Speakers, Spring 1993

 

Wednesday,
January 20
Sissela Bok, professor of philosophy, Brandeis University; author, Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life (1978) and Secrets: On the Ethics of Concealment and Revelation (1984); "Lying, Truth, and Truthfulness"
 
Thursday,
January 21
Franklin Chang-Diaz, astronaut, NASA; "United States and Russian Cooperation: The Next Phase in Space Research"
 
Monday,
January 25
Terry Moe, professor of political science, Stanford University; co-author, A Lesson in School Reform from Great Britain (1992) and "Politics, Markets, and America's Schools" (1990)
 
Tuesday,
January 26
P. Edward Haley, professor of government, CMC; author, Congress and the Fall of South Vietnam and Cambodia (1982) and Qaddafi and the United States Since 1969 (1984); "Old Politics or New? Race and International Relations in the 1990s" (12:15 p.m.)
 
Tuesday,
January 26
Bong Hwan Kim, executive director, Korean Youth Center; "Race Relations and Political Empowerment"
 
Thursday,
January 28
Lunar New Year Celebration, Dahan Tiensen Chinese Culture Club; "Year of the Rooster, Scenes from Chinese Opera" (McKenna Auditorium)
 
Monday,
February 1
Kwame Ture, founder, All African People's Revolutionary Party; co-author, Black Power: The Politics in Liberation in America (1967) and Stokely Speaks: Black Power Back to Pan-Africanism (1971); "Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemoration"
 
Tuesday,
February 2
Ruben Martinez, news editor, L.A. Weekly; correspondent, Pacific News Service; author, The Other Side: Fault Lines, Guerrilla Saints, and the True Heart of Rock 'n' Roll (1992) and upcoming The Other Side: Notes from the New L.A., Mexico City, and Beyond; "Los Angeles and Beyond: A Journalist's Perspective"
 
Wednesday,
February 3
Diane Watson, California State Senator; "Los Angeles Riots: What Lies Ahead?"
 
Thursday,
February 4
David Myers, professor of social psychology, Hope College; author, Psychology (1989) and "The Pursuit of Happiness: Who is Happy-and Why?" (1992)
 
Monday,
February 8
Walt Whitman Rostow, Rex G. Baker professor of political economy, University of Texas, Austin; author, The Stages of Economic Growth: A Non-Communist Manifesto (1990) and The World Economy: History and Prospect (1978); "Vietnam: From a Hawk's Perspective"
 
Tuesday,
February 9
Gordon Bjork, Jonathon B. Lovelace professor of economics, CMC; author, Stagnation in the American Economy 1784-1792 (1985) and Life, Liberty, and Property: The Economics and Politics of Land-Use Planning and Environmental Controls (1980); "The Changing Costs of Education" (12:15 p.m.)
 
Tuesday,
February 9
David Shipler, Moscow bureau chief, New York Times; author, Russia: Broken Idols, Solemn Dreams (1983) and Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land (1986); "Report from Moscow"
 
Wednesday,
February 10
Lenora Fulani, chairperson, New Alliance Party; contributor, Independent Black Leadership in America (1989) and author, "The Making of a Fringe Candidate" (1992)
 
Thursday,
February 11
Seamus Heaney, professor of poetry, Oxford University; author, Seeing Things (1991) and The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles' Philoctetes (1991); "An Evening with the Poet"
 
Monday,
February 15
Ronald Fleming, president, The Townscape Institute; co-author, On Common Ground: Caring For Shared Land from Town Common to Urban Park (1982) and New Providence: A Changing Cityscape (1987); "Introduction to Stewardship of the Common Landscape Symposium" (2:30 p.m.)
 
Monday,
February 15
Bernard Siegan, professor of law, University of San Diego Law School; author, Land Use Without Zoning (1972) and Government, Regulation and the Economy (1980); "Stewardship of the Common Landscape; Land: Public Perspective" (3:00 p.m.)
 
