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An Evening with Terry Gross
8:00 PM – Stephens Auditorium, ISU Center -- Free Admission - Terry Gross is the host of Fresh Air, National Public Radio's weekday magazine of contemporary arts and issues, where her interviews are heard by more than 4.7 million people on more than 450 public radio stations. Her guests have included many of the most celebrated artists, writers, actors, and musicians of our time, such as Philip Roth, James Brown, John Travolta, Sonny Rollins, and Triumph the Insult Comic Dog. She is known for her thoughtful, probing interview style. In her trusted company, even the most reticent guest relaxes and reflects on his or her life and work. But Gross doesn't shy away from controversy or asking challenging questions. That's why Bill O'Reilly terminated his interview with her. Her interview with Gene Simmons of Kiss inspired Entertainment Weekly to name Simmons "Crackpot of the Year - Male." Part of the National Affairs series.

The Preservation and Laundering of Native Languages - Albert White Hat
8:00 PM – Campanile Room, Memorial Union - Albert White Hat is a Traditional Chief of the Sicangu Lakota Nation and director of the Lakota Language Program at Sinte Gleska University, located on the Rosebud Reservation in Mission, South Dakota. He is the author of Reading and Writing the Lakota Language. White Hat has been the president of the Sinte Gleska University Board of Directors and a Rosebud Tribal Representative. The 2007 Richard Thompson Memorial Lecture.

Painting with Indigenous Words and Music - Michael Jacobs
8:00 PM – College of Design Atrium - Michael Jacobs is a member of the Oklahoma Western Band Cherokee Nation. His debut solo CD, Sacred Nation, received the 2003 Native American Music Award for Best Independent Recording. His follow-up CD, They Come Dancing, was nominated in 2004. The Journey, Jacobs's newest CD, includes material ranging from upbeat anthems to tender ballads and flute music. Jacobs is a member of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences and the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers. He lives in Waukesha, Wisconsin.

PostSecret: Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives - Frank Warren
8:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Frank Warren started PostSecret as a community art project in October 2004. Since then Warren has received over 50,000 secrets mailed to him on decorated postcards that are sent anonymously. Individuals are encouraged to send secrets that reveal anything - as long as it is true and he or she has never shared it with anyone before. Warren shares the postcards he receives on his blog, www.postsecret.blogspot.com. The postcards have also been featured in galleries, a traveling art exhibit, the popular music video for the All-American Rejects' "Dirty Little Secret," and, most recently, in Warren's books PostSecret, My Secret, and, most recently, The Secret Lives of Men and Women. A portion of the proceeds from the books support 1-800-SUICIDE, a national suicide hotline. Warren's website has earned several awards and continues to attract over 3 million visitors a month. At the lecture, Warren will share never before seen postcards.

From Wilderness to Wal-Mart: The Evolution of Conservation Philosophy and Practice - John Wiens
7:30 PM – 1414 Molecular Biology Auditorium - John Wiens is the Nature Conservancy Chief Scientist. He is responsible for developing and helping to implement science-based conservation throughout the Nature Conservancy and for forging new linkages with partners. Wiens has degrees from the University of Oklahoma and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He was on the faculty of Oregon State University and, subsequently, the University of New Mexico and Colorado State University, where he was a professor of ecology and University Distinguished Professor. His work has emphasized landscape ecology and the ecology of birds and insects in arid environments on several continents. He has authored or edited six books, including Issues and Perspectives in Landscape Ecology (2005, edited with M. Moss) and some 200 scientific papers. The 2007 Paul Errington Lecture.

Turning on the Mind: French Philosophers on Television - Tamara Matheson
7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Tamara Matheson is an assistant professor of modern European history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She specializes in the cultural and intellectual history of modern France, the history of gender and sexuality, and the history of the media. She is particularly interested in the influence of mass media and globalization on the construction of national identities. Matheson is the author of Turning on the Mind: French Philosophers on Television, in which she examines the role television has played in constructing the image of the "intellectual" and defining that image as one central to French national identity.

The ONE Campaign: Get Involved in the Fight against Global Poverty and AIDS - Mike Batell
6:00 PM – 3534 Memorial Union - The national ONE campaign believes that allocating an additional ONE percent of the U.S. budget would transform the futures and hopes of an entire generation in the world's poorest countries. It is an effort to rally Americans -- ONE by ONE -- to fight global AIDS and extreme poverty. The ONE campaign brings together a diverse coalition of faith-based and antipoverty groups, including Bread for the World; celebrity spokespeople, such as U2 lead singer Bono; as well as corporate partnerships and local ONE Campaign organizers. The Bread for the World Institute, a ONE campaign affiliate, seeks justice for hungry people through research and education on hunger and development. Mike Batell, the Upper Midwest Regional Outreach Organizer for Bread for the World, will discuss volunteer and service opportunities available to students.

The Impending Transformation of Iowa: Is Bio-Energy Really an Entrepreneurial Solution? - Michael Morris
3:10 PM – 1210 LeBaron Hall - Michael Morris, the 2006-07 Helen LeBaron Hilton Chair, is a professor and the Witting Chair in Entrepreneurship in the Department of Entrepreneurship & Emerging Enterprises at the Whitman School of Management, Syracuse University. He is internationally recognized for his writing and teaching on the topic of entrepreneurship. His most recent books include Corporate Entrepreneurship: Entrepreneurial Development Inside Organizations (with D. Kuratko) and Entrepreneurial Intensity: Sustainable Advantage for Individuals, Organizations, and Societies. Morris has held named faculty positions at the University of Hawaii, Miami University of Ohio, University of the Pacific and Cape Town University in South Africa.

The Search for Community in a Technological Age - Michael Bugeja
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Michael Bugeja, the spring 2007 University Presidential Lecturer, is a professor and the director of the Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication at Iowa State University. He is the author of twenty books, including Interpersonal Divide: The Search for Community in a Technological Age (2005), an analysis of what happens when we spend too much time consuming media and using technology. Bugeja's commentaries on media ethics and technology have been cited internationally in such outlets as USA Today, the Washington Post, and the Christian Science Monitor and in online news editions of CBS, NBC, ABC, and CNN. He writes regularly for The Chronicle of Higher Education and Inside Higher Ed. He will be discussing his research on Internet addiction and "interpersonal intelligence" - the ability of individuals to know when, where, and for what purpose technology is appropriate.

The Importance of Agricultural Production in the Southern Cone of South America: Meat, Grains, and Biofuels - Miguel Carriquiry
5:30 PM – 2050 Agronomy Hall - Miquel Carriquiry, a native of Uruguay, received his PhD from Iowa State in agricultural economics in August 2004. His areas of interest include agricultural economics, environmental and natural resource economics, and statistics. Upon graduating, Carriquiry worked as a postdoctoral research associate for the Iowa State Center for Agricultural and Rural Development in the areas of value-added agriculture and agricultural risk management. He then spent a year working at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society in New York before returning to CARD and joining the Biorenewables Policy Division. Part of the "Semana Criolla 2007," a celebration of the cultures of Argentina, Uruguay, and Chile.