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The Fatherhood Project: New Strategies for Balancing Work and Family - James A. Levine
8:00 AM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - James A. Levine is director of The Fatherhood Project which he founded in 1981 while he was vice president of the Bank Street College Education. He is a consultant to Corporate Family Solutions, the nation's leading provider of workplace-based child care. Dr. Levine is also a contributing editor to Child magazine and persident of James Levine Communications, Inc.

How the Nature Nut Put Bugs on the Box - John Acorn
8:00 AM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - John Acorn is the host of " Acorn, The Nature Nut" aired on the Animal Planet Channel, Discovery Channel, and others internationally. He is an entomologist with experience in paleontology and insect ecology whose books include Butterflies of Alberta and Tiny Perfect Dinosaur.

Film: Smoke Signals
8:00 AM – Pioneer Room, MU - American Indian Symposium

Killing Indians: Myths, Lies and Exaggerations - Sherman Alexie
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Sherman Alexie wrote and produced the film Smoke Signals, winner of two awards at the Sundance Film Festival. he is currently at work on a film based on his novel Indian Killer, which he is writing and directing. He is the author of a short story collection, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven; four poetry collections including The Business of Fancydancing; and two novels, Reservation Blues and Indian KillerHe is a Coeur d'Alene who was born on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Part of the National Affairs Series.

Film: Smoke Signals
6:15 AM – Pioneer Room, MU - American Indian Symposium

Annual Bessey Lecture: Did Decreased Carbon Dioxide Cause Extinctions Among Grazing Animals? - James Ehleringer
8:00 AM – Gallery, Memorial Union - James Ehleringer is editor-in-chief of the journal Oeocologia; serves on the editorial boards of several journals and on review panels for NSF, DOE, USDA; and has been a major figure in the Ecological Society of America.

Film: Smoke Signals
8:00 AM – Pioneer Room, MU - American Indian Symposium

Preventing Sexual Harassment in the University Community - Jonathan Alger, Carla Espinoza, and Hessie Harris
8:00 AM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Jonathan Alger is a counsel with the American Association of University Professors; Hessie Harris is associate counsel at ISU; and Carla Espinoza is assistant vice president for Human Resource Services and Affirmative Action director at ISU. Faculty Senate President Denise Vrchota will moderate.

Africa Week 1999: Africa in the 21st Century - Randall Robinson
8:00 AM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Randall Robinson is the director of TransAfrica, an organization working to achieve more progressive U. S. foreign policy toward the nations of Africa and the Carribean.

Donald Benson Memorial Lecture: The Conflict Between Word and Image - Leonard Shlain
8:00 AM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Leonard Shlain is the Chief of Laparoscopic Surgery at California Pacific Medical Center and an associate professor of surgery at UCSF Medical School.