Speakers, Spring 1990

 

Tuesday,
January 16
Robert O'Neill, Chichele professor of the history of war, Oxford University; author, The Strategic Nuclear Balance: An Australian Perspective (1974) and The Conduct of East-West Relations in the 1980's (1985); "Russia and Eastern Europe in Turmoil: The Future of Western Policies"
 
Wednesday,
January 17
Franklin Chang-Diaz, astronaut, NASA; "Flight of the Space Shuttle Atlantis"
 
Thursday,
January 18
James Farmer, Virginia Commonwealth professor of history, Mary Washington College; founding director, Congress of Racial Equality (CORE); author, Lay Bare the Heart: An Autobiography of the Civil Rights Movement (1985) and Freedom When (1965); "Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday Remembrance"
 
Monday,
January 22
Raine Eisler, co-founder, Center of Partnership Studies; author, The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future (1987); "The Chalice and the Blade: Models of Partnership Between Women and Men"
 
Tuesday,
January 23
Murry Wood, regional director, American Israel Public Affairs Committee; "Get Out the Vote"
 
Wednesday,
January 24
Jean Kilbourne, visiting research scholar, Center for Women, Wellesley College; author, Deadly Persuasion: Why Women and Girls Must Fight The Addictive Power of Advertising (1990); "The Naked Truth: Advertising's Image of Women"
 
Thursday,
January 25
William Rusher, publisher, National Review; author, How to Win Arguments (1985); "The Twilight of the Enlightenment?"
 
Monday,
January 29
S. Frederick Starr, president, Oberlin College; author, Red and Hot: The Fate of Jazz in the Soviet Union, 1917-1980 (1983) and New Orleans Unmasked (1985); "Political Pluralism: Perestroika's Next Phase"
 
Tuesday,
January 30
Fred Rhodewalt, professor of psychology, University of Utah; "Turtles and Peacocks: Self-Handicapping" (12:00 p.m.)
 
Tuesday,
January 30
Ilan Mor, Israeli foreign service official; "Current Israeli-U.S. Relations"
 
Thursday,
February 1
Barry Rand, group vice president, Xerox; "Business and Higher Education as Partners in Empowering the New Majority as Leaders" (7:30 p.m. McKenna Auditorium)
 
Tuesday,
February 6
Katherine Auspitz, associate professor of social studies, Harvard University; author, The Radical Bourgeoisie: The Ligne de l'Enseignement and the Origins of the Third Republic, 1866-1885 (1982); "In Defense of the Republic of Virtue"
 
Wednesday,
February 7
Eleanor Smeal, founder and president, The Fund for the Feminist Majority; author, How and Why Women Will Elect the Next President (1984); "A Woman's Right to Choose"
 
Thursday,
February 8
David Shipler, senior associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; author, Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land (1986) and Russia: Broken Idols, Solemn Dreams (1983); "Gorbachev's Glasnost: Authoritarianism and Democracy"
 
Monday,
February 12
Rachel MacNair, president, Feminists for Life of America; "The Pro-life Feminist View"
 
Thursday,
February 15
Thomas Bernstein, professor of political science, chief researcher, East Asian Institute, Columbia University; author, Up to the Mountains and Down to the Villages: The Transfer of Youth from Urban to Rural China (1977); "Reform of Leninst States: Comparing Reform in China and the Soviet Union"
 
Friday,
February 16
Michael Deane Lamkin, professor of music, Scripps College; conductor, Claremont chamber orchestra; "Evening in Vienna"
 
Saturday,
February 17
Michael Deane Lamkin, professor of music, Scripps College; conductor, Claremont chamber orchestra; "Evening in Vienna"
 
Sunday,
February 18
Michael Deane Lamkin, professor of music, Scripps College; conductor, Claremont chamber orchestra; "Evening in Vienna"
 
Monday,
February 19
Richard Westfall, professor of history and philosophy of science, Indiana University; author, Science and Religion in Seventeenth Century England (1973) and Force in Newton's Physics: The Science of Dymanics in the Seventeenth Century (1973); "A New Model of Nature"
 
Tuesday,
February 20
Elliott Abrams, former U.S. assistant secretary of state for Inter-American affairs; "U.S. Policy in Latin America" (4:00 p.m. Pickford Auditorium)
 
Tuesday,
February 20
Jonathan Pollack, chairman of the department of political science, RAND; co-editor, Military Power and Policy in Asian States (1980) and author, Sino-Soviet Rivalry and Chinese Security Debate (1983); "China"
 
Wednesday,
February 21
John Roth, Russell K. Pitzer professor of philosophy and religious studies, CMC; editor, Philosophy of Josiah Royce (1982) and author, Approaches to Auschwitz (1987); "The Problem of Goodness"
 
Thursday,
February 22
Jack Miles, book review editor, Los Angeles Times; "The Globalization of Censorship: The Case of Salman Rushdie"
 
Monday,
February 26
Alexander Joseph '90, Ethiopia; Alex Neves '93, Brazil; Ivan Svitek '90, Czechoslovakia; "International CMC Student Panel"
 
Tuesday,
February 27
Ptachia Shamir, Israeli founding father; "Israel Today" (12:30 p.m.)
 
Tuesday,
February 27
Jack Weatherford, associate professor of anthropology, Macalester College; author, Narcotics in Bolivia and the United States (1981) and Porn Row (1986); "Cocaine Wars at Home and Abroad"
 
Wednesday,
February 28
Jack Weatherford, associate professor of anthropology, Macalester College; author, Tribes on the Hill (1985) and "Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World" (1988)
 
Monday,
March 5
Dae-sook Suh, professor of political science, University of Hawaii; author, Kim Il Sung: The North Korean Leader (1988) and Korean Communism: 1945-1980: A Reference Guide to the Political System (1981); "North Korea in the Post-Kim Il Sung Era"
 
Tuesday,
March 20
Claremont Colleges Debate Union vs. Pitzer Debate Union, "Should Pitzer Exist?"
 
