| Thursday, September 8 |
Deogratias Niyizonkiza, founder, Village Health Works-Seed of Hope, Burundi; “Where There is Health; There is Hope" |
| Monday, September 12 |
Jacqueline Calkin '89 , MD; faculty, U.C. San Francisco School of Medicine; fellow, American Academy of Dermatology; "What a Violinist Knows about Leadership" |
| Tuesday, September 13 |
Joshua Landis, associate professor of Middle East studies, director, Center for Middle East Studies, University of Oklahoma; author, Will Failure to Solve the Arab-Israeli Conflict Mean a New Cold War in the Middle East? (2010) and Can a Syrian-Israeli Peace Agreement Be Reached? (2008); "Syria and the Arab Spring: What It Means for the United States" |
| Wednesday, September 14 |
James Stewart, Pulitzer Prize-winning business columnist, The New York Times; author, Tangled Webs: How False Statements are Undermining America: From Martha Stewart to Bernie Madoff (2011) and DisneyWar: The Battle for the Magic Kingdom (2006); "Leadership and Ethics" |
| Thursday, September 15 |
BD Wong, actor; author: Following Foo: The Electronic Adventures of the Chestnut Man (2003); "All the World's a Stage: From Exclusion to Inclusion" |
| Monday, September 19 |
Anthony Julius, attorney, deputy chairman, Mishcon de Reya, London; author, Trials of the Diaspora: A History of Anti-Semitism in England (2010) and Transgressions: The Offences of Art (2002); "Literary Lies about Jews" |
| Tuesday, September 20 |
Gregory Hess, vice president for academic affairs, Dean of Faculty, James G. Boswell Professor of Economics, George R. Roberts Fellow, CMC; editor, forthcoming Guns and Butter and co-author, Where Have All the Heroes Gone? A Self-Interested, Economic Theory of Heroism (2008); S. Brock Blomberg P'13, Dean, Robert Day School of Economics and Finance; Peter K. Barker '70 professor of economics and George R. Roberts Fellow, CMC; co-author, Terrorism and the Economics of Trust (2011) and On the Duration and Sustainability of Transnational Terrorist Organizations (2010); Manfred Keil, associate professor of economics, CMC; co-author, forthcoming: Measures of Financial Openness and How to Apply Them to International Political Economy and Research and Minimum Wages and Employment (2001); Marc Martos-Vila, visiting assistant professor of economics, CMC; "Our Turbulent Economy: How Did We Get Here and How Do We Move Forward?" |
| Wednesday, September 21 |
Audrey Bilger, associate professor of literature & faculty director, Center for Public Writing and Discourse, CMC; author of Laughing Feminism: Subversive Comedy of Frances Burney, Maria Edgeworth, and Jane Austen (1998) and co-author of An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting (2003); "From Jane Austen to Feminist Hulk: Gender Studies in a Digital Age" |
| Monday, September 26 |
Deborah Buck, violin; Robert Thies, piano; gold medal winner (1995), Second International Sergei Prokofiev Competition, St. Petersburg, Russia; artist on album Live in Recital (2006); "Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 30 for Piano and Violin; Antonin Dvorak: Romance for Violin and Piano, Op. 11; Johannes Brahms: Sonata No. 1 in G Major for Violin and Piano, Op. 78" |
| Tuesday, September 27 |
Luis Alberto Urrea, professor of creative writing, University of Illinois-Chicago; author, Into the Beautiful North (2009) and The Devil's Highway (2004); "An Evening with the Author" |
| Wednesday, September 28 |
Brett Hoebel '93, founder, Hoebel Fitness; trainer, NBC's The Biggest Loser; "Join the Revolution" |
| Thursday, September 29 |
Benjamin Bagby, vocalist and harpist, co-founder and director, Sequentia; associate professor of medieval music performance practice, Sorbonne University; artist on CD Fragments for the End of Time (2008) and Chant Wars (2005); "A Performance of Beowulf, the Epic" |
| Friday, September 30 |
Tom Campbell, dean, Donald P. Kennedy Chair in Law and professor of economics, Chapman University School of Law; "Uneasy Compromise" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Monday, October 3 |
Geoffrey Hartman, Sterling Professor Emeritus and senior research scholar of English and comparative literature, Yale University; author, The Third Pillar: Essays in Judaic Studies (2011) and A Scholar's Tale: Intellectual Journey of a Displaced Child of Europe (2009); "Theology and Imagination" |
| Tuesday, October 4 |
Francesc de Paula Soler, guitar; "Homage to Federico Garcia Lorca: Commemorating the 75th Anniversary of His Death" |
| Wednesday, October 5 |
Melissa Harris-Perry, professor of political science, founding director, Anna Julia Cooper Project on Gender, Race, and Politics of the South, Tulane University; author, Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America; For Colored Girls Who've Considered Politics When Being Strong Isn't Enough (2011) and Barbershops, Bibles, and BET: Everyday Talk and Black Political Thought (2006); "A Writing Life in a 24-Hour News Cycle" |
