Buffalo for the Broken Heart - Dan O'Brien
8:00 PM @ Sun Room, Memorial Union - Dan O'Brien is the author of Buffalo for the Broken Heart, a memoir on the history of bison on the northern plains and an account of the first two years following his decision to convert his South Dakota ranch to raising bison. He has been a teacher and a wildlife biologist, and is also the author of Equinox: Life, Love, and Birds of Prey, as well as the novels The Indian Agent, Brendan Prairie, and The Contract Surgeon. Part of the Second Annual Symposium on Wildness & Wilderness. 7-7:45 pm -The Mike & Amy Finders Band will perofrm bluegrass & folk music from the heartland.
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Tuesday
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Mapping the Invisible Landscape
9:00 AM @ Oak Room, Memorial Union - Panel: Debra Marquart (moderator), ISU Dept. of English;Thomas Rice, Department of Art, Kalamazoo College; Patrick Schnable, ISU Departments of Agronomy and Zoology & Genetics; Maya Socolovsky, ISU Department of English. Part of the Second Annual Wildness & Wilderness Symposium

Matters of Life and Death: "Harvesting" Animals
10:45 AM @ Oak Room, Memorial Union - Panel: Stephen Pett, (moderator), ISU Dept. of English; Ron Andrews, Iowa Dept. of Natural Resources; Stacey Brown, Wheatsfield Grocery Store; Joe Cordray, ISU Meat Laboratory; Dan O'Brien, novelist/memoirist and buffalo rancher.

Justice Across Generations: Environmental Ethics
1:30 PM @ Oak Room, Memorial Union - Panel: Clark Wolf, (moderator) Director of Bioethics Program, ISU Dept. of Philosophy; Fred Kirschenmann, Distinguished Fellow, Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture; A. Whitney Sanford, ISU Religious Studies Program. Part of the Second Annual Symposium on Wildness & Wilderness

Dog Road Woman - Allison Hedge Coke
8:00 PM @ Sun Room, Memorial Union - Allison Hedge Coke is the author of two poetry collections, Off-Season City Pipe and Dog Road Woman, winner of the 1998 American Book Award, and a memoir, Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer. She teaches in the English department and the MFA program at Northern Michigan University. Part of the Second Annual Symposium on Wildness & Wilderness. 7-7:45 pm - The Bone People will perform jazz poetry, rhythm & blues.

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Wednessday
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Tribute to Aldo Leopold
9:00 AM @ Oak Room, Memorial Union - Aldo Leopold, considered by many to be the father of modern wildlife conservation, was born in Burlington, Iowa. He worked for the US Forest Service in Arizona, and taught at the University of Wisconsin. Join us for this celebration of his life and work. Part of the Second Annual Symposium on Wildness & Wilderness.

The Elements and Imagination
10:30 AM @ Oak Room, Memorial Union - Panel: Jon Billman, (moderator) ISU Dept. of English; Lee Honeycutt, ISU Dept. of English; A. Whitney Sanford, ISU Religious Studies Program; Scott Stevens, Meteorologist. Weather is our next frontier. This panel will dowse such subject matter as elemental energy, ethics and even weaponry. Part of the Second Annual Symposium on Wildness & Wilderness.

Race and Gender in the Classroom at ISU - A Forum
12:00 PM @ Sun Room, Memorial Union - Laura Rendon, Professor and Department Chair of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies; Connie Hargrave, Associate Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction; and Engineering Dean Mark Kushner will share strategies for dealing with issues of race and gender in the classroom. Jill Bystydzienski, Director of the Women's Studies Program and Sociology Professor, will moderate the discussion with audience members.

Domestication & Eco-Catastrophe
1:00 PM @ Oak Room, Memorial Union - Panel: Roger Gipple (moderator), Agrestal Fund; Marc Edward, Iowa Department of Natural Resources; Lonnie Gamble, Co-founder of Abundance Ecovillage in Fairfield, Iowa; Richard Manning, author/environmental journalist. Part of the Second Annual Symposium on Wildness & Wilderness.

Truth and the Strangeness of Fiction: How a Memory Becomes a Narrative
2:30 PM @ Oak Room, Memorial Union - Panel Members: Matthew Abbott (moderator), ISU Dept. of English, Alicia Hernandez, ISU Dept. of English; Jenny Maddox, ISU Dept. of English; Julia Sweet, ISU Dept. of English. Part of the Second Annual Symposium on Wildness & Wilderness

Feral Zones in Urban Landscapes
4:00 PM @ Oak Room, Memorial Union - Panel: David Zimmerman (moderator), ISU Dept. of English; Mira Engler, ISU Dept. of Landscape Architecture; James Pease, ISU Dept. of Natural Resource Ecology & Management. This panel will explore the notion of wildness in the urban landscape: what it is, what it means, and what it is becoming. Part of the Second Annual Symposium on Wildness & Wilderness.

Against the Grain: How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization - Richard Manning
8:00 PM @ Sun Room, Memorial Union - Richard Manning is a newspaper editor and investigative journalist based in Montana and southern Idaho whose articles have been widely published in leading publications around the world. He is the author of seven important books on environmental issues, including: Against the Grain: How Agriculture Hijacked Civilization; Food's Frontier; Inside Passage; One Round River: The Curse of Gold and the Fight for the Big Blackfoot; Grassland: The History, Biology, Politics and Promise of the American Prairie; and Last Stand: Logging, Journalism and the Case for Humility. He has won numerous prestigious awards for investigative journalism and science and environmental writing. Part of the Second Annual Symposium on Wildness & Wilderness. 7-7:45 pm - World Port will perform on the wind syntheiszer and guitar.