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Peace in Sudan? One Year After the Death of John Garang - Brian D'Silva
8:00 PM – Gerdin Auditorium - Brian D'Silva's involvement in Sudan has covered more then 25 years. He first met Dr. John Garang DeMabior when they were both graduate students in Agricultural Economics study with Prof. John Timmons at Iowa State. Later, during his tenure as Ford Foundation Visiting Professor at the University of Khartoum, he and Dr. Garang taught together until Dr. Garang left Khartoum in 1983 to start the Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army ( SPLM/A). Brian worked in Sudan from 1987-90 with the USAID Mission in Khartoum, and on issues related to Southern Sudan while being based in Nairobi, Kenya. Since 2000, he has continued to work on Sudan from Washington, first as part of USAID's Sudan Task Force and more recently as the senior Policy Advisor on Sudan to USAID. He actively participated as part of the USG delegation that was involved in the negotiations leading to the Comprehensive Peace Agreement between the Government of Sudan and the SPLM/A, signed in Nairobi on January 9, 2005. He was there when Dr. Garang was sworn in as First Vice President of Sudan and President of Southern Sudan on July 9, 2005. His lecture will cover themes related to the Legacy of Dr. Garang -- the Comprehensive Peace Agreement - its implementation and prospects for Peace in Sudan. Part of the World Affairs Series.

The Crack at the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906 - Simon Winchester
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Simon Winchester is the author of The Crack at the Edge of the World. In 1906, there were powerful, destructive earthquakes from Taiwan to South America. In San Francisco, a quake occurred just after five in the morning on April 18, causing fires that raged for three days, destroying much of the city. This was the world's first major natural disaster to have been extensively photographed and covered by the media, and is the subject of Simon Winchester's latest book. He is also the author of The Map that Changed the World, The Professor and the Madman, and Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883. Simon Winchester has worked as a foreign correspondent for most of his career, although he graduated from Oxford in 1966 with a degree in geology and spent a year working as a geologist in the Ruwenzori Mountains in western Uganda, and on oil rigs in the North Sea.

The Design Process, Autism and Animals - Temple Grandin
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Temple Grandin is a professor of animal science at Colorado State University. She designs humane livestock handling facilities, and has done extensive research on cattle temperament, environmental enrichment for pigs, reducing dark cutters and bruises, bull fertility, training procedures, and effective stunning methods for cattle and pigs at meat plants. She has also developed an objective scoring system for assessing handling of cattle and pigs at meat plants, which is being used by many large corporations to improve animal welfare. Her history as a person with autism has given her insights into animal thinking that ordinary people do not share. As a person with autism, she describes the unique way her visual mind works and how she first made the connection between her autism and animal temperament in her book Thinking in Pictures. InAnimals in Translation, she explores the connection between autism and animal behavior.

Hardball with Chris Matthews Broadcast Live! Special Guest Senator John McCain
4:00 PM – Stephens Auditorium, ISU Center - Doors open at 3 p.m. - ADMISSION FREE - Chris Matthews hosts "Hardball" Monday through Friday on MSNBC. He is also the host of "The Chris Matthews Show," and is a regular commentator on NBC's "Today" show. Special guest: Senator John McCain, the senior senator from Arizona,and possible 2008 presidential candidate, who serves on the Armed Services, and Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committees.

The New World of Water - Margaret Catley-Carlson
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Margaret Catley-Carlson, 2006 Norman Borlaug Lecturer, is Chair of the Global Water Partnership, a network that links thousands of water management professionals around the world. She is also Chair of the Water Policy Advisory Committee of Suez Lyonnaise and the Center for Agriculture and Bioscience International. Her 35-year career in economic development has included terms as President of the Canadian International Development Agency, Deputy Director of UNICEF, and Chair of the Geneva-based Water Supply Sanitation Collaborative Council. She is the former President of the Population Council, a nonprofit, nongovernmental research organization established in 1952. Prior to joining the Council, she was Deputy Minister of Health and Welfare Canada, President of the Canadian International Development Agency, and Deputy Executive Director (Operations) of UNICEF. Annual Norman Borlaug Lecture. Prior to the Lecture, there will be a reception and student poster display from 7 to 8 p.m. in the South Ballroom of the Memorial Union.

Both Sides Now: Misguided Attacks on Risk Assessment and Cost-Benefit Analysis - Adam Finkel
8:00 PM – Gallery Room, Memorial Union - Adam M. Finkel is Professor in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health at the University of Medicine and Dentistry, and Visiting Professor at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. From 2000 to 2003, Dr. Finkel was Regional Administrator for the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) in Denver, Colorado, responsible for regulatory enforcement, compliance assistance, and outreach activities in Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah and Wyoming.Part of the a Sigma Xi Lecture Series.

Coalition-Building and US National Security Policy: A Military Perspective - Col. Evelio Otero
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Col. Evelio Otero is the Chief for the Sovereign Nation Engagement Plan for Special Operations Command. He was previously assigned to US Central Command as an Intelligence Operations Branch Chief, then served as Intelligence Operations Division Chief-Forward, and, finally, Chief of Coalition Intelligence for planning of Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom. He was deployed for 18 months to Afghanistan and Iraq as a member of General Franks staff, and will be able to provide accounts of war planning from the perspective of an operations Division Chief at the Combatant Command level two layers removed from the President. He graduated from Iowa State in 1982 and attended Air War College. Part of the World Affairs Series

Campaign 2006 - Congressman Tom Latham
4:00 PM – South Ballroom, Memorial Union - Tom Latham has served in the United States House of Representatives since 1995. He is the only Iowan on the House Appropriations Committee. He sits on the Appropriations Subcommittees for Homeland Security, Agriculture, and Energy and Water, and on several Congressional Task Forces, including the Speaker's Task Force for a Drug-Free America, the House Prescription Drug Action Leadership Team, and the Congressional Task Force for Affordable Natural Gas. He is one of the owners of Latham Seeds, a soybean facility founded by his father.

IN GOOD CONSCIENCE - A film
7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - The film chronicles the true story of Sister Jeannine Gramick, who is defying a Vatican edict that she shut down her compassionate ministry to gay and lesbian Catholics, and silence herself permanently on the subject of homosexuality. Her battle takes her all the way to Rome where she attempts an audience with her key adversary over the years - none other than Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger - the Inquisitor who would become Pope Benedict XVI. A panel discussion will follow.

Guantanamo and the Constitution: The Role of the U.S. Supreme Court in the Global War on Terror - Neal Katyal
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Neal Katyal, a Professor at Georgetown University Law School, challenged the policy of military trials at Guantanamo Bay Naval Station, Cuba. On June 29, 2006, the Supreme Court sided with him by a 5-3 vote, finding that President Bush's tribunals violated the constitutional separation of powers, domestic military law, and international law. Katyal has represented uniformed men and women in the Armed Services who challenged the Guantanamo policy. An expert in national security law, the American Constitution, the Geneva Conventions, and the role of the President and Congress post 9-11, Katyal forged a worldwide coalition of support for his challenge to the Guantanamo policy, including 422 members of the European and British Parliaments and several former Generals and Admirals of the United States Armed Forces, all of whom have publicly supported his work. An expert in matters of constitutional law, particularly the role of the President and Congress in time of war and theories of constitutional interpretation, Katyal has embraced his theoretical work as the platform for practical consequences in the federal courts.Katyal clerked for Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer as well as Judge Guido Calabresi of the U.S. Court of Appeals. He attended Dartmouth College and Yale Law School. Part of the National Affairs Series and the 2006 Constitution Day Lecturer