| Thursday, October 6 |
Paul Hurley, Edward J. Sexton Professor of Philosophy, CMC; author, Beyond Consequentialism (2009) and co-author, History of Philosophy (1993); "Adam Smith's Dirty Little Secret: The Curiously Intimate Relationship between Markets and Morality" |
| Monday, October 10 |
Brenda Patterson, mezzo soprano; Donald Berman, piano; David Bowlin, violin; Darrett Adkins, violoncello; Jamaica Kincaid, Josephine Olp Weeks Chair and Professor of Literature, CMC; author, Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalayas (2005) and Mr. Potter (2002); "Piano Trio in B, Opus 8 (1854) by Johannes Brahms and Jamaica's Songs (2000) Music by Su Lian Tan and Text by Jamaica Kincaid" |
| Tuesday, October 11 |
Dan Walters, political columnist, The Sacramento Bee; author, The New California: Facing the 21st Century (1986) and co-author, The Third House: Lobbyists, Money and Power in Sacramento (2002); "Is California Ungovernable?" |
| Wednesday, October 12 |
George Lakoff, professor of linguistics, U.C. Berkeley; author, The Political Mind: Why You Can't Understand 21st-Century American Politics with an 18th-Century Brain (2008) and Whose Freedom?: The Battle Over America's Most Important Idea (2006); "The Brain's Politics: When the Nature of Reason Matters" |
| Wednesday, October 19 |
W.S. Merwin, U.S. poet laureate consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress (2010-2011); U.S. special bicentennial consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress (1999-2000); Pulitzer Prize-winning (1970, 2009) and National Book Award winning (2005) poet and essayist; author, The Shadow of Sirius (2008) and The Book of Fables (2007); "Milosz Centenary Festival" |
| Thursday, October 20 |
Panel Discussion; "Milosz Centenary Festival: Milosz in the United States and Poland" (10:00 a.m.) |
| Thursday, October 20 |
Peter Dale Scott, poet and translator; translator, The Selected Poems of Zbigniew Herbert (1968) and author, Mosaic Orpheus (2009); "Milosz Centenary Festival: Milosz as Poet of Liberation and Hope"; Lillian Vallee, poet and translator; translator, The Bottom Translation: Marlow, Shakespeare and the Carnival Tradition (1987) and Milosz's Bells in Winter (1978); "Milosz Centenary Festival: The Art and Nature of Translating Milosz" (1:00 p.m.) |
| Thursday, October 20 |
Piotr Florczyk, poet and translator; translator, Been and Gone (2009) and Building the Barricade and Other Poems (2011); Jacek Gutorow, poet and translator; author, At the River’s Edge. Poems 1990-2010 (2010) and Poems in Absentia (1997); Claudia Rankine, Henry G. Lee Professor of English, Pomona College; author, Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric (2004) and editor, American Poets in the Twenty-First Century: The New Poetics (2007); Meghan O'Rourke, poet; author, The Long Goodbye: A Memoir (2011) and forthcoming Once: Poems (2011); Peter Dale Scott, poet and translator; author, Mosaic Orpheus (2009) and Minding the Darkness: A Poem for the Year 2000 (2000); "Milosz Centenary Festival: Readings" (3:00 p.m.) |
| Thursday, October 20 |
Azar Nafisi, visiting professor of aesthetics, culture, and literature and executive director, Cultural Conversations, Foreign Policy Institute, Johns Hopkins University; author, forthcoming That Other World: Nabokov and the Puzzle of Exile (2012) and Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memory in Books (2003); "Milosz Centenary Festival" |
| Friday, October 21 |
Panel Discussion; "Milosz Centenary Festival: Milosz and Modern Poetry " (10:00 a.m. McKenna Auditorium) |
| Friday, October 21 |
Henry Kravis '67, founding partner, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Company (KKR); "A Conversation with Henry Kravis '67" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Friday, October 21 |
Jacek Dehnel, poet and translator; author, Balzakiana (2008) and Wiersze (2006); Joanna Trzeciak, translator; translator, Sobbing Superpower: Selected Poems of Tadeusz Rozywicz (2011) and Miracle Fair: Selected Poems of Wislawa Szymborska (2002); Mira Rosenthal, poet and translator; translator, The Forgotten Key: Selected Poems of Tomasz Rozycki (2008) and author, The Local World (2010); Tomasz Rozycki, poet and translator; author, The Forgotten Keys (2007) and Colonies (2006); Dariusz Sosnicki, poet; author, Scandinavian Summer (2005) and Symmetry (2002); "Milosz Centenary Festival: Readings" (1:30 p.m. Mary Pickford Auditorium) |
| Friday, October 21 |
Adam Michnik, editor-in-chief, Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland; author, The Church and the Left (1993) and Letters from Freedom: Post-cold War Realities and Perspectives (1998); "Milosz Centenary Festival; Milosz: Man Among Scorpions" (3:00 p.m. Mary Pickford Auditorium) |
