| Monday, January 26 |
Schlyeen Qualls, actor; "The Last Word: Celebrating the Life of Martin Luther King Jr. with Poetry and Prose" |
| Tuesday, January 27 |
Michael Dukakis, professor of public policy, UCLA; co-author, Creating the Future: The Massachusetts Comeback and Its Promise for America (1988) and Revenue Enforcement Tax Amnesty and the Federal Deficit (1986); "Critical Issues in Contemporary Politics" |
| Wednesday, January 28 |
Kenneth Leung, senior lecturer in the department of journalism and communication, Chinese University of Hong Kong; author, Public Relations in Hong Kong: An Institutional Perspective (1995) and Media and Law and Practice in Hong Kong (1995); "Freedom of the Press in Hong Kong: Before and After 1997" (12:15 p.m.) |
| Wednesday, January 28 |
Mariah Burton Nelson, author, The Stronger Women Get, the More Men Love Football: Sexism and the American Culture of Sports (1995) and co-author, Are We Winning Yet?: How Women are Changing Sports and Sports are Changing Women (1991); "The Courage to Compete" |
| Thursday, January 29 |
Mike Hertel, manager of environmental affairs, Southern California Edison; "Environmental Regulation in the 21st Century: We Need a Change" |
| Monday, February 2 |
George Plimpton, author, Truman Capote, In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances, and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career (1997) and Paper Lion (1966); "Tru Confessions" |
| Tuesday, February 3 |
Oliver Sacks, neurologist; author, An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales (1995) and Awakenings (1973); "Neurology and the Soul" |
| Wednesday, February 4 |
Adrienne Rich, poet; author, Diving into the Wreck: Poems 1971-1972 (1973) and Dark Fields of the Republic, Poems 1991-1995 (1995); "Poet Reads From Her Work" |
| Thursday, February 5 |
Burton Levin, director, The Mansfield Foundation; former U.S. Ambassador to Burma; "China and the U.S.: A Relationship Marked by Misperception" |
| Monday, February 9 |
Morley Winograd, senior policy advisor for Vice President Al Gore; author, Taking Control: Politics in the Information Age (1996); "Creating an Information Age Government" |
| Tuesday, February 10 |
Dale Burger, Mars explorer project manager, Jet Propulsion Laboratory; "Extraterrestrial Environment: Mars Explorer Project" |
| Wednesday, February 11 |
Clifton Johnson, director emeritus of the Amistad Research Center, Tulane University; author, God Struck Me Dead: Religious Conversion Experiences and Autobiographies of Ex-Slaves (1969) and God Struck Me Dead: Voices of Ex-Slaves (1993); "A Perspective on the Historiography of African Americans" |
| Thursday, February 12 |
Lunar New Year, "Year of the Tiger, The Silk and Bamboo Music Ensemble" |
| Monday, February 16 |
Frank Sulloway, research scholar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; author, Born to Rebel: Birth Order, Family Dynamics, and Creative Lives (1996) and Freud, Biologist of the Mind: Beyond the Psychoanalytic Mind (1979); "Birth Order, Family Dynamics, and Creative Lives: From Darwinian Evolution to World History" |
| Tuesday, February 17 |
Robert O'Neil, 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); "Reflections on the Korean War" (12:30 p.m. Parents Dining Room) |
| Tuesday, February 17 |
Jiri Dienstbien, former minister of foreign affairs and deputy prime minister of Czechoslovakia; author, Indonesia: From Sukarno to Suharto (1967) and Radio Against the Tanks: On Civil Defense Against the Soviet Occupation (1988); "The Enlargement of NATO and European Security" |
| Thursday, February 19 |
First AME Gospel Choir, Los Angeles; Derrick Bell, visiting professor of law, New York University; author, Confronting Authority: Reflections of an Ardent Protester (1994) and "Gospel Choirs: Psalms of Survival in an Alien Land Called Home" (1953) |
| Monday, February 23 |
