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How Can I Remain Silent as a Women as a Mother? - America Sosa
All Day – - Part of the University Lectures Program archive.

Designing as if People Mattered - Richard Wener
All Day – - Exact date is unknown. Part of University Lecture Series. University Lectures Program Archive.

Land Grant Universities Responsibilities and Opportunities - Michael Boehlje
All Day – - Michael Boehlje was professor of economics and assistant dean of the College of Agriculture at Iowa State University. He has an undergraduate degree from Iowa State University, and a masters and doctorate from Purdue University.

Star Wars Debate - Daniel Graham and Randall Forsberg
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Lt. General Daniel Graham directs High Frontiers, a foundation that promotes the development of non-nuclear, space-based defenses against nuclear attack (SDI: Strategic Defense Initiative). He was Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and the Defense Intelligence Agency. His books include High Frontier: A New National Strategy and A Defense That Defends. Randall Forsberg funded and directs the Institute for Defense and Disarmament Studies. She was on the staff of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute in Sweden. She co-authored The Price of Defense and helped launch the Nuclear Weapon Freeze Campaign after writing the Campaign document "Call to Halt the Nuclear Arms Race." In 1983 she received a MacArthur Foundation award for her contribution to society. Part of the National Affairs Series.

Managing Technological Change in the Workplace - Pamela Clark
3:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Pamela Clark has been managing editor of Byte magazine and editor-in-chief of Popular Computing. She also managed a computer time-sharing center in North Carolina. She has a Master's Degree in Technology from the University of Texas, Austin. Part of the National Affairs Series.

Film: High Tech: Dream or Nightmare?
12:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Walter Conkite examines the impact of the high tech revolution on the American work force, focusing on robots - "steel collar workers" - who are taking over factory jobs in this country and in other industrialized nations. Part of the National Affairs Series

Real Gains, Real Losses: Labor's High Tech - Richard Edwards
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Richard Edwards is Chairman of the Departent of Economics at the University of Massachusetts and author of the book Contested Terrain, named outstanding academic book of 1979 by Choice magazine and best business book by Library Journal. His most recent book, Union in Crisis and Beyond: Perspectives from Six Countries, will be published in 1986. Part of the National Affairs Series.

Succeeding in a Technological Society - Barrett Hazeltine
3:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Barrett Hazeltine is Professor of Engineering and Associate Dean of the College at Brown University. He was on the faculty of the University of Zambia and the University of Malawi-Polytechnic. He is Vice Chair of the Council for the Understanding of Technology in Human Affairs and editor of The Weaver, a journal on technology and society. Part of the National Affairs Series.

Social and Ethical Questions in Human Genetic Engineering - Alexander Capron
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Alexander Capron is Topping Professor of Law, Medicine, and Public Policy at the University of Southern California's Law Center. He was executive director of the President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research. He is a Fellow and member of the board of directors of the Institute of Society , Ethics, and the Life Sciences. He writes and lectures extensively on the subjects of medicine, ethics, and the law. Part of the National Affairs Series.

The Republic of High Technology - David Lewis
3:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - David Lewis is Hudson Professor of History and Engineering at Auburn University and directed that university's project on Technology, Human Values, and the Southern Future. His books include The Southern Mystique: The Impact of Technology on Human Values in a Changing Region, Delta: The History of an Airline, and Iron and Steel in America. Part of the National Affairs Series.