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Food Research and Technology Needs for the 21st Century - Dr. Sylvan H. Wittwer
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Part of the World Affairs Series: What's Ahead?

Agriculture Development and Underdevelopment - Dr. Richard Weisskoff
3:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Part of the World Affairs Series: What's Ahead?

Science and Specter of Starvation - Dr. Lawrence L. Boger
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Part of the World Affairs Series: What's Ahead?

Why Hunger in a World of Plenty - Frances Moore Lappe
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Part of the World Affairs Series: Humankind in the 1980's

Ideas Under Arrest: Censorship in South Africa - Dr. Daniel P. Kunene
3:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Part of the World Affairs Series: What's Ahead?

The Dynamics of Internations Terrorism - Dr. Brian Jenkins
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Part of the World Affairs Series: Humankind in the 1980's

The High Frontier - Dr. Gerard O'Niell
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Dr. Gerard K. O'Neill, Professor of Physics at Princeton University, works in the area of high-energy experimental particle physics. Since 1967 he has investigated the possibilities of space utilization to satisfy the world's needs for energy and raw materials. That interest was directed toward the possibility of employing, within the limits of present-day technology, materials and energy freely available in space to construct large manufacturing facilities and human communities in a very high orbit above the Earth. These communities would be the first step in the eventual human colonization of space. Part of the World Affairs Series: Humankind in the 1980's

One Decade and the Politics of Ethnic Studies: Focus for the Future - Charles Irby
All Day – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Chair, Future Studies Department, California State Polytechnic University and editor of "Explorations in Ethnic Studies." From the University Lectures Program archive.

The Next 200 Years - Leon Martel
All Day – Benton Auditorium, Scheman Building - Film Title: Reflections on the 21st Century. The Film examines the world hunger problem from the view of Word Bank experts. Mr Martel is Executive Vice President of the Hudson Institute, specializing in predicting future trends in population and energy and food consumption. Part of the World Affairs Series. From the University Lectures Program archive.

Film: Metropolis
8:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Metropolis offers an interesting twist to the Institute on World Affair's theme: "Humankind in the 1980's". While all scheduled events look at the future from a current perspective, this film takes the viewer back into how one writer in the 1920's imagined it. Metropolis is a silent film made in Germany before World War II and is put to piano accompaniment. This cross between Buck Rogers and George Orwell was acclaimed as a masterpiece and contains some of the most expensively mounted special effects to come out of the movie industry technology of its day. Part of the World Affairs Series