| Monday, September 8 |
Mary Hatcher-Skeers, associate professor and Clare Booth Luce chair of chemistry, CMC; co-author, The Dynamic Impact of CpG Methylation in DNA (2000) and Early and Late Intermediates in the Bacteriohodopsin Photocycle: A Solid-State NMR Study (1998); "Fifty Years of DNA: Where Are We Now?" |
| Tuesday, September 9 |
Deborah Buck, violin, professor of music, Kinhaven Music School, Weston, Vermont; Kevin Fitz-Gerald, piano, professor of piano and collaborative arts, Thornton School of Music, USC; "Encore Concert" |
| Monday, September 15 |
Julie Spellman '89, partner, Cravath, Swaine, & Moore, New York; "Leadership and the McKenna Scholar" |
| Tuesday, September 16 |
David Broder, national political columnist, Washington Post; co-author, The System: The American Way of Politics at the Breaking Point (1996) and The Man Who Would Be President: Dan Quayle (1992); "American Politics Beyond Recall" |
| Wednesday, September 17 |
James Walsh, executive director, Managing the Atom project at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University; author, The Two Faces of Bush on Defense (2001) and Multilateral Non-proliferation Regimes, Weapons of Mass Destruction Technologies and the War on Terrorism (2002); John Meany, director, Claremont Colleges Debate Union, (moderator); co-author, Art, Argument, and Advocacy: Mastering Parliamentary Debate (2002) and On That Point: An Introduction to Parliamentary Debate (2003); Jenny Bindel '04; Sarah Rice '04; "Political Dissent during National Security Crises: A Panel Discussion" |
| Thursday, September 18 |
John Dovidio, professor of psychology, Colgate University; author, Prejudice, Discrimination, and Racism (1986) and co-editor, Immigrants and Immigration (2001); "Racism: The Social Consequences of Personal Prejudices" |
| Monday, September 22 |
Thomas Kelsey '88, Country Desk Officer for Germany, U.S. State Department; former special assistant to the Secretary of State; "U.S.-German Relations in the Aftermath of the War in Iraq" |
| Tuesday, September 23 |
Tony Kushner, playwright; author, Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes (1993) and Homebody/Kabul (2000); James Morrison, associate professor of literature and film studies, CMC; author, Broken Fever (2001) and Passport to Hollywood: Hollywood Films, European Directors (1998); "A Conversation with Tony Kushner" |
| Wednesday, September 24 |
Taylor Mali, performance artist; author, What Learning Leaves (2002) and recording of Poems from the Like Free Zone (CD- 2000); "Spoken Word Performance" |
| Thursday, September 25 |
Ernesto Fundora, film and video director; Juan Antonio Garcia Borrero, critic and film historian; Alejandro Rios, drama and literary critic and essayist; Everardo Chavez, film and performing arts producer; "Independent Cuban Short Films" |
| Monday, September 29 |
John J. Pitney, Jr., associate professor of government, CMC; author, The Art of Political Warfare (2001) and co-author, American Government: Democracy and Citizenship (2002); Ken Miller, assistant professor of government, CMC; co-author, The Populist Legacy: Initiatives and the Undermining of Representative Government (2001) and author, Constraining Populism: The Real Agenda of Initiative Reform (2001); David Menefee-Libey, associate professor of politics, Pomona College; author, The Triumph of Campaign-Centered Politics (1999) and co-author, Decentralization in Practice: Toward a System of Schools (1998); "California Politics: Losing Ground or Making Strides?" |
| Tuesday, September 30 |
Michael Armacost, Shorestein Distinguished Fellow, Asia/Pacific Research Center, Stanford University; author, Friends or Rivals? : The Insider's Account of U.S.-Japan Relations (1996) and Asian Alliances and American Politics (1999); "Challenges and Opportunities in America's Relations with East Asia" |
| Wednesday, October 1 |
William Stueck, Distinguished Research professor of history, University of Georgia; author, The Korean War: An International History (1995) and Rethinking the Korean War: A New Diplomatic and Strategic History (2002); "The Korean War: The Legacy for U.S.-Korean Relations" |
