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There is a Limit - Mike Levin
All Day – - Part of the University Lectures Program archive.

Turkey Today - Nuzhet Kandemir
All Day – - Part of the University Lectures Program archive.

All the Land to Hold Us: An Earth Day Reading - Rick Bass
7:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Writer and environmentalist Rick Bass is the author of more than twenty books, including the autobiographical Why I Came West. His 2002 collection, The Hermit's Story, was a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year. His forthcoming book is For a Little While, his first collection of short stories in more than a decade. A Texan by birth, Bass worked as a gas and oil geologist in Mississippi after earning a degree from Utah State University. His career as an author grew out of a pastime of writing short stories during his lunch breaks. He now lives in the Yaak Valley in the northern Rockies. Pearl Hogrefe Visiting Writers Series

The Future of Water: Assessing Sustainability from Space - Bridget Scanlon
8:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Bridget Scanlon heads the Sustainable Water Resources Program and is Senior Research Scientist at the Bureau of Economic Geology in the Jackson School of Geosciences at the University of Texas at Austin. She studies the impact of climate variability and land use change on groundwater recharge and on the quantity and quality of water resources. Scanlon's research group is using GRACE satellite, surface water, and groundwater data to evaluate approaches to coping with drought, with a focus on California, Colorado and Texas. She has a PhD in geology from the University of Kentucky and was the 2007 Birdsall-Dreiss Distinguished Lecturer for the Hydrogeology Division of the Geological Society of America. Ronald Lecture Series in Environmental Conservation

The Press, the Presidency and the Campaign - Steve Thomma
7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Steve Thomma is Senior White House Correspondent and political editor for McClatchy. A former president of White House Correspondents Association, Thomma has written about Washington issues since 1987. Before joining the Washington Bureau's national staff in 1994, he was the St. Paul Pioneer Press's Washington correspondent and won the National Press Club's award for best regional reporting. He previously worked for the Pioneer Press in Minnesota, the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette in Indiana and City News Bureau in Chicago. Thomma won the Aldo Beckman Award for distinguished White House coverage for his campaign work in 2000. First Amendment Day Series

The Syrian Refugee Crisis: How Did We Get Here & Where Do We Go? - James Gelvin
8:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - James Gelvin is a professor of Middle Eastern history at the University of California, Los Angeles. Before joining the faculty at UCLA, Gelvin taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston College, and Harvard. In 2002-03 he was the Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan Visiting Professor of History at the American University in Beirut, Lebanon. Gelvin is the author of three books: Divided Loyalties: Nationalism and Mass Politics in Syria at the Close of Empire; The Modern Middle East: A History; and The Israel-Palestine Conflict: 100 Years of War. He earned an MA from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and a PhD from Harvard. A question-and-answer session will follow his presentation with additional information provided by Carly Ross, Director of the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants in Des Moines and Iowa State faculty member Nell Gabiam.

Food Regimes, Food Sovereignty and Agroecology - Eric Holt-Gimenez
7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Eric Holt-Gimenez is the executive director of the Institute for Food and Development Policy, better known as Food First. The organization was founded in 1975 by Joseph Collins and Frances Moore Lappe and promotes access to healthy, ecologically produced, and culturally appropriate food. Holt-Gimenez worked for more than two decades with small-scale farmers in Mexico and Central America and prior to joining Food First served as the Latin America Program Manager for the Bank Information Center in Washington DC. He is the coauthor of Food Rebellions! Crisis and the Hunger for Justice with Raj Patel and Annie Shattuck and editor of Food Movements Unite! Strategies to Transform Our Food Systems. He has an MSc in international agricultural development from University of California at Davis and a PhD in environmental studies from the University of California at Santa Cruz. Sustainable Agriculture Program Symposium Keynote

The Future of Healthy Families - Ross Parke
2:30 PM – Alumni Center ballroom - The 2015 Helen LeBaron Hilton Endowed Chair Lecture Series brings together insight from across disciplinary bounds to address how family is defined, the current knowledge on healthy families, and the future of the field. The event in the series will be led by Ross Parke, Hilton Endowed Chair, and include all year's speakers via webinar. Ross Parke, professor emeritus in psychology at the University of California, Riverside. Parke is one of the preeminent scholars in the area of mother-father differences in parenting and the role of economic hardship on families. His many books include Fatherhood; Throwaway Dads: The Myths and Barriers That Keep Men from Being the Fathers They Want to Be; and Future Families: Diverse Forms, Rich Possibilities. 2015 Helen LeBaron Hilton Endowed Chair Lecture Series

The Future of Healthy Families - Deb Cassidy
7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Deborah Cassidy is a professor at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies. She has served as coordinator of the university's Birth-Kindergarten Teaching Licensure Program and director of the Child Care Education Program. From 2009 until 2013 Cassidy directed the North Carolina Division of Child Development and Early Education in the Department of Health and Human Services. She currently serves as co-principal investigator for the state's Rated License Assessment Project at UNCG and is also President-Elect of the National Association for the Education of Young Children. She holds a PhD from the University of Illinois. The Barbara E. (Mound) Hansen Lecturer in Early Childhood Education and part of the Helen LeBaron Hilton Endowed Chair Lecture Series

White People: A Documentary by Jose Antonio Vargas - Film Screening & Discussion
6:00 PM – Gold Room, Memorial Union - White People is a first­-of-its-kind documentary exploring whiteness and the intersection of race and immigration in an increasingly diverse America. It was produced, directed and hosted by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and undocumented immigrant Jose Antonio Vargas as part of MTV's Emmy Award­winning Look Different Campaign.The film follows Vargas across the country as he uncovers the stories of five young white people from varying backgrounds to illuminate biases on the basis of race, gender and sexual orientation. White People was a collaboration with Define American, a nonprofit organization co­founded by Vargas. (41 min)