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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.

Facilitating Play as a Medium for Academic, Cognitive, and Social-Emotional Development in Young Children - Sara Smilansky
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Sara Smilansky teaches at the University of Tel Aviv in Israel and is a visiting professor at the University of Maryland. She is author of Facilitating Play: A Medium for Promoting Cognitive, Socio-emotional and Academic Development of Young Children and Psychology and Education in Orphan Children. From the University Lectures Program archive.

Performance: Can I Speak for You Brother? Sister, Can I Speak for You? - African American Drama Company
8:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Adilah Barnes portrays historic African American women- including Harriet Tubman, Lorraine Hansberry, Maya Angelou, Sojourner Truth- in her one woman show. Philip E. Walker combines dance, drama, poetry and music to portray Martin Luther King, Jr., Frederick Douglas, Booker T. Washington, WEB DU Bois and other great leaders in a trip through American History. From the University Lectures Program archive.

The Case for Affirmative Action - Herbert Aptheker
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Herbert Aptheker has been researching, writing and teaching African American history for over 50 years. He is editor of the W.E.B. DuBois papers, teaches at the University of California Berkeley Law School and is author of a number of books including A History of Anti-Racism in the United States, The Negro Slave Revolts and A History of the Abolitionist Movement. From the University Lectures Program archive.