Sept. 2, 200 | Scholars' Convocation: The State of Liberal Education | James O. Freedman (Former President of Dartmouth College and the University of Iowa) |
| Sept. 5, 2000 | Summer Internship Colloquium: The Most Interesting Work in the World: An Inside Look at the U.S. Department of State | Julie Grundman '01 (U.S. Department of State, Washington, DC), Rakhi Patel '01 (U.S. Department of State, Washington, DC) |
| Sept. 7, 2000 | Summer Internship Colloquium: Como se puede?: Organization and Education in Latino Immigrant Communities | April Ciao '02 (Pineros y Campesinos Unidos del Noreste (PCUN), Woodburn, OR), Jessica Tekla Les '02 (American Red Cross, Badger Chapter, Madison, WI) |
| Sept. 12-14, 2000 | Symposium: Expanding Visions for Healthy Communities |
| Sept. 12, 2000 | Panel Discussion: Grinnell Community Center Wellness Program | Kent McClelland (Moderator, Sociology), Suzanne Cooner (Grinnell Regional Medical Center), David Cranston, MD (Grinnell Regional Medical Center), Sheryl Rutledge (Grinnell Regional Medical Center), Laurel Steinmetz '01 |
| Music Therapy in Medical Settings: From the Cradle to the Grave | Mary Adamek, Ph.D. (Director, Clinical Activities, Music Therapy Department, University of Iowa) |
| Sept. 13, 2000 | Herbal Therapies: Safe & Effective? | Teresa Klepser, Pharm.D. (Assistant Professor, College of Pharmacy and Department of Family Medicine, University of Iowa, Clinical Pharmacist, Family Medicine, University of Iowa Family Care Center, and Clinical Pharmacist, University of Iowa Complemenary/Alternative Medicine Clinic) |
| Health Care in the 21st Century: An Integrative Model | Alexandra Todd, Ph.D. (Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology, Suffolk University, Boston, MA) |
| Sept. 14, 2000 | Scholars' Convocation: Quiet Time in an Inner City School | George H. Rutherford II, Ph.D. (Principal, Thurgood Marshall School #171, Baltimore) |
| Paying the Tab: Why, Whether and How | Marilyn Musser '74 (Manager, Provider Relations, Wellmark Incorporated, Des Moines, IA) |
| Demonstration of Integrative Medicine Therapies | |
| Panel Discussion: Health Care: The New Frontier | Wayne Moyer (Moderator, Political Science), Suzanne Cooner, Marci Fitz-Randolph (Grinnell Regional Medical Center), Marilyn Musser '74, J.R. Paulson, MD, George Rutherford II, Alexandra Todd |
| Sept. 18, 2000 | Summer Internship Colloquium: Ambulance Jumping, Public Health, and Community Environmentalism: Is Bolivia Already Too Far Behind? | Juliana Serafini '01 (Noel Kempff National Park, Casilla, Bolivia), Kendra Young '02 (165 Emergency Medicine, Cochabamba, Bolivia) |
| Sept. 20, 2000 | Summer Internship Colloquium: Bhutan and Peru: The Distant Tragedies, When Will They End? | Halima Hakim '02 (Defensoria del Pueblo, Lima, Peru), Pranita Sharma '02 (Lutheran World Federation, Nepal) |
| Sept. 21, 2000 | Summer Internship Colloquium: Benevolent Economic Imperialism: A Summer with the Overseas Private Investment Corporation | Jeffrey Kramer '02 (Overseas Private Investment Corporation, Washington, DC) |
| Sept. 26, 2000 | Summer Internship Colloquium: There's More Than One Way to Hug a Tree: Two Perspectives on Washington, DC Environmental Activism | Matthew Ewing '02 (Ozone Action, Washington, DC), Leah Kaplan '01 (U.S. Public Interest Research Group (USPIRG), Washington, DC) |
| Sept. 27, 2000 | Summer Internship Colloquium: Two Sides of Policy-Making in Washingtong, DC | Julia Busetti '01 (Children's Defense Fund, Washington, DC), Jordan Esbrook '01 (Office of U.S. Representative Brian Baird, Washington, DC) |
