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Helen LeBaron Hilton Chair - So What Turns You On? Why Some Experiences Are More Engaging Than Others - James Gilmore
8:00 PM – 1010 LeBaron Auditorium - James Gilmore is co-founder of Strategic Horizons LLP, a consulting firm and think tank helping businesses conceive and design new ways of adding value to their economic offerings. Pine and Gilmore challenge traditional business assumptions, point out new market turbulence phenomena, and introduce a new set of questions that drive companies to think differently about themselves and the world in which they compete. James Gilmore began his career with Proctor and Gamble, was a consultant for ten years with Cleveland Consulting Associations, and is a certified instructor of Dr. Edward De Bono's lateral thinking methodologies andPre a member of both the Creative Education Foundation and Creative Thinking Association of America. He serves on the faculty of the Institutes for Organizational Management for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and is a graduate of the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

10th Anniversary Celebration - A Performance: The Yellow Rose of Suffrage - Jane Ann Cox
8:30 PM – Benton Auditorium, Scheman Building, ISU Center - Jane Ann Cox in a one-woman play highlighting the life of feminist leader Carrie Chapman Catt. Catt was born in Iowa and is known as an advocate for women's suffrage. Taking over the leadership role from Susan B. Anthony, her "winning plan" achieved suffrage for women with the passage of an amendment to the U.S. Constitution. She was also a co-founder of the League of Women Voters, and a crusader for world peace. Free to students.

GSB Comedy Festival - Dave Cross & Tony Rock
8:00 PM – Stephens Auditorium, ISU Center - Dave Cross created and starred in HBO's hit Mr. Show; created the role of the jerky, quirky brother in Just Shoot Me; appeared as the buggy morgue guy in Men in Black; and won an Emmy Award for writing on The Ben Stiller Show. Here's a rare opportunity to see this outrageous and hilarious comedian in person. Adult content. Tony Rock has a knack for entertaining, just like his big brother Chis. And he has the kind of talent that lets him film a pilot for Disney AND appear on the Howard Stern Show. Best known for his appearances on Comedy Central, Tony is a regular at LA's Comedy Store and Laugh Factory, and NYC Caroline's. $5 students/$10 students at the door/ $15 nonstudents Tickets available through Ticketmaster

The Conservation Challenges for a New Century: Where Do We Go from Here? - Mike Dombeck
8:00 PM – 1414 Molecular Biology - One of the most renowned and respected contemporary conservationists, Mike Dombeck dedicated a quarter of a century to managing federal lands and natural resources in the long-term public interest. His leadership in the U.S. Bureau of Land Management and as former chief of the Forest Service impacted nearly 500 million acres. His legacy is one of steadfast stewardship for the land, and he is most noted for significant efforts toward watershed health and restoration, sustainable forest ecosystem management, sound forest roads and roadless area protection. Paul L. Errington Memorial Lecture

Biopolitics and Genetically Modified Organisms in the European Union and the US: Race to the Bottom or Convergence to the Top? - Aseem Prakash
4:00 PM – 302 Catt Hall - Aseem Prakash is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Washington where he works in areas of environmental policy, globalization, private governance, and business strategy. He is the author of Greening the Firm: The Politics of Corporate Environmentalism . Professor Prakash has published over twenty papers in areas of business strategy, regulation, and globalization in journals such as World Politics, Policy Sciences, Review of International Political Economy, Global Governance, Review of International Studies, Business & Society, and World Economy. In 1999 he addressed the United Nations General Assembly on the subject of Globalization and Economic Governance.

Alan Lomax's Journey to The Land Where the Blues Began - Patrick B. Mullen
2:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Patrick B. Mullen is a folklorist in the English Department at Ohio State University. He is the former Director of the Center for Folklore Studies at OSU and a Fellow of the American Folklore Society. He is the author of I Heard the Old Fishermen Say: Folklore of the Texas Gulf Coast, Listening to Old Voices: Folklore, Life Stories and the Elderly, co-author of Lake Erie Fishermen: Work, Identity, and Tradition, and co-editor of Juneteenth Texas: Essays in African American Folklore. He is currently finishing a book manuscript tentatively titled "The Man Who Adores the Negro": Race and American Folklore, a study of white folklorists' representations of African Americans as folk.

Institute on World Affairs - Religion and Conflict - Panel: Politics and Religion
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Christopher Rossi was director of national security for democracy, human rights and humanitarian affairs in the White House, where he served as an NSC representative to the President Clinton's Advisory Council on Religious Persecution Abroad. He is a visiting lecturer in public international law at Boyd College of Law at The University of Iowa. He is the author of Equity and International Law: A Legal Realist Approach to International Decisionmaking, Broken Chain of Being: James Brown Scott and the Origins of Modern International Law, and has co-edited works on national security and US-Latin American relations. Robert Baum is associate professor in the Religious Studies Program at Iowa State. James McCormick, chair of the Iowa State Political Science Department will moderate the discussion.

A Performance: Russian Romances and Gypsy Songs - Sergei Pobedinski
12:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Sergei Pobedinski, born in Pyatigorsk, in the Caucasian mountains of Southern Russia. He is well known in Russia for his work in light opera, Gypsy cabaret and theater. Graduated from Moscow conservatory in 1984. He has had starring roles at such venues as the Moscow New Jewish Theater, St. Petersburg Shelter for Comedians, as well as various locations in Finland, France and U.S. He blends in singing the power of and operatic voice with enormous passion and feeling.

Panel: 2002 Nobel Prizes
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Each year, the Nobel Prizes recognize terrific intellectual and social achievements. In addition to the Nobel Peace Prize, achievements in Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Literature, and Economics are recognized. Many people are curious about the prize winning work and are eager to know more than is often provided in the brief accounts in newspapers and the mass media. In this event, ISU faculty members will present a series of short talks that describe the prize-winning works: Prof. Jo Anne Powell-Coffman; Profs. Kerry Whisnant and Steve Kawaler; Profs. Amy Andreotti and R. S. Houk; Prof. Wallace Huffman; Dr. Barbara Pleasants; and Prof. James McCormick. The talks will be followed by a question and answer session and panel discussion. Steve Kawaler, professor of Physics and Astronomy, will moderate.

Institute on World Affairs Series - Religion and Conflict - Women in Islam: A Feminist Muslim Analysis - Riffat Hassan
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Riffat Hassan is Professor in Humanities (Religious Studies) at the University of Louisville, and founder and president of the International Network for the Rights of Female Victims of Violence in Pakistan.