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Jerry D. Mahlman
8:00 AM – Campanile Room, Memorial Union - Sigma Xi Series: Human-Caused Climate Warning: Implications for Practically Everything.

Barry Cooper
7:00 AM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - African Americans On-Line

Adilah Barnes
8:00 AM – Maintenance Shop, Memorial Union - Performance: I Am That I Am: Woman, Black

Brother David Andrews
8:00 AM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Globalization, Catholic Teaching and Agriculture

Imperatives for the New Millennium - Dick Gregory
8:00 AM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Credited with opening the door for many Black entertainers, Mr. Gregory found comedy and expedient avenue for getting people's attention-making us think as well as laugh. His participation in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960's is well documented, as are his efforts for world peace, against hunger and issues confronting Native Americans. Always on the move, Gregory lectures draws together threads of health consciousness, humor, political savvy, action and sensitivity which together weave standing ovations. From the Lectures Program archive.

Date Rape: He said/ She said - Kate Koestner
8:00 AM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Katie Koestner is a date rape survivor who was on the cover of Time magazine and the subject of the HBO movie "No Visible Bruises" The Katie Koestner Story," in 1991. From the Lectures Program archive.

Christian Marriage in the Roman World: Accomadations and Transformations - David Hunter
8:00 AM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - David Hunter, Professor of Religious Studies, holds the Monsignor James Supple Chair of Catholic Studies in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies. Dr. Hunter received a doctorate in theology from the University of Notre Dame (1986). For Fifteen years Hunter taught at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. He has published several books including Marriage in the Early Church, Sources of Early Christian Thought, Augustine, Marriage and Virginity, The Works of Saint Augustine, A Translation for The 21st Century.Monsigner James Supple Lecture in Catholic Studies

Diversity as Art: Art is Diversity - Nikki Giovanni
8:00 AM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Nikki Giovanni is a poet and activist with nearly twenty books of poetry and essays which include Black Feeling, Black Talk/ Black Judgement; The Women and the Men; Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day; Racism 101; and her newest book Blues: For All the Changes. She is the Commonwealth Visiting Professor at Virginia Tech teaching writing, poetry and literature.

The Role of Nigerian Artists in Nation Building in the 21st Century - Tunde Odunlade
12:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Tunde Odunlade from Nigeria has an international reputation as a textile and print artist, and is also well known as a compsoer, drmatist, musician and actor. In 1984, Odunlade was one of the founders of the Toki Memorial Art Centre for the encouragement of young artists where he acted as Artistic director until it closed in 1998.

The Historical Jesus - John Dominic Crossan
7:30 AM – Campanile Room, Memorial Union - John Dominic Crossan is professor emeritus in the Department of Religious Studies, DePaul University. He was co-chair of the Jesus Seminar from 1985-1996 as it met in twice-annual meetings to debate the historicity of the life of Jesus in the gospels. He was Chair of the Parables Seminar from 1972-76; Editor of Semeia: An Experimental Journal for Biblical Criticism in 1980-86; and chair of the Hitsorical Jesus Section from 1993-1998, within the Society of Biblical Literature. He has written eighteen books on the historical Jesus and earliest Christianity including The Historical Jesus: The Life of Mediterranean Jewish Peasant, Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography, Who Killed Jesus: Exposing the Roots of Anti-Semitism in the Gospel Story of the Death of Jesus, and The Birth of Christianity. He has been interviewed for over 150 television and radio shows includng PBS's "From Jesus to Christ" and A&E's "Mysteries of the Bible". From the Lectures Program archive.