| Thursday, October 2 |
David Ebershoff, publishing director, Modern Library, Random House; author, The Danish Girl (2000) and Pasadena (2001); "An Evening with David Ebershoff" |
| Monday, October 6 |
J. Michael Hagopian, founder, Armenian Film Foundation; director, The Forgotten Genocide (1975) and Voices from the Lake: The Secret Genocide (2000); "Germany and the Secret Genocide: A Documentary Film" |
| Tuesday, October 7 |
Dan Kammen, professor of energy and society, public policy and nuclear engineering, director of Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory, U.C. Berkeley; co-author, Should We Risk It? Exploring Environmental, Health and Technological Problem Solving (1999) and Solar Cookbook: Less Wood, Less Smoke, Better Health (1996); "The Smoking Gun: Energy and Health in Developing Nations" |
| Wednesday, October 8 |
Margaret Batjer, violin, concertmaster, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra; Jeffrey Kahane, piano, music director, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra; "Bravo Brahms!" |
| Thursday, October 9 |
Richard Hovannisian, Armenian Educational Foundation Endowed Chair and professor of modern Armenian history, UCLA; editor, Remembrance and Denial: The Case of the Armenian Genocide (1998) and The Armenian People from Ancient to Modern Times (1997); "Reflections on the Armenian Genocide" |
| Monday, October 13 |
Paul Loeb, associated scholar, Seattle Center for Ethical Leadership; author, Generation at the Crossroads: Apathy and Action on the American Campus (1994) and "Soul of a Citizen: Living with Conviction in a Cynical Time" (1999) |
| Tuesday, October 14 |
Janet Reno, former United States Attorney General; author, Crime Scene Investigation: A Guide for Law Enforcement (2001) and Promising Strategies to Reduce Gun Violence (1999); "A Conversation with Janet Reno" |
| Wednesday, October 15 |
Katie Purvis-Roberts, assistant professor of chemistry, CMC; "Research on the Long-term Effects of Radioactive Fallout in Kazakhstan" |
| Wednesday, October 22 |
Andrew Roberts, squadron leader, Royal Air Force; "NATO in the 21st Century" (12:15 p.m.) |
| Wednesday, October 22 |
Joan Jacobs Brumberg, Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow and professor of history, human development and gender studies, Cornell University; author, forthcoming Kansas Charley: A Boy Murderer from the American Past (2003) and The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls (1997); "Rethinking the Juvenile Death Penalty: The Case of Kansas Charley" |
| Thursday, October 23 |
Dan Walters, political columnist, Sacramento Bee; author, The New California: Facing the 21st Century (1986) and co-author, The Third House: Lobbyists, Money and Power in Sacramento (2002); "Rose Institute 30th Anniversary Address" |
| Monday, October 27 |
Thomas Pettigrew, research professor of social psychology, U.C. Santa Cruz; author, How to Think Like a Social Scientist (1997) and The Sociology of Race Relations: Reflections and Reform (1980); "Justice Delayed: 49 Years after Brown" |
| Tuesday, October 28 |
Amde Hamilton, Otis O'Solomon, author, Wake Up World (2001); Richard Dedeaux, artists on Rappin' Black in a White World (1971) and In the Streets of Watts (1970); Dre Gibson, keyboard; "The Watts Prophets: Talk Up, Not Down" |
| Wednesday, October 29 |
Lillian Faderman, professor of literature and creative writing, CSU Fresno; author, Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America (1991) and "Naked in the Promised Land: A Memoir" (2003) |
| Thursday, October 30 |
Gerhard Weinberg, William Rand Kenan, Jr. professor emeritus of history, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; author, World War II Leaders and Their Visions for the Future of Palestine (2002) and A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II (1994); "Exploring the Archives of the Third Reich: A Historian's Personal History" |
| Monday, November 3 |
