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Technology, Globalization and Culture Series - Information Technology and Globalization: which is the cause and which the effect? - George Strawn
7:00 PM – Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall - George Strawn is Chief Information Officer at the National Science Foundation. He was Director of Computation Center at Iowa State University.

Women Developing Power: A Panel
3:30 PM – Gallery, Memorial Union - Arvonne Fraiser is the founder of the Humphrey Center on Women and Public Policy, and editor of the book, Developing Power: How Women Transformed International Development. Cornelia Butler Flora is the Charles F. Curtiss Distinguished Professor of Agriculture and Sociology and Director, North Central Regional Center for Rural Development, Iowa State University. Kathy Staudt, a prolific author and professor of political science at the University of Texas, El Paso, and active in Women on the Border (http://www.womenontheborder.org/activists_on_border.htm). Elise Smith is co-founder and president of Women's Edge Coalition http://www.womensedge.org/pages/aboutus/detailpage.jsp?id=47 All these women were major pioneers in women in development, and are currently engaged in key aspects of the international women's movement.

Women's World Leadership: Lessons and Myths - Laura Liswood
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Laura Liswood is secretary general and co-founder of the Council of Women World Leaders, which is composed of women presidents, prime ministers, and heads of government, and works to expand the understanding of leadership, establishes a network of resources for high-level women leaders, and provides a forum for the group to contribute input and shape the international issues. She also is a senior advisor at the global investment bank, Goldman, Sachs & Co., and co-founded The White House Project dedicated to electing a woman president in the United States. She holds a Harvard MBA and a law degree from the University of California, Davis.Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics Mary Louise Smith Spring Scholar

History of Science Series - Physics & Civics: American Jews in Twentieth Century Science & Science among Twentieth Century American Jews
8:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Noah Efron is at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University this year. His home university is Bar Ilan University where he is a professor in the History of Science program. His specialty is science and religion. Among his publications is Real Jews: Secular Versus Ultra-orthodox: The Struggle for Jewish Identity in Israel (Basic Books, 2003)

Technology, Globalization and Culture Series - Globalization, Universities & Economic Competition - Michael Crow
6:30 PM – Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall - Michael Crow is President of Arizona State University.

Barbara Hansen Lecture in Early Childhood Development - Intervention Strategies for Challenging Behavior in Young Children - Judith Carta
7:00 PM – Oak Room, Memorial Union - Judith Carta is a professor in the Department of Special Education and senior scientist with the Schiefelbusch Institute for Life-Span Studies at the University of Kansas, Lawrence. She was a post-doctoral fellow and did research with children with disabilities from diverse cultural backgrounds at the Juniper Gardens Children's Project, University of Kansas, and has her doctorate in Special Education from that university.

The Cultures of Carnival: A Symposium - A Roundtable
3:30 PM – Cardinal Room, Memorial Union - Samuel Kinser, Barry Jean Ancelet, Thomas Nussbaumer, James Green, James Gill, Paul Griffiths (ISU History Department), Susan Carlson,ISU Associate Provost. Jim Dow, ISU Foreign Languages and Literatures Department, will moderate. For more information about the entire conference go to: http:// www.iastate.edu/~ceah/symposium_info.html

The Cultures of Carnival: A Symposium - Gender Benders and Carnival Queens: A Slide Presentation - James Green
12:45 PM – Cardinal Room, Memorial Union - James Green is an associate professor of history at Brown University and past-president of the Brazilian Studies Association. His research interests focus on Brazilian history and gender and sexuality in Latin America. His award-winning book, Beyond Carnival: Male Homosexuality in Twentieth- Century Brazil, 1999), is a cultural history of homosexuality in Brazil. In it Green devotes a chapter to describing and analyzing the homosexual appropriation of Rio's Carnival, from the elite masquerade balls of the 1930s, to the drag balls of the 1950s, to the samba school parades of the 1960s and beyond. For more information about the entire conference go to:http:// www.iastate.edu/~ceah/symposium_info.html

41st Paul L. Errington Memorial Lecture - Ecological and Social Health: It Matters What We Measure - James Karr
7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - James Karr is professor in the Department of Fisheries and Zoology at the University of Washington. He is the author of Restoring Life in Running Waters: Better Biological Monitoring and many other books and over 100 articles. He is the recipient of the 2004 American Fisheries Society Carl R. Sullivan Fishery Conservation Award for outstanding contributions to fisheries and aquatic biology, and played a major role in the development of the Index of Biotic Integrity.

Technology, Globalization and Culture Series - Engineering in the Next Decade - Robert M. Chiusano
6:30 PM – Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hal - Robert M. Chiusano is Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Rockwell Collins Commercial Systems.