| Monday, September 10 |
John Roth, Russell K. Pitzer professor of philosophy and religious studies, CMC; author, Holocaust Politics (2001) and co-author, The Holocaust Chronicle (2000); "Take Nothing Good for Granted" |
| Wednesday, September 12 |
Rachel Adler, joint assistant professor of modern Jewish thought, Hebrew Union College/USC; author, Engendering Judaism: An Inclusive Theology and Ethics (1998) and The Impoverished Student's Guide to Making Pesach (1974); "Pour Out Your Heart Like Water: Toward a Feminist Theology of the Holocaust" |
| Thursday, September 13 |
Brian Lowry, television columnist, Los Angeles Times; author, The Truth is Out There: The Official Guide to the X-Files (1995) and Trust No One: The Official Guide to the X-Files: Third Season (1996); "Are the Media Giants Taking Over?" |
| Monday, September 17 |
Charles Kesler, professor of government, CMC; author, Saving the Revolution: The Federalist Papers and the American Founding (1987) and co-author, Keeping the Tablets: Modern American Conservative Thought (1988); John Roth, Russell K. Pitzer professor of philosophy and religious studies, CMC; author, Ethics after the Holocaust: Perspectives, Critiques, and Responses (1999) and Private Needs, Public Selves: Talk about Religion in America (1997); William Ascher, Donald C. McKenna professor of government and economics, dean of faculty, CMC; (moderator); co-author, Strategic Planning and Forecasting: Political Risk and Economic Opportunity (1983) and author, Why Governments Waste National Resources: Policy Failures in Developing Countries (1999); P. Edward Haley, W. M. Keck Foundation Chair of International strategic studies, CMC; author, Nuclear Strategy, Arms Control and the Future (1988) and Congress and the Fall of South Vietnam and Cambodia (1982); Diane Halpern, professor of psychology; director, Berger Institute for Work, Family and Children, CMC; author, Thought and Knowledge: An Introduction to Critical Thinking (1995) and Sex Differences in Cognitive Abilities (1992); Marc Weidenmier, professor of economics, CMC; co-author, International Financial Crisis by Way of Localized Disaster: The San Francisco Earthquake and the Panic of 1907 (2001) and The Market for Confederate Cotton Bonds (2000); "Coping with the Tragedy: Security and Democracy" (4:00 p.m.) |
| Wednesday, September 19 |
Margaret Mathies, professor of biology, CMC; "Thailand, Timbuktu, and Tuskegee: Should Research Ethics Stop at the Border?" |
| Thursday, September 20 |
Daniel Slosberg, fiddle; "Pierre Cruzatte: A Musical Journey on the Lewis and Clark Trail" |
| Monday, September 24 |
Harlan Ellison, essayist; screen writer; author, "Repent Harlequin," Said the Ticktockman (1965) and I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream (1967); "The Flight of the Curmudgeon: A Difficult Evening with Harlan Ellison" |
| Tuesday, September 25 |
Vincent Bugliosi, former Los Angeles deputy district attorney; author, Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders (1995) and "The Betrayal of America: How the Supreme Court Undermined the Constitution and Chose Our President" (2001) |
| Wednesday, September 26 |
Brendan Behan '03; Andrea Fitanides '02; Daniel Rosengard '04; Christina Elmore; Adrienne Hall (moderator); "Claremont Colleges Debate Union: The United States Should Use Force to Make Peace" |
| Thursday, September 27 |
Tyler Cowen, Holbert G. Harris chair and professor of economics, George Mason University; author, In Praise of Commercial Culture (1998) and What Price Fame? (2000); "Why Commercial Culture is Good for the Arts" |
| Monday, October 1 |
Dave Hickey, contributing editor, Art Issues; author, Air Guitar: Essays on Art and Democracy (1997) and The Invisible Dragon: Four Essays on Beauty (1994); "At Home in the Neon: Why Las Vegas Welcomes Serious Art" |
| Wednesday, October 3 |
Robert Pinsky, U.S. poet laureate consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress (1997-2000); professor of English and creative writing, Boston University; author, Jersey Rain (2000) and The Sounds of Poetry (1998); "Favorite Poem Project" |
| Thursday, October 4 |
Maya Ajmera, founder, Global Fund for Children; author, Children from Australia to Zimbabwe: A Photographic Journey Around the World (1997) and co-author, To Be a Kid (1999); "Social Entrepreneurship and Venture Philanthropy: The Evolution of the Global Fund for Children" |
| Monday, October 8 |
Tamara Nameroff, director, Office of Legislative and Government Affairs, American Chemical Society; "Revolutionary Chemistry for Sustainable Development" |
| Tuesday, October 9 |
Norman Podhoretz, editor at large, Commentary magazine; author, My Love Affair with America: The Cautionary Tale of a Cheerful Conservative (2000) and The Bloody Crossroads: Where Literature and Politics Meet (1986); "Attack on America" |
| Wednesday, October 10 |
William Gerberding, president emeritus, University of Washington; author, United States Foreign Policy: Perspectives and Analysis (1966) and co-author, The Radical Left: The Abuse of Discontent (1970); "Reflections on the Conduct of U.S. Foreign Policy: A Forty Year Perspective" |
| Monday, October 15 |
Conte Candoli, trumpet; Mark Masters, conductor, American Jazz Institute orchestra; Christian Jacob, piano; Gary Foster, saxophone; Bill Perkins, saxophone; Jack Montrose, saxophone; Bob Enevoldsen, trombone; Carl Saunders, trumpet; Joe La Barbera, drums; Putter Smith, bass; Pete Christlieb, saxophone; Les Lovitt, trumpet; Kye Palmer, trumpet; Andy Martin, trombone; Dave Woodley, trombone; Ron Stout, trumpet; "An Evening of Jazz" |
| Tuesday, October 16 |
