the past three decades Zogby has been involved in a range of Arab American issues. He was a cofounder of the Palestine Human Rights Campaign, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, and Save Lebanon, a private non-profit, humanitarian relief organization. Following the signing of the Israeli-Palestinian peace accord in Washington he served as copresident of Builders for Peace, a private sector committee to promote U.S. business investment in the West Bank and Gaza. Since 1992 Zogby has written a weekly column on U.S. politics, Washington Watch, for the major newspapers of the Arab world. He is the author of What Ethnic Americans Really Think and What Arabs Think: Values, Beliefs and Concerns. Part of the World Affairs Series.