Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum
Claremont McKenna College
2007-2008 Program Calendar
FALL SEMESTER 2007
Unless noted, all programs begin at 6:45 p.m. in the Athenaeum
A blue speaker name indicates a link to a streaming video
| Monday, September 10 |
Lisa Minshew Pitney '89, vice president, government relations, The Walt Disney Company; "Thoughts on a Career in Government Relations" |
| Tuesday, September 11 |
Hilary Appel, associate professor of government, CMC; author, A New Capitalist Order: Privatization and Ideology in Russia and Eastern Europe (2004) and co-editor, The Expansion of NATO and the European Union (2007); "Vladimir Putin and the State of Russian Politics" |
| Wednesday, September 12 |
Cornelius Eady, poet; associate professor of literature, University of Notre Dame; author, Brutal Imagination (2001) and The Autobiography of a Jukebox (1997); "An Evening with the Poet" |
| Thursday, September 13 |
Gloria Molina, Supervisor, First District, Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors; "The State of Health Care in Los Angeles County" |
| Monday, September 17 |
Jabari Asim, syndicated columnist, deputy book editor, Washington Post; author, The N Word: Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn't, and Why (2007) and Not Guilty: Twelve Black Men Speak Out on Law, Justice, and Life (2002); "Burying the “N” Word?" |
| Tuesday, September 18 |
Gore Vidal, novelist; author, Point to Point: A Memoir (2006) and Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson (2004); James Morrison, associate professor of literature and film studies, CMC; author, Broken Fever (2001) and Passport to Hollywood: Hollywood Films, European Directors (1998); "A Conversation with Gore Vidal" |
| Wednesday, September 19 |
Eugene Sheppard, associate professor of modern Jewish history and thought, Brandeis University; author, Leo Strauss and the Politics of Exile: The Making of a Political Philosopher (2007) and co-editor, forthcoming Babylon and Jerusalem: Engaging the Thought and Legacy of Simon Rawidowicz (2008); "Leo Strauss and Judaism: Epicureanism and Its Discontents" |
| Thursday, September 20 |
Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Dosti chair in Indian history, founding director, Center for India and South Asia, UCLA; author, Explorations in Connected History: Mughals and Franks (2004) and co-editor, "Indio-Persian Travels in the Age of Discovery" (2007) |
| Wednesday, September 26 |
Tim Ward, president, Intermedia Communications Training, Inc.; author, Arousing the Goddess: Sex and Love in the Buddhist Ruins of India (2003) and "Savage Breast: One Man's Search for the Goddess" (2006) |
| Thursday, September 27 |
Ronald Heifetz, co-founder, Center for Public Leadership, director, Leadership Education Project, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; co-author, Leadership on the Line: Staying Alive through the Dangers of Leading (2002) and author, Leadership Without Easy Answers (1994); "Leadership, Authority, and the Paradox of Trust" |
| Monday, October 1 |
Terry Tempest Williams, Annie Clark Tanner scholar in environmental humanities, University of Utah; author, The Open Space of Democracy (2004) and forthcoming MOSAIC: Finding Beauty in a Broken World (2008); "Finding Beauty in a Broken World" |
| Tuesday, October 2 |
Adam Bradley, assistant professor of literature, CMC; author, forthcoming Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip-Hop (2008) and The Collected Manuscripts of Ralph Ellison's Second Novel (2008); Samantha Stecker '08; Natalia Bailey '10; Osie Leon Wood, Jr., director, Ronald McNair Scholars Program, CGU; pastor and founder, North Long Beach Community Prayer; James Blake; Jefferson Huang, vice president for student affairs and dean of students, CMC; (moderator); "Using the N Word: Should Anyone?" |
| Thursday, October 4 |
Abbas Amanat, professor of history and international and area studies, chair, Council on Middle East Studies, Yale University; author, The United States and the Middle East: A Historical Perspective (2007) and forthcoming In Search of Modern Iran: Authority, Nationhood, and Culture (1501-2001) (2008); "Toleration and Nonconformity in the Iranian Cultural Climate" |
