| Wednesday, September 7 |
David Sadava, Pritzker Family Foundation professor of biology, CMC; co-editor, Life: The Science of Biology (1997) and co-author, Plants, Genes, and Agriculture (1994); "Cloning Cloning" |
| Thursday, September 8 |
Robert Faggen, Barton Evans and H. Andrea Neves Professor of Literature, CMC; editor, The Cambridge Companion to Robert Frost (2001) and author, Robert Frost and the Challenge of Darwin (1997); "Tree of Life or Burning Bush: Science and Myth in the Age of Politics" |
| Monday, September 12 |
Leslie Peirce, professor of history and Near Eastern Studies, U.C. Berkeley; author, The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire (1993) and Morality Tales: Law and Gender in the Ottoman Court of Aintab (2003); "Gender, Generation, Sex, and the Law in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire" (12:15 p.m.) |
| Monday, September 12 |
Jose Campos '91, partner, Deloitte & Touche, LLP, Los Angeles; "Reflections of a McKenna Scholar: Experiences from Public Accounting" |
| Tuesday, September 13 |
Abigail Garner, creator of website FamiliesLikeMine.com; author, Families Like Mine: Children of Gay Parents Tell It Like It Is (2004); "Families Like Mine: An Adult Daughter of Gay Parents Speaks Out" |
| Wednesday, September 14 |
David Mason '79, commissioner, Federal Election Commission; "Should Bloggers Be Regulated?" (12:15 p.m.) |
| Wednesday, September 14 |
Frank Potenza, associate professor of studio/jazz guitar, Flora L. Thornton School of Music, USC; artist on albums In My Dreams (1999) and The Legacy (2003); Llew Matthews, piano; Luther Hughes, bass; Paul Kreibich, drums; "Frank Potenza Quartet: An Evening of Jazz" |
| Thursday, September 15 |
Richard Saller, Edward L. Ryerson Distinguished Service professor of history and classics, University of Chicago; author, Patriarchy, Property, and Death in the Roman Family (1994) and Personal Patronage Under the Early Empire (1982); "Human Capital and the Growth of the Roman Economy" |
| Monday, September 19 |
John Allen Paulos, professor of mathematics, Temple University; author, Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences (1989) and "A Mathematician Plays the Stock Market" (2003) |
| Wednesday, September 21 |
Robert Hass, U.S. poet laureate consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress (1995-1997); professor of English, U.C. Berkeley; author, Sun Under Wood (1996) and editor, The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Busan, and Issa (1994); "An Evening with the Poet" |
| Thursday, September 22 |
S. Brock Blomberg, associate professor of economics, CMC; author, The Macroeconomic Consequences of Terrorism (2004) and co-author, forthcoming Economic Conditions and Terrorism; "The Political Economy of Terrorism" |
| Friday, September 23 |
Jim Brulte, (R-CA) former state senate minority leader; Robert Hertzberg, (D-CA) former state assembly speaker; "Perspectives on Public Policy Issues" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Monday, September 26 |
Bob Hall, founder and president, Learning To Live With Conflict Inc.; "Nonviolent Sexuality: A Dialogue on Sex, Conflict, Alcohol & Intimacy" |
| Tuesday, September 27 |
Dae-sook Suh, Korea Foundation professor of political science, University of Hawaii, Manoa; editor, North Korea after the Summit Meeting: Perspectives and Changes in Inter-Korean Relations (2002) and Russo-Korean Relations (2000); "Trust in U.S.-North Korea Relations" (12:15 p.m.) |
| Tuesday, September 27 |
David Blitzer P'08, managing director and chairman, Standard & Poor's 500 Index Committee; author, Outpacing the Pros: Using Indices to Beat Wall Street's Savviest Money Managers (2000) and What's the Economy Trying to Tell You? Everyone's Guide to Understanding and Profiting from the Economy (1999); "Stock Indices: How the Average Came to Be the Best" |
| Wednesday, September 28 |
Jameelah Xochitl Medina '99, owner, The Medina Academy of Overachievers; training coordinator, State Insurance Fund of California; author, The Afro-Latin Diaspora: Awakening Ancestral Memory, Avoiding Cultural Amnesia (2004); "The Afro-Latin Diaspora: From Opacity to Transparency" |
