Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum
2007-2008 Program Calendar
SPRING SEMESTER 2008
Unless noted, all programs begin at 6:45 p.m. in the Athenaeum
A blue speaker name indicates a link to a streaming video
| Wednesday, January 23 |
Julian Bond, chair, NAACP; president emeritus, Southern Poverty Law Center; distinguished adjunct professor of history, University of Virginia; author, A Time to Speak, A Time to Act (1972) and Black Candidates Southern Campaign Experiences (1969); "Civil Rights: In the Day, Today, and Tomorrow" |
| Monday, January 28 |
Severin Borenstein, E.T. Grether professor of business administration and public policy, U.C. Berkeley; director, University of California Energy Institute; author, Wealth Transfers Among Large Customers from Implementing Real-Time Retail Electricity Pricing (2007) and Customer Risk from Real-Time Electricity Pricing: Bill Volatility and Hedgeability (2007); "Meeting the U.S. Energy Challenges" |
| Tuesday, January 29 |
Joel Kotkin, Presidential Fellow, Roger C. Hobbs Institute, Chapman University; author, The City: A Global History (2006) and The New Geography: How the Digital Revolution is Reshaping the American Landscape (2000); "The Future of California after the Bubble" |
| Wedesday, January 30 |
Katie Purvis-Roberts, associate professor of chemistry, CMC; Alex Rajczi, assistant professor of philosophy, CMC; author, Vindicating Ordinary Morality (2007) and The Moral Theory behind Moral Dilemmas (2002); S. Brock Blomberg, Peter K. Barker '70 professor of economics and George R. Roberts Fellow, CMC; co-author, How Much Does Violence Tax Trade (2006) and forthcoming The Impacts of Terrorism on Urban Form; William Christian, visiting lecturer in government, CMC; project manager, Amargosa River Project, The Nature Conservancy; "Global Warming: Is It Our Responsibility?" |
| Thursday, January 31 |
Dmitry Dubrovsky, associate professor of international relations, political science, and human rights, Smolny College, St. Petersburg, Russia; Galina Starovoitova Fellow in Human Rights and Conflict Resolution, Keenan Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; "Human Rights in Russia" |
| Monday, February 4 |
May Berenbaum, Swanlund professor of entomology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; author, Bugs in the System: Insects and Their Impact on Human Affairs (1996) and Buzzwords: A Scientist Muses on Sex, Bugs, and Rock 'N' Roll (2000); "The Birds and the Bees and the GNP" |
| Tuesday, February 5 |
James Yee, former U.S. Army captain and Muslim chaplain; author, For God and Country: Faith and Patriotism Under Fire (2005); "For God and Country" |
| Wednesday, February 6 |
Steven Hayward, F.K. Weyerhaeuser Fellow, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research; author, Greatness: Reagan, Churchill, and the Making of Extraordinary Leaders (2005) and The Real Jimmy Carter: How Our Worst Ex-president Undermines American Foreign Policy, Coddles Dictators, and Created the Party of Clinton and Kerry (2004); "Is the 'Age of Reagan' Over?" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Wednesday, February 6 |
Ali Gheissari, adjunct professor of history and political science, University of San Diego; co-author, Democracy in Iran: History and the Quest for Liberty (2006) and author, Iranian Intellectuals in the Twentieth Century (1998); "Shi'ism and Constitutionalism in Iran" |
| Thursday, February 7 |
Kazuhiko Togo, former Japanese ambassador to the Netherlands; visiting professor of international relations, Seoul National University; author, Japan's Foreign Policy 1945-2003: The Quest for a Proactive Policy (2005) and co-author, Japanese Strategic Thought Toward Asia (2007); "Japan's Foreign Policy: Between the Pacific Ocean and the Asian Continent" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Thursday, February 7 |
Ishmael Beah, former child soldier, Sierra Leone; human rights activist; author, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (2007); "A Long Way Gone: A Story of Hope and Redemption" |
| Friday, February 8 |
John Coffee, Adolf A. Berle professor of law, director, Center on Corporate Governance, Columbia University; author, Gatekeepers: The Role of the Professions in Corporate Governance (2006) and co-author, Business Organizations and Finance: Legal and Economic Principles; "Accountability, Competition and Collusion: The Dilemma of the Securities Class Action" (12:30 p.m.) |
