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Film: The Home Economics Story
12:00 PM – Pioneer Room, MU - This 30-minute film follows four freshmen girls through to graduation who come to Iowa State to major in home economics. This film was featured on Mystery Science 3000 on the Comedy Channel. Introduction by Tanya Zanish-Belcher. Tanya Zanish-Belcher is responsible for the Factual Film Collection and curator of the Archives for Women in Science and Engineering at Iowa State.

Film: Pecker
8:00 AM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - A John Waters' Film Starring Edward Furlong and Christina Ricci

Whose Fantasy Are We Seeing? Women and Men in Film - Molly Haskell
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Molly Haskell is a movie critic who has written for a range of magazines including Nation and Vogue. Her books include Holding My Own in No Man's Land: Women and Men and Film and Feminists, From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies, and Love and Other Infectious Diseases: A Memoir. Part of the National Affairs Series:film in America

Science in Film: When the Idiosynchratic Becomes the Norm - Carolyn C. Porco
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Ccarolyn C. Porco is leader of the Imaging Team for the Cassini mission to Saturn, a professor of Planetary Sciences at the University of Arizona, and a visiting associate at the California Institute of Technology. She was a member of the Voyager Imaging Team, leading the Rings Working Group during the Voyager's encounters with Neptune. She was an advisor on the movie Contact starring Jodie foster, and recently participated in a series of panel discussions a the American Film Institute in Hollywood entitled, Portraying Real Science and Technology in the Movies. Part of the National Affairs Series.

The Changing Structure of U. S. Agriculture: Any Room for Ethics - Bernard Evans
8:00 AM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Bernard Evans holds the Vifgil Michel Ecunemical Chair in Rural Social Ministries at St. John's Universityy School of Theology.

Lessons Learned from the Past: Visions for the Future - Dorothy Cotton
8:00 AM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Dorothy Cotton worked closely with Dr. King as the only female member of his Executive Staff designin and conducting training programs which developed local leadership in the South and promoted social change using non-violent strategies. She was the Director of Student Activities at Cornell University until 1991.

Birthday Party and Musical Extravaganza
12:15 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday Celebration

Love Train
11:45 AM – Design Building & Lagomarcino Hall - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday Celebration

The Decline of Civic Culture in America - Robert Putnam
1:30 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Robert Putnam is the Dillion Professor of International Affairs and director of the Center for International Affairs at Harvard. He was dean of the John F. Kennedy School of Government and his books include Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy and Double-Edged Diplomacy: International Bargaining and Domestic Politics. Part of the World Affairs Series: Why Should America Care?

Domestic Politics of an Effective U.S. Foreign Policy - Kevin Phillips
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Kevin Phillips is a forecaster of economic and political trends and the author of The Politics of Poor and Rich, Boiling Point, and Arrogant Capital: Washington, Wall Street and the Frustration of American Politics. His newsletter The American Political Report is widely read and his commentaries are heard on NPR and CBS-TV. He earned a first class certificate in economics from the University of Edinburgh and is a graduate of Harvard Law School. Part of the World Affairs Series: Why Should America Care?