| Monday, September 19 |
Luis Valdez, playwright; author, Zoot Suit (1977) and La Bamba (1987); "Hemispheric American" (McKenna Auditorium) |
| Tuesday, September 20 |
Horace Clarence Boyer, professor of music, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; co-author, We'll Understand It Better By and By (1993) and New Grove Dictionary of American Music (1986); "The Old Ship of Zion: African American Gospel Music" |
| Wednesday, September 21 |
Stacey Kabat, director, Battered Women Fighting Back!; co-producer of documentary "Defending Our Lives" (1993) |
| Thursday, September 22 |
Kenton Youngstrom, guitar; "Classical and Jazz Guitar: A Musical Journey Through Three Centuries of Guitar Music" |
| Monday, September 26 |
Cornel West, professor of Afro-American studies, Harvard University; author, Prophesy Deliverance: An Afro-American Revolutionary Christianity (1982) and "Race Matters" (1993) (McKenna Auditorium) |
| Tuesday, September 27 |
Suzi Landolphi, AIDS activist; author, "Hot, Sexy, and Safer" (1994) |
| Wednesday, September 28 |
D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, co-directors of documentary films Rockaby (1983) and "The War Room" (1993) |
| Thursday, September 29 |
Ed Rollins, vice president, strategic communications firm, Washington, D.C.; Bob Beckel, founder, National Strategies and Marketing Group, Inc.; "What's at Stake in the Midterm Elections?" |
| Monday, October 3 |
Andrew Gordon, professor of history, Duke University; author, Postwar Japan as History (1993) and Labor and Imperial Democracy in Prewar Japan (1991); "Fascism in Wartime Japan: Toward the Revival of a Concept" |
| Tuesday, October 4 |
L. Douglas Wilder, former governor of Virginia; "Electoral Politics in Virginia" (4:00 p.m. McKenna Auditorium) |
| Tuesday, October 4 |
Sheryl WuDunn, co-author, "China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power" (1994) |
| Wednesday, October 5 |
Thomas Andrews, director, Historical Society of Southern California; consultant to the documentary film, "The Donner Party" (1992) |
| Thursday, October 6 |
John Roemer, professor of economics, U.C. Davis; author, A Future for Socialism (1994) and forthcoming "What Real Equality of Opportunity Requires" (1995) |
| Monday, October 10 |
James Reston, Jr., author, Galileo: A Life (1994) and To Defend, To Destroy (1971); "The Art of Biography" |
| Tuesday, October 11 |
David Brown '69, director of documentary films A Question of Power (1986) and "Bound by the Wind" (1993) |
| Wednesday, October 12 |
Paul Apodaca, curator of Native American art, Bowers Museum, Santa Ana; "The Navajo 'Code Talkers' of World War II" |
| Wdnesday, October 19 |
James Linahon, director, Fullerton College Jazz Band; Sunny Wilkinson, vocalist; "Jazz: An American Perspective" |
| Thursday, October 20 |
Kailash Pandya, director, Darpana Academy of Performing Arts, India; Kottakal Sasidharan Nair, performance artist; "Classical Indian Dance" |
| Monday, October 24 |
Robert Alter, professor of Hebrew and comparative literature, U.C. Berkeley; author, The Art of Biblical Narrative (1983) and The Pleasures of Reading in an Ideological Age (1989); "Criticism and the Common Reader" |
| Tuesday, October 25 |
Robert Abzug, professor of history, University of Texas, Austin; author, Cosmos Crumbling: American Reform and the Religious Imagination (1994) and Inside the Vicious Heart: Americans and the Liberation of Nazi Concentration Camps (1987); "America and the Holocaust Reconsidered: Looking Back from Bosnia and Rwanda" |
| Wednesday, October 26 |
Jack Crouch II, associate professor of defense and strategic studies, Southwest Missouri State University; author, The President and Nuclear Testing (1982) and A National Missile Defense (1993); "American Strategic Policy Under Reagan and After" |
| Thursday, October 27 |
Kenneth Pyle, professor of history and Asian studies, University of Washington; author, The Japanese Question: Power and Purpose in a New Era (1992) and The Trade Crisis: How Will Japan Respond? (1987); "Fascism in Asia" |
| Monday, October 31 |
Doris Lessing, author, Under My Skin Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949 (1994) and The Real Thing: Stories and Sketches (1992); "Readings from Her Work" (4:00 p.m. McKenna Auditorium) |
| Tuesday, November 1 |
R. Ervn Taylor, professor of anthropology, U.C. Riverside; author, Radio Carbon Dating: An Archaeological Perspective (1987) and co-editor, Radio Carbon After Four Decades: An Interdisciplinary Perspective (1992); "Science, Metascience, and Pseudoscience: Radio Carbon Dating Confronts Pliocene Man in the New World, Noah's Ark, and the Shroud of Turin" |
| Wednesday, November 2 |
Alan Gewirth, E. C. Waller Distinguished Service professor of philosophy, University of Chicago; author, Reason and Morality (1980) and Human Rights: Essays (1983); "Can Property Rights Be Justified?" |
| Thursday, November 3 |
Daniel Gaisford, cello; "Suites No. 1 in G Major and No. 3 in C Major by Johann Sebastian Bach" |
| Monday, November 7 |
Ana Delgado '97; Zackary Erickson '95; Jason Goldberg '95; Andrew Mittler '95; "The Importance of the 1994 Elections" |
| Wednesday, November 9 |
Arthur Benjamin, assistant professor of mathematics, Harvey Mudd College; co-author, Teach Your Child Math: Making Math Fun for the Both of You (1991) and "Mathemagics and the Art of Mental Calculation: How to Look Like a Genius Without Really Trying" (1993) |
| Thursday, November 10 |
Paul Heyne, professor of economics, University of Washington; author, The Economic Way of Thinking (1973) and Microeconomics (1988); "Ethics and the Economic Way of Thinking" |
| Monday, November 14 |
Karen Swenson, author, A Sense of Direction (1989) and The Landlady in Bangkok (1993); "Readings from Her Work" |
| Tuesday, November 15 |
Ronald Asmus, senior political scientist in international policy, RAND Corporation; author, Soviet Foreign Policy and the Revolutions of 1989 in Eastern Europe (1994) and German Strategy and Opinion after the Wall, 1990-1993 (1994); "The Future of NATO" |
| Wednesday, November 16 |
Lisa Loomer, playwright and author, Birds (1986) and The Waiting Room (1994); "The Waiting Room: Women, Husbands, and Doctors" |
| Thursday, November 17 |
Bill Faustman '77, professor of psychiatry and behavioral science, Stanford University; "Research Findings in the Biological Basis of Schizophrenia" |