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Inventing Reality: Media and the New World Order - Michael Parenti
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Michael Parenti is the author of eight books including Trends and Tragedies of American Foreign Policy, Inventing Reality: The Politics of the Mass Media, The Sword and the Dollar: Imperialism, Revolution and the Arms Race and Make-Believe Media: The Politics of Entertainment. He has written for the Nation, the Progressive, political Affairs, American Political Science Review, Journal of Politics, Politics and Society, The New York Times, and The Los Angeles Times. He received his doctorate in political science from Yale University and taught at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and at Albany, the University of Vermont and Sarah Lawrence College. Part of the World Affairs Series: The New World Order

Workers in South Africa and the World - Nomonde Ngubo
12:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Nomondo Ngubo is a fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies working with the Third World Women's Project. She is a labor specialist and a founding member of the South African mine workers union. She has served for the past five years as Special International Representative of the United Mine Workers of America. She holds a Masters of Arts degree in industrial and labor relations from Indiana University in Pennsylvania. Part of the World Affairs Series: The New World Order

Prospects for Peace, Democracy and Social Justice - Tony Benn
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Tony Benn was first elected to Parliament in 1950 and is the second longest serving Labour MP in the House of Commons. He is author of 14 books including Against the Tide, Arguments for Democracy and parliament, People and Power: Agenda for a Free Society. He was a member of every Labour cabinet from 1964 to 1979, was president of the European Community council of Energy Ministers and was a founding member of the Movement for Colonial Freedom which worked with independence movements against imperialism. Tony Benn argued for the peaceful settlement of the Gulf Crisis within the terms of the United Nations Resolution and visited Iraq and Jordan as a part of that process. Part of the World Affairs Series: The New World Order

Will Refugees Have A Place in the New World Order? - Ralston H. Deffenbaugh
12:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Ralston H. Deffenbaugh is executive director of the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, an American refugee resettlement agency. He was director of the office which represents the Lutheran World Federation at the United Nations and served as an informal consultant to members of the committee drafting the Namibian constitution. He has carried out special assignments in Brazil and on the West Bank and observed political trials for the Lutheran World Federation and Amnesty International in Liberia, El Salvador and South Africa. Part of the World Affairs Series: The New World Order

Flashpoints of the New World Order - Robin Wright
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Robin Wright is the Washington correspondent for The Los Angeles Times and was a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She provided commentary on the Gulf War for CBS, NBC and ABC News and her books include: Flashpoints: Promise and Perils of a New Era, In the Name of God: The Khomeini Decade and Sacred Rage: The Wrath of Militant Islam. Part of the World Affairs Series: The New World Order

From the Kremlin to Siberia - Steve Raymer
4:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Steve Raymer is director of the news service and staff photographer for the National Geographic. He has visited the Soviet Union 15 times and published 28 stories including his most recent on the food shortages, he is fluent in Russian, has a masters in Journalism form the University of Wisconsin and completed a one-year fellowship at Stanford on the Soviet Union and Russian language. Part of the World Affairs Series: The New World Order

The Role of Poetry in World Cultures - Alfred Kisubi
8:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Alfred Kisubi is a poet and researcher of tribal folklore and story-telling. He taught in Kenya and Uganda and is the author of Time Winds. From the University Lectures Program archive.

Turkish Folklore - Ilhan Basgoz
8:00 PM – South Ballroom, Memorial Union - Ilhan Basgoz is director of the Turkish Studies Program at the University of Indiana and author of Turkish Folklore Reader, Bilmece: A Corpus of Turkish Riddles and Studies in Turkish Folklore. From the University Lectures program archive.

Conversation with an Artist - Simon Estes
8:00 PM – South Ballroom, Memorial Union - Simon Estes is an Iowa-born bass-baritone who, after winning the First International Tchaikovsky Competition, has become one of the world's most acclaimed operatic stars. From the University Lectures Program archive.

Artist-in-Residence and a Performance - Simon Estes
8:00 PM – C.Y. Stephens Auditorium - Simon Estes will perform with the ISU Orchestra and Chorus. From the University Lectures Program archive.