| Tuesday, January 21 |
Constance Baker Motley, senior United States district judge; "Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemorative Lecture: The Supreme Court and Affirmative Action" |
| Thursday, January 23 |
Helena Norberg-Hodge, anthropologist; author, Ancient Futures: Learning from the Ladakh (1991) and co-author, The Future of Progress: Reflections on Environment and Development (1995); "Economic Literacy for Personal and Political Renewal" |
| Monday, January 27 |
John Roth, Russell K. Pitzer professor of philosophy and religious studies, CMC; author, Inspiring Teaching: Carnegie Professors of the Year Speak (1996) and co-author, Different Voices: Women and the Holocaust (1993); Steve Smith, professor of philosophy, CMC; co-author, Now Zen (1995) and Nothing Special: Living Zen (1994); Mark Blitz, professor of government, CMC; author, Heidegger's Being and Time and the Possibility of Political Philosophy (1981); Jim Nichols, Jr., professor of government, CMC; co-editor, From Political Economy to Economics---And Back? (1990) and author, Epicurean Political Philosophy: The Dererum Nature of Lucretius (1976); "Government /Philosophy Faculty Debate: The Criminal Justice System Should be Based on Retribution" |
| Tuesday, January 28 |
Preethi de Silva, professor of music, Scripps College; Mary Beth Haag, lecturer in voice, Scripps College; Roland Kato, principal violist, L.A. Chamber Orchestra; Charles Zukovsky, clarinet; "Con Gioia Early Music ensemble: Concert Commemorating Mozart's 241st Birthday (January 27), Schubert's 200th Birthday (January 31), and the 150th Anniversary of the Death of Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel (1805-1847)" |
| Wednesday, January 29 |
David Doud '90, author; "Berlin 2000: The Center of Europe" (1995) |
| Thursday, January 30 |
Donna Shirley, director of the Mars program, Jet Propulsion Laboratory; "Invading Mars" |
| Monday, February 3 |
Orley Ashenfelter '64, Joseph Douglas Green 1895 professor of economics, Princeton University; author, forthcoming Economic Institutions and the Demand and Supply of Labor: The Collected Essays of Orley Ashenfelter, Volume Three (1997) and Education, Training, and Discrimination: The Collected Essays of Orley Ashenfelter, Volume Two (1997); "The Economic Payoff to Education" |
| Tuesday, February 4 |
Orley Ashenfelter '64, Joseph Douglas Green 1895 professor of economics, Princeton University; author, Collecting Panel Data in Developing Countries: Does It Make Sense (1985) and co-author, The Economics of Training (1996); "Anatomy of an Inefficient Market: Wine" |
| Wednesday, February 5 |
Anthony Hecht, U.S. poet laureate and consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress (1982-84); professor of English, Georgetown University; author, Flight Among the Tombs: Poems (1996) and Collected Earlier Poems: The Complete Texts of the Hard Times (1967); Millions of Strange Shadows (1977); The Venetian Vespers (1975) (1990); "Poet Reads From His Work" |
| Thursday, February 6 |
Christopher Logue, poet; author, Kings: An Account of Books One and Two of Homer's Iliad (1991) and The Husbands: An Account of Books Three and Four of Homer's Iliad (1995); "An Account of Homer's Iliad" (800 B.C.E.) |
| Monday, February 10 |
Kathleen Connell, California State Controller; "The Future of Government in California" |
| Tuesday, February 11 |
Xylina Bean, medical director, King/Drew Medical Center; "Medicine in the Year 2000: Meeting the Health Care Needs of High Risk Populations" |
| Wednesday, February 12 |
Ken Gergen, Gil and Frank Mustin professor of psychology, Swarthmore College; author, Realities and Relationships: Soundings in Social Construction (1994) and The Saturated Self: Dilemmas of Identity in Contemporary Life (1991); "Technology, Self, and the Moral Project" |
| Thursday, February 13 |
Will Bagley, author, Frontiersman: Abner Blackburn's Narrative (1992) and co-author, This is the Place: A Crossroads of Utah's Past (1996); "Saints, Sinners, and Scoundrels: A New Look at the Overland Emigration of 1846" |
| Sunday, February 16 |
James Earl Jones, actor; author, James Earl Jones: Voices and Silences (1994); "An Afternoon with James Earl Jones" (4:00 p.m. Bridges Auditorium) |
| Monday, February 17 |
Rosemari Johnson, anesthesiologist, Scripps Clinic, La Jolla; "The History of Women in Medicine" |
