| Thursday, January 18 |
Juan Williams, correspondent, Washington Post; author, Eyes on the Prize: American Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965 (1987); "Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemoration" |
| Monday, January 22 |
Tammy Bruce, president, Los Angeles chapter of National Organization for Women (NOW); "Women's Issues/Women's Lives: A New Feminist Perspective" |
| Tuesday, January 23 |
Christopher Harmon, professor of international relations, Command and Staff College, U.S. Marine Corps, co-editor, Statecraft and Power: Essays in Honor of Harold W. Rood (1994) and author, Terrorism and Political Violence (1992); "International Terrorism and the Foreign Relations of the U.S. in the Twenty-first Century" |
| Wednesday, January 24 |
Sergei Khrushchev, senior research fellow, Brown University; author, Khrushchev on Khrushchev: An Inside Account of the Man and His Era, By His Son (1990) and Disintegration and Consolidation: Natural Separatism and the Evolution of Center-Periphery Relations in the Russian Federation (1995); "Russian Economic and Political Reformation" C-SPAN |
| Thursday, January 25 |
Robert Pinsky, poet, professor of English and creative writing, Boston University; author, The Want Bone (1990) and Poetry and the World (1988); "Poet Reads From His Work" |
| Monday, January 29 |
Susan Greenberg, flute; Clayton Haslop, violin; Jennie Hansen, viola; Barbara George, cello; "Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra Soloists: A Concert in Celebration of Mozart's Birthday" |
| Tuesday, January 30 |
Michael Uhlmann, senior fellow, Ethics and Public Policy Center; "Whatever Happened to Limited Government? Or, Why You'll Still Have a Headache the Morning After They Balance the Budget, If They Balance the Budget" (12:15 p.m.) |
| Tuesday, January 30 |
Ilan Stavans, professor of romance languages, Amherst; author, Bandido: Oscar 'Zeta' Acosta and the Chicano Experience (1995) and "The Hispanic Condition: Reflections on Culture and Identity in America" (1995) |
| Thursday, February 1 |
Helena Viramontes, professor of creative writing, Cornell University; author, The Moth and Other Stories (1985) and "Under the Feet of Jesus" (1995) |
| Monday, February 5 |
Linda Chavez, president, Center for Equal Opportunity; author, Out of the Barrio: Toward a New Politics of Hispanic Assimilation (1991) and What To Do About Immigration (1995); "Immigration, Affirmative Action, and the American Dream" |
| Tuesday, February 6 |
Steve Remp '69, founder, Ramco, oil maintenance company; "Back to Baku: Re-emergence of the Caspian as a Great Oil Province" |
| Wednesday, February 7 |
David Brower, chairman, Earth Island Institute; author, For Earth's Sake: The Life and Times of David Brower (1990) and Work in Process (1991); "A Vision of the Future: Environmental Imperatives in the Twenty-first Century" |
| Thursday, February 8 |
Joseph Kirshvink, professor of geobiology, California Institute of Technology; "Biological Bar Magnets and the Cancer-Electromagnetic Field Debate" |
| Monday, February 12 |
Jerzy Illg, editor-in-chief, ZNAK Publishing House; editor, The Politics of Impossible Worlds (1988) and Conversations with Joseph Brodsky (1993); "The Challenge to Literature and Publishing in Post-Communist Poland" |
| Tuesday, February 13 |
Nancy Fierro, professor of music, Mount St. Mary's College, Los Angeles; author, Hildegard of Bingen and Her Vision of the Feminine (1994); "The Remarkable Hildegard of Bingen: Her Life, Visions, and Music" (10:30 a.m.) |
| Tuesday, February 13 |
Efraim Zuroff, director, Simon Wiesenthal Center, Jerusalem; author, Occupation: Nazi Hunter- The Continuing Search for the Perpetrators (1994) and co-author, Rescue Attempts During the Holocaust (1978); "Genocide in Rwanda" |
| Wednesday, February 14 |
Kevin Phillips, political analyst, The American Political Research Corporation; author, Arrogant Capital: Washington, Wall Street, and the Frustration of American Politics (1994) and Boiling Point: Republicans, Democrats and the Decline of Middle Class Prosperity (1993); "Pitbulls and Puffers: Politics and Choices in 1996" |
| Thursday, February 15 |
Lunar New Year Celebration, San Gabriel Valley Chinese Cultural Association; "Year of the Rat" |
