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The Middle East, Global Energy and Terrorism - Flynt Leverett
7:00 PM – Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall - Flynt Leverett served at the White House as Senior Director for Middle East Affairs at the National Security Council until March, 2003. In this role, he advised President Bush and National Security Adviser Condoleeza Rice on Arab-Israeli issues and U.S. relations with Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, the Palestinian Authority, Saudi Arabia, and Syria. Previously, Dr. Leverett served on the Secretary of State's Policy Planning Staff, handling Middle East and counterterrorism issues. He is the author of Bashar's Trial By Fire, the editor of The Road Ahead: Middle East Policy in the Bush Administration's Second Term , and earned his masters and doctorate in politics from Princeton University. Part of the Technology, Globalization and Culture Series.

Diversity and Its Discontents: The Bumpy Road to Recognition, Representation and Reality - Mercedes Lynn de Uriarte
8:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Mercedes Lynn de Uriarte was an assistant editor and writer at the Los Angeles Times, where she was responsible for expanding coverage of Mexico and Central America, as well as that of U.S. minority communities. She is now an Associate Professor in Journalism, Latin American Studies and Women's Studies at the University of Texas, Austin, and publishes frequently in mass media and academic publications. She recently completed a project funded by the Ford Foundation examining journalism ethics, intellectual diversity and professional development: Diversity Disconnects: From Classroom the Newsroom. It draws on two years of research to fully assess efforts over the past 25 years to integrate newsrooms and diversify press content. She received her PhD and MA in American Studies from Yale University.

Media-ting the Torah: The Hebrew Bible and/in the Popular Press - Leonard Greenspoon
7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Leonard Greenspoon holds the Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization at Creighton University and is Professor of Classical & Near Eastern Studies and of Theology. He is especially interested in the way Bible translators reflect the historical, social, cultural, political, as well as religious environments in which they work, how specific Bible translations influence the communities for which they were intended, and how later translators and commentators make use of earlier versions.

The Precautionary Principle: Applying Ethical Environmental Decision Making in a World of Uncertainty - Carolyn Raffensperger
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Carolyn Raffensperger, founding Executive Director Science and Environmental Health Network, will discuss applying the Precautionary Principle to a multitude of environmental concerns. This is the subject of the new book she co-edited Precautionary Tools for Reshaping Environmental Policy, published by MIT Press.

Three Global Challenges to the Information Economy - James Bernard
7:00 PM – Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall - James Bernard, Jr., is Vice President of Sales at CBS MarketWatch, where he licenses sales of data and news to organizations that include Fidelity, Ameritrade, American Express, the New York Times, Financial Times, and The Wall Street Journal Online. He joined CBS MarketWatch in 2000 when it was the start-up BigCharts, an innovator in displaying financial data over the Internet. Part of the Technology, Globalization, and Culture series.

Entrepreneurial Considerations in a Global Economy - Competition, Culture, and Currency - Chris Clover
6:00 PM – Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Auditorium in Howe Hall - Chris Clover has been President/CEO of Mechdyne Corporation since founding the company in 1996, and has served as President/CEO of Fakespace Systems since Mechdyne Corporation acquired Fakespace in 2003. Before founding Mechdyne, Clover held positions with Engineering Animation, Inc., NASA, Fisher Controls International, Inc., and Lennox Industries. He earned a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering and an M.B.A. (Strategic Planning emphasis) from Iowa State University, where he received the Honeywell Foundation Engineering and Business fellowship and the Iowa State University Research Excellence Award. He is widely published in the areas of robotics, haptic feedback, control system design, vehicle simulation, vehicle handling and maneuvering, rollover, and tire mechanics, and has participated in high-profile litigation cases while performing accident reconstruction, simulation, and overall vehicle analysis. Part of the Technology, Globalization, and Culture series.

Who's winning the globalization race? - George Strawn
6:30 PM – Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall - George Strawn joined the National Science Foundation (NSF) in 1991 and has served as Chief Information Officer since 2002, where he guides the agency in the development and design of innovative information technology. He also serves as co-chair of both the interagency Large Scale Networking Working Group and the international Coordinating Committee for Intercontinental Research Networks. In his numerous roles at the NSF, he helped define and deploy the "new" (privatized) Internet architecture and led an initiative that created the first national high-performance network testbed. Before coming to the NSF, Strawn was a computer science faculty member at Iowa State University, where he chaired the Department of Computer Science from 1983 to 1986 and served as Director of the ISU Computation Center from 1986 to 1995. He has also held several positions in the computer industry and has worked as an information technology consultant in both private industry and government. Part of the Technology, Globalization, and Culture series.

DON'T ASK, DON'T TELL IN THE POST-9/11 WORLD - A Forum with Recent Veterans
7:00 PM – Campanile Room, Memorial Union - Veterans of Operation Iraqi Freedom and the U.S. Intelligence Community and discharged gay veterans will debate and discuss the issues and arguments surrounding the continued rationality of the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" law in the 21st century. This leg of the will include Army veterans Jarrod Chlapowski, Alexander Nicholson and Patrick English.

Science and Environmental Decision Making: from the Lab to the White House and Beyond - Rosina Bierbaum
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Rosina Bierbaum was acting director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy for the President in the Clinton White House. As the Administration's senior scientific advisor on environmental research and development, she provided scientific input and guidance on global change, air and water quality, endangered species, biodiversity, ecosystem management, endocrine disruptors, environmental monitoring, natural hazards, and energy research and development. She is now Professor and Dean, School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan.

African-American Designers in Chicago, 1920s-1980s - Victor Margolin
7:00 PM – Curtiss Auditorium - Victor Margolin is Professor of Design History at the University of Illinois, Chicago. He is the author of several books on design, most recently The Politics of the Artificial: Essays on Design and Design Studies (2002). He is the editor of Design Discourse: History, Theory, Criticism (1989) and the co-editor of Discovering Design: Exploration in Design Studies (1995) and The Idea of Design (1996).