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Through the Looking Glass: Insights from Fossil in Amber - David Grimaldi
8:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - David Grimaldi is curator of the American Museum of Natural History, and adjunct professor at the City University New York, Cornell University, and Columbia University He authored Amber: Window to the Past, and co-authored Science and Nature Survey. He has contributed chapters to 6 other books and published over 100 refereed journal articles. He has designed several museum exhibitions, and been featured on several television programs and popular magazines.

VEISHEA Keynote Speaker - Broadway Bound - Randall Wreghitt
12:00 PM – Central Campus (Rain Location: Great Hall, Memorial Union) - Randall Wreghitt is currently represented on Broadway by Mary Zimmerman's acclaimed production METAMORPHOSES. Earlier this season he produced HEDDA GABLER on Broadway starring Kate Burton. He won a 2001 Tony Award for Best Revival for producing One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest starring Gary Sinese. On Broadway Randall has produced Martin McDonagh's The Lonesome West, which was nominated for four Tony Awards, including Best Play; McDonagh's four-time Tony Award winning play, The Beauty Queen of Leenane; the acclaimed revival of ELECTRA starring Zoe Wanamaker (nominated for three Tony Awards, including Best Revival) and the musical, Band In Berlin. He was the Associate Producer of the Tony Award winning Broadway revival of Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing. He received a degree in journalism from Iowa State University in 1978, and is a graduate of Clear Lake High School.

Goldtrap Lecture - The Sorrow and the Piety: On Mistranslating Dante - John Biguenet
7:00 PM – Gallery, Memorial Union - John Biguenet's fiction, poetry, and essays are forthcoming or have appeared recently in such journals as Esquire, Granta, Story, Playboy, The Southern Review, The Sun, Denver Quarterly, , Exquisite Corpse, The Threepenny Review, Mid-American Review, The Georgia Review, The North American Review, Mississippi Review, and Ploughshares as well as in various anthologies. Oyster, a novel, will be published in 2002. The Torturer's Apprentice, a collection of his stories, was published by Ecco.

What the Catholic Church teaches about Homosexuality: You May Be Surprised - Richard Sparks, C.S.P.
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Richard Sparks, C.S.P., a Paulist priest and widely publishedauthor, holds a Ph.D. in ethics from Catholic University of America. He was the author of the U. S. bishop's 1990 document "Human Sexuality: A Catholic Perspective for Education and Lifelong Learning." His most recent book is Contemporary Christian Morality: Real Questions, Candid Responses. He is currently head of the Catholic university ministry in Berkeley.

The Institute on World Affairs - What Is Terrorism? - America, Terror and the World: A View from the Arab World
7:00 PM – Gallery, Memorial Union - Journalist Rami Khouri, a Jordanian/Palestinian/US journalist with years of experience in reporting Mideast news, is spending this fall semester at Harvard University as a Nieman Fellow. Khouri is the author of an internationally syndicated weekly political column, "View from the Arab World," as well as host of Encounter, a weekly public affairs interview show on Jordanian television and radio. He is a news analyst/contributor to CNN, The New York Times, Newsweek-Japan, the London Times, BBC, CBC, and numerous other media sources around the world. Khouri has also served as a trainer of Arab journalists and non-governmental organizations.

Where Are Ancient Israel's Temple Treasures? The Cave of the Letters Expedition - Richard A. Freund
7:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Richard A. Freund is Director of the Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies and Greenberg Professor of Jewish History at the University of Hartford. He is also co-director of the Henry Luce Forum in Abrahamic Religions, director of the Bethsaida Archaeological Excavations Project, and director of the Dead Sea Cave of Letters Archaeological Project and the new Qumran Excavations Project.

Institute on World Affairs - What Is Terrorism? - Britain's Answer to Terror
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Robert Nicholas Culshaw has been the British Consul General in Chicago since June 1999. He joined the Britsh Foreign Office in 1974 serving initially on the Southern Africa desk. He was also posted at Muscat, Khartoum, Rome, and Athens. He also served in Foreign Office in London on the planning staff and then as Private Secretary to the Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe. He also served as spokesman and Head of News for the Foreign Office. He was Minister-Counsellor for trade and transport at the British Embassy in Washington, D.C., before moving to Chicago. Robert Culshaw speaks speaks Arabic, Italian, Modern Greek and French. In 1979, The Queen made him a member of the Royal Victorian Order. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Designing For Sustainability, An Ecological Approach - Marc Companion
8:00 PM – 1010 LeBaron - Marc Companion is an ecological designer and sustainable transport explorer with Ocean Arks International in Vermont where he deveops education programs on ecological design, living machines, and sustainable communities. Currently, he is building living machines as educational tools, exploring ecological villages, and assisting Vermont in rethinking transportation policy. He has written many articles on the ecology of land use, energy, and water and santitation. He spent five years in East Africa managing community development and environmental programs, and has a masters in natural resources planning from the University of Vermont.

Intellectual Property, University Research and Industry Partnerships - Steven Berman
8:00 PM – Howe Hall Auditorium - Steven Berman currently serves as the Associate Director of Strategic Business Alliances & Convergence Technologies Development for the University of California's Systemwide Digital Media Innovation Program; and as Chairman and CEO of Berman & Company, a diversified consulting firm providing services in the areas of entertainment, wireless, digital media, consumer products, e-commerce, education, biotechnology and other technology sectors. He serves as a faculty member in the newly established Media, Arts & Technology Program (MAT), a graduate degree program offered by the University of California at Santa Barbara. Through June 1999, Berman held the post of Director, Business Development for Business Research Partnerships at UCLA. He holds a B.S. High Honors (Tau Beta Pi) in Materials/Ceramic Engineering from Rutgers College of Engineering and a law degree from Yeshiva University's Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. He currently serves as a Member, Board of Editors for the Cyberspace Lawyer, Founder and Chair of the New Media Content, Technology and Production Council.

Storytelling in Virtual Environments - Larry Tuch
7:00 PM – Howe Hall Auditorium - Larry Tuch is a screenwriter and creative consultant, applying techniques of Hollywood- style story telling and entertainment to new media and "immersive environments." He has worked as a writer and interactive designer for Walt Disney Imagineering, and as head writer and co-designer for the Paramount Television Group's StoryDrive Engine Project which focused on interactive story telling in a simulation environment. His most cutting-edge work has been in the field of virtual reality where, in addition to his work for Disney, he has scripted and co-designed VR scenarios for the USC Institute for Creative Technologies. Presented in a virtual reality theatre with surround sound, these scenarios are variously enabled by a host of technologies including artificial intelligence and speech recognition. His current projects include an internet game prototype for Paramount and an interactive simulation for the Marine Science Institute at UC Santa Barbara.