| Thursday, September 9 |
David Oliver Relin, journalist; co-author, Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace...One School at a Time (2007) and forthcoming See How They Shine; "Three Cups of Tea and See How They Shine" |
| Monday, September 13 |
Whitney Buss Tidmarsh '88, chief marketing officer, Information Intelligence Group, EMC Corporation; "McKenna Scholar Speaker" |
| Tuesday, September 14 |
Haley Scott DeMaria, author, What Though the Odds- Haley Scott's Journey of Faith and Triumph (2008); "Swimming Back from Paralysis" |
| Wednesday, September 15 |
Robert Thies, piano; gold medal winner (1995), Second International Sergei Prokofiev Competition, St. Petersburg, Russia; artist on album Live in Recital (2006); Gary Bovyer, clarinet; music faculty, Cal Poly Pomona; Roger Lebow, cello; music faculty, Chapman University, Pomona College, Claremont Graduate University; "Brahms in His Final Years" |
| Thursday, September 16 |
Michael Eisner, former CEO, The Walt Disney Company (1984-2005); founder, The Tornante Company; co-author, Working Together: Why Great Partnerships Succeed (2010) and Work in Progress: Risking Failures, Surviving Success (1999); "A Conversation with Michael Eisner" |
| Friday, September 17 |
James Fuller, professor emeritus of art, Scripps College; "Art Opening and Reception" (3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.) |
| Monday, September 20 |
Ken Mehlman, partner and head of Global Public Affairs, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Company (KKR); "Why Would A Global Industry-Leading Leveraged Buyout Firm Suddenly Go Green?" |
| Tuesday, September 21 |
Jeffrey Bergner, president and managing financial partner, Bergner Bockorny, Inc.; former staff director, Senate Foreign Relations Committee; Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs (2005-2008); author, The New Superpower: Germany, Japan and the United States in the New World Order (1991) and co-editor, The Taiwan Relations Act: A Decade of Implementation (1989); "The Rhetoric and Reality of the Obama Administration" |
| Wednesday, September 22 |
Angelika Niemz, Arnold and Mabel Beckman Professor, director of research, Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences; co-author, Specific versus Nonspecific Isothermal DNA Amplification through Thermophilic Polymerase and Nicking Enzyme Activities (2008) and Isothermal DNA Amplification with Gold Nanosphere-based Visual Colorimetric Readout for Herpes Simplex Virus Detection (2007); Nina Karnovsky, associate professor of biology, Pomona College; co-author, The Impact and Importance of Production in Polynyas to Top-trophic Predators: Three Case Histories (2007) and Foraging Behavior of Little Auks in a Heterogeneous Environment (2003); Jean Doble, research director, Amgen, Inc.; Stephanie Cropper, M.D.; obstetrician and gynecologist; "Women in Science and Medicine: Can You Achieve Work/Family Satisfaction?" (panel 12:15 p.m.) |
| Wednesday, September 22 |
Stephan Haggard, Lawrence and Sallye Krause professor of Korea-Pacific studies, U.C. San Diego Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies; co-author, Development, Democracy, and Welfare States: Latin America, East Asia, and Eastern Europe (2008) and Famine in North Korea: Markets, Aid, and Reform (2007); "Whither North Korea?" |
| Thursday, September 23 |
Kirby Daley, senior strategist, Newedge Prime Brokerage, Newedge Group (Hong Kong); "Lunch with a Leader: The Economic Outlook for Asia in the "New" Global Economic Environment" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Thursday, September 23 |
Claudia von der Ohe McKay '99, microfinance specialist, Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP); Mike McKay '99, former country director, Baobab Health Malawi, "From the Ath to Africa: Two CMCers Share Their Decade of Experiences Abroad" |
| Monday, September 27 |
Matthew Crawford, research fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, University of Virginia; contributing editor, The New Atlantic; author, Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work (2009); "The Case for Working with Your Hands" |
