Schedule of Events

Ecological Economics: Creating a Sustainable and Desirable Future - Robert Costanza
Thu, 11 Sep 2008, 8:00 PM @ Great Hall, Memorial Union - Robert Costanza is the Gund Professor of Ecological Economics and Director of the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics at the University of Vermont. Prior to 2002, he was at the University of Maryland, where he directed the Institute for Ecological Economics and was a professor in the Center for Environmental Science and in the Biology Department. Costanza is cofounder and past-president of the International Society for Ecological Economics (ISEE) and for many years served as the chief editor of its journal. His awards and distinctions include a Kellogg National Fellowship, the Society for Conservation Biology Distinguished Achievement Award, and selection as a Pew Scholar in Conservation and the Environment. Costanza received his Ph.D. from the University of Florida in systems ecology. He also has a master's degree in architecture and urban and regional planning from the University of Florida.The 2008 Pesek Colloquium on Sustainable Agriculture.

Banned Book Jeopardy! - The Game
Wed, 17 Sep 2008, 7:00 PM @ Sun Room, Memorial Union - Join a Banned Book Week battle between two teams of literary mavens as they attempt to answer questions about banned books and their authors. Panelists include Ames Tribune editor Dave Kraemer and Ames Tribune reviewer and Meredith Books editor Steve Sullivan. Barbara Mack of the Greenlee School of Journalism will emcee. Questions developed by Iowa State's very own $10,000 Pyramid winner, Fern Kupfer, associate professor of English. Banned books will be on display and available for purchase.

An Evening of Spoken Word - Henry Rollins
Thu, 18 Sep 2008, 8:00 PM @ Stephens Auditorium - Doors open at 7:00 pm - Henry Rollins is a post-punk renaissance man. In addition to making albums with the Rollins Band, he writes books and poetry, performs spoken-word tours, and appears in movies and on television. The former lead singer for Black Flag became a kind of father figure for many alternative bands on the strength of albums like The End of Silence, Weight and Come In and Burn. He hosts the weekly radio show Harmony in My Head and recently finished the second season of his television talk show. Rollins, who won a Grammy Award for his spoken-word performance, is on a new world tour titled Provoked: An Evening of Quintessentially American Opinionated Editorializing and Storytelling.

Strengthening the University's Public Mission: Sustainability through Community Engagement - Scott Peters
Thu, 18 Sep 2008, 8:00 PM @ Sun Room, Memorial Union - Scott Peters is an associate professor of education at Cornell University. Previously, he served for ten years as Program Director of the University of Illinois YMCA, where he worked on a variety of civic education and community development initiatives. His current research examines the changing social, political, and cultural roles of academic institutions and their professionals, especially the nature and significance of the land grant university. Peters holds a Ph.D. in Educational Policy and Administration from the University of Minnesota. Part of the Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities Series: Sustaining the Earth.

An Evening with Adrienne Rich
Mon, 22 Sep 2008, 8:00 PM @ Great Hall, Memorial Union - Adrienne Rich is a poet, nonfiction writer and feminist icon. Her poetry and prose are taught in literature, creative writing, and gender and gay studies courses across the country and abroad. In 1951 she received the Yale Younger Poets Award. Since then her list of honors and awards has included the Lannan Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the Common Wealth Award in Literature, the National Book Award, the Tanning Award for Mastery in the Art of Poetry, the Bollingen Prize for Poetry, a MacArthur Fellowship, and the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. She is the author of more than sixteen volumes of poetry, including Diving into the Wreck and The Dream of a Common Language. Her works of nonfiction prose include Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution and What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics. Rich's new book of poems, Telephone Ringing in the Labyrinth, was released last fall. The 2008 Goldtrap Lecture. Please also join us for: Rewriting the World: Personal, Poetic, Political An Informal Meeting and Discussion with Adrienne Rich Tuesday, September 23, 2008, 10:00 a.m. Campanile Room, Memorial Union

Rewriting the World: Personal, Poetic, Political - A Discussion with Adrienne Rich
Tue, 23 Sep 2008, 10:00 AM @ Campanile Room, Memorial Union - This informal meeting is an opportunity for questions and discussion with poet and feminist icon Adrienne Rich. Rich's poetry and prose are taught in literature, creative writing, and gender and gay studies courses across the country and abroad. In 1951 she received the Yale Younger Poets Award. Since then her list of honors and awards has included the Lannan Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the Common Wealth Award in Literature, the National Book Award, the Tanning Award for Mastery in the Art of Poetry, the Bollingen Prize for Poetry, a MacArthur Fellowship, and the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. She is the author of more than sixteen volumes of poetry, including Diving into the Wreck and The Dream of a Common Language. Her works of nonfiction prose include Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution and What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics. Rich's new book of poems, Telephone Ringing in the Labyrinth, was released last fall.