| Oct. 4, 2000 | Summer Internship Colloquium: Maturing Liberty: The ACLU and the Boston-Irish Immigration | Christopher Dietrich '01 (American Civil Liberties Union, Boston, MA), Christopher Neary '01 (The Boston Review, Cambridge, MA) |
| Oct. 5, 2000 | Summer Internship Colloquium (with Prairie Studies): The Direction of Small-Scale Farming Here and There: Case Studies from the American Midwest and India | Amanda James '02 (Maharashtra Hybrid Seeds Company, Jalna, India), Andrew Nelson '01 (Office of U.S. Senator Byron Dorgan, Washington, DC) |
| Oct. 9, 2000 | Faculty/Student Panel Discussion (with Russian and East European Studies (REES)): The Yugoslav Elections | Todd Armstrong (Russian), Nina Bilandzic '03, Pavel Cernoch (Political Science), Robert Grey (Political Science), Zorka Milin '01, Wayne Moyer (Moderator, Political Science) |
| Oct. 10-12, 2000 | German Marshall Fund Fellow | Mariana Miloshevam (President, Creating Effective Grassroots Alternatives, Sofia, Bulgaria) |
| Oct. 10, 2000 | Grassroots Organizations and Democratization in Eastern Europe | Mariana Miloshevam |
| Oct. 11, 2000 | Social Inclusion and Ethnic Conflict in the Balkans | Mariana Miloshevam |
| Oct. 12, 2000 | Informal Discussion: Bulgaria: Ten Years After the Overthrow of Communism | Mariana Miloshevam |
| Nov. 7-9, 2000 | Symposium: Has Neo-Liberalism Been Good for Latin America? | |
| Nov. 7, 2000 | Neo-Liberalism and Democracy in Latin America: A Mixed Record | Kurt Weyland (Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Vanderbilt University) |
| Nov. 8, 2000 | Neo-Liberalsim in Latin America: Who Wants What and Why? | Leslie Armijo (Visiting Scholar, Reed College) |
| A Balance Sheet for Neo-Liberalism in Latin America | Susan Kaufman Purcell (Vice President, Council of the Americas/Americas Society) |
| Nov. 9, 2000 | Scholars' Convocation: Free Market and Weak Institutions: The Incomplete Reforms of Latin America | Joaquin Vial (Project Director, Andean Competitiveness Project, Center for International Development, Harvard University and National Budget Director, Chile) |
| Has Neo-Liberalism Been Good for Workers and the Poor in Latin America? | Peter Winn (Director of Latin American Studies and Professor of History, Tufts University) |
| Panel Discussion: The Consequences of Neo-Liberalism in Latin America | |
| Nov. 10, 2000 | Presentation on the Zimbabwe Parliamentary Election and Accelerated Land Resettlement Program | Solomon Nkiwane (Professor, Department of Political Science, Colorado College and University of Zimbabwe) |
| Nov. 16, 2000 | Scholars' Convocation: Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community | Robert Putnam (Harvard University) |
| Dec. 2, 2000 | Class Project: European Union Simulation | Pavel Cernoch (Political Science), Class members of POL 295: Politics of the European Union |
| Dec. 4, 2000 | 20,000 Laws on 80,000 Pages: Integrating European Law into National Legislation | Ivo Slosarcik (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic) |
| How to Sell the European Union to the Citizens of Central and Eastern Europe? | Libor Bokac (Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs) |
| Feb. 13-15, 2001 | Symposium: The Future of Family Farming | |
| Feb. 13, 2001 | Photography Exhibit Opening: Prairie Music: The Sounds of Silence, A Gallery Talk | David Faber (Department of Art, Wake Forest University) |
| Iowa's Population: Rural Change in an Increasingly Urban World | Willis Goudy (Professor, Department of Sociology and Coordinator of Census Services, Department of Sociology, Iowa State University) |
