Wednesday, 01 Mar 2006
Technology, Globalization, and Culture Series - Chris Nelson
Since 1993, Chris Nelson has served as President of Kemin Industries, a global nutritional ingredient company that improves human and animal health through molecular innovations, and whose products touch 900 million people daily. Nelson, who received his doctorate in Biochemistry and Biophysics from Washington State University, holds 15 patents and has authored numerous peer-reviewed research studies. He serves on the board of the National Institutes of Health, Technical Advisory Committee; the National Forum for Agricultural Executives Council; Drake University College of Business Administration National Advisory Board; and The Greater Des Moines Partnership Executive Committee. Part of the Technology, Globalization, and Culture series.
Values in Post-Katrina America - Valerie Grim, Peter Orazem and Steven Garasky
Valerie Grim is African American and African Diaspora Studies Professor and Interim Chair at Indiana University, and was interim chair of the African American Studies Program here at Iowa State. She has done extensive research in the area of African American, rural communities. Peter F. Orazem is University Professor of Economics and Director of the Industrial Relations Program at Iowa State. Steven Garasky, Human Development and Family Studies expert on public policy, will moderate. Part of National Affairs Series.
Thursday, 02 Mar 2006
Women's Triumphs in Post-Soviet Russia - Helena Goscilo
Helena Goscilo is UCIS Research Professor and Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pittsburgh. She is one of the most prominent American scholars of Russian feminism, gender and culture. She has authored and edited more than a dozen volumes, among them Balancing Acts; Dehexing Sex: Russian Womanhood during and after Glasnost; TNT: The Explosive World of Tatyana Tolstaya's Fiction; Russian Culture in the...
Friday, 03 Mar 2006
ISCORE Keynote Address on Race and Ethnicity - Frank H. Wu
Frank H. Wu is the Dean of Wayne StateUniversity Law School in Detroit. He also served on the law faculty of Howard University, and as Clinic Director. He has been an adjunct professor at Columbia University, a visiting professor at University of Michigan, and a teaching fellow at Stanford University.He is the author of Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White and co-author of Race, Rights and Reparation: Law and the Japanese American Internment. His writing has appeared on a professional basis in such periodicals as the Washington Post, Detroit Free Press, Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun, Chronicle of Higher Education, Legal Times, and Asian Week.For more information about attending the Iowa State Conference on Race and Ethnicity, go to: http://www.admissions.iastate.edu/iscore/registration.html
Sunday, 05 Mar 2006
Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think - George Lakoff
George Lakoff is the author of Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think. He is a professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, a Senior Fellow at The Rockridge Institute and member of the advisory board of the Frameworks Institute. He is also the author of Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things and co-author of Metaphors We Live By and More than Cool Reason, Philosophy in the Flesh...
Monday, 06 Mar 2006
The Truth About Hybrids - Chris Schneider
Chris Schneider, "The Hybrid Guru" as heard on Wisconsin Public Radio and in hundreds of clinics, will discuss the 70 mpg speed limit and partial zero emissions, hybrids, compressed natural gas and fuel cell vehicles. He will share his research on nearly 200 hybrids of all makes to dispel the numerous myths regarding hybrid vehicles. He has degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame.
Environmental Ethics and the Role of the Farmer: Steward, Mediator, Entrepreneur? Charles Blatz
Charles Blatz is a philosophy professor at the University of Toledo. His areas of specialization include ethics and social and political philosophy (with applications to the environment, to agriculture and to international development).
Tuesday, 07 Mar 2006
Technology, Globalization, and Culture Series - Pietra Rivoli
Pietra Rivoli is associate professor at Georgetown, where she teaches corporate and international finance. She is also involved in Georgetown University's Licensing Oversight Committee, which overseas workplace issues for Georgetown apparel producers, the University's Committee for Social Responsibility in Investing, and the Vital Voices partnership, a University initiative in executive education for women from developing countries. Her...
African-American Designers in Chicago, 1920s-1980s - Victor Margolin
Victor Margolin is Professor of Design History at the University of Illinois, Chicago. He is the author of several books on design, most recently The Politics of the Artificial: Essays on Design and Design Studies (2002). He is the editor of Design Discourse: History, Theory, Criticism (1989) and the co-editor of Discovering Design: Exploration in Design Studies (1995) and The Idea of Design (1996).
Science and Environmental Decision Making: from the Lab to the White House and Beyond - Rosina Bierbaum
Rosina Bierbaum was acting director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy for the President in the Clinton White House. As the Administration's senior scientific advisor on environmental research and development, she provided scientific input and guidance on global change, air and water quality, endangered species, biodiversity, ecosystem management, endocrine disruptors, environmental monitoring, natural hazards, and energy...
