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Performance - Alma Iowana
1:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Alma Iowana perfoms music from the Andes Mountains of South America as a part of the Central American Student Association. From the University Lectures Program archive.

Nutritional Regulation of the Aging Process - Calvin Lang
8:00 PM – Campanile Room, Memorial Union - Calvin Lang is a professor of nutritional biochemistry and an associate in Pharmacology and Toxicology at the University of Louisville School of Medicine. From the University Lectures Program archive.

AIDS Panel - Toby Richard and Barbara Fassbinder
12:00 PM – Maintenance Shop, Memorial Union - Barbara Fassbinder is one of the first healthcare workers to become infected with the HIV virus through contact with a patient's blood and an abrasion on her hand. Toby Richard produced, directed and performed in "In Stitches" , a musical revue. From the University Lectures Program archive.

Ronald Reagan's Decade: The Case for the 1980's as an American Success Story - Robert Bartley
7:30 PM – Campanile Room, Memorial Union - Robert Bartley is the Pulitzer-Prize-winning editor of The Wall Street Journal and is a graduate of Iowa State. From the University Lectures Program archive.

Cuba and the New World Order - Carlos Tablada
12:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Carlos Tablada teaches economics at the University of Havana and is author of Che Guevara: Economics and Politics in the Transition to Socialism. From the University Lectures Program archive.

Pet Fish and Midgit Giants: Stereotypes, Concepts, and the Composition of Meaning - Barbara Partee
8:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Barbara Partee is the Head of the Department of Linguistics and Distinguished Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts. Her books include The Major Syntactic Structures of English and Mathematical Methods in Linguistics. From the University Lectures Program archive.

Ecological Security and World Order - Burns Weston
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Burns Weston is the Bessie Button murray Distinguished Professor of Law and chair of the International and Comparative Law Program at the University of Iowa college of Law. He coauthored Toward World Order and Human Dignity and Basic Documents in International Law and World Order along with a number of books including Alternative Security: Living without Nuclear Deterrence and Toward Nuclear Disarmament and Global Security: A Search for Alternatives. he also co-authored International Environmental Law and World Order to be published in 1992. Part of the World Affairs Series: The New World Order

The Bush Administration's Human Rights Policies Worldwide - Holly Burkhalter
12:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Holly Burkhalter is Washington Director of Human Rights Watch which includes Helsinki Watch, Americas Watch, Asia Watch, Africa Watch and Middle East Watch. She is a contributor to The Human Rights Reader and co-author of With Friends Like These and America's Transition: Blueprints for the 1990's. She is a member of the Council on foreign Relations and lectures on human rights at the American University. Part of the World Affairs Series: The New World Order

Democracy and International Security: The End of History Revisited - Francis Fukuyama
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Francis Fukuyama was deputy director of the State Department's policy planning staff and was a member of the US delegation to the Egyptian-Israeli talks on Palestinian autonomy. He continues to consult for the State Department and the Rand Corporation where he has written eight reports. He is author of the controversial article "The End of History" and is working on two books: The End of History and the Last Man and Metropole and Colony: The Place of the Developing World in Soviet Foreign Policy. He earned his doctorate in Soviet Foreign Policy and Middle Eastern politics from Harvard University. Part of the World Affairs Series: The New World Order

Cultural and Crisis in Central America - Alberto Salmanca Castillo
12:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Nicaraguan poet Alberto Salamanca Castillo is the winner of the Fifth Centennial Short Story Award from the Nicaraguan Institute of Culture and is a part of a new regional literary movement bringing together common cultural elements of Central American countries. Part of the World Affairs Series: The New World Order