| Monday, February 19 |
Ralph Reed, executive director, Christian Coalition; author, forthcoming Active Faith: How Christians are Changing the Face of American Politics (1996) and Politically Incorrect: The Emerging Faith Factor in American Politics (1994); " The Role of Religion and Values in American Politics" |
| Tuesday, February 20 |
Jeff Eisenbach '79, president, Progress and Freedom Foundation; "Conservative Revolution: The Future of American Politics" |
| Wednesday, February 21 |
Abraham Cooper, associate dean, Simon Wiesenthal Center, Los Angeles; "Hate Crimes on the Internet" |
| Thursday, February 22 |
Yevgeny Yevtushenko, author, Don't Die Before You're Dead (1995) and The Collected Poems, 1952-1990 (1991); "Poet Reads From His Work" |
| Monday, February 26 |
Lyn Nofziger, founder, Nofziger Communications, Inc.; author, Nofziger (1992); "Campaign '96" (6:45 p.m. Parents Dining Room) |
| Monday, February 26 |
Salam al-Marayati, director, Muslim Public Affairs Council, Los Angeles; "The Challenge of Islamic Resurgence" |
| Tuesday, February 27 |
Ron Lehman II '68, assistant to the director, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; "Advanced Technology and Warfare in the Twenty-first Century" |
| Wednesday, February 28 |
Maria Casale, professor of harp, Pepperdine University; "A Recital of Music for the Harp" |
| Thursday, February 29 |
Dan Wakefield, professor of nonfiction creative writing, Florida International University, Miami; author, Expect a Miracle: The Miraculous Things That Happen to Ordinary People (1995) and New York in the 50s (1992); "Booze and the Muse: The Mythology of Alcohol and Creativity" |
| Monday, March 4 |
William Gibson, author, Neuromancer (1984) and Mona Lisa Overdrive (1989); "Reading from Idoru" (1996) |
| Tuesday, March 5 |
Eileen Padberg, political consultant; "Orange County Politics: Post Bankruptcy" (12:15 p.m.) |
| Tuesday, March 5 |
Wayne Booth, George M. Pullman Distinguished Service professor of English, University of Chicago; author, The Vocation of a Teacher: Rhetorical Occasions, 1967-1988 (1990) and The Company We Keep: An Ethics of Fiction (1988); "The Rhetoric of Assent Today" |
| Wednesday, March 6 |
Sarah Blafer Hrdy, professor of anthropology, U.C. Davis; author, The Langurs of Abu: Female and Male Strategies of Reproduction (1977) and The Woman Who Never Evolved (1981); "Raising Darwin's Consciousness: Female Sexuality and the Prehomid Origins of Patriarchy" |
| Wednesday, March 20 |
Steve Lopez '75, professor of psychology, UCLA; "Thinking Carefully About Culture and Race in Human Behavior" |
| Thursday, March 21 |
M.G. Lord, author, Prig Tales: Ethics and Etiquette for the 90's (1990) and "Forever Barbie: The Unauthorized Biography of a Real Doll" (1994) |
| Monday, March 25 |
Ruben Martinez, Los Angeles bureau chief, Pacific News Service; author, The Other Side: Fault Lines, Guerrilla Saints, and the True Heart of Rock 'n' Roll (1992) and The Other Side: Notes from the New L.A., Mexico City, and Beyond (1993); "The Tense Embrace of the Other: U.S.-Mexico Relations" C-SPAN |
| Tuesday, March 26 |
Hugh Ross, professor of physical science, Simon Greenleaf University; author, Creation and Time: A Biblical and Scientific Perspective on the Creation-Date Controversy (1994) and The Creator and the Cosmos: How the Greatest Scientific Discoveries of the Century Reveal God (1993); "Science and Religion" |
| Wednesday, March 27 |
Susan Douglas, professor of media and American studies, Hampshire College; author, Inventing American Broadcasting, 1899-1922 (1987) and "Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female in Mass Media" (1994) |
| Thursday, March 28 |
Martin Marty, Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service professor of history of modern Christianity, University of Chicago; author, The Glory and the Power: The Fundamentalist Challenge to the Modern World (1993) and Pilgrims in Their Own Land: 500 Years of Religion in America (1984); "The Changing Face of Religion in America: Religious Fundamentalism" |
| Monday, April 1 |
