Revolution or Evolution? A Media Transformed and Its Impact on You

Speaker: Eugene Robinson Time: Wednesday, Oct 01, 2025 at 6:00 pm Location: Sun Room, Memorial… Read More

August 19, 2025

How to Prevent Election Subversion in 2024 and Beyond

2024 Manatt-Phelps Annual Lecture in Political Science Michael Waldman is president and CEO of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law. A… Read More

August 18, 2025

Socially Responsible Innovation

2023-2024 Manatt-Phelps Lecture in Political Science Former Ohio Governor John Kasich Two-term former Ohio Governor John Kasich is a politician, a New York Times best-selling… Read More

August 12, 2024

A Conversation About the 1619 Project with Nikole Hannah-Jones

The 2022 Manatt-Phelps Lecture was held on November 2 in Stephens Auditorium. The featured speaker was Nikole Hannah-Jones, a native of Waterloo, Iowa, and creator… Read More

June 30, 2022

Trumpism and the Republican Party: What’s Next?

Michael Steele to present Manatt-Phelps lecture on Oct. 28 Former Republican National Committee chair and popular podcast host Michael Steele will visit Iowa State to… Read More

August 19, 2021

Seeking Security in an Unstable World

Frank Figliuzzi, NBC News national security analyst.NBC News national security analyst Frank Figliuzzi will discuss personal, national and international security for the 2019 Manatt-Phelps Lecture… Read More

September 20, 2019

If Not Us, Who: Human Dignity in the 21st Century

Senator Ben Sasse presents the 2018 Manatt-Phelps Lecture in Political Science in the Great Hall of the Memorial Union.U.S. Senator Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) discussed American… Read More

September 11, 2018

Political and Economic Transition at Home and Abroad

Ali Velshi presented the lecture “Political and Economic Transition at Home and Abroad” on October 18, 2017 at Iowa State University. MSNBC anchor and business… Read More

September 6, 2017

The Dynamics of ISIS: Its Origins and Implications for the United States

Internationally renowned counterterrorism analyst Malcolm Nance shared insights into the global terror group ISIS—the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria—when he presented the Fall 2016 Manatt-Phelps Lecture in Political Science at Iowa State University on Monday, October 17. Read More

August 23, 2016

Our Divided Political Heart: Campaign 2016

E.J. Dionne, Jr., delivers the 2015-2016 Manatt-Phelps Lecture in Political Science in the Great Hall of the Memorial Union. E.J. Dionne, Jr. presented the lecture… Read More

January 29, 2016