| Wednesday, September 29 |
Sarah Smith Orr, executive director, Kravis Leadership Institute, co-author, Improving Leadership in Nonprofit Organizations (2003) and author, Women Directors in the Boardroom: Adding Value, Making a Difference (2009); CMC; Kara Andrade, Ashoka Fellow, Guatemala; Marc Brody '83, founder and president, U.S.-China Environmental Fund; Marc Cooper, journalist; founder, Annenberg Digital News; Jack Edwards '66 P'01, senior advisor, Ashoka; Sunil Rajaraman '01, president and CEO, Scripped, Inc.; Rick Wartzman, director, Drucker Institute, Claremont Graduate University; "Entrepreneurship Across Sectors" |
| Friday, October 1 |
Michael Larson '80, chief investment officer, BGI Group (Bill Gates Investments); "2010 Claremont Finance Conference/Lunch with a Leader- Investment Management" (12:45 p.m.) |
| Monday, October 4 |
Scott Cook P'11, co-founder and chairman, Executive Committee, Intuit; "Lunch with a Leader: Finance Software" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Monday, October 4 |
Devashish Dey, Hindustani classical vocalist; artist on CD, From the Ghaats of Benaras (2007) and author, Swatah-Sfurt Swarachit (2006); Hemant Ekbote, tabla; Nandini Majumdar '10, tanpura; "A Concert of Traditional Indian Music Celebrating Gandhi's Birthday" |
| Tuesday, October 5 |
Hisham Melhem, journalist; Washington bureau chief, al-Arabiya TV; author, Dual Containment: The Demise of a Fallacy (1997); "The Changing Arab Media Landscape: Will the New Media Lead to New Politics?" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Tuesday, October 5 |
Hisham Melhem, journalist; Washington bureau chief, al-Arabiya TV; author, Dual Containment: The Demise of a Fallacy (1997); "The War on Terrorism from Bush to Obama: Language, Reality and Perception" |
| Wednesday, October 6 |
Anders Aslund, senior fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics, adjunct professor, Georgetown University; author, The Russia Balance Sheet (2009) and How Ukraine Became a Market Economy and Democracy (2009); "Russia's Capitalist Revolution: Why Market Reform Succeeded and Democracy Failed in Russia" |
| Thursday, October 7 |
George Halvorson, chairman and CEO, Kaiser Permanente; author, Health Care Will Not Reform Itself: A User's Guide to Refocusing and Reforming American Health Care (2009) and Health Care Reform Now: A Prescription for Change (2007); "The Current State of Health Care Reform in the United States" |
| Monday, October 11 |
Lucas Guttentag, founding national director, Immigrants' Rights Project, American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU); "Protecting Immigrants’ Rights in the Era of Arizona SB1070" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Monday, October 11 |
Jhumpa Lahiri, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Unaccustomed Earth (2008), Interpreter of Maladies: Stories (1999), and The Namesake (2003); "A Reading" |
| Tuesday, October 12 |
Bruce McKenna, Emmy-winning screenwriter, Writer's Guild Award-winner; co-executive producer and writer, Band of Brothers (2001) and The Pacific (2010); "Writing History onto Screen" |
| Wednesday, October 13 |
William Kristol, editor, The Weekly Standard; chairman and co-founder, Project for the New American Century; author, The Weekly Standard: A Reader, 1995-2005 (2006) and co-editor, The War Over Iraq: Saddam's Tyranny and America's Mission (2003); "The Future of American Politics: Obama, the Tea Party, and the 2010 and 2012 Elections" |
| Thursday, October 14 |
Leszek Balcerowicz, professor of economics, Warsaw School of Economics; former Deputy Prime Minister (1989-91, 1997-2000); Minister of Finance (1989-91, 1997-2000); and President of the National Bank of Poland (2001-2007); co-author, Living Standards and Wealth of Nations: Successes and Failures in Real Convergence (2006) and Barriers to Entry and Growth of New Firms in Early Transition: A Comparative Study of Poland, Hungry, Czech Republic, Albania, and Lithuania (2002); "How to Avoid Another Financial Crisis" |
| Wednesday, October 20 |
Susan Wolf, Edna J. Koury Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; author, The Meaning of Life and Why It Matters (2010) and Freedom Within Reason (1990); "Love, the Basic Question" |