| Thursday, September 29 |
Gary Pak, associate professor of English, University of Hawaii, Manoa; author, The Language of Geckos and Other Stories (2005) and Children of a Fireland: A Novel (2002); "Living with Spirits, Writing as Activism" |
| Monday, October 3 |
Bobby Seale, former chairman and co-founder, Black Panther Party for Self-Defense; author, Seize the Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton (1970) and A Lonely Rage: The Autobiography of Bobby Seale (1978); "From the Sixties to the Future" |
| Wednesday, October 5 |
Nancy Fitch, HIV/AIDS clinical services advisor, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in Rwanda; "Rwanda: Post-genocide and the Fight against HIV/AIDS" (12:15 p.m.) |
| Wednesday, October 5 |
Laura Simon '85, documentary filmmaker, Fear and Learning at Hoover Elementary (1997) |
| Thursday, October 6 |
Ellis Krauss, professor of Japanese politics and policymaking, U.C. San Diego; co-editor, Beyond Bilateralism: U.S.-Japan Relations in the New Asia Pacific (2004) and author, Broadcasting Politics in Japan: NHK and Television News (2000); "Japan's September 11: A Critical Election- What It Meant, What's It Going to Mean?" (12:15 p.m.) |
| Thursday, October 6 |
Andrew Sullivan, blogger, The Daily Dish; former editor, The New Republic; author, Love Undetectable: Notes on Friendship, Sex, and Survival (1999) and Virtually Normal: An Argument about Homosexuality (1995); "The Conservative Case for Gay Marriage" |
| Monday, October 10 |
Louise Erdrich, author, The Birchbark House (2002) and Love Medicine (1984); "An Evening with the Author" |
| Tuesday, October 11 |
Galway Kinnell, professor of creative writing, New York University; author, A New Selected Poems (2000) and Imperfect Thirst (1996); "Reading and Commentary" |
| Wednesday, October 12 |
Adrian Buono, guitar; Santiago Lee, guitar; Jose Agote, guitar; Juan Manzur, guitar; Juan Manuel Leguizamon, percussion; "Los Pinguos: A Musical Celebration" |
| Thursday, October 13 |
David Lampton, Sadie Hyman professor and chair of China Studies, School of Advanced International Studies, John Hopkins University, author, Same Bed, Different Dreams: Managing U.S.- China Relations, 1989-2000 (2002) and editor, The Making of Chinese Foreign and Security Policy in the Era of Reform, 1978-2000 (2001); "U.S.-China Relations in the Context of Growing PRC Power" |
| Wednesday, October 19 |
Joseph Wilson IV, former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq; author, The Politics of Truth: Inside the Lies That Led to War and Betrayed My Wife's CIA Identity: A Diplomat's Memoir (2004); "Speaking Truth to Power and Its Consequences" |
| Thursday, October 20 |
David Elliott, H. Russell Smith professor of international relations and professor of politics, Pomona College; author, Wag the Dog: Vietnam and the Cold War (2000) and The Vietnam War: Revolution and Social Change in the Mekong Delta (2002); "Rethinking Vietnam" (12:15 p.m.) |
| Thursday, October 20 |
Allan Greenberg, architect and architectural historian; author, George Washington, Architect (1999) and Monograph of the Work of McKim, Mead & White, 1879-1915 (1991); "We, the People, and Our Architecture" |
| Thursday, October 20 |
Sheldon Garon, associate professor of history and East Asian studies, Princeton University; author, Molding Japanese Minds: The State in Everyday Life (1997) and forthcoming Fashioning a Culture of Thrift: Promoting Savings in Japan and the World; "Japan's History Problem: The Legacies of World War II for Japan's Role in Asia and the World" (7:00 p.m. Bauer Forum) |
| Monday, October 24 |
Oscar Torres, former El Salvadorian child soldier and co-screen writer of documentary film "Innocent Voices" (2004) (Film screening, 6:00 p.m.) |
| Tuesday, October 25 |
Eric Helland, associate professor of economics, CMC; co-author, Using Placebo Laws to Test "More Guns, Less Crime": A Note (2004) and Regulation and Evolution of Corporate Boards: Monitoring, Advising or Window Dressing? (2004); "Judge and Jury: American Tort Law on Trial" |
| Wednesday, October 26 |
