| Thursday, September 13 |
Rye Barcott, author, It Happened on the Way to War: A Marine's Path to Peace (2011) |
| Monday, September 17 |
Hedrick Smith, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist; Emmy Award-winning producer/correspondent, PBS Frontline; author, Who Stole the American Dream? (2012) C-SPAN |
| Tuesday, September 18 |
Andrew Chasin '97, Associate General Counsel for Health Reform, Blue Shield of California; former health policy counsel, U.S. Senate Republican Policy Committee; “An Insider’s View of the Politics and Policy of Health Care Reform” |
| Wednesday, September 19 |
Manfred Keil, associate professor of economics; chairman, Robert Day School of Economics and Finance, CMC; Andrew Busch, Crown Professor of Government and George R. Roberts Fellow, CMC; David Menefee-Libey, professor of politics, Pomona College; “Presidential Election 2012: And the Winner is . . .?” |
| Thursday, September 20 |
CAST (Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking); Kanthi Salgadu, CAST Survivor Advisory Caucus member; "Hidden in Plain Sight: Personal Testimony of Human Trafficking, Rescue, and Redemption" |
| Monday, September 24 |
John Chiang, California State Controller; “Leadership and Accountability for California” (12:00 p.m.) |
| Monday, September 24 |
Tom Daschle, United States Senator (D-South Dakota) (1987-2005); U.S. Senate Majority Leader (2001-2003), member, Health Policy and Management Executive Council, Harvard School of Public Health; co-author, Critical: What Can We Do About the Health-Care Crisis (2008); "Getting It Done: What's Next for Health Care Reform?" |
| Tuesday, September 25 |
Film Screening: "The Invisible War" (6:00 p.m.); Kirby Dick, director, discussion to follow screening |
| Wednesday, September 26 |
Frederick R. Lynch, associate professor of government, CMC; author, One Nation under AARP: The Fight for Medicare, Social Security, and America's Future (2011); "The Fight Over Medicare and Social Security: Aging Boomers, AARP, and America's Future" |
| Thursday, September 27 |
J.D. Crouch II, United States Deputy National Security Advisor (2005-2007); "Nothing Happens For No Good Reason: The Scholarship and Teaching of Harold W. Rood" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Thursday, September 27 |
Lucy Shelton, soprano; Gayle Blankenburg, piano; lecturer in music, Scripps college; "Olivier Messianen's Harawi: Chant d'amour et de mort (Song of Love and Death)" |
| Friday, September 28 |
Wayne Slavitt '80, president and CEO, The PrimeMark Group, Inc.; “Lunch with An Entrepreneurial Leader”(12:00 p.m.) |
| Monday, October 1 |
Robert Massie III, Pulitzer Prize-winner; author, Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman (2011) and Peter the Great: His Life and World (1980); "History, Biography, and Human Agency" |
| Tuesday, October 2 |
Vinay Lal, associate professor of history, UCLA; author, Deewaar: The Footpath, the City, and the Angry Young Man (2011) and Political Hinduism: The Religious Imagination in Public Spheres (2009); "Gandhi, the Politics of Visual Representation, and the Art of Dying" |
| Wednesday, October 3 |
Lisa Maatz, director of public policy and government relations, American Association of University Women (AAUW); "Stories from the Frontlines: The War on Women, Fact or Myth?" |
| Thursday, October 4 |
Paul Elie, Senior Research Fellow, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, Georgetown University; author, Reinventing Bach (2012) and The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage (2003); "Reinventing Bach" (6:45 p.m. Parents Dining Room) |
| Monday, October 8 |
Raymond Dowd, partner, Dunnington, Bartholow, & Miller, LLP; New York; author, Copyright Litigation Handbook (2010); "Murder, Mystery, and Egon Schiele’s Dead City" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Monday, October 8 |
James Millstein, chief restructuring officer, U.S. Department of Treasury (2009-2011); chairman, Millstein & Co., LLC; "Hangover: The Financial Crisis of 2008 and its Fiscal Consequences" |
| Tuesday, October 9 |
Hilary Appel, Podlich Family Professor of Government and George R. Roberts Fellow; Associate Dean of the Faculty, CMC; author, Tax Politics in Eastern Europe: Globalization, Regional Integration and the Democratic Compromise (2011) and A New Capitalist Order: Privatization and Ideology in Russia and Eastern Europe (2004); "The Intensifying Capitalist Revolutions of Eastern Europe" |
| Wednesday, October 10 |