| Friday, February 8 |
Vincent Cappucci, partner, Entwistle and Cappucci; Bradford Cornell, senior consultant, CRA (Charles River Associates), visiting professor of financial economics, California Institute of Technology; Larry Fine, senior vice president, AIG; Eric Landau, partner and national chair, Securities Litigation Group, McDermott Will and Emery; David Tabak, senior vice president, NERA Economic Consulting; James Farrell, partner, Securities Litigation and Professional Liability, Latham & Watkins, LLP; "Current Issues in Securities Fraud Litigation: Practitioner Panel" (1:30 p.m.) |
| Monday, February 11 |
Manfred Keil, associate professor of economics, CMC; co-author, Minimum Wages and Employment (2001) and Why is the Unemployment Rate so Very Low Near Full Employment? (1999); Gregory Hess, Russell S. Bock Chair of Public Economics and Taxation, professor of economics, Dean of Faculty, CMC; co-author, War and Democracy (2001) and Is the Political Business Cycle for Real? (2002); Marc Weidenmier, William F. Podlich '66 associate professor of economics and George R. Roberts Fellow; associate director, Lowe Institute for Political Economy, CMC; co-author, forthcoming Competing with the NYSE and Volatility in an Era of Reduced Uncertainty: Lessons from Pax Britanica (2006); S. Brock Blomberg, Peter K. Barker '70 professor of economics and George R. Roberts Fellow, CMC; co-author, How Much Does Violence Tax Trade (2006) and forthcoming The Impacts of Terrorism on Urban Form; Tom Borcherding, professor of economics, CGU; co-author, The Supply Side of Democratic Governments: A Brief Survey (2006) and Growth in the Real Size of Government since 1970 (2004) (moderator); "The Recession of 2008: Myth or Reality" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Monday, February 11 |
James Sheehan, Dickason professor in the humanities, professor of Modern European history, Paul Davies Family Fellow in undergraduate education; Stanford University; author, Museums in the German Art World: From the End of the Old Regime to the Rise of Modernism (2000) and forthcoming The Eclipse of Violence: The Transformation of Twentieth-Century Europe; "Why the European Union Will Not Become a Superpower" |
| Tuesday, February 12 |
David Gergen, professor of public service, director, Center for Public Leadership, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; author, Eyewitness to Power: The Essence of Leadership, Nixon to Clinton (2000); "Eyewitness to Power: Leadership in America" |
| Wednesday, February 13 |
Michael Marcus, multi-instrumentalist; Ted Daniel, trumpet; Dan Lutz, bass; Lorca Hart, drums; "Duology Plus Two" |
| Thursday, February 14 |
Ruth Kluger, professor emeritus of German literature, U.C. Irvine; author, Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered (2001) and To Continue to Live: A Childhood (1991); "The Aftermath: Living with Memories of the Holocaust" |
| Monday, February 18 |
Ryan Barilleaux, professor and chair of political science, Miami University, Ohio; author, American Government in Action: Principles, Process, Politics (1995) and co-author, Power and Prudence: The Presidency of George H.W. Bush (2004); "War, Peace, and George Washington's Presidency" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Monday, February 18 |
Raka Ray, associate professor of sociology and South and Southeast Asian Studies; chair, Center for South Asia Studies, U.C. Berkeley; co-author, Social Movements in India: Poverty, Power, and Politics (2005) and forthcoming co-author, Cultures of Servitude: The Making of a Middle Class in Calcutta and New York; "Traveling Cultures of Servitude: Loyalty and Betrayal in New York and Calcutta" |
| Tuesday, February 19 |
Chong-Wook Chung, author, Maoism and Development: The Politics of Industrial Management in China (1980) and co-editor, Korean Options in a Changing International Order (1993); "Asia and America in 2008" |
| Wednesday, February 20 |
Efraim Inbar, professor of political science, director, Begin-Sadat (BESA) Center for Strategic Studies, Bar-Ilan University, Israel; author, The Israel-Turkish Entente (2001) and Rabin and Israel's National Security (1999); "Israel's Search for Peace and Security in the Middle East" |
| Thursday, February 21 |
Martin Marty, Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service professor emeritus of the history of modern Christianity, University of Chicago; author, The Mystery of the Child (2007) and Lutheran Questions, Lutheran Answers: Exploring Christian Faith (2007); "Religion and Public Life" |