Enrique's Journey and America's Immigration Dilemma - Sonia Nazario
Tue, 23 Sep 2008, 8:00 PM @ Sun Room, Memorial Union - Sonia Nazario, a projects reporter for the Los Angeles Times, won a Pulitzer Prize for her series on the experiences of Latin American children who immigrate to join their parents in the United States. The series was the basis for her book Enrique's Journey, which tells the story of a Honduran boy's struggle to reach his mother in the United States. She has spent more than two decades reporting and writing about social issues, including children of drug-addicted parents and hunger among California schoolchildren. Nazario grew up in Kansas and in Argentina and began her career at the Wall Street Journal before moving to the Los Angeles Times. She has a master's degree in Latin American studies from the University of California, Berkeley. Part of the Latino Heritage Month Celebration.

Can Capitalism Save the Planet? - Ted Steinberg
Thu, 25 Sep 2008, 8:00 PM @ Ames City Auditorium, 515 Clark Ave - Ted Steinberg, the Adeline Barry Davee Distinguished Professor of History and Professor of Law at Case Western Reserve University, has worked as a U.S. environmental historian for nearly twenty years. His talk will examine the roots of modern ecological change and the emergence of a new, more business-friendly strand of environmental thinking. Many of Steinberg's recent publications focus on the intersection of environmental and social history. They include American Green: The Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Lawn, Down to Earth: Nature's Role in American History and Acts of God: The Unnatural History of Natural Disaster in America. Steinberg holds a PhD from Brandeis University in the history of American civilization. Part of the Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities Series: Sustaining the Earth.

Challenging Chomsky: Has a Remote Amazonian Language Changed our Understanding of Culture, Grammar, and Thinking? - Daniel Everett
Mon, 29 Sep 2008, 8:00 PM @ Sun Room, Memorial Union - Daniel L. Everett is chair of the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, and a professor of anthropology and linguistics at Illinois State University. Everett began his linguistics work in 1977 as a missionary with SIL International (Summer Institute of Linguistics) in Brazil, where he studied the indigenous language Pirahã. He eventually began and completed an Sc.D. in linguistics at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP). His current research is concerned with understanding how cultural values constrain language. Everett has concluded that Noam Chomsky's framework of universal grammar, the fundamental principle of recursion in particular, didn't obtain in Pirahã. His 2005 article in Current Anthropology, titled "Cultural Constraints on Grammar and Cognition in Pirahã," has caused a controversy in the field of linguistics. The 2007-08 Quentin Johnson Lecture.

The Supreme Court under Chief Justice Roberts - Neal Katyal
Thu, 02 Oct 2008, 8:00 PM @ Sun Room, Memorial Union - Neal Katyal is an expert in national security law, the American Constitution, the Geneva Conventions, and the role of the president and Congress after 9/11. He successfully challenged the policy of military trials at Guantanamo Bay Naval Station, Cuba. On June 29, 2006, the Supreme Court sided with him by a 5-3 vote, finding that President Bush's tribunals violated the constitutional separation of powers, domestic military law, and international law. Katyal attended Yale Law School and is currently a professor at Georgetown University Law School. He served as National Security Adviser in the U.S. Justice Department, was co-counsel in the Supreme Court presidential election dispute of 2000, and represented the deans of most major private law schools in the landmark University of Michigan affirmative-action case. Constitution Day Lecture and Part of the National Affairs Series: How Will America Change?

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Environmental and Health Risks Associated with Corn-based Ethanol Production - Felicia Wu
Thu, 16 Oct 2008, 8:00 PM @ Gallery, Memorial Union - Felicia Wu is an assistant professor of environmental and occupational health and adjunct professor in the Center for Bioethics and Health Law at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research interests include economics, risk analysis, risk communication, and policy analysis applied to the areas of indoor air, food safety, and biotechnology. Wu has received the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Early Career Award. She has a Ph.D. in engineering and public policy from Carnegie Mellon University. Sigma Xi Lecture.

Ethnic Gardens: Sustaining a Cultural Identity through Food - Patricia Klindienst
Thu, 16 Oct 2008, 8:00 PM @ Hughes Auditorium, Reiman Gardens - Patricia Klindienst is the author of The Earth Knows My Name: Food, Culture, & Sustainability in the Gardens of Ethnic Americans, winner of the 2006 American Book Award. She has also published essays that connect gardening to conservation, the construction of memory, and ethnic cleansing. Klindienst has taught at Yale, Wesleyan and Connecticut College, and her distinguished record of academic publication includes the landmark feminist essays "The Voice of the Shuttle is Ours," originally published in the Stanford Literature Review, and "Philomela's Loom," the epilogue to Coming to Light: American Women Poets in the Twentieth Century. Part of the Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities Series: Sustaining the Earth.

