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How the Bible Is Not True - Robert Beck
All Day – Memorial Union - Robert Beck is professor of religious studies at Loras College and is author of Nonviolent Stories.

Performance: The Black Experience: A Cry for World Peace - Ladjamaya
All Day – Memorial Union - Ladjamaya is an actress, director and singer and will perform a variety of entertaining collages of poetry, prose, drama and song.

Learning to Work in Oral, Literate and Electronic Cultures: The Next Step in University Education - Tex Sample
All Day – Memorial Union - Tex Sample is Robert and Kathleen Rogers Professor of Church and Society at St. Paul School of Theology in KansasCity. He is the author of Blue Collar Ministry,U.S. Lifestyles and Mainline Churches and Hard Living People and Mainstream Christians

Political Humor in America - William Strauss
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - William Strauss is cofounder and director of the Capitol Steps, a professional satirical troupe. The Capitol Steps have performed in over 4,000 shows, recorded 17 albums, broadcast 3 specials and completed a 20-week Off-Broadway run. Part of the National Affairs Series.

Drawn and Quartered - Brian Duffy
12:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Brian Duffy is editorial cartoonist for the Des Moines Register and syndicated by King Features. Part of the National Affairs Series.

Politics, Media Bias and humor - Dan Perkins "Tom Tomorrow"
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Don Perkins is the Iowa-born creator of weekly cartoon of political and social satire This Modern World, which appears in over 100 newspapers. He is probably the first regular contributor to both The Nation and US News and World Report. His three cartoon anthologies are: Greetings from this Modern World, Tune in Tomorrow, and The Wrath of Sparky. Part of the National Affairs Series.

Politics Humor America - Harry Shearer
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Harry Shearer is best known as one of the creators and co-stars of This Is Spinal Tap, as a writer and cast member of Saturday Night Live, and as voices of Mr. Burns, Smithers and Ned Flanders on the Simpsons. His films include My Best Friend's Wedding, the soon to be released Godzilla, and Jim Carrey's upcoming The Truman Show. Part of the National Affairs Series.

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Election - Dianne Bystrom
12:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Dianne Bystrom will illustrate the use of humor in political campaigns with television ads from the Political Commercial Archive at the University of Oklahoma. She is director of the Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics at Iowa State University and is coeditor and contributing author to The Lynching of Language: Gender Politics, and Power in the Hill Thomas Hearings and the soon-to-be-published The Electronic Election: Perspectives on the 1996 Campaign Communication. Part of the National Affairs Series.

Politics and Humor in America - Institute on National Affairs
All Day – Memorial Union - Political cartoonist Tom Tomorrow, Capitol Steps and producer Bill Strauss, voice of The Simpsons, and actor Harry Shearer, Des Moines Register editorial cartoonist Brian Duffy will join politcians, scholars and activists to discuss the role humor in a democracy.

50 Years of Independent India: Democracy and Culture in Balance - J.C. Sharma, Joseph Elder, Harpal Bal and S. Gayathri
All Day – Memorial Union - J. C. Sharma is Consul General of India at the Indian Consulate in Chicago; Joseph Elder is professor of sociology and South Asian Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; Harpal Bal is professor emeritus in the College of Vet Medicine at Iowa State, and S. Gayathri is a Bharatnatyam classical Indian dancer.