Speakers, Spring 1985

 

Thursday,
January 31
Albert Wohlstetter, director of research, Pan Heuristics; author, The Delicate Balance of Terror (1958) and No Highway to High Purpose (1960); "Between an Unfree World and None"
 
Friday,
February 1
Harlan Marquardt, magician; "Illusions of Marquardt"
 
Wednesday,
February 6
Maxine Hong Kingston, author, The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (1976) and China Men (1980); "Fulfillment and Denial of the American Dream"
 
Thursday,
February 7
Maxine Hong Kingston, author, The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (1976) and China Men (1980); "Fulfillment and Denial of the American Dream"
 
Friday,
February 15
Michael Deane Lamkin, professor of music, Scripps College; conductor, Claremont chamber orchestra; "Evening in Vienna"
 
Saturday,
February 16
Michael Deane Lamkin, professor of music, Scripps College; conductor, Claremont chamber orchestra; "Evening in Vienna"
 
Wednesday,
February 20
Nelson Polsby, professor of political science, U.C. Berkeley; author, Political Innovation in America (1984) and Consequences of Party Reform (1983); "Political Power"
 
Thursday,
February 21
Richard Elliot, saxophone; "Jazz Revival" (8:00 p.m.)
 
Wednesday,
February 27
Stephen Conner, lobbyist for the Saudis; Cranwell Montgomery, foreign policy advisor; "Interaction of the Agent for a Foreign Government and Members of the U.S. Senate"
 
Thursday,
February 28
Moshe Lazar, professor of drama and comparative literature, USC; co-author; Pinchas Shaaz (1982) and author, The Sephardic Tradition: Ladino and Spanish-Jewish Literature (1972); "The Sephardic Diaspora"
 
Wednesday,
March 6
Daniel Boorstin, director, Library of Congress; author, "The Discovers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself" (1983)
 
Thursday,
March 7
Daniel Boorstin, director, Library of Congress; author, The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America (1961) and The Americas: The Colonial Experience (1958); "The Library of Congress"
 
Wednesday,
March 13
"Biology and Philosophy: An Informal Symposium"
 
Tuesday,
March 26
Jonathan Kozol, author, Death at an Early Age (1985) and On Being A Teacher (1981); "Educational Reform"
 
Tuesday,
April 2
Bradley Smith, American authority on the Nuremberg Trials; author, The Road to Nuremberg (1981) and "Reaching Judgment at Nuremberg" (1977) (11:00 a.m.)
 
Tuesday,
April 2
Telford Taylor, associate U.S. trial counsel at Nuremberg trials; author, Sword and Swastika (1952) and The March of Conquest (1958); Bradley Smith, American authority on the Nuremberg trials; author, The Road to Nuremberg (1981) and Reaching Judgment at Nuremberg (1977); Shlomo Aronson, senior lecturer in political science, Hebrew University; author, Conflict and Bargaining in the Middle East: An Israeli Perspective (1978) and Beginnings of the Gestapo System: The Bavarian Model in 1933 (1969); Whitney Harris, assistant U.S. trial counsel at Nuremberg trials; author, Tyranny on Trial: The Trial of the Major German War Criminals at the End of World War II at Nuremberg, Germany, 1945-1946 (1954); Robert Wolfe, chief of the Modern Military Branch of the National Archives; author, Captured German Documents and Related Records: A National Archive Conference (1974); John Mendelsohn, National Archives associate; author, The Holocaust Records in the National Archives on the Nazi Persecution of the Jews (1984); Walter Brudno, assistant U.S. trial counsel at Nuremberg Trials; "A German Tragedy?" (3:00 p.m.)
 
Tuesday,
April 2
Telford Taylor, associate U.S. trial counsel at Nuremberg trials; author, Sword and Swastika (1952) and The March of Conquest (1958); Bradley Smith, American authority on the Nuremberg trials; author, The Road to Nuremberg (1981) and Reaching Judgment at Nuremberg (1977); Shlomo Aronson, senior lecturer in political science, Hebrew University; author, Conflict and Bargaining in the Middle East: An Israeli Perspective (1978) and Beginnings of the Gestapo System: The Bavarian Model in 1933 (1969); Whitney Harris, assistant U.S. trial counsel at Nuremberg trials; author, Tyranny on Trial: The Trial of the Major German War Criminals at the End of World War II at Nuremberg, Germany, 1945-1946 (1954); Robert Wolfe, chief of the Modern Military Branch of the National Archives; author, Captured German Documents and Related Records: A National Archive Conference (1974); John Mendelsohn, National Archives associate; author, The Holocaust Records in the National Archives on the Nazi Persecution of the Jews (1984); Walter Brudno, assistant U.S. trial counsel at Nuremberg Trials; "The Men in the Dock"
 