Why What You Do and Who You Are Matters: Humanitarian Action in the Twenty-first Century - James Orbinski
Wed, 22 Oct 2008, 8:00 PM @ Sun Room, Memorial Union - Dr. James Orbinski is a humanitarian advocate and former president of the world's largest independent medical humanitarian organization, Doctors Without Borders, for which he accepted the Nobel Peace Prize in 1999. He offers a compelling look at the ravages of genocide and civil war, the role of humanitarianism, and the conflict that arises from combining humanitarian assistance with a political agenda. He is currently a research scientist and associate professor of family and community medicine and political science at St. Michael's Hospital and the University of Toronto. He is also the founder and president of Dignitas International, an NGO launched to provide and research community-based care and the prevention and treatment for people living with HIV in the developing world. Orbinski is the author of An Imperfect Offering: Humanitarian Action for the 21st Century. Part of the World Affairs Series: Why Should We Care?

A Community-Based Approach to Sustainable Living - Andrew Light
Thu, 23 Oct 2008, 8:00 PM @ Sun Room, Memorial Union - Andrew Light is an associate professor of philosophy and public affairs and an adjunct professor of geography and public health genetics at the University of Washington, Seattle. He is also a faculty fellow at the Center for Sustainable Development at the University of Texas at Austin, an affiliate faculty member of the Bard Center for Environmental Policy at Bard College, and a studio fellow at the Studio for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University. Light has edited or coedited sixteen publications in the fields of environmental ethics and the philosophy of technology. He is coauthor of the recently published Environment and Values, an historical and community-based approach to environmental valuation. He holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of California, Riverside. Part of the Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities Series: Sustaining the Earth.

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Religious Upheaval and Its Effects on U.S. Policy Toward the Middle East - Arthur Waskow
Tue, 28 Oct 2008, 8:00 PM @ Sun Room, Memorial Union - Rabbi Arthur Waskow, director of The Shalom Center, is involved in numerous interreligious projects that address issues of peace and social justice, the environment, and community building. He is recognized as a writer and teacher of Jewish history and theology and a leader in the movement for Jewish renewal. In 2007, Newsweek magazine named him one of the fifty most influential American rabbis. For fourteen years Waskow was a Resident Fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies, a center for independent analysis of governmental policy and social change. He is the author or editor of over two dozen books, including Godwrestling, Down-to-Earth Judaism, and, most recently, The Tent of Abraham: Stories of Hope and Peace for Jews, Christians, and Muslims. He earned a PhD in U.S. history from the University of Wisconsin. Part of the World Affairs Series: Why Should We Care?

Putin's Petrolstate: Power, Patronage and the New Russia - Marshall Goldman
Mon, 03 Nov 2008, 7:00 PM @ Sun Room, Memorial Union - Marshall I. Goldman is a recognized authority on Russian economics, politics, and environmental policy and best known for his analysis of the careers of Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin. He is the author of over a dozen books on the former Soviet Union, including The USSR in Crisis: The Failure of an Economic System and Gorbachev's Challenge: Economic Reform in the Age of High Technology. His most recent book is Petrolstate: Putin, Power and the New Russia. Goldman is the Kathryn Wasserman Davis Professor of Russian Economics (Emeritus) at Wellesley College, and he served for more than thirty years as the associate director of the Davis Center for Russian Studies at Harvard University. Goldman received M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Russian studies and economics from Harvard University.

An African Childhood - Alexandra Fuller
Thu, 06 Nov 2008, 8:00 PM @ Great Hall, Memorial Union - Alexandra Fuller, author of Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood and Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African Soldier, grew up on several farms in southern Africa. Her father sided with the colonial government in the Rhodesian civil war and was often away fighting black guerilla factions. Her memoirs tell of a white family clinging to lives in Africa as Rhodesia became Zimbabwe and illustrate how turmoil and injustice in society distort the lives of families and individuals. Alexandra Fuller was born in England and in 1972 moved with her family to a farm in Rhodesia. After that country's war for independence in 1980, the Fullers moved first to Malawi, then to Zambia. In 1994, she married and moved to Wyoming, where she currently lives and writes. Her recent book is The Legend of Colton H Bryant, the story of a boy who comes of age in the oil fields and open plains of the American West. Part of the World Affairs Series: Why Should We Care?

