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2005 Pesek Colloquium on Sustainable Agriculture - Energy and Sustainable Agriculture - Hunter Lovins
2:30 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Hunter Lovins is President and Founder of Natural Capitalism, Inc. In 1982 she co-founded RMI with Amory Lovins, and proceeded to lead that organization as its CEO for Strategy until 2002. Under her leadership, RMI grew into an internationally recognized research center, widely celebrated for its innovative thinking in energy and resource issues. By the time she left, the institute had grown to a staff of 50 people and a $7 million annual budget, half of it earned through programmatic enterprise.

Msgr. James Supple Lecture - Catholics and the Bible
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Seán Charles Martin is Assistant Professor of Biblical Studies at Aquinas Institute of Theology with a specific interest in the Pastoral Epistles and the historical setting of the Christian community in Ephesus. He has a masters in theology from the University of Dallas and a masters in English from the University of Notre Dame, as well as a licentiate and a doctorate of sacred theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University.

Technology, Globalization and Culture Series - Collaboration Models: The C5 Landscape Initiatives and ISEA2006 Symposium/ZeroOne Festival
7:00 PM – Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall - Joel Slayton is an artist, writer, researcher, and tenured professor at San Jose State University where he is Director of the CADRE Laboratory for New Media, an interdisciplinary academic program in the School of Art and Design. He is also President of C5 Corporation, a hybrid form of authorship intersecting research, corporate culture and artistic enterprise.

A Town Hall Meeting
7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Jeff Johnson, ISU Alumni Association president and immediate past-president of the Ames Chamber of Commerce, will moderate a meeting to obtain further input as President Gregory Geoffroy prepares to make a decision on the future of VEISHEA.

ISCORE Keynote Speaker on Race and Ethnicity - Lee Mun Wah
12:45 PM – South Ballroom, Memorial Union - Lee Mun Wah is a Chinese American therapist, documentary filmmaker, educator, poet, and the Executive Director and founder of StirFry Seminars. Oprah Winfrey televised a one-hour special on his work and life which was seen by over 15 million viewers. Since then, thousands have taken his seminars and attended his lectures and trainings. For more information about attending the Iowa State Conference on Race and Ethnicity, contact: iscore@iastate.edu.

A War Reporter Is Just a Reporter - no more, no less - Kate Webb
8:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Kate Webb is the author of On The Other Side, a book written in 1971 about the Viet Cong, and a co- author of War Torn. After graduating from Melbourne University, Australia in 1964, she joined the Rupert Murdoch-owned Sydney Daily Mirror. She left in 1967 for Vietnam, where she joined United Press International, and stayed until 1977, with postings in Cambodia, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Pittsburgh, Pa., Singapore and Indonesia. She then freelanced for Business Week, the Economist, the London Times and the London Independent and as a part- timer for Reuters covering oil and Indonesian politics. She joined the French news agency where her assignments and postings until her retirement in 2001 included Afghanistan, the 1991 Gulf War, Bangladesh, Nepal, South Korea, Indonesia, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Noumea, the Philippines, Hong Kong and its handover to China. She is currently the Scripps Howard Visiting Professional at the E. W. Scripps School of Journalism, Ohio University.

The Language of Sexual Love - Christopher West
7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Christopher West is widely recognized for his work popularizing John Paul II's theology of the body and his books Good News About Sex & Marriage and Theology of the Body Explained. He teaches the theology of the body at St. John Vianney Theological Seminary in Denver, the Institute of Priestly Formation at Creighton University in Omaha, and at the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family in Melbourne, Australia. He has earned both a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology from the University of Maryland and a Master of Theological Studies from the John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage & Family in Washington, D.C.

Gender, Islam and Democracy. - Fauzia Ahmed
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Fauzia Ahmed is resident scholar with Brandeis University Women's Studies Research Center, and a David E. Bell Fellow at the Center for Population and Development Studies at Harvard University's School of Public Health. She has years of experience working with and studying women's groups and development projects in East and Southeast Asia. She has served as consultant on many task forces and non-governmental organizations focused on women, development and social justices issues in the U.S., Thailand, Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Kenya, Tanzania, and the U.K.

Technology, Globalization and Culture Series - Leveraging a Commodity Business World Wide - Al Renken
7:00 PM – Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall - Al Renken is President of Primary Metals and retired Vice President of Alcoa.

Race and Justice - Alfredo Parrish
7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Alfredo Parrish wrote about attorneys in Outside In: African-American History in Iowa, and is a managing partner in the law firm of Parrish, Kruidenier, Moss, Dunn, Boles, Gribble, and Cook. His practice includes the areas of civil rights and criminal law. He is a graduate of the University of Iowa College of Law.