Monday,
February 15
Virginia Albrecht, partner, Beveridge & Diamond, Washington, D.C.; "Stewardship of the Common Landscape; Land: Landowner/Developer Perspective" (3:45 p.m.)
 
Monday,
February 15
David Gebhard, professor of art, U.C. Santa Barbara; author, Architecture in California, 1868-1968 (1968) and Buildings of Iowa (1992); "Stewardship of the Common Landscape; Land: Environmental and Design Perspective" (4:30 p.m.)
 
Monday,
February 15
Robert Feldmeth, director, Roberts Environmental Center, CMC; co-author, Energetics, Salinity, and Temperature (1986) and Hydraulic Aspects of Wetland Design (1988); Madelaine Glickfield, California Coastal Commission; "Stewardship of the Common Landscape: Land" (5:15 p.m.)
 
Monday,
February 15
Douglas Wheeler, secretary for resources, State of California; "Stewardship of the Common Landscape; Land: Government Perspective"
 
Tuesday,
February 16
Rodney Smith, professor of economics, CMC; author, Troubled Waters: Financing Water in the West (1984) and Trading Water: An Economic and Legal Framework for Water Marketing (1988); "Stewardship of the Common Landscape; Water: Public Perspective" (4:00 p.m.)
 
Tuesday,
February 16
Edward Giermann, vice president and general counsel, J.G. Boswell Co.; "Stewardship of the Common Landscape; Water: Landowner/Developer Perspective" (4:30 p.m.)
 
Tuesday,
February 16
Russell Beatty, professor of landscape architecture, U.C. Berkeley; "Stewardship of the Common Landscape; Water: Environmental and Design Perspective" (5:15 p.m.)
 
Tuesday,
February 16
Peter Bontadelli, director, California Department of Fish & Game; "Stewardship of the Common Landscape; Water: Government Perspective" (6:45 p.m.)
 
Tuesday,
February 16
Martha Davis, executive director, Mono Lake Committee; Roberta Soltz, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California; "Stewardship of the Common Landscape: Water" (7:30 p.m.)
 
Wednesday,
February 17
Lee Stetson, performance artist; author, John Muir: The Spirit of Wilderness (1992); "The Sprit of John Muir"
 
Thursday,
February 18
Connie Stetson, performance artist; "Sarah Hawkins: The Saga of a Woman Pioneer"
 
Friday,
February 19
Michael Deane Lamkin, professor of music, Scripps College; conductor, Claremont chamber orchestra; "Evening in Vienna"
Saturday,
February 20
Michael Deane Lamkin, professor of music, Scripps College; conductor, Claremont chamber orchestra; "Evening in Vienna"
 
Tuesday,
February 23
George C.S. Benson P'61, founding president, CMC; author, Amoral America (1975) and Political Corruption in America (1978); "A Call for Ethics" (12:15 p.m.)
 
Tuesday,
February 23
Charles Everett Pace, performance artist; "Malcolm X Speaks"
 
Wednesday,
February 24
Henry Kravis '67, founding partner, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Company (KKR); "The Entrepreneurial Style"
 
Thursday,
February 25
Vijay Sathe, professor of management, Claremont Graduate School; author, Controller Involvement in Management (1981) and Culture and Related Corporate Realities (1985); "Entrepreneurship in Large Companies: Rhetoric and Reality"
 
Monday,
March 1
Seymour Martin Lipset, Hazel professor of public policy, George Mason University; author, Consensus and Conflict: Essays in Political Sociology (1985) and Continental Divide: The Values and Institutions of the United States and Canada (1991); "The Meaning of the Turnover from Republicans to Democrats"
 
Tuesday,
March 2
Richard Benedick, senior fellow, World Wildlife Fund; author, Greenhouse Warming (1991) and Ozone Diplomacy: New Directions in Safeguarding the Planet (1991); "From Montreal to Rio: The New Global Diplomacy"
 
Wednesday,
March 3
Sarah Weddington, professor of government, University of Texas; author, "A Question of Choice" (1992)
 