Wednesday,
April 3
Telford Taylor, associate U.S. trial counsel at Nuremberg trials; author, Sword and Swastika (1952) and The March of Conquest (1958); Bradley Smith, American authority on the Nuremberg trials; author, The Road to Nuremberg (1981) and Reaching Judgment at Nuremberg (1977); Shlomo Aronson, senior lecturer in political science, Hebrew University; author, Conflict and Bargaining in the Middle East: An Israeli Perspective (1978) and Beginnings of the Gestapo System: The Bavarian Model in 1933 (1969); Whitney Harris, assistant U.S. trial counsel at Nuremberg trials; author, Tyranny on Trial: The Trial of the Major German War Criminals at the End of World War II at Nuremberg, Germany, 1945-1946 (1954); Robert Wolfe, chief of the Modern Military Branch of the National Archives; author, Captured German Documents and Related Records: A National Archive Conference (1974); John Mendelsohn, National Archives associate; author, The Holocaust Records in the National Archives on the Nazi Persecution of the Jews (1984); Walter Brudno, assistant U.S. trial counsel at Nuremberg Trials; "The Road to Nuremberg" (3:00 p.m.)
 
Wednesday,
April 3
Telford Taylor, associate U.S. trial counsel at Nuremberg trials; author, Sword and Swastika (1952) and The March of Conquest (1958); Bradley Smith, American authority on the Nuremberg trials; author, The Road to Nuremberg (1981) and Reaching Judgment at Nuremberg (1977); Shlomo Aronson, senior lecturer in political science, Hebrew University; author, Conflict and Bargaining in the Middle East: An Israeli Perspective (1978) and Beginnings of the Gestapo System: The Bavarian Model in 1933 (1969); Whitney Harris, assistant U.S. trial counsel at Nuremberg trials; author, Tyranny on Trial: The Trial of the Major German War Criminals at the End of World War II at Nuremberg, Germany, 1945-1946 (1954); Robert Wolfe, chief of the Modern Military Branch of the National Archives; author, Captured German Documents and Related Records: A National Archive Conference (1974); John Mendelsohn, National Archives associate; author, The Holocaust Records in the National Archives on the Nazi Persecution of the Jews (1984); Walter Brudno, assistant U.S. trial counsel at Nuremberg Trials; "Tyranny on Trial: The International Military Tribunal"
 
Thursday,
April 4
Telford Taylor, associate U.S. trial counsel at Nuremberg trials; author, Sword and Swastika (1952) and The March of Conquest (1958); Bradley Smith, American authority on the Nuremberg trials; author, The Road to Nuremberg (1981) and Reaching Judgment at Nuremberg (1977); Shlomo Aronson, senior lecturer in political science, Hebrew University; author, Conflict and Bargaining in the Middle East: An Israeli Perspective (1978) and Beginnings of the Gestapo System: The Bavarian Model in 1933 (1969); Whitney Harris, assistant U.S. trial counsel at Nuremberg trials; author, Tyranny on Trial: The Trial of the Major German War Criminals at the End of World War II at Nuremberg, Germany, 1945-1946 (1954); Robert Wolfe, chief of the Modern Military Branch of the National Archives; author, Captured German Documents and Related Records: A National Archive Conference (1974); John Mendelsohn, National Archives associate; author, The Holocaust Records in the National Archives on the Nazi Persecution of the Jews (1984); Walter Brudno, assistant U.S. trial counsel at Nuremberg Trials; "Less Than Slaves" (11:00 a.m.)
 
Thursday,
April 4
Telford Taylor, associate U.S. trial counsel at Nuremberg trials; author, Sword and Swastika (1952) and The March of Conquest (1958); "The Implications for International Law, Post-Nuremberg"
 
Wednesday,
April 10
Leopold Page, Holocaust survivor; "The Holocaust"
 
Monday,
April 15
Dru Sherrod, author, forthcoming, The Vital Bond; social psychologist; "Friendships in the Lives of Men and Women"
 
Friday,
April 19
Jake Porter, saxophone; "Jelly Roll Jazz Society: Bourbon Street"
 
Monday,
April 22
March Fong Eu, California Secretary of State; "California Politics" (12:00 p.m.)
 
Tuesday,
April 30
Pete Wilson, United States Senator, (R-CA); "California and the '80s"
 

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