| Thursday, September 12 |
Eric Liu, White House speechwriter and Deputy Domestic Policy Adviser for President Bill Clinton (1997-2001); columnist for TIME.com and The Atlantic.com; co-author, The Gardens of Democracy: A New American Story of Citizenship, the Economy, and the Role of Government (2011) and author, Guiding Lights: How to Mentor- and Find Life's Purpose (2006); "Democracy is for Amateurs" |
| Monday, September 16 |
Richard Breitman, professor of history, American University; co-author, FDR and the Jews (2013) and co-editor, Refugees and Rescue: The Diaries and Papers of James G. McDonald 1935-45 (2009); "FDR and the Jews" |
| Tuesday, September 17 |
Lizz Winstead, political satirist; co-creator, head writer, The Daily Show; co-founder, Air America Radio; co-host, Unfiltered; author, Lizz Free or Die (2012) |
| Wednesday, September 18 |
Zach Wahls, student, University of Iowa; LGBT activist; author, My Two Moms: Lessons of Love, Strength, and What Makes a Family (2012); "What Makes a Family?" |
| Thursday, September 19 |
August Kleinzahler, poet; author, forthcoming The Hotel Oneira and Sleeping It Off in Rapid City (2008); "August Kleinzahler Reads from The Hotel Oneira" (6:45 p.m. Parents Dining Room) |
| Thursday, September 19 |
Nate Silver, statistician; sabermetrician, psephologist; founder and editor-in-chief, FiveThirtyEight.com blog, ESPN; author, The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail- But Some Don't (2012) |
| Monday, September 23 |
Gloria Allred, attorney, founding partner, Allred, Markoko, & Goldberg; co-author, Fight Back and Win: My Thirty Year Fight Against Injustice and How You Can Win Your Own Battles (2006); "Women’s Rights and Women’s Wrongs – Sexual Harassment in the Workplace and Sexual Assault on College Campuses" |
| Wednesday, September 25 |
Eileen Truax, journalist; founder, Malaespina Producciones; author, Dreamers: A Generation's Struggle for the American Dream (2013); "Dreamers: A Discussion about Immigration" |
| Thursday, September 26 |
Chae-Jin Lee, Bank of America professor emeritus of Pacific Basin Studies, professor emeritus of government, and director, Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies (1988-2009), CMC; author, A Troubled Peace: U.S. Policy and the Two Koreas (2006) and China and Korea: Dynamic Relations (1996); "U.S. Policy toward Korea: Containment and Engagement" |
| Monday, September 30 |
Jackson Katz, co-founder, Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP)(1993); film creator, Tough Guise: Violence, Media, and the Crisis in Masculinity (2000); author, Leading Men: Presidential Campaigns and the Politics of Manhood (2012) and The Macho Paradox: Why Some Men Hurt Women and How All Men Can Help (2006); "More Than a Few Good Men: American Manhood and Violence Against Women" |
| Tuesday, October 1 |
Jeff Wasserstrom, professor of history, U.C. Irvine; author, China in the 21st Century: What Everybody Needs to Know (2010) and Global Shanghai, 1850-2010 (2008); "China Beyond the Sound Bites" |
| Wednesday, October 2 |
Jonathan V. Last, senior writer, The Weekly Standard; author, What to Expect When No One’s Expecting: America’s Coming Demographic Disaster (2013); "No More Babies: What to Expect When No One's Expecting" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Wednesday, October 2 |
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Distinguished Professor, New York University; Program Director, Core Exhibition, Museum of the History of Polish Jews; co-author, Destination Culture: Tourism, Museums, and Heritage (1998); Image before My Eyes: A Photographic History of Jewish Life in Poland, 1864–1939 (1994) (with Lucjan Dobroszycki) and co-editor, The Art of Being Jewish in Modern Times (2008); Joanna Auron-Gorska, lecturer in Jewish Studies and Judaism, Beit Warszawa Synagogue, Bialystok and Warsaw; author, "Give Polish Jewry a Kosher Choice" (2013) and "Jewish Photographers, Contemporary Poland, and Representations of Nazi Death Camps: Paradigms and Meanings" (2013); Piotr Stasiak, head, Jewish Renewal movement, Poland; Hiam Dov Beliak, chaplain and adjunct professor of Modern Jewish History, The Claremont Colleges (1974-1991)"A Discussion of Jewish Renewal in Poland" (Skype 12:00 p.m. Parents Dining Room) |
