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Voices From a Promised Land: Palestinian and Israeli Peace Activists Speak Their Hearts - Penny Rosenwasser
All Day – Oak Room, Memorial Union - Penny Rosenwasser is a producer and broadcaster at Pacifica radio station KPFA, special events coordinator for the Middle East Children's Alliance and author of "Voices From a 'Promised Land.'" From the University Lectures Program archive.

Contrasts: The Mechanical Technologies of Nature and People - Steven Vogel
All Day – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Steven Vogel is Professor of Zoology at Duke University and his books include "Life's Devices: The Physical World of Animals and Plants" and "Life in Moving Fluids: The Physical Biology of Flow. From the University Lectures Program archive.

Frederick Douglass Now - Roger Guenveur Smith
All Day – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Douglass as a leather-clad urban worrior, armed with dictaphone, microphone, and cordless telephone. He invokes the spirit of John Brown and Harriet Tubman, contemporary comrads of Douglass as well as freedom fighters from our own era. From the University Lectures Program archive.

Israeli Politics - John Rothmann
All Day – Sun Room, Memorial Union - John Rothmann is a political and foreign policy consultant who specializes in the Middle East and the Soviet Union. He was on Richard Nixon's staff, was a delegate to the 1982 and 1987 World Zionist Congress in Israel and serves on the national board of teh American Zionis Youth Foundation. From the University Lectures Program archive.

Life After Death: An islamic Perspective - Muzammil Siddiqi
All Day – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Muzammil Siddiqi is on the faculty of California State Univesrity, Fullerton. He is Director of the Islamic Society of Orange County and an executive member of the Islamic Society of North America. From the University Lectures Program archive.

What Makes Science "Hard" - Sheila Tobias
All Day – Campanile Room, Memorial Union - Sheila Tobias is the author of They're Not Dumb, They're Different," "Overcoming Math Anxiety," and "What Kinds of Guns Are They Buying for Your Butter, A Beginner's Guide to Defense, Weaponry and Military Spending. From the University Lectures Program archive.

The Columbus Myth's Effect on Latin Americans - Luis N. Rivera-Phgan
All Day – Memorial Union - Luis Rivera Phgan is Associate Professor of Humanities at the University of Puerto Rico and author of "Evangelization and Violence in the Conquest of America."

The Myth's Effect on African Americans - A Panel Discussion
All Day – - Part of the University Lectures Program archive.

From Civil Rights to Pan Africanism - Kwame Ture
All Day – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Kwame Ture was born Stokely Carmichael and became chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) after graduating from Howard University. He served as prime minister of the Black Panther Party before returning to Guinea to study and organize the All-African People's Revolutionary Party and the African United Front. He is author of "Stokeley Speaks" and "Black Power." From the University Lectures Program archive.

Myth and Countermyth - Clara Sue Kidwell
All Day – - Part of the University Lectures Program archive.