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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.

Conference on Islam - Preaching Peace and Co-existence in a Multicultural Society - Siraj Wahhaj
3:15 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Siraj Wahhaj is a Muslim activist, leading a community-based anti-drug campaign in the Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn which forced the closure of 15 drug houses. Once a minister for the Nation of Islam in the early 70s, he converted to mainstream Islam. He is the founder and Imam of Masjid At-Taqwa in Brooklyn, and is currently serving as the elected leader of the Muslim Alliance in North America (MANA). He has also served on the executive board of the Islamic Society of North America.

Conference on Islam - In the Shade of the Tree: A Photographic Journey through the Muslim World (A slideshow presentation) - Peter Sanders
10:15 AM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Peter Sanders is a professional photographer and director of the Peter Sanders Photographic Library, London, established 1986 because of the lack of high quality photographs of the Islamic World appearing in the media. He has traveled extensively and his collection includes photos from Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Morocco, Spain, Mauritania, Senegal, Mali, India, the U.S.A., Sudan, Jordan and Jerusalem. His professional career in photography began during the mid-sixties where he photographed most of the major stars in the music business including Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, The Who, The Rolling Stones etc. His photography has appeared in many commercial publications, as well as in books on Islam, including Cat Stevens' (Yusuf Islam) publications.

Conference on Islam - Islam, World Peace, and September 11th - Dr. Jamal Badawi
7:45 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Dr. Jamal Badawi, born in Egypt, is a professor of Management at Saint Mary University in Halifax, where he teaches a course on Islamic religious tradition. Dr. Badawi has also taught a course on Islam at Stanford University and gave a series of lectures on the Quran at Oxford University (UK). He has authored several books and articles on Islam and designed and participated in the production of nearly 350 half-hour segments of a television series on Islam. He is an expert in Christian-Muslim dialogues, a member of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) Fiqh Council, and the director of the Islamic Information Foundation in Halifax, Canada, a nonprofit educational foundation.