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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

German Reunification and a Green View of Europe - Petra Kelly
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Petra Kelly was chairperson of the West German Green Party - an anti-militarist, ecological and nonviolent grassroots party - and was the leading candidate in their first national elections in 1979. Since her election to the National Parliament she continues her active involvement in German and worldwide peace and feminist movements. Petra Kelly won the Alternate Nobel Prize 1982 and the Peace woman of the Year Award in 1983. Part of the World Affairs Series: Eastern Europe and the World in Transition

Values and Technology: Alternative Technologies - Langdon Winner
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Langdon Winner is professor of Political Science in the Program on Science and Technology at Renselaer Polytechnic Institute. His books include Autonomous Technology and The Whale and the Reactor. From the University Lectures Program archive.

Poetry Reading - Etheridge Knight
8:00 PM – South Ballroom, Memorial Union - Etheridge Knight is a writer and author of Born of Woman, Poems from Prison, and The Essential Etheridge Knight. From the University Lectures Program archive.

Iowa and the Space Program - Charles Grassley
12:00 PM – South Ballroom, Memorial Union - Senator Charles Grassley is a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee and will discuss his views and insights into America's space program and the course for the future. From the University Lectures Program archive.

Welfare Reform in the 90's - Lawrence Mead
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Lawrence Mead is associate professor of politics at New York University and author of Beyond Entitlement and Institutional Analysis. From the University Lectures Program archive.

Persian Gulf Crisis - Mohammad Al-Asi
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Mohammad Al-Asi is director of the Islamic Education Center in Washington. D.C. From the University Lectures Program archive.

The Challenge of Alcohol: The Choice for Life - Eileen Stevens
8:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Eileen Stevens' son died whiled locked in the trunk of a car after being given a pint of bourbon, a fifth of wine, and a six-pack of beer and told the he would have to consume it before being released. From the University Lectures Program archive.