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ISCORE Keynote Speaker - NASA Mission Highlights - John Herrington
12:30 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - John Herrington was the first American Indian to fly in space when he flew on the shuttle Endeavour. Endeavour docked on the International Space Station on November 25, 2002, delivering a new crew and cargo. His mission included 3 spacewalks to repair and replace space station equipment. He has an undergraduate degree in mathematics form the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, a masters in aeronautical engineering from the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, and is an enrolled member of the Chickasaw Nation. All ISU students are encouraged to register for the free ISCORE conference. For information on the entire conference, go to: www.admissions.iastate/ISCORE

Institute on World Affairs - Israeli- Palestinian Dialogue: We Refuse to Be Enemies - Taleb Al- Harithi and Jessica Nevo
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Two peace activists from the Middle East, one Palestinian and one Israeli, are in the United States on a Fulbright Fellowship for Professionals. They will be speaking about their work in Israel and Palestine, about the ongoing Israeli and Palestinian peace movements and the impact of the occupation on Palestine and Israel. Their presentations will address the work of Palestinian and Israeli peace activists during the current intifada, and the necessity of building alliances. Dr.Taleb Al-Harithi is a founder of the Palestine Peace Society, and has worked with a variety of Israeli peace organizations, including Gush Shalom and Peace Now. He is a Geo-Environmentalist and part of the Environmental Quality Authority of Palestine. His home is in Edna, a village west of Hebron in the West Bank. He is currently a Humphrey Fellow at University of California, Davis. Jessica Nevo is sociologist, member of Women in Black and New Profile, and has been a human rights and feminist activist in Israel since 1984. She is a sociologist and educator. Her work has focused on issues of gender violence, domestic terror, and militarism. Her current research interests include the International Criminal Court and gender justice, and transitional justice in Palestine and Israel. She lives in Haifa, and is currently a Humphrey Fellow at Rutgers University, New Jersey, and an intern in the International Center for Transitional Justice.

A Consumer's Guide to Brave New World: Stem Cells, Human Cloning and the Sanctity of Human Life - Wesley J. Smith
7:00 PM – 101 Carver - Wesley J. Smith is a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute of Seattle, and an attorney and consultant for the International Task Force on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide. He has filed amicus briefs opposing the legalization of assisted suicide and on other bioethical issues in federal and state courts, including in the United States Supreme Court. He has authored or co-authored eight books including Forced Exit: The Slippery Slope from Assisted Suicide to Legalized Murder; Culture of Death: The Assault on Medical Ethics in America; Power Over Pain, a consumer's guide to obtaining good pain control; and A Consumer's Guide to Brave New World.

Will Title IX Survive? - Christine Grant
12:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Christine Grant is a crusader for gender equity in intercollegiate athletics and has along association with Title IX. She was the Women's Athletic Director at the University of Iowa for 27 years, a position which she held since the department was established in 1973. She was a founding member of the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women, serving as President of that association from 1979-82, and was on the Board of Directors of the National Association of Collegiate Women's Athletic Administrators, serving as President of that association from 1987-98 and chairing the Gender Equity Committee.

Braless Banshees vs. Brainless Barbies: Feminism for Today - Amy Richards and Jennifer Baumgardner
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Amy Richards is a contributing editor to Ms. magazine and has worked as a consultant to the Ms. Foundation for Women and Voters for Choice. She is a board member of the Third Wave Foundation, and launched public education campaigns like Why Vote? and I Spy Sexism. She is also on the Council of Advocates for Planned Parenthood NYC and was named one of Ms. magazine's "21 Young Leaders for the 21st Century." Jennifer Baumgardner is a pundit on She Span and works with organizations such as Planned Parenthood, Honor the Earth, Third Wave Foundation, and History in Action. The two co-authored MANIFESTA: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future.

2003 Pesek Colloquium - Food, Farming, Fear: The Power of Ideas to Create the World We Want - Frances Moore Lappe
2:30 PM – Rooms 220-240, Scheman Building - Frances Moore Lappe, author of Scarcity Myths: The Power of Ideas to Shape the World We Want, is the co-founder of two national organizations focused on food and the roots of democracy. In 1975, she founded the California-based Institute for Food and Development Policy (now known more commonly as Food First). This action-based non-profit organization organizes and puts forth information on the causes of and solutions for world hunger. In 1990, Lappe co-founded the Center for Living Democracy, a ten-year initiative that inspires and prepares people to make democracy a rewarding, practical, everyday approach to solving society's problems. Her first book, Diet for a Small Planet, was released in 1971 and was instrumental in helping a generation rethink issues on food and hunger. Some of Lappe's other books include Mozambique and Tanzania: Asking the Big Questions (1979), Aid as Obstacle: 20 Questions About Our Foreign Aid and the Hungry (1980), World Hunger: Twelve Myths (1986), Rediscovering America's Values (1989), and The Quickening of America: Rebuilding Our Nation (1994). Her most recent work, Hope's Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet (2002) is a narrative of small-scale democratic movements worldwide where people are working to solve problems of hunger and lack of economic opportunity.

Iowa State Institute of Science and Society - Science and Society Dialogue: Fifty Years after Snow's "Two Cultures" - Neal Lane
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Neal Lane served as the Director of the National Science Foundation and was a member of the National Science Board. He currently holds appointments at Rice University as a University Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and Senior Fellow of the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy.

IRAQ - A Forum
12:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - James McCormick is the panel moderator and Chair, ISU Political Science Department; Kathleen McQuillen, Iowa Program Coordinator, American Friends Service Committee, an organization providing humanitarian aid for refugees and victims of war; and Brian Girvin is Professor of Comparative Politics, University of Glasgow, and a visiting faculty member of the ISU Political Science Department

THINKING MORALLY ABOUT WAR
7:30 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - After a short explanation of the just war theory and other ethical perspectives on war by John Donaghy, participants will have an opportunity to discuss the moral issues involved in small-group settings. The event is designed to help participants clarify their own moral response to war. The hour-long program will include opportunities for participants to dialogue with others who may hold opposing views, and will be facilitated by John Donaghy, Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies and Director of Campus Ministry, St. Thomas Aquinas Church & Catholic Student Center. Sponsored by the Religious Leaders Association.

Inside Iraq - Rehan Mullick
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Rehan Mullick worked with the United Nations Iraqi-based Office of the Humanitarian Coordinator, arriving in Baghdad in September 2000. As a member of the staff overseeing the implementation of the Oil-for-Food Program, he helped to assess and monitor humanitarian conditions in Iraq, and measure the impact of "Oil for Food" supplies in the country. He will share what he learned about Iraq's current state of affairs from this experience. He will also provide an overview of the history, government and people of Iraq. Dr. Mullick was born in Pakistan, holds dual citizenship with the U.S., and earned a doctorate in sociology from Iowa State University.