Charles Waigi, founder, Jeremy Academy, Kenya; Erna Grasz, CEO; founder, Asante Africa Foundation; "From Kenya to America: Leadership Without Borders - Think Globally, Lead Locally" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Wednesday, October 10 |
Jesse Blumenthal '11; Allison Westfahl Kong '07; Anna Joseph '13; Nadeem Farooqi '15; "Claremont Colleges Debate Union: Strengthening Free Speech or Undercutting Democratic Elections? A Debate on Citizens United" |
| Thursday, October 11 |
Victoria Rodriguez, Ashbel Smith Professor of Public Affairs, LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas; author, Women's Participation in Mexican Political Life (2008) and Women in Contemporary Mexican Politics (2003); “Women in Contemporary Mexican Politics” |
| Monday, October 15 |
Bill Emmott, editor, The Economist (1993-2006); author, Changing World, Lagging Japan (2010) and Rivals: How the Power Struggle between China, India, and Japan Will Shape Our Next Decade (2008); "Good West Bad West" |
| Tuesday, October 16 |
Nicholas Quinn Rosenkranz, professor of law, Georgetown University; author, The Subjects of the Constitution (2012) and The Objects of the Constitution (2011); "The Subjects of the Constitution" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Tuesday, October 16 |
Preethi de Silva, fortepiano; professor emerita of music, Scripps College; author, Fortepiano Writings of Streicher, Dieudonne and the Schiedmayers (2008); M. Anne Rardin, baroque violin; faculty ensemble, Claremont Graduate University; Stephen Schultz, baroque flute; associate professor in music history and flute, Carnegie Mellon University; Shanon Zusman, viola da gamba; adjunct professor of viola da gama and violine, University of Southern California and Claremont Graduate University; "Con Gioia Early Music Ensemble:Bach's "Musical Offering" for the Court of Frederick the Great: Selections from the Musical Offering, and Works by the King, C.P.E. Bach, and J.J. Quantz " |
| Wednesday, October 17 |
Nick Schultz, DeWitt Wallace Fellow, American Enterprise Institute; co-author, From Poverty to Prosperity: Intangible Assets, Hidden Liabilities, and the Lasting Triumph Over Scarcity (2009); Nassim Arzani, immigration attorney, American Law Center; Anna Eames '13; Sarah Servin '15; "The DREAM Act: Perspectives on its Social and Economic Impact" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Wednesday, October 17 |
Ethan Bronner, national legal affairs correspondent; Jerusalem bureau chief (2008-2012), The New York Times; author, Battle for Justice: How the Bork Nomination Shook America (1989); "Looking Back and Thinking Ahead on Journalism, Objectivity and the Middle East: Reflections on Four Years as Jerusalem Bureau Chief for The New York Times" |
| Wednesday, October 24 |
Chris Hughes, co-founder, Facebook; publisher and editor-in-chief, The New Republic; "The Changing Media Landscape: How Social Media is Transforming News and Information" |
| Thursday, October 25 |
Yaron Shemer, assistant professor of Modern Hebrew literature and Israeli Culture, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; author, forthcoming Identity, Place, and Subversion in Contemporary Mizrahi Cinema in Israel; documentary director and editor, The Road to Peace: Israelis and Palestinians (1994); "Fissures in the Collective National Narrative and the Privatization of Memory in Contemporary Israeli Cinema" |
| Friday, October 26 |
Meghan Daum, opinion columnist, Los Angeles Times, author, Life Would Be Perfect If I Lived in That House (2010) and The Quality of Life Report (2004); "Making Art in the Age of Rage: Does Online Hate Threaten the Creative Process?" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Monday, October 29 |
Gil Hoffman, chief political correspondent and analyst, The Jerusalem Post; "The U.S.-Israel Relationship under Obama and Netanyahu and the Election's Impact on Iran and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict " (12:00 p.m. Parents Dining Room) |
| Monday, October 29 |
Ira Shapiro, international trade attorney, GreebergTraurig, LLP; former staff director and chief counsel, U.S. Senate committee on official conduct; author, The Last Great Senate: Courage and Statesmanship in Times of Crisis (2012); Mike Pettit, administrative assistant and chief of staff, U.S. Senator Bob Dole (1981-1987); "U.S. Political Dysfunction: Will the Elections Change It?" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Monday, October 29 |
