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Killer Coke: Colombia, Human Rights and Coca-Cola - Gerado Cajamarca
7:00 PM – Oak Room, Memorial Union - Gerardo Cajamarca is a Colombian trade unionist and political leader who came to the US in exile in 2003 after receiving repeated death threats from a far-right paramilitary group. In Colombia, he worked for the food and beverage workers' union: SINALTRAINAL. Since 1994, seven SINALTRAINAL members working in Coca-Cola facilities have been murdered and hundreds more have been threatened by paramilitaries who operate with support from the Colombian Armed Forces and sometimes Coca-Cola's management. He currently works for the United Steelworkers of America in Minnesota.

Sigma Xi - Future NASA Atmospheric Science Missions - Mark Schoeberl
8:00 PM – Campanile Room, Memorial Union - Mark Schoeberl is an atmospheric scientist who specializes in stratospheric processes including ozone depletion. Since the early 1980's he has worked at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, and is currently the Chief Scientist for the Earth Sciences Directorate. He has been involved in both Arctic and Antarctic stratosphere field expeditions. Dr. Schoeberl is the EOS Aura Project Scientist and the former Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite Project Scientist. For his research on stratospheric processes, Dr. Schoeberl has won numerous awards including the Goddard's William Nordberg Award. Most recently, Dr. Schoeberl has worked on NASA's Earth Science Vision for which he was awarded the NASA Distinguished Service Medal. Dr. Schoeberl grew up in Iowa, and received his Ph.D. in Physics at the University of Illinois.

Islam and Democracy - John L. Esposito
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - John L. Esposito is the Founding Director and Vice-Chair of the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University. He is also University Professor of Religion and International Affairs and of Islamic Studies at Georgetown University, and Editor-in-Chief of The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World and Oxford History of Islam. His more than 25 books include Unholy War: Terror in the Name of Islam, What Everyone Needs to Know about Islam, Modernizing Islam, Islam: The Straight Path; The Islamic Threat: Myth or Reality?; Islam and Democracy (with John 0. Voll); Islam and Politics; Political Islam: Revolution, Radicalism or Reform?; Islam and Secularism in the Middle East (with Azzam Tamimi); The Iranian Revolution: Its Global Impact; Islam, Gender and Social Change and Muslims on the Americanization Path (with Y. Haddad); Voices of Resurgent Islam; Islam in Asia: Religion. Politics, and Society;and Women in Muslim Family Law.

Druze Community in Israel: - Another Perspective on the Israeli Arab Conflict - Zeidan Atashi
8:00 PM – 1414 Molecular Biology Auditorium - Zeidan Atashi is a member of the Israeli-Druze community. In 1972, he was appointed Consul and Head of Information Affairs at the Israeli Consulate General in New York. He then served as a member of the Israeli delegation to the United Nations, becoming the first non-Jewish Israeli to hold such a post. After being elected to the Knesset (Israeli Parliament) he acted as a liaison between the Lebanese Druze in the Golan Heights and the Government of Israel. During his terms in office, he conducted many joint activities with Palestinian leaders in the occupied territories and overseas.

Symposium on Wildness, Wilderness and the Creative Imagination - A Reading - Gary Snyder
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Gary Snyder won the Pulitzer Prize for his collection Turtle Island in 1975 and was a finalist for the National Book Award in 1992. He has been awarded the Bollingen Poetry Prize and Rober Kirsch Lifetime Achievement Award. His other volumes include: The Back Country, Regarding Wave, Axe Handles, The Old Ways and No Nature: New and Selected Poems. Currently, Snyder is a faculty member at the University of California at Davis.

Technology, Globalization and Culture Series - The Truth About Globalization - Robert B. Reich
6:30 PM – Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall - Robert B. Reich, former U.S. labor secretary in the Clinton administration, is a distinguished visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley's Goldman School of Public Policy for the spring semester 2005. He is teaching a course on wealth and poverty, giving public lectures, and working on a new book about leadership and change. He is a University Professor and Maurice Hexter Professor of Social and Economic Policy at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University.

Spiritual Connections to the Land
3:30 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - From an array of spiritual traditions, this panel explore the inter- connectedness of humans to their natural environments: Mary Swander, English, ISU (Moderator); Nikki Bado-Fralick, Philosphy & Religious Studies, ISU; Charles Carpenter, Zen monk, bee keeper, freelance writer; Mary Ellen Moore, author of Lakota Woman.

Readings
1:30 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Readings by ISU Creative Writing faculty Sheryl St. Germain, Debra Marquart, and David Zimmerman are part of the Symposium on Wildness, Wilderness and the Creative Imagination.

Naming the Nameless: Blaming the Blameless: Divining the American Wild
10:45 AM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - This panel is part of the Symposium on Wildness, Wilderness and the Creative Imagination will explore American perspectives on "the wild:" Stephen Pett, English, ISU (Moderator); Julia Badenhope, Landscape Architecture, and Natural Resource Ecology and Management, ISU; James A. Pritchard, Landscape Architecture, and Natural Resource Ecology and Management, author of Preserving Yellowstone's Natural Conditions and co-author of A Green and Permanent Land: Ecology and Agriculture in the Twentieth Century; Sidner Larson, Director of the American Indian Studies Program, ISU, author of Catch Colt and Captured in the Middle; Ray Young Bear, author of Black Eagle Child, Remnants of the First Earth, and The Rock Island Hiking Club.

Symposium on Wildness, Wilderness and the Creative Imagination - Wildness and the Literary Imagination
9:00 AM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - This panel will explore synergetic relationships between the literary and the wild with two acclaimed writers whose works strongly engage the natural world in various genres. Sheryl St. Germain moderates a panel with Linda Hogan and Gary Snyder.