| Monday, September 13 |
Carrie Chorba, assistant professor of Spanish, CMC; author, forthcoming Mexico from Mestizoto to Multicultural: National Identity and Recent Representations of the Conquest and Exploring Mexican National Identity in Salvador Carrasco's Film, La otra conquista (2004); "Oh! The Places You'll Go: The Study of Cultures and National Identity" |
| Tuesday, September 14 |
Phil Gramm, former United States senator, (R-Texas); author, The Role of Government in a Free Society (1982) and co-editor, Establishing an Effective Modern Framework for Export Controls (2003); "A Conversation with Senator Gramm" |
| Wednesday, September 15 |
Joe Massoud '89, managing partner, The Compass Group; "What It Means to be a McKenna Scholar: Making an Impact" |
| Thursday, September 16 |
Cornel West, Class of 1943 University professor of religion and African American studies, Princeton University; author, Race Matters (1993) and "Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism" (2004) C-SPAN |
| Monday, September 20 |
Robert Lanza, vice president of medical and scientific development, Advance Cell Technology; adjunct professor of surgical sciences, Wake Forest University; co-author, Handbook of Stem Cells (2004) and Principles of Cloning (2002); "The Past, Present, and Future of Stem Cell Research" |
| Tuesday, September 21 |
Kathleen Norris, author, Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith (1999) and The Virgin of Bennington (2001); "Spiritual Practice and Social Justice" |
| Wednesday, September 22 |
Catherine Conaghan, professor of political studies, director, Centre for the Study of Democracy, Queens University, Canada; co-author, To Be A Worker: Identity and Politics in Peru (2000) and Unsettling Statecraft: Democracy and Neoliberalism in the Central Andes (1995); "Failing States or Failing Politics? Interpreting the Andean Crisis" |
| Thursday, September 23 |
Patrick Guerriero, former Massachusetts House of Representatives (R-35th district); executive director, Log Cabin Republicans; "Speaking Out: A Gay Republican's Personal Journey" C-SPAN |
| Monday, September 27 |
Ann Schmitt, Kevin Corbett, Mike Carruthers, Mike Telford, Bari Sedar, Jon Simler, former Congressional staffers-turned comedians; Marc Irwin, piano; "Capitol Steps: There's Something Funny Going on in Washington" (7:00 p.m. McKenna Auditorium) |
| Tuesday, September 28 |
Tom Hayden, former California state senator (D-23rd district); adjunct professor of politics, Occidental College; author, Street Wars: Gangs and the Future of Violence (2004) and Rebel: A Personal History of the 1960s (2003); "Reforming California's Prison System" |
| Wednesday, September 29 |
Jared Diamond, professor of geography and physiology, UCLA; author, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (1999) and "Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed" (2004) |
| Thursday, September 30 |
Bob Curnow, big band conductor on albums The Music of Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays (1994) and Towednack- Celtic Big Band (2002); Don Shelton, saxophone; Jerry Pinter, saxophone; Brian Williams, saxophone; Mike McGuffey, trumpet; Steve Huffsteter, trombone; Dave Woodley, trombone; Rick Blanc, trombone; Dean Taba, bass; Danny House, saxophone; Brian Sanders, saxophone; Louis Fasman, trumpet; Les Lovitt, trumpet; Les Benedict, trumpet; Scott Whitfield, trombone; Cecilia Coleman, piano; Randy Drake, drums; "Bob Curnow's L.A. Big Band: The Music of Bob Curnow, Pat Metheny, & Lyle Mays" |
| Monday, October 4 |
T.J. Pempel, professor of political science, director, Institute of East Asian Studies, U.C. Berkeley; co-editor, Remapping Asia: The Emergence of Regional Connectedness (2004) and "Beyond Bilateralism: The U.S.-Japan Relationship in the New Asia-Pacific" (2004) |
| Tuesday, October 5 |
Michael Nutkiewicz, executive director, Program for Torture Victims, Los Angeles; author, Holocaust Museums: The Paradox of Sacred Spaces and Public Access (1993) and Not a Useable Past?: The Holocaust and American Society (1999); Hector Aristizabel, performance artist, Theater of the Oppressed; Enzo Fina, drums; "I'll Take You to the Verge of Death: Towards an Understanding of Torture" |
| Wednesday, October 6 |
Seymour Hersh, journalist; author, The Dark Side of Camelot (1997) and The Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib (2004); "Inside Iraq's Abu Ghraib Prison" |
| Thursday, October 7 |
Richard Thaler, Robert P. Gwinn professor of behavioral science and economics, University of Chicago; author, The Winner's Curse: Paradoxes and Anomalies of Economic Life (1991) and Advances in Behavioral Finance (1993); "Investor Behavior and Public Policy: The Approach of a Libertarian Paternalist" |
| Saturday, October 9 |
John Milton, William R. Kenan professor of computational neuroscience, CMC; co-author, Dynamical Diseases: Mathematical Analysis of Human Illness (1995) and Epilepsy as a Dynamic Disease (2002); "Milestones Along the Road to Expertise" |
| Monday, October 11 |
Victor Davis Hanson, professor of classical studies, C.S.U. Fresno; author, Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise of Western Power (2002) and An Autumn of War: What America Learned from September 11 and the War on Terrorism (2002); "Western War in the Postmodern Age" |
| Tuesday, October 12 |
Jennifer Walsh, assistant professor of criminal justice and criminalistics, C.S.U. Los Angeles; "Tough for Whom? A Discussion on the California Three-Strikes Law" (12:15 p.m.) |
| Tuesday, October 12 |
Jok Jok, assistant professor of history, Loyola Marymount University; author, War and Slavery in Sudan (2001) and Old Weapons New Soldiers: Slavery and Jihad in Sudan's Conflict (2003); "Religion, Race, and the Humanitarian Disaster in Sudan" |
| Wednesday, October 13 |
Paul Krugman, professor of economics, Princeton University; author, The Return of Depression Economics (2000) and "The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century" (2003) |
| Wednesday, October 20 |
Sander Vanocur, journalist; author, The Nixon-Kennedy Debates (1996) and co-editor, A Tribute to John F. Kennedy (1964); "Media Malarky: Can Democracy Survive the Mass Media?" |
| Thursday, October 21 |
Niall Ferguson, professor of history, Harvard University; senior research fellow, Jesus College, Oxford University; author, Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power (2004) and Colossus: The Price of America's Empire (2004); "Are Capitalism and Democracy Bound to Win?" |
| Monday, October 25 |
Peter Siavelis, associate professor of political science and Hultquist Fellow, Wake Forest University; author, The President and Congress in Post-Authoritarian Chile: Institutional Constraints to Democratic Consolidation (2000); "The Legacy of Chile's Pinochet: Domestic Politics and International Human Rights" |
| Tuesday, October 26 |
Gaston Espinosa, assistant professor of religious studies, CMC; co-editor, Latino Religions and Social Activism in the United States (2004) and author, The Pentecostalization of Latin American and U.S. Latino Christianity (2004); "Latino Politics, Religions, and the 2004 Presidential Election" |
| Wednesday, October 27 |
Odir Pereira, president, Leadership Institute of Brazil; "Self-Leadership in a Changing World: A Brazilian Perspective" (12:15 p.m.) |
| Wednesday, October 27 |
Claudia Rosett, columnist and editorial board member, The Wall Street Journal; fellow, Foundation for the Defense of Democracies; "Weapons-of-Mass-Corruption: What Was So Dangerous about the United Nations Oil-for-Food Program in Iraq" |
| Thursday, October 28 |
Michal Zgiet, Jaroslaw Tomica, Jacek Brzezinski, Witold Mazurkiewicz; Piotr Szamryk, stage manager; Janusz Oprynski, light and sound design; "Teatr Provisorium: Ferdydurke" (1937) (7:00 p.m. McKenna Auditorium) |
| Monday, November 1 |
Richard Holdaway, adjunct senior research fellow, University of Canterbury, New Zealand; author, The Lost World of the Moa: Prehistoric Life of New Zealand (2002) and editor, Chatham Islands Ornithology (1994); "New Zealand: A Place Apart" |
| Tuesday, November 2 |
Andrew Busch, associate professor of government, CMC; co-author, Front-Loading Problem in Presidential Nominations (2003) and author, Horses in Midstream: U.S. Midterm Elections and Their Consequences (1999) and 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); "Election Night: Analyzing the Results" (6:00 p.m.) |
| Wednesday, November 3 |
Michael Boardman '74, colonel, U.S. Army Intelligence; "U.S. Operations in Afghanistan: Military Objectives and Broader Strategic Goals" |
| Thursday, November 4 |
