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Film: A Peoples Movement-The Philippines & I'm From Palestine
12:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - These slides show the resistance movement against the Marcos regime in the Philippines. I'm From Palestine is a 20 minute slide presentation depicting Palestinians in Lebanese refugee camps. Part of the World Affairs Series

Mass Movements in the Muslim World and their Third World Implications - Nikki Keddie
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Nikki Keddie is a Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. She held a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship and is past president of the Middle East Studies Association of North America. Dr. Keddie is the author of nine books on modern iran and the Middle East. her most recent book is Roots of Revolution; An Interpretive History of Modern Iran. Part of the World Affairs Series: North-South Dialogue

Mass Movements in Latin America - Maurice Zeitlin
3:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Maurice Zeitlin is Professor of Sociology, UCLA. he is a specialist in political sociology and the sociology of economic change. Among his publications are Revolutionary Politics and the Cuban Working Class, Latin America: Reform or Revolution, and American Society, Inc. Part of the World Affairs Series: North-South Dialogue

Film: A Veiled Revolution & The Price of Change
12:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Both of these 30 minute films deal with the changing lives of women in the Arab world. Part of the World Affairs Series

The Changing International Division of Labor - June Nash
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - June Nash is Professor of Anthropology at City College of New York. Her special interests are ideology and social change in Latin America and the impact of developmental "solutions" on the poor women of Central and South America. Her publications include Sex and Class in Latin America (edited with Helen I. Safa) and Women in Development: Dependency and Exploitation. Part of the World Affairs Series: North-South Dialogue

Problems and Potential in World Food Production - Earl O. Heady
3:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Earl O. Heady is the Charles f. Curtiss Distinguished Professor of Agriculture at Iowa State. he is the Director of the Center for Agricultural Development, a program which has greatly influenced the course of the agricultural "Green Revolution" in developing countries throughout the world. he has served on many national committees, including the White House Committee on Domestic Affairs and the US state Department Advisory Committee on World Food Programs. Dr. Heady was recently elected to the prestigious Soviet Academy of Agricultural Sciences. he is the only agricultural economist among the few selected Americans in the Academy. Part of the World Affairs Series: North-South Dialogue

Film: Dadi's Family
12:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - This portrait of an Indian grandmother dramatizes her ability to keep her farm family together during social and economic changes. Part of the World Affairs Series

World Development: Cooperation vs. Confrontation; Dependence vs. Independence - Erik Thorbecke
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Erik Throbecke is Professor of Economics and Food Economics at Cornell University. his primary areas of interest include economic and agricultural development and planning; international economics; theory of economic policy and econometrics. Prior to teaching at Cornell, Dr. Thorbecke was Professor of Economics at Iowa State University. He has participated in numerous committees focusing on international economic and agricultural development. Thorbecke is the author of numerous publications including Planning Techniques for a Better Future, and The Role of Agriculture in the Economic Development of Guatemala. Part of the World Affairs Series: North-South Dialogue

Global Water Resources - Khalil Mancy, University of Michigan
3:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Khalil Mancy is Professor of Environmental Chemistry at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and an international consultant on water resources management. His research in water quality management has produced 10 books and over fifty publications He is past Chairman of the Environmental Chemistry Division of the American Chemical Society. Since 1979 he has served as a consultant to the World Health Organization on environmental impacts of Upper Nile Projects. Part of the World Affairs Series: North-South Dialogue

Film: Factories for the Third World
12:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - This film analyzes the extent and consequences of a new international division of labor and the pattern of development associated with it in Tunisia. Part of the World Affairs Series