Thursday, 09 Mar 2006
DON'T ASK, DON'T TELL IN THE POST-9/11 WORLD - A Forum with Recent Veterans
Veterans of Operation Iraqi Freedom and the U.S. Intelligence Community and discharged gay veterans will debate and discuss the issues and arguments surrounding the continued rationality of the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" law in the 21st century. This leg of the will include Army veterans Jarrod Chlapowski, Alexander Nicholson and Patrick English.
Tuesday, 21 Mar 2006
Who's winning the globalization race? - George Strawn
George Strawn joined the National Science Foundation (NSF) in 1991 and has served as Chief Information Officer since 2002, where he guides the agency in the development and design of innovative information technology. He also serves as co-chair of both the interagency Large Scale Networking Working Group and the international Coordinating Committee for Intercontinental Research Networks. In his numerous roles at the NSF, he helped define and deploy the "new" (privatized) Internet architecture and led an initiative that created the first national high-performance network testbed. Before coming to the NSF, Strawn was a computer science faculty member at Iowa State University, where he chaired the Department of Computer Science from 1983 to 1986 and served as Director of the ISU Computation Center from 1986 to 1995. He has also held several positions in the computer industry and has worked as an information technology consultant in both private industry and government. Part of the Technology, Globalization, and Culture series.
Wednesday, 22 Mar 2006
Entrepreneurial Considerations in a Global Economy - Competition, Culture, and Currency - Chris Clover
Chris Clover has been President/CEO of Mechdyne Corporation since founding the company in 1996, and has served as President/CEO of Fakespace Systems since Mechdyne Corporation acquired Fakespace in 2003. Before founding Mechdyne, Clover held positions with Engineering Animation, Inc., NASA, Fisher Controls International, Inc., and Lennox Industries. He earned a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering and an M.B.A. (Strategic Planning emphasis) from Iowa State University, where he received the Honeywell Foundation Engineering and Business fellowship and the Iowa State University Research Excellence Award. He is widely published in the areas of robotics, haptic feedback, control system design, vehicle simulation, vehicle handling and maneuvering, rollover, and tire mechanics, and has participated in high-profile litigation cases while performing accident reconstruction, simulation, and overall vehicle analysis. Part of the Technology, Globalization, and Culture series.
Three Global Challenges to the Information Economy - James Bernard
James Bernard, Jr., is Vice President of Sales at CBS MarketWatch, where he licenses sales of data and news to organizations that include Fidelity, Ameritrade, American Express, the New York Times, Financial Times, and The Wall Street Journal Online. He joined CBS MarketWatch in 2000 when it was the start-up BigCharts, an innovator in displaying financial data over the Internet. Part of the Technology, Globalization, and Culture series.
Thursday, 23 Mar 2006
The Precautionary Principle: Applying Ethical Environmental Decision Making in a World of Uncertainty - Carolyn Raffensperger
Carolyn Raffensperger, founding Executive Director Science and Environmental Health Network, will discuss applying the Precautionary Principle to a multitude of environmental concerns. This is the subject of the new book she co-edited Precautionary Tools for Reshaping Environmental Policy, published by MIT Press.
Monday, 27 Mar 2006
Media-ting the Torah: The Hebrew Bible and/in the Popular Press - Leonard Greenspoon
Leonard Greenspoon holds the Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization at Creighton University and is Professor of Classical & Near Eastern Studies and of Theology. He is especially interested in the way Bible translators reflect the historical, social, cultural, political, as well as religious environments in which they work, how specific Bible translations influence the communities for which they were intended, and how later...
Diversity and Its Discontents: The Bumpy Road to Recognition, Representation and Reality - Mercedes Lynn de Uriarte
Mercedes Lynn de Uriarte was an assistant editor and writer at the Los Angeles Times, where she was responsible for expanding coverage of Mexico and Central America, as well as that of U.S. minority communities. She is now an Associate Professor in Journalism, Latin American Studies and Women's Studies at the University of Texas, Austin, and publishes frequently in mass media and academic publications. She recently completed a project funded by the Ford Foundation examining journalism ethics, intellectual diversity and professional development: Diversity Disconnects: From Classroom the Newsroom. It draws on two years of research to fully assess efforts over the past 25 years to integrate newsrooms and diversify press content. She received her PhD and MA in American Studies from Yale University.
Tuesday, 28 Mar 2006
The Middle East, Global Energy and Terrorism - Flynt Leverett
Flynt Leverett served at the White House as Senior Director for Middle East Affairs at the National Security Council until March, 2003. In this role, he advised President Bush and National Security Adviser Condoleeza Rice on Arab-Israeli issues and U.S. relations with Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, the Palestinian Authority, Saudi Arabia, and Syria. Previously, Dr. Leverett served on the Secretary of State's Policy Planning Staff, handling Middle East and counterterrorism issues. He is the author of Bashar's Trial By Fire, the editor of The Road Ahead: Middle East Policy in the Bush Administration's Second Term , and earned his masters and doctorate in politics from Princeton University. Part of the Technology, Globalization and Culture Series.
