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First Amendment Week - A Religious Feast on the First Amendment!
11:00 AM – Central Campus - The First Amendment Committee will feed the ISU community, this time with hamburgers, while letting them feast on their Freedom of Religion. Debates on religious tolerance, the 10 Commandments in courthouses, gay marriages and other current religious topics will be waged on soap boxes while the assembled also enjoy exhibits from religious groups and You Be the Judge contests.

2005 Distinguished Lecture in Russian, East European and EurAsian Studies - The Soviet Union Vanishes -- or Maybe Not? - Stephen Kotkin
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Stephen Kotkin is Professor of European and Asian History at Princeton University, where he also directs the Russian Studies Program. He has written or edited nine books including, most recently, Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse 1970-2000 and Worlds Together, Worlds Apart: A History of the Modern World from the Mongol Empire to the Present, coauthored with six others. He has served as a consultant to private businesses as well as to foundations, like George Soros' Open Society Institute, in the area of higher education. He writes reviews and essays for The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, Financial Times, The New Republic, and the Times Literary Supplement. He also does radio commentary for NPR and the BBC.

Multi Ethnic Week Keynote Address - The Multiracial Movement - Jungmiwha Bullock
8:00 PM – UDCC Multipurpose Room - Jungmiwha Bullock is Irvine Fellow at the University of Southern California in the interdisciplinary Program of American Studies & Ethnicity. She focuses on transnational "multiracial/ethnic" discourse, with current interests relating to political mobilization and constructions of political participation within the Multiracial Movement. She has a masters in International Education from NYU, and dual undergraduate degrees in Public Relations/Advertising and Marketing from Penn State University. She is currently completing her doctorate at USC.

Losing Faith In Faith: From Preacher to Atheist - Dan Barker
7:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Dan Barker is the Public Relations Director of the Freedom From Religion Foundation and author of Just Pretend: A Freethought Book for Children; Maybe Yes, Maybe No: A Guide for Young Skeptics;Paradise Remembered: A Lenape Indian Childhood, and other stories; Maybe Right, Maybe Wrong: A Guide for Young Thinkers; and Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist. He was an ordained a minister in the Standard Community Church in 1975 and his atheism publicly in 1984.He has an undergraduate degree in Religion from Azusa Pacific University and is a member of the Lenni Lenape (Delaware Indian) Tribe of Native Americans.

The Global Garden Lecture Series - Bonsai in Japanese Prints: The Aesthetic Context for a Delightful Horticultural Art Form - Ivan Hanthorn
7:00 PM – Hughes Auditorium, Reiman Gardens - Ivan Hanthorn is conservator at the Iowa State University Library and associate professor. Bonsai is an ancient art form, recorded in Japanese graphic arts since the 12th century. There are some particularly delightful representations of bonsai found in woodblock prints of the 19th and 20th centuries. Such prints provide an opportunity for a dialog, for they not only depict in static form a living art but they are also a rich design resource for those involved in contemporary bonsai and Japanese gardening. Slides, prints, and bonsai will be a part of this presentation.

First Amendment Week - Freedom of Expression in an Age of Fear - Mary Beth and John Tinker
7:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - In 1965, 13-year-old Mary Beth Tinker, 15-year-old John Tinker and 16- year-old Christopher Eckhardt were suspended from school for wearing black armbands to protest the Vietnam War. Four years later, the Supreme Court decision that resulted from their lawsuit was a glorious victory for the First Amendment rights of students. Mary Beth and John Tinker will discuss the significance of their historic Supreme Court case in an age in which the Supreme Court's 1988 decision on Hazelwood has limited students' rights in student publications and, even more significantly, in an age where fear has overtaken the cause of freedom.

Technology, Globalization and Culture Series - Thriving in a Global Environment - James D. Waters, Jr.
7:00 PM – Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall - James D. Waters, Jr., is General Manager of Hydraulics and Hydraulic Systems at Caterpillar, Inc.

First Amendment Week - Petition - the Forgotten Freedom?
7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - At least three groups in Iowa have successfully petitioned for a redress of grievances in the past year, although they all did it a little differently. Arlen Nichols and Mark Gannon challenged the ISU Foundation in a lawsuit to open the foundation's records and the Iowa Supreme Court ruled in the pair's favor. In Cass County, seven citizens stood up to their sheriff and county attorney when it was reported that the two officials were creating a slush fund out of money received from a fixing speeding tickets. Their attorney, Ronald Feilmeyer, will discuss the case. And in the most recent episode, Iowa State students in February petitioned the city for a special election to lower the amount of time City Council members serve on their terms, so students would be more likely to run for City Council. GSB Speaker Henry Alliger will discuss the petition. Come hear the stories behind the stories.

Technology, Globalization and Culture Series - How to Build and Sustain a Creative Economy in a Period of Globalization - Richard K. Lester
7:00 PM – Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall - Richard K. Lester is Director of the Industrial Performance Center and Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Monsignor James A. Supple Chair of Catholic Studies Lecture - The DaVinci Code and the New Anti-Catholicism - David G. Hunter
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - David G. Hunter, Professor of Religious Studies, holds the Monsignor James Supple Chair of Catholic Studies in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies. Dr. Hunter received a doctorate in theology from the University of Notre Dame. For fifteen years Hunter taught at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. He has published numerous scholarly articles and several books.