Thursday, 12 Nov 2015
Brown Bag Lecture
"Holiday Decorating" presented by Sandy Gossman of the Ames Garden Club. Bring your lunch to the Gardens and enjoy an education program with a new topic presented by regional professionals and lecturers.
Women's and Gender Studies series
Q&A with Amy Slagell, Liberal Arts and Sciences associate dean, and Joanne Powell-Coffman, ISU genetics, development and cell biology. Part of a series of informal, brown-bag lunch symposiums.
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.