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Medieval Superstition and Modern Skepticism
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Dean's Lecture Series
Thursday, April 17
8:00 pm
Sun Room, Memorial Union
 Michael Bailey, an associate professor of history, examines how magic and superstition have been defined in various historical eras and how these constructions have changed over time. He will discuss how Medieval superstitious beliefs like magic, astrology and divination often transcended religion and draw on rational and scientific thinking. For more information, click here.
Bailey is the author of Battling Demons: Witchcraft, Heresy, and Reform in the Late Middle Ages; Historical Dictionary of Witchcraft, and Magic and Superstition in Europe: A Concise History from Antiquity to the Present.
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Iowa Humanities Festival 2014
 A World at Home - A Home in the World
Saturday, April 12
9:00 am - 6:15 pm
Salisbury House and Gardens and the
Des Moines Art Center
The Iowa Humanities Festival welcomes Iowans to explore significant themes through the lens of the academic and public humanities. Presenters from Iowa colleges, universities, museums, libraries, and archives as well as the venues highlight rich tradition of the humanities in Iowa.
 Two faculty members from Iowa State will be presenting: John Warne Monroe (pictured above left), Associate Professor of History and Neil Nakadate (pictured above right), Professor (Emeritus) of English. For complete list and more information about the presenters, click here. ISU Faculty interested in attending should contact Sandra Norvell to discuss transportation options.
Registration required. Register here.
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Lecture: Building Platforms for
Creativity and Innovation
Tuesday, April 15
12:00 - 1:00 pm
Howe Hall Auditorium
 Pamela L. Jennings, CEO/Founder of CONSTRUKTS, Inc. and a previous NSF program director of CreativeIT, presents her vision of a world where innovative ideas and solutions that support new ways of co-existing are invented, explored and shared. This is a world that is abundant with new opportunities to integrate the collective opportunities and intelligence of those who have been systematically absent from the discourses of experimentation,discovery and decision making. Click here for more information. |
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