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Building Bridges or Walls: Where Do the U.S. and Mexico Go from Here? - Vicente Fox
8:00 PM – Stephens Auditorium, Iowa State Center - Free admission | No tickets | General admission seating Former President of Mexico Vicente Fox is a leading voice on North American trade policy and the challenges of immigration. His most recent book, Let's Move On: Beyond Fear & False Prophets, takes aim at the current state of American politics, and is a call to unity and resistance in the face of rising ethnocentric and anti-democratic sentiments. Vicente Fox is credited with playing a vital role in Mexico’s democratization and strengthening the country’s economy during his time as president from 2000 to 2006. A businessman-turned-politician, Fox worked his way up within the Mexican unit of the Coca-Cola Company and was head of its Latin American operations prior to his election as governor of the Mexican state of Guanajuato. Part of the World Affairs Series: The U.S. Role Abroad and the National Affairs Series: Building a Better Democracy

*CANCELED* Renewing Reciprocity: Indigenous Food Systems and the Honorable Harvest - Robin Wall Kimmerer
7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - This event has been canceled due to complications with the speaker's travel. The poster session is being rescheduled. Robin Wall Kimmerer is a plant scientist, writer, professor, mother and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She is the author of two award-winning books, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants and Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses. Sustainable Agriculture Symposium Keynote

Understanding Second Language Speakers: What REALLY Matters? - Tracey Derwing
7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Tracey Derwing is a Professor Emeritus of TESL (Teaching English as a Second Language) in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Alberta. She has extensively researched second language fluency and pronunciation, especially the relationships among intelligibility, comprehensibility, and accent. She will discuss what research tells us both the second language speaker and the native listener can do to improve their mutual communication. Derwing is presently an adjunct professor in linguistics at Simon Fraser University and has for eleven years served as co-director of the Prairie Metropolis Centre, a consortium of Canadian university research centers involved in immigration and integration research. Quentin Johnson Lecture in Linguistics

Countries of Conflict - Richard Schultz & Iowa State Students
7:00 PM – Pioneer Room - Members of the International Student Council’s Humanitarian Awareness Committee will share stories and facts about people in nations facing humanitarian crises. The nations include Palestine, Libya, Myanmar, Sudan, and Yemen. The event will kick off with a series of brief 10-minute presentations, after which attendees can view posters about the areas of crisis, ask questions, and learn about ways they can help.

Vans: Empowering Youth Culture - Vans Team
7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Since 1966, the Vans® brand has created action-focused footwear, apparel and accessories for skateboarders, surfers, BMX riders and snowboarders across the world with a goal of promoting creative expression and inspiring youth culture. The Fashion Show 2019 is proud to host Vans® as its Guest Company Designer. Members of their team will speak about the company’s culture, history, and the success of the iconic California brand. They will discuss the how the company structure and business strategies have evolved to maintain its "Off the Wall" mission. Presenters include company recruiter Katie Essex; apparel merchandiser Lynda Castillo; apparel designer James McCahon, and footwear designers Jerod Harmon and Derek Huenecke, who are both graduates of Iowa State’s industrial design program.

Fighting for Americans' Freedom to Dream - Congressman Eric Swalwell
6:00 PM – Gallery, Memorial Union - Democratic presidential candidate Eric Swalwell is serving his fourth term in Congress representing California’s North Silicon Valley 15th Congressional District. He was born in Iowa and spent his early years in Algona, where his father was the police chief, before the family relocated. Swalwell served as a county prosecutor and a city councilman before winning his House seat in 2012 by defeating a 40-year incumbent. As founder and chairman emeritus of Future Forum, he has been the House Democrats’ point person on outreach to millennials. He serves on the Judiciary and House Intelligence Committees and co-chairs the Democratic Steering and Policy Committee. Statements about key issues, including health care, education, and gun violence prevention are available at EricSwalwell.com. Part of the Campaign Series in 2019, providing the university community with opportunities to question candidates before the Iowa Caucuses.

Human Mating Strategies - David Buss
6:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - David M. Buss is a professor of psychology at the University of Texas at Austin and a pioneer in the field of evolutionary psychology. He is well known for his research on how the human sexes differ in their selection of a mate but has researched a number of topics ranging from prestige to stalking. His many books include The Evolution of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating; The Murderer Next Door: Why the Mind is Designed to Kill; The Dangerous Passion: Why Jealousy Is as Necessary as Love and Sex; and Evolutionary Psychology: The New Science of the Mind, the first textbook in the field, now in its 6th edition. Graduate & Professional Student Research Conference Keynote

A Name Worth Fighting For: How Being Asian Got Me in Trouble - Simon Tam of The Slants
8:15 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Simon Tam, founder and bassist of The Slants, talks frankly about racism, his experiences as a musician, and how this Asian American dance rock band unintentionally revived a longstanding battle over trademarks and racial slurs. Tam will discuss how the nearly eight-year-long legal battle over the band’s name came about, their ultimate victory for free speech, as well as the unintended consequences the Supreme Court decision had for other civil rights legal organizations. His book, Slanted: How Being Asian Got Me Into Trouble, will be published this spring. First Amendment Days

Mixed Match: A Docufilm
8:00 PM – 101 Carver Hall - Mixed Match is an important human story told from the perspective of mixed race blood cancer patients who are forced to reflect on their multiracial identities and complex genetics as they struggle with a nearly impossible search to find bone marrow donors, all while exploring what role race plays in medicine.

Play for Fun and Play for Learning: What Science Tells Us - Karin Lifter
7:00 PM – South Ballroom, Memorial Union - Karin Lifter is an early intervention specialist and a professor in the Department of Applied Psychology at Northeastern University in Boston. She directs the Interdisciplinary Certificate Program in Early Intervention, which prepares personnel to serve infants and toddlers with disabilities or at risk for developmental delay as well as their families. Lifter conducts both descriptive and intervention studies on the play, language, and social development of young children with and without disabilities, bridging cognitive and behavioral theories. She and her colleagues developed the Developmental Play Assessment (DPA), and Lifter now leads Project Play, which offers a user-friendly version of the DPA and online training program for practitioners. The 2019 Barbara E. (Mound) Hansen Lecture in Early Childhood Education