Susan Woodward, Chairman of the Board, Sand Hill Econometrics; author, Price Fixing at Nasdaq? A Re-Evaluation of the Evidence (1998) and Overview of the U.S. Economy (1997); "Consumer Confusion in the Mortgage Market" |
| Tuesday, November 4 |
Susan Shirk, research director for security studies, Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation; author, How China Opened Its Door: The Political Success of the PRC's Foreign Trade and Investment Reform (1994) and The Political Logic of Economic Reform in China (1992); "China Rising: Responsible Power or Future Threat?" (12:15 p.m.) |
| Tuesday, November 4 |
W.S. Merwin, U.S. special bicentennial consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress (1999-2000); author, The River Sound (1999) and Folding Cliffs: A Narrative of 19th Century Hawaii (1998); "Poet Reads from His Work" (2:00 p.m.) |
| Wednesday, November 5 |
Sylvia Brownrigg, author, Pages for You (2001) and Ten Women Who Shook the World (2001); "An Evening with Sylvia Brownrigg" |
| Thursday, November 6 |
Robert Meeropol, founder and executive director, Rosenberg Fund for Children; author, "An Execution in the Family: One Son's Journey" (2003) |
| Monday, November 10 |
Herbert Kelman, Richard Clarke Cabot Research professor of social ethics, director, Center for Conflict Resolution, Harvard University; author, A Time to Speak Out: On Human Values and Social Research (1968) and co-author, Crimes of Obedience: Towards a Social Psychology of Authority and Responsibility (1989); "Interactive Problem Solving: A Social-Psychological Approach to Conflict Resolution and Its Application to the Israeli-Palestinian Case" |
| Tuesday, November 11 |
W. D. Snodgrass, poet; author, The Fuhrer Bunker: The Complete Cycle (1995) and To Sound Like Yourself: Essays on Poetry (2003); "Reading from His Work" |
| Wednesday, November 12 |
Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Trustee professor of economics, Syracuse University; director, Congressional Budget Office; co-editor, Making Work Pay: The Earned Income Tax Credit and Its Impact on America's Families (2002) and forthcoming Public Policy and the Economics of Entrepreneurship (2004); "The Federal Budget: Friend or Foe?" |
| Thursday, November 13 |
Alan Charles Kors, professor of history, University of Pennsylvania; co-editor, Witchcraft in Europe, 400-1700: A Documentary History (1990) and co-author, "The Shadow University: The Betrayal of Liberty on America's Campuses" (1998) |
| Monday, November 17 |
Eric Schlosser, author, Reefer-Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market (2003) and Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (2001); "Conversation with Eric Schlosser" |
| Tuesday, November 18 |
Walter Willett, professor of epidemiology and nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health; author, Nutritional Epidemiology (1990) and Eat, Drink and Be Happy: The Harvard Medical School Guide to Healthy Eating (2001); "Is the U.S.D.A. Dietary Pyramid a Threat to Public Health?" |
| Wednesday, November 19 |
Gioconda Belli, poet; author, De la costilla de Eva (From Eve's Rib) (1989) and "The Country Under My Skin: A Memoir of Love and War" (2002) |
| Thursday, November 20 |
Omer Bartov, John P. Birkelund professor of European history, Brown University; co-editor, The Crimes of War: Guilt and Denial in the Twentieth Century (2002) and author, The Eastern Front 1941-45: German Troops and the Barbarisation of Warfare (1985); "Genocide as Leitmotif of the 20th Century: Rhetoric and Responsibility" |
| Monday, November 24 |
Ron Lehman II, '68, director, Center for Global Security Research, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory; "Weapons of Mass Destruction: Can We Change Our Fate?" (12:15 p.m.) |
| Monday, November 24 |
Willem Buiter, Chief Economist and Special Counsellor to the President; European Bank for Reconstruction and Development; author, The New Economy and the Old Monetary Economics (2000) and co-author, Designing a Monetary Authority (2001); "Should We Worry about Deflation?" |