| Wednesday, October 2 |
Joanna Auron-Gorska, lecturer in Jewish Studies and Judaism, Beit Warszawa Synagogue, Bialystok and Warsaw; author, "Give Polish Jewry a Kosher Choice" (2013) and "Jewish Photographers, Contemporary Poland, and Representations of Nazi Death Camps: Paradigms and Meanings" (2013); Piotr Stasiak, head, Jewish Renewal movement, Poland; Hiam Dov Beliak, chaplain and adjunct professor of Modern Jewish History, The Claremont Colleges (1974-1991); "A Panel Discussion on Jewish Renewal in Poland" |
| Thursday, October 3 |
Shirin Ebadi, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (2003); founder, Defenders of Human Rights Center, Iran (2001); author, The Golden Cage: Three Brothers, Three Choices, One Destiny (2011) and Refugee Rights in Iran (2008); "Human Rights and the Role of Faith in World Peace" |
| Monday, October 7 |
Sheila Malovany-Chevallier and Constance Borde, translators; professors emeritus of American Literature and American Studies, Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Paris; co-translators, Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex (2009) and co-authors, My English is French: Corrigez facilement vos erreurs les plus courantes en anglais (1983); "Revisiting Simone de Beauvoir in the 21st Century" |
| Tuesday, October 8 |
Harold Koh, Department and Sterling Professor of International Law, Yale University; Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (1998-2001); co-author, Transnational Business Problems (2008) and author Transnational Litigation in United States Courts (2008); "Is There An Obama-Clinton Doctrine?" |
| Wednesday, October 9 |
Christopher Harmon, MajGen Matthew C. Horner Chair of Military Theory, Marine Corps University; author, Toward a Grand Strategy Against Terrorism (2010) and co-editor, Statecraft and Power: Essays in Honor of Harold W. Rood (1994); "State Sponsors of Terrorism" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Wednesday, October 9 |
James Fadiman, psychologist; co-founder, Sofia University (1975); author, The Psychedelic Explorer's Guide: Safe, Therapeutic, and Sacred Journeys (2011) and The Other Side of Haight: A Novel (2004); "The Psychedelic Renaissance: Promise and Pitfalls" |
| Thursday, October 10 |
Dorothy Fadiman, documentary filmmaker; director, Stealing America: Vote by Vote (2008); Motherhood by Choice, Not Chance (2010), and co-author, Producing with Passion: Making Films that Changed the World (2008); "When a Filmmaker's Passion Catches Fire: An Evening with Documentary Producer Dorothy Fadiman" |
| Friday, October 11 |
G. Jeffrey Records, Jr. '81, Chairman and CEO, Midfirst Bank; "Lunch with a Leader: Commercial Banking" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Monday, October 14 |
Lev Gonick, co-chair, higher education committee, CIO Executive Council; co-chair, Higher Education Executive Exchange, Cisco; "From Digital Campus to Connected Community: The Story of NEOhio's OneCommunity" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Monday, October 14 |
Swami Sarvadevananda, minister, spiritual leader, Vedanta Society of Southern California; monk. Ramakrishna Order, India; "Vedanta, Vivekananda, and Human Excellence: Living a Balanced Life of Doing and Being" |
| Tuesday, October 15 |
Eric Karpeles, writer, translator, painter; author, Paintings in Proust: A Visual Companion to In Search of Lost Time (2008) and co-translator, Proust's Overcoat: The True Story of One Man's Passion for All Things Proust (2010); "Was Proust Convinced? Art and the Power of Redemption" |
| Wednesday, October 16 |
Thanassis Cambanis, journalist; fellow, The Century Foundation; author, A Privilege to Die: Inside Hezbollah's Legions and Their Endless War Against Israel (2010); "The Arab Uprisings Aren’t Over" |
| Thursday, October 17 |