| Monday, February 25 |
Seth Lerer, Avalon Foundation in the humanities and professor of English and comparative literature, Stanford University; author, Inventing English: A Portable History of the Language (2007) and Children's Literature: A Reader's History from Aesop to Harry Potter (2008); "Does the English Language have a Future?" |
| Tuesday, February 26 |
Arthur Eckstein, professor of history, University of Maryland; author, Mediterranean Anarchy, Interstate War, and the Rise of Rome (2007) and Mural Vision in the Histories of Polybius (1995); "Creating the Roman Juggernaut: How Rome Broke from the Pack in the Ancient Mediterranean" |
| Wednesday, February 27 |
Jonathan Rosenberg '83, senior vice president of product management and marketing, Google, Inc.; "Inside the Black Box: Technological Innovation at Google" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Wednesday, February 27 |
David Brooks, op-ed columnist, The New York Times; senior editor, the Weekly Standard; author, On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (And Always Have) in the Future Tense (2004) and Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There (2000); "Politics, Culture, and the Way We Live Now" |
| Thursday, February 28 |
Rudiger Frank, professor of East Asian economy and society, University of Vienna; co-author, The GDR and North Korea: The Reconstruction of Hamhùng 1954-1962 (1996) and author, Regulation in the Republic of Korea: Characteristics, Reforms and the Telecommunications Sector (2003); "Changing North Korea: Beyond the Point of No Return?" |
| Monday, March 3 |
Joel Fleishman, professor of law and public policy, director, Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Center on Ethics, Public Policy, and the Professions, Duke University; author, The Foundation: A Great American Secret- How Private Money is Changing the World (2007) and To Merit and Preserve the Public Trust in Not-for-Profit Organizations: The Urgent Need for New Strategies for Regulatory Reform (1998); "How Private Wealth is Changing the World" |
| Tuesday, March 4 |
Laura Starks, Charles E. and Sarah M. Seay chair of finance, director, AIM Investment Center (Applied Investment Management), McCombs School of Business, University of Texas, Austin; "Corporate Governance and Social Responsibility: What Do Investors Care About?" |
| Wednesday, March 5 |
William Quandt, Edward R. Stettinius professor of politics, University of Virginia; author, Peace Process: American Democracy and the Arab-Israeli Conflict Since 1967 (2001) and Between the Ballots and Bullets: Algeria's Transition from Authoritarianism (1998); "Arab-Israeli Peace Making: Is It Still Possible?" |
| Thursday, March 6 |
William Ascher, Donald C. McKenna professor of government and economics, CMC; co-author, Revitalizing Political Psychology: The Legacy of Harold D. Laswell (2005) and co-editor, Guide to Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy (2001); "How So-Called 'Economic Rights' Have Infringed upon Political and Human Rights"; Richard Burdekin, Jonathan B. Lovelace professor of economics, CMC; author, forthcoming China's Monetary Challenges: Past Experiences and Future Prospects and Bondholder Gains from the Annexation of Texas and Implications of the U.S. Bailout (2006); "Financial Market Fluctuations and Chinese Government Policy Shifts"; Jerry Fowler, executive director, Save Darfur Coalition; author, A New Chapter of Irony: The Legal Consequences of the Darfur Genocide Determination (2006), and The Church and Power: Responses to Genocide and Massive Human Rights Abuses in Comparative Perspective (2004); "China and Darfur"; Jonathan Petropoulos, John V. Croul professor in European history, director, Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights, CMC; author, The Faustian Bargain: The Art World in Nazi Germany (2000) and Royals and the Reich: The Princes of Hesse in Nazi Germany (2006)(moderator); "China, Economics, and Human Rights" (3:00 p.m.) |
| Thursday, March 6 |
Orville Schell, Arthur Ross Director, Center for U.S.-China Relations, Asia Society; former Dean (1996-2006), Graduate School of Journalism, U.C. Berkeley; author, Virtual Tibet: Searching for Shangri-La from the Himalayas to Hollywood (2000) and Mandate of Heaven: A New Generation of Entrepreneurs, Dissidents, Technocrats, and Bohemians Grasp for Power in China (1995); "The Global Environmental Consequences of China's 'Right' to Development" |
