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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.

Insect Horror Film Festival
6:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - This celebration of insect life includes activities for all ages: hissing cockroaches, giant millipedes, a butterfly tent, a honey bee display, insect displays, an insect tasting event with corn borer cornbread and cricket brittle, and a screening of "A Bug's Life." Doors open at 6 p.m. and film starts at 7:30 p.m.

Institute on World Affairs Series - Religion and Conflict - Defining Fundamentalism - Bruce B. Lawrence
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Bruce B. Lawrence is the author of Shattering the Myth: Islam beyond Violence; Go, God, Go: Resilient Religion in the Global Century, and the award-winning monograph, Defenders of God: The Fundamentalist Revolt Against the Modern Age . He is the Nancy and Jeffrey Marcus Humanities Professor of Religion, and Chair of the Department of Religion at Duke University. His other books included Shahrastani on the Indian Religions. Notes from a Distant Flute, The Rose and the Rock, Ibn Khaldun and Islamic Ideology, and the in-progress monograph is on Asian religions in America, tentatively titled New Faiths/Old Fears.

The Divine Nine: A History of African American Fraternities and Sororities - Lawrence C. Ross, Jr.
7:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Lawrence C. Ross, Jr. is the author of The Divine Nine, the first book to chronicle the histories of the nine African-American fraternities and sororities that make up the National Pan-Hellenic Council. In it he profiles of prominent members such as the late civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., television personality Star Jones, Operation PUSH chair Rev. Jesse Jackson and the late tennis legend Arthur Ashe. In his presentation he will discuss such current issues as pledging, hazing and interfraternal relations. Lawrence Ross attended the University of California at Berkeley, and has been a brother of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. for over fifteen years. As a journalist, his work has been seen in over 200 African American newspapers, and he currently works as a reporter for the Los Angeles Independent Newspapers.