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Creating Science Fiction: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Creative Team
All Day - The creative team Star Trek: Deep Space Nine will examine how the series has extended the legacy of Gene Roddenberry and his original vision for Star Trek.

The Art of Eric Rhein: Reflecting the Challenge of HIV and AIDS - Eric Rhein
All Day – Memorial Union - Eric Rhein is a New York artist showing 2-D and 3-D works represented in te Archive Project at Visual AIDS.

Using Bioacoustic Methods to Study Mammalian Behavior - Jeanette Thomas
All Day – Memorial Union - Jeanette Thomas is a professor in the department of Biological Science at Western Illinois University.

If it's Certain, it Can't be True: The Evolution of Science and Religion in the Nineteenth Century - Paul Croce
All Day – Memorial Union - Paul Croce is a professor of American studies at Stetson University and author of Science and Religion in the Age of William James.

CBS Evening News with Dan Rather - Dan Rather and CBS News
All Day - Dan Rather and CBS News producers and writers will give a behind-the-scenes look at the producing of the evening news.

Public Opinion and Language Differences: Lessons from Ebonics Controversy - Walt Wolfram
All Day – Memorial Union - Wolfram is the William C. Friday Distinguished Professor of linguistics at North Carolina State University and has authored or co-authored 14 books and over 150 articles on language differences.

Rethinking the Cold War: A Retrospective View; War and Peace in the 21st Century: A Prospective View - John Gaddis
All Day – Memorial Union - Professor of political science at Yale University and author of We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History and The Long Peace: Inquiries into the History of the Cold War.

Creating Prime-Time Drama: Law & Order - Law and Order Cast Members
All Day - Members of the cast and creatve team explore the process of the making of this acclaimed and popular show, which specializes in fictional scripts that echo recent headlines.

W.E.B. DuBois and B.R. Ambekar, Two Revolutionayr Giants - Gail Omvedt
All Day – Memorial Union - Omvedt is a professor of sociology at Pune University, she has written or edited a dozen books on Indian women and peasant organizing.

The World Patent System: Circa 20XX A.D. - Gerald Mossinghoff
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Gerald Mossinghoff is the former Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks and former president of the Pharmaceutical research and Manufacturers of America. He is currently senior counsel to Oblon, Spivak, McClelland Maier and Neustadt, P.C., and visiting professor of Intellectual Property Law at the George Washington University Law School. He has also served as chairman of the Genereal Assembly of the United Nations World Intellectual Property Organization. Part of the World Affairs Series.