Henry Olsen, III '83, senior fellow, Ethics and Public Policy Center; "40th Anniversary of the Rose Institute of State and Local Government" |
| Wednesday, October 23 |
Stephen Greenblatt, John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University; author, The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (2011) and Will in the World: How Shakespeare became Shakespeare (2005); "Lucretius and the Toleration of Intolerable Ideas" |
| Thursday, October 24 |
Mike Strain, resident scholar, American Enterprise Institute; co-author, “Payday Credit, Overdrafts, and Bankruptcy, Both Formal and Informal” (2012) and “Job Loss and Effects on Firms and Workers” (2012); Stan Veuger, resident scholar, American Enterprise Institute; author, “Sexism and Maternity Leave Around the World” (2013) and “Solving the Chicken or Egg Job Problem” (2013); "What You Need to Know about the Economy You Will Be Entering" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Thursday, October 24 |
Julie Zauzmer, managing editor, The Harvard Crimson (2012); author, Conning Harvard: Adam Wheeler, the Con Artist Who Faked His Way into the Ivy League (2012) |
| Friday, October 25 |
Will Barndt, assistant professor of political studies, Pitzer College; "How To Get A Job Anywhere: The Nationalization of Our Liberal Arts Colleges" (12:00 p.m. Parents Dining Room) |
| Friday, October 25 |
Ajahn Jayasaro, Buddhist monk, abbot, Wat Pa Nanachat (1997-2002); author, Without and Within: Questions and Answers on the Teachings of Theravada Buddhism (2013) (2:30 p.m. Freeberg Lounge) |
| Monday, October 28 |
Kevin Tan '86, former senior vice president, Northern Trust Global Investments; "Lunch with a Leader: Yes I Can! Short Stories of Creative Problem Solving" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Monday, October 28 |
Louise Steinman, writer, literary curator, [ALOUD] series, Los Angeles Public Library; author, The Crooked Mirror: A Memoir of Polish-Jewish Reconciliation (2013) and The Souvenir: A Daughter Discovers Her Father's War (2002); "The Crooked Mirror: A Memoir of Polish-Jewish Reconciliation" |
| Tuesday, October 29 |
Zadie Smith, professor of creative writing, New York University; author, NW: A Novel (2012) and White Teeth: A Novel (2000); "Man Versus Corpse” |
| Wednesday, October 30 |
Gregory Currie, professor of philosophy, Director of Research in Humanities, University of Nottingham; author, Narratives and Narrators: A Philosophy of Stories (2010) and Image and Mind: Film, Philosophy and Cognitive Science (2008); "What We Learn From Literature" |
| Thursday, October 31 |
Tom Ridge, U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security (2003-2005); Governor of Pennsylvania (1995-2001); Pennsylvania Congressman (R-21st District) (1983-1995); president and CEO, Ridge Global; co-author, The Test of Our Times: America Under Siege... And How We Can Be Safe Again (2010) and author, Next-Generation Homeland Security: Network Federalism and the Course to National Preparedness (2012); "Boston and Beyond: Homeland Security and the Hometown" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Thursday, October 31 |
Robert Wagner, Jr., author, Moby-Dick and the Mythology of Oil: An Admonition for the Petroleum Age (2010); "Moby-Dick and the Mythology of Oil" (6:45 p.m. Parents Dining Room) |
| Friday, November 1 |
Guy Sorman, contributing editor, City Journal; author, Economics Does Not Lie: A Defense of the Free Market in a Time of Crisis (2009) and The Empire of Lies: The Truth about China in the Twenty-First Century (2008); "Photo Exhibit Showcasing the Silent Strength of Liu Xia" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Monday, November 4 |
Madeline Hsu, associate professor of history; director, Center for Asian American Studies, University of Texas, Austin; editor, Chinese American Transnational Politics (2010) and author, forthcoming Strategic Migrations: Immigration Selection and How the Yellow Peril Became a Model Minority, 1872-1966; "How Chinese Immigrants Became Model Minorities: Intellectuals, Refugees, and Immigration Selection, 1908-1962" |
