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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

Impact of Urbanization on Rural Life - Crawford Young
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - A Harvard Ph.D., Crawford Yong has been with the Unviversity since 1963 where he has been Chairman of the African Studies program and Associate Dean of the Graduate School. young has been a visiting professor at Makere University. Uganda, and Dean of the Social Sciences Faculty at the University of Zaire. Part of the World Affairs Series: Agrarian Change in Developing Areas

The Role of the World Bank in Rural education - Clifford Gilpin
3:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Presently with the Education Department of the World Bank, Clifford Gilpin has had teaching experience in secondary schools of Nigeria and Kenya. Part of the World Affairs Series: Agrarian Change in Developing Areas

The Role of Technical Education in Rural Areas - leonard Z. Eggleton, Gerald Parks, Richard Squires, Mark Lund
1:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - The Panel will explore the contribution technical education can make in rural areas of developing nations. 1. Leonard Eggleton is a professor and extension specialist in poultry marketing at ISU. In 1965 and 1967 he was a consultant for an AID project in Uruguay. 2. Gerald Parks is an associate professor of industrial education at ISU. he was a consultant with the Ford Foundation on a technical education project in Nigeria. 3. Richard Squires is professor of industrial engineering at ISU. His international teaching and administrative experience includes work at the Imperial college of Engineering in Ethiopia and consulting work in Egypt, Tunisia, and Haiti. In June of 1975 he visited the People's Republic of China. 4. Mark Lund is a grad student majoring in economics. Part of the World Affairs Series: Agrarian Change in Developing Areas

Film: A Problem of Power
12:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - This film explores rural-urban migration in Columbia and the problems of shanty towns and cultural imperialism. Part of the World Affairs Series

China's Continuing Transformation - William H. Hinton
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - William Hinton has worked as a technical expert on tractor maintenance in China from 1947 to 1953. Since then he has visited the People's Republic in 1971 and again in 1975. Hinton has written extensively on China. Part of the World Affairs Series: Agrarian Change in Developing Areas

Women in Rural Political-Economic Development - Allen D. Jedlicka, Kathleen Newland, Jean Adams
3:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - With a focus on Bolivia, the China coast, Afghanistan and Kenya, the film looks at the challenges to traditional women's roles. Part of the World Affairs Series: Agrarian Change in Developing Areas

Agrarian Change in Peru - Angel De Las Casas
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Angel De Las Casas is currently a minister in the government of Peru. In this capacity he is president of the national commission for Social Property and of the Inter-Sectorial Commission for Basic Industries. Part of the World Affairs Series