| Friday, October 21 |
Robert Pinsky, U.S. poet laureate consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress (1997-2000); professor of English and creative writing, Boston University; editor, Essential Pleasures: A New Anthology of Poems to Read Aloud (2009) and author Thousands of Broadways: Dreams and Nightmares of the American Small Town (2009); C.K. Williams, Pulitzer Prize-winner for Poetry (2000); creative writing instructor, Princeton University; author, Wait (2010) and On Whitman (2010); Anthony Milosz, translator, forthcoming Selected and Last Poems: 1931-2004 (2011); "Milosz Centenary Festival: Readings" (6:45 p.m. Mary Pickford Auditorium) |
| Monday, October 24 |
Rick Welts, Jr., President and Chief Operating Officer, Golden State Warriors, National Basketball Association; "A Gay Man's Journey Through Men's Major League Sports" |
| Tuesday, October 25 |
Daniel Yohannes '76, Chief Executive Officer, The Millennium Challenge Corporation; "CMC: Opening Doors to Opportunity" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Tuesday, October 25 |
Art Horowitz, chair, department of theatre, Pomona College; Alan Blumenfeld, lecturer in theatre, Pomona College; P. Edward Haley, W.M. Keck Foundation chair of International strategic studies; director, Center for Human Rights Leadership, CMC; author, Moshe: Prince of Israel (2010) and Strategies of Dominance: The Misdirection of U.S. Foreign Policy (2006); "Moshe: Prince of Israel" by P. Edward Haley (2010) |
| Wednesday, October 26 |
Lisa Minshew Pitney '88, Vice President, Government Relations, The Walt Disney Company; Aleta Wenger, executive director, International programs, CMC; Hilary Appel, associate professor of government; Associate Dean of the Faculty, CMC; author, Tax Politics in Eastern Europe: Globalization, Regional Integration and the Democratic Compromise (2011) and co-editor, The Expansion of NATO and the European Union (2007) ; William Ascher, Donald C. McKenna professor of government and economics, CMC; co-author, Knowledge in the Environmental Policy Process (2010) and author, Bringing in the Future: Strategies for Farsightedness and Sustainability in Developing Countries (2009); moderator; "A Career in Government: Can You Achieve Work/Life Satisfaction?" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Wednesday, October 26 |
Deanna Zandt, media technologist, South Brooklyn Home for Wayward Girls; research fellow, Center for Social Media, American University; author, Share This! How You will Change the World with Social Networking (2010); "Share This! How You Will Change the World with Social Networking" |
| Thursday, October 27 |
John Dinan, professor of political science, Wake Forest University; author, The Virginia State Constitution (2011) and The American State Constitutional Tradition (2006); "Standing Up to Washington: State Resistance to Federal Policy, Past and Present" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Thursday, October 27 |
Lawrence Lessig, Roy L. Furman Professor of Law, director, Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University; author, Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress—and a Plan to Stop It (2011) and Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy (2008); "Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress—and a Plan to Stop It" |
| Monday, October 31 |
John Bradley, author, Behind the Veil of Vice: The Business and Culture of Sex in the Middle East (2010) and Inside Egypt: The Land of the Pharaohs on the Brink of a Revolution (2008); "Debunking Five Myths About the Arab Spring" |
| Tuesday, November 1 |
Ananda Ganguly, Marcos Massoud Associate Professor of Accounting and George R. Roberts Fellow, CMC; co-author, Assurer Reputation for Competence in a Multi-Service Context (2007) and The Riskiness of Large Audit Firm Client Portfolios and Changes in Audit Liability Regimes: Evidence from the U.S. Audit Market (2004); "How an Accountant, Or Even You, Might Make Business Decisions: Some Evidence from the Laboratory" |
| Wednesday, November 2 |
Martha Wheelock, director, co-producer and writer of California Women Win the Vote (2011); teacher of American literature, ethics, and women's studies, Harvard Westlake School, Los Angeles; Diana Selig, associate professor of history, CMC; author, Americans All: The Cultural Gifts Movement (2008) and "Celebrating Cultural Diversity in the 1920s" (2007); Lily Geismer, assistant professor of history, CMC; "California Women Win the Vote: Film Viewing and Discussion" |
| Thursday, November 3 |
