| Monday, September 8 |
Taj Mahal, guitar; artist on album Senior Blues (1997) and Shakin' a Tailfeather (1997); "Taj Mahal and the Phantom Blues Band" (7:00 p.m. Garrison Theater) |
| Thursday, September 11 |
Laura Simon '85, documentary filmmaker, Fear and Learning at Hoover Elementary (1997); "Social Responsibility and Filmmaking" (6:15 p.m.) |
| Monday, September 15 |
John Keegan, Delmas distinguished professor of history, Vassar College; author, The Battle for History: Re-fighting World War II (1995) and A History of Warfare (1993); "Writing Military History" C-SPAN |
| Wednesday, September 17 |
John Searle, Mills professor of the philosophy of mind and language, U.C. Berkeley; author, The Mystery of Consciousness (1997) and "The Construction of Social Reality" (1997) |
| Thursday, September 18 |
William Kunkle, Jr., attorney, Cahill, Christian & Kunkle, Chicago; "Is the Death Penalty Just?" |
| Monday, September 22 |
A. Scott Berg, biographer, author, Goldwyn: A Biography (1989) and Max Perkins: Editor of Genius (1997); "The Goldwyn Age of Hollywood" |
| Tuesday, September 23 |
Randall Kennedy, professor of law, Harvard University; author, "Race, Crime, and the Law" (1997) |
| Thursday, September 25 |
James Q. Wilson, James Collins professor of management and public policy, UCLA; author, Moral Judgment: Does the Abuse Excuse Threaten Our Legal System (1997) and co-author, The Essential Neoconservative Reader (1996); "Censorship, Politics, and the Culture of Transgression" C-SPAN |
| Monday, September 29 |
Jules Tygiel, author, Baseball's Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy (1983) and The Great Los Angeles Swindle: Oil, Stocks, and Scandal During the Roaring Twenties (1994); "Jackie Robinson and His Legacy: 50 Years Later" |
| Tuesday, September 30 |
Jack Kemp, codirector, Empower America; author, Statesmanship, Democracy, and Sir Winston Churchill (1991) and co-author, Trusting People: The Dole-Kemp Plan to Free the Economy and Create a Better America, Balance the Budget, Cut Taxes 15%, Raise Wages (1996); "Training to Lead: The Impact of Sports on Leadership" |
| Wednesday, October 1 |
David Horowitz, president, Center for the Study of Popular Culture, Los Angeles; co-author, Second Thoughts: Former Radicals Look Back at the Sixties (1989) and author, "Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey" (1997) |
| Thursday, October 2 |
Kathy Robinson, niece of Jackie Robinson; Dick Simpson, Negro League historian; Earl "Stick" Robinson, Negro League player; and Bobbie McDonald, (moderator), president, Orange County Black Chamber of Commerce; co-author, Black College Football: 100 Years of History, Education and Pride (1993); "A Celebration of the Negro Leagues" |
| Monday, October 6 |
Gordon O'Brien, guitar; "Classical Guitar" |
| Tuesday, October 7 |
Jo-Ellan Dimitrius, managing director, Forensic Technologies International; "Show and Tell in the 21st Century: The New Juror" |
| Wednesday, October 8 |
Harry Clor, professor of political science, Kenyon College; author, Public Morality and Liberal Society: Essays on Decency, Law, and Pornography (1996) and Obscenity and Public Morality: Censorship in a Liberal Society (1985); "The Case for Public Morality" |
| Monday, October 13 |
Sandy Chau, principal, Trident Investment; "Overseas Chinese Business in the New Hong Kong" |
| Tuesday, October 14 |
Robert O'Neill, Chichele professor of the history of war, Oxford University; author, East Asia, the West, and International Security (1987) and Doctrine, the Alliance and Arms Control (1987); "East Asian Security" (12:15 p.m.) |
| Wednesday, October 15 |
Juliet Schor, associate professor of economics, Harvard University; author, The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline in Leisure (1992) and forthcoming "When Spending Becomes You: Pitfalls of the New Consumerism" (1998) C-SPAN |
| Wednesday, October 22 |
Donald Winters, directorate of operations officer, Central Intelligence Agency; "The CIA in Latin America: Fighting the Secret Wars" |
| Thursday, October 23 |
Don Newcombe, director of community relations, Los Angeles Dodgers; "Substance Abuse in Professional Athletics" |
| Monday, October 27 |
Dick Wolf, creator/producer, Law & Order; "The Storm Clouds of Media Censorship" |
| Tuesday, October 28 |
Joy Harjo, professor of English, UCLA; author, The Woman Who Fell from the Sky (1994) and In Mad Love and War (1990); "Poet Reads From Her Work" |
| Thursday, October 30 |
Michael Parkin, professor of economics, University of Western Ontario, Canada; author, Inflation in Open Economies (1993) and co-author, Inflation in the World Economy (1993); "Monetary and Fiscal Policies for Growth and Development" |
| Monday, November 3 |
Tom Harrell, trumpet; Xavier Davis, piano; Yoron Israel, drums; Greg Tardy, saxophone; Ugonna Okegwo, bass; "The Tom Harrell Quintet: A Jazz Concert" |
| Tuesday, November 4 |
Joseph Chasing Horse, ambassador to the United Nations for the Lakota Sioux Nation; "Creating a World for Our Children: Present Day Implications of the Lakota Sioux Prophecies" |
| Wednesday, November 5 |
Latif Bolat, musical director, Mevlevi Association of America; "Turkish Folk and Sufi Music Ensemble" |
| Thursday, November 6 |
Ian Wilmut, research biologist, Roslin Institute, Scotland; co-author, Animal Breeding and Infertility (1996); "Will Cloning Feed the Planet ?" |
| Monday, November 10 |
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); "Hong Kong, PRC: The First 100 Days" |
| Wednesday, November 12 |
David Zarefsky, associate dean of the school of speech, Northwestern University; author, Lincoln, Douglas and Slavery: In the Crucible of Public Debate (1990) and co-author, Contemporary American Voices: Significant Speeches in American History, 1945-Present (1991); "Revisiting the Lincoln-Douglas Debates" |
| Thursday, November 13 |
S. Frederick Starr, founder, Central Asia Institute, Johns Hopkins University; author, Red and Hot: The Fate of Jazz in the Soviet Union (1990) and Bamboula! The Life and Times of Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1995); "One Cheer for Censorship" |
| Monday, November 17 |
George Kendall, staff attorney, NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, New York; "Is the Death Penalty Just ?" |
| Tuesday, November 18 |
Michael Berenbaum, president and CEO, Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, Los Angeles; author, The World Must Know: The History of the Holocaust as Told in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (1993) and Witness to the Holocaust (1997); "Documenting the Holocaust: The Task of All History" |
| Wednesday, November 19 |
Wes Parker '62, former professional baseball player, Los Angeles Dodgers; Andy Roundtree '76, vice president of finance and administration, Anaheim Angels; Dean Taylor '73, assistant general manager, Atlanta Braves; Bill Arce P'80, (moderator), founding athletic director, CMC; "The Business of Baseball" |
| Thursday, November 20 |
Geronimo Ji Jaga Pratt, former Black Panther Party member; "An Afternoon with Geronimo Ji Jaga Pratt" (4:00 p.m. McKenna Auditorium) |
| Thursday, November 20 |
Robert Samuelson, contributing editor, Newsweek; author, The Good Life and Its Discontents: The American Dream in the Age of Enlightenment 1945-1995 (1997) and The Numbskill Factor: The Decline of Common Sense in America (1997); "The Spoils Society" C-SPAN |