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Tuesday, 26 Oct 1999
Frank D. Gunstone
8:00 AM – 1010 LeBaron Auditorium - Helen LeBaron Hilton Chair: Feeding the Multitude: Where is Tomorrow's Equivalent of the Five Loaves and Two Fishes?
Helen LeBaron Hilton Chair: Feeding The Favoured: Tailor-Made Fats - Frank D. Gunstone
8:00 AM – Stephen's Auditorium, Iowa State Center - Helen LeBaron Hilton Chair: Feeding The Favoured: Tailor-Made Fats
Racism is Not the Problem - Dinesh D'Souza
8:00 AM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Dinesh D' Souza is the Olin Research Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and is the author of The End of Racism, Illiberal Education, and Ronald Reagan: How an Ordinary Man Became an Extraordinary Leader. He was former editor of the Dartmouth Review and senior policy analyst at the White House during the Reagan administration.
Monday, 25 Oct 1999
NASA, the Space Program and Everyday Life - Mae Jemison
7:00 AM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - In 1992, Dr. Mae Jemison made world and U.S. history as the first woman of color to go into space when she flew as a mission specialist astronaut abroad the Space Shuttle Endeavor. From the Lectures Program archive.
Friday, 22 Oct 1999
Performance: Classical Indian Music - Ronu Mojumdar
7:00 AM – Fisher Theater, ISU Center - Flutist Ronu Mojumdar will be accompanied by percussionist Vijay Ghate who is a tabla player. From the Lectures Program archive.
Thursday, 21 Oct 1999
Paul Lasley, Professor of Sociology, Iowa State University; Nan Bonfils, farmer and Program Assistant, Practical Farmers of Iowa; Kathleen Delate, Ass
8:00 AM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Farm Crisis Series
Monday, 18 Oct 1999
1999 Frank K.. Ramsey Lecture in Veterinary Medicine - Walter Plowright
10:00 AM – 1226Veterinary Medicine - Dr. Walter Plowright is the recipient of the 1999 World Food Prize Laureate. From the Lectures Program archive.
What is the Future of the Catholic Church? - Thomas P. Rausch
8:00 AM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Rev. Thomas P. Rausch is professor and chair of the Theological Studies at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. He is author of 75 articles and six books including The Roots of the Catholic Tradition, Radical Christian Communities, and, Catholicism at the Dawn of the Third Millennium. From the Lectures Program archive.
Tuesday, 12 Oct 1999
Phi Beta Kappa: Women's Rites and Rights in Roman Religion - Elaine Fantham
8:00 AM – 1414 Molecular Biology - Elaine Fantham is Geiger Professor of Latin and the director of the Program in the Ancient World at Princeton University, She is the author of Roman Literary Culture; Women in the Classical World: Image and Comparative Studies in Republican Latin Imagery, and co-editor of Erasmus: The Educational and Literary Works. From the Lectures Program archive.
Monday, 11 Oct 1999
Imagining the Land Series: The Country of Language - Scott Sanders
8:00 AM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Scott Sanders is distinguished professor of English at Indiana University and author of Wilderness Plots, Bad Man Ballad, In Limestone Country, Staying Put, and Hunting for Hope. From the Lectures Program archive.