Michael Rothschild, futurist; president, Bionomics Institute; author, Bionomics: The Inevitability of Capitalism (1990) and Bionomics: Economy as Business Ecosystem (1990); "From the Machine Age to Knowledge Age: Welcome to the Fourth Information Revolution" |
| Tuesday, April 2 |
Manuel Pastor, Jr., associate professor of economics, Occidental College; author, Latinos and the Los Angeles Uprising: The Economic Context (1993) and Inflation, Stabilization, and Debt: Macroeconomic Experiments in Peru and Bolivia (1992); "Crisis, Reform, and Crisis: Deja Vu and the Absence of Memory in Mexico's Political Economy" |
| Wednesday, April 3 |
Douglas Dunston, conductor; doctoral candidate, Claremont Graduate School; "Stravinsky's L'Histoire du Soldat" |
| Thursday, April 4 |
Paul Krugman, professor of economics, Stanford University; author, The Self-Organizing Economy (1996) and Peddling Prosperity: Economic Sense and Nonsense in the Age of Diminished Expectations (1994); "Trade and Wages" |
| Monday, April 8 |
Peter Gay, Sterling professor emeritus of history, Yale University; author, Freud: A Life for Our Time (1989) and Voltaire Politics: The Poet as Realist (1988); "Bourgeoisophobi" |
| Tuesday, April 9 |
James Klages, trumpet and cornet soloist; Hao Huang, piano, assistant professor of music, Scripps College; "Three Centuries of High Brass" |
| Wednesday, April 10 |
Donald McKenna, founding trustee, CMC; author, The Roots of Kennametal: Or Philip McKenna and How He Grew (1972) and Roots of Malcolm Carnegie McKenna (1992); "The Hopi Indians: Culture and Art" |
| Thursday, April 11 |
Dinner Theater, "The Black Duck" by Bill Svanoe (1991) (6:00 p.m.) |
| Friday, April 12 |
Dinner Theater, "The Black Duck" by Bill Svanoe (1991) (6:00 p.m.) |
| Saturday, April 13 |
Dinner Theater, "The Black Duck" by Bill Svanoe (1991) (6:00 p.m.) |
| Monday, April 15 |
P. Edward Haley, professor of international relations, CMC; author, Strategic Defense Initiative: Folly or Future? (1986) and co-author, Nuclear Strategy, Arms Control, and the Future (1988); "Rejecting Complacency and Despair: Reflections on the Holocaust" |
| Tuesday, April 16 |
Michael Posner, professor of psychology, University of Oregon; author, Cognition: An Introduction (1973) and "Images of the Mind" (1994) |
| Wednesday, April 17 |
Patrick Garrity, senior policy analyst, Los Alamos National Laboratory; author, Nuclear Weapons in the Changing World: Perspectives from Europe, Asia, and North America (1992) and co-author, Reducing the Risk of Nuclear War: A Report of CSIS on Strategy and Arms Control (1985); "Strategic Imperatives for the U.S. in the Twenty-first Century" |
| Thursday, April 18 |
Milton Friedman, Nobel laureate in economic sciences (1976); Paul Snowden Russell Distinguished Service professor emeritus of economics, University of Chicago; author, A Theory of Consumption Function (1957) and Bright Promises, Dismal Performance (1983); "Free Markets and Free Men" (McKenna Auditorium) C-SPAN |
| Friday, April 19 |
Rica Burton, director, Choice Professionals; Lindsey Johnson, Co-CEO, Women Incorporated; co-author, A Woman's Place is Everywhere: Inspirational Profiles of Female Leaders Who are Expanding the Roles of American Women (1994); Carla Dartis, vice president, Community Development Bank; Helen Anderson, president, Rayvern Lighting; "Maverick Mavens: Understanding the Entrepreneurial Spirit" (9:15 a.m.) |
| Friday, April 19 |
Beate Chelette, president, Beate Works; Yolanda Davis, president, The WestWork Group; Margaret Pitts, president, Data Management & Recycling; Vivian Shimoyama, president, Breakthru Unlimited; "Maverick Mavens: A View From the Front" (10:45 a.m.) |
| Friday, April 19 |
Patty DeDominic, founder and CEO, PDQ Personnel Services, Inc.; author, forthcoming The New World of Work (1996); "Maverick Mavens: Making Dreams Come True" (12:15 p.m.) |
| Tuesday, April 23 |
Audrey Bilger, drums; Catherine Lombardo, guitar; Cee Harrelson, bass; Irene Vasquez, harmonica; "Kool Blue Sisters: Another Side of Blues" (3:00 p.m.) |
| Wednesday, April 24 |
Donald Kagan, Hillhouse professor of history, classics, and western civilization, Yale University; author, On the Origins of War and the Preservation of Peace (1994) and The Fall of the Athenian Empire (1987); "The Second World War and Lasting Peace" |