Piers Bannister, director of research on the death penalty, Amnesty International; author, Fatal Flaws: Innocence and the Death Penalty (1988) and A Life in the Balance: The Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal (2000); "Human Rights and the Death Penalty in the USA: An International Perspective" |
| Wednesday, October 17 |
P.J. O'Rourke, foreign affairs desk chief, Rolling Stone; author, Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government (1991) and Give War a Chance (1992); "The Politics of Worry: Government vs. the Free Market, Which is Worse?" |
| Thursday, October 25 |
Arlene Saxonhouse, professor of political science, University of Michigan; author, Women in the History of Political Thought: Ancient Greece to Machiavelli (1985) and Fear of Diversity: The Birth of Political Science in Ancient Greek Thought (1992); "Machiavelli's Women" |
| Monday, October 29 |
Harold Rood, W.M. Keck Foundation chair emeritus of international and strategic studies and professor emeritus of government, CMC; author, Kingdoms of the Blind: How the Great Democracies Have Resumed the Follies That So Nearly Cost Them Their Life (1980) and The Increasing Soviet Presence in the Pacific (1988); "America's Strategic Necessities vs. Dogs, Soldiers, and Sailors: Keep Off the Grass" |
| Tuesday, October 30 |
Jeane Kirkpatrick, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations (1981-85); Leavey professor of government, Georgetown University; author, The Withering Away of the Totalitarian States ... and Other Surprises (1990) and Good Intentions: Lost on the Road to the New World Order (2001); "Year 2001: Global Issues" (4:00 p.m. Pickford Auditorium) |
| Tuesday, October 30 |
Samuel Freedman, professor of journalism, Columbia University; author, Jew vs. Jew: The Struggle for the Soul of American Jewry (2000) and The Inheritance: How Three Families and America Moved from Roosevelt to Reagan and Beyond (1996); "The Struggle for American Jewry" |
| Wednesday, October 31 |
Halloween Dinner, "Dramatic Readings of the Literary and of the Palm!" |
| Thursday, November 1 |
Susan Tolle, M.D., director, Center for Ethics in Health Care, Oregon Health Sciences University; "The Oregon Experience in Care of the Dying: What's New" |
| Monday, November 5 |
Kathy Sawada, piano, "Music of Bach, Chopin, Messiaen, Rzewski, and Crumb" |
| Tuesday, November 6 |
Adam Rubin, visiting assistant professor of Judaic studies, Hebrew Union College, Los Angeles; author, forthcoming The Politics of Tradition: Nationalism, Nostaglia, and the Re-invention of the Jewish Past; "From Odessa to Tel Aviv: Hebrew Culture and the Re-invention of the Jewish Past" |
| Wednesday, November 7 |
Sam Quinones, journalist; author, "True Tales from Another Mexico: The Lynch Mob, the Popsicle Kings, Chalino, and the Bronx" (2001) |
| Thursday, November 8 |
Harold Koh, Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law, Yale University; former assistant secretary of state for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor; author, Deliberative Democracy and Human Rights (1999) and The National Security Constitution: Sharing Power after the Iran-Contra Affair (1990); "September 11, Human Rights, and the Rule of Law" |
| Monday, November 12 |
Patrick Lencioni '87, founder and president, The Table Group; management consulting; author, The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive (2000) and The Five Temptations of a CEO: A Leadership Fable (1998); "The Five Temptations of a Leader" |
| Tuesday, November 13 |
Asuman Aksoy, professor of mathematics, CMC; author, Lipschitz-Orlicz Spaces and the Laplace Equation (1996) and co-author, Nonstandard Methods in Fixed Point Theory (1990); William Ascher, Donald C. McKenna professor of government and economics, dean of faculty, CMC; author, Why Governments Waste Natural Resources: Policy Failures in Developing Countries (1999) and Communities and Sustainable Forestry in Developing Countries (1994); P. Edward Haley, W. M. Keck Foundation chair of International strategic studies, CMC; author, United States Relations with Europe (1999) and Strategic Defense Initiative: Folly or Future? (1986); Manfred Keil, associate professor of economics, CMC; author, Minimum Wages and Employment (2001) and co-author, Why is the Unemployment Rate so Very Low Near Full Employment? (1999); Art Rosenbaum, professor of history, CMC; author, State and Society in China: The Consequences of Reform (1992) and The Cold War: Reassessments (2000); Marc Massoud P'89, Robert A. Day distinguished professor of accounting, CMC; author, Privatization: Issues and Problems (1998) and Impairment of Asset Values (1997); Roderic Camp, professor of government, CMC; author, Crossing Swords: Politics and Religion in Mexico (1997) and Politics in Mexico (1996); "International Research Roundtable" (12:15 p.m.) |
| Tuesday, November 13 |
Shari Diamond, professor of law and psychology, Northwestern University; senior research fellow, American Bar Foundation; author, Juries: Behavioral Aspects (2001) and co-author, forthcoming "Understanding Juries" |
| Wednesday, November 14 |
Michael Murrin, David B. and Clara E. Stern professor of humanities, English, and in the divinity school, University of Chicago; author, History and Warfare in Renaissance Epic (1994) and The Allegorical Epic (1980); "Europe Invents the Rich East: The Late Medieval Romancer's Contribution" |
| Thursday, November 15 |
Anthony Lake, professor in the practice of diplomacy, Georgetown University; former assistant to the President for National Security Affairs; author, 6 Nightmares (2000) and Somoza Falling (1989); "Where Do We Go From Here?" |
| Tuesday, November 20 |
Theodore Marmor, professor of public policy, political science, and management, Yale University; author, Understanding Health Care Reform (1994) and "The Politics of Medicare" (1972) |