| Friday, March 7 |
Richard Baum, professor of political science, UCLA; author, Reform and Reaction in Post-Mao China: The Road to Tiananmen (1991) and Burying Mao: Chinese Politics in the Age of Deng Xiaopin (1994); "Human Rights and the Beijing Olympics"; Stanley Rosen, professor of political science, director, East Asian Studies Center, USC; co-editor, State and Society in 21st-Century China: Crisis, Contention and Legitimization (2004) and On Socialist Democracy and the Chinese Legal System (1985); "Changing State-Society Relations and the Rights of Chinese Citizens"; Arthur Rosenbaum, associate professor of history, CMC; author, State and Society in China: The Consequences of Reform (1992) and co-author, U.S.-China Relations and the Bush Administration: A New Paradigm or Continuing Modalities (2002)(moderator); "China: State, Human Rights, and the Beijing Olympics" (9:00 a.m.) |
| Friday, March 7 |
Er Tai Gao, exiled dissident essayist and painter; fellow, International Institute of Modern Letters, University of Nevada; author, A Hundred Days Behind Bars and forthcoming In Search of My Homeland: A Memoir of a Chinese Labor Camp (2009); "The Artist in Chinese Society"; Wang Chaohua, exiled dissident writer; editor, One China, Many Paths (1999); "Civil Rights and Human Rights: Before and After Tiananmen"; Lindsay Waters, executive editor for the humanities, Harvard University Press; author, Enemies of Promise: Publishing, Perishing, and the Eclipse of Scholarship (2004) and Against Authoritarian Aesthetics: Toward a Poetics of Experience (2000); "Confucianism, Humanism, and Democracy"; Gloria Davies, associate professor in Chinese, School of Asian Languages and Studies, Monash University, Australia; author, Worrying about China: The Language of Chinese Critical Inquiry (2007) and editor, Voicing Concerns: Contemporary Chinese Critical Inquiry (2001); "Affirming the Human in Chinese Intellectual Discourse"; Theodore Huters, professor of Asian languages and cultures, UCLA; author, Bringing the World Home: Appropriating the West in Late Qing and Early Republican China (2005) and Creating Subjectivity in Wu Jianren's "The Sea of Regret" (2005); (co-moderator); "Intellectual Life and Politics in Contemporary China" (10:45 a.m.) |
| Friday, March 7 |
Melinda Herrold-Menzies, assistant professor of environmental studies, Pitzer College; "Human Rights and Nature Preserves in China"; Theresa Harris, director, International Justice Project, World Organization for Human Rights; "China and the Internet"; Sabina Brady, non-profit organization management consultant; founding boardmember, Western Academy of Beijing Educational Foundation; "The Right to Public Health in China: An HIV/AIDS Perspective"; Sherylle Tan, associate director, H.N. and Frances C. Berger Institute for Work, Family, and Children, CMC; (moderator); "Society and Human Rights" (1:30 p.m.) |
| Friday, March 7 |
Dai Qing, dissident writer and environmenmtalist; author, The River Dragon Has Come: The Three Gorges Dam and the Fate of China's Yangtze River and Its People (1997) and Yangtze, Yangtze (1989); "The Three Gorges Dam and Human Survival"; Han Dongfang, labor advocate; founder and director, China Labor Bulletin; "Labor Movements in China"; Dorothy Solinger, professor of political science, U.C. Irvine; editor, Narratives of the Chinese Economic Reforms (2005) and author, Contesting Citizenship in Urban China: Peasant Migrants, the State, and the Logic of Market (1999); "The Right to Livelihood: Is It being Met?"; Thomas Bernstein, professor emeritus of political science, Columbia University; co-author, Taxation without Representation in Contemporary Rural China (2003) and author, Up to the Mountains and Down to the Villages: The Transfer of Youth from Urban to Rural China (1977); "Peasants, Human Rights, and Abusive Officials"; Arthur Rosenbaum, associate professor of history, CMC; author, State and Society in China: The Consequences of Reform (1992) and co-author, U.S.-China Relations and the Bush Administration: A New Paradigm or Continuing Modalities (2002)(moderator); "Society and Human Rights" (3:15 p.m.) |
| Friday, March 7 |
Roderick MacFarquhar, Leroy B. Williams professor of history and political science, director, John King Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University; co-author, Mao's Last Revolution (2006) and editor, The Politics of China: The Eras of Mao and Deng (1997); "Political Reform: Past, Present-Future?" (6:00 p.m.) |
