Friday, 01 Apr 2016
Lecture: Trend Forecasting - Fashion Show Judge Lorynn Divita
Dr. Lorynn Divita, associate professor of apparel merchandising at Baylor University, discusses trend forecasting as it applies to fashion, accessories, and beauty products, including skincare and makeup.
Monday, 04 Apr 2016
Lecture: Climate Change, Ontology & Urbanization
"Airquakes: Climate Change, Atmosphere & Urbanization." Keynote Lecture, Center for Excellence in the Arts & Humanities Symposium "What Is the Urban?" Albert Pope is the Gus Sessions Wortham Professor of Architecture at Rice University.
Lecture: Soul Food Love
Alice Randall is a New York Times bestselling novelist, award-winning songwriter, and an innovative food activist.
Tuesday, 05 Apr 2016
Lecture: National Poetry Month Readings
National Book Award finalist Ada Limon and Iowa State instructor and poet Jennifer Knox read from their work.
Panel Discussion: Iowa Farmers on Sustainability
"Farming for the Long Term." Three Iowa farmers share practical solutions and personal experiences with conservation and sustainable agriculture practices. The Shivvers Memorial Lecture.
Wednesday, 06 Apr 2016
Lecture: Future of Healthy Families
Featuring Ronald Dahl, Institute of Human Development at the University of California, Berkeley. Part of the Helen LeBaron Hilton Endowed Chair Lecture Series, which brings together insight from across disciplinary bounds to address how family is defined, the current knowledge on healthy families and the future of the field. Reception will follow.
Lecture: Beal Lecture in Rural Sociology
"The Geography of Inequality: Local Governments and Community Well-Being across America" - Linda Labao is a professor in Rural Sociology, Sociology, and Geography at The Ohio State University's School of Environment and Natural Resources
Richard Thompson Memorial Lecture: The Education of Indians and Unfinished Business
Norbert S. Hill, Jr., (Oneida Nation) is the Area Manager for Education and Training for the Oneida Tribe of Wisconsin.
Lecture: ISIS, Jihadist Violence, and the Quest for an Idealized Islamic State
College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Dean's Lecture Series Michael Christopher Low, Department of History, will reframe the discussion of ISIS against the backdrop of more than a half century of unsuccessful jihadist attempts to topple repressive dictatorships and secular states in the Middle East.
Thursday, 07 Apr 2016
Lecture: Christian Sexual Ethics at the End of Days
Richard McCarty, an associate professor of religious studies at Mercyhurst University, studies religious perspectives on human relationships and sexual ethics.
Hertz Lecture on Emerging Issues in Agriculture
"Your Future Is Short. Don't Waste It Working for Someone Else," Roger Underwood, entrepreneur and former CEO of Becker Underwood.
Saturday, 09 Apr 2016
Aldo Leopold: A Standard of Change - A One-Act Play
The one-man play A Standard of Change explores the influences and challenges that led Aldo Leopold to penning some of the most important essays in his book A Sand County Almanac. The play is set in one evening in and around the famous Wisconsin Shack that inspired much of Leopold's writing. Jim Pfitzer, who wrote and stars in the play, skillfully captures Leopold's reflections on the effects of human progress on wildness...
Sunday, 10 Apr 2016
Lecture: Murmurs at Every Turn: The Natural and Human Migrations of Northern Greece
Writer Julian Hoffman lives beside the Prespa Lakes in northwestern Greece, the first transboundary park in the Balkans. Pearl Hogrefe Visiting Writers Series
Monday, 11 Apr 2016
Lecture: Trans Entrepreneurship and Creating Trans-Inclusive Workplaces
Angelica Ross is the founder of TransTech Social Enterprises, a company that empowers trans and gender-nonconforming people through on-the-job training in leadership and workplace skills.
Film & Discussion: The PhD Movie 2 - Piled Higher and Deeper
Film Screening & Conversation with PhD Comics creator Jorge Cham. Part of the Graduate and Professional Student Senate Research Conference
Lecture: Empowering Transgender Lives
Angelica Ross is a leader in the movement for trans and racial equality. Named "1st Foot Soldier of the Year" in 2015 by Melissa Harris Perry, Ross is the founder of TransTech Social Enterprises, a company that empowers trans and gender-nonconforming people through on-the-job training in leadership and workplace skills.
