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Canceled: Signing Black in America: The Story of Black American Sign Language-Dr. Ceil Lucas, Dr. Joseph C. Hill
7:00 PM – 127 Curtiss - Dr. Ceil Lucas is Professor Emerita of Linguistics at Gallaudet University and editor of the journal Sign Language Studies. Dr. Joseph C. Hill is an assistant professor in the Department of American Sign Language and Interpreting Education and the director of the Deaf Studies Laboratory at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf at Rochester Institute of Technology. They collaborated on the recent book The Hidden Treasure of Black ASL: Its History and Structure and are co-associate producers of the documentary Signing Black in America, focusing on under-represented linguistic topics and the language of marginalized groups. Quentin Johnson Lecture in Linguistics

Canceled: Hate: Why We Should Resist It with Free Speech, Not Censorship - Nadine Strossen
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - This event has been canceled due to the COVID-19 situation. Nadine Strossen is a Professor of Constitutional Law at New York Law School and the first woman national President of the American Civil Liberties Union, where she served from 1991 through 2008. A frequent speaker on constitutional and civil liberties issues, her media appearances include 60 Minutes, CBS Sunday Morning, Today, Good Morning America, The Daily Show, and other news programs. First Amendment Days

Canceled: Darkness Surrounds Us: The Other 95% of the Universe- Dr. Jason Rhodes and Dr. Alina Kiessling
6:30 PM – 127 Curtiss - This event has been canceled due to the COVID-19 situation. All the material we can see is just a small fraction of the universe. The rest, a full 95%, is invisible and mysterious. These are the enigmatic dark matter and dark energy. While dark matter keeps things like galaxies together, dark energy acts in an opposite way—it pushes groups of galaxies apart and expands the universe itself. Dr. Alina Kiessling, a native of Melbourne, Australia and Dr. Jason Rhodes, a native of Des Moines, Iowa are both astrophysicists with the NASA-Jet Propulsion Laboratory. They will discuss dark energy and dark matter and how these can help us understand if the universe will expand at an accelerating rate forever.

Canceled: Self-care for Activist in 2020 and Beyond - Aisha Moore
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - This event has been canceled due to the COVID-19 situation. Aisha Moore is an entrepreneur with a Masters in Public Health from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. Ms. Moore has been providing self-care programs since 2014 to businesses, foundations, nonprofits and colleges, and has recently completed training in Health Coaching. Ms. Moore began a company called Self-care by Aisha where she maintains a blog, and organizes speaking events. Her work has also been featured in the book "The Happy, Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout".

Canceled: Signs of Resistance: A Visual History of Protest in America-Bonnie Siegler
7:00 PM – 127 Curtiss - This event has been canceled due to the COVID-19 situation. Bonnie Siegler, voted one of the fifty most influential designers working today by Graphic Design USA, founded and runs the award-winning design studio Eight and a Half. She is best known for her design work for Saturday Night Live, HBO, Late Night with Seth Meyers, and Newsweek. Most recently, she was the creative director of the Trump parody autobiography "You Can't Spell America Without Me" by Alec Baldwin and Kurt Andersen and created the main title sequence for "Will & Grace." She has taught at the graduate level for many years at the School of Visual Arts and Yale University. First Amendment Days

Canceled: Turning Limitations into Opportunities – Ali Stroker
7:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - This event has been canceled due to the COVID-19 situation. A groundbreaking performer, Ali Stroker made history as the first actress in a wheelchair to appear on Broadway when she originated the role of ‘Anna’ in Deaf West’s acclaimed 2015 revival of Spring Awakening. She is also the first actress in a wheelchair to graduate from the NYU Tisch drama program. And she is the first actress in a wheelchair to win a Tony Award, which she did in 2019 for her performance as Ado Annie in the revival of Oklahoma! She’s currently starring in the Kyra Sedgwick ABC series, Ten Days in the Valley. A humanitarian and advocate, Stroker is a co-chair of Women Who Care, which supports United Cerebral Palsy of New York City. She’s a founding member of Be More Heroic, an anti-bullying campaign that tours the country and connects with thousands of students each year. Her devotion to educating and inspiring others brought Stroker to South Africa with ARTS InsideOut, where she held theater workshops and classes for women and children affected by HIV and AIDS. Stroker’s remarkable ability to improve the lives of others through the arts, whether disabled or not, is captured in her motto: “Making Your Limitations Your Opportunities.” The 2019 ISU Theatre’s HERoic Season Keynote.

Canceled: One Woman, One Vote: Rediscovering the Women's Suffrage Movement - Marjorie Spruill
5:30 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - This event has been canceled due to the COVID-19 situation. Editor Marjorie Spruill has compiled the most comprehensive collection of writings about the woman suffrage movement in America. The essays, both contemporary and historical, challenge widely accepted theories and illustrate the diversity and complexity of the fight for the 10th Amendment. Part of the 100th Anniversary Events Commemorating Women’s Suffrage

Canceled: Loving, Living and the Pursuit of Purpose: a real talk with Rheya-Rheya Spigner
12:00 PM – Campanile Room, Memorial Union - This is event has been canceled due to the COVID-19 situation. Rheya Spigner is an anchor on KCCI Channel 8 News. As the keynote speaker for the Transforming Gender and Society Conference, Ms. Spigner will discuss her own experiences as a broadcast journalist, in particular how she has used her role as a news anchor to focus on diverse and pressing topics that are reflective of society. She will also discuss efforts in other media to diversify and improve how women and people of color are presented.

Canceled: Because I Said I Would -- Alex Sheen
7:00 PM – Hilton Coliseum - This event has been canceled due to the COVID-19 situation. Alex Shen is the founder of Because I Said I Would, an international social movement and nonprofit dedicated to the betterment of humanity through promises made and kept. Sparked by a tragedy in his life, Alex created the Promise Card and since 2012 more than 9.81 million cards distributed to 153 countries. Alex's unique perspective on accountability, commitment, and self-control have developed from his responsibilities in leading a global effort anbout keepin promises. Greek Week Keynote

Canceled: Eating Tomorrow: Climate Change and the Battle for the Future of Food-Dr. Timothy Wise
7:00 PM – Campanile Room, Memorial Union - This event has been canceled due to the COVID-19 situation. Dr. Wise is the director of the Land and Food Rights program at Small Planet Institute. Wise's research and writing have covered U.S. farm policies, trade and agricultural development, agricultural biodiversity, food prices and biofuels, and Mexico's maize economy under the threat of genetically modified maize. He addresses small versus large-scale agriculture in the battle to feed the world. The 2020 Shivvers Memorial Lecture