Daniel Kahneman, Nobel laureate in economic sciences (2002); Eugene Higgins Professor Emeritus of Psychology, Princeton University; and Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Public Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs; author, Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011) and co-editor, Heuristics and Biases: The Psychology of Intuitive Judgment (2002); "Thinking, Fast and Slow" |
| Friday, November 4 |
Glenn Greenwald, author, With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful (2011) and Great American Hypocrites: Topping the Big Myths of Republican Politics (2008); "With Liberty and Justice for Some" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Monday, November 7 |
Leslie Bonci, director of sports nutrition, University of Pittsburg; co-author, Run Your Butt Off: A Breakthrough Plan to Lose Weight and Start Running (No Experience Necessary!) (2011) and author, Sports Nutrition for Coaches (2009); "Fuel It Don't Fool It: Treat Your Body Right" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Monday, November 7 |
Barry Sanders, assistant adjunct professor of communication studies, UCLA, member, Council on Foreign Relations and Pacific Council on International Policy; author, American Avatar: The United States in the Global Imagination (2011) |
| Tuesday, November 8 |
Richard Haass, president, Council on Foreign Relations; author, War of Necessity, War of Choice: A Memoir of Two Iraq Wars (2009) and The Opportunity: America's Moment to Alter History's Course (2006); "The Arab Spring" |
| Wednesday, November 9 |
Hao Huang, pianist; professor of music, Scripps College; "The Pianist as Virtuoso: A Bicentennial Franz Liszt Piano Recital" |
| Thursday, November 10 |
Dean Vogel, president, California Teachers Association; Jed Wallace, president and CEO, California Charter Schools Association; Julia Brownley, State Assemblywoman (CA-41st District); Jeff Stark P'11, vice president, Claremont Unified School District Board of Education; David Abel '68, chairman and managing director, VERDEXCHANGE Institute; "Is California K-12 Education in Crisis? If So, What Do We Do about It?" |
| Monday, November 14 |
Atsuro Riley, author, Romey's Order (2010); "An Evening with the Poet" |
| Tuesday, November 15 |
Melvyn Goldstein, John Reynold Harkness Professor of Anthropology and co-director, Center for Research on Tibet, Case Western Reserve University; co-author, On the Cultural Revolution in Tibet: The Nyemo Incident of 1969 (2009) and A Tibetan Revolution: The Political Life of Bapa Phuntso Wangye (2004) “Tibet Transformed: How Modernization is Affecting the Culture and Traditions of Tibet” |
| Wednesday, November 16 |
Catherine Saillant, journalist, Los Angeles Times; "The Larry King Case: Lessons on Juvenile Justice" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Thursday, November 17 |
Ross King, professor of Korean, University of British Columbia; co-author, Continuing Korean (2002) and Elementary Korean (2000); "Colonial Korea and the Pleasures of Vicarious Book Collecting: The Secret Story of the Frederick McCormick Korean Collection at the Claremont Colleges" |
| Friday, November 18 |
Nick Owchar, Jr. '90, deputy book editor, Los Angeles Times; "From the Clay Tablet to the Electronic Tablet: The Medium Keeps Changing, but Does the Message" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Monday, November 21 |
"Slavery/Women/Writing: 21 Refracted Portraits Based on Writings of Eduardo Galeano"; directed by Thomas Leabhart, professor of theater arts, Pomona College |
| Monday, November 28 |
Stewart Patrick, Senior Fellow and Director of the International Institutions and Global Governance Program, Council on Foreign Relations; author, Weak Links: Fragile States, Global Threats, and International Security (2011) and The Best Laid Plans: The Origins of American Multilateralism and the Dawn of the Cold War (2008); "Weak Links: Fragile States, Global Threats, and International Security" |
| Tuesday, November 29 |
Charles Kamm, associate professor of music, Scripps College; conductor, Claremont chamber choir; "A Winter Holiday Concert" |
| Wednesday, November 30 |
Condoleezza Rice, professor of political economy, director, Global Center for Business and Economy, Stanford Graduate School of Business; Thomas and Barbara Stephenson Senior Fellow on Public Policy, Hoover Institution; professor of political science, Stanford University; United States Secretary of State (2005-2009) and United States National Security Advisor (2001-2005); author, No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Years in Washington (2011) and Extraordinary, Ordinary People: A Memoir of Family (2010); "Remarks by Condoleezza Rice" (6:15 p.m. Ducey) |
| Thursday, December 1 |
John Tomasi, associate professor of political science and founding director, Political Theory Project, Brown University; author, Liberalism Beyond Justice: Citizens Society and the Boundaries of Political Theory (2001); "Free Market Fairness" (12:00 p.m.) |