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Film: We are Driven
3:00 PM – Gallery, Memorial Union - The industrial might of Japan and Japanese management techniques have taken the United States by storm. This profile of Nissan Motors and their new anti-union auto plant in Tennessee includes a probing and penetrating look into the "dark side" of Japanese management techniques. Part of the World Affairs Series

The Traditional Family in Modern Japan: Is There a Future? - Jane Bachnik
12:00 PM – Gallery, Memorial Union - Jane Bachnik is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina and author of The Japanese IE: An Organization of Self and Society. She received her master's in East Asian Regional Studies and her doctorate in anthropology from Harvard University. Part of the World Affairs Series: The Pacific Rim Nations in the 21st Century - Challenge for America

Northeast Asia in the Twenty-first Century: Political, Economic and Military Challenges - Bruce Cumings
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Bruce Cumings is Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago and a member of the Committee on Korean and East Asian Development. he recently had the rare opportunity to travel to North Korea to consult on a documentary. He has co-edited the Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars and currently co-edits The Journal of Korean Studies. His book The Origins of the Koran War won the John King Fairbank Book Award. he received his doctorate in political science and East Asian studies from Columbia University. Part of the World Affairs Series: The Pacific Rim Nations in the 21st Century - Challenge for America

Film: A Taxing Woman
3:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Ryoko is a relentless and resourceful female tax collector who goes after the larger-than-life Gondo, owner of a string of adult hotels, in this exhilarating and complex comedy/drama of tax evasion and entrapment in money-obsessed modern Japan. This film was directed by Juzo Itami. Part of the World Affairs Series

Share the Excellence: Teachers of the Year - Richard Meier, Pat Roush and Ray Olson
7:00 PM – - Part of the University Lectures Program archive.

Pornography and Civil Rights - Andrea Dworkin
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Andrea Dworkin is an outspoken feminist philosopher, activist, and author who co-authored the Minneapolis and Indianapolis ordinances defining pornography as a civil rights violation against women. Her books include Intercourse, Pornography: Men Possessing Women, Ice and Fire, and Right-Wing Women From the University Lectures Program archive.

Women of the Phillippines and the Third World: Breaking the Chains That Oppress Us - Raquel Snacho
8:00 PM – Oak Room, Memorial Union - Raquel Sancho is the International Relations Representative of GABRIELA, the National Women's Coalition of Organizations in the Philippines and Frontier Intern at the Third World Resource Center. From the University Lectures Program archive.

A Reading - Galway Kinnell
8:00 PM – Gallery, Memorial Union - Galway Kinnell was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award for Selected Poems in 1983. He is the author of Body Rags, The Avenue Bearing the Initial of Christ into the New World, and What a Kingdom it Was. From the University Lectures Program archive.

Cross Cultural Aspects of Science and Technology - David T. Kao
All Day – - Exact date is unknown. Part of University Lecture Series. University Lectures Program Archive.

The Role of the Pan African Congress in the Future of South Africa - Moyisi Majeke
8:00 PM – Gallery, Memorial Union - Moyisi Majeke was a Principal Magistrate in Transkei, South African Homeland, and is about to complete his Ph.D. in law at the University of Iowa. From the University Lectures Program archive.