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Film: It Happened One Night
3:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - 1934, still the only film to win the top five Oscars. Stars Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert. Directed by Sicilian immigrant Frank Capra whose films have been called "The best example of the 'responsible' artist in our times." Contains the historic motel scene that devastated undershirt sales all over America. Part of the World Affairs Series

The Watershed of the Seventies - Henry Steele Commager
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - During his career as a distinguished educator and historian of American and European history, Henry Steele Commager has been awarded 17 honorary degrees from colleges and universities in both the United States and Great Britain. Dr. Commager is currently working on a 50-volume history entitled The Rise of the American Nation. Part of the National Affairs Series: The American Future.

U.S.- China Relations: The Ford Visit and Beyond - Mark Seldon
12:00 PM – -- - From the University Lectures Program archive.

Masai Pastoralism in Historical Perspective - Alan Jacobs
12:00 PM – -- - Western Michigan University, Department of Anthropology. From the University Lectures Program archive.

Stained Glass - Robert Sowers
12:00 PM – -- - From the University Lectures Program archive.

Country and City: The Impact of Agrarian Change - David Brokensha, William L. Finn, Michael L. McNulty, Dennis (Mike) Warren
4:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Part of the World Affairs Series: Agrarian Change in Developing Areas

People and Land: Changing Relationships in Africa
2:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - On the basis of examples from Kenya, Tanzania, Ghana, Algeria, and Rhodesia, David Brokensha, and Oxford PhD, will examine the traditional attitudes. Part of the World Affairs Series

Film: Borom Sarratt
12:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - This film examines a variety of urban scenes on the African continent. Part of the World Affairs Series

Changing Contexts for the Arts in Sub-Saharan Africa - Roy Sieber
8:00 PM – Scheman Auditorium - Sieber has been a consultant to the Ford Foundation and to various museums. he is the curator of primitive Art and Ethnographic Art at the Fine Arts Museum and the Museum of History and Anthropology at Indiana University. Part of the World Affairs Series: Agrarian Change in Developing Areas

Rural and Urban Themes in the People's Art in New China - S. Michael Opper
4:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - A practicing artist and teacher of Asian and Modern Art History, Michael Opper has spent considerable time studying in Japan, India the People's Republic of China and Taiwan. Part of the World Affairs Series: Agrarian Change in Developing Areas