Denise Dresser, professor of political science, Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico; author, Neopopulist Solutions to Neoliberal Problems: Mexico's National Solidarity Problem (1992); "Mexico After the National Elections of '97: Neither Heaven nor Hell" |
| Tuesday, February 24 |
Robert Staehle, Pluto express project manager, Jet Propulsion Laboratory; contributor, Project Solar Sail (1990); "Extraterrestrial Environment: Pluto Express Project" |
| Wednesday, February 25 |
Carolyn Costin, eating disorder expert; author, The Eating Disorder Sourcebook: A Comprehensive Guide to the Causes, Treatments, and Prevention of Eating Disorders (1996) and Your Dieting Daughter...Is She Starving for Attention? (1996); "Dying to be Thin" |
| Thursday, February 26 |
Gloria Molina, Supervisor, first district, Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors; "The Challenges of Leadership in the Public Sector" |
| Monday, March 2 |
Pablo Pozzi, professor of social science, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina; author, Crisis y Recomposicion de la Clase Obrera Argentina (1982-1993) (Crisis and Recomposition of the Argentine Working Class (1982-1993) (1994) and La Oposicion Obrera Dictadura (1976-1982) (Labor Opposition to Dictatorship (1976-1982) (1988); "Repression and Resistance in Latin America" |
| Tuesday, March 3 |
Delbert Mann, playwright; director, Marty (1954) and All Quiet on the Western Front (1979); William Luce, playwright, Bronte (1989) and Barrymore (1997); Mike Riley, professor of literature, CMC (moderator); author, Conversations with Ann Rice: An Intimate, Enlightening Portrait of Her Life and Work (1996); "Conversation with the Writer and Director of Bronte: Bringing the Classics to Life in Film" |
| Wednesday, March 4 |
Frederick Crews, professor emeritus of English, U.C. Berkeley; author, The Memory Wars: Freud's Legacy in Dispute (1995) and The Pooh Perplex: A Freshman Casebook (1965); "Recovered Memory: The Freud Connection" |
| Thursday, March 5 |
Gerald Secundy, director, California Council for Environmental and Economic Balance; "Corporate Environmental Ethics" |
| Monday, March 9 |
Michael Graber '74, cinematographer on movies Twister (1996) and Crimson Tide (1995); "The Nature of Adventure" |
| Tuesday, March 10 |
Luke Timothy Johnson, Robert W. Woodruff professor of New Testament and Christian Origins, Emory University; author, The Real Jesus: The Misguided Quest for the Historical Jesus and the Truth of the Traditional Gospels (1996) and Faith's Freedom: A Classic Spirituality for Contemporary Christians (1990); "Koinonia: Diversity and Unity in Earliest Christianity" |
| Wednesday, March 11 |
David Michael Hertz, professor of comparative literature, Indiana University; author, The Tuning of the Word: The Musico-Literary Poetics of the Symbolist Movement (1987) and Angels of Reality: Emersonian Unfoldings in Wright, Stevens and Ives (1993); "Charles Ives's Concord Sonata and Culture Both Popular and Unpopular" |
| Tuesday, March 24 |
Berenice Lipson-Gruzen, piano; "A Concert with Comment" |
| Wednesday, March 25 |
William Lee, intelligence analyst, Central Intelligence Agency; co-author, Soviet Military Policy Since World War II (1986) and author, ABM Treaty Charade: A Study in Elite Illusion and Delusion (1997) and forthcoming "How the Cold War was Won and Lost" |
| Thursday, March 26 |
Edward Albee, playwright, author, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962) and The Zoo Story (1959); "Playwright Reads from His Work" |
| Sunday, March 29 |
Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (1986); Andrew W. Mellon professor of humanities, Boston University; author, All Rivers Run to the Sea: Memoirs (1995) and The Fifth Son: A Novel (1985); "Remembering the 20th Century on the Eve of the New Millennium" (2:00 p.m. Bridges Auditorium) |
| Monday, March 30 |
Allyson Kurker, rape crisis activist; "As They See It: Sexual Assault and Prevention" |
| Tuesday, March 31 |
Eric Lewis, violin; John Dexter, viola; Kenneth Freed, violin; Chris Finckel, cello; "Manhattan String Quartet: Music by Bela Bartok and Leos Janacek" |
