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Be Here Tomorrow: The Ripple Effect of Suicide - Kevin Hines

21 Sep 2021, 6:00 PM

Virtual: See Link Below

The Black Holocaust: How the Atlantic Slave Trade Still Affects Us Today - Dr. Kesho Scott

22 Sep 2021, 7:00 PM

Great Hall, Memorial Union

The Right to Have Rights: Cuban Artists Confront the State - Coco Fusco

23 Sep 2021, 6:00 PM

Zoom link below

Towns and Ranches: Testimonies of Latino/a Families and Communities in Northwest Iowa - Dr. Ruben Viramontez Anguiano

23 Sep 2021, 7:00 PM

Sun Room, Memorial Union

Don't Be Evil: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism and Big Tech - Rana Foroohar

27 Sep 2021, 6:00 PM

Great Hall, Memorial Union

Latinx in the U.S.A.: Music as a Cultural History - Catalina Maria Johnson

27 Sep 2021, 7:30 PM

Campanile Room, Memorial Union

Be the Glue: The Business of Being a Family in a Family Business - Chris Cornelius

28 Sep 2021, 7:00 PM

127 Curtiss, Dolezal Auditorium

Nothing Is Too Big to Fail - Kerry and Linda Killinger

29 Sep 2021, 6:00 PM

Sun Room, Memorial Union

The Improvisor's Mindset: How to Stay Present, Adapt and Thrive - Dion Flynn

30 Sep 2021, 6:00 PM

Sun Room, Memorial Union

Divided We Stand - Marjorie Spruill

04 Oct 2021, 7:00 PM

Benton Auditorium, Scheman Building

Which Side Are You On? The Question Every Police Officer Must Answer - Dr. Cedric Alexander

07 Oct 2021, 6:00 PM

Sun Room, Memorial Union

Energy Democracy: Driving Clean Energy Through Local Action - Jon Carson

12 Oct 2021, 7:00 PM

Great Hall, Memorial Union

Good Bad People: A Photo-Ethnography of Methamphetamine Use in Rural Alabama - Heith Copes

14 Oct 2021, 7:00 PM

Sun Room, Memorial Union

2021 Norman Borlaug Lecture - Dr. Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted

18 Oct 2021, 7:00 PM

WebEx Link to Come

Runner: One Man's Journey from Sudan to Iowa State to the Olympics - Guor Mading Maker

20 Oct 2021, 5:30 PM

Sun Room, Memorial Union

Canoes, Romance, and Horses: The Journey of Three ISU Students to Best-Selling Authors - Carrie Seim, Trent Preszler and Denise Williams

21 Oct 2021, 6:00 PM

Sun Room, Memorial Union

Preprints and the Evolution of Scholarly Publishing - Dr. Richard Sever

26 Oct 2021, 6:00 PM

WebEx (link to follow)

Massacres, Trains, and Iowa: Connecting the 1912 Villisca Axe Murders to a Cross-Country Serial Killer - Bill James and Rachel McCarthy James

27 Oct 2021, 7:00 PM

Great Hall, Memorial Union

The Bee Squad: Understanding and Improving Pollinator Health in Iowa - Dr. Amy Toth

28 Oct 2021, 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM

360 Heady Hall

Trumpism and the Republican Party: What's Next? - Michael Steele

28 Oct 2021, 8:00 PM

Great Hall, Memorial Union

A Pilgrim's Passport to Pandemics Past: Mecca and the Hajj under Quarantine from Cholera to COVID-19 - Dr. Michael Christopher Low

02 Nov 2021, 6:00 PM

Great Hall, Memorial Union

Minorities Report: indigenous Peoples in Socialist and Post-Socialist China - Dr. Erik Mueller

04 Nov 2021, 6:00 PM

Sun Room, Memorial Union

From Yellow Peril to Model Minority and Back Again: Immigration and Sino-US Foreign Relations - Dr. Madeline Hsu

16 Nov 2021, 6:00 PM

Great Hall, Memorial Union

Extraterrestrial Life: Are We the Sharpest Cookies in the Jar? - Dr. Avi Loeb

01 Dec 2021, 6:00 PM

Virtual: Link to Come

Better, Not Bitter: Living on Purpose in the Pursuit of Racial Justice - Yusef Salaam

27 Jan 2022, 7:00 PM

Great Hall, Memorial Union

The Color of Success: Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority - Dr. Ellen Wu

03 Feb 2022, 6:00 PM

Great Hall, Memorial Union