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From Debt to Dollars: Financial Power for Young Women - Shonna Jacobs
11:40 AM – Campanile Room, Memorial Union - Shonna Jacobs is with Citigroup's Office of Financial Education. She is the keynote speaker for this one-day workshop designed to educate young women on the importance of understanding and improving their financial situation.

In the Wake of Columbus: The Biological Consequences of Contact and Colonialism in the Americas - Clark Spencer Larsen
8:00 PM – Gallery, Memorial Union - Clark Spencer Larsen, Sigma Xi Lecturer, is Distinguished Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences and the chair of the Department of Anthropology at Ohio State University. He is also the editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Physical Anthropology. Larsen has spent most of his professional career directing the La Florida Bioarchaeology Project, a collaboration of scientists from the United States and elsewhere investigating the consequences of major adaptive shifts in coastal and terrestrial settings of the modern states of Georgia and Florida. A popular account of the project is presented in Skeletons in our Closet: Revealing our Past through Bioarchaeology (2000), and the most recent research results can be found in his edited book Bioarchaeology of Spanish Florida: The Impact of Colonialism (2001).

Anti-Semitism in the 21st Century: The Resurgence - Film and Discussion
7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Many parts of the world are experiencing a massive resurgence of anti-Semitism - from hate propaganda, to vandalism, to violent attacks on Jews themselves. Worldwide, since the year 2000, major violent acts against Jews and Jewish institutions have nearly doubled from the levels of the 1990s. Hosted by veteran broadcast journalist Judy Woodruff, this PBS documentary explores the roots of anti-Semitism and examines why it flourishes today. It was written, produced and directed by Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Andrew Goldberg. Veteran broadcast journalist Judy Woodruff hosts and narrates.

From Science to Action: Where Do We Stand on Pollinator Conservation - Claire Kremen
1:00 PM – Molecular Biology Building Auditorium, Rm 1414 - Claire Kremen is an assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management at the University of California, Berkeley. Her talk is the keynote address for the Iowa Conservation Biology Symposium. Kremen is currently investigating the inter-relationship between land use practices, wild bee communities and pollination services that these bees provide to crops on farms.

Black History Month Gospel Choir Extravaganza
7:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - The 2007 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.

How Can Sudan Be Saved? A Panel Discussion
7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - This panel will feature Abdalaziz Adam Alhilu, a former member of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) Leadership Council, former Deputy Secretary General of SPLM for Northern Sudan Sector, former governor of Nuba Mountains state, and former commander in the Sudan People's Liberation Army. Other panelists include Anwar Elnor, president of the Darfur People's Association, and Rev. Russell Melby, director of the Iowa chapter of the Church World Service/CROP, a cooperative ministry of thirty-five Protestant, Orthodox, and Anglican denominations working to eradicate hunger and poverty and providing sustainable self-help and development, disaster relief, and refugee assistance in some eighty countries. Moderated by Mary Barratt, faculty advisor to the ISU South Sudanese Student Organization and an instructor in the Intensive English Orientation Program. Barratt recently traveled to South Sudan as part of the ISU project "Women's Lives in Fragile Contexts: South Sudan." Part of the World Affairs Series.

Understanding Islam - Ingrid Mattson
8:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Ingrid Mattson is the first woman elected president of the Islamic Society of North America, the largest Muslim organization in North America. She is also Director of Islamic Chaplaincy and a professor at the Macdonald Center for Islamic Studies and Christian-Muslim Relations at the Hartford Seminary in Hartford, CT. Mattson's research is focused on Islamic law and society; among her articles are studies on slavery, poverty, and Islamic legal theory. In 1987-88 she lived in Pakistan, where she worked with Afghan refugee women.

Securing the Future: The Politics of Oil Dependence and Clever Ways to Kick the Habit - Michael Kraig and David Tuft
8:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Michael Kraig is Director of Policy Analysis and Dialogue at the Stanley Foundation in Muscatine, Iowa. David Tuft is the campaign director for the Natural Resources Defense Council's Climate Center. Their talk is part of an energy security speaking tour sponsored by Americans for Informed Democracy.

Forty Years in the Wilderness: Martin Luther King and the Misdirection of the Negro* - Jonathan Farley
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Jonathan Farley is a professor of mathematics at the University of the West Indies (Jamaica) and a former senior fellow at the Stanford University Center for International Security and Cooperation. His work focuses on applying mathematics to problems in counterterrorism and homeland security. It has been profiled in such publications as The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Economist, and USA Today as well as on Fox News Television and Air America Radio. Farley is Chief Scientist of Phoenix Mathematics, Inc., a company that develops mathematical solutions to homeland security-related problems. He is also a cofounder of Hollywood Math and Science Film Consulting. In 2001-2 he was one of four Americans to win an appointment as a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar to the United Kingdom. In 2004 he received the Harvard Foundation's Distinguished Scientist of the Year Award for outstanding achievements and contributions in the field of mathematics. *The title of the 2007 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Holiday Celebration Keynote Address refers to both Carter G. Woodson's "The Miseducation of the Negro" and Lauryn Hill's debut CD, "The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill."

Forty Years of Black Politics
7:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - A panel discussion featuring Mary Sawyer, Iowa State University professor of religious studies and cofounder of the African American Studies program; Mary Ann Spicer, president of the Des Moines-based, nonpartisan political action group Sisters on Target; and State Representative Wayne Ford, cofounder of the Brown and Black Presidential Forum. Dianne Bystrom, director of the Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics will moderate. Part of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Holiday Celebration.