Bob Stern, president, Center for Governmental Studies; Tony Quinn, former policy director, CA Assembly Republican Caucus; "California's Choices: 2012 Ballot Initiatives" |
| Tuesday, October 30 |
Jay Flatley '74 P'03, president and CEO, Illumina, Inc.; "Lunch with a Leader: Life Sciences" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Tuesday, October 30 |
William Deresiewicz, essayist and book critic; author, A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter (2011) and forthcoming Excellent Sheep: Thinking for Yourself, Inventing Your Life, and Other Things the Ivy League Won't Teach You; “A Jane Austen Education” |
| Wednesday, October 31 |
Anita Hill, senior advisor to the Provost, professor of social policy, law, and women's studies, Brandeis University; author, Reimagining Equality: Stories of Gender, Race, and Finding Home (2011) and Speaking Truth to Power (1997); "Reimagining Equality" |
| Thursday, November 1 |
Jon Huntsman, Jr., Governor of Utah (2005-2009); U.S. Ambassador to China (2009-2011); 2012 Republican presidential candidate; distinguished fellow, Brookings Institution; "2012 Elections and the Challenges Facing America Today" |
| Monday, November 5 |
James Cuno, president and CEO, J. Paul Getty Trust; author, Museums Matter: In Praise of the Encyclopedic Museum (2012) and Who Owns Antiquity?; Museums and the Battle Over Our Ancient Heritage (2010); "Encyclopedic Museums in the Post-Colonial Present" |
| Tuesday, November 6 |
Ken Miller, associate professor of government; associate director, Edessa Rose Institute of State and Local Government, CMC; author, Direct Democracy and the Courts (2009) and co-editor, The New Political Geography of California (2008); and Andrew Busch, Crown professor of government and George R. Roberts Fellow; director, Rose Institute for State and Local Government, CMC; co-author, Epic Journey: The 2008 Elections and American Politics (2009) and author, The Constitution on the Campaign Trail: The Surprising Political Career of America’s Founding Document (2007); "Election Night Commentary" |
| Wednesday, November 7 |
Il SaKong, Chairman, Korea International Trade Association; Special Assistant to the Korean President; co-editor, The Korean Economy: Six Decades of Growth and Development (2010) and co-author, Reconstructing the World Economy (2010); “Lunch with a Leader:The Role of Asia in the Global Setting" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Wednesday, November 7 |
August Kleinzahler, poet; author, Sleeping It Off in Rapid City (2008) and The Strange Hours Travelers Keep (2004); "The Poet Reads from His Work" |
| Thursday, November 8 |
Ann Meyers Drysdale, vice president, NBA's Phoenix Suns; president and general manager, WNBA's Phoeniz Mercury; author, You Let Some GIRL Beat You?: The Story of Ann Meyers Drysdale (2012) |
| Monday, November 12 |
Richard McGregor, journalist; author, Party: 1.3 Billion People, 1 Secret Regime (2011) and The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers (2010); "Reporting on American Democracy and Chinese Autocracy in the 21st Century" |
| Tuesday, November 13 |
Sotirios Barber, professor of political philosophy and the American Constitution, Georgetown University; author, Welfare and the Constitution (2005) and co-author, Constitutional Interpretation: The Basic Questions (2007); "The Fallacies of States' Rights" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Tuesday, November 13 |
Peter White, professor of biology; director, North Carolina Botanical Garden, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; "Turn the Poet Out of Doors: A Natural History of Robert Frost" |
| Wednesday, November 14 |
James Gelvin, professor of modern Middle Eastern history, UCLA; author, The Arab Uprisings: What Everyone Needs to Know (2012) and forthcoming Global Islam in the Age of Steam and Print, 1850-1930; "The Arab Uprisings" |
| Thursday, November 15 |
Robert Samuelson, opinion writer and syndicated columnist, The Washington Post; author, The Great Inflation and Its Aftermath: The Past and Future of American Affluence (2008) and Untruth: Why the Conventional Wisdom Is (Almost Always) Wrong ( 2001); "Why We Don't Take Prosperity for Granted Anymore; The Real—And Lasting—Consequences of the Financial Crisis and Great Recession" |
| Friday, November 16 |
Burkhard Bilger, staff writer, The New Yorker, author, Noodling for Flatheads: Moonshine, Monster Catfish, and Other Southern Comforts (2000) and co-author, The Best American Science & Nature Writing 2001 (2001) "The Place of Science Writing in Literary Journalism" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Monday, November 19 |
