Wednesday, 22 Feb 2006
The Elements and Imagination
Panel: Jon Billman, (moderator) ISU Dept. of English; Lee Honeycutt, ISU Dept. of English; A. Whitney Sanford, ISU Religious Studies Program; Scott Stevens, Meteorologist. Weather is our next frontier. This panel will dowse such subject matter as elemental energy, ethics and even weaponry. Part of the Second Annual Symposium on Wildness & Wilderness.
Race and Gender in the Classroom at ISU - A Forum
University administrators, faculty and students discuss strategies for dealing with issues of race and gender in the classroom. Laura Rendon, Professor and Department Chair of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies; Connie Hargrave, Associate Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction; and Engineering Dean Mark Kushner will share strategies for dealing with issues of race and gender in the classroom. Jill Bystydzienski, Director of the Women's Studies Program and Sociology Professor, will moderate the discussion with audience members.
Domestication & Eco-Catastrophe
Panel: Roger Gipple (moderator), Agrestal Fund; Marc Edward, Iowa Department of Natural Resources; Lonnie Gamble, Co-founder of Abundance Ecovillage in Fairfield, Iowa; Richard Manning, author/environmental journalist. Part of the Second Annual Symposium on Wildness & Wilderness.
Truth and the Strangeness of Fiction: How a Memory Becomes a Narrative
Panel Members: Matthew Abbott (moderator), ISU Dept. of English, Alicia Hernandez, ISU Dept. of English; Jenny Maddox, ISU Dept. of English; Julia Sweet, ISU Dept. of English. Part of the Second Annual Symposium on Wildness & Wilderness
Feral Zones in Urban Landscapes
Panel: David Zimmerman (moderator), ISU Dept. of English; Mira Engler, ISU Dept. of Landscape Architecture; James Pease, ISU Dept. of Natural Resource Ecology & Management. This panel will explore the notion of wildness in the urban landscape: what it is, what it means, and what it is becoming. Part of the Second Annual Symposium on Wildness & Wilderness.
It's the End of the World as We Know It - How Do You Feel? - Adrian Sannier
Adrian Sannier has held positions in several technology firms, including Schlumberger Technologies; Applicon, where his team created the first line of CAD software for the Macintosh; Cimlinc; and EAI Interactive, where he served as Vice President and General Manager. In 2001, he was named Stanley Professor of Interdisciplinary Engineering at Iowa State University, during which time he was also Associate Director for the Virtual Reality Applications Center. Sannier became University Technology Officer at Arizona State University in 2005. Under a long-range technology plan in support of the New American University, he is currently identifying and applying new technologies to improve academic, administrative, and research environments. Part of the Technology, Globalization, and Culture series.
Against the Grain: How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization - Richard Manning
Richard Manning is a newspaper editor and investigative journalist based in Montana and southern Idaho whose articles have been widely published in leading publications around the world. He is the author of seven important books on environmental issues, including: Against the Grain: How Agriculture Hijacked Civilization; Food's Frontier; Inside Passage; One Round River: The Curse of Gold and the Fight for the Big Blackfoot; Grassland:...
The Hydrogen Economy: Opportunities, Costs, Barriers, and R&D Needs - Michael Ramage
Michael Ramage is retired Executive Vice President, ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company. Previously Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Mobil Oil Corporation. He has broad experience in many aspects of the petroleum and chemical industries, and is Director of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and a member of the National Academy of Engineering, serving on its council. This is part of the Sigma Xi Lecture series.