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Art and Censorship - Felipe Santander
3:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Mr. Santander is an award-winning playwright, actor and trained agricultural engineer. He is a graduate of Mexico's Theatrical School of Fine Arts, and his plays include The Command, and The Government Man, which has received a number of Latin America's highest awards. Part of the World Affairs Series: International Communications

A Performance: Gudmunder Steinsson and Krisbjord Kjeld
12:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Gudmunder Steinsson, Icelandic playwright, will comment on videotaped scenes from his plays Matthew and A Brief Respite. His wife, Kristbjord Kjeld, and actress with the National Theatre of Iceland, will also read scenes from these plays. Part of the World Affairs Series

Problems of Third World Bias - Les Payne
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Mr. Payne is National Editor of Newsday. His previous assignments include coverage of the Soweto uprising in South Africa and action in the guerilla areas in Zimbabwe. He is also coauthor of the Pulitzer Prize-winning series, "The Heroin Trail." Part of the World Affairs Series: International Communications

Film: The Merchant of Four Seasons
5:30 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Rainer Werner Fassbinder's film focuses on the alienation of the central character, Hans, the short, fat mediocre fruit peddler. Hans watches his unexceptional life go down the drain as he is pressured by various women, each of whom seems to be taller, more beautiful, or more powerful than he. Part of the World Affairs Series

Media and Social Change: International Implications - Linda Busby
3:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Dr. Busby, Associate Professor of Communications Arts of the University of South Alabama, was formerly Acting Chair of Speech and Telecommunicative Arts at Iowa State. She has served as an American specialist in broadcasting in Panama and as a US representative to an Organization of American States communications conference in the Dominican Republic. Part of the World Affairs Series: International Communications

Film: Connections 10: Yesterday, Tomorrow and You
12:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - this film examines the extent to which people have become increasingly incapable of understanding how change occurs in the complex world and looks ahead to the need for a radical change in the availability and use of information. Part of the World Affairs Series

The Role of Information in the Creation of Capital for Multinational Corporations - Ernest Mandel
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Dr. Mandel is a Professor of Economics at the Free university of Brussels. He studied there and at the paris Sorbonne, and received his doctorate from the Free University of Berlin. His books include Marxist Economic Theory, The Second Slump, The Long Waves of Development, and Late Capitalism. Part of the World Affairs Series: International Communications

Film: How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman
5:30 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Nelson Dos Santos directed this film about a Frenchman captured by Indians who tries nobly to integrate himself with the savage mind, but true incorporation into the tribe is ultimately possible in only one way--through the stomach. Part of the National Affairs Series

Tomorrow's Telecommunications Technology and the Global Economy - Meheroo Jussawalla
3:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Bron and educated in India, Dr. Jussawalla is one of the top authorities in communication economics today. She recently edited a book entitled, Communication Economics and Development. She works as a Research Associate/Economist at the East-West communication Institute in Honolulu, Hawaii. Part of the World Affairs Series: International Communications

Film: Goodbye Gutenberg
12:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - This documentary examines the history, development and future of both the printed and processed word and escorts the viewer on an international survey of the communications revolution. Part of the World Affairs Series