Joseph Lelyveld, executive editor, The New York Times (1994-2001); Pulitzer Prize-winner; author, Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India (2012) and Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White (1985); "Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India" |
| Tuesday, November 20 |
Wes Parker '62, professional baseball player, Los Angeles Dodgers (1964-1972); Jim Colborn, professional baseball player, Chicago Cubs (1969-1978); Milwaukee Brewers (1972-1976); Kansas City Royals (1977-1978); Seattle Mariners (1978); Scott Asasaki '98, director of team travel, Los Angeles Dodgers; "The Business of Baseball" |
| Monday, November 26 |
Marcus Rediker, Distinguished Professor of Atlantic History, University of Pittsburgh; author, The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom (2012) and The Slave Ship: A Human History (2007); "The Amistad Rebellion: A History from Below" |
| Tuesday, November 27 |
Kris James Mitchener, professor of economics, Warwick University (UK); "What Does History Have To Teach Us about Banking Panics and Central Bank Responses to Them?" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Tuesday, November 27 |
Eugene Volokh, Gary T. Schwartz Professor of Law, UCLA; author, Academic Legal Writings: Law Review Articles, Student Notes, Seminar Papers, and Getting on Law Review (2003) and The First Amendment and Related Statutes: Problems, Cases, and Policy Arguments (2001); "Mechanisms of the Slippery Slope" |
| Wednesday, November 28 |
Selma James, founder, International Wages for Housework Campaign; co-author, Sex, Race, and Class: The Perspective of Winning, A Selection of Writings 1952-2011 (2012) and The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community (1973); "Sex, Race, and Class: The Perspective of Winning" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Wednesday, November 28 |
Paul Krassner, satirist, editor, The Realist; author, Who's to Say What's Obscene: Politics, Culture, and Comedy in America Today (2009) and In Praise of Indecency: The Leading Investigative Satirist Sounds Off on Hypocrisy, Censorship, and Free Expression (2009); "Who's to Say? A Life Lived on the Edge" |
| Thursday, November 29 |
Richard Eaton, professor of history, University of Arizona; co-editor, Slavery and South Asian History (2006) and author, Social History of the Deccan, 1300-1761: Eight Indian Lives (2005); "Sufis and the Growth of Islam in India—Two Patterns" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Thursday, November 29 |
Students in Theater 50: Collective Creation class; Tom Leabhart, professor of theater arts, Pomona College; director; "Broken Borders/earth's imagined corners" |
| Monday, December 3 |
Jonathan Bolton, professor of Slavic languages and literatures, Harvard University; author, Worlds of Dissent: Charter 77, The Plastic People of the Universe, and Czech Culture under Communism (2012) and editor and translator, Wernisch, In the Puppet Gardens: Selected Poems, 1963-2005 (2007); "Narratives of Dissent" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Monday, December 3 |
Jason Felch, investigative reporter, Los Angeles Times; co-author, Chasing Aphrodite: The Hunt for Looted Antiquities at the World's Richest Museum (2011) and The Journal of Art Crime (2012); "Hunting for Looted Antiquities at the World's Museums" |
| Tuesday, December 4 |
Claremont Chamber Choir; Charles Kamm, associate professor of music, Scripps College; conductor, Claremont chamber choir; "A Winter Holiday Concert: Mass for Four Voices by William Byrd and Holiday Carols" |
| Wednesday, December 5 |
Colin Camerer, Robert Kirby Professor of Behavioral Finance and Economics, California Institute of Technology; co-author, Neuroeconomics: Decision Making and the Brain (2008) and author, Behavioral Game Theory: Experiments in Strategic Interaction (2003); "Neuroeconomics: How Brains Decide What Stocks to Trade and What Foods to Eat" |
| Friday, December 7 |
Gary Biszantz '56 P'08, president and owner, Cobra Farm; "Lunch with a Leader: Entrepreneurism" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Monday, December 10 |
Jonathan Neril, founder and director, The Interfaith Center for Sustainable Development; "Environmental Sustainability and Interfaith Eco Cooperation in the Holy Land" (12:00 p.m. Parents Dining Room) |