| Monday, September 9 |
John Farrell, associate professor of literature, CMC; author, Freud's Paranoid Quest: Psychoanalysis and Modern Suspicion (1996); "No Second Troy: Love and Politics in the Poetry of W. B. Yeats" |
| Tuesday, September 10 |
Mark Blitz, Fletcher Jones professor of political philosophy, CMC; co-editor, Educating the Prince (2000) and author, Heidegger's Being and Time and the Possibility of Political Philosophy (1981); 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); Gregory Hess, Russell S. Bock chair of public economics and taxation and professor of economics, CMC; co-editor, International Macroeconomics (2000); Paul Kapur, assistant professor of government, CMC; Diana Selig, assistant professor of history, CMC; Andrew Brehm '03, White House intern on 9/11; William Ascher, Donald C. McKenna professor of government and economics, dean of faculty, CMC; 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), (moderator); "Reflections on September 11th" |
| Monday, September 16 |
Paul Krassner, satirist and editor, The Realist; author, Confessions of a Raving, Unconfined Nut: Misadventures in the Counter-Culture (1993) and Murder at the Conspiracy Convention: And Other American Absurdities (2002); "The Satirist as Public Intellectual" |
| Tuesday, September 17 |
William Black, assistant professor of public affairs, University of Texas, Austin; visiting scholar, Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, Santa Clara University; author, Libraries and Student Assistants: Critical Links (1995); "The Myths about the S&L Debacle and the Ongoing Financial Scandals" |
| Wednesday, September 18 |
Rafik Mansour, second secretary for political affairs, U.S. embassy, Rome, Italy; "The Foreign Service Today" |
| Thursday, September 19 |
Norah Vincent, columnist, Los Angeles Times and The Advocate; author, How to Sound Smart: A Quick and Witty Guide (2000) and co-author, The Instant Intellectual: The Quick and Easy Guide to Sounding Smart and Cultured (1998); "The Great Gay Political Debate" |
| Monday, September 23 |
Walter Russell Mead, senior fellow for U.S. foreign policy, Council on Foreign Relations; author, Mortal Splendor: The American Empire in Transition (1987) and Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World (2001); "The American Foreign Policy Tradition and the Bush Administration" |
| Tuesday, September 24 |
Ernest Fleischmann, principal artistic advisor and former manager, Los Angeles Philharmonic; co-author, Is the Symphony Orchestra Dead: An Exchange (1987); "Classical Music in Los Angeles" (4:00 p.m.) |
| Tuesday, September 24 |
William Thompson, professor of criminology, law and society, U. C. Irvine; author, The Meaning of a Match: Sources of Ambiguity in the Interpretation of DNA Prints (1991) and co-author, Research Ethics: Psychological Approach (1996); "A Psychologist Looks at Forensic DNA Evidence" |
| Wednesday, September 25 |
David Lambertson, former U.S. Ambassador to Thailand; Freeman Foundation visiting professor of Asian Affairs, CMC; "Episodes in a Career: A Diplomat's Perspective on Asia" |
| Thursday, September 26 |
Katie Koestner, sexual assault counselor; author, Without Consent (2001) and Total Sexual Assault Risk Management Strategies for Colleges (1998); Brett Sokolow, president, National Center for Higher Education Risk Management; author, The Campus Sexual Misconduct Judicial Training Manual (2000) and Creating a Proactive Campus Sexual Misconduct Policy (2000); "He Said-She Said" (6:30 p.m.) |
| Monday, September 30 |
Spike Lee, movie producer and director of Malcolm X (1992) and Clockers (1995); co-author, Best Seat in the House: A Basketball Memoir (1997) and By any Means Necessary: The Trials and Tribulations of Making Malcolm X (1993); actor in She's Gotta Have It (1986) and School Daze (1988); "An Evening with Spike Lee" (7:00 p.m. Bridges Auditorium) |
| Tuesday, October 1 |
Richard Searfoss, Colonel, USAF, retired; space shuttle pilot and commander; "Human Spaceflight: Perspectives of a Space Shuttle Commander" |
| Wednesday, October 2 |
John Rother, director of policy and strategy, American Association of Retired Persons (AARP); author, Social Security Options for the Future (1998); "Can Aging Boomers Cope with Market and Healthcare Busts?" |
| Thursday, October 3 |
