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The Desire to Speak and the Need to Say Nothing - Bernard MacLaverty
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Irish writer Bernard MacLaverty is the author of four novels including Lamb and Cal, which were produced as films. Grace Notes was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and was followed by The Anatomy School.His short story collections are Secrets, A Time to Dance, The Great Profundo, Walking the Dog, and Matters of Life and Death and Other Stories.He has written many radio and television dramas, and is currently Visiting Writer at Liverpool's John Moores University and Visiting Professor at Glasgow's University of Strathclyde.

Why Medicine Needs Agriculture - Irwin Goldman
8:00 PM – Campanile Room, Memorial Union - Irwin Goldman is Associate Professor of Horticulture, Chair of the Plant Breeding and Plant Genetics Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research interests include vegetable breeding and genetics, the human health attributes of vegetable crops, and the history of plant breeding and genetics. He chairs the USDA RRoot and Bulb Crop Germplasm Committee and the Vegetable Breeding Working Group of the American Society for Horticultural Science. This is part of the Sigma Xi series.

Insect Horror Film Festival
6:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - This celebration of insect life hosted by the ISU Entomology Club includes activities for all ages: hissing cockroaches, giant millipedes, a butterfly tent, a honey bee display, insect displays, an insect tasting event with Cricket Cookies and Mealworm Muffins, and the film, "THEM". Doors open at 6 pm and film starts at 7:30 pm.

Global Justice and Human Rights - Panel of African Indigenous Women
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - World Affairs Series is hosting this panel discussion. MADRE's Executive Director Vivian Stromberg two Indigenous Maasai and Samburu women from Kenya will speak about the struggles of African Indigenous women at the local, national, and international level. Lucy Mulenkei is director of The Indigenous Information Network (IIN), and Rebecca Lolosoli is founder of Umoja Uaso Women's Group, As those primarily responsible for preserving their Peoples' natural resources and traditional knowledge, Indigenous women hold the keys to combating poverty and creating strategies for sustainable development, both in their communities and beyond.

Is Sustainable Transportation Possible? An Environmental Stewardship View - John H. Lumkes
8:00 PM – Gallery, Memorial Union - John H. Lumkes is a professor of Agricultural and Bio-Systems Engineering at Purdue University. He has spent the past 15 years doing research on hybrid vehicles, advanced models and control algorithms to improve driveline and engine efficiencies in vehicles and off-road machinery, and other conservation and renewable technologies. Fall Areopagus Lecture.

The Innocence Project: DNA and the Wrongly Convicted - Barry Scheck
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Barry C. Scheck is Professor of Law and Director of the Innocence Project Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. Best known for his landmark litigation setting standards for forensic applications of DNA technology, he and Peter Neufeld coauthored with Jim Dwyer Actual Innocence: Five Days to Execution and Other Dispatches from the Wrongly Convicted. He is a commissioner on New York's Forensic Science Review Board, first vice president of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and serves on the board of the National Institute of Justice's Commission on the Future of DNA Evidence. He has also represented such notable clients as Hedda Nussbaum, O. J. Simpson, Louise Woodward, and Abner Louima. Prior to joining the Cardozo faculty, he was a staff attorney at the Legal Aid Society of New York.

Advancing Women's Leadership - Roxanne Conlin
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - In 1977, Roxanne Conlin became one of the first two women ever to be a United States Attorney. In 1982, she was narrowly defeated in her effort to become Iowa's first woman governor. She was also the first woman president of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, a 60,000 member organization of consumer attorneys. She has her own law firm in Des Moines, where she exclusively represents people who have been harmed by others, whether by discrimination, products, doctors or vehicles. Most recently, she has been named by the National Law Journal as one of the fifty most influential women lawyers in America, one of the 100 most influential lawyers in America and one of the top 10 litigators.

Why Are We So Obese? - Judith S. Stern
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - The fall Helen LeBaron Hilton Chair is Judith S. Stern, a distinguished professor in the Departments of Nutrition and Internal Medicine in the Division of Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism at the University of California, Davis. She is also the Co-Director of the Collaborative Obesity Research Evaluation Team. An expert on diet and nutrition, Stern has published extensively on nutrition, the effect of exercise on appetite and metabolism, and obesity. Stern has published over 250 research papers in professional journals and over 150 articles in popular magazines such as Redbook and is an Editorial Advisor to Prevention Magazine. Along with Dr. Richard L. Atkinson she is founder of The American Obesity Association, a lay advocacy organization dedicated to advancing understanding of the disease of obesity where she also serves as Vice President.

From South Park to The Daily Show with Jon Stewart - Promoting Comedy Central - Tony Fox
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Tony Fox is Executive Vice President for Corporate Communications at COMEDY CENTRAL. He has been with COMEDY CENTRAL since its launch in 1991. His past experience includes public relations jobs at HBO and head of sports publicity at CBS.Comedy Central reaches over 82 million U.S. cable households. The only all-comedy network, COMEDY CENTRAL broadcasts and eclectic mix of cutting-edge original programming, stand-up comedy, sketch comedy, classic television shows and movies.

The Repression of Language in the University - David Bleich
8:00 PM – Campanile Room, Memorial Union - David Bleich is a Professor in English at the University of Rochester. He is the author of Readings and Feelings, Subjective Criticism, Utopia: The Psychology of a Cultural Fantasy, The Double Perspective: Language, Literacy and Social Relations; Know and Tell: Disclosure, Genre, and Membership in Teaching of Writing and Language Use; editor of Writing With: New Directions in Collaborative Teaching, Learning, and Research, Collaboration and Change in the Academy. Part of Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities series.