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George Washington Carver: Making Education Common - Linda McMurry
4:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Linda O. McMurry is professor of Afro-American Studies in the Department of History at North Carolina State and her books include George Washington Carver: Scientist and Symbol and Recorder of the Black Experience: A Biography of Monroe Nathan Work. She co-authored the textbook America and Its People. Part of the National Affairs Series.

The Effect of Perestroika on Developing Nations - Alejandro Bendana
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Alejandro Bendana recently stepped down as Secretary General of the Nicaraguan Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He is director of the Center for International Studies in Managua, a social and economic research institute established to study the effects of Perestroika on developing nations. he received his doctorate from Harvard in economic history. Part of the World Affairs Series: Eastern Europe and the World in Transition

Environmental Conditions in Eastern Europe and the USSR - G.V. Menzhulin
12:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - G.V. Menzhulis is with the Agrophysical Institute in Leningrad and member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate change which recently issued a report confirming the growing consensus on the prospects for global warming. his research area includes economic analysis of crop yield variability. Part of the World Affairs Series: Eastern Europe and the World in Transition

Writing Without the Enemy - Andrei Codrescu
8:00 PM – South Ballroom - Memorial Union - Romanian-born writer Andrei Codrescu is a commentator on national public Radio and a professor of English at Louisiana State university. He edits Exquisite Corpse: A Journal of Books and Ideas and his collections of poetry, fiction and essays include: Comrade Past and Mister Present, The life and Times of An Involuntary Genius and Raised by Puppets Only to Be Killed by Research. he recently returned from a visit to Romania. Part of the World Affairs Series: Eastern Europe and the World in Transition

After the Cold War: Voices for Global Demilitarization - Iwona Tyszkiewicz
12:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Iwona Tyszkiewicz joined the Polish Solidarity movement in 1980 and went underground after marital law was imposed. In 1982 she was convicted of "working for the destruction of the state" for distributing newspapers and was sentenced to 3 years in prison. Freed after a general amnesty and a year of forced labor, she helped organize miners' strikes. She now produces television program working through an independent trade union. Part of the World Affairs Series: Eastern Europe and the World in Transition

The Future of Capitalism - Paul Sweezy
8:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Paul Sweezy is co-founder and co-editor of Monthly Review and author of many books including Post-Revolutionary Society, Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Chile, modern Capitalism and Other Essays and The Theory of Capitalist Development. He received his doctorate in economics from Harvard University and has taught at Cornell, Stanford, Yale and Cambridge Universities. Part of the World Affairs Series: Eastern Europe and the World in Transition

Iron Curtain Calls: Problems Facing Theater in Eastern Europe - Philip Boehm
8:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Philip Boehm has directed plays by Arthur Miller, Sam Shepard and Lanford Wilson in Poland and translated the works of Ingeborg Bachmann, Christoph hHein and Franz Kafka. he also translated and directed Come Back to the 5 & Dime, jimmy Dean, jimmy Dean for the premier performance in Krakow in 1987. He is currently Lecturer in Performing Arts at Washington University where he is teaching a seminar in Eastern European theatre. Part of the World Affairs Series: Eastern Europe and the World in Transition

Islam and Muslims of Eastern Europe: Anamorphosis of Religious Identity - Ataullah Bogdan Kopanski
12:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Ataullah Bogdam Kopanski is co-editor of The message International, an Islamic monthly. Before receiving political asylum in the United States in 1983, he was imprisoned in Poland for writing and lecturing against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan and violation of Muslim human rights in Bulgaria, Albania, and Yugoslavia. He was an activist with the Solidarity movement and assistant professor of philosophy at the Silesian University where he received his doctorate. Part of the World Affairs Series: Eastern Europe and the World in Transition

The Rise of Nationalism and Ethnic Conflicts - Gail Lapidus
8:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Gail Lapidus is head of the Berkeley-Stanford Program in Soviet Studies at the Center for slavic and East European Studies and professor of political science at the University of California, Berkeley. She recently returned from Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union where she continued her research of the evolution of Soviet strategies for managing a multinational state and the impact of ethnonationalism on long-term political stability. Her most recent books include:State and Society in the USSR and The Glasnost Papers: Voices on Reform from Moscow. Part of the World Affairs Series: Eastern Europe and the World in Transition

The New Europe: Politics and New Social Movemets - Diana Johnstone
12:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Diana Johnstone has been the European editor of The Politics of Euromissiles: Europe's Role in America's World. She received her doctorate from the University of Minnesota where she was active in the campus movement against the war in Indochina and later organized the first contacts between American citizens and Vietnamese representatives in Paris. Recently she took a leave of absence to serve as press attachee for Green representatives elected from seven countries to the European Parliament. Part of the World Affairs Series: Eastern Europe and the World in Transition