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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents; 2021 MLK Jr. Speaker
7:00 PM – See WebEx Link - 2021 Martin Luther King Jr. Speaker Keynote Isabel Wilkerson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize winner and the National Humanities Medal, is the author of The New York Times bestsellers The Warmth of Other Suns and Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. A gifted storyteller, Wilkerson captivates audiences with the universal human story of migration and reinvention, as well as the unseen hierarchies that have divided us as a nation, in order to find a way to transcend them. She has become an impassioned voice for demonstrating how history can help us understand ourselves, our country and our current era of upheaval. In her writing, Wilkerson brings the invisible and the marginalized into the light and into our hearts. In her lectures, she explores with authority the need to reconcile America’s karmic racial inheritance — a notion she has expressed in her widely-shared Op-Ed essays in The New York Times. WebEx link: https://iastate.webex.com/iastate/onstage/g.php?MTID=ec2d3996141dc26b99d0b362584466150

Modern Monetary Theory: Creating an Economy that Puts Humans Before Corporations
7:00 PM – See WebEx Link - Dr. Stephanie Kelton is a leading authority on Modern Monetary Theory (MMT), a new approach to economics that is taking the world by storm. She is one of the most important economists influencing the policy debate today. Her new book, The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People’s Economy, shows how to break free of the myths and misunderstandings about money and the role of taxes, debt and deficits that have hamstrung policymakers around the world.National Affairs Lecture Series WebEx link: https://iastate.webex.com/iastate/onstage/g.php?MTID=edef2379ffb2fae096dc2485b6ada8501

Latina Studies Matter: Programming in Times of Crisis
7:00 PM – See WebEx Link - U.S. Latino/a Studies Faculty Lecture Series, Spring 2021 WebEx link: https://iastate.webex.com/iastate/onstage/g.php?MTID=e6c191b5ba1a1238076cd95f42cf04e93

Canceled: Addressing Challenging Behaviors with Individualized Support - Dr. Mary Louise Hemmeter
7:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Dr. Mary Louise Hemmeter is a professor of Special Education at Vanderbilt University. Her research focuses on effective instruction, supporting social emotional development and addressing challenging behavior, and coaching teachers. She has been a PI or Co-PI on numerous projects funded by the US Departments of Education and Health and Human Services. Through her work on the National Center on the Social Emotional Foundations for Early Learning and funded research projects, she was involved in the development of the Pyramid Model for Supporting Social Emotional Competence in Young Children and a model for coaching teachers to implement effective practices known as Practice Based Coaching. She is currently leading projects focused on examining the efficacy of the Pyramid Model in infant toddler, pre-k and kindergarten settings. 2020 Barbara E. (Mound) Hansen Lecturer

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.