Upcoming Lectures

Lectures Program Event to Be Scheduled
8:00 PM @ Great Hall, Memorial Union - Speaker to be announced.

Lectures Program Event Being Planned
7:00 PM @ Curtiss Hall Auditorium - Puerto Rican Student Association Cultural Night. Speaker to be announced.

Who’s Up, Who’s Down and What’s Really Going On – Eugene Robinson
8:00 PM @ Great Hall, Memorial Union - Eugene Robinson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, MSNBC political analyst and author of Disintegration: The Splintering of Black America. He writes a twice-weekly op-ed column on politics and culture for the Washington Post and contributes to the paper's PostPartisan blog. In his three-decade career at The Post, Robinson has been a city hall reporter covering Marion Barry's administration, city editor, foreign correspondent in Buenos Aires and London, foreign editor and assistant managing editor in charge of the paper’s award-winning Style section. He won a Pulitzer Prize for his commentary on the 2008 presidential race and Barack Obama's election as the first Black president. 2013 Chamberlin Lecture in Journalism

The End of Money - David Wolman
8:00 PM @ Sun Room, Memorial Union - David Wolman believes we are in the midst of a monetary revolution that could one day make physical cash obsolete. A contributing editor at Wired and author of The End of Money, Wolman shares how going cashless will affect the world, your wallet, and the retail, banking, and finance industries. His investigation into the future of money examined an array of virtual and alternative cashless currencies and technologies, including mobile-based banking systems. It also included a personal experiment of a year without cash. Wolman has written for the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Time, Newsweek and Forbes. His other books include A Left-Hand Turn around the World and Righting the Mother Tongue: From Olde English to Email. Greater Iowa Credit Union Business Lecture Series.

A New American Space Plan - Rocket City Rednecks' Travis Taylor
7:00 PM @ Stephens Auditorium, Iowa State Center - Travis Taylor is the official ringleader of the Rocket City Rednecks, a National Geographic Channel series that follows five guys from Huntsville, Alabama - home to NASA's Marshall Flight Center and the birthplace of the U.S. space programs. The Rednecks are in fact rocket scientists with PhDs, and their weekend experiments combine a little hillbilly ingenuity with advanced engineering and physics to tackle real-world scenarios. Travis Taylor has worked with the Department of Defense and NASA for the past twenty-five years, has above-Top Secret clearance with the U.S. government, holds five degrees - in optical science and engineering, physics, aerospace engineering, astronomy and electrical engineering - and is currently completing a second PhD in aerospace engineering. His book A New American Space Plan is a counterpart to the hit TV series. Engineers Week 2013 Book signing to follow.

Pesek Colloquium on Sustainable Agriculture - David R. Montgomery
8:00 PM @ Great Hall, Memorial Union - Geologist David R. Montgomery is the author of Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations, a mix of history, archaeology and geology that shows how soil use and abuse has shaped great civilizations from Mesopotamia to the Roman Empire, China to Central America, and the American push westward. A MacArthur "Genius" Award recipient, Montgomery teaches at the University of Washington, where he studies the evolution of topography and how geological processes shape landscapes and influence ecological systems. He will discuss his current work, a solution-oriented approach to the problem of global soil erosion outlined in Dirt. Montgomery studied geology at Stanford University before earning his PhD in geomorphology at the University of California, Berkeley. His other books include King of Fish: The Thousand-Year Run of Salmon and the recently published The Rocks Don't Lie: A Geologist Investigates Noah's Flood. Pesek Colloquium on Sustainable Agriculture

Me the People: One Man's Quest to Rewrite the Constitution - Kevin Bleyer
8:00 PM @ Sun Room, Memorial Union - Kevin Bleyer hopes to end the constant bickering about the Constitution by simply rewriting the thing as he sees fit in his new book, Me the People: One Man's Selfless Quest to Rewrite the Constitution of the United States of America. Along the way, he makes quite a lot of cogent points about a document that, unfortunately, "doesn’t mention slavery, or democracy, or even Facebook." Kevin Bleyer was an Emmy Award–winning writer for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, coauthored the bestseller Earth: The Book, and negotiated bipartisan consensus as a writer and producer for Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher and Dennis Miller. He is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Constitution Day Speaker

Lectures Program Event Being Planned
8:00 PM @ Great Hall, Memorial Union - World Affairs Series speaker to be announced.

Lectures Program Event Being Planned
9:00 PM @ Great Hall, Memorial Union - ISU After Dark speaker to be announced.