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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.

American Indian Symposium - Flute Performance - T'Chin
8:00 PM – Design Building Atrium - T'Chin is an artist, performane and storyteller best known for his jewelry work. He also makes and plays native wooden flutes, tells stories and lectures on native issues. T'Chin is Blackfoot/ Narragansett and attended the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe and is a graduate of Rhode Island School of Design.

Disease and Death in America: A History - Gerald Grob
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Gerald Grob is Henry E. Sigerist Professor of History of Medicine Emeritus, Rutgers University, and is the author of nine books including the upcoming The Deadly Truth: A History of Disease in America . He is on the editorial boards of History of Psychiatry; Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, and The Historian.

Take the Cannoli: Stories from the New World - Sarah Vowell
8:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Sarah Vowell is an author, humorist and social observer best known for her monologues and documentaries for public radio's "This American Life."As a critic and reporter, her writing has appeared in Esquire, GQ, Artforum, The Los Angeles Times, The Village Voice, Spin and McSweeney's. As a columnist, she has covered education for Time; American culture for Salon.com; and pop music for the San Francisco Weekly, for which she won a 1996 Music Journalism Award. She has appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman, Late Night with Conan O'Brien and Nightline. She is the author of Radio On: A Listener's Diary; Take the Cannoli: Stories from the New World, and Partly Cloudy Patriot, which will be published in Fall 2002. Booksigning and reception will follow.

A Debate - Should Gay People Marry? - Evan Wolfson
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Evan Wolfson is Director of the Freedom to Marry Collaborative, a non-gay/gay partnership to secure full equality and recognition for same-sex couples and their families.For 12 years and through multiple landmark battles in the quest for equal rights for gay men and lesbians, he was senior staff attorney and director of the Marriage Project at Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund. Last year Wolfson, who has been key in shaping the national debate on same-sex marriage, accepted a grant from the Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr. Fund, which will allow him to continue his work to secure the freedom to marry. In the 1990s Wolfson was a lead attorney in Baehr v. Anderson, the Hawaii marriage case. He was among those who helped convince the Vermont Supreme Court that gay and straight partnerships should be given equal legal treatment. And last year Wolfson argued before the U.S. Supreme Court, urging the court to reject the Boy Scouts of America's ban on gay members. Additionally, Wolfson has been an advocate for gays in the military, gays and lesbians wishing to adopt or maintain visitation rights with their children, and people with AIDS. State Senator Steve King successfully sued Governor Vilsack over Executive Order Seven, which would have provided protection in the workplace for homosexuals, transsexuals and transvestites. The court ruled the order was unconstitutional in the King vs. Vilsack case. Senator King is currently serving his fifth year as a state Senator, and is running for Iowa's new 5th Congressional District. In the senate, he is chairman of the State Government Committee in Iowa, a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee and the Vice Chairman of the Oversight Budget Subcommittee.

Conference on Islam - Islam, Bosnia and Migration - Part III - Aras Konjhodzic
10:30 AM – Gallery, Memorial Union - Aras Konjhodzic was born in Bosnia, moved to Turkey and later lived in Serbia where he became the President of the Muslim Youth Organization and an Executive Member of the Islamic Community of Serbia. When war broke out in Bosnia, he actively helped the refugees and orphans. This closes a 3-part series on Bosnian culture and politics.

Conference on Islam - The Qur'an and the Purpose of Life - Jeff Lang
8:15 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Jeff Lang is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Kansas. He converted to Islam in the early 80s, and is the author of two best-selling books: Struggling to Surrender and Even Angels Ask. He is currently writing a third book.

Conference on Islam - Islam, Bosnia and Migration - Part II - Aras Konjhodzic
3:15 PM – Gallery, Memorial Union - Aras Konjhodzic was born in Bosnia, moved to Turkey and later lived in Serbia where he became the President of the Muslim Youth Organization and an Executive Member of the Islamic Community of Serbia. When war broke out in Bosnia, he actively helped the refugees and orphans. This is the second part of a 3-part series on Bosnian culture and politics.