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Msgr. James A. Supple Lecture - Salvation: Who can be Saved? A Catholic Perspective - Fahey
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Fahey is editor of THEOLOGICAL STUDIES, a major US Catholic theological journal, and the Emmett Doerr Distinguished Professor of Catholic Theology at Marquette University. He recently received the John Courtney Murray Award for Distinguished Achievement in Theology by the Catholic TheologicalSociety of America.

A Multi-Media Presentation: I Hope You Don't Mind Me Asking - Kip Fulbeck
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Kip Fulbeck, is an Asian American multicultural expert whose videos tackle Asian Americans' issues with regard to race, using humor, combined with manipulated television and movie clips and fast-paced personal monologues. He is a professor of art and Asian American Studies at University of California, Santa Barbara.

Barbara E. (Mound) Hansen Lecture Series - Making Links: A Parent-Professional Collaborative Approach - Janet Gonzalez- Mena
7:00 PM – Mahlstede Room, Reiman Gardens - Janet Gonzalez-Mena is a consultant, trainer, author, teacher, and director. She has expertise working with early childhood programs, infants and toddlers, abused and neglected children, children with special needs, and diversity issues.

A Festival: Declare Yourself
12:00 PM – -7 pm, Great Hall, Memorial Union - Declaration of Independence Display 12 noon-7 p.m., Great Hall, Memorial Union A rare copy of the Declaration of Independence will be on display in the Great Hall of the Memorial Union. This will include an original 10-minute comedic film starring actors Ben Stiller and Vince Vaughn. Giveaways, touch screen-voter booths and other voter registration activities will be housed in two, adjacent tents. Voting is a serious subject, but the Declare Yourself campaign educates and empowers in a hip, fun, stylish, and entertaining way.

A Debate - SAME SEX MARRIAGE
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Camilla Taylor is a Staff Attorney in the Midwest Regional Office of Lambda Legal, the oldest and largest legal organization dedicated to advancing the civil rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, the transgendered and people with HIV or AIDS. She is also the point person for Lambda Legal's Marriage Project. An opposing view will be provided by Mike Hartwig, executive director of Marriage Matters at the Iowa Family Policy Center, an organization working "to strengthen Iowa's families by presenting a traditional foundation of principles," and amend the Iowa Constitution and support federal efforts to define marriage as a union only between a man and a woman. Barbara Mack, Greenlee School of Journalism and Mass Communication, will moderate.

Bioethics Program - The Use of Animals in Higher Education: Problems, Alternatives, and Recommendations - Jonathan Balcomb
7:00 PM – Cardinal Room, Memorial Union - Jonathan Balcomb is the Associate Director for Education in the Animal Research section of the Humane Society of the US and author of many well known and widely referenced works on the humane use of animals in research.

The Sacrifice of Isaac in Jewish, Christian and Islamic Art and Theology - Shalom Sabar
4:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Shalom Sabar is a professor of Art History and Jewish and Comparative Folklore at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He serves as the editor of Rimonim, the only periodical in Hebrew on Jewish art (published by Israel's Ministry of Education); co-editor of the annual Jerusalem Studies in Jewish Folklore; co-editor of a series of 20 volumes on the Jews in the lands of Islam and the author of two books in the series - on the life cycle and on the year cycle of these communities. Jewish, Christian and Muslim ideas about art are examined.

Institute on World Affairs - Outside Looking In - European Anti-Americanism and Anti-Semitism: Ever Present Though Always Denied - Andrei Markovits
8:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Andrei Markovits is the Karl W. Deutsch Collegiate Professor of Comparative Politics and German Studies at the University of Michigan. A specialist on the politics of Western and Central Europe -- Germany and Austria in particular -- Markovits has published a dozen books and edited volumes; well over 100 scholarly articles; 50 review essays; and many articles and interviews in the American and European press. His books include: German Politics and Society; From Bundesrepublik to Deutschland: German Politics after Reunification; The German Predicament: Memory and Power in the New Europe; The German Left: Red, Green and Beyond; and The Politics of Scandal: Power and Process in Liberal Democracies.

Bisexuality and Science Fiction: The Politics of Identity - Cecilia Tan
8:00 PM – Campanile, Memorial Union - Cecilia Tan is a leading author of erotic science fiction whose books include: Black Feathers; The Velderet; and Telepaths Don't Need Safewords. Her stories, essays, and articles have appeared in dozens of magazines and anthologies including Best America Erotica, Best Lesbian Erotica, Playboy Online, The Mammoth Book of New Erotica, On A Bed of Rice, To Be Continued, Queer View Mirror, Dark Angels, Penthouse, Ms. magazine, and Publishers Weekly. She is the co-owner Circlet Press, and also has a budding baseball writing career, writing for Yankees.com, Yankees Magazine, and a book project for Wiley & Sons, Fifty Greatest Yankee Games due out in 2005.

Goddesses Past and Present - Nikki Bado- Fralick
12:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Nikki Bado-Fralick is an assistant professor in Philosophy & Religious Studies; she will discuss the role of the goddess in historical, religious, and contemporary contexts. This lecture is in conjuction with an art exibit by Larry Kirkwood titled, "The Body Image Project: Beauty as a Relative Concept." The artist's work will also be displayed in the Pioneer room.