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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.

The Role of the CIA in Latin America - Philip Agee
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Philip Agee was CIA officer from 1957 through 1968. His books include Inside the Company: CIA Diary, Dirty Work: The CIA in Western Europe and On the Run. From the University Lectures Program archive.

Biotechnology and Medicine of the 21st Century - Leroy Hood
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Leroy Hood is Director of the Cancer Center and of the NSF Science and Technology Center for Integrated Protein and Nucleic Acid Chemistry and Biological Computation at California Institute of Technology. From the University Lectures Program archive.

Backwoods Frontier Folklife in the American East - Terry Jordan
4:00 PM – South Ballroom, Memorial Union - Terry Jordan is the Webb Professor of Geography at the University of Texas in Austin. He is author of The American Backwoods Frontier, an Ethnic and Ecological Interpretation and American Log Buildings. From the University Lectures Program archive.

Women's Week- Visions for the 90's
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Speakers include Black Hills activist Charlotte Black Elk; President Dorothy Height of the National Council of Negro Women; and the Washington Sisters. From the University Lectures Program archive.

Visions for the 90's: Women, Race and Class - Angela Davis
8:00 PM – Curtiss Auditorium - Angela Davis teaches philosophy, aesthetics and women studies at San Francisco State University. She is a founder and co-chair of the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression. From the University Lectures Program archive.

Moving Toward a Multicultural University - Barbara Love
8:00 PM – South Ballroom, Memorial Union - Barbara Love is Associate Professor of Staff Development, administrative officer for the Urban Occupational Education Development Program and Chair of the Designs for Effective Learning Program at the University of Massachusetts. From the University Lectures Program archive.

Racism and the Criminal Justice System - Steven Whitman
8:00 PM – 101 Carver - Steven Whitman is a lecturer at Northwestern University's Center for Urban Affairs and Policy Research and founding member of the Committee to End the Marion Lockdown. From the University Lectures Program archive.