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Bioethics Program - Defining Biodiversity: Do We Know What We Are Trying To Save? - Bryan Norton
7:00 PM – Gold Room, Memorial Union - Bryan Norton is professor of Philosophy at Georgia Institute of Technology and author of Why Preserve Natural Variety among other books, and is well known for his work on philosophy of ecology and environmental law.

Brazilian-Portuguese Association - Samba Workshop - Armando Duarte
7:00 PM – Room 136, Union Drive Community Center - Armando Duarte, Associate Professor of Dance, University of Iowa, is artistic director of Duarte Dance Works. A dancer, teacher and choreographer Armando Duarte, a native Brazilian, holds a BS degree in Physical Education from University of São Paulo and an MFA degree in Choreography and Performance from New York University Tisch School of the Arts. He has toured the world extensively as a founding member of the internationally known Cisne Negro (Black Swan) Dance Company from São Paulo. The Brazilian Carnival to be held on Saturday, February 28, 2004. This will give participants a chance to learn about the history of carnival and practice dance steps with an expert in the field.

Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities Series - Sense of Place in the Contemporary Crime Thriller - James Roberto Curtis
7:00 PM – Gallery, Memorial Union - James Roberto Curtis is an associate professor of geography at California State University, Long Beach. He is the coauthor of The Mexican Border Cities: Landscape Anatomy and Place Personality and The Cuban American Experience: Culture, Images, and Perspectives. He is also the author of the award-winning novel Shang�. Curtis bridges the gap between academic scholarship and creative writing as they relate to issues of identity and environment. He is interested in the character of urban places, especially Third World cities. Curtis's talk will draw on his scholarly pursuits in the areas of geography, creative writing, and Latino studies but will focus on the sense of place in popular literature: crime thrillers.

College of Design 25th Anniversary Lecture - How We Get Through Airport Security: Cities, Product Design, and Where Stuff Comes From - Harvey Molotch
7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Harvey Molotch is a professor of sociology and metropolitan studies at New York University, where he conducts research on issues of city growth and urban security as well as on product design and development. He is the author of Where Stuff Comes From, four other books, and several hundred articles, chapters and reviews. He has been a frequent participant on various public and commercial radio and television programs, including the BBC's "Thinking Aloud." Before joining the faculty at NYU, Molotch was a Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics, chair of sociology and professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, as well as a visiting professor at Northwestern University, University of Essex, Lund University, and SUNY Stony Brook.

Issues in Agriculture - Renewing the Countryside
7:00 PM – Hughes Auditorium, Reiman Gardens - Admission Free - Stories and photos from the recently published book Renewing the Countryside-Iowa will be presented by Jerry DeWitt, photographer and ISU Extension entomologist, and other book participants. Renewing the Countryside-Iowa highlights the activities of Iowans making a living and creating a quality of life that is good not only economically but good for the local community and environment. Among the participants will be local producers Larry Cleverley and the "Goat rnoms" of Northern Prairie Chevre; Frederick Kirschenmann, Director, Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture; and writer/editor Shellie Orngard.

Phi Beta Kappa - Radical Evil: A Philosophical Interrogation - Richard J. Bernstein
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Richard J. Bernstein is the author of Radical Evil: A Philosophical Interrogation; Freud and the Legacy of Moses; Hannah Arendt and the Jewish Question; The New Constellation: The Ethical-Political Horizons of Modernity/Postmodernity; Philosophical Profiles: Essays in a Pragmatic Mode; Beyond Objectivism and Relativism: Science, Hermeneutics and Praxis; The Restructuring of Social and Political Theory; and Praxis and Action. He is the Vera List Professor of Philosophy and dean of the Graduate Faculty in the New School for Social Research.

The Social Consequences of Affirmative Action - Elijah Anderson
7:00 PM – Campanile Room, Memorial Union - Elijah Anderson is the author of Streetwise: Race, Class, and Change in an Urban Community and The Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City, among many publications. He is the Charles and William L. Day Distinguished Professor of the Social Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania and associat director of the Center for Urban Ethnography.

Black History Month - Goldtrap Lecture - The Poet as Prophet and Oracle - Ishmael Reed
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Ishmael Reed is the author of more than twenty books--novels, essays, plays, and poetry--that have been translated into seven languages. He has also edited two major anthologies including From Totems to Hip-Hop: A Multicultural Anthology of Poetry Across the Americas, 1900-2002. He has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and his novels Mumbo Jumbo and The Last Days of Louisiana Red were nominated for the National Book Award, He taught at Harvard, Yale and Dartmouth, and for 20 years has been on the faculty at University of California, Berkeley.

Sigma Xi Lecture - Medical Pluralism and Patterns of Medical Choice in a Southern Mexican City: Some Perspectives and Observations
8:00 PM – Campanile Room, Memorial Union - Dr. Michael Whiteford is Professor of Anthropology and Interim Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. His research interests focus on alternative curing practices and health-care decision-making processes, and he has worked in Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico. His research results have been published in journals such as Medical Anthropological Quarterly, Human Organization, Medical Anthropology, and Social Science and Medicine. He is co-author (with John Friedl) of an introductory anthropology textbook entitled The Human Portrait. With his brother, he edited Crossing currents: Continuity and Change in Latin America. For the past eight years, Dr. Whiteford has been editor of the quarterly Newsletter published by the Society for Applied Anthropology.

Is it Sharing or Stealing? File-sharing and Copyright Issues on your Campus
8:00 PM – Maintenance Shop, Memorial Union - Short presentations by each panel member will be followed by an open question & answer session. Barbara Mack is an associate professor in the Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication. She has served as executive assistant to former ISU President Martin Jischke and has worked as a reporter and Attorney for the Des Moines Register. Her research interests include media law and ethics. Mike Bowman is assistant director of customer services for Academic Information Technologies and serves as Iowa State University's designated Digital Millennium Copyright Act Agent. Bethany Schuttinga is Assistant Dean of Students under Judicial Affairs in the Dean of Students Office. Her work includes investigating academic and non-academic complaints of student misconduct and interpreting general university regulations and guidelines.