Thursday,
March 4
Carol Tavris, fellow, American Psychological Association; co-author, The Longest War: Sex Differences in Perspective (1984) and author, "The Mismeasure of Women" (1992)
 
Monday,
March 8
Robert Dallek, professor of history and public policy, UCLA; author, Lone Star Rising: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1908-1960 (1991) and Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932-1945 (1979); "Splendid Misery: Lyndon Johnson and Vietnam"
 
Tuesday,
March 9
John Roth, Russell K. Pitzer professor of philosophy and religious studies, CMC; co-author, Approaches to Auschwitz: The Holocaust and Its Legacy (1987) and co-editor, "Different Voices: Women and the Holocaust" (1993) (12:15 p.m.)
 
Wednesday,
March 9
William Kristol, former chief of staff to Vice President Dan Quayle; "The '92 Election and Beyond"
 
Monday,
March 10
Rodrick Nash, professor of environmental studies, U.C. Santa Barbara; author, Wilderness and the American Mind (1967) and The Rights of Nature: A History of Environmental Ethics (1989); "The American Wilderness: Past, Present, and Future"
 
Monday,
March 22
Joseph Brodsky, Nobel laureate in literature (1987); U.S. poet laureate consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress (1991-92); Andrew W. Mellon professor of humanities, Mount Holyoke College; author, Less Than One: Selected Essays (1986) and A Part of Speech (1981); "A Voice in Exile" (12:15 p.m.)
 
Tuesday,
March 22
Talal Abu-Ghazaleh P'87 P'87 P'92, founder, chairman of the board, Talal Abu-Ghazaleh International; "The Challenges Facing Accounting Education"
 
Tuesday,
March 23
Ward Elliott, professor of government, CMC; author, Rise of Guardian Democracy: The Supreme Court's Role in Voting Rights Disputes, 1845-1969 (1974); "Who was Shakespeare?" (12:15 p.m.)
 
Tuesday,
March 23
Michel Oksenberg, president, East-West Center; author, Beijing Spring, 1989: Confrontation and Conflict: The Basic Documents (1992) and co-author, Policy Making in China: Leaders, Structure and Process (1990); "U.S. Cultural Diplomacy Across the Pacific"
 
Wednesday,
March 24
Lewis Ellenhorn, clarinet; professor emeritus of psychology, Pitzer College; Harrison Stephens, guitar; Claremont University Center emeritus staff; Dion Sorrell, bass; "Post Modern Jazz" (3:15 p.m.)
 
Wednesday,
March 24
Daniel Kemmis, mayor, Missoula, Montana; author, "Community and the Politics of Place" (1990)
 
Thursday,
March 25
Robert Cialdini, Regents professor of psychology, Arizona State University; author, Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (1993) and Influence: Science and Practice (1993); "Ethical Influence: Bunglers, Smugglers, and Sleuths"
 
Monday,
March 29
Andrew Krepinevich, Jr., assistant to the director, net assessment, Office of the Secretary of Defense; author, "The Army and Vietnam" (1986)
 
Tuesday,
March 30
Gerald McDermott, author, Arrow to the Sun: A Pueblo Indian Tale (1977) and Papagayo: The Mischief Maker (1992); "Animated Mythology"
 
Wednesday,
March 31
Dinner Theater, "The Mystery of Sir Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens" (1870) (6:00 p.m.)
 
Thursday,
April 1
Dinner Theater, "The Mystery of Sir Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens" (1870) (6:00 p.m.)
 
Friday,
April 2
Dinner Theater, "The Mystery of Sir Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens" (1870) (6:00 p.m.)
 
Saturday,
April 3
Dinner Theater, "The Mystery of Sir Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens" (1870) (6:00 p.m.)
 