| Tuesday, February 18 |
Phillip Johnson, professor of criminal law, U.C. Berkeley; author, Darwin on Trial (1991) and Reason in the Balance: The Case Against Naturalism in Science, Law, and Education (1995); "The New Creation/Evolution Controversy" |
| Wednesday, February 19 |
Gary Okihiro, professor of history, Cornell University; author, Margins and Mainstreams: Asians in American History and Culture (1994) and co-author, "Whispered Silences: Japanese Americans and World War II" (1996) |
| Thursday, February 20 |
Seth Lerer, professor of English and comparative literature, Stanford University; author, Chaucer and His Readers (1993) and Reading from the Margins: Textual Studies, Chaucer, and Medieval Literature (1996); "Chaucer and His Voyeurs: Medieval Texts, Early Modern Readers" |
| Monday, February 24 |
Winona LaDuke, campaign director, White Earth Reservation Recovery Project; author, The Wind Won't Know Me: A History of the Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute (1993) and Beyond the Four Corners of the World: A Navajo Woman's Journey (1995); "Native Americans and the Environment" |
| Tuesday, February 25 |
Edward Humes, journalist; author, Mississippi Mud: A True Story from a Corner of the Deep South (1995) and "No Matter How Loud I Shout: A Year in the Life of Juvenile Court" (1996) |
| Wednesday, February 26 |
Lunar New Year Celebration, "Year of the Ox" |
| Thursday, February 27 |
Antonio Damasio, M.W. Van Allen professor of neurology, University of Iowa College of Medicine; co-author, Lesion Analysis in Neuropsychology (1989) and author, "Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain" (1994) |
| Friday, February 28 |
Hadley Arkes, Edward Ney professor of jurisprudence and American Institutions, Amherst College; author, The Return of George Sutherland (1994) and Beyond the Constitution (1990); Michael Krauss, professor of law, George Mason University Law School; Michael McConnell, professor of law, University of Utah Law School; Michael Uhlmann, senior fellow, Ethics and Public Policy Center; "Law and Legal Culture in America" (12:30 p.m.) |
| Monday, March 3 |
Brian Moore, author, The Statement (1996) and Black Robe: A Novel (1985); "A Reading and Discussion of His Work" |
| Tuesday, March 4 |
Robert Mezey, professor of literature, Pomona College; author, The Lovemaker (1960) and Evening Wind (1987); Virginia Adair, author, Ants on the Melon (1996); "Readings from Three Poets: Robert Mezey, Virginia Adair, and Jorge Luis Borges" |
| Wednesday, March 5 |
Kenny Burrell, guitar, director of the jazz program, UCLA; "An Evening of Jazz" |
| Thursday, March 6 |
Paul Hawken, chairperson, The Natural Step; author, Growing A Business (1987) and The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability (1993); "Natural Capitalism" |
| Monday, March 10 |
John Hart, author, Storm Over Mono: The Mono Lake Battle and the California Water Future (1996) and Farming on the Edge: Saving Family Farms in Marin County, California (1991); "The Improbable Saving of Mono Lake: Implications for Environmental Problem Solving" |
| Tuesday, March 11 |
Merrily Wright, author, The Lowly Cowchip and Other Pungent Poetry (1995) and artist on album Sage on the Sage (1997); "Cowboy Poetry and Song" |
| Wednesday, March 12 |
Paul Apodaca, professor of social sciences, Chapman College; co-author, Images of Power: Masterworks of the Bowers Museum of Cultural Art (1995); Alvina Siva, leader, Traditional Cahuilla Bird Singers; "The Traditional Cahuilla Bird Singers" |
| Thursday, March 13 |
Harry McMahon '75, managing director, Merrill Lynch; Henry Kravis '67, founding partner, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Company (KKR); "Leadership Lite: Winning Formula for Investment Banking" (12:30 p.m.) |
| Monday, March 24 |
Lynn Scarlett, vice president of research, Reason Foundation; author, A Consumers Guide to Environmental Myths and Realities (1991); "New Environmentalism: Integrating Economics, Science, and Values" |
| Tuesday, March 25 |
Buck Ramsey, author, As I Rode Out On the Morning (1993) and co-author, Christmas Waltz (1996); artist on albums Rollin' Uphill from Texas (1992) and My Home was in Texas (1994); Andy Wilkinson, artist on albums of poetry and songs Charlie Goodnight (1994) and The Road is Still the Road (1996); "Cowboy Poetry and Song" |
| Wednesday, March 26 |
Judy Shelton, economist, author, The Coming Soviet Crash: Gorbachev's Desperate Pursuit of Credit in Western Financial Markets (1989) and Money Meltdown: Restoring Order to the Global Currency System (1994); "Stable Money and Global Free Trade" |
| Thursday, March 27 |
Gaines Post, Jr., professor of history, CMC; author, Dilemmas of Appeasement: British Deterrence and Defense, 1934-37 (1993) and German Unification: Problems and Prospects (1992); "Cold War Stories" |
| Monday, March 31 |
David Edward, CEO, The Body Shop; "Entrepreneurship and Social Responsibility" |
| Tuesday, April 1 |
Gordon O'Brien, guitar; "Music for Classical Guitar" |
| Wednesday, April 2 |
Harry Summers, Jr., syndicated columnist, Los Angeles Times; author, On Strategy: A Critical Analysis of the Vietnam War (1982) and Historical Atlas of the Vietnam War (1995); "Strategic Prescriptions for the Future" |
| Thursday, April 3 |
Joyce Badgley Hunsaker, performance artist; author, Fanny (1994) and The Oregon Trail Center at Flagstaff Hill (1995); "Fanny and Friends: Historical Interpretation of Women's Changing Roles on the Oregon Trail" |
| Monday, April 7 |
Adam Michnik, editor, Gazeta Wyborcza, author, Letters From Prison and Other Essays (1985) and The Church and the Left (1993); "Paradoxes of Post-Communism" (4:00 p.m. Pickford Auditorium) |
| Monday, April 7 |
Susan Love, founder, National Breast Cancer Coalition; co-author, Dr. Susan Love's Breast Book (1990); "The Politics of Breast Cancer" |
| Tuesday, April 8 |
Stephen Kay '64, head deputy, Long Beach office of the Los Angeles County Office of the District Attorney; "Linda Sobek: Murder of a Model" |
| Wednesday, April 9 |
Maggie Wang '97, piano; Doug Dunston, conductor, Claremont Festival Orchestra; "Senior Piano Recital" |
| Thursday, April 10 |
Alan Ehrenhalt, executive editor, Governing; co-author, Present Discontents: American Politics in the Very Late Twentieth Century (1997) and author, The United States of Ambition: Politicians, Power and the Pursuit of Office (1991); "Community and the Future of American Government" |
| Monday, April 14 |
Gwendolyn Brooks, U.S. poet laureate consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress (1985-86); author, Blacks (1987) and Primer for Blacks (1991); "Poet Reads From Her Work" |
| Tuesday, April 15 |
William Kristol, editor and publisher, The Weekly Standard; co-editor, The Neoconservative Imagination: Essays in Honor of Irving Kristol (1995); "A Conservative Future?" |
| Thursday, April 17 |
Dinner Theater, "The Senator Wore Pantyhose" by Billy Van Zandt and Jane Milmore (1989) (6:00 p.m.) |
| Friday, April 18 |
Dinner Theater, "The Senator Wore Pantyhose" by Billy Van Zandt and Jane Milmore (1989) (6:00 p.m.) |
| Saturday, April 19 |
Dinner Theater, "The Senator Wore Pantyhose" by Billy Van Zandt and Jane Milmore (1989) (6:00 p.m.) |
| Monday, April 21 |
Les Benedict; Kevin Mayse; Rich Chasin; Steve Charpie; Tom Bridges; Timm Boatman; Robb Stewart; Rod Mathews; Buddy Lang; Scott Helberg; Bill Reichenbach; John Beck; artists on album Brass Mounted Army: Music of the Old Horse Cavalry; "California Gold Rush Brass Band: Gold Rush Period Music" |
| Tuesday, April 22 |
Lorraine Ware '88, pulmonary and critical-care fellow, U.C. San Francisco; "From CMC to the ICU: Reflections on Becoming a Doctor" |
| Wednesday, April 23 |
Michael Boskin, T. M. Friedman professor of economics, Stanford University; author, Frontiers of Tax Reform (1995) and co-author, World Tax Reform: Case Studies of Developed and Developing Countries (1990); "Globalization and Its Discontent" (4:00 p.m.) |
| Thursday, April 24 |
Ward Connerly, regent, University of California; co-author, Pride and Prejudice: Black Business Leaders Ask: Is It Time to Set Quotas Aside? (1995); "Proposition 209 and the Future of Civil Rights in America" C-SPAN |
| Saturday, May 3 |
Jack Stark '57, president, CMC; Janet Myhre, Dengler-Dykema professor of mathematics and mathmatical economics, CMC; Steve Smith, professor of philosophy, CMC; co-author, Now Zen (1995) and Nothing Special: Living Zen (1994); Elenor Taylor '81, director of alumni relations, CMC; Bill Woods II '77, partner, Ernst & Young, LLP, Los Angeles; "20th Anniversary of Women at CMC" (11:00 a.m.) |
| Saturday, May 3 |
Linda Griego, president and CEO, Rebuild LA; "Los Angeles Five Years After the Riots: The Rebounding Community" (12:30 p.m.) |