| Thursday, January 20 |
Wyatt Tee Walker, senior pastor, Canaan Baptist Church of Christ, Harlem; author, Somebody's Calling My Name (1983) and Road to Damascus: A Journey of Faith (1984); "The Historical Significance of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr." |
| Tuesday, January 25 |
Robert Seasonwein, senior trial attorney, Office of Special Investigation, United States Department of Justice; "Prosecuting Nazis in America" |
| Wednesday, January 26 |
James Rosenau, University professor of international affairs, George Washington University, author, The United Nations in a Turbulent World (1992) and "Turbulence in World Politics: A Theory of Change and Continuity" (1990) |
| Thursday, January 27 |
Michael Malbin, professor of political science, SUNY Albany; author, Unelected Representatives: Congressional Staff and the Future of Representational Government (1980) and co-editor, Limiting Legislative Terms (1992), "Undivided Government? Clinton's First Year with Congress" |
| Monday, January 31 |
Edward Donnerstein, professor of psychology, U.C. Santa Barbara; author, The Question of Pornography: Research Findings and Policy Implications (1987) and Big World, Small Screen: The Role of Television in American Society (1992); "Mass Media Violence: What Do We Know, What Can We Do?" |
| Tuesday, February 1 |
Arista Cirtautas, instructor of government, CMC; editor, Nicholas Pope: A Bibliography of Publications, 1924-1977 (1978); "Back to the Future? Europe Since the End of the Cold War" (12:15 p.m.) |
| Tuesday, February 1 |
Kimberle Crenshaw, professor of law, UCLA; co-author, Words That Wound: Critical Race Theory, Assaultive Speech and the First Amendment (1992) and co-editor, forthcoming Critical Race Theory: A Reader (1995); "The Intersection of Race and Gender in Law, Politics, and Popular Culture" |
| Wednesday, February 2 |
Neil Howe, senior advisor, Blackstone Group on Public Policy; co-author, 13th Gen: Abort, Retry, Fail? (1993) and On Borrowed Time: How the Growth in Entitlement Spending Threatens America's Future (1988); "Generations: What Comes After the Baby Boomers?" |
| Thursday, February 3 |
Eric Marcus, journalist; author, The Male Couple's Guide to Living Together: What Gay Men Should Know About Living With Each Other and Coping in a Straight World (1988) and "Making History: The Struggle for Gay and Lesbian Civil Rights, 1945-1990, An Oral History" (1992) |
| Monday, February 7 |
Coleman McCarthy, columnist, Washington Post; "How to be an Effective Peacemaker" |
| Tuesday, February 8 |
Charlotte Joko Beck, Zen teacher; co-author, Everyday Zen: Love and Work (1989) and Nothing Special: Living Zen (1993); "Everyday Zen: Conversations with a Contemporary American Zen Teacher" |
| Wednesday, February 9 |
Lunar New Year Celebration, San Gabriel Valley Chinese Cultural Association; "Year of the Dog" |
| Thursday, February 10 |
Colleen Tribby '96, piano and vocals; "Musical Tea" (3:00 p.m.) |
| Thursday, February 10 |
Oscar Coffey, president and CEO, U.S. African American Chamber of Commerce; "Solutions to the Economic Problems of African Americans: Implications for the Future of America" |
| Monday, February 14 |
Gwendolyn Lytle, soprano; associate professor of music, Pomona College; Althea Waite, piano; "The Other American Music" |
| Tuesday, February 15 |
Terrence Roberts, psychology chair, Antioch University, Los Angeles; "Little Rock Revisited: An Assessment of the Modern Civil Rights Movement" |
| Wednesday, February 16 |
Chalmers Johnson, professor of Pacific international relations, U.C. San Diego; author, Revolutionary Change (1982) and An Instance of Treason: Ozaki Hotsumi and the Sorge Spy Ring (1990); "The Foundations of Japan's Wealth and Power and Why They Baffle the United States" |
| Thursday, February 17 |
Shelby Steele P'96, professor of English, San Jose State University; author, The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race in America (1990); "Civil Rights and Civil Wrongs: The Politics of Virtue" |
| Tuesday, February 22 |
Lee Stetson, performance artist; author, John Muir: The Spirit of Wilderness (1992); "An Evening with John Muir" |
| Wednesday, February 23 |
Hortencia Valles '94, vocals; Alejandro Hernandez '96, vocals and guitar; "Musical Tea" (3:00 p.m.) |
| Wednesday, February 23 |
David Buss, professor of psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; co-author of Personality Psychology: Recent Trends and Emerging Directions (1989) and author of "The Evolution of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating" (1994) |
| Thursday, February 24 |
Kenton Youngstrom, guitar; "Classical Guitar: Music by Spanish Composers Granados, Terago, and Rodrigo" |
| Monday, February 28 |
Robert Pollack, professor of microbiology, Columbia University; author, "Signs of Life: The Language and Meanings of DNA" (1994) |
| Tuesday, March 1 |
Susan Murphy, assistant professor of psychology, CMC; "Developing Leadership: The Role of Personality and Behavior" (12:15 p.m.) |
| Tuesday, March 1 |
BD Wong, actor; "Change, Hope, and Equality for Asian Americans" |
| Wednesday, March 2 |
Herman Belz, professor of history, University of Maryland, College Park; author, The American Constitution: Its Origins and Development (1991) and Equality Transformed: A Quarter Century of Affirmative Action (1990); "Affirmative Action and American Equality" |
