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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.

Growing Up Female with the Mass Media - Susan Douglas
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Part of the National Affairs Series.

Growing up Female with the Mass Media - Susan Douglas
8:00 AM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Susan Douglas is the Catherine Neafie Kellogg Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Michigan, and author of Listening In: Radio and the American Imagination, Where The Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media, and , Inventing American Broadcasting 1899-1922. From the Lectures Program archive. Part of the National Affairs Series.

The Television Whitewash - John C. White
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Part of the National Affairs Series.

Growing up with Television in Central Iowa: WOI-TV's Magic Window
12:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Clips from the children's show "The Magic Window" will be shown. Introduction:Tanya Zanish-Belcher is acting head of the Special Collections Department at the ISU Library which houses the American Archives of the Factual Film.

The Television Whitewash - John C. White
8:00 AM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - John C. White is director of Communications for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). He has a wide range of experience including reporting for The Chicago Tribune and The Philadelphia Daily News, working media liason in the U. S. House of Representatives, and managing public relations accounts for Fleishman-Hillard International Communications. Part of the National Affairs Series. From the Lectures Program archive.

A Technological Saturday Morning - Jetsons Film Festival
8:00 AM – Maintenance Shop, Memorial Union - Episodes from the 1960's cartoon show feature the Jetson Family, and their dog Astro, living in their skypad apartment on Earth in the 21st Century. ISU Material Science and Engineering Professor Larry Genalo, whose research area is mobile robotics will provide opening comments about how accurately the show's creators predicted technological advances. From the Lectures Program archive.

Television in America - Michael Moore
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Part of the National Affairs Series.