William Overholt, Center for Asia Pacific Policy chair, RAND Corporation; author, The Rise of China: How Economic Reform is Creating a New Superpower (1994) and co-author, Strategic Planning and Forecasting: Political Risk and Economic Opportunity (1983); "Contrasting Leadership Styles and Outcomes in China and Japan" |
| Monday, October 7 |
Herbert York, Manhattan Project physicist; former chancellor, U.C. San Diego; author, Making Weapons, Talking Peace: A Physicist's Odyssey from Hiroshima to Geneva (1989) and The Advisors: Oppenheimer, Teller, and the Superbomb (1989); "The Scientist as Public Intellectual" |
| Tuesday, October 8 |
Herbert Reginbogin, historian and co-author, Hitler, der Westen und die Schweiz, 1936-1945 (Hitler, the Western Powers and Switzerland, 1936-1945) (2001); "Enemies and Friends, the Nazis, Big Business and Switzerland" (4:00 p.m.) |
| Tuesday, October 8 |
Bjorn Lomborg, associate professor of political science, Aarhus University, Denmark; director, Environmental Assessment Institute, Copenhagen; author, Structure of Solutions in the Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma (1993) and "The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World" (2001) |
| Wednesday, October 9 |
Stephen Schneider, professor of biological sciences, Stanford University; author, Global Warming: Are We Entering the Greenhouse Century? (1990) and Laboratory Earth: The Planetary Gamble We Can't Afford to Lose (1997); "Global Warming: Neglecting the Complexities" |
| Monday, October 14 |
Samuel Huntington, Albert J. Weatherhead III University professor of government, Harvard University; author, The Clash of Civilizations and Remaking World Order (1996) and The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century (1991); "Global Politics after September 11, 2001: Is It Different?" |
| Tuesday, October 15 |
Meron Benvenisti, columnist, Haaretz Hebrew Daily; former deputy mayor of Jerusalem; author, Intimate Enemies: Jews and Arabs in a Shared Land (1995) and Conflicts and Contradictions (1986); "The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Ferocious Yet Manageable" |
| Wednesday, October 16 |
James Hilton, associate provost for academic, information, and instructional technology affairs; professor of psychology, University of Michigan; co-author, Mind Matters CD-ROM (1999); "Copyright and Academic Tradition: You Can Run But You Cannot Hide" |
| Thursday, October 17 |
Ann Kerr, wife of assassinated American University President Malcolm Kerr (1984); coordinator for visiting Fulbright scholar enrichment program, UCLA; author, forthcoming Painting the Middle East (2002) and "Come with Me from Lebanon: An American Family Odyssey" (1996) |
| Wednesday, October 23 |
Lothar Machtan, associate professor of modern and current history, Bremen University, Germany; author, Bismarcks Tod und Deutchlands Tranen (Bismarck's Death and Germany's Tears) (1998) and "The Hidden Hitler" (2001) |
| Thursday, October 24 |
Jonathan Petropoulos, John V. Croul professor in European history, CMC; author, The Faustian Bargain: The Art World in Nazi Germany (1999), Art as Politics in the Third Reich (1996), and forthcoming "Royals and the Reich: The Princes of Hesse in Nazi Germany" (2004) |
| Monday, October 28 |
Jason Flatley '03, piano; Taylor Price, bass; Charlie Deck, tenor saxophone; Liam Stacowicz, trombone; Josh Zetumer, drums; "Jazz at the Ath" |
| Tuesday, October 29 |
Gail Goodman, professor of psychology, U.C. Davis; author, Child Victims, Child Witnesses: Understanding and Improving Testimony (1992) and co-editor, International Perspectives on Child Abuse and Children's Testimony: Psychological Research and Law (1996); "Trauma, Memory, and Law" |
| Wednesday, October 30 |
Clint Bolick, vice president and director of litigation, Institute for Justice, Washington, D.C.; author, Grassroots Tyranny: The Limits of Federalism (1993) and forthcoming Voucher Wars: Waging the Legal Battle Over School Choice (2003); "Litigating for Local Liberty: Fighting Grassroots Tyranny in the Schools, City Hall, and Other Government Bureaucracies" (12:15 p.m.) |
| Wednesday, October 30 |
Gregorio Luke, director, Museum of Latin American art; "Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz: The First Feminist of the Americas" |
| Thursday, October 31 |