Green Talk: The Rhetoric of Climate Change and Sustainability - Tarla R. Peterson
Thu, 06 Nov 2008, 8:00 PM @ Campanile Room, Memorial Union - Tarla Rai Peterson holds the Boone and Crockett Chair in Wildlife Conservation and Policy at Texas A&M University, where she is a professor in the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences. She is the editor of Green Talk in the White House: The Rhetorical Presidency Encounters Ecology. Her research focuses on the intersections between communication, environmental policy, and democracy. She will discuss the rhetorical strategies of 1Sky, a coalition dedicated to building a national movement for a set of comprehensive policies addressing climate change. Peterson earned an M.A. and Ph.D. from Washington State University. Part of the Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities Series: Sustaining the Earth.

Public Scholarship and the Future of the Humanities - Gregory Jay
Thu, 13 Nov 2008, 8:00 PM @ Campanile Room, Memorial Union - Gregory Jay is the Director of the Cultures and Communities Program and Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Jay's research focuses on issues of multiculturalism and curriculum reform in literature and American Studies. His publications include American Literature and the Culture Wars and America the Scrivener: Deconstruction and the Subject of Literary History. Jay is a founding member of Teachers for a Democratic Culture, a coalition of academics committed to preserving education as a force for social change and cultural pluralism. He has a Ph.D. in English from SUNY-Buffalo. Part of the Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities Series: Sustaining the Earth.

Improving Energy Efficiency and Environmental Quality through Nanotechnology: Understanding the Giant Magnetocaloric Effect - Karl Gschneidner
Thu, 20 Nov 2008, 8:00 PM @ Gallery, Memorial Union - Karl Gschneidner is the Anson Marston Distinguished Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Iowa State and Senior Metallurgist with the Ames Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy. Gschneidner's primary research interests include the physical metallurgy of rare-earth metals and alloys, theory of alloy phase formation, magnetic refrigeration, and passive and active magnetic regenerator materials. He has published more than 400 journal articles, 136 book chapters, and written or edited 43 books. Gschneidner was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2007 and is the 2008 recipient of the Acta Materialia Gold Medal, considered the top international award in materials science. He received his Ph.D. from Iowa State and worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory before returning to Iowa State to join the faculty. Sigma Xi Lecture.

Thanksgiving Break
Mon, 24 Nov 2008, 8:00 AM @ No events planned - No events planned the week of November 24-28.

Journey of Hope: Children Affected by HIV/AIDS
Wed, 03 Dec 2008, 7:00 PM @ Great Hall, Memorial Union - Journey of Hope presentations allow children affected by HIV/AIDS to speak about their experiences with the disease. Since 1994, the Journey of Hope AIDS Awareness Program has traveled throughout the United States with the goal of increasing HIV awareness, prevention, education and testing. In addition to sharing personal stories, the children recite poetry, sing and perform skits. Their national tour is sponsored by One Heartland, the largest camping and care program for children who experience HIV/AIDS, based in Willow River, Minnesota. The public talk has been scheduled in conjunction with a display of the AIDS quilt December 1-3, 2008, in the Memorial Union.

Sustainable Industry in a Changing Society - John Carberry
Thu, 26 Feb 2009, 8:00 PM @ Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - John Carberry is Director of Environmental Technology at DuPont, where he is responsible for recommendations on technical programs and product development based on an analysis of environmental issues. He has led the company in its efforts to emphasize waste prevention, product stewardship and sustainability while maintaining excellence in treatment. Carberry serves as a National Academy of Science Lecturer on sustainable development, has served on six National Academy committees, and is a founding member of the Green Power Market Development Group. He holds a B.ChE. and an M.E. in Chemical Engineering from Cornell University and an MBA from the University of Delaware. Sigma Xi Spring Lecture

2009 President's Lecture in Chemistry - Dudley R. Herschbach
Tue, 10 Mar 2009, 8:00 PM @ Sun Room, Memorial Union - Dudley R. Herschbach is the Frank B. Baird, Jr., Professor of Science at Harvard and recipient of the Nobel Prize in chemistry. His research on the crossed molecular beam technique is one of the most important advances within the field of reaction dynamics and has allowed scientists to better understand how chemical reactions take place. Herschbach has authored more than four hundred scientific papers, is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences, and has been honored with numerous awards. He received his Ph.D. in chemical physics at Harvard. He is currently engaged in several efforts to improve K-12 science education and the public's understanding of science. The 2009 President's Lecture in Chemistry.

Spring Break
Mon, 16 Mar 2009, 8:00 AM @ No events planned - No events planned the week of March 16-20.

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