Wednesday,
March 21
Rosemary Tong, professor of philosophy, Davidson College; author, Women, Sex, and the Law (1984) and Feminist Thought: A Comprehensive Introduction (1989); "Perspectives on Feminist Thought Concerning the New Reproductive Technologies" (4:30 p.m.)
 
Wednesday,
March 21
Czeslaw Milosz, Nobel laureate in literature (1980); professor emeritus of Slavic languages and literature, U.C. Berkeley; author, The Captive Mind (1953) and Selected Poems (1973); "An Evening with Czeslaw Milosz" (Pickford Auditorium)
 
Thursday,
March 22
Barbara Christian, professor of Afro-American Studies, U.C. Berkeley; author, Black Women Novelists: The Development of a Tradition, 1892-1976 (1980) and Black Feminist Criticism: Perspectives on Black Women Writers (1985); Clara Sue Kidwell, associate professor of Native American Studies, U.C. Berkeley; author, The Choctaws: A Critical Bibliography (1980); Peggy McIntosh, associate director, Center for Research on Women; author, White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences Through Work in Women's Studies (1988); Patricia Zavella, social anthropologist; author, Women's Work and Chicano Families: Cannery Workers of the Santa Clara Valley (1987) and Work Related Networks and Household Organizations Among Chicano Cannery Workers (1984); "The Challenge of Diversity: Race, Ethnicity Class, and Gender" (McKenna Auditorium)
 
Friday,
March 23
Leon Bates, piano; "Musical Tea" (3:00 p.m.)
 
Monday,
March 26
James Billington, librarian of Congress; author, The Icon and the Axe (1966) and Fire in the Minds of Men (1980); "The Future of the USSR" (4:00 p.m.)
 
Tuesday,
March 27
Jill Hawkins '91, violin; Erin Eaves '92, cello; Kristy Tophen '90, flute; "Musical Tea" (3:15 p.m.)
 
Tuesday,
March 27
Susan Estrich, professor of law, USC; author, Real Rape (1987) and Dangerous Offenders: The Elusive Target of Justice (1985); "Managing the Dukakis Campaign"
 
Wednesday,
March 28
Gertrude Himmelfarb, professor emeritus of history, CUNY; author, Lord Acton: A Study in Conscience and Politics (1952) and The New History and the Old (1987); "Eminent Victorians"
 
Thursday,
March 29
Charles Gati, professor of political science, Union College; author, The Debate Over Detente (1977) and co-author, The International Politics of Eastern Europe (1976); "The Future of Eastern Europe"
 
Monday,
April 2
David McAlexander '87, ensign, U.S. Navy; "You're in the Navy Now: Life After CMC"
 
Tuesday,
April 3
Craig Berman '92, South Africa; Andrew Moloko '95, South Africa, Victor Rabinovich '93, Columbia; Oliver Juergens '92, West Germany; "International CMC Student Panel"
 
Thursday,
April 5
Dinner Theater, "You Can't Take It With You" by Moss Hart and George Kaufman (1936) (6:00 p.m.)
 
Friday,
April 6
Dinner Theater, "You Can't Take It With You" by Moss Hart and George Kaufman (1936) (6:00 p.m.)
 
Saturday,
April 7
Dinner Theater, "You Can't Take It With You" (1936) by Moss Hart and George Kaufman (6:00 p.m.)
 
Sunday,
April 8
Brunch Theater, "You Can't Take It With You" (1936) by Moss Hart and George Kaufman (11:00 a.m.)
 
Tuesday,
April 10
Karel Van Hulle, head of financial markets and financial services unit, European Commission; "The European Communities Contribution Toward Global Harmonization of Accounting Standards"
 
Wednesday,
April 11
Steve Davis, professor of philosophy and religion, CMC; author, Encountering Jesus: A Debate on Christology (1988) and Death and Afterlife (1989); Myra Moss, professor of philosophy, CMC; Fred Sontag, professor of philosophy, Pomona College; author, Return of the Gods (1989) and Emotion (1989); Paul Hurley, assistant professor of philosophy, Pomona College; Dion Scott-Kakures '79, assistant professor of philosophy, Scripps College; Kimberly McDonald '90; "Philosophy in Claremont: Past, Present, and Future"
 
Thursday,
April 12
William F. Buckley, Jr., editor-in-chief, National Review; author, Up From Liberalism (1959) and Airborne: A Sentimental Journey (1976); "Current Controversies"
 
Tuesday,
April 17
Gail Butler, president, Houston Foods; "Tiananmen Square"
 
Wednesday,
April 18
Carol Otis, staff physician, Student Health Service, UCLA; Roger Goldingay, freelance writer; co-authors, "Campus Health Guide: The College Student's Handbook for Healthy Living" (1989)
 
Thursday,
April 19
Dianne Feinstein, gubernatorial candidate, California; "California in the 1990s" (Bridges Auditorium)
Wednesday,
April 25
Celebration of the Arts, "CMC Student Musical Performances"
 
Thursday,
April 26
Keith Baker, professor of history, Stanford University; author, The Political Culture of the Old Regime (1987) and Condorcet: From Natural Philosophy to Social Mathematics (1975); "The French Revolution: 200 Years Later"
 

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