Intelligent Talk Television: Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts

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Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts (#149)

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Chief Justice of the United States John G. Roberts Jr. delivered the 11th Opperman Lecture in Constitutional Law at Drake University on October 2, 2008. President George W. Bush appointed Roberts to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in 2003. He was nominated as Chief Justice of the United States by President Bush two years later and, after being confirmed by the U.S. Senate, Roberts took his seat on the Supreme Court on Sept. 29, 2005.

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Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts (#149)

Chief Justice of the United States John G. Roberts Jr. delivered the 11th Opperman Lecture in Constitutional Law at Drake University on October 2, 2008. President George W. Bush appointed Roberts to ...
- Wed, October 15, 8:00 PM on IPTV Create/World
- Fri, October 24, 6:00 PM on IPTV Create/World
America's Role in the World: Foreign Policy Choices for the Next President (#150)

Ambassador Thomas Pickering was the featured speaker at Drake's Knapp Center on October 5, 2008 in the Bucksbaum Distinguished Lectureship series. Retired from the State Department as Under Secretary ...
- Thu, October 16, 7:00 PM on IPTV Create/World
- Fri, October 24, 7:00 PM on IPTV Create/World
The Global Agricultural Crisis of the 21st Century (#151)

Agricultural ecologist Sir Gordon Conway delivered the 2008 Norman Borlaug Lecture from Iowa State University. He was one of the first to define the concept of sustainable agriculture.Sir Gordon pioneered ...
- Sun, October 19, 6:00 PM on IPTV Create/World
- Thu, October 23, 7:00 PM on IPTV Create/World
International Space Station Commander Peggy Whitson (#152)

On September 2, 2008, NASA astronaut and Iowa native Peggy Whitson addressed a standing-room-only audience at Simpson College in Indianola. Commander Whitson recounted her recent experiences in space ...
- Thu, October 30, 7:00 PM on IPTV Create/World
- Tue, November 11, 9:00 PM on IPTV Create/World
- Tue, November 25, 9:00 PM on IPTV Create/World
Great Ape Trust Symposium: The Chimpanzee Mind (#144)

A featured speaker at the 2008 Emergence of Mind Symposium sponsored by the Great Ape Trust of Iowa was Dr. Tetsuro Matsuzawa, a professor in the Language and Intelligence Section at the Primate Research Institute at Kyoto University in Japan. Dr. Matsuzawa’s research has focused on chimpanzee intelligence and tool use, both in the wild and in laboratory settings.
- Sun, November 9, 8:00 PM on IPTV Create/World
Who Speaks for Islam? What A Billion Muslims Really Think (#146)

This lecture, sponsored by the U.S. Center for Citizen Diplomacy, features Dalia Mogahed, the co-author of a new publication Who Speaks for Islam?, the culmination of a multi-year polling effort in 35 countries that disproves Western myths about Muslims. Ms. Mogahed’s lecture is followed by reactions from a panel of four Des Moines professionals: Dr. Mark Finkelstein, Dir. Of Community Relations, Jewish Federation of Greater Des Moines; Khalid Khan, architect, HLKB Architects; Kyle Munson, writer/editor, The Des Moines Register, and Donna Scarfe, director of interpreting services, Deaf Action Center.
- Tue, November 18, 9:00 PM on IPTV Create/World
The Ioway Nation in the New Millennium (#131)

Lance Foster, a member of the Ioway Nation, is a traditional storyteller, artist, teacher, and scholar and is involved in the cultural preservation and management of the Ioway culture and language. His presentation touched upon the history and culture of the Ioway Indians--the first tribe that inhabited the state of Iowa and parts of surrounding states. Today, there are Ioway Reservations in Kansas and Oklahoma.
- Sun, November 23, 8:00 PM on IPTV Create/World