| Monday, October 8 |
Miemie Winn Byrd '89, associate professor, Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies; "Combating Terrorism with Socioeconomics: Leveraging the Private Sector" (12:15 p.m.) |
| Monday, October 8 |
Christopher Clark, senior lecturer in European history, St. Catherine's College, Cambridge University; author, Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947 (2006) and Politics of Conversion: Missionary Protestantism and the Jews in Prussia 1728-1941 (1995); "From Suicide Bombers to World Crisis: Serbia and the Outbreak of War in 1914" (12:15 p.m.) |
| Monday, October 8 |
Amity Shlaes, syndicated columnist; visiting senior fellow, Council on Foreign Relations; author, The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression (2007) and The Greedy Hand: How Taxes Drive Americans Crazy and What to Do about It (2000); "A New Look at the New Deal: How 1936 Gave Us 2008" |
| Tuesday, October 9 |
Rudi Matthee, professor of Middle Eastern history, University of Delaware; author, The Pursuit of Pleasure: Drugs and Stimulants in Iranian History, 1500-1900 (2005) and The Politics of Trade in Safavid: Silk for Silver, 1600-1730 (1999); "Christians in Safavid Iran: Hospitality and Harassment" |
| Wednesday, October 10 |
Neil Budde, vice president, editor in chief, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, Yahoo! Sports; founding editor and publisher, The Wall Street Journal Online; "The Future of the Fourth Estate" |
| Thursday, October 11 |
Leora Batnitzky, associate professor of religion, acting director, Program in Judaic Studies, Princeton University; author, Leo Strauss and Emmanuel Lavinas: Philosophy and the Politics of Revelation (2006) and Idolatry and Representation: The Philosophy of Franz Rosenzweig Reconsidered (2000); "Leo Strauss's Contribution to Modern Jewish Thought and the Philosophy of Religion" |
| Saturday, October 13 |
Harry McMahon '75 P'08 P'09, vice chairman, Executive Client Coverage Group, Merrill Lynch; "2007 Claremont Finance Conference: Investment Banking Still Rocks" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Monday, October 15 |
Robert Thies, piano; gold medal winner (1995), Second International Sergei Prokofiev Competition, St. Petersburg, Russia; artist on album Live in Recital (2006); "Music and Conversation" |
| Tuesday, October 16 |
Richard Peterson, managing partner, Market Psychology Consulting; author, Inside the Investor's Brain: The Power of Mind Over Money (2007); "Inside the Investor's Brain" |
| Thursday, October 18 |
Orhan Pamuk, Nobel laureate in literature (2006); professor of comparative literature, Fellow, Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University; author, Other Colors: Essays and a Story (2007) and Istanbul: Memories and the City (2005); "Orhan Pamuk: Other Colors, Other Stories" |
| Thursday, October 25 |
David Talbot, founder, former editor-in-chief, Salon.com; author, Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years (2007); "Why JKF is Still Ahead of His Time" |
| Monday, October 29 |
Billy Collins, U.S. poet laureate consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress (2001-2003); distinguished professor of English, Lehman College, City University of New York; author, The Trouble with Poetry and Other Poems (2005) and 180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Everyday Life (2005); "An Evening with the Poet" |
| Tuesday, October 30 |
Bono, lead singer, U2; co-founder, advocacy organization DATA (Debt AIDS Trade Africa) ; "A Lesson in Giving Back" (7:30 p.m. Bridges Auditorium) |
| Wednesday, October 31 |
William Kristol, editor, The Weekly Standard; chairman and co-founder, Project for the New American Century; author, The Weekly Standard: A Reader, 1995-2005 (2006) and co-author, War Over Iraq: Saddam's Tyranny and America's Mission (2003); "American Politics Today: The Presidency and the War" |
| Thursday, November 1 |
Paul Shapiro, director, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum; "Opening the Archives of the International Tracing Service" (12:15 p.m.) |
| Thursday, November 1 |
Eun Mee Kim, professor of international studies, dean, International Education Institute, Ewha Womans University, Korea; author, Big Business, Strong State: Collision and Conflict in South Korean Development, 1960-1990 (1997) and editor, The Four Asian Tigers: Economic Development and the Global Political Economy (1998); "South Korean Culture Goes Global?: K-Pop and the Korean Wave" |
| Friday, November 2 |
Adrian Buono, guitar; Santiago Lee, guitar; Jose Agote, guitar; Juan Manzur, guitar; Juan Manuel Leguizamon, percussion; artists on albums Live in Los Angeles (2005) and Peripecias (2006); "Los Pinguos: A Musical Celebration for the Pacific Coast Council on Latin American Studies Conference" (12:30 p.m.) |
| Monday, November 5 |
Oona Eisenstadt, Fred Krinsky Chair of Jewish Studies and assistant professor of religious studies, Pomona College; author, Driven Back to the Text: The Premodern Sources of Levinas's Post Modernism (2001), "Is Judaism a Political Philosophy?: Reflections on Spinoza, Strauss, and Levinas" |
| Tuesday, November 6 |
Elizabeth Kolbert, staff writer, The New Yorker; author, The Prophet of Love and Other Tales of Power and Deceit (2004) and "Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature and Climate Change" (2006) |
| Wednesday, November 7 |
Noa Baum, performance artist; member, National Storytelling Network; author, "A Land Twice Promised" (2002) |
| Thursday, November 8 |
Bei Dao, poet; author, Midnight's Gate: Essays (2005) and At the Sky's Edge: Poems 1991-1996 (1996); "An Evening with the Poet" |
| Monday, November 12 |
Ishmael Reed, lecturer emeritus, Department of English, U.C. Berkeley; editor, From Totems to Hip-Hop: A Multicultural Anthology of Poetry Across the Americas, 1900-2002 (2003) and author, Blue City: A Walk in Oakland (2002); "Selected Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar" |
| Tuesday, November 13 |
Anderson Cooper, journalist, CNN anchor, Anderson Cooper 360; author, Dispatches from the Edge (2006); "Today's Headlines with Anderson Cooper" (11:00 a.m. McKenna Auditorium) |
| Tuesday, November 13 |
Ronald Fogleman, general (retired), Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force; "Accountability in the Service of the State: Basis, Expectations and Obligations" |
| Wednesday, November 14 |
Gregg Easterbrook, senior editor, The New Republic, contributing editor, The Atlantic Monthly and The Washington Monthly; visiting fellow, Brookings Institution; author, The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse (2003) and The Here and Now (2002); "'Green' Industries in the 21st Century: Organization and Accountability" |
| Thursday, November 15 |
Carl Schramm, president, CEO, Ewing Marion Kaufman Foundation; co-author, Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism (2007), and author, The Entrepreneurial Imperative (2006); "Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity" |
| Monday, November 19 |
Erwin Chemerinsky, Alston & Bird professor of law and professor of political science, Duke University; author, Interpreting the Constitution (1987) and Constitutional Law (2001); "The Roberts Court and the Future of Constitutional Law" |
| Tuesday, November 20 |
Judea Pearl, professor of computer science and statistics, director, Cognitive Systems Laboratory, UCLA; founder, Daniel Pearl Foundation; author, Causality: Models, Reasoning, and Inference (2000) and co-editor, "I Am Jewish: Personal Reflections Inspired by the Last Words of Daniel Pearl" (2004) |
| Tuesday, November 27 |
Daniel Kurtzer, S. Daniel Abraham professor of Middle East Studies, The Woodrow Wilson School of Public and Independent Affairs, Princeton University; former U.S. Ambassador to Eqypt (1997-2001) and Israel (2001-2005); "Annapolis and Beyond: High Stakes and High Risk in the Middle East Peace Process" |
| Wednesday, November 28 |
Charles Kamm, assistant professor of music, Scripps College; conductor, Claremont Chamber Choir; "A Winter Holiday Concert" (7:00 p.m.) |
| Thursday, November 29 |
Charles Kamm, assistant professor of music, Scripps College; conductor, Claremont Chamber Choir; "A Winter Holiday Concert" (7:00 p.m.) |
| Friday, November 30 |
Peter Thum '90, co-founder of Ethos Water; vice president, Starbucks Coffee; "First Annual International Careers Conference Keynote Address" (12:30 p.m.) |