Michael Armacost, associate director, Asia-Pacific Research Center, Stanford University; co-author, Terrorism and U.S. Foreign Policy (2001) and Japan's Policy Trap: Dollars, Deflation, and the Crisis of Japanese Finance (2002); "Where is U.S. Foreign Policy Headed Now that the Election is Over?" (12:15 p.m.) |
| Thursday, November 4 |
Denis Feeney, Giger professor of Latin, Princeton University; co-author, Tradition and Contexts in the Poetry of Horace (2002) and author, Literature and Religion at Rome: Cultures, Contexts, and Beliefs (1998); "Virgil's Tale of Four Cities: Troy, Carthage, Alexandria, and Rome" |
| Monday, November 8 |
Lee Baca, Sheriff, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department; "Policing Urban America in the 21st Century" |
| Wednesday, November 10 |
Allen Weiner, Warren Christopher professor of the practice of International law and diplomacy, Stanford University; author, Indirect Expropriations: The Need for a Taxonomy of "Legitimate" Regulatory Purposes (2003); "International Law and America's War on Terrorism" |
| Thursday, November 11 |
Gerard Alexander, associate professor of politics, University of Virginia; author, The Sources of Democratic Consolidation (2002) and Institutions, Path Dependence, and Democratic Consolidation (2001); "The Myth of the Racist Republicans" (12:15 p.m.) |
| Thursday, November 11 |
Mark Helprin, contributing editor, The Wall Street Journal; author, The Pacific and Other Stories (2004) and Memoir from Antproof Case (1996); "Incompetence, Idiocy, Ideology, Paralysis, and Neglect: The Two Major Parties and the National Security of the U.S." |
| Friday, November 12 |
Adam Kokesh '06, sergeant, U.S. Marine Corps Reserve; "So...How was Iraq?" (12:15 p.m.) |
| Monday, November 15 |
Magnus Bernhardsson, assistant professor of history, Williams College; co-editor, Imagining the End: Visions of Apocalypse from the Ancient Middle East to Modern America (2002) and forthcoming Reclaiming the Plundered Past: Archaeology and Nationalism in Modern Iraq (2005); "Picking Up the Pieces: Archaeology and Nationalism in Modern Iraq" |
| Tuesday, November 16 |
Howard Wolpe, public policy scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center; former United States Congressman (D-Michigan); former chair, U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee's Subcommittee on Africa; author, Urban Politics in Nigeria (1973) and co-author, The United States and Africa: A Post-Cold War Perspective (1998); "Challenges to Peacemaking in the Great Lakes Region of Africa" |
| Wednesday, November 17 |
Meron Benvenisti, former deputy major, Jerusalem; author, Sacred Landscape: The Buried History of the Holy Land since 1948 (2000) and Intimate Enemies: Jews and Arabs in a Shared Land (1995); "What Will Happen? The Path to Compromise and Reconciliation in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict" (12:15 p.m.) |
| Wednesday, November 17 |
Deborah Buck, violin, faculty, Kinhaven Music School, Weston, Vermont; Maria Bachmann, violin, faculty, Adelphi University; Kathryn Lockwood, viola, faculty, University of Massachusetes, Amherst and Concordia; Astrid Schween, cello, faculty, Julliard School of Music, Music Advancement Program; "The Lark String Quartet: String Quartets in C Major "Dissonance" K465 by Mozart and in E-flat, Op. 51 by Dvorak" |
| Thursday, November 18 |
June Miyasaki, assistant professor of French, CMC; Francine Conley, assistant professor of French, College of St. Catherine, Minnesota; author, Shoes (2003) and How Dumb the Stars (2001); Christine Iaderosa, director; "Theatre de la Chandelle Verte: Scenes from Plays by Jean-Michel Ribes" |
| Monday, November 22 |
David Andrews, associate professor of politics and international relations, director, European Union Center of California, Scripps College; author, forthcoming The Alliance Under Stress: Atlantic Relations after Iraq (2005) and co-editor, Governing the World's Money (2002); "Is Atlanticism Dead? Transatlantic Relations after the U.S. Elections" (12:15 p.m.) |
| Monday, November 22 |
Peter Ward, C.B. Smith Sr. Centennial Chair in U.S.-Mexico relations and professor of public affairs and sociology, director, Mexican Studies Institute, University of Texas, Austin; co-author, Opposition Government in Mexico (2001) and New Federalism and State Government in Mexico: "Bringing the States Back In" (1999); "Mexico at the Crossroads: Moving Towards Reform or Into Gridlock?" |