German Jewish Refugees and Holocaust Legacies - Judith Gerson
Judith Gerson is the 2005-06 Life Reborn Fellow for the Study of Displaced Persons at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, and Associate Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University. Professor Gerson received awards from the Lucius N. Littauer Foundation, the American Sociological Association, and the National Science Foundation to conduct research on the sociological perspectives of life during and after the Holocaust.
The Saving Grace of Stories - Sandra Benitez
Sandra Benitez is the author of A Place Where the Sea Remembers, Bitter Grounds, The Weight of All Things, and Night of the Radishes.
Wednesday, 29 Mar 2006
The Global War on Terror: Is It Really Worth It? Major Gen. Robert Dees (Ret.)
General Dees has served in a wide variety of command and staff positions culminating in his last two assignments as Commander, Second Infantry Division, United States Forces Korea, and as Deputy Commanding General, V (US/GE) Corps in Europe, concurrently serving as Commander, US-Israeli Combined Task Force for Missile Defense. He commanded airborne, air assault, and mechanized infantry forces from the platoon through division levels.
Gender and Executive Leadership: Are We Ready for a Woman President? Kathleen Kennedy Townsend
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend is the eldest child of Ethel and Robert Kennedy and recently served two terms as Maryland's first woman lieutenant governor from 1995-2003. She lost an election to become Maryland's first woman governor in 2002. Before becoming lieutenant governor, Townsend served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the U.S. Department of Justice, where she worked to establish community-policing programs across the country. She currently is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University's School of Public Policy and president of Operation Respect, a nationwide character education program that teaches personal and social responsibility.
Technology, Globalization, and Culture Panel - Vance Coffman and Robert Stevens
Vance D. Coffman has served as Chairman of the Board of Lockheed Martin Corporation since 1998, and until 2004 he also served as CEO. In addition to Lockheed Martin, Coffman serves on the board of 3M, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, and Deere & Company. Coffman joined Lockheed Martin in 1967 and has since held several executive positions within the Space Systems Division, including Vice President, Division Vice President and Assistant General Manager, and President. Coffman earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering from Iowa State University and Masters and Doctoral degrees in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Stanford University. Robert J. Stevens is President and Chief Operating Officer of Lockheed Martin and is a member of the corporation's board of directors. He also currently serves on President Bush's Commission to examine the Future of the United States Aerospace Industry. At Lockheed, Stevens has served as Chief Financial Officer, Vice President of the Strategic Development organization, President and Chief Operating Officer of the Lockheed Martin Energy and Environment Sector, and President of Lockheed Martin Air Traffic Management. He is a graduate of the Department of Defense Systems Management College Program Management course and has served in the United States Marine Corps. Part of the Technology, Globalization, and Culture Series.
Thursday, 30 Mar 2006
Terror, Violence and the Imagination: An Anthropological Perspective - Neil L. Whitehead
Neil L. Whitehead is the author of Violence: Poetics, Performance and Expression; In Darkness and Secrecy; Dark Shamans; Kanaimà and the Poetics of Violent Death; and Beyond the Visible and the Material, among others. He is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and received his doctorate from Oxford.
Deeper than a Digital Divide: Women, Welfare and the 'High-Tech' Economy - Virginia Eubanks
Virginia Eubanks is an Assistant Professor in Women's Studies at the University at Albany, SUNY. She received her doctorate in Science and Technology Studies from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in August 2004. Prior to her graduate work, she wrote and edited the cyberfeminist 'zine Brillo and was active in the community media and technology movements in the Bay Area of California.
Friday, 31 Mar 2006
Peace and Human Rights Organizing - Alice Dehle and Marcia Brink
Alice Dahle is President of the Linn County Chapter of the UN and President of the Iowa Chapter of Amnesty International. Marcia Brink is an Ames peace and justice activist. Their presentation is part of a symposium entitled "Walk the Talk: From Theory to Activism." To register for the entire symposium, go to: http://www.iastate.edu/~wsprogram/activism%20conference/homepage.htm. The symposium will provide the opportunity for participants to share their work and thoughts about the diverse means for confronting injustice and discrimination.
Building Ownership in the Age of Inauthentic Leadership - Bruce J Avolio
Bruce J Avolio is the Clifton Chair in Leadership; Director of the Gallup Leadership Institute; Senior Research Scientist with The Gallup Organization in the College of Business Administration at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln.