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The Artist as the Voice of Social Conscience - Alvin Singleton
All Day – Memorial Union - Alvin Singleton was composer-in-residence with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, served as resident composer at Spelman College and was the Unisys composer-in-residence with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Many of his compositions deal explicity with societal and politcal issues including 56 Blows, a commentary on the Rodney King beating.

Who Abuses Animals and Why - Randall Lockwood
All Day – Memorial Union - Randall Lockwood is vice president of Training Initiatives at The Humane Society of the United States and also the principal spokesperson for the ""First Strike"" campaign at The Human Society.

Critical Race Feminism: An International Perspective - Adrien Wing
All Day – Memorial Union - Adrien Wing is professor of law at the University of Iowa and author of Critical Race Feminism.

Global Prospects: The Next 50 Years - Henry Kendall
All Day – Memorial Union - Henry Kendall is J. A. Stratton Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is the chairman of the board of the Union of Concerned Scientists and was a founding member of the organization. He along with two colleagues was awarded the Nobel prize in physics in 1990.

Issues of Global Livestock Production - E.R. Orskov
All Day – Memorial Union - E. R. Orskov is director of the International Feed Resources Unit at the Rowett Research Institute in Aberdeen, Scotland. He is the author of Protein Nutrition in Ruinants.

150 Years After Seneca Falls: Bridging Race, Class and Gender - Panel: Valerie Grim, Dorothy Schwieder and Mary Kay Blakely
All Day – Memorial Union - Valerie Grim is visiting associate professor in history at ISU; Dorothy Schwieder is professor of history at ISU; and Mary Kay Blakely is associate professor at the University of Missouri school of Journalism. She is author of Wake Me When It's Over, Red, White and Blue and American Mom.

Let Them Eat Fluff: The Trivialization of Women in Magazines - Mary Kay Blakely
All Day – Memorial Union - Mary Kay Blakely is associate professor at the University of Missouri, School of Journalism. She is author of Wake Me When It's Over, Red, White and Blue, and American Mom.

Things Percieved as Real are Real in Their Consequences: Categories as Technology - Susan Leigh Star
All Day – Memorial Union - Susan Leigh Star is a member of the faculty of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois.

Galileo: Heretic or Hero? - David Lindberg
All Day – Memorial Union - David Lindberg is the Evjue-Bascom Professor of the History of Science and the director of the Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. His books include Science in the Middle Ages, Theories of Vision from al-Kindi to Kepler and Studies in the History of Medieval Optics.

Phytochemicals in Our Diets: Health Protectants or Toxicants? - Patricia Murphy
All Day – Memorial Union - Patricia Murphy is professor at Iowa State in Food Science and Human Nutrition. She will be lecturing on phytochemicals, a class of nonnutrient constituents in plant foods which potentially protect humans from a variety of diseases.