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Leadership and Social Responsibility - Angela Davis
8:00 PM – Stephens Auditorium, ISU Center - Angela Davis is known internationally for her work to combat all forms of oppression. Her political activism began when she was a youngster in Birmingham, Alabama, and continued over the years in her work as a student, teacher, writer, scholar, and activist/organizer. In 1969 that she came to national attention after being removed from her teaching position in the Philosophy Department at UCLA as a result of her social activism and her membership in the Communist Party, USA. In 1970, she was placed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List on false charges, and was the subject of an intense police search that drove her underground, and that culminated in one of the most famous trials in recent U.S. history, leading to her acquittal in 1972. Her articles and essays have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, and she is the author of five books, including Angela Davis: An Autobiography; Women, Race, and Class; Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday; and The Angela Y. Davis Reader. She is in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. In 1994, she was appointed to the University of California Presidential Chair in African American and Feminist Studies.

At the Corner of Hip Hop and Feminism - Joan Morgan
7:30 PM – Benton Auditorium, Scheman Building, ISU Center - Joan Morgan has written extensively about music and gender issues for Madison, Interview, MS, More, and Spin magazine, where she was contributing editor and columnist. Formerly the Executive Editor of Essence, she is the author of When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost. She was a staff writer at Vibe magazine for three years, and her work appears in numerous college texts, as well as books on feminism, music and African-American culture. Part of the National Affairs Series on "Defining Values in American Politics."

Against the Grain: How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization - Richard Manning
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Richard Manning is a newspaper editor and investigative journalist based in Montana and southern Idaho whose articles have been widely published in leading publications around the world. He is the author of seven important books on environmental issues, including: Against the Grain: How Agriculture Hijacked Civilization; Food's Frontier; Inside Passage; One Round River: The Curse of Gold and the Fight for the Big Blackfoot; Grassland: The History, Biology, Politics and Promise of the American Prairie; and Last Stand: Logging, Journalism and the Case for Humility. He has won numerous prestigious awards for investigative journalism and science and environmental writing. Part of the Second Annual Symposium on Wildness & Wilderness. 7-7:45 pm - World Port will perform on the wind syntheiszer and guitar.

The Hydrogen Economy: Opportunities, Costs, Barriers, and R&D Needs - Michael Ramage
8:00 PM – Gallery, Memorial Union - Michael Ramage is retired Executive Vice President, ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company. Previously Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Mobil Oil Corporation. He has broad experience in many aspects of the petroleum and chemical industries, and is Director of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and a member of the National Academy of Engineering, serving on its council. This is part of the Sigma Xi Lecture series.

It's the End of the World as We Know It - How Do You Feel? - Adrian Sannier
6:00 PM – Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall - Adrian Sannier has held positions in several technology firms, including Schlumberger Technologies; Applicon, where his team created the first line of CAD software for the Macintosh; Cimlinc; and EAI Interactive, where he served as Vice President and General Manager. In 2001, he was named Stanley Professor of Interdisciplinary Engineering at Iowa State University, during which time he was also Associate Director for the Virtual Reality Applications Center. Sannier became University Technology Officer at Arizona State University in 2005. Under a long-range technology plan in support of the New American University, he is currently identifying and applying new technologies to improve academic, administrative, and research environments. Part of the Technology, Globalization, and Culture series.

Feral Zones in Urban Landscapes
4:00 PM – Oak Room, Memorial Union - Panel: David Zimmerman (moderator), ISU Dept. of English; Mira Engler, ISU Dept. of Landscape Architecture; James Pease, ISU Dept. of Natural Resource Ecology & Management. This panel will explore the notion of wildness in the urban landscape: what it is, what it means, and what it is becoming. Part of the Second Annual Symposium on Wildness & Wilderness.

Truth and the Strangeness of Fiction: How a Memory Becomes a Narrative
2:30 PM – Oak Room, Memorial Union - Panel Members: Matthew Abbott (moderator), ISU Dept. of English, Alicia Hernandez, ISU Dept. of English; Jenny Maddox, ISU Dept. of English; Julia Sweet, ISU Dept. of English. Part of the Second Annual Symposium on Wildness & Wilderness

Domestication & Eco-Catastrophe
1:00 PM – Oak Room, Memorial Union - Panel: Roger Gipple (moderator), Agrestal Fund; Marc Edward, Iowa Department of Natural Resources; Lonnie Gamble, Co-founder of Abundance Ecovillage in Fairfield, Iowa; Richard Manning, author/environmental journalist. Part of the Second Annual Symposium on Wildness & Wilderness.

Race and Gender in the Classroom at ISU - A Forum
12:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - University administrators, faculty and students discuss strategies for dealing with issues of race and gender in the classroom. Laura Rendon, Professor and Department Chair of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies; Connie Hargrave, Associate Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction; and Engineering Dean Mark Kushner will share strategies for dealing with issues of race and gender in the classroom. Jill Bystydzienski, Director of the Women's Studies Program and Sociology Professor, will moderate the discussion with audience members.

The Elements and Imagination
10:30 AM – Oak Room, Memorial Union - Panel: Jon Billman, (moderator) ISU Dept. of English; Lee Honeycutt, ISU Dept. of English; A. Whitney Sanford, ISU Religious Studies Program; Scott Stevens, Meteorologist. Weather is our next frontier. This panel will dowse such subject matter as elemental energy, ethics and even weaponry. Part of the Second Annual Symposium on Wildness & Wilderness.