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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.

Visual Thinking Process in Design From the Viewpoint of A Person with Autism - Temple Grandin
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Temple Grandin is a designer of livestock handling facilities and an Assistant Professor of Animal Science at Colorado State University. She teaches courses on livestock behaviour and facility design and consults with the livestock industry on facility design, livestock handling, and animal welfare. Facilities she has designed are located in the United States, Canada, Europe, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, and other countries. In North America, almost half of the cattle are handled in a center track restrainer system that she designed for meat plants. Temple Grandin is also autistic, and she describes the unique way her visual mind works and how she first made the connection between her autism and animal temperament in her book Thinking in Pictures. She has appeared on television shows such as 20/20, 48 Hours, CNN Larry King Live, and has been featured in People Magazine, the New York Times, Forbes, and U.S. News and World Report.

Race, Medicine, and the "Discovery" of Sickle Cell Anemia - Todd L. Savitt
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Todd L. Savitt is an historian of medicine at The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University who has written or co-edited four books including Medicine and Slavery: The Diseases and Health Care of Blacks in Antebellum Virginia and Disease and Distinctiveness in the American South.

Institute on National Affairs - Music and the World Outside of MTV - Lorraine Ali
7:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Lorraine Ali is music critic for Newsweek. She has covered everything from the Grammy Awards to the growing subculture of Christian rock and has interviewed everyone from rapper Eve to Johnny Cash. Prior to joining Newsweek, Ali was a senior critic for Rolling Stone, a music columnist for the Los Angeles Times and Mademoiselle, as well as a regular contributor to GQ. Ali has also written for The New York Times, The Village Voice, Entertainment Weekly, Harper's Bazaar and US Magazine. She was voted 1997's Music Journalist of the Year. In 1996, she was Best National Feature Story honors at the Music Journalism Awards.