| Monday, March 10 |
Kang Zhengguo, senior lector, East Asian languages and literature, Yale University; author, Confessions: An Innocent Life in Communist China (1997) and Deer Dreams (1999); "An Evening with the Author" |
| Tuesday, March 11 |
Marcy Wheeler, political blogger (emptywheel), Comment is Free section, Manchester Guardian Online; author, Anatomy of Deceit: How the Bush Administration Used the Media to Sell the Iraq War and Out a Spy (2007); "(Un)Covering the Narrative Industry" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Tuesday, March 11 |
Joshua Rosett, Curb Family professor of business and law, associate professor of economics, George R. Roberts Fellow, CMC; co-author, "Macroeconomic variables and the E/P ratio: Is inflation really positively associated with the E/P ratio?" (2006) and "What determines the variability of accounting accurals?" (2005); "Our Most Valuable Asset" |
| Wednesday, March 12 |
Gary Smulyan, baritone saxophone; Mark Masters, conductor, American Jazz Institute Nonet; Dave Woodley, trombone; Jerry Pinter, saxophone; Stephanie O'Keefe, french horn; Cecila Coleman, piano; Ron Stout, trumpet; Putter Smith, bass; Kendall Kay, drums; Gary Foster, saxophone; "American Jazz Institute Nonet: The Jazz Soul of Frankie Laine" |
| Thursday, March 13 |
Nicholas Rhind, assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular pharmacology, University of Massachusetts Medical School; co-author, Basic Methods for Fission Yeast (2006) and DNA Replication Origins Fire Stochastocally in Fission Yeast (2006); "Model Organisms and Small Science: The Serendipitous Nature of Discovery" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Monday, March 24 |
Robert Rosenthal, distinguished professor of psychology, U.C. Riverside; co-author, Contrasts and Effect Sizes in Behavioral Research: A Correlational Approach (1999) and People Studying People: Artifacts and Ethics in Behavioral Research (1997); "Interpersonal Expectancy Effects and Self-Fulfilling Prophecies" |
| Tuesday, March 25 |
Scott Lewis, co-executive editor, voiceofsandiego.org; "Journalism: A Crisis and a Model" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Tuesday, March 25 |
Shelly Lundberg, Castor professor of economics, director, Center for Research on Families and Center for Studies on Demography and Ecology, University of Washington; co-author, The Retirement Consumption Puzzle: A Marital Bargaining Approach (2003) and The American Family and Family Economics (2007); "Love, Power, and Specialization: The Economics of Family" |
| Wednesday, March 26 |
Mort Sahl, political satirist; author, Heartland (1976) and Mort Sahl's America (1997); "An Evening with Mort Sahl" |
| Thursday, March 27 |
Charles Honts, professor of psychology, Boise State University; co-author, Information Does Not Affect the Validity of a Comparison Question Test (2006) and Automation of a Screening Polygraph Test Increases Accuracy (2006); "Lie Detection and the Polygraph: Misrepresented, Misunderstood, and Misused" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Thursday, March 27 |
Bruce Cumings, Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished professor of history and the College, University of Chicago; author, North Korea: Another Country (2003) and co-author, Inventing the Axis of Evil: The Truth about North Korea, Iran, and Syria (2005); "Back to the Future: Clinton, Bush, and North Korea" |
| Monday, March 31 |
Josh Lerner, Jacob H. Schiff professor of investment banking, Harvard University; co-author, Innovation and Its Discontents: How Our Broken Patent System is Endangering Innovation and Progress, and What to Do about It (2004) and author, The Money of Invention (2001); "The Great Debate: Private Equity and Its Impact on the Global Economy" |
| Tuesday, April 1 |
William Dalrymple, author, Begums, Thugs, and White Mughals- The Journals of Fanny Parkes (2002) and "The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi, 1857" (2006) |
| Wednesday, April 2 |
Andrei Illarionov, senior fellow, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, Cato Institute; author, Oil and Freedom in the New Russia (2007) and Russia's Potemkin Capitalism (2000); "Political and Economic Reform under President Putin: An Insider's Perspective" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Wednesday, April 2 |