| Thursday, March 3 |
Chaim Seidler-Feller, Rabbi, UCLA Hillel; Mark Wilson, Pastor, McGee Avenue Baptist Church, Berkeley; "A Panel Discussion on Jewish and African American Relations" |
| Monday, March 7 |
Derek Mahon, poet; author, Night-Crossing (1968) and Selected Poems (1992); "Poetry Reading" |
| Tuesday, March 8 |
Tatyana Tolstaya, professor of literature, Princeton University; author, On the Golden Porch (1989) and Sleepwalker in a Fog (1992); "Culture and Society in Contemporary Russia" |
| Wednesday, March 9 |
Bobby Bradford, cornet; lecturer in music, director of Jazz Ensemble, Pomona College; Roberto Miranda, bass; William Jeffrey, drums; Sony Phillips, piano; Vinnie Golia, woodwinds; "The Bobby Bradford Mo'tet Jazz Concert" |
| Tuesday, March 22 |
Leah Chase, master chef; author, The Dooky Chase Cookbook (1990); "The History of New Orleans Culture and Cuisine" |
| Wednesday, March 23 |
John McPhee, professor of journalism, Princeton University; author, A Sense of Where You Are (1965) and Assembling California (1993); Yolanda McPhee, "Rising from the Plains" (1986) |
| Monday, March 28 |
Paul Cantor, professor of English, University of Virginia; author, Creature and Creator: Myth Making and the English Romanticism (1985) and Shakespeare's Rome: Republic and Empire (1976); "Shakespeare in the Original Klingon: Star Trek and the End of History" |
| Tuesday, March 29 |
Russell Leong, adjunct professor of Asian Studies, UCLA; author, "The Country of Dreams and Dust" (1993) |
| Wednesday, March 30 |
Hugh Hewitt, attorney; author, First Principles: A Primer of Ideas for the College-Bound Student (1987); Ruben Martinez, news editor, L.A. Weekly; Los Angeles bureau chief, Pacific News Service; author, The Other Side: Notes from the New LA, Mexico City, and Beyond (1993) and The Other Side: Fault Lines, Guerilla Saints, and the True Heart of Rock'N'Roll (1992); Patt Morrison, staff writer, Los Angeles Times; "Panel Discussion on Immigration Policy" |
| Thursday, March 31 |
Stephen Fairchild '90, white water river guide; "Waterways of the World" |
| Monday, April 4 |
Joel Kotkin, founder, Newvisions Business Council of Southern California; co-author, California, Inc. (1982) and author, Tribes: How Race, Religion, and Identity Determine Success in the New Global Economy (1994); "Immigration and the California Economy" |
| Tuesday, April 5 |
Frank Wilkinson, founder and executive director, First Amendment Foundation; "The Un-Americans: The Price of Freedom" (12:15 p.m.) |
| Tuesday, April 5 |
Robert Stone, author, Outerbridge Reach (1992) and Hall of Mirrors (1967); "The Legacy of Wallace Stegner" |
| Thursday, April 7 |
Dinner Theater, "The Crucible" by Arthur Miller (1954) (6:00 p.m.) |
| Friday, April 8 |
Dinner Theater, "The Crucible" by Arthur Miller (1954) (6:00 p.m.) |
| Saturday, April 9 |
Dinner Theater, "The Crucible" by Arthur Miller (1954) (6:00 p.m.) |
| Monday, April 11 |
Thomas Keneally, novelist and playwright; distinguished professor of literature, U.C. Irvine; author, To Asmara: A Novel of Africa (1989) and Flying Hero Class (1991); "Schindler's List: Book and Film" |
| Tuesday, April 12 |
Krzysztof Jasiewicz, professor of sociology, Washington and Lee University; co-editor, Why Did They Vote This Way?: Presidential Election '90 (1993) and author, Poles '84 As Seen A Year and a Half Later (1986); "Is Democracy in East Central Europe Viable?" |
| Wednesday, April 13 |
Michael Berenbaum, director, United States Holocaust Research Institute of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum; Hymen Goldman adjunct professor of theology, Georgetown University; author, After Tragedy and Triumph: Essays in Modern Jewish Thought and the American Experience (1991) and co-editor, The Holocaust: Religious and Philosophical Implications (1989); "The Holocaust and Its Remembrance" |
| Thursday, April 14 |
Chong-Sik Lee, professor of political science, University of Pennsylvania; author, Korea: Land of the Morning Calm (1988) and Japan and Korea: The Political Dimension (1991); "North Korea at the Crossroads" |
| Monday, April 18 |
Christine Littleton, professor of law, UCLA; author, Reconstructing Sexual Equality (1987) and Feminist and Jurisprudence: The Difference Method Makes (1989); "Feminist Legal Theory: Sexual Harassment" |
| Tuesday, April 19 |
William Cronon, professor of history, University of Wisconsin-Madison; author, Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England (1983) and Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (1991); "Telling Tales on Canvas: Landscapes of Frontier Change" |
| Wednesday, April 20 |
Frank LaMere, executive director, Nebraska Indian Intertribal Development Corporation; "Indigenous People in the Modern World" |
| Tuesday, April 26 |
Adam Pack, senior research coordinator, Kewalo Basin Marine Mammal Laboratory; "Are Dolphins Even Smarter Than We Thought?" |
| Wednesday, April 27 |
Reed Tuckson, president, Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science, Los Angeles; "Health Care: Hope and Reality" |
| Thursday, April 28 |
Dorothy Height, president and CEO, National Council of Negro Women; editor, The Black Family Dinner Quilt Cookbook: Health Conscious Recipes and Food Memories (1992); "Black Women Who Have Helped Change America" |