Monday, 02 Mar 2015
Lecture: From Wall Street to the Front Lines of Women's Health
Suzanna de Baca is the new president and chief executive officer of Planned Parenthood of the Heartland and a graduate of Iowa State University.
Tuesday, 03 Mar 2015
Lecture: Researching & Reporting Complex Environmental Stories
A conversation with "Toms River" author Dan Fagin about science writing and writing about the environment.
Lecture: "Toms River" author Dan Fagin
Dan Fagin is an investigative reporter, prize-winning science journalist, and the author of Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation, which won the 2014 Pulitzer for General Nonfiction. Part of the Creative Writing Program's Environmental Imagination Series
Thursday, 05 Mar 2015
Blurring the Boundaries
Dan Corson is an award-winning public artist from Seattle who uses his background in art and theatrical design to create installations filled with drama, light and engaging viewer interactions. Corson will discuss several of his past, present and upcoming projects.
Lecture: The Language Hoax
"Why the World Looks the Same in Any Language" - John McWhorter, Columbia University, is the author of numerous books on how language shapes the way we think. Quentin Johnson Lecture in Linguistics
Lecture: Physical Inactivity - Should We Consider It a Disease?
Dr. Michael Joyner is a physician-researcher at Mayo Clinic and a leading voice in the world of exercise physiology. The 2015 Pease Family Scholar
Friday, 06 Mar 2015
Keynote: ISCORE
Kathleen Wong(Lau) is the director of the University of Oklahoma's Southwest Center for Human Relations Studies. She has done consulting and training on diversity and inclusion in university settings and the private corporate sector, and has published research on structural inequality within higher education and best practices for addressing multicultural leadership within institutions.
Monday, 09 Mar 2015
Lecture: My Electric Genealogy
Sarah Kanouse, Associate Professor of Intermedia and Dean's Scholar at the University of Iowa, is an interdisciplinary artist and writer examining the politics of landscape and public space. Goldtrap Lecture in English
Lecture: The State of the Promised Land
Norman Finkelstein is a political scientist, activist, professor, and author who writes about the Middle East and the politics of the Holocaust.
Tuesday, 10 Mar 2015
Sexual Assault on Campus: A Conservative Perspective
Katie Pavlich is a political commentator for FOX News and author of "Assault and Flattery: The Truth About the Left and Their War on Women."
Wednesday, 11 Mar 2015
The Future of Food
Vandana Shiva is a philosopher, environmental activist and the founder and director of the Navdanya Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology.
Thursday, 12 Mar 2015
One Health Lecture Series
"Living on the Edge: High-Consequence Zoonotic Pathogens & One Health Concepts," Dr. Thomas Ksiazek, University of Texas, Galveston.
Lecture: Emptiness in Christian America
"How Does It Feel to Be Nobody? Emptiness in Christian America," John Corrigan, a scholar of American religious history and author of "Emptiness: Feeling Christian in America."
Tuesday, 24 Mar 2015
Lecture: Stories of Undocumented Workers from Mexico
Frans Schryer is Professor Emeritus at the University of Guelph, Canada, where he taught in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology.
The Last Bhopa: The Effects of Modernization on Folk Culture in India
Praveen Singh Rathore will screen his 15-minute film "The Last Bhopa" and discuss how development in India has impacted the lives of traditional musicians and artisans, including Bhopas, semi-nomadic priest singers of the folk deities in Rajasthan, India.
Wednesday, 25 Mar 2015
Lecture: GMO Technology and the Future of Food
Kevin Folta (Horticultural Sciences, University of Florida) runs the Bio-talk-nowledge-y website, a program designed to help scientists learn the facts about biotechnology and then better communicate them.
Thursday, 26 Mar 2015
Mathematics of Crime
Andrea Bertozzi is the Betsy Wood Knapp Chair for Innovation and Creativity and a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles. Sigma Xi Lecture Series.
Monday, 30 Mar 2015
Lecture: Building a Progressive Historic Preservation Movement
Max Page, a professor of architecture at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, will discuss how the historic preservation movement contributes to building more sustainable, meaningful, and fair communities. The Donald Benson Memorial Lecture in Literature, Science and the Arts.
Lecture: Pills and Thrills That Kill: Emerging Drugs of Abuse
Linda Kalin directs the Iowa Statewide Poison Control Center.
Tuesday, 31 Mar 2015
Lecture: Spring 2015 Mary Louise Smith Chair in Women and Politics
"How American Women are Changing Politics" - Michelle Bernard. Sponsored by the Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women & Politics