| Thursday, September 10 |
Adam Gopnik, staff writer, The New Yorker; author, Angels and Ages: A Short Book about Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life (2009) and Through the Children's Gate: A Home in New York (2006); "Angels and Ages" |
| Monday, September 14 |
Robert Thies, pianist; gold medal winner (1995), Second International Sergei Prokofiev Competition, St. Petersburg, Russia; artist on album Live in Recital (2006); "Music and Conversation" |
| Tuesday, September 15 |
David Rutledge, Kiyo and Eiko Tomiyasu professor of electrical engineering, California Institute of Technology; author, The Electronics of Radio (1999); "Hubbert's Peak, the Coal Question, and Climate Change" |
| Wednesday, September 16 |
Roderic Camp, Philip M. McKenna Professor of the Pacific Rim, CMC; author, Politics in Mexico: The Democratic Consolidation (2007) and Mexico's Military on the Democratic Stage (2005); "Drugs, Guns, and Violence: Mexico's Path to National Security" |
| Thursday, September 17 |
Edward Stone, David Morrisroe professor of physics, California Institute of Technology; "A Journey to the Edge of Interstellar Space" |
| Monday, September 21 |
Robert Thomas, Jr. '99, Chief Investment Officer, George Kaiser Family Foundation; "Reflections of a McKenna Scholar" |
| Tuesday, September 22 |
Steven Spiegel, professor of political science, director, Center for Middle East Development, UCLA; author, The Other Arab-Israeli Conflict: Making America's Middle East Policy, from Truman to Reagan (1986) and co-author, World Politics in a New Era (1996); "Prospects for Peace in the Middle East" |
| Wednesday, September 23 |
Roxana Saberi, freelance journalist; "On the Streets of Tehran" |
| Thursday, September 24 |
Francisco Vazquez '72, professor of liberal studies; director, Hutchins Institute for Public Policy and Community Action, Sonoma State University; co-author, Latino/a Thought: Culture, Politics, and Society (2003); "Latinos in the United States: A Continental Quest for Democracy" |
| Monday, September 28 |
Ilan Wurman '10, Daniel Evans '12, Charles Sprague '10, Abhi Nemani '10, Carl Peaslee '11, Aditya Pei Dhungat '13; "CMC Forum Debate Night at the Ath: Is CMC a True Liberal Arts College?" |
| Tuesday, September 29 |
RuPaul Charles, actor; singer-songwriter; author, Lettin' It All Hang Out (1995); artist on album Supermodel of the World (1993); "Observations from the Inside" |
| Wednesday, September 30 |
John Doar, senior counsel, Doar Rieck Kaley and Mack, New York and civil rights activist; "I Stand for What is Right" and Frederick Doar P'12, "The Search for Subatomic Realism" |
| Thursday, October 1 |
Roderick MacFarquhar, Leroy B. Williams professor of history and political science, director, John King Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University; co-author, Mao's Last Revolution (2006) and editor, The Politics of China: The Eras of Mao and Deng (1997); "Liberation: Reflections on the 60th Anniversary of the People's Republic of China" |
| Friday, October 2 |
Harry McMahon '75 P'08 P'09, executive vice chairman, Global Corporate & Investment Banking, Bank of America Merrill Lynch; "2009 Claremont Finance Conference/Lunch with a Leader: The Investment Banking Industry" (12:30 p.m.) |
| Monday, October 5 |
Stephen Bullock '88, Attorney General, Montana Department of Justice; "Can a Single Lawyer Make a Difference? The State Attorney General's Role in Human Rights and Social Change" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Monday, October 5 |
Sylvia Ann Hewlett, adjunct professor of international and public affairs; founder and president, Center for Work-Life Policy, director, Gender and Policy Program, Columbia University; author, Top Talent: Keeping Performance Up When Business is Down (2009) and Off-Ramps and On-Ramps: Keeping Talented Women on the Road to Success (2007); "Making Smart Choices in Life and Work" |
| Tuesday, October 6 |
Richard Brookhiser, senior editor, National Review; author, George Washington on Leadership (2008) and "Right Time, Right Place: Coming of Age with William F. Buckley Jr. and the Conservative Movement" (2009) |
| Wednesday, October 7 |
Paul Lauren, Regents Professor of History and Mansfield Professor of Ethics and Public Affairs, University of Montana; author, The Evolution of International Human Rights: Visions Seen (1998) and co-author, Force and Statecraft: Diplomatic Challenges of Our Time (1983); "Human Rights and the Law: Should Leaders be Held Responsible for War Crimes?" |
| Thursday, October 8 |
