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Shattered Image: Eating Disorders and Body Dysmorphic Disorder - Brian Cuban
7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Brian Cuban is a an author whose best-selling book Shattered Image: My Triumph Over Body Dysmorphic Disorder chronicles his first-hand experiences living with eating disorders and body dysmorphia disorder (BDD). Cuban, an activist, television host, and lawyer by training, battled the illness for more than thirty years, becoming increasingly preoccupied with his negative self image and obsessed with fixing his perceived flaws at any cost. The book chronicles the bullying he experienced as a child and the behaviors that slowly developed and took him into the abyss of depression, alcoholism, drug addiction, and eating disorders, nearly causing him to take his own life at the age of forty-four. Eating Disorder and Body Image Awareness Week

Breaking into and Surviving a Career in Game Development - Keith Fuller
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Keith Fuller has more than fifteen years of experience in the game design industry as a developer, project manager, producer and now consultant. He will share what it means to be a professional game developer and the perks and pitfalls of the industry culture. Fuller began his video game career programming his Atari home computer in grade school, and many years later graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee with a computer science degree, landing a job with a small game company before joining Raven Software. Some of the games he has contributed to include: Call of Duty: Black Ops, Wolfenstein, Singularity, X-Men Legends, Quake 4, and Star Trek: Voyager - Elite Force. He is also the author of Beyond Critical, a collection of research, observations, and recommendations designed to improve leadership in the field.

Honor & Sacrifice: Remembering a Japanese-American Hero - Documentary & Discussion with Filmmaker Lucy Ostrander
7:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Honor and Sacrifice tells the story of Roy Matsumoto, one of many Japanese Americans who enlisted in the U.S. military while detained in internment camps during World War II. Matsumoto became a decorated war hero. He was instrumental in saving his battalion, which was starving and surrounded by Japanese fighters deep in the Burmese jungle. He was eventually sent to postwar Japan, where he found members of his family still alive in Hiroshima despite the nuclear bomb attack that had devastated the city. Filmmakers Lucy Ostrander and Don Sellers use archival footage and family photographs to illustrate this immigrant family's experience and the many internal conflicts and ironies Japanese-American enlistees experienced during and in the aftermath of the Second World War. Day of Remembrance Event A panel discussion with filmmaker Lucy Ostrander will immediately follow the 28-minute film. She will be joined by Jane Dusselier, director of the Asian American Studies Program, and Neil Nakadate, Professor Emeritus of English; and Grace Amemiya, Ames resident and former internee.

Kiev, Ukraine: From the Collapse of Socialism to the Mass Uprising of 2013-14 - Roman Cybriwsky
8:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Roman Cybriwsky will discuss his new book about the recent unrest and violence in Ukraine, and how the mismanagement, corruption, and inequality of its capital, Kiev, helped create a civic revolt which led to the collapse of a national government. Cybriwsky is a professor in the Department of Geography and Urban Studies at Temple University, and in 2010 he was named Fulbright Scholar at the National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy where he conducted research for his recent book, Kyiv, Ukraine: The City of Domes and Demons from the Collapse of Socialism to the Mass Uprising of 2013-14. World Affairs Series: Redefining Global Security.

The Underground Girls of Kabul - Jenny Nordberg
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Jenny Nordberg is an investigative reporter and author of the book The Underground Girls of Kabul. She will discuss the practice of bacha posh - disguising young girls as boys in gender-segregated Afghanistan - revealing new aspects of the practice and going deep into the resistance among Afghan women. Nordberg's front-page stories have been published in the New York Times and the International Herald Tribune, and she is also developing bachaposh.com as an online resource for girls who have grown up as boys due to segregation. She is a New York-based foreign correspondent and a columnist for Swedish national newspaper Svenska Dagbladet, and holds a B.A. in Law and Journalism from Stockholm University, and an M.A. from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. World Affairs Series: Redefining Global Security.

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness - Michelle Alexander
7:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Michelle Alexander is the author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, in which she argues that systemic racial discrimination in the United States has resumed following the Civil Rights Movement's gains and is having devastating social consequences. Alexander holds a joint appointment at the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity and the Moritz College of Law at Ohio State. Previously, she directed the Civil Rights Clinic at Stanford Law School. She also served for several years as director of the Racial Justice Project at the ACLU of Northern California, which spearheaded a national campaign against racial profiling by law enforcement. Martin Luther King Jr. Legacy Series Keynote Speaker

Social Media Research: Approaches, Early Findings & Continuing Challenges - Robert Mason
3:30 PM – Gallery, Memorial Union - Robert Mason is faculty at the University of Washington Information School, where he studies the philosophy and ethics of technology management and the cultural aspects of social media and knowledge management. He is a founding member of the Social Media Lab @ UW (somelab.net) and has worked with teams of students on information flows related to the Occupy movement and responses to disasters and crises. Mason served as Associate Dean for Research for the school from 2006 to 2010. He previously was on the faculties of the College of Business at Florida State University and the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University. Department of Computer Science Distinguished Lecture

Certainty: Is Science All You Need? - Troy Van Voorhis
6:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Troy Van Voorhis is a professor of chemistry at MIT whose research focuses on the intersection of quantum mechanics and chemistry. He has participated in many conversations about the relationship between science and religious faith, including moderating a forum between Steven Pinker and William Hurlbut at his home institution and speaking alongside three colleagues in "Life, the Universe, and MIT: 4 Brilliant MIT Professors Share Their Worldviews." Van Voorhis earned a PhD from the University of California at Berkeley and was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard before joining the faculty of MIT. He is the author of the VeriTalks publication Certainty: Is Science All You Need? in addition to his numerous scholarly publications. Veritas Forum

Zoologies: On Animals and the Human Spirit - Alison Hawthorne Deming
7:00 PM – Campanile Room, Memorial Union - Writer and poet Alison Hawthorne Deming is the author of the new book Zoologies: On Animals and the Human Spirit, a collection of essays that explores the loss of animals and its meaning for human imagination and existence. Hawthorne is a professor of creative writing at the University of Arizona, where she is also affiliated with the Institute of the Environment and a member of the board of directors of Orion magazine. Her body of work include several books of poetry, including Science and Other Poems, winner of the Walt Whitman Award, and three other nonfiction books: Temporary Homelands, The Edges of the Civilized World, and Writing the Sacred Into the Real. Part of the Creative Writing Program's Environmental Imagination Series

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Legacy Convocation - One Vision, Many Voices; Join In, Speak Out!
3:30 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Come celebrate the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and learn how his global vision of equality for everyone remains relevant today. James Bailey, CEO of the Southeast Division of Operation HOPE, will serve as the keynote speaker. The Advancing One Community Awards will also be presented. Part of the Martin Luther King Jr. Legacy Series.