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Korean War POW - James Veneris
12:00 PM – Gallery, Memorial Union - Part of the World Affairs Series: Gulliver's Troubles - The United States' Role Abroad

Research on Women - Dr. Mayra Buvinic
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Mayra Buvinic, native of Chile, received her PhD in psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1975. She is Director-Designate of the International Center for Research on Women. Part of the World Affairs Series: Gulliver's Troubles - The United States' Role Abroad

Film: Blood of the Condor
12:00 PM – Gallery, Memorial Union - This movie is a dramatized account , based on actual events which occurred in Bolivia in 1968-of a US imposed population control program administered by the "Progress Corps" which sterilizes Quechua Indian women without their knowledge or consent. [b}Part of the World Affairs Series

Panel Discussion: P. Nazareth, R. Vaitheswaran, M. Whiteford, E. Morris
12:00 PM – Gallery, Memorial Union - Peter Nazareth, visiting lecturer on Afro-American Studies at the University of Iowa, is a noted playwright and author of short stories and poetry. Part of the World Affairs Series

Liberation Struggles - Eddison Zvobgo
8:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Professor Zvogbo is a member of World Peace Through Law, the US division of Amnesty International and the African Studies Association, and is the publisher and editor of Zimbabwe News Part of the World Affairs Series: Gulliver's Troubles - The United States' Role Abroad

Film: White Man's Country
12:00 PM – Gallery, Memorial Union - The struggle for Black majority rule in Rhodesia is but one of the final episodes in a much broader history of white colonial dominion in Africa. This movie takes a fascinating in-depth look at the evolution of colonialism in Kenya. The movie takes an African look at colonialism through personal accounts and historical background. Part of the World Affairs Series

Lecture - Peter Nazareth
12:00 PM – -- - International Writing Program, School of Letters, University of Iowa. From the University Lectures Program archive.

Human Rights as a Foreign Policy Issue - David Weissbrodt
8:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - David Weissbrodt, Associate Professor of the University of Minnesota Law School, is Project Director of the International Human Rights Internship Program. Part of the World Affairs Series: Gulliver's Troubles - The United States' Role Abroad

How Human Rights Expanded in the Arabian Peninsula - John R. Countryman
2:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - John Countryman is Deputy Director of the Arabian Peninsula Affairs which is a part of the US State Department's Bureau on Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs. Part of the World Affairs Series: Gulliver's Troubles - The United States' Role Abroad

Film: Who Speaks for Man?
12:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - The United Nations, originally thought to be the representative conscience of the world and a hope for world brotherhood, is critically examined in this film. Instead of intervening in the troubled areas of Vietnam and Biafra, the UN has remained more of a central debating ground of the world's superpowers. Part of the World Affairs Series