Sean Carroll, professor of molecular biology, genetics, and medical genetics, University of Wisconsin, Madison; author, The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution (2007) and "Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in Search for the Origin of Species" (2009) |
| Monday, October 12 |
Daniel Okimoto, senior fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies; director emeritus and co-founder, Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center; professor emeritus of political science, Stanford University; co-author, From Crisis to Opportunity: Financial Globalization and East Asia Capitalism (2006) and Future of America's Alliance in Northeast Asia (2004) (12:00 p.m.); "Japan's Political Earthquake: The Triumph of the Democratic Party and It's Implications for the U.S.-Japan Alliance" (6:45 p.m. Parents Dining Room) |
| Monday, October 12 |
Steven Hayward, F.K. Weyerhaeuser Fellow, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research; senior fellow, Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy; author, The Age of Reagan: The Fall of the Old Liberal Order, 1964-1980 (2001) and "The Age of Reagan: The Conservative Counterrevolution, 1980-1989" (2009) |
| Tuesday, October 13 |
Sarah Baird '01, assistant professor of global health, George Washington University; "Development Economics in Practice: The Joys and Challenges of Doing Field Work in Sub-Saharan Africa" |
| Wednesday, October 14 |
Cleve Jones, founder, NAMES project AIDS memorial quilt; human rights activist; co-author, Stitching a Revolution: The Making of an Activist (2001); "40 Years after Stonewall" |
| Thursday, October 15 |
Ditas Katague, Director of Census 2010, California Governor’s Office of Planning and Research; "Redistricting, The 2010 Census, and Your Budget: Changes and Challenges for California Governments" (12:45 p.m.) |
| Wednesday, October 21 |
Patrick Desbois, Fr., director, Episcopal Committee for Relations with Judaism; co-founder and president, Yahad-In Unum; author, The Holocaust by Bullets: A Priest's Journey to Uncover the Truth Behind the Murder of 1.5 Million Jews (2008); "The Holocaust by Bullets" |
| Thursday, October 22 |
Gershon Baskin, CEO and founder, Israel/Palestine Center for Research and Information (IPCRI); "Is Israeli-Palestinian Peace Possible?" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Thursday, October 22 |
Steven Levitt, William B. Ogden Distinguished Service professor of economics; director, Becker Center on Chicago Price Theory; University of Chicago; co-author, SuperFreakonomics: Tales of Altruism, Terrorism, and Poorly Paid Prostitutes (2009) and Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (2005); "SuperFreakonomics" |
| Friday, October 23 |
Jon Kirchner '89, CEO and president, Digital Theater Systems (DTS) Incorporated; "Lunch with a Leader: The Entertainment Industry"(12:00 p.m.) |
| Monday, October 26 |
W.S. Merwin, Pulitzer Prize-winning (1970, 2009) and National Book Award winning (2005) poet and essayist; U.S. special bicentennial consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress (1999-2000); author, The Shadow of Sirius (2008) and The Book of Fables (2007); "An Evening with W.S. Merwin" |
| Tuesday, October 27 |
Fareed Zakaria, editor, Newsweek International; author, The Post-American World (2008) and The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad (2003); "The Rise of the Rest: The Post-American World" |
| Wednesday, October 28 |
Joshua Rosett, violoncello; Curb Family professor of business and law, associate professor of economics, George R. Roberts Fellow, CMC; co-author, "Macroeconomic variables and the E/P ratio: Is inflation really positively associated with the E/P ratio?" (2006) and "What determines the variability of accounting accurals?" (2005); Lori Ives, viola; William Wellwood, clarinet; Jamie Boyd Caridi, piano; Edris Boyll-Kuzia, violin; Audrey Lamprey, french horn; "The Green Street Ensemble: An Evening of Chamber Music" |
| Thursday, October 29 |
Gordon Hanson, professor of economics; director, Center on Pacific Economies, U.C. San Diego; co-editor, forthcoming Skilled Immigration Today: Problems, Prospects, and Policies and author, Why Does Immigration Divide America? Public Finance and Political Opposition to Open Borders (2005); "Managing Low Skilled Immigration in the United States" |
| Monday, November 2 |