Elizabeth Loftus, distinguished professor of psychology and social behavior, criminology, law and society, U.C. Irvine; co-author, The Myth of Repressed Memory: False Memories and Allegations of Sexual Abuse (1994) and Witness for the Defense: The Accused, the Eyewitness and the Expert Who Put Memory on Trial (1991); "Illusions of Memory" |
| Thursday, October 27 |
W.S. Merwin, U.S. special bicentennial consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress (1999-2000); author, Migration (2005) and Summer Doorways: A Memoir (2005); "The Poet and Nature" |
| Monday, October 31 |
George Swaner '06, "Halloween Magic" |
| Tuesday, November 1 |
Abigail Thernstrom, vice-chair, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights; Stephan Thernstrom, professor of history, Harvard University; co-authors, No Excuses: Closing the Racial Gap in Learning (2003) and America in Black and White: One Nation, Indivisible (1999); "Let's Talk About Segregation" |
| Thursday, November 3 |
Thomas Pogge, professor of philosophy, Columbia University; author, World Poverty and Human Rights (2002) and co-editor, Global Institutions and Responsibilities (2005); "World Poverty: Explanations and Responsibilities" |
| Monday, November 7 |
Heidi Brown, colonel, U.S. Army, chief of staff, U.S. Army Air Defense Artillery Center; "Training Leaders for Today's Military" (12:15 p.m.) |
| Monday, November 7 |
Carollee Howes, professor of psychological studies in education, UCLA; co-author, Then and Now: Changes in Child Care Staffing, 1994-2000 (2000) and author, A Strategy for Improving Child Care Quality (1995); "A Matter of Trust: Attachment Relationships with Other-Than-Mothers" |
| Tuesday, November 8 |
James A. Baker III, senior partner, Baker Botts, LLP; senior counsel, The Carlyle Group; former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, Secretary of State, and White House Chief of Staff; author of The Politics of Diplomacy (1995); "A Conversation about World Events" |
| Wednesday, November 9 |
Sam Tanenhaus, editor, The New York Times Book Review; author, Whittaker Chambers: A Biography (1997) and Literature Unbound: A Guide for the Common Reader (1986); "One Who Made a Revolution: William F. Buckley Jr. and the Rise of Modern Conservatism" |
| Thursday, November 10 |
B.G. Burkett, military researcher; co-author, Stolen Valor: How the Vietnam Generation was Robbed of Its Heroes and Its History (1998); "After Vietnam: The Myth, the Media, the Truth" |
| Monday, November 14 |
Jay Conger, Henry Kravis Research Chair professor of leadership studies, CMC; co-author, Growing Your Company's Leaders: How Great Organizations Use Succession Management to Sustain Competitive Advantage (2004) and Shared Leadership: Reframing the How's and Why's of Leading Others (2002); "Why CEOs Fail" |
| Tuesday, November 15 |
Ezra Vogel, Henry Ford II professor emeritus of social sciences, Harvard University; author, Is Japan Still Number One? (2000) and The Four Little Dragons: The Spread of Industrialization in East Asia (1991); "Needed: A New U.S.-Asian Policy to Respond to the Rise of China" |
| Wednesday, November 16 |
Jamie Court, president, Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights; author, Corporateering: How Corporate Power Steals Your Personal Freedom... and What You Can Do about It (2003) and co-author, Making a Killing: HMOs and the Threat to Your Health (1999); "The Health Insurance Crisis and What You Can Do about It" |
| Wednesday, November 16 |
Marc Brody '83, president, U.S.-China Environmental Fund; co-author, The Green Olympics and CSR (2003); "An Entrepreneurial Model for Conserving the Giant Pandas: How a CMC Alumnus and the Roberts Environmental Center are Making a Difference" (Parents Dining Room) |
| Thursday, November 17 |
John Farrell, professor of literature, CMC; author, Freud's Paranoid Quest: Psychoanalysis and Modern Suspicion (1996) and Paranoia and Modernity: Cervantes to Rousseau (2005); "Paranoia in the Modern World" |
| Monday, November 21 |
Mark Geragos, managing partner, Geragos and Geragos, Los Angeles; "Sometimes Justice Takes Time" |