Monday,
April 5
John Edgar Wideman, professor of English, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; author, Philadelphia Fire (1990) and Sent For You Yesterday (1983); "Readings from Work in Progress"
 
Tuesday,
April 6
Anthony Fucaloro, George C.S. Benson professor of public affairs and professor of chemistry, CMC; author, Selected Topics in Mathematics for Introductory Science Students (1978); "Antarctic Ozone Depletion" (12:15 p.m.)
 
Wednesday,
April 7
Steven Rhoads, professor of government and foreign affairs, University of Virginia; author, Valuing Life: Public Policy Dilemmas (1982) and The Economist's View of the World: Government, Markets and Public Policy (1985); "Are Women Paid What They're Worth? Pay Equity Meets the Market"
 
Thursday,
April 8
Denise Dresser, professor of political science, Mexican Autonomous Technical Institute; author, Neopopulist Solutions to Neoliberal Problems: Mexico's National Solidarity Program (1991); "The Implications of NAFTA in Mexico"
 
Monday,
April 12
David Remnick, staff writer, The New Yorker; author, Resurrection: Struggle (1988) and "Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire" (1993)
 
Tuesday,
April 13
Michael Deane Lamkin, professor of music, Scripps College; "Concert Preview: Haydn's The Creation"
 
Wednesday,
April 14
Alan Trachtenberg, Neil Gray, Jr. professor of English and American studies, Yale University; author, Brooklyn Bridge: Fact and Symbol (1965) and Reading American Photographs: Images as History, Mathew Brady to Walker Evans (1990); "Visions of the City in American Photography"
 
Thursday,
April 15
Charles Murray, W.H. Bradley scholar, American Enterprise Institute; author, Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1980 (1984) and In Pursuit: Of Happiness and Good Government (1988); "Losing Ground and In Pursuit"
 
Monday,
April 19
Juliet Schor, associate professor of economics, Harvard University; author, Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure (1993) and co-author, Tunnel Vision: Labor, the World Economy and Central America (1987); "Reflections on the Overworked American"
 
Tuesday,
April 20
Judith Merkle, professor of government, CMC; author, A Vision of Light (1989) and In Pursuit of the Green Lion (1990); "Women's Roles in Medieval Times"
 
Wednesday,
April 21
Lawrence Langer, Alumnae Endowed Chair and professor of English, Simmons College; author, Visions of Survival: The Holocaust and the Human Spirit (1982) and Holocaust Testimonies: The Ruins of Memory (1991); "Holocaust Commemoration"
 
Thursday,
April 22
Ward Elliott, professor of government, CMC; author, Rise of Guardian Democracy: The Supreme Court's Role in Voting Rights Disputes, 1845-1969 (1974); Dan Guthrie P'83, professor of biology, CMC; editor, Creel and Angler Surveys in Fisheries Management (1991); Robert Feldmeth, professor of biology, CMC; co-author, Energetics, Salinity, and Temperature (1986) and Hydraulic Aspects of Wetland Design (1988); Robert Pinnell, professor of chemistry, CMC; co-author, A Calorimetric Determination of Aspirin in Commercial Preparations (1989) and Sulfonation of Polysthyrene: Preparation and Characterization of an Ion Exchange Resin (1989); "Earth Day Symposium" (12:30 p.m.)
 
Thursday,
April 22
Tonya Hammond '93, "CMC Senior Art Show" (7:00 p.m.)
 
Tuesday,
April 27
Robert Oakley, U.S. Ambassador to Somalia; co-author, Conflict Resolution in the Middle East: Simulating a Diplomatic Negotiation Between Israel and Syria (1992); "Report from Somalia and a Look to the Future" (4:00 p.m. Pickford Auditorium)
 
Tuesday,
April 27
Timothy Wright III '77, domestic policy director, Clinton campaign; "Inside the Clinton Campaign"
 
Wednesday,
April 28
Gaden Shartse Monks of Tibet, "Sacred Earth and Healing Rituals of Tibet"
 
Thursday,
April 29
Cleve Jones, founder, NAMES Project AIDS memorial quilt (1986); "The NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt"
 

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