| Thursday, September 7 |
Thomas Poon, assistant professor of chemistry, CMC; co-author, Introduction to Organic Chemistry (2004); "Serendipity, Science, and the Bird Flu" |
| Monday, September 11 |
John Sprouse '88, president and CEO, Shoreline Advisors, Inc; "Reflections on the Life of a McKenna Scholar" |
| Tuesday, September 12 |
Raymond Huey, professor of biology, University of Washington; co-author, Hypoxia, Global Warming, and Terrestrial Late Permian Extinctions (2005) and Climbing a Triassic Mount Everest into Thinner Air (2005); "Life and Death at High Altitude: What Himalayan Mountaineers and Late Permian Vertebrates Have in Common" |
| Wednesday, September 13 |
Firuz Kazemzadeh, professor emeritus of history, Yale University; member, United States Commission on International Religious Freedom; author, The Struggle for Transcaucasin, 1917-1921 (1952) and Russia and Britain in Persia: A Study in Imperialism, 1864-1914 (1968); "Iran and the Baha'is: A History of Persecution" |
| Thursday, September 14 |
Christina Hoff Sommers, W.H. Brady fellow, American Enterprise Institute; co-author, One Nation Under Therapy: How the Helping Culture Undermines Self Reliance (2005) and author, The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism is Harming Our Young Men (2001); "Where the Boys Are" |
| Friday, September 15 |
R. Glenn Hubbard, dean, Russell L. Carson professor of economics and finance, Columbia University's School of Business; co-author, Healthy, Wealthy, & Wise: Five Steps to a Better Health Care System (2005) and author, forthcoming Principles of Economics (2006); "The Value of a Business Education" (12:15 p.m.) |
| Monday, September 18 |
Adrian Buono, guitar; Santiago Lee, guitar; Jose Agote, guitar; Juan Manzur, guitar; Juan Manuel Leguizamon, percussion; artists on albums Live in Los Angeles (2005) and Peripecias (2006); "Los Pinguos: A Musical Celebration of Latino Heritage Month" |
| Tuesday, September 19 |
Jake Zimmerman '96, attorney, Missouri state representative elect (D-83rd district); "Running and Winning: What It Takes" |
| Wednesday, September 20 |
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., clinical professor and supervising attorney, Environmental Litigation Clinic, Pace University; chief prosecuting attorney, Hudson Riverkeeper; senior attorney, Natural Resources Defense Council; co-author, The Riverkeepers (1997) and author, "Crimes Against Nature" (2004) |
| Thursday, September 21 |
Reza Aslan, research associate, Center for Public Diplomacy, USC; author, No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam (2005); "The Future of Islam: Toward the Islamic Reformation" |
| Monday, September 25 |
Zvi Bodie, professor of finance and economics, Boston University; co-author, Worry Free Investing: A Safe Approach to Achieving Your Lifetime Financial Goals (2003) and The Foundations of Pension Finance (2001); "Life-Cycle Investing in Theory and Practice" |
| Tuesday, September 26 |
Jeremy Rifkin, founder and president, Foundation on Economic Trends; author, The European Dream: How Europe's Vision of the Future is Quietly Eclipsing the American Dream (2004) and The Hydrogen Economy: The Creation of the Worldwide Energy Web and the Redistribution of Power on Earth (2002); "The European Dream: How Europe’s Vision of the Future is Changing the Global Economy" |
| Wednesday, September 27 |
Tomas Summers Sandoval, Jr.'94, assistant professor of history and Chicano studies, Pomona College; author, On the Merits of Racial Identity (2004) and The Free Speech Movement Cafe: History, Memory, and the Political Legacy of Coffee (2004); "Disobedient Bodies: A Chicana/o Perspective on Immigration" |
| Thursday, September 28 |
Richard Lee, Jr., distinguished professor of zoology, Miami University, Ohio; co-editor, Biological Ice Nucleation and Its Applications (1995) and Insects at Low Temperature (1991); "Life in a Changing and Changeable Environment: The Antarctic Peninsula" |
| Tuesday, October 3 |
Gillian Sorensen, senior adviser and National Advocate at the United Nations Foundation; "The United States' Relations with the World Post 9/11: How Do We Improve U.S.-World Relations From Here?" (12:15 p.m.) |
| Tuesday, October 3 |
Maxine Hong Kingston, author, The Fifth Book of Peace (2003) and editor, Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace (2006); Jimmy Castellanos '09, Iraq war veteran and Paul Ocampo, peace activist, contributing authors to the anthology; "Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace: A Reading" |
| Wednesday, October 4 |
Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Olympic heptathlon medalist; founder, Jackie Joyner-Kersee Youth Foundation, St. Louis; "Before and After Olympic Glory" |
| Thursday, October 5 |
Gerald Kooyman, professor emeritus of biology, U.C. San Diego; research physiologist, Scripps Institution of Oceanography; author, Evolutionary and Ecological Aspects of some Antarctic and Sub-Antarctic Penguin Distributions (2002) and Energetic Cost of Foraging in Freediving Emperor Penguins (2001); "Emperor Penguins: Residents of the 10th Planet" |
| Monday, October 9 |
David Powell, research associate in behavior, ecology, and population behavior, department of mammalogy, Wildlife Conservation Society/Bronx Zoo; co-author, Behavioral Preferences for Bamboo in a Pair of Captive Giant Pandas (2005) and Preliminary Results of a Giant Pacific Octopus Behavior Study on Enrichment (2005); "Giant Pandas: Past, Present, Future, and the Million Dollar Question" |
| Tuesday, October 10 |
Timothy Bradley, professor of comparative and evolutionary physiology, U.C. Irvine; co-author, Insects Breathe Discontinuously to Avoid Oxygen Toxicity (2005) and Adaptive Evolution in the Lab: Unique Phenotypes in Fruit Flies Comprise a Fertile Field of Study (2005); "Mono Lake: A Geological and Biological Wonder" |
| Wednesday, October 11 |
Andrew Lee '07; Ben Carrier '07; Paul Snell '08; Ilan Wurman '10; "Claremont Colleges Debate Union: The Church-State Controversy" |
| Thursday, October 12 |
Peter Beinart, editor-at-large The New Republic; author, The Good Fight: Why Liberals---and Only Liberals---Can Win the War on Terror and Make America Great Again (2006); "Liberalism and Conservatism in the Post-Bush Era" |
| Wednesday, October 18 |
Sean Carroll, professor of molecular biology, genetics, and medical genetics, University of Wisconsin, Madison; author, Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo and the Making of the Animal Kingdom (2005) and co-author, From DNA to Diversity: Molecular Genetics and the Evolution of Animal Design (2001); "Making of the Fittest" |
| Thursday, October 19 |
Harry Jaffa, Henry Salvatori professor emeritus of political philosophy and American Constitutionalism, CMC; distinguished fellow, The Claremont Institute; author, A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War (2000) and Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1959); "Leo Strauss's Locke and the American Founding" (12:15 p.m.) |
| Thursday, October 19 |
Hao Huang, piano, associate professor of music, Scripps College; Rachel Vetter Huang, violin, lecturer in music, Scripps College; Charles Kamm, tenor, assistant professor of music, Scripps College; Gayle Blankenburg, piano, lecturer in music, Scripps College; "A Concert in Commemoration of Robert Schumann (1810-1856)" |
| Monday, October 23 |
Mary Oliver, author, Thirst (2006) and Why I Wake Early (2004); "A Reading" |
| Tuesday, October 24 |
David Wild, deputy consul general, British consulate in Los Angeles; "U.K. Foreign Policy: At the Crossroads of International Affairs"(12:15 p.m.) |
| Tuesday, October 24 |
Kathryn Edin, visiting professor of public policy, Harvard University; associate professor of sociology, University of Pennsylvania; co-author, Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood before Marriage (2005) and Making Ends Meet: How Single Mothers Survive Welfare and Low-Wage Work (1997); "Motherhood, Not Marriage" |
| Wednesday, October 25 |
Joanne Ciulla, professor and Coston Family Chair in leadership and ethics, Jepson School of Leadership Studies, University of Richmond; author, The Working Life: The Promise and Betrayal of Modern Work (2000) and co-author, Honest Work: A Business Ethics Reader (2006); "Work, Leisure, and The Good Life" |
| Thursday, October 26 |
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, co-founder, City Lights bookstore (1953); author, Americus Book I (2004) and A Coney Island of the Mind (1958); "Lawrence Ferlinghetti Reads from His Work" |
| Monday, October 30 |
Christian Stocks, consul general, German consulate in Los Angeles; "A Changing Germany in a Changing World" (12:15 p.m.) |
| Monday, October 30 |
Nita Kumar P'10, Brown family professor of South Asian history, CMC; editor, Explorations in the Intellectual History of Colonial and Precolonial India (2001) and author, Lessons from Schools: A History of Education in Banaras (2000); "The Fantastic World of Gulnaz: Education and Modernity in India" |
| Tuesday, October 31 |
Ehud Barak, Prime Minister of Israel, 1999-2001; "Economic Development in Today's World" |
| Wednesday, November 1 |
