Monday, 09 Nov 2015
Workshop: How to Participate in the Iowa Caucuses
Iowa Caucus Education Workshop - The 75-minute workshop will include an overview of the Iowa Caucus process, an explanation of the Republican and Democratic Party caucuses, and a mock caucus.
Lecture: The Plight of Homeless LGBTQ+ Youth
Ryan Berg, author of "No House to Call My Home: Love, Family, & Other Transgressions," will talk about his work as a counselor with LGBTQ teenagers in foster care, especially those who are about to age out of the child welfare system.
Tuesday, 10 Nov 2015
Lecture: Poems of Environmental & Social Justice
Jane Satterfield and Ned Balbo will read from their poetry, which engages personal and public history through an awareness of the challenges that shape our contemporary moment.
Lecture: Censorship and the New Puritans on Campus
David French is a staff writer at National Review and an attorney concentrating his practice in constitutional law.
Wednesday, 11 Nov 2015
Lecture: Piracy of the Rich and Poor along the East Africa Coast
Abdi Ismail Samatar is a distinguished Africanist scholar, an elected member of the African Academy of Sciences, and an Iowa State alumnus.
Thursday, 12 Nov 2015
Documentary & Discussion: What Matters?
"What Matters?"is a feature-length documentary about three friends, two idealistic Christians and one skeptic Atheist, attempting to live in extreme poverty - on $1.25 a day - across three continents (87 min). A discussion and Q&A will follow the film.
Lecture: Mary Louise Smith Chair in Women and Politics
"The Global Tide of Women Rising," - Kathleen Parker is a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The Washington Post, for which she writes a nationally syndicated column twice weekly on politics and culture.