Papers presented at a conference held in Nov. 1968 at Columbia University. Persian Farsi collection.

Land reform and the rural cooperative societies /Ann K.S. Lambton -- The economy : an assessment of performance / Charles Issawi -- Capital formation and development finance / Jahangir Amuzegar -- Politics during the sixties : a historical analysis / Hafez F. Farmayan -- Iran in world and regional affairs / J.C. Hurewitz -- Planning for social change / Shahpour Rassekh -- Religion and society today : an anthropological perspective / Brian Spooner -- The bazaar as a case study of religion and social change / Gustav Thaiss -- Higher education and social change : problems and perspectives / Marvin Zonis -- The Iranian "brain drain" / George B. Baldwin -- The modern literary idiom / Ehsan Yar-Shater -- The role of the mass media / Amin Banani -- An introduction to modern Persian painting / Richard Ettinghausen -- Modern Persian artists / Karim Emami -- Classical Persian music today / Ella Zonis.