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Contemporary African Writing - Bernard Fonlon
8:00 PM – Campanile Room, Memorial Union - Chairman, Department of Comparative African Studies, University of Yaounde, Yaounde, Cameroon, Africa. Editor of Abbia, a leading African cultural magazine. Currently is a Visiting Professor at the University of Nebraska.

Scientific Racism: Its History and Modern Consequences - Garland E. Allen
8:00 PM – Room 1 Carver - Associate Professor of Biology, Washington university, St. Louis, Missouri. Author of numerous articles and books including : Thomas Hunt Morgan: The man and His Science.

Big Power Rivalry in South Asia - Neville Kanakartne
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Part of the World Affairs Series: Human Dignity - Survival or Disaster?

Film Showing : Dr. Norman Bethune - Gerald Tannebaum
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - He will show the film "Dr. Norman Bethune" in which he stars and will discuss the dramatic and filming arts. Tannebaum is an actor, author and lecturer. He is senior author of the book, The Open Door: Educational Reform in China.

Art in the People's Republic of China - Peggy Patrick
3:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Assistant Director of the Des Moines Art Center, she participated as leader on an art oriented trip to China in the spring of this year.

Images of India's Ex-Untouchables - Eleanor Zelliot
12:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Part of the World Affairs Series

Has China Lost the Road to Socialism? - John Gurley and Paul Sweezy (Debate)
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Gurley is Professor of Economics at Stanford University and Sweezy is editor of Monthly Review.

Science in the People's Republic of China - Chen Yen Yang
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Professor at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the State University of New York in Stonybrook. He became president of the National Association of Chinese Americans in 1977.

Chinese Foreign Policy - Edward Friedman
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Professor of Political Science, University of Wisconsin. His books include: Backward Toward Revolution: The Chinese Revolutionary Party and America's Asia: Dissenting Essays on Asian American Policy.

China and Vietnam - Susan Warren
3:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - U.N. Correspondent for New China, has published many articles about China's foreign policy. She is author of China's Voice in the United Nations.