Lecture: The Role of Insects in Crime Scene Investigations
"Bugs and Bodies" - Richard W. Merritt, University Distinguished Professor at Michigan State University, is involved in the field of forensic entomology and assists police departments in crime scene investigations involving insects.
Tuesday, 12 Apr 2016
Lecture: Graduate & Professional Student Senate Research Conference Keynote - Catherine Kling
"From Iowa Kid to NAS Member: Where the Study of Economics Has Taken Me" - Catherine Kling is the Charles F. Curtiss Distinguished Professor of Agriculture and Life Sciences and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) last year.
Lecture: The Power of Procrastination
Jorge Cham is the creator of PHD Comics, including "Piled Higher and Deeper," a comic strip about life (or the lack thereof) in Academia. He also produced the PhD Movies. Part of the Graduate & Professional Student Senate Research Conference
Documentary & Discussion: The History of Yoga
Yoga has established itself as an effective alternative therapy across the world, yet few people know of it's philosophical and historical origins. The History of Yoga takes you through a 6,000 year developmental history of yoga, from the times of Harappa Civilization to the Medieval Ages to the 19th century, when modern science shed new light on the potential of yoga. The film crew traveled 35,000 km - across India, Nepal, Europe...
Wednesday, 13 Apr 2016
Future of Healthy Families Lecture: Carolyn and Philip Cowan
Attend the Helen LeBaron Hilton Endowed Chair Lecture Series. This series brings together insight from across disciplinary bounds to address how family is defined, the current knowledge on healthy families, and the future of the field. Reception will follow.
Manatt-Phelps Lecture in Political Science
"Our Divided Political Heart: Campaign 2016," E.J. Dionne writes a twice-weekly syndicated column on politics for the Washington Post and is widely admired for his insights into the polarization of our national politics.
Monday, 18 Apr 2016
Documentary & Discussion: White People
"White People" is a first-of-its-kind documentary exploring whiteness and the intersection of race and immigration in an increasingly diverse America. It was produced, directed and hosted by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and undocumented immigrant Jose Antonio Vargas as part of MTV's Emmy Award-winning Look Different Campaign. (41 min)
Tuesday, 19 Apr 2016
Future of Healthy Families Lecture: Deb Cassidy
Deborah Cassidy is a professor at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies.
Wednesday, 20 Apr 2016
Future of Healthy Families Lecture: Ross Parke
The final lecture of the Future of Healthy Families series features Hilton Endowed Chair Ross Parke. He will be joined by the series speakers via live web feeds. A reception and HDFS graduate student poster session immediately follows the lecture, 4-5:30 p.m.
Lecture: Food Regimes, Food Sovereignty and Agroecology
Eric Holt-Gimenez is the executive director of the Institute for Food and Development Policy, better known as Food First. The organization was founded in 1975 by Joseph Collins and Frances Moore Lappe and promotes access to healthy, ecologically produced, and culturally appropriate food. Holt-Gimenez worked for more than two decades with small-scale farmers in Mexico and Central America and prior to joining Food First served as the Latin...
Lecture: The Syrian Refugee Crisis
James Gelvin is a professor of Middle Eastern history at the University of California, Los Angeles, and author of "Divided Loyalties: Nationalism and Mass Politics in Syria at the Close of Empire."
Thursday, 21 Apr 2016
Lecture: The Press, the Presidency and the Campaign
Steve Thomma is Senior White House Correspondent and political editor for McClatchy.
The Future of Water: Assessing Sustainability from Space
Ronald Lecture Series in Environmental Conservation. Bridget Scanlon heads the Sustainable Water Resources Program and is Senior Research Scientist at the Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas at Austin.
Friday, 22 Apr 2016
Lecture: An Earth Day Reading
"All the Land to Hold Us" Part of the Pearl Hogrefe Visiting Writers Series.