Gregg Vanourek '92, founding partner, New Mountain Ventures; co-author, Life Entrepreneurs: Ordinary People Creating Extraordinary Lives (2008) and Charter Schools in Action: Renewing Public Education (2000); Robert Vanourek P'92, president, Vanourek and Partners, LLC; former CEO, Sensormatic Electronics Corporation; adjunct instructor in business, University of Denver; "Creating Great Leadership Organizations: Achieving Results with Integrity" |
| Tuesday, November 3 |
Er Tai Gao, exiled dissident essayist and painter; Fellow, International Institute of Modern Letters, University of Nevada; author, In Search of My Homeland: A Memoir of a Chinese Labor Camp (2009) and co-author, Chan Heart, Chan Art (2007); "In Search of My Homeland" |
| Thursday, November 5 |
Dan Choi, U.S. Army infantry officer, Iraq, 2006-2007; First Lieutenant, New York Army National Guard; "Truth and Consequences: One Man's Fight To Openly Serve His Country" |
| Monday, November 9 |
David West P'12, CEO and president, The Hershey Company; "Lunch with a Leader: The Confectionery Industry" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Monday, November 9 |
Joseph Hough, Jr., interim president, Claremont Graduate University; William E. Dodge Professor Emeritus of social ethics and president emeritus of the faculty, Union Theological Seminary; author, Black Power and White Protestants: A Christian Response to the New Negro Pluralism (1968) and co-author, Christian Identity and Theological Education (1985); "Foundations of Moral Leadership" |
| Tuesday, November 10 |
Minxin Pei P'12, Tom and Margot Pritzker '72 professor of government and director of the Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies, CMC; author, China's Trapped Transition: The Limits of Developmental Autocracy (2006) and From Reform to Revolution: The Demise of Communism in China and the Soviet Union (1994); "Obama Goes to Beijing: Charting a New Course or Following Bush’s Footsteps?" |
| Wednesday, November 11 |
Nelson Lichtenstein, professor of history; director, Center for Work, Labor and Democracy, U.C. Santa Barbara; author, The Retail Revolution: How Wal-Mart Created a Brave New World of Global Capitalism (2009) and American Capitalism: Social Thought and Political Economy in the Twentieth Century (2007); "Wal-Mart from Bentonville to Guangdong: The 21st Century Face of Global Capitalism" |
| Thursday, November 12 |
Anna Simons, professor of defense analysis; Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey; author, The Company They Keep: Life Inside the U.S. Army Special Forces (1997) and Networks of Dissolution: Somalia Undone (1995); "Finding a Sovereignty Solution for Afghanistan" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Thursday, November 12 |
Hillel Fradkin, senior fellow and director, Center for Islam, Democracy, and the Future of the Muslim World, Hudson Institute; author, With All Your Heart, Soul, and Might: Freedom, Morality, and Politics in the Hebrew Bible (1998) and Philosophy or Exegesis: Perennial Problems in the Study of Judeo-Arabic Philosophic Authors (1997); "What Went Wrong? What Went Right: What's Next? Reflections on Muslim History and the Modern World" |
| Monday, November 16 |
Chester Spatt, Pamela R. and Kenneth B. Dunn professor of finance; director, Center for Financial Markets, Carnegie Mellon University; author, Systemic Risks in our Global Marketplace (2009) and forthcoming, Equilibrium Asset Pricing and Portfolio Choice Under Asymmetric Information; "Economic Principles, Government Policy and the Market Crisis" |
| Tuesday, November 17 |
Charles Sprague '10 and Natalia Bailey '10, "CMC Forum Debate Night at the Ath: Should CMC Expand to 1400 Students?"; Shamil Hargovan '10 and Ben Kraus '11, "CMC Forum Debate Night at the Ath: Should CMC's Alcohol Policy Change?"; Patrick Atwater '10 and Elise Viebeck '10, "CMC Forum Debate Night at the Ath: Is CMC Male-dominated?" |
| Wednesday, November 18 |
Cheryl Maxson, associate professor, Department of Criminology, Law and Society, U.C. Irvine; co-author, Street Gang Patterns and Policies (2006) and Responding to Troubled Youth (1997); "Responding to Street Gangs: Using Evidence to Build Effective Policy" |
| Tuesday, November 24 |
Geoffrey Forden P'10, research associate, Program on Science, Technology and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; author, Evaluation of the Chinese A SAT Test (2007) and How the World's Most Underdeveloped Nations Get the World's Most Dangerous Weapons (2007); "Iran: A Challenge for Today's Nonproliferation Regime" |
| Tuesday, December 1 |
Charles Kamm, assistant professor of music, Scripps College; conductor, Claremont chamber choir; "A Winter Holiday Concert" |