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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.

American Indian Symposium - Generation After Generation: We are Coming Home - Sandra White Hawk
8:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Sandra White Hawk is an adopted person - removed from the Rosebud Reservation at 18 months of age - who found the need to address the practices of placement and adoption of American Indian children. She is Sicangu Lakota and a Navy veteran who faced many challenges while serving in the military, but found that recovering her identity was the most challenging. She works with adoptees and families in accordance with traditional spiritual heritage and the policies of the Indian Child Welfare Act.

American Indian Symposium - Recruitment and Retention of American Indian Students - Leigh D. Jeanotte
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Leigh D. Jeanotte is Assistant to the Vice President for Student Affairs for Native American Programs at the University of North Dakota; member and officer of the North Dakota Indian Education Association and co-chair of the North Dakota State Board of Higher Education Native American Transfer Project.

Soil Fertility and Hunger in Africa - Pedro Sanchez
8:00 PM – 1414 Molecular Biology - Pedro Sanchez served as the Director General for the International Centre for Research in Agroforestry (ICRAF) from 1991 through the end of 2001. Dr. Sanchez's professional career has been dedicated to improving the management of tropical soil and the multidisciplinary management of natural resources for increasing food security, reducing rural poverty and protecting the environment. He founded the CGIAR system-wide Alternatives to Slash-and- Burn Programme and served as its chair until 1999. He currently chairs the CGIAR Inter- Center Working Group on Climate Change. Dr. Sanchez has lived in the Philippines, Peru, Colombia and Kenya working on rice and pasture research, management in national research and development institutions (NARS) and international centers. Dr. Sanchez received his BS, MS, and PhD degrees from Cornell University. He joined the faculty of North Carolina State University in 1968 where he is a Professor Emeritus of Soil Science and Forestry. He is author of Properties and Management of Soils of the Tropics (rated amongst the top 10 bestselling books in soil science worldwide), co-editor- in-chief of Agroforestry Systems, editor of 10 other books and author of more than 120 scientific articles in English, Spanish and Portuguese.