| Tuesday, November 5 |
Vera Schwarcz, Mansfield Freeman Professor of East Asian Studies; director, Freeman Center for East Asian Studies, Wesleyan University; author, Ancestral Intelligence: Renditions and Poems (2013) and forthcoming Colors of Veracity: A Search for Truth in China, and Beyond; "The Small, Still Voice of the Past: How Memory Studies Changed Historical Truth in China, and Beyond" |
| Wednesday, November 6 |
Yehuda Bauer, professor of Holocaust Studies, Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry, Hebrew University, Jerusalem; author, The Death of the Shtetl (2010) and Jews for Sale?: Nazi-Jewish Negotiations, 1933-1945 (2009); "The Warsaw Ghetto Rebellion- A New Look" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Wednesday, November 6 |
William Deresiewicz, William F. Podlich Distinguished Fellow, CMC; essayist and book critic; author, forthcoming Excellent Sheep: Thinking for Yourself, Inventing Your Life, and Other Things the Ivy League Won't Teach You and A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter (2011); "What is College For? A Defense of the Liberal Arts" |
| Thursday, November 7 |
Roger Berkowitz, associate professor of politics, human rights, and philosophy; academic director, Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities, Bard College; co-author, Thinking in Dark Times: Hannah Arendt on Ethics and Politics (2009) and author, The Gift of Science: Leibniz and the Modern Legal Tradition (2005); "Hannah Arendt, Eichmann, and the Holocaust" |
| Friday, November 8 |
John Seery, George Irving Thompson Memorial Professor of Government and professor of politics, Pomona College; author, Too Young to Run? A Proposal for an Age Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (2012) and A Political Companion to Walt Whitman (2011); "The Best Kind of College is the U.S. SLAC (small liberal arts college), But Why Don't More People Know and Believe That?" (12:00 p.m. Parents Dining Room) |
| Friday, November 8 |
David Hirshleifer, Merage Chair in Business Growth, Professor of Finance, Professor of Economics, U.C. Irvine; co-author, "Overvalued Equity and Financing Decisions" (2012) and "Innovative Efficiency and Stock Returns" (2013); "Social Economics and Finance" (12:30 p.m.) |
| Monday, November 11 |
Tyler Burge, professor of philosophy, UCLA; author, Cognition Through Understanding: Self-Knowledge, Interlocution, Reasoning, Reflection (2013) and Foundations of Mind: Philosophical Essays, Volume 2 (2007); "Perception: Origins of Mind" |
| Tuesday, November 12 |
Avern Yonai, founder; Mike Marshall, musical director; Chris Acquavella, artistic director/conductor, New Expressions Mandolin Orchestra; founder/director, San Diego Classical Mandolin Camp; Tom Cohen, conductor/director, Mediterranean-Andalusian Orchestra of Ashkelon (Israel), L'Orchestra Symphonique Andalou De Montreal (Canada), MED Orchestra (Belgium); Tim Connell, Mando Planet and Rio Con Brio band member; Brian Oberlin, founder/director, River of the West Mandolin Camp and Oregon Mandolin Orchestra; Dana Rath, co-founder, Modern Mandolin Quartet; Adam Roszkiewicz, band member, Front Country and Modern Mandolin Quartet; Eric Stein, founder, Beyond the Pale; Don Stiernberg, teacher, Mandolin Symposium and European Mandolin Akademy; Jeff Warschauer, teacher, Mandolin Symposium and European Mandolin Akademy; Radim Zenkl, mandolin soloist; "Ger Mandolin Orchestra" |
| Wednesday, November 13 |
In-suk Kim, novelist; author, The Long Road: A Novel (2010) and So Long, Elena (2009); Yong-suk Kang, author, Rina (2011) and The Night He Lifts Weights (2011) ; Bruce Fulton, translator; Young-Bin Min Chair in Korean Literature and Literary Translation, University of British Columbia; co-translator, How in Heaven’s Name: A Novel of World War II (2012) and Fire: Stories by O Chonghui (2012) "Encounter 2013" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Wednesday, November 13 |
