A number of prominent speakers will be examining the intersection of Population, Development and Human Rights with a special emphasis on the difficult ethical and cultural aspects of these important issues as part of the 1996 Institute on World Affairs.

Carl Djerassi, who is best known as the “father of the birth control pill,” will start off the week’s events with a keynote address. His lecture will be titled “Where’s the Pill for Men and Other Complaints.” His speech will take place Sunday, Nov. 3, at 8 p.m. in the Sun Room of the Memorial Union.

Djerassi is currently a professor at Stanford University. Besides his groundbreaking work on the first steroid to be used effectively for birth control, he has also developed antihistamines and was the first person to synthesize cortisone. Djerassi also has founded one of the first environmentally aware pesticide companies and has published over 1,200 articles and seven books. Djerassi has also published numerous poems and short stories in literary magazines

Following Djerassi on Monday, Nov. 4 will be Diane Dillion Ridgely’s lecture “From Rio to Istanbul: The Impact of the International Women’s Movement on the Development Agenda.” It will take place at 12 p.m. in the Pioneer Room of the Memorial Union. Ridgely is currently board president of Zero Population Growth, the nation’s largest grassroots organization concerned with the impact of rapid growth. She was also appointed by President Clinton to his Council on Sustainable Development where she serves as co-chair of the Population and Consumption Task Force.

Also on Monday, Nov.4, will be Gretchen Daily’s lecture “Equity, Sustainability and the Earth’s Carrying Capacity.” It will be at 8 p.m. in the Sun room of the Memorial Union.

Daily is the co-author of “The Stork and the Plow: The Equity Answer to the Human Dilemma with Paul Ehrlich”. She is the Bing Interdisciplinary Research Scientist in the Department of Biological Sciences at Stanford University.

On Wednesday, Nov. 6, Dennis Goulet will give his lecture “Population, Consumption, Sustainable Development?” Goulet is currently the O’ Neil professor in Education for Justice at the University Of Notre Dame. Goulet is known as a pioneer in the study of development ethics. He has published over 150 articles and monographs and 10 books. Goulet’s lecture will be at 12 p.m. in the Pioneer Room of the Memorial Union.

Julian Simon will also be speaking on Nov. 6. His lecture is titled “More People, Greater Wealth, More Resources, Healthier Environment.” Simon has studied population and immigration economics for a quarter of a century. He currently teaches business administration at the University of Maryland and is the author of almost 200 professional studies and dozens of articles. Simon’s lecture will be at 8 p.m. in the Sun Room of the Memorial Union.

Wrapping up the week-long forum will be two speakers on Thursday, Nov 7. The first speaker will be Daniel Quinn. His lecture is titled “Population: A Systems Approach.” Quinn is the author of Ishmael, the 1991 winner of the Turner Tomorrow Fellowship which was established to encourage authors to seek “creative and positive solutions to global problems.” Prior to Ishmael, Quinn had a 33- year career as a writer, editor and publisher. Quinn’s lecture will be at 12 p.m. in the Pioneer Room of the Memorial Union.

The final speaker of the week will be Holly Burkhalter. Her lecture will be titled “Economic Rights and the Future of International Human Rights.” Burkhalter is the director of advocacy for Human Rights Watch, a private human rights monitoring and research organization. Her lecture will be at 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 7, in the South Ballroom of the Memorial Union.