July 10, 2008
Fall lectures scheduled by College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
A series of lectures and special programs will be highlighted by the College
of Liberal Arts and Sciences and its academic units during the 2008 fall semester.
The lectures are also sponsored by ISU Lectures with funding provided by the
Government of the Student Body.
The series includes presentations by well-known individuals and LAS alumni
and faculty.
The events include:
Thursday, September 18
CEAH Sustaining the Earth Series
Strengthening the University's Public Mission: Sustainability through Community Engagement
Scott Peters
Cornell University
Sun Room, Memorial Union, 8 p.m.
Scott Peters is an associate professor of education at Cornell University. Previously, he served for ten years as Program Director of the University of Illinois YMCA, where he worked on a variety of civic education and community development initiatives. His current research examines the changing social, political, and cultural roles of academic institutions and their professionals, especially the nature and significance of the land grant university. Peters holds a Ph.D. in Educational Policy and Administration from the University of Minnesota.
Monday, September 22
Goldtrap Lecture
An Evening with Adrienne Rich
Great Hall, Memorial Union, 8 p.m.
Adrienne Rich is a poet, nonfiction writer and feminist icon. Her poetry and prose are taught in literature, creative writing, and gender and gay studies courses across the country and abroad. In 1951 she received the Yale Younger Poets Award. Since then her list of honors and awards has included the Lannan Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the Common Wealth Award in Literature, the National Book Award, the Tanning Award for Mastery in the Art of Poetry, the Bollingen Prize for Poetry, a MacArthur Fellowship, and the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. She is the author of more than sixteen volumes of poetry, including Diving into the Wreck and The Dream of a Common Language. Her works of nonfiction prose include Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution and What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics. Rich's new book of poems, Telephone Ringing in the Labyrinth, was released last fall.
NOTE: Rich will
also hold a discussion, "Rewriting the World: Personal, Poetic, Political," Tuesday, September 23, at 10 a.m. in the Campanile Room of the Memorial Union.
Thursday, September 25
CEAH Sustaining the Earth Series
Can Capitalism Save the Planet?
Ted Steinberg
Case Western Reserve University
Ames City Auditorium, 8 p.m.
Ted Steinberg, the Adeline Barry Davee Distinguished Professor of History and Professor of Law at Case Western Reserve University, has worked as a U.S. environmental historian for nearly twenty years. His talk will examine the roots of modern ecological change and the emergence of a new, more business-friendly strand of environmental thinking. Many of Steinberg's recent publications focus on the intersection of environmental and social history. They include American Green: The Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Lawn, Down to Earth: Nature's Role in American History and Acts of God: The Unnatural History of Natural Disaster in America. Steinberg holds a PhD from Brandeis University in the history of American civilization.
Thursday, September 25
Quentin Johnson Lecture
Challenging Chomsky: Has a Remote Amazonia Language Changed Our Understanding of Culture, Grammar and Thinking?
Daniel Everett
Illinois State University
Sun Room, Memorial Union, 8 p.m.
Daniel L. Everett is chair of the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, and a professor of anthropology and linguistics at Illinois State University. Everett began his linguistics work in 1977 as a missionary with SIL International (Summer Institute of Linguistics) in Brazil, where he studied the indigenous language Pirahã. He eventually began and completed an Sc.D. in linguistics at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP). His current research is concerned with understanding how cultural values constrain language. Everett has concluded that Noam Chomsky's framework of universal grammar, the fundamental principle of recursion in particular, didn't obtain in Pirahã. His 2005 article in Current Anthropology, titled "Cultural Constraints on Grammar and Cognition in Pirahã," has caused a controversy in the field of linguistics.
Thursday, October 16
CEAH Sustaining the Earth Series
Ethnic Gardens: Sustaining a Cultural Identity through Food
Patricia Klindienst
Author
Hughes Auditorium, Reiman Gardens, 8 p.m.
Patricia Klindienst is the author of The Earth Knows My Name: Food, Culture, & Sustainability in the Gardens of Ethnic Americans, winner of the 2006 American Book Award. She has also published essays that connect gardening to conservation, the construction of memory, and ethnic cleansing. Klindienst has taught at Yale, Wesleyan and Connecticut College, and her distinguished record of academic publication includes the landmark feminist essays "The Voice of the Shuttle is Ours," originally published in the Stanford Literature Review, and "Philomela's Loom," the epilogue to Coming to Light: American Women Poets in the Twentieth Century.
Thursday, October 23
Managing Financial Crisis: A Panel Discussion
Featuring 4 ISU Economics Alumni
Great Hall, Memorial Union, 7 p.m.
Participants will include James W. Paulsen, Chief Investment Strategist, Wells Capital Management; James A. Overdahl, Chief Economist, Security and Exchange Commission; Robert F. Baur, Chief Global Economist, Principal Global Investors; and Ned P. Zachar, CFA, Portfolio Manager, KLS Diversified. All are Iowa State University Alums.
Thursday, October 23
CEAH Sustaining the Earth Series
A Community-Based Approach to Sustainable Living
Andrew Light
University of Washington
Sun Room, Memorial Union, 8 p.m.
Andrew Light is an associate professor of philosophy and public affairs and an adjunct professor of geography and public health genetics at the University of Washington, Seattle. He is also a faculty fellow at the Center for Sustainable Development at the University of Texas at Austin, an affiliate faculty member of the Bard Center for Environmental Policy at Bard College, and a studio fellow at the Studio for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University. Light has edited or coedited sixteen publications in the fields of environmental ethics and the philosophy of technology. He is coauthor of the recently published Environment and Values, an historical and community-based approach to environmental valuation. He holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of California, Riverside.
Thursday, October 30
Manatt-Phelps Lecture in Political Science
Lloyd Axworthy
President & Vice Chancellor
The University of Winnipeg
Former Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs
Sun Room, Memorial Union, 8 p.m.
Lloyd Axworthy is a prominent Canadian politiican and statesmean from Manitoba. He is best known for having served as Minister of Foreign Affairs under Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien. Axworthy is currently president of the University of Winnipeg. He is a member of the Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor, the first global initiative to focus specifically on the link between exclusion, poverty and law.
Monday, November 3
Putin's Petrostate: Power, Patronage and the New Russia
Marshall Goldman, Wellesley College
Sun Room, Memorial Union, 7 p.m.
Marshall I. Goldman is Kathryn Wasserman Davis Professor of Russian Economics (Emeritus) at Wellesley College. An expert on the Russian economy and the economics of high technology, he joined the Wellesley faculty in 1958. In 1998, the Wellesley College Alumnae Association awarded him its first Faculty Service Award. He was also Associate Director of the Davis Center for Russian Studies at Harvard University from 1975 to 2006. An internationally recognized authority on Russian economics, politics, and environmental policy, Professor Goldman is known for his study and analysis of the careers of Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin. He is the author of over a dozen books on the former Soviet Union.
Thursday, November 6
CEAH Sustaining the Earth Series
Green Talk: The Rhetoric of Climate Change and Sustainability
Taria Peterson
Texas A&M University
Campanile Room, Memorial Union, 8 p.m.
Tarla Rai Peterson holds the Boone and Crockett Chair in Wildlife Conservation and Policy at Texas A&M University, where she is a professor in the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences. She is the editor of Green Talk in the White House: The Rhetorical Presidency Encounters Ecology. Her research focuses on the intersections between communication, environmental policy, and democracy. She will discuss the rhetorical strategies of 1Sky, a coalition dedicated to building a national movement for a set of comprehensive policies addressing climate change. Peterson earned an M.A. and Ph.D. from Washington State University.
Wednesday, November 12
Dean's Lecture Series
Peggy Mook
Department of World Languages and Cultures
Sun Room, Memorial Union, 7:30 p.m.
Peggy Mook, associate professor of classical studies in the Department of World Languages and Cultures, will deliver the 2008 fall College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Dean's Lecture Series. Mook will speak on her work on the major excavation of a settlement that existed on the Greek island of Crete from the Late Bronze Age through early Archaic.
Thursday, November 13
CEAH Sustaining the Earth Series
Public Scholarship and the Future of the Humanities
Gregory Jay
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Campanile Room, Memorial Union, 8 p.m.
Gregory Jay is the Director of the Cultures and Communities Program and Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Jay's research focuses on issues of multiculturalism and curriculum reform in literature and American Studies. His publications include American Literature and the Culture Wars and America the Scrivener: Deconstruction and the Subject of Literary History. Jay is a founding member of Teachers for a Democratic Culture, a coalition of academics committed to preserving education as a force for social change and cultural pluralism. He has a Ph.D. in English from SUNY-Buffalo.
