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The Plants and Animals of the Columbian Exchange - Charles B. Heiser
All Day – Campanile Room, Memorial Union - Charles B. Heiser is distinguished professor of botany at Indiana University. His books include "Nightshades," "The Paradoxial Plants," "Seeds to Civilization," "The Story of Food," "The Sunflower," "The Gourd Book," and "Of the Plants and People." From the University Lectures Program archive.

On Becoming Native to the Place - Wes Jackson
All Day – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Wes Jackson is President of The Land Institute and author of "New Roots for Agriculture" and "Meeting the Expectations of the Land." From the University Lectures Program archive.

African- Americans in the New Century - Na'im Akbar
All Day – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Na'im Akbar is a clinical psychologist in the Psychology Department and Black Studies Program at Florida State University, and associate editor of "The Journal of Black Psychology." From the University Lectures Program archive.

Middle East Peace Conference and the Palestine Issue - Ibrahim Abu Lughod
All Day – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Ibrahim Abu Lughod is professor of Political Science at Northwestern University and author of "Palestinian Rights: Affirmation and Denial" and "Transformation of Palestine." From the University Lectures Program archive.

Performance: Body Leaks - Omaha Magic Theatre
All Day – 196 Phyiscal Education Bldg. - This performance is funny, contemporary, musical, and challenging. From the University Lectures Program archive.

Trivialization of Women in Magazine - Mary Kay Blaklely
All Day – Campanile Room, Memorial Union - Mary Kay Blakely teaches writing at te New School for Social Research and writes for Ms. Magazine. She is author of "Wake Me When It's Over." From the University Lectures Program archive.

Age and Cancer - Bruce Ames
All Day – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Bruce Ames is a professor in biochemistry and molecular biology and director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Center at the University of California Berkeley. He is the recipient of the General Motors Cancer Research Foundation Prize and teh Tyler Prize and ahs 250 scientific publications. From the University Lectures Program archive.

Voices From a Promised Land: Palestinian and Israeli Peace Activists Speak Their Hearts - Penny Rosenwasser
All Day – Oak Room, Memorial Union - Penny Rosenwasser is a producer and broadcaster at Pacifica radio station KPFA, special events coordinator for the Middle East Children's Alliance and author of "Voices From a 'Promised Land.'" From the University Lectures Program archive.

Contrasts: The Mechanical Technologies of Nature and People - Steven Vogel
All Day – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Steven Vogel is Professor of Zoology at Duke University and his books include "Life's Devices: The Physical World of Animals and Plants" and "Life in Moving Fluids: The Physical Biology of Flow. From the University Lectures Program archive.

Frederick Douglass Now - Roger Guenveur Smith
All Day – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Douglass as a leather-clad urban worrior, armed with dictaphone, microphone, and cordless telephone. He invokes the spirit of John Brown and Harriet Tubman, contemporary comrads of Douglass as well as freedom fighters from our own era. From the University Lectures Program archive.