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The Causes Of Genocide - Dave N. Smith
12:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - David Smith's current projects include studies of authoritarianism, anti-Semitism, and genocide. He is editing Karl Marx's ethnological notebooks, Patriarchy and Property, and has previously published works on Orwell, Marx, and the history of higher education. Smith is Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Sociology at the University of Kansas. nderstand the role of individuals and groups within a society as promoters of change or the status quo.

Global Challenges: Environmental, Political and Economic Problems and Solutions - Todd Sandler
8:00 AM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Todd Sandler is Distinguished Professor of Economics and Political Science at ISU. He is the author or co-author of a number of books including Global Challenege: An Approach to Environmental, Political, and Economic Problems; The Political Ecnomy of Nato; Collective Action: Theory and Applications; and Future of Foreign Assistance: Common Pool Approach and International Public Goods. From the Lectures Program archive.

Who Owns the World? Biodiversity, Bioethics and World Trade - Institute On World Affairs
12:00 PM – Memorial Union - Walter Reid of the World Resources Institute will open the week which will include Gerald Mossinghoff, former Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks and a debate on "Who Owns the World?" Institute On World Affairs From the Lectures Program archive.

U.S. Foreign Policy and the Media - Seymour Hersh
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Seymour Hersh is a Pulitzer-Prize winning investigative reporter who has covered everything from the My Lai massacre in South Vietnam to the growth of Pakistan's nuclear arsenal. His books include The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreig Policy and The Target is Destroyed: What Really Happened to Flight 007 and What America Knew About It. He won the National Book Critics Circle Award for The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House. His most recent book was the controversial Dark Side of Camelot. Part of the World Affairs Series.

Development of the African-American Spiritual - Moses Hogan
7:30 AM – Martha-Ellen Tye Recital Hall, Music Hall - Moses George Hogan is the conductor of the New Orleans-based Moses Hogan Chorale (founded in 1993). He is a graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory, studied at the Julliard School of Music, and, as pianist, won the 28th annual Kosciuszko Foundation Chopin Competition. From the Lectures Program archive.

Panel: Paul Johnson, farmer and Director of the Iowa Department of Natural Resources; Gary Cornelious, farmer Boone, Iowa; Tom Richard, Assistant Prof
8:00 AM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Wither the Farm? Moving Beyond the Current Crisis in Agriculture

Social Conflict, Trade Disputes, and Genetically Modified Organisms - Richard Ross, John Obrycki, Charlotte Bronson, Clare Hinrichs & Dermot Hayes
12:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Every day, new advances are made in the genetic modification of organisms and their application to agriculture and other human activities. While trumpeted by some as great advances in human progress, others have voiced concerns about these developments. This dispute has generated academic debate, social protests and trade disputes. Join Iowa Stae faculty and administrators in the discussion. Richard Ross - College of Veterinary Medicine; John Obrycki - Entomology; Charlotte Bronson - Plant Pathology; Claire Hinrichs - Sociology; Dermot Hayes - Economics. With Colin Scanes - College of Agriculture, moderating. Part of the World Affairs Series: Globalization - Prospects For Democracy and Freedom.

The Search & Discovery of Our Earliest Ancestors - Meave Leakey
8:00 AM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - In 1989 Meave Leakey has been head of the Division of Paleoanthropology at the National Museums of Kenya where she continued his investigation of the newly discovered site at Koobi Fora on the eastern shore of Lake Turkana. Meave Leakey obtained her B.S. and Ph.D. from the University of North Wales in Zoology and Marine Zoology. From the Lectures Program archive.

Women and Power in the Global City - Saskia Sassen
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Saskia Sassen is Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago, and Centennial Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics. She is the author of Guests and Aliens, Globalization and It's Discontents, and Losing Control? Sovereignty in an Age of Globalization. She continues work on two projects, "Citites and Their Crossborder Networks," sponsored by the United Nations University, and "Governance and Accountability in a Global Economy." She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. Part of the World Affairs Series: Globalization - Prospects For Democracy and Freedom.

An Evening of Spoken Word - Henry Rollins
8:00 PM – Stephen's Auditorium, Iowa State Center - Admission Free - Henry Rollins is best known as the Grammy-award-winning lead singer of the Rollins Band. He was also lead singer of Black Flag, and a Grammy-award-winner for his spoken word performance which has been described as part storytelling, part social commentary, part spontaneous cranial combustion.