Speakers, Spring 1986

 

Tuesday,
January 21
Dinner Theater, "Peking Acrobat Pre-performance Dinner" (8:00 p.m. Bridges Auditorium)
 
Thursday,
January 23
William Rusher, publisher, National Review; author, How To Win Arguments (1985); "The American Right"
 
Monday,
January 27
Donald Ambroson, viola; Cecilia Cloughly, french horn; Lewis Ellenhorn, clarinet, professor emeritus of psychology, Pitzer College; Douglas McCracken, bassoon; John Phillips, oboe; Bonnie Snortum, piano; "Mozart's Birthday Party"
 
Tuesday,
January 28
War College Panel

 
Wednesday,
January 29
James Burke, writer, producer, BBC; author, "The Day the Universe Changed" (1985)
 
Thursday,
January 30
James Burke, writer, producer, BBC; author, Connections (1979) and "The Day the Universe Changed" (1985) (11:00 a.m.)
 
Thursday,
January 30
James Burke, writer, producer, BBC; author, Tomorrow's World (1965) and "The Day the Universe Changed" (1985)
 
Monday,
February 3
Frank Wykoff, professor of economics, Pomona College; Dick Sweeney, professor of economics, CMC; Milton Friedman's "Free to Choose, Part I, Anatomy of a Crisis: The Great Depression, a Failure of Money Management, Not Free Market Capitalism"
 
Wednesday,
February 5
Matthew Fox, theologian; author, Original Blessing: A Primer in Creation Spirituality (1983) and Whee We, Wee All the Way Home: A Guide to Sensual Prophetic Spirituality (1981); "Religion Today"
 
Monday,
February 10
Gordon Douglass, professor of economics, Pomona College; Colin Wright, Norwood and Frances Berger professor of business and society, CMC; Milton Friedman's "Free to Choose, Part II, From Cradle to Grave: The Fallacy of the Welfare State"
 
Wednesday,
February 12
Dan Lungren, California Congressman, (R-34th district); "California Politics Today"
 
Friday,
February 14
Michael Deane Lamkin, professor of music, Scripps College; conductor, Claremont chamber orchestra; "Evening in Vienna"
 
Saturday,
February 15
Michael Deane Lamkin, professor of music, Scripps College; conductor, Claremont chamber orchestra; "Evening in Vienna"
 
Monday,
February 17
Craig Stubblebine, professor of economics, CMC; co-author, Reaganomics: A Midterm Report (1983); Clark Kucheman, professor of philosophy, CMC; Milton Friedman's "Free to Choose, Part III, Created Equal: The Constitution Guarantees Equal Opportunity, Not Equal Results or Equal Income"
 
Thursday,
February 20
Christian Posner, associate clinical professor of medicine, USC; "Newer Cardiac Therapies for the 1980s" (1:00 p.m.)
 
Thursday,
February 20
Steve Smith, professor of philosophy, CMC; author, Satisfaction of Interest and the Concept of Morality (1975) and editor, Ways of Wisdom: Readings on the Good Life (1983); John Roth, Russell K. Pitzer professor of philosophy and religious studies, CMC; editor, Philosophy of Josiah Royce (1982); Steve Davis, professor of philosophy and religion; CMC, author, The Debate About the Bible: Inerrancy Versus Infallibility (1977) and Faith, Skepticism, and Evidence: An Essay in Religious Epistemology (1978); Richard Phalan, professor of military science, CMC; "Military Science and Philosophy: An Informal Symposium"
 
Monday,
February 24
Ward Elliott, professor of government, CMC; author, Rise of Guardian Democracy: The Supreme Court's Role in Voting Rights Disputes, 1845-1969 (1974); Ross Eckert, professor of economics, CMC; Milton Friedman's "Free to Choose, Part IV, Who Protects the Consumer: The Myth of Government Agency Protection"
 
Tuesday,
February 25
Ed Rollins, manager of Reagan/Bush campaign in 1984; Bob Beckel, manager of Mondale/Ferraro campaign in 1984; Gaines Post, Jr., professor of history, CMC; author, The Civil-Military Fabric of Weimar Foreign Policy (1973) and The Humanities in American Life: Report of the Commission on the Humanities (1980), (moderator); "What Happened in 1984?"
 