Kanan Makiya, professor of Middle East studies, Brandeis University; author, Cruelty and Silence: War, Tyranny, Uprising, and the Arab World (1993) and Republic of Fear: The Politics of Modern Iraq (1991); "A Model for Post-Saddam Iraq" |
| Monday, November 4 |
John Herald, vocals and guitar; founder of the Greenbriar Boys; Brantley Kearns, vocals and fiddle; Fred Sokolow, fiddle, mandolin, banjo; Tom Sauber, fiddle, mandolin, banjo; Pat Campbell, bass; "From the Grand Ol' Opry to Carnegie Hall" |
| Tuesday, November 5 |
Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the House; former Georgia congressman, (R-6th district); author, To Renew America (1995) and Contract with America: The Bold Plan to Change the Nation (1994); "The 2002 Election Outlook" (12:15 p.m.) |
| Wednesday, November 6 |
Louis Menand, professor of English, City University of New York; contributing editor, New York Review; author, The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America (2001) and editor, Pragmatism: A Reader (1997); "Public Intellectuals in American Life" |
| Thursday, November 7 |
William Quandt, Edward R. Stettinius chair and vice provost and professor of government and foreign affairs, University of Virginia; author, Between Ballots and Bullets: Algeria's Transition from Authoritarianiam (1998) and Peace Process: American Diplomacy and the Arab-Israeli Conflict Since 1967 (2001); "Bush's New Strategy for the Middle East" |
| Tuesday, November 12 |
Lee Hamilton, director of Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; former Indiana congressman (D-9th district); co-author, A Creative Tension: The Foreign Policy Roles of the President and Congress (2002) and Iran-Contra Affair with the Minority View (1988); "Major U.S. Foreign Policy Challenges" (12:15 p.m.) |
| Tuesday, November 12 |
Saul Kassin, professor of psychology, Williams College; co-author, Confessions in the Courtroom (1993) and The American Jury on Trial: Psychological Perspectives (1988); "Police Interrogations and Confessions: Does Innocence put Innocents at Risk?" |
| Wednesday, November 13 |
Omar Ali, director of research, Committee for a United Independent Party (CUIP); contributing author, History in Dispute- Social and Political Movements, 1945-2000 (2000) and Encyclopedia of African American Culture and History (2001); "The Role of Independents in the 2004 Presidential Election" (12:15 p.m.) |
| Wednesday, November 13 |
P. Edward Haley, W.M. Keck Foundation chair of International strategic studies, CMC; author, Lebanon in Crisis: Participants and Issues (1979) and Qaddafi and the United States since 1969 (1984); "U.S. Strategy in the 21st Century" |
| Thursday, November 14 |
Donal O'Sullivan, visiting assistant professor of history, CMC; author, Furcht und Faszination-deutsche und britische Russlandbilder 1921-1933 (Fear and Fascination- German and British Images of Soviet Russia 1921-1933) (1996), and co-editor, Sonderwege im Vergleich- Deutschland und Russland im 19. und im 20. Jahrhundert (Special Path in Comparison- Germany and Russia in the 19th and 20th Century) (2001); "The English Only Understand Force: The USSR and the Outbreak of the Cold War" (4:00 p.m.) |
| Thursday, November 14 |
Sung Chul Yang, Korean Ambassador to the United States; author, The North and South Korean Political Systems: A Comparative Analysis (1994) and Korea and Two Regimes (1981); "Building on the Momentum for the Korean Peninsula" |
| Monday, November 18 |
Juliet Funt, eating disorder consultant; co-author, The Wellness Path: Your Roadmap For Living Healthy and Feeling Great! (2002); "It's Not About Food" |
| Tuesday, November 19 |
Eugenia Dallas, author, The Destiny of Ukranian Beauty (1993) and "One Woman, Five Lives, Five Countries" (1998) (4:00 p.m.) |
| Tuesday, November 19 |
Patrick Chamorel, public policy scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, D.C.; co-author, The New American Political Disorder: An Essay (1994); "After Anti-Americanism in Europe, Euroskepticism in America?" |
| Wednesday, November 20 |
Mario Martelli, professor of mathematics, CMC; author, Discrete Dynamical Systems and Chaos (1992) and co-author, Topological Methods for Ordinary Differential Equations (1991); "The Secret (and Mystery) of Brunelleschi's Cupola" |
| Thursday, November 21 |
John Lindberg, composer and bass; Adam Rudolph, percussion; Pablo Calogero, saxophone; "John Lindberg World Star Trio" |