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The Last Bhopa: The Effects of Modernization on Folk Culture in India - Praveen Singh Rathore
8:00 PM – Kocimski Auditorium, 101 College of Design - Praveen Singh Rathore is a documentary filmmaker and director of the organization Music of Rajasthan. He has worked extensively with the traditional folk musicians and artisans of rural Rajasthan, a state in northwestern India. Rathore will screen his 15-minute film "The Last Bhopa" and discuss how development in India has impacted the lives of traditional musicians and artisans, including Bhopas, semi-nomadic priest singers of the folk deities in Rajasthan. Rathore received training in audio-visual archiving at the American Resource Center for Ethnomusicology in Gurgaon, India. He has coordinated cultural programming for international festivals and performances in the vicinity of Jodphur, India, including the Rajasthan International Folk Festival.

Stories of Undocumented Workers from Mexico - Frans Schryer
7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Frans Schryer is the author of They Never Come Back: A Story of Undocumented Workers from Mexico. He will discuss how the migrant experience has changed over the past two decades and its implications for immigration reform.The book traces the personal lives and careers of indigenous men and women on both sides of the U.S.-Mexican border, showing how NAFTA, migrant labor legislation, and more stringent border controls have all affected migrants' home communities, their relations with employers, their livelihoods, and their identity. Frans Schryer is Professor Emeritus at the University of Guelph, Canada, where he taught in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology.

How Does It Feel to Be Nobody? Emptiness in Christian America - John Corrigan
7:00 PM – Gerdin Business Building Auditorium, 1148 Gerdin - John Corrigan is a scholar of American religious history and author, co-author, or editor of more than a dozen books on religion and emotion and religious intolerance. His new book, Emptiness: Feeling Christian in America, examines how the feeling of emptiness is an essential part of American Christianity, though one that is overlooked. Corrigan is the editor of the University of Chicago Press's History of American Religion book series, a Senior Editor for the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion, and a co-editor of the journal Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture. He is the Lucius Moody Bristol Distinguished Professor of Religion at Florida State University.

Living on the Edge: High-Consequence Zoonotic Pathogens & One Health Concepts - Thomas Ksiazek
5:00 PM – 2226 Vet Med Building - Thomas G. Ksiazek, DVM, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Pathology and Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. He is also director of the High Containment Operations Core at the Galveston National Laboratory. Dr. Ksiazek recently spent six weeks in Sierra Leone, where he led a team responding to the Ebola crisis. He was chief of the CDC's Special Pathogens Branch from 1991 to 2005, during which time he coordinated outbreak and control responses to pathogens such as Ebola, Marburg and SARS. One Health Lecture Series

The Future of Food - Vandana Shiva
8:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Vandana Shiva is a philosopher and environmental activist who promotes ecological justice and biodiversity. She is the founder of the Navdanya Research Foundation for Science, Technology, and Ecology, which works with local farming communities to promote fair trade and agroecological farming practices. Vandana Shiva is the author of numerous books, including Soil Not Oil: Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate Crisis; Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply; Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution, and Profit; and Staying Alive: Women, Ecology, and Development. Her honors and awards include the 1993 Right Livelihood Award (Alternative Nobel Prize) and the 2010 Sydney Peace Prize.

Sexual Assault on Campus: A Conservative Perspective - Katie Pavlich
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Katie Pavlich is a political commentator for FOX News and author of Assault and Flattery: The Truth About the Left and Their War on Women. She joined FOX in 2013 and is a frequent panelist on the network's Outnumbered, which features four female panelists and one rotating male who tackle top headlines from all angles and perspectives. Pavlich is also the news editor for Townhall.com and a contributing editor to Townhall Magazine. She graduated from the University of Arizona with a degree in journalism and is a current National Review Washington Fellow. As a reporter, she has covered topics ranging from the 2012 presidential election to the Second Amendment and border issues.

The State of the Promised Land - Norman Finkelstein
7:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Norman Finkelstein is a political scientist, activist, professor, and author. He writes about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the politics of the Holocaust, an interest motivated by the experiences of his parents who were Jewish Holocaust survivors. Finkelstein is the author of ten books, including What Gandhi Says About Nonviolence, Resistance and Courage; The Rise and Fall of Palestine: A Personal Account of the Intifada Years;and Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict. He received his PhD in political science from Princeton University and currently teaches at Sakarya University's Center for Middle Eastern Studies in Turkey.

My Electric Genealogy - Sarah Kanouse
4:00 PM – South Ballroom, Memorial Union - Sarah Kanouse is an interdisciplinary artist and writer examining the politics of landscape and public space. Her research-based creative projects trace the production of space through ecological, historical, and legal forces. This performative presentation weaves together images, objects, and personal accounts to explore aging electrical infrastructure as inter-generational climate debt. An Associate Professor of Intermedia and Dean's Scholar at the University of Iowa, Kanouse teaches courses in video/time-based media and art and ecology. The Goldtrap Lecture in English

ISCORE Keynote Address on Race and Ethnicity - Kathleen Wong(Lau)
12:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Kathleen Wong(Lau) is the director of the University of Oklahoma's Southwest Center for Human Relations Studies. She has done consulting and training on diversity and inclusion in university settings and the private corporate sector, and has published research on structural inequality within higher education and best practices for addressing multicultural leadership within institutions. Wong(Lau) was previously at Michigan State University, where she worked with administrators in the College of Veterinary Medicine to design a model for intercultural education, diversity and inclusion for faculty, staff and students. She has also served as a curriculum writer, facilitator, and board member for Campus Women Lead, a national women's leadership group affiliated with the Association of American Colleges and Universities. Part of the 2015 Iowa State Conference on Race and Ethnicity, ISCORE

Physical Inactivity: Should We Consider It a Disease? - Michael Joyner
8:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Dr. Michael Joyner is a physician-researcher and a leading voice in the world of exercise physiology. His work focuses on understanding how our bodies respond to various forms of physical and mental stress during exercise, looking in particular at blood flow to muscle and skin and blood pressure and blood glucose regulation. He has a medical degree from the University of Arizona and completed his residency and research training at Mayo Clinic, where he has held numerous leadership positions and continues to practice anesthesiology. Joyner has been a consultant to NASA and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which has funded his research since 1993. The 2015 Pease Family Scholar