These events are free and open to the public
October 7 – 10, 2008
Tuesday, October 7th
Session I: Richard Kenney Poetry Reading: Ida Cordelia Beam Lecture
7:00p-8:00p
Location: Frank Conroy Reading Room, Dey House (map)
Wednesday, October 8th
Location: Sessions II-VI will take place in 1289 Carver Biomedical Research Building (map)
Welcoming Remarks
9:00a-9:30a
John Keller, Dean, Graduate College (Convener)
Sally Mason, President, University of Iowa
Sally Mason, President, University of Iowa
Session II: Communicating Science in Writing: Journalism and Other Genres: Ida Cordelia Beam Lecture
9:30a-11:00a
Chair: Chris Squier, College of Dentistry
David Brown, science reporter Washington Post, LecturerRespondents: Richard Kenney, Ida Cordelia Beam Lecturer, and Mark Blumberg, Department of Psychology, University of Iowa
Session III: Scientist Meets Writer: A Discussion
11:15a-12:30p
Moderator: Christopher Merrill, Director, International Writing Program
- Edwin Stone, Department of Opthalmology, Howard Hughes Medical Investigator
- Stephen Kuusisto, Nonfiction Writing Program, College of Medicine
Session IV: The Role of Writing in Learning Science
12:45p-2:00p
Chair: Jessica Renaud, Director, Judith R. Frank Business Communications Center
- Brian Hand, College of Education
- Mark McDermott, Science Education
- Scott Coffel, College of Engineering
- Margaret LeMay Lewis, UI Carver College of Medicine’s Writing Center
Session V: Writing Science Textbooks
2:15p-3:45p
Chair: Norbert Pienta, General Chemistry Coordinator; Director of UI Teaching and Learning
- Patrick Reidy, Managing Editor, Biology Texts, McGraw-Hill Companies
- Michael Lange, Vice President, New Product Launches, McGraw-Hill Companies
- Ken Mason, Department of Biology
Session VI: Science and Subjectivity
4:00p-5:15p
Chair: David Depew, Project on Rhetoric of Inquiry; Communication Studies
- Christine Brus, Women in Science and Engineering (WISE)
- Deirdre Egan, Women’s Studies
- Loreen Herwaldt, College of Medicine, Infectious Disease
- David Brown, Washington Post
- Dr. Gerene Denning, Research Scientist in Emergency Medicine
Thursday, October 9th
Session VII: Sandra Steingraber Ida Beam Public Lecture: Writing Rivers in the Footsteps of Rachel Carson
7:30p-9:00p
Chair: Jim Throgmorton, Urban and Regional Planning
- Introduction: Barbara Eckstein, Associate Provost; English
Location: W401 John Pappajohn Business Building (map)
Friday, October 10th
Sessions VIII–X will take place in W401 John Pappajohn Business Building (map)
Session VIII: Science and Creative Writing
9:30a-11:00a
Chair: Amy Charles
- Richard Kenney, Poet and Ida Cordelia Beam Lecturer
- Amy Leach, Nonfiction Writer
- Brian Falkner, International Writing Program
- Lisa Schlesinger, Playwright
- Karl Iagnemma, Principal Investigator, Robotic Mobility Group, MIT; Fiction Writer
Session IX: Reading by Karl Iagnemma, Principal Investigator, Robotic Mobility Group, MIT; Fiction Writer
12:00-1:00p
Location: Rockwell Collins Conference Room, 3111 Seamans Center (map)
Session X : Writing the Iowa River
1:30p-3:00p
Chair: David Riley, Center for Health Effects of Environmental Contamination
- Barbara Eckstein, Associate Provost
- Cornelia Mutel, IIHR- Hydroscience & Engineering
- Laura Rigal, American Studies; English
- Laura Sayre, Writer
- Sandra Steingraber, Ida Cordelia Beam Visiting Lecturer
Session XI: Articulating the Animal—Writing the Life and Mind of Primates
3:15p-4:45p
Chair: Les Margolin, Project on Rhetoric of Inquiry
- Teresa Mangum, Department of English
- Mary Trachsel, Rhetoric Department
- Nigel Rothfels, Director, Office of Undergraduate Research, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