| Monday, October 25 |
Thomas Fingar, Oksenberg/Rohlen Distinguished Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute of International Studies, Stanford University; co-author, Global Trends and Security in the Muslim World: Dilemmas for U.S. and Regional Policy (2009); "China on the World Stage" |
| Tuesday, October 26 |
Charles Kamm, tenor; associate professor of music, Scripps College; Hao Huang, piano; professor of music, Scripps College; Rachel Vetter Huang, violin; lecturer in music, Scripps College; Gayle Blankenburg, piano, lecturer in music , Scripps College; "Saluting Robert Schumann's 200th Birthday" |
| Wednesday, October 27 |
Frank Deford, NPR commentator; senior contributing writer, Sports Illustrated; author, Bliss, Remembered (2010) and The Entitled: The Tale of Modern Baseball (2007); "An Evening with Frank Deford" |
| Thursday, October 28 |
Josef Joffe, Marc and Anita Abramowitz Fellow in International Relations, Hoover Institution, Stanford University; publisher-editor, Die Zeit; author, Uber-Power: The Imperial Temptation of America (2006) and The Future of International Politics: The Great Powers (1998); "At the Cassandra Crossing" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Thursday, October 28 |
J. Emil Morhardt, Roberts professor of environmental biology; director, Roberts Environmental Center, CMC; editor, Global Climate Change and Natural Resources: 2010, A Roberts Environmental Center Annual Snapshot (2010) and Global Climate Change: Summaries of the 2006-2007 Scientific Literature (2007); "Global Warming and Climate Change: A Roberts Environmental Center Annual Snapshot" |
| Friday, October 29 |
Douglas Peterson '80 P'14, Chief Operating Officer, Citibank; "Lunch with a Leader: Leadership During a Crisis" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Monday, November 1 |
Charles Calomiris, Henry Kaufman Professor of Financial Institutions, Columbia University School of Business; author, Sustaining India's Growth Miracle (2008) and China's Financial Transition at a Crossroads (2007); "Making Financial Reform Work" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Monday, November 1 |
Andrew Busch, Crown professor of government and George R. Roberts Fellow, CMC; author, The Constitution on the Campaign Trail: The Surprising Political Career of America's Founding Document (2007) and editor, The Future of America's Political Parties (2007); "What Midterm Elections Could Mean: Historical Context and Possible Outcomes" |
| Tuesday, November 2 |
"CMC Forum Election Night at the Ath: 2010 Midterm Elections" |
| Wednesday, November 3 |
Eric Topol, M.D; Gary and Mary West Chair of innovative medicine, professor of translational genomics, Scripps Research Institute, director, Scripps Translational Science Institute; author, forthcoming Digitizing Man (2012) and co-editor, Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine (1998); "Entering the Epoch of Life Sciences, Genomics, Wireless Medicine, and Society" |
| Thursday, November 4 |
John West, author, The Last Goodnights: Assisting My Parents with Their Suicides (A Memoir) (2009); "The Last Goodnights" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Thursday, November 4 |
Hugh Rockoff, professor of economics, Rutgers University; co-author, History of the American Economy (1990) and author, Drastic Measures: A History of Wage and Price Controls in the United States (1984); "The Wizard of Oz as a Monetary Allegory" |
| Tuesday, November 9 |
Henrik Cronqvist, McMahon Family Associate Professor of Corporate Finance and George R. Roberts Fellow, CMC; co-author, forthcoming Nature or Nurture: What Determines Investor Behavior? (2010) and Large Shareholders and Corporate Policies (2009); "Nature, Nurture, and Financial Decision-Making" |
| Wednesday, November 10 |
Michael Gottlieb, M.D.; assistant clinical professor of medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA; co-author, Pneumocystis Pneumonia (1981) and Pneumocystis Carinii Pneumonia and Mucosal Candidiasis in Previously Healthy Homosexual Men: Evidence of a New Acquired Immunodeficiency (1981); "AIDS: Thirty Years of Silence" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Wednesday, November 10 |
