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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

Puppet Theater: Theatre Company of Bogota - Jaime Manzur
2:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - The Puppet Theater of Jaime Manzur has an extensive repertoire of opera. In addition, Manzur has adapted novels and contemporary plays to the puppet stage. The Institute expresses special gratitude to the Partners of the Americas for their assistance in sponsoring the program. Part of the World Affairs Series: Agrarian Change in Developing Areas

Melanesian Art - Karol LaCasse
12:30 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - An intense interest in tribal arts, artifacts and culture has led Karol LaCasse to take three study trips to the islands of Melanesia, particularly New Guinea. This has resulted in the acquisition of a superb collection of museum quality Oceanic art. Part of the World Affairs Series: Agrarian Change in Developing Areas

African Poetry Reading - Peter Nazareth
12:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Born in Kampala, Uganda, and educated in Ugandan and British schools, peter Nazareth, currently participates in the International Writing Program and teaches African Literature under the Afro-American Studies program. Part of the World Affairs Series: Agrarian Change in Developing Areas

The Role of Religion with Regard to Developmental India - A.P. Venkateswaran
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Educated at Madras and Oxford Universities, Venkateswaran entered the Indian Foreign Service at the age of 22. Since then he has been attached to Indian Missions at Prague, New York, Moscow, Bonn, and in Ethiopia and the fiji Islands. Part of the World Affairs Series: Agrarian Change in Developing Areas

Religion and Social Change - Margaret E. Crahan
3:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Currently a visiting scholar with the Institute of Latin/American Studies at Columbia University, Margaret Crahan holds the Ph.D. from that institution in Latin American history. She has written extensively on the subject of religion in Latin America. Tom Carney, presently an editor for the Eagle Grove, iowa, Eagle, is a former missionary to Columbia. Part of the World Affairs Series: Agrarian Change in Developing Areas

Film: Viracocha
1:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - This film shows Bolivian Indians and their agricultural and cultural linkages to outside society, including the Catholic Church. Part of the World Affairs Series

Social Change and the Islamic World - William Shepard
1:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - William Shepard has traveled extensively in Egypt and the Middle East. In 1968 he was a visiting professor at American university in Cairo. Part of the World Affairs Series: Agrarian Change in Developing Areas