Mark Krikorian, executive director, Center for Immigration Studies; National Review online contributor; "Immigration's Impact on Society" |
| Thursday, November 2 |
Maurice Suh, former deputy major for Homeland Security and Public Safety, City of Los Angeles; "Homeland Security and Counter Terrorism in the Los Angeles Area" (12:15 p.m.) |
| Thursday, November 2 |
Marjane Satrapi, author, Persepolis: The Story of an Iranian Childhood (2003) and Chicken with Plums (2006); "An Evening with the Author" |
| Monday, November 6 |
Stephanie Coontz, professor of history and women's studies, The Evergreen State College; director of research and public education, Council on Contemporary Families; author, Marriage, A History: From Obedience to Intimacy, or How Love Conquered Marriage (2005) and The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap (1992); "The Way We Never Were and the Way We Really Are: Myths and Realities About America's Changing Families" |
| Tuesday, November 7 |
Regan Ralph, executive director, Fund for Global Human Rights; "Human Rights: The Agenda for the 21st Century" |
| Thursday, November 9 |
Cynthia Cooper, former vice president of the internal audit department, WorldCom; president, Cynthia Cooper Consulting; "WorldCom Warnings: What Went Wrong in Corporate Governance, Lessons Learned" |
| Monday, November 13 |
Max Boot, senior fellow for national security studies, Council on Foreign Relations; contributing editor, The Weekly Standard; author, War Made New: Technology, Warfare, and the Course of History, 1500 to Today (2006) and The Savage Wars of Peace: Small Wars and the Rise of American Power (2002); "Revolutions in Military Affairs and the War on Terrorism"(12:15 p.m.) |
| Monday, November 13 |
William McCoy, Jr., Major General, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; commander, Gulf Region Division, director of project and contracting office, Iraq; "Building for Peace and Delivering" |
| Tuesday, November 14 |
Jared Bernstein, director, Living Standards program, Economic Policy Institute; author, All Together Now: Common Sense for a Fair Economy (2006) and co-author, State of Working America (1997); "Inequality and the YOYO (You're On Your Own) Society" |
| Wednesday, November 15 |
Lauren Gard PO'99, staff writer, East Bay Express; Michele Kort, senior editor, Ms. magazine; Lisa Jervis and Andi Zeisler, co-founders, Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture; Audrey Bilger, associate professor of literature, CMC, moderator; author, Laughing Feminism: Subversive Comedy in Frances Burney, Maria Edgeworth, and Jane Austin (1998) and co-author, An Essay on the Art of Inseniously Tormenting (2003); "Women and Journalism: A Panel Discussion" (12:15 p.m.) |
| Wednesday, November 15 |
Roy Prosterman, recipient of the 2006 Henry R. Kravis Prize in Leadership; professor emeritus of law, University of Washington; president, Rural Development Institute; co-editor, Legal Impediments to Effective Rural Land Relations in Eastern Europe and Central Asia: A Comparative Perspective (1999) and author, Agrarian Reform and Grassroots Development: Ten Case Studies (1990); "Using Land Rights to Attack Global Poverty" |
| Thursday, November 16 |
John Roth, Edward J. Sexton professor of philosophy, director, Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights, CMC; author, Genocide and Human Rights: A Philosophical Guide (2005) and Ethics During and After the Holocaust: In the Shadow of Birkenau (2006); "The Holocaust and the Common Good" |
| Friday, November 17 |
Aria Ash-Rafzadeh '07, piano; "Musical Tea: A Dialogue between East and West- Persian Folk Music Meets the European Romantic" (3:00 p.m.) |
| Monday, November 20 |
John O'Sullivan, editor-at-large, National Review online; editor-in chief, The National Interest; senior fellow, Hudson Institute, Washington D.C.; "Dispelling the Nightmare: Thatcher, Reagan, John Paul II, and the End of Communism" (12:15 p.m.) |
| Monday, November 20 |
Bobby Bradford, trumpet; lecturer in music and director of the Jazz Ensemble, Pomona College; William Jeffrey, drums; Chuck Manning, saxophone; Michael Vlatkovich, trombone; Ken Rosser, guitar; Roberto Miranda, bass; Don Preston, piano; "The Bobby Bradford Mo'tet: Jazz" |
| Tuesday, November 21 |
Bernard Lewis, Cleveland E. Dodge professor emeritus of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University; author, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting the Middle East (2004) and The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror (2003); "What Next in the Middle East?" (4:00 p.m. Mary Pickford Auditorium) |