Gustavo Arellano, editor, OC Weekly; lecturer, C.S.U. Fullerton; author, Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America (2013), Orange County: A Personal History (2010), and Ask a Mexican (2007); "Ask a Mexican!" |
| Thursday, November 14 |
Aleena Ali '17, Clare Hamben, Braden Holstege, William Mitchell '14; "Claremont Colleges Debate Union: Edward Snowden – Traitor or Hero? – Debating Privacy, Whistleblowing and National Security in the Context of NSA Surveillance Programs" |
| Friday, November 15 |
Charles Armstrong, The Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Studies in the Social Sciences, director, Center for Korean Research, Columbia University; author, Tyranny of the Weak: North Korea and the World, 1950-1990 (2013) and The Koreas (2007); "North Korea and the World, a Complicated Relationship" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Monday, November 18 |
Deborah Lipstadt, Dorot professor of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies, Emory University; author, The Eichmann Trial (2011) and History on Trial: My Day in Court with David Irving (2006); "The Eichmann Trial: Its Impact After 50 Years" |
| Tuesday, November 19 |
Bruce Cain, Charles Louis Ducommun Professor in Humanities and Sciences, professor of political science; director, Bill Lane Center for the American West, Stanford University; co-editor, Development in American Politics VI (2010) and Racial and Ethnic Politics in California: Continuity and Change, Vol. 3 (2008); Marguerite Leoni, senior partner, Nielsen Marksamer Parrinello Gross & Leoni LLP; 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); moderator; "The Voting Rights Act after Shelby County v. Holder" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Tuesday, November 19 |
Charles Kamm, tenor; Gayle Blankenburg, piano; Rachel Vetter Huang, violin; Department of Music, Scripps College; "A Concert Celebrating the Benjamin Britten Centenary" |
| Wednesday, November 20 |
Tremaine Williams, recording engineer; Cheryl Pawelski, three-time GRAMMY nominated producer; Marcy Kraft, Live Nation concert and festival specialist; Mindi Abair, singer, songwriter, instrumentalist; "GRAMMY U Off the Record: Music Business 101" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Wednesday, November 20 |
Gershon Baskin, CEO and founder, Israel/Palestine Center for Research and Information (IPCRI); columnist, The Jerusalem Post; author, The Negotiator: Freeing Gilad Schalit from Hamas (2013) and Jerusalem of Peace: Sovereignty and Territory in Jerusalem's Future (1994) "Is Peace Possible Between Israel and the Palestinians?" |
| Thursday, November 21 |
Ricardo Quinones P'89, Josephine Olp Weeks Chair emeritus and professor emeritus of literature, CMC; author, A Sorting of the Ways: New and Selected Poems (2011) and Through the Years (2010); Todd Mandel, associate director of leadership giving, CMC; A. Richard Sogliuzzo; former assistant professor of theatre, SUNY, Albany; author, Luigi Pirandello, Director: The Playwright in the Theater (1982) and Edward H. Sothern and Julia Marlowe, Shakespearean Producers (1967); Rachel Vetter Huang, violin; lecturer in music, Scripps College; "The Way We Used to Be: Dreams of Americana in Verse" |
| Monday, November 25 |
Kimberly Reed, documentary filmmaker; producer, Prodigal Sons (2008) and Paul Goodman Changed My Life (2011); "Kimberly Reed and Prodigal Sons" |
| Tuesday, November 26 |
Uri Resnick, Deputy Consul General of Israel, Los Angeles; author, forthcoming Dynamics of Asymmetric Territorial Conflict: The Evolution of Patience (2013); "Israeli Foreign Policy in a Changing Region" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Tuesday, December 3 |
Claremont Chamber Choir; Charles Kamm, associate professor of music, Scripps College; conductor, Claremont chamber choir; "A Winter Holiday Concert" |
| Wednesday, December 4 |
Eric Sawyer, advisor, Civil Society Partnership, UNAIDS New York U.N. headquarters liaison office; co-founder, ACT UP, Housing Works, Inc., Health GAP, Inc.; "International World AIDS Day" |