Wednesday,
February 26
Lyn Nofziger, political consultant; Charles Manatt, former chairman of the Democratic National Committee; Ricardo Quinones P'89, professor of literature, CMC; author, Dante Alighieri (1979) and Mapping Literary Modernism: Time and Development (1985), (moderator); "The Legacy of 1984 for 1988"
 
Thursday,
February 27
Patrick Cadell, Democratic pollster; Richard Wirthlin, Republican pollster; Alfred Balitzer P'88, assistant professor of government; CMC, author, A Nation of Associations (1981) and A Time for Choosing: The Speeches of Ronald Reagan (1983), (moderator); "What Will Happen in 1986 and Thereafter?" (11:00 a.m.)
 
Thursday,
February 27
Ed Rollins, manager of Reagan/Bush campaign in 1984; Robert Beckel, manager of Mondale campaign in 1984; Lyn Nofziger, political consultant; Charles Manatt, former chairman of the Democratic National Committee; Patrick Cadell, Democratic pollster; Richard Wirthlin, Republican pollster; Alan Heslop, Don H. and Edessa Rose professor of state and local government; director of the Rose Institute of State and Local Government, CMC; author, World Capital Shortage (1978), (moderator); "What Will Happen in 1988?"
 
Thursday,
February 27
Carl Davis, associate professor of psychology, University of Iowa; Karen Pirnos, trial preparation services; "Psychology in the Courtroom"
 
Monday,
March 3
Milton Friedman, Nobel laureate in economic sciences (1976); senior research fellow, Hoover Institution; Paul Snowden Russell distinguished service emeritus professor of economics, University of Chicago; co-author, Capitalism and Freedom (1962) and Free to Choose: A Personal Statement (1980) with Rose Friedman; co-author, Free to Choose (1980) and Tyranny and the Status Quo (1984); "An Evening with Professors Milton and Rose Friedman"
 
Sunday,
March 9
Preethi de Silva, associate professor of music, Scripps College; "Con Gioia Early Music Ensemble: The Musical Offering" (3:00 p.m. Balch Auditorium)
 
Monday,
March 25
Claremont Colleges Debate Union, "Claremont Colleges Debate Union vs. Japanese Debate Team"
 
Wednesday,
March 26
Anthony Stevens, Jungian psychologist, London; author, The Roots of War: A Jungian Perspective (1984); "Archetypal Foundations of War and Peace, Part I"
 
Thursday,
March 27
Anthony Stevens, Jungian psychologist, London; author, Archetype: A Natural History of the Self (1982); "Archetypal Foundations of War and Peace, Part II" (1:00 p.m.)
 
Thursday,
March 27
Anthony Stevens, Jungian psychologist, London; "Archetypal Foundations of War and Peace, Part III"
 
Monday,
March 31
Eugene Miller, executive vice president and CEO, USG Corporation; "Leadership: A Symposium"
 
Tuesday,
April 1
Jeffrey Klein '75, senior staff counsel, Los Angeles Times; "Leadership: A Symposium" (12:30 p.m.)
 
Tuesday,
April 1
Barbara Dyer, associate director, Council of State Planning Agencies; "Leadership: A Symposium" (5:00 p.m.)
 
Wednesday,
April 2
Jim Miegs, senior vice president, First Interstate Bank, Los Angeles; "Leadership: A Symposium" (12:30 p.m.)
 
Wednesday,
April 2
John Gould, dean of the graduate school of business, University of Chicago; "Leadership: A Symposium" (5:00 p.m.)
 