Ignacio Gomez, artist; "Meet the Artist and Poster Signing" (4:30 p.m.) |
| Wednesday, April 2 |
Daniel Valdez, actor and composer, Zoot Suit (1981); associate producer, La Bamba (1987); "Music and Conversation" |
| Thursday, April 3 |
Alma Martinez, professor of theater and dance, Pomona College; "Opening Night: Zoot Suit Revival" |
| Wednesday, April 9 |
Dinner Theater, "Rumors" by Neil Simon (1988)(6:00 p.m.) |
| Thursday, April 10 |
Dinner Theater, "Rumors" by Neil Simon (1988)(6:00 p.m.) |
| Friday, April 11 |
Dinner Theater, "Rumors" by Neil Simon (1988)(6:00 p.m.) |
| Monday, April 14 |
Codou Diaw, executive director, Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE); Simone de Comarmond, founder; chair, Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE); FAWE- 2008 Henry R. Kravis Prize in Leadership recipient; "Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE)" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Monday, April 14 |
Josiah Ober, Constantine Mitsotakis professor of humanities and sciences, Stanford University; author, Athenian Legacies: Essays on the Politics of Going on Together (2005) and "Democracy and Knowledge: Innovation and Learning in Classical Athens" (2008) |
| Tuesday, April 15 |
Ross Parke, distinguished professor of psychology, director, Center for Family Studies, U.C. Riverside; co-author, Throwaway Dads: The Myths and Barriers that Keep Men from Being the Fathers They Want to Be (1999) and author, Fatherhood (1996); "Fatherhood: Remembering the Past, Imagining the Future" |
| Wednesday, April 16 |
Gerald Davis '11; Cassandra Gurrola '11; Elizabeth Schmitz-Robinson '11; Nick Warshaw '09; Aaron Champagne '10, moderator; "Claremont Colleges Debate Union: America Should Prefer Negative Campaigning" |
| Thursday, April 17 |
Genevieve Renault, high school teacher, Lycee Adolphe Cherioux, Vitry-sur Seine, France; "French Public Schools and the Ban on Headscarves" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Thursday, April 17 |
Shirin Ebadi, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (2003); founder, Children's Rights Support Association, Iran; co-author, Iran Awakening: A Memoir of Revolution and Hope (2006) and author, Democracy, Human Rights, and Islam in Modern Iran: Psychological, Social, and Cultural Perspectives (2003); "Iran Awakening: A Story of Revolution and Hope" |
| Tuesday, April 22 |
Eban Goodstein, professor of economics, Lewis & Clark College; project director, Focus the Nation; executive director, Green House Network; author, Fighting for Love in the Century of Extinction: How Passion and Politics Can Stop Global Warming (2007) and The Trade-off Myth: Fact and Fiction about Jobs and the Environment (1999); "How Today's 20 Year Olds Will Become the Greatest Generation" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Tuesday, April 22 |
Peter Harbage, senior program associate, Health policy program, New America Foundation; co-author, The Possible Impact Upon California of Reduced SCHIP Funding (2007); "Coverage Without Gaps" |
| Wednesday, April 23 |
Sudipta Sen, professor of history, U.C. Davis; author, forthcoming Ganges: The Many Pasts of An Indian River (2009) and Liberal Empire and Illiberal Trades: The Political Economy of 'Responsible Government' in Early British India (2004); "Sacred and Forbidding Terrain: On the Historic Pilgrim Trail to the Sources of the Ganga" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Wednesday, April 23 |
Ian Whicher, professor of religion, University of Manitoba; co-author, Yoga: The Indian Tradition (2003) and author, The Integrity of the Yogo Darsana: A Reconsideration of Classical Yoga (1998); "The Challenge of Yoga: Enlightened Engagement in Patanjali's Yoga-Sutra" |
| Thursday, April 24 |
Roy Gutman, foreign editor, McClatchy Washington bureau; author, How We Missed the Story: Osama Bin Laden, the Taliban, and the Hijacking of Afghanistan (2008) and co-editor, Crimes of War: What the Public Should Know (1999); "Crimes of War" |
| Tuesday, April 29 |
Sally Pipes, president and CEO, Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy; author, Miracle Cure: How to Solve America's Health Care Crisis and Why Canada Isn't the Answer (2004) and A Tale of Two Cities: If New York Can Reduce Homelessness, Why Can't San Francisco? (2002); "How to Solve America's Health Care Crisis" |
| Tuesday, May 6 |
Joseph Petrowski P'08, president and CEO, Gulf Oil; "The Global Energy Challenge: Why Economics Matters More than Ever" |