| Feb. 14, 2001 | Panel Discussion: Farmer Perspectives on Future Prospects for Family Farming | Panel of Local Farmers: Barney Bahrenfuse, Tom Lacina, Corey McIntosh '00, Howard Rafferty, Debbie VanArkle |
| Rural-Urban Connections to Sustainability: Global Insights, Hidden Opportunities and Agriculture | Lorna Michael Butler (Henry A. Wallace Chair for Sustainable Agriculture, Iowa State University) |
| Feb. 15, 2001 | Scholars' Convocation: Agriculture in the Twenty-First Century | Neal Harl (Charles F. Curtiss Distinguished Professor in Agriculture, Professor, Department of Economics, and Director, Center for International Agricultural Finance, Iowa State University) |
| An NGO Diagnosis and Prescription for Re-Vitalizing Rural Areas | Jon Bailey (Farm and Community Policy Program Leader, Center for Rural Affairs, Walthill, NE) |
| Panel Discussion: Strategies for Revitalization | Kamyar Enshayan (Director, Local Food Project, University of Northern Iowa), Rick Exner '69 (Practical Farmers of Iowa), Gary Guthrie (Iowa Network for Sustainable Agriculture), Mark H Hamilton ' 71 (Charter Member and Board Member, Positively Iowa), Patty Judge (Iowa State Secretary of Agriculture), Fred Kirschenmann (Director, Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture, Iowa State University) |
| Mar. 8, 2001 | Summer Internship Colloquium: Gay Rights and Mental Health: Beyond Nature versus Nuture | Sarah Liebman '02 (Chicago Center for Family Health, Chicago, IL) |
| Mar. 9, 2001 | Summer Internship Colloquium: Where Science Meets Politics: Interning with The Wilderness Society in Washington, DC | Matt Trager '02 (The Wilderness Society, Washington, DC) |
| Mar. 12, 2001 | Surviving the Holocaust | Sam Harris '58 (Child Holocaust Survivor) |
| Apr 3-5, 2001 | Symposium: Preserving the Environment in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union | |
| Apr. 3, 2001 | Building an Eco-Village in Modern Russia | Natalia Vladimirovna Belenko (Manager, Eco-Site, Olkhon Island, Lake Baikal) |
| Russia's Environment in the Post-Soviet Transition: A Photographic Tour | D.J. Peterson (Analyst, Rand Corporation) |
| Apr. 4, 2001 | The Pollution Legacy of the Soviet Era in the Baltic Region and the Impact of European Aid Programs | Michal Krejza (First Secretary, European Commission Delegation to Estonia) |
| European versus American Environmental Policies in Eastern Europe | David Stulik (Editor-in-Chief, Integrace) |
| Apr. 5, 2001 | Scholars' Convocation: The Environmental Movement's Role in the Democratization of Russia | Dmitri Litvinov (Greenpeace Nordic and Member, Board of Directors, Greenpeace Russia) |
| The Role of Grassroots Environmental Action in a Globalizing World: The View from Poland | Rafal Serafin (Director, Polish Environmental Patnership Foundation, Krakow, Poland) |
| Panel Discussion: The Future of the Environment in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union | |
| Apr. 9-12, 2001 | Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow | Anita Perez-Ferguson (Chair, Inter-American Foundation) |
| Apr. 9, 2001 | Campaigning in a Different Voice | Anita Perez-Ferguson |
| Apr. 10, 2001 | How to Fuel Empowerment | Anita Perez-Ferguson |
| Apr. 11, 2001 | The Peaceful Journey of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance | Yongyi Julia Jiang (Falun Gong Practitioner) |
| Apr. 12, 2001 | Informal Discussion: The New Face of American Politics | Anita Perez-Ferguson |
| Apr. 20, 2001 | Sea of Instability: Caspian Pipelines and Politics: A Lecture Presentation on Ethnic Conflict in the Post-Soviet Space | Thomas Goltz (Author of Azerbeijan Diary: A Rogue Reporter's Adventures in an Oil-rich, War-torn, Post-Soviet Republic |