Monday,
April 7
Kurt Vonnegut, author, Slaughterhouse Five (1969) and Mother Night (1962); "An Evening with Kurt Vonnegut" (7:00 p.m. Bridges Auditorium)
 
Tuesday,
April 8
Paul Kristeller, professor emeritus of philosophy, Columbia University; author, Renaissance Thought and Its Sources (1979) and Medieval Aspects of Renaissance Learning (1974); "Renaissance Humanism"
 
Wednesday,
April 9
Jacqueline Pery, commander, French Legion of Honor; "French Underground in World War II"
 
Wednesday,
April 9
Sue Mansfield, professor of history, CMC; author, The Gestalt of War: An Inquiry into Its Origin and Meaning as a Social Institution (1982); Myra Moss, professor of philosophy, CMC; Gaines Post, Jr., professor of history, CMC; author, The Civil-Military Fabric of Weimar Foreign Policy (1973) and The Humanities in American Life: Report of the Commission on the Humanities (1980); John Roth, Russell K. Pitzer professor of philosophy and religious studies, CMC, author, Philosophy of Josiah Jones (1982); Steve Smith, professor of philosophy, CMC; author, Satisfaction of Interest and the Concept of Morality (1975) and editor, Ways of Wisdom: Readings on the Good Life (1983); "History and Philosophy: An Informal Symposium"
 
Monday,
April 14
Barry Spanjaard, only American civilian imprisoned in Hitler's concentration camps; author, "Don't Fence Me In!: An American Teenager in the Holocaust" (1981)
 
Tuesday,
April 15
Lawrence Kushner, author, The Book of Letters: A Mystical Hebrew Alef-Bait (1975) and The River of Light: Spirituality, Judaism and the Evolution of Consciousness (1981); "An Evening with Lawrence Kushner"
 
Thursday,
April 17
Leon Litwack, professor of American history, U.C. Berkeley; author, North of Slavery: The Free Negro in the Antebellum North (1961) and Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery (1980); "To Look for America" (4:00 p.m. McKenna Auditorium)
 
Monday,
April 21
Malcolm McKenna, Frick curator, department of vertebrate paleontology, American Museum of Natural History; "Biogeography: A Nineteenth-Century Science Awakens" (8:00 p.m. Bauer Forum)
 
Friday,
April 25
Ibrahim Abu-Lughod, professor of political science, Northwestern University; author, The Arab-Israeli Confrontation of 1967: An Arab Perspective (1970) and The Transformation of Palestine (1971); "A Palestinian Perspective on the Arab-Israeli Conflict"
 
Monday,
April 28
Yehoshafat Harkabi, professor of international relations, Hebrew University; author, Two Statements on the Mid East War (1973); "Keck Lecture on International Understanding, Part I" (12:00 p.m.)
 
Monday,
April 28
Steve Merksamer '69, chief of staff to the California governor; "California Politics" (12:00 p.m.)
 
Monday,
April 28
Yehoshafat Harkabi, Hexter professor of international relations, Hebrew University; author, Arab Attitudes to Israel (1974); "Keck Lecture on International Understanding, Part II"
 
Tuesday,
April 29
Yehoshafat Harkabi, Hexter professor of international relations, Hebrew University; author, Arab Strategies and Israel's Response (1977); "Keck Lecture on International Understanding, Part III" (12:00 p.m.)
 
Tuesday,
April 29
Yehoshafat Harkabi, Hexter professor of international relations, Hebrew University; author, Palestinians and Israel (1974); "Keck Lecture on International Understanding, Part IV"
 
Wednesday,
April 30
Yehoshafat Harkabi, Hexter professor of international relations, Hebrew University; author, The Bar Kokhba Syndrome: Risk and Realism in International Relations (1983); "Keck Lecture on International Understanding, Part V" (12:00 p.m.)
 
Wednesday,
April 30
Yehoshafat Harkabi, Hexter professor of international relations, Hebrew University; author, Realism in International Politics (1983); "Keck Lecture on International Understanding, Part VI"
 
Tuesday,
May 6
Mike Antonovich, Los Angeles County supervisor, (5th district); "Los Angeles: City Politics"
 

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