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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).

Technology, Globalization, and Culture Series - Pietra Rivoli
6:30 PM – Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall - Pietra Rivoli is associate professor at Georgetown, where she teaches corporate and international finance. She is also involved in Georgetown University's Licensing Oversight Committee, which overseas workplace issues for Georgetown apparel producers, the University's Committee for Social Responsibility in Investing, and the Vital Voices partnership, a University initiative in executive education for women from developing countries. Her research areas include corporate and international finance as well as ethical and social issues related to finance, and she is the author of the book Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy. Part of the Technology, Globalization, and Culture series.

Environmental Ethics and the Role of the Farmer: Steward, Mediator, Entrepreneur? Charles Blatz
7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Charles Blatz is a philosophy professor at the University of Toledo. His areas of specialization include ethics and social and political philosophy (with applications to the environment, to agriculture and to international development).

The Truth About Hybrids - Chris Schneider
6:00 PM – South Ballroom, Memorial Union - Chris Schneider, "The Hybrid Guru" as heard on Wisconsin Public Radio and in hundreds of clinics, will discuss the 70 mpg speed limit and partial zero emissions, hybrids, compressed natural gas and fuel cell vehicles. He will share his research on nearly 200 hybrids of all makes to dispel the numerous myths regarding hybrid vehicles. He has degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame.

Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think - George Lakoff
7:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - George Lakoff is the author of Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think. He is a professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, a Senior Fellow at The Rockridge Institute and member of the advisory board of the Frameworks Institute. He is also the author of Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things and co-author of Metaphors We Live By and More than Cool Reason, Philosophy in the Flesh and Where Mathematics Comes From. Part of the National Affairs Series.

ISCORE Keynote Address on Race and Ethnicity - Frank H. Wu
12:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Frank H. Wu is the Dean of Wayne StateUniversity Law School in Detroit. He also served on the law faculty of Howard University, and as Clinic Director. He has been an adjunct professor at Columbia University, a visiting professor at University of Michigan, and a teaching fellow at Stanford University.He is the author of Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White and co-author of Race, Rights and Reparation: Law and the Japanese American Internment. His writing has appeared on a professional basis in such periodicals as the Washington Post, Detroit Free Press, Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun, Chronicle of Higher Education, Legal Times, and Asian Week.For more information about attending the Iowa State Conference on Race and Ethnicity, go to: http://www.admissions.iastate.edu/iscore/registration.html

Women's Triumphs in Post-Soviet Russia - Helena Goscilo
7:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Helena Goscilo is UCIS Research Professor and Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pittsburgh. She is one of the most prominent American scholars of Russian feminism, gender and culture. She has authored and edited more than a dozen volumes, among them Balancing Acts; Dehexing Sex: Russian Womanhood during and after Glasnost; TNT: The Explosive World of Tatyana Tolstaya's Fiction; Russian Culture in the 1990s; and Politicizing Magic: From Russian to Soviet Wondertales (with M. Balina and M. Lipovetsky).

Values in Post-Katrina America - Valerie Grim, Peter Orazem and Steven Garasky
7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Valerie Grim is African American and African Diaspora Studies Professor and Interim Chair at Indiana University, and was interim chair of the African American Studies Program here at Iowa State. She has done extensive research in the area of African American, rural communities. Peter F. Orazem is University Professor of Economics and Director of the Industrial Relations Program at Iowa State. Steven Garasky, Human Development and Family Studies expert on public policy, will moderate. Part of National Affairs Series.

Technology, Globalization, and Culture Series - Chris Nelson
6:00 PM – Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall - Since 1993, Chris Nelson has served as President of Kemin Industries, a global nutritional ingredient company that improves human and animal health through molecular innovations, and whose products touch 900 million people daily. Nelson, who received his doctorate in Biochemistry and Biophysics from Washington State University, holds 15 patents and has authored numerous peer-reviewed research studies. He serves on the board of the National Institutes of Health, Technical Advisory Committee; the National Forum for Agricultural Executives Council; Drake University College of Business Administration National Advisory Board; and The Greater Des Moines Partnership Executive Committee. Part of the Technology, Globalization, and Culture series.

The Thin Line - A Performance with Discussion
7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - A performance dealing with eating disorders by Abigail Rose Solomon. A question and answer period will follow with a local treatment team as well as breakout discussion groups.