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The Soviet Union: A Global Power Flux with Melvin Croan
1:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Melvin Croan is Professor of Political Science and Chairman of the Russian Area Studies program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received his A.B., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard where he also previously taught. He is the author of many studies on Soviet, East European, and German affairs and most recently has co-authored a Brookings Institution study on US Troops in Europe (1971) and contributed to a book on The Communist States in Disarray (1972). Dr. Croan has recently travelled to Eastern Europe in connection with research on Wet Germany's Ostpolitik on which he is presently engaged.

Prospects for Development Assistance - John Hannah
8:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - John A. Hannah is present head of the Agency for International Development. Dr. Hannah completed his education at Michigan State and has been awarded honorary Doctorate degrees from 26 American and three foreign universities. He has served on the International Development advisory Board, was Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower and Personnel, and was Chairman of the U.S. Section on the Permanent Joint Board on Defense, Canada-US. He has been President of Michigan State University and served as President of the Association of state Universities and Land Grant Colleges. Part of the World Affairs Series: World Power in Flux

New Principles of University Commitment - Raga S. Elim
3:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Raga S. Elim is associate professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for International and Comparative Programs at Kent State University. he obtained his L.L.B. at Ein Shams University, Faculty of Law, Cairo, and his Ph.D. at the American University, School of International Service. He has held positions of Director of International Programs: Inter-American University of Puerto Rico, Director of world Institute for Peace Foundation, and Director of International Studies, State University of New York at Binghampton,Dr. Elim has written Control of International Waterways (1957), The Necessity for Disarmament (1962), and more recently, Report of the Africa and Middle East Conference and the Quest for Peace, (Editor, 1966). Part of the World Affairs Series: World Power in Flux

Technology and Social Change as it Affects European Arts - Antoni Marianowicz
1:00 PM – South Ballroom, Memorial Union - Antoni Marianowicz is an independent writer and poet from Warsaw, Poland. he was educated at the Diplomatic and Consular School. he is now a participant in the International Visitors Program of the U.S. Department of State and author of a weekly program of satire on Polish Radio. Formerly he was active in the Polish Diplomatic Corps and was also editor of the satirical weekly, Szpilki. His publications include his criticism on satirical writing dealing with books, radio, and television, and the film script of the Polish part of an international serial of films called If Hitler Had Won the War. Part of the World Affairs Series: World Power in Flux

Cultural Revolution & Politics Today - Leigh Kagan
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Leigh Kagan is a Ph.D. candidate in History and East Asian languages at Harvard University. her fields of concentration are medieval and modern Chines History. She has studied and lived in Taiwan for eighteen months, 1965-67. Ms. Kagan is active in the committee of concerned Asian Scholars, a member of the editorial board of its Bulletin, 1968-71, and also a member of its Friendship Delegation to the People's Republic of China in 1972. She has co-authored America's Asia (Pantheon, 1970), "Oh Say Can You See? American Cultural Blinders on China", among other publications on Vietnamization, China, and Taiwan. Part of the World Affairs Series: World Power in Flux

From Bipolarity to What? - C. Maxwell Stanley
3:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Part of the World Affairs Series: World Power in Flux

Women and Change: The Mobilization of Women in the Third World - Elsa Chaney
1:00 PM – Gallery, Memorial Union - Elsa Chaney decided to study women in politics in Latin America in 1965 when there still was some doubt that the distinctive political behavior of women was a valid datum for research. She received her PhD at the University of Wisconsin in 1970, and taught Latin American politics at Fordham University. Part of the World Affairs Series: World Power in Flux

World Power in Flux as an Editorial Cartoonist Sees it - Frank Miller
3:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Frank Miller, 1963 Pulitzer Prize Winner for cartooning, is staff cartoonist for the Des Moines Register. In addition to editorial cartooning, Miller does caricatures and illustrations for the editorial pages and drawings for Picture Magazine with the Des Moines Sunday Register. Part of the World Affairs Series: World Power in Flux

The Elections: Analysis and Aftermath - Sander Vanocur
12:00 PM – C.Y. Stephens Auditorium - From the University Lectures Program archive.

Philosophical and Theological Origins of Racism - Richard H. Popkin
12:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Co-sponsored by Department of Philosophy and Philosophy Club. From the University Lectures Program archive.