| Wednesday, April 1 |
Bruce Laingen, president, American Academy of Diplomacy; author, Yellow Ribbon: The Secret Journal of Bruce Laingen (1992); "U.S. Diplomacy in the Middle East" |
| Thursday, April 2 |
Dinner Theater, "But Why Bump Off Barnaby?" by Rick Abbot (1981) (6:00 p.m.) |
| Friday, April 3 |
William Crouch '63, vice chief of staff, U.S. Army, "The U.S. Army in Europe" (12:15 p.m.) |
| Friday, April 3 |
Dinner Theater, "But Why Bump Off Barnaby?" by Rick Abbot (1981) (6:00 p.m.) |
| Saturday, April 4 |
Dinner Theater, "But Why Bump Off Barnaby?" by Rick Abbot (1981) (6:00 p.m.) |
| Monday, April 6 |
Frances Hasselbein, president and CEO, Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management; editor, The Drucker Foundation: The Organization of the Future (1997) and co-editor, The Leader of the Future (1996); "Challenges in Managing the Nonprofit Organization" (12:15 p.m.) |
| Monday, April 6 |
Howard Lappin, 1997 California principal of the year; "Education Today" |
| Wednesday, April 8 |
Peter Lee, professor of Asian studies, UCLA; author, Pine River and Lone Peak: An Anthology of Three Choson Poets (1991) and The Silence of Love: Twentieth Century Korean Poetry (1980); "Critical Issues in Korean Literary History" |
| Thursday, April 9 |
Sterling Stuckey, professor of history, U.C. Riverside; author, Slave Culture: Nationalist Theory and the Foundations of Black America (1987) and I Want to be African: Paul Robeson and the Ends of Nationalist Theory and Practice, 1919-1945 (1976); "A Centennial Retrospective: The Impact of Paul Robeson in the Americas" |
| Monday, April 13 |
Michael Shermer, director, Skeptics Society; co-author, Cycling: Endurance and Speed (1987) and author, "Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time" (1997) (12:15 p.m.) |
| Monday, April 13 |
Lawford Anderson, professor of geology, USC; editor, The Nature and Origin of Cordilleran Magmatism (1990) and author, Petrologic Comparison of Cataclastic Rocks from Shallow and Deeper Crustal Levels Within the San Andreas Fault System of Southern California (1980); "Only One Earth" |
| Tuesday, April 14 |
Billy Collins, distinguished professor of English, Lehman College, City University of New York; author, The Art of Drowning (1995) and The Apple That Astonished Paris (1988), "A Poetry Reading" |
| Thursday, April 16 |
Dinner Theater, "Oedipus at Colonus" by Sophocles (405 B.C) (8:00 p.m.) |
| Friday, April 17 |
Dinner Theater, "Oedipus at Colonus" by Sophocles (405 B.C.) (8:00 p.m.) |
| Saturday, April 18 |
Dinner Theater, "Oedipus at Colonus" by Sophocles (405 B.C.) (8:00 p.m.) |
| Monday, April 20 |
Yvonne Brathwaite Burke, board of supervisors, second district, Los Angles County; "Women and Minorities in Government" |
| Tuesday, April 21 |
John Taylor, Mary and Robert Raymond professor of economics, director, Introductory Economic Studies Center, Stanford University; author, Macroeconomic Policy in a World Economy: From Econometric Design to Practical Operation (1994) and co-author, Inflation, Unemployment, and Monetary Policy (1998); "The Long Boom: Economic Policy or Good Fortune?" |
| Wednesday, April 22 |
Hao Huang, piano; associate professor of music, Scripps College; Ramona Sohn Allen, piano; doctoral candidate, Claremont Graduate University; "An Evening with Louis Moreau Gottschalk, America's First Musical Multiculturalist" |
| Thursday, April 23 |
Tony Kushner, playwright, author, Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes (1993) and A Bright Room Called Day (1985); "The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures" |
| Friday, April 24 |
Jerzy Illg, editor, NaGlos; author, The Challenges of Publishing in Poland (1996) and Conversations with Joseph Brodsky (1993); "An Invisible Rope: Milosz's Underground Publications" (1:00 p.m.) |
| Friday, April 24 |
Seamus Heaney, Nobel laureate in literature (1995); author, The Spirit Level (1996) and Seeing Things (1991); Edward Hirsch, professor of poetry, University of Houston; author, The Night Parade: Poems (1989) and For the Sleepwalkers (1981); Tomas Venclova, poet; author, Aleksander Wat: Life and Art of an Iconoclast (1996) and Winter Dialogue (1997); Adam Zagajewski, visiting associate professor of English, University of Houston; co-author, Canvas (1992) and Tremors (1997); "Milosz and World Poetry" (2:30 p.m.) |
| Friday, April 24 |
Robert Hass, U.S. poet laureate consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress (1995-1997); professor of English, U.C. Berkeley; author, Human Wishes (1989) and co-translator of Milosz's Facing the River (1995) Seamus Heaney, Nobel laureate in literature (1995); author, The Redress of Poetry (1995) and Sweeney Astray (1985); "Readings" (7:30 p.m.) |
| Saturday, April 25 |
Irena Grudzinska-Gross, fellow, Remarque Institute, New York; author, The Scar of Revolution: Custine, Tocqueville, and the Romantic Imagination (1991) and editor, War Through Children's Eyes: The Soviet Occupation of Poland and the Deportations, 1939-41 (1985); Edith Kurzweil, editor, Partisan Review; author, Literature and Psychoanalysis (1983) and A Partisan Century (1996); Adam Michnik, editor-in-chief, Gazata Wyborcza; author, Letters from Prison and Other Essays (1985) and forthcoming Letters from Freedom: Post-Cold War Realities and Perspectives (1998); Andrej Walicki, professor of history, University of Notre Dame; author, Legal Philosophies of Russian Liberalism (1992) and A History of Russian Thought from the Enlightenment to Marxism (1980); "The Captive Mind" (10:30 a.m.) |
| Saturday, April 25 |
Jonathan Aaron, professor of English, Emerson College; author, Corridor: Poems (1992) and Second Sight (1982); Arista Cirtautas, associate professor of government, CMC; author, The Polish Solidarity Movement: Revolution, Democracy and Natural Rights (1997); Robert Hass, U.S. poet laureate consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress (1995-1997); professor of English, U.C. Berkeley; author, Sun Under Wood: New Poems (1996) and Poet's Choice (1998); Leonard Nathan, translator and poet; author, Diary of a Left-Handed Birdwatcher (1996) and co-author, The Poet's World: An Introduction to Czeslaw Milosz (1991); Lillian Vallee, translator and poet; translator, The Bottom Translation: Marlow, Shakespeare and the Carnival Tradition (1987) and Milosz's Bells in Winter (1978); "The Exile in California" (2:30 p.m.) |
| Saturday, April 25 |
Linda Gregg, poet; author, Alma (1985) and Chosen by the Lion: Poems (1994); Leonard Nathan, translator and poet; author, The Transport of Love: The Meghaduta of Kalidasa (1977) and Returning Your Call: Poems (1975); Blanford Parker, adjunct associate professor of English, Claremont Graduate University; author, forthcoming The Triumph of Augustan Poetics: English Literary Culture from Butler to Johnson (1998); "Readings" (4:30 p.m.) |
| Saturday, April 25 |
Edward Hirsch, professor of poetry, University of Houston; author, Earthly Measures: Poems (1994) and Wild Gratitude (1986); Adam Zagajewski, visiting associate professor of English, University of Houston; author, Solidarity, Solitude: Essays by Adam Zagajewski (1990) and Mysticism for Beginners (1997); "Readings" (7:30 p.m.) |
| Sunday, April 26 |
Jane Hirshfield, author, Women in Praise of the Sacred (1994) and Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry: Essays (1997); Steve Kowit, professor of English language and humanities, Southwestern College; author, The Maverick Poets: An Anthology (1988) and Pranks (1990); Jack Miles, visiting fellow, California Institute of Technology; author, God: A Biography (1995) and co-author, Hiding (1997); Blanford Parker, adjunct associate professor of English, Claremont Graduate University; author, forthcoming The Triumph of Augustan Poetics: English Literary Culture from Butler to Johnson (1998); Al Zolynas, professor of literature, United States International University; co-editor, Men of Our Time: An Anthology of Male Poetry in Contemporary America (1992) and The New Physics (1979); "Poetry and the Sacred" (10:30 a.m.) |
| Sunday, April 26 |
Steve Kowit, professor of English language and humanities, Southwestern College; author, Lurid Confessions (1983) and Passionate Journey: Poems and Drawings in the Erotic Mood (1984), Al Zolynas, professor of literature, United States International University; author, The Same Air (1997) and Under Ideal Conditions (1994); "Readings" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Sunday, April 26 |
Jane Hirshfield, author, Of Gravity and Angels (1988) and The Lives of the Heart (1997); "Readings" (2:00 p.m.) |
| Sunday, April 26 |
Bogdana Carpenter, professor of Slavic languages and literature, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; author, The Poetic Avant-Garde in Poland, 1918-1923 (1983) and Monumenta Polonica: The First Four Centuries of Polish Poetry: A Bilingual Anthology (1989); Richard Lourie, translator, The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin (1977) and Bohin Manor (1990); Mimi McKay, librarian, National Center for Farmworker Health, Inc., Austin, Texas; "The Teacher and His Students" (2:30 p.m.) |
| Sunday, April 26 |
Jan Blonski, professor of literature, Jagellonian University, Krakow; author, The Poor Poles Look at the Ghetto (1987); Alexander Fiut, professor of literature, Jagellonian University, Krakow; author, The Eternal Moment: The Poetry of Czeslaw Milosz (1990) and contributor, Conversations with Czeslaw Milosz (1987); Madeline Levine, professor of Slavic languages, University of North Carolina; translator of Milosz's A Year of the Hunter (1994) and Beginning with My Streets: Essays and Recollections (1991); Bronislaw Maj, professor of literature, Jagellonian University, Krakow; author, Light (1994) and Fatigue (1986); Wojciech Karpinski, literary critic; "Milosz's World Today: ABC's to Roadside Dog" (3:30 p.m.) |
| Sunday, April 26 |
W. S. Merwin, author, The Vixen: Poems (1996) and Poems of the Cid (1983); Tomas Venclova, poet, author, Unstable Equilibrium: Eight Russian Poetic Texts (1986) and Rockets, the Planets, and Us (1962); "Readings" (7:30 p.m.) |
| Monday, April 27 |
Bronislaw Maj, professor of literature, Jagellonian University, Krakow; author, Destruction of the Holy City (1986) and Family Albums (1986), Robert Faggen, associate professor of literature, CMC; editor, Selected Poems (1997) and Striving Towards Being: The Letters of Thomas Merton and Czeslaw Milosz (1997); "Readings" (2:00 p.m. Pickford Auditorium) |
| Monday, April 27 |
Robert Hass, U.S. poet laureate consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress (1995-1997); professor of English, U. C. Berkeley; author, Praise (1979) and editor, Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson, and Issa (1994); Helen Vendler, professor of English, Harvard University; author, The Music of What Happens: Poems, Poets, Critics (1988) and Soul Says: On Recent Poetry (1995); Robert Pinsky, U.S. poet laureate consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress (1997-1998); author, The Situation of Poetry (1978) and The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems, 1966-1996 (1997); John Farrell, assistant professor of literature, CMC; author, Freud's Paranoid Quest: Psychoanalysis and Modern Suspicion (1996); "Understanding The World" (2:30 p.m. Pickford Auditorium) |
| Monday, April 27 |
Robert Pinsky, U.S. poet laureate consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress (1997-1998); author, History of My Heart (1985) and co-translator of Milosz's The Separate Notebooks (1986); "Readings" (4:00 p.m. Pickford Auditorium) |
| Monday, April 27 |
Czeslaw Milosz, Nobel laureate in literature (1980); professor emeritus of Slavic languages and literature, U.C. Berkeley; author, Roadside Dog (1997) and Milosz's Alphabet (1997); "Confessions of an Object" |