Lynsey Addario, a Pulitzer-Prize winning photojournalist who has covered every major conflict and humanitarian crisis of the past 15 years, will present “It’s What I Do” at 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 12, in the Memorial Union Great Hall.
Kerwin Charles, distinguished professor and interim dean from the University of Chicago, will speak on “Sexism and the Outcomes of American Women: Internalized Norms or Market Discrimination?” This lecture is made possible in part by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences F. Wendell Miller Lecture Fund. It is free and open to the general … Continue reading Department of Economics Seminar: Kerwin Charles
Anne Castle served as assistant secretary for water and science in the U.S. Department of the Interior from 2009 to 2014. She is currently a senior fellow at the Getches-Wilkinson Center for Natural Resources, Energy and the Environment, part of the University of Colorado Boulder School of Law, and will discuss current efforts to create … Continue reading The Colorado River: The Years of Living Dangerously
Award-winning journalist Lynn Povich — the author of the book “The Good Girls Revolt: How the Women of Newsweek Sued Their Bosses and Changed the Workplace” — will visit Iowa State University on Thursday, Dec. 1, as the fall 2016 Mary Louise Smith Chair in Women and Politics. Povich, the first female senior editor at … Continue reading “The Good Girls Revolt: Women, Work and Politics”
Margaret Atwood is an author, poet and environmental activist whose work is widely known for its commentary on the human condition and female experience. Her more than forty books include The Handmaid’s Tale, The Blind Assassin, and The Heart Goes Last. Her MaddAddam trilogy, which began with the Oryx and Crake, is currently being adapted … Continue reading Margaret Atwood: Which Future? Fiction and the Everything Change
Internationally renowned counterterrorism analyst Malcolm Nance will share insights into the global terror group ISIS—the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria—when he presents the Fall 2016 Manatt-Phelps Lecture in Political Science at Iowa State University on Monday, October 17. A decorated veteran and former Navy Intelligence officer, Nance has 30 years of experience in field … Continue reading Malcolm Nance to present Fall 2016 Manatt-Phelps Lecture in Political Science