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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

Ethics of U.S. Corporations Abroad - Dr. Ronald E. Muller
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Dr. Ronald E. Muller, Professor of Economics, earned his PhD from and teaches at the American University, Washington, DC. After serving as head of a joint-NATO economic and political information center in Germany, Dr. Muller became an international consultant of multinational corporations, ministries of developing nations and international organizations, and agencies of the US Government. Part of the World Affairs Series: Gulliver's Troubles - The United States' Role Abroad

Film: Sky Chief
12:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - The impact multinational corporations are having on the culture of underdeveloped nations is what the film Sky Chief is all about. Currently, we are assessing the effects of exposing modern technology in the underdeveloped areas of the world. This movie examines a specific instance of how a community was altered by the presence of an industry, foreign in all respects, to the culture of the people. Part of the World Affairs Series

Gulliver's Troubles: The United State's Role Abroad - Dr. Margaret Mead
8:00 PM – CY Stephens - Dr. mead holds twenty honorary doctorates and mounds of honors and awards. She has written 24 books and either co-authored or co-edited another 18. She is Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University and visiting Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati. Part of the World Affairs Series

The World the Eye Cannot See - John Paling
12:00 PM – -- - Co-sponsored by Brunnier Gallery. From the University Lectures Program archive.

Lecture - Corrado Pirzio-Biroli
12:00 PM – -- - From the University Lectures Program archive.

Lecture - Michael Dei-Anang
12:00 PM – -- - From the University Lectures Program archive.

Lecture - Richard Goldsby
12:00 PM – -- - From the University Lectures Program archive.