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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.

Symposium on Wildness, Wilderness and the Creative Imagination - Dwellings: A Reading - Linda Hogan
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Linda Hogan has published over ten books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, including the novels Mean Spirit, Solar Storms, and Power, and the poetry collections, Savings and AThe Book of Medicines. She is the author of the nonfiction books, The Woman Who Watches Over the World: a Native Memoir, and Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World. She received the American Book Award for Seeing Through the Sun. Her novel, Mean Spirit, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She has also been the recipient of a Lannan Foundation Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Linda Hogan has written a documentary narrative about the history of American Indian Religious Freedom, Everything Has a Spirit, seen on PBS.

The Artist as Outlaw
3:30 PM – Oak Room, Memorial Union - This panel of ISU faculty is part of the Symposium on Wildness, Wilderness and the Creative Imagination: David Zimmerman, English, (Moderator); John Monroe, History; Paul Griffiths, History; and Karen Bermann, Architecture.

Readings - Mary Swander and Stephen Pett
1:30 PM – Oak Room, Memorial Union - Readings by ISU Creative Writing faculty Mary Swander and Stephen Pett are part of the Symposium on Wildness, Wilderness and the Creative Imagination.

Dwellings: Wildness in the House
10:45 AM – Oak Room, Memorial Union - This panel of ISU faculty is part of the Symposium on Wildness, Wilderness and the Creative Imagination: Sheryl St. Germain, English, (Moderator); Jim Pease, Dept. of Natural Resource Ecology & Management; Sara Gregg, History; Fred Kirschenmann, Director, The Leopold Center.

The Practice of the Wild: Imagining Wild(er)ness
9:00 AM – Oak Room, Memorial Union - This panel is part of the Symposium on Wildness, Wilderness and the Creative Imagination: Debra Marquart, English, ISU, (Moderator); Roger Gipple, AGRESTAL Board Member; Jack Decker, Agronomy, ISU; Mark Edwards, Iowa Dept. of Natural Resources. For complete information about the entire conference go to - http://www.engl.iastate.edu/graduatestudies/CWsite/events/events.html

Symposium on Wildness, Wilderness and the Creative Imagination - The Mesquaki Landscape in Words, Song and Dance
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - On Remnants of the First Earth: The Mesquaki Landscape in Words, Song, and Dance is a performance and reading by Ray and Stella Young Bear, and the Black Eagle Child Dance Troupe. For complete information about the entire conference go to - http://www.engl.iastate.edu/graduatestudies/CWsite/events/events.html

Trade and Economic Issues - Senator Chuck Grassley
3:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Senator Chuck Grassley is chairman of the Finance Committee in the U.S. Senate. He also serves on the Judiciary Committee, Budget Committee, Agriculture Committee, and the Joint Committee on Taxation. Part of the Institute on World Affairs Series "Cultivating Democracy"

Legislative Forum for ISU Students
12:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - State Representatives Beth Wessel-Kroeschell and Lisa Heddens and Senator Herman Quirmbach will meet with ISU students to listen to their concerns. Co-hosted by GSB.