Jefferson Huang, Vice President for Student Affairs, CMC; "The Ethical Lives of College Students in the Digital Age" |
| Thursday, November 11 |
Elizabeth Samet, professor of English, United States Military Academy, West Point; author, Soldier's Heart: Reading Literature through Peace and War at West Point (2007) and Willing Obedience: Citizens, Soldiers, and the Progress of Consent in America, 1776-1898 (2003) |
| Friday, November 12 |
Adam Ritz, former radio disk jockey; "So You Think You're Invincible" (11:00 a.m.) |
| Monday, November 15 |
Erwin Chemerinsky, founding dean, U.C. Irvine School of Law; author, The Conservative Assault on the Constitution (2010) and Empowering Government: Federalism for the 21st Century (2008); "The Constitution in the Headlines: Gay Marriage, Immigration, and Health Care Reform" |
| Tuesday, November 16 |
Andrew Ross Sorkin, assistant editor of Business and Financial News, The New York Times; founder and editor, DealBooks; author, Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System - and Themselves (2009); "The Politics of Too Big to Fail" |
| Wednesday, November 17 |
Daoud Nassar, Palestinian farmer; "The Tent of Nations: The Road to Peace in Israel and Palestine" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Wednesday, November 17 |
Alex Rajczi, Deborah and Kenneth Novack ’67 Associate Professor of Ethics & Leadership and George R. Roberts Fellow, CMC; author, Abortion, Competing Entitlements, and Parental Responsibility (2009) and Consequentialism, Integrity, and Ordinary Morality (2009); "American Values and American Health Care" |
| Thursday, November 18 |
Martha Bailey, assistant professor of economics, University of Michigan; research affiliate, National Poverty Center and Population Studies Center; co-author, Did Improvements in Household Technology Cause the Baby Boom? Evidence from Electrification, Appliance Diffusion, and the Amish (2009) and author, Mamma's Got the Pill: How Anthony Comstock and Griswold v. Connecticut Shaped U.S. Childbearing (2009); "More Power to the Pill: Economic Implications of the Birth Control Pill for Women in the Labor Force" |
| Monday, November 22 |
Rohini Somanathan, professor of economics, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi; Podlich Visiting Fellow, CMC; co-author, forthcoming Mapping Indian Districts Across Census Years, 1971-2001 and Micro-finance Lifespan: A Study of Attrition and Exclusion in Self-Help Groups in India (2008); "Group Inequality in Democracies: Lessons from India and the United States"(12:00 p.m.) |
| Monday, November 22 |
Thomas Saenz, president and general counsel, Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF); "SB 1070 and Latino Civil Rights: A New Nullification Creates a National Constitutional Crisis" |
| Tuesday, November 23 |
Pauline Jones Luong, associate professor of political science, Brown University; co-author, Oil is Not a Curse: Ownership Structure and Institutions in Petroleum-rich Soviet Successor States (2010) and editor, The Transformation of Central Asia: States and Societies from Soviet Rule to Independence (2003); "The Myth of the Resource Curse" |
| Monday, November 29 |
Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature, U.C. Irvine; author, Something Torn and New: An African Renaissance (2009) and Wizard of the Crow (2006); "An Evening with the Author" |
| Tuesday, November 30 |
Charles Kamm, associate professor of music, Scripps College; conductor, Claremont chamber choir; "A Winter Holiday Concert" |
| Thursday, December 2 |
Matthew Kahn, professor of economics, political science, and public policy, UCLA; author, Climatopolis: How Our Cities Will Thrive in Our Hotter Future (2010) and Green Cities: Urban Growth and the Environment (2006) |
| Tuesday, December 7 |
Dinner Theater, Murder at Rutherford House by Tom Chiodo and Peter DePietro (1990) (6:00 p.m.) |
| Wednesday, December 8 |
Dinner Theater, Murder at Rutherford House by Tom Chiodo and Peter DePietro (1990) (6:00 p.m.) |