| Thursday, January 18 |
Vaclav Klaus, speaker, Czechoslovakia Parliament; former Prime Minister of the Czech Republic; author, Renaissance: The Rebirth of Liberty in the Heart of Europe (1997) and The Ten Commandments of Systemic Reform (1993); "Creating Capitalism in Eastern Europe: The Czech Case" |
| Friday, January 19 |
Diane Nash, civil rights activist; "Chaos or Community" (12:15 p.m.) |
| Monday, January 22 |
J. William Schopf, director of the Center for the Study of Evolution and the Origin of Life, UCLA; author, Cradle of Life (1999) and editor, Major Events in the History of Life (1992); "Discovery of Earth's Earliest Fossils: Solution to Darwin's Dilemma" |
| Tuesday, January 23 |
Douglass North, Nobel laureate in economic sciences (1993); Spencer T. Olin professor in the arts and science, Washington University, St. Louis; author, Structure and Change in Economic History (1981) and Economic Performance Through Time (1994); "Development Lessons in a Non-Ergodic World" |
| Wednesday, January 24 |
Oliver Ryder, Kleberg Genetics Chair, Center for the Reproduction of Endangered Species, Zoological Society of San Diego; "Conserving Endangered Species in the Era of Genomics" |
| Thursday, January 25 |
Lunar New Year Celebration, "Year of the Snake, Draco Arts Golden Dragon Team" |
| Monday, January 29 |
James Sleeper, department of political science, Yale University; author, The Closest of Strangers (1990) and Liberal Racism (1998); "How American National Identity Heralds a Post-National Age" |
| Tuesday, January 30 |
Anne Lamott, author, Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith (2000) and Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life (1995); "Author Reads From Her Work" |
| Wednesday, January 31 |
Dorothy Cotton, former education director, Southern Christian Leadership Conference; "Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: His Work, Implications for Our Time" |
| Thursday, February 1 |
Chappell Lawson, professor of political science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; author, The Elections of 1997: Campaign Effects and Voting Behavior in Mexico (1998) and forthcoming Building the Fourth Estate: Democratization and the Rise of a Free Press in Mexico (2002); "The Campaign of 2000: Voting Behavior and Campaign Effects in Mexico's Watershed Presidential Election" |
| Monday, February 5 |
Mark Baird P'01 P'04, country director, World Bank, Indonesia; editor, Uganda: Country Economic Memorandum (1982); "What is Happening in Indonesia?" |
| Tuesday, February 6 |
Alfred Crosby, professor emeritus of American studies, University of Texas; author, The Measure of Reality: Quantification in Western Europe, 1250-1600 (1997) and America's Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918 (1990); "The West Chooses Quantification" |
| Wednesday, February 7 |
Robert Pinsky, U.S. poet laureate consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress (1997-2000); professor of creative writing, Boston University; author, Jersey Rain (2000) and The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems 1966-1996 (1996); "Reading From His Poetry" |
| Thursday, February 8 |
David Hull, Dressler professor of philosophy, Northwestern University; author, Science as a Process: An Evolutionary Account of the Social and Conceptual Development of Science (1988) and Darwin and His Critics: The Reception of Darwin's Theory of Evolution by the Scientific Community (1973); "Deconstructing Darwin" |
| Monday, February 12 |
Timothy Colton, Morris and Anna Feldberg professor of government and Russian studies, director, Davis Center for Russian Studies, Harvard University; author, Transitional Citizens: Voters and What Influences Them in the New Russia (2000) and Moscow: Governing the Socialist Metropolis (1996); "Russia's Stalled Transition" |
| Tuesday, February 13 |
Richard Lewontin, Alexander Agassiz research professor of biology, Harvard University; author, The Triple Helix (2000) and It Ain't Necessarily So: The Dream of the Human Genome and Other Illusions (2000); "Genomemania" |
| Wednesday, February 14 |
Jennifer Warnes, vocalist; Billy Watts, guitar; Skip Edwards, keyboard; David Jackson, bass; Lee Spah, drums; Hani Nassen, percussion; Matt Cartsonis and Chris Darrell, mandolin; "An Evening with Jennifer Warnes" |
| Thursday, February 15 |
Barry Menikoff, professor of English literature, University of Hawaii; editor, forthcoming Kidnapped; Or the Lad with the Silver Button (2001) and Tales from the Prince of Storytellers (1993); "F. Scott Fitzgerald and Hollywood" |
| Monday, February 19 |
Steven Pinker, professor of cognitive science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; author, How the Mind Works (1999) and The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (2000); "How the Mind Works: Words and Rules" |
| Tuesday, February 20 |
Robert Goldich '71, national defense specialist, Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress; "No Such Thing as Total Civilian Control of the Military" (12:15 p.m.) |
| Tuesday, February 20 |
Ray Drummond '68, bass; Mark Masters, conductor, American Jazz Institute chamber orchestra; Les Lovitt, trumpet; Les Benedict, trumpet; Brian Williams, baritone; Jerry Pinter, saxophone; Stephanie O'Keefe, french horn; Bill Roper, tuba; Cecilia Coleman, piano; Sherman Ferguson, drums; "American Jazz Institute Chamber Orchestra: Celebrating Mingus" Webcast |
| Wednesday, February 21 |
Robert George, McCormick professor of jurisprudence, Princeton University; author, Making Men Moral: Civil Liberties and Public Morality (1995) and In Defense of Natural Law (1999); "Civil Liberties and Public Morality" |
| Thursday, February 22 |
Ralph Rossum P'01, Henry Salvatori professor of political philosophy and American constitutionalism, CMC; author, American Constitutional Law: Cases and Interpretation (1983) and Reverse Discrimination: The Constitutional Debate (1980); "The Seventeenth Amendment and the Death of Federalism" |
| Monday, February 26 |
Victor Pestoff, professor of political science, Sodertorns Hogskola, Sweden; author, Between Markets and Politics: Co-operatives in Sweden (1991) and "Beyond the Market and State: Social Enterprises and Civil Democracy in a Welfare Society" (1998) (12:15 p.m.) |
| Monday, February 26 |
Michael Ghiselen, MacArthur fellow; senior research fellow, California Academy of Sciences; author, Metaphysics and the Origin of Species (1997) and The Triumph of the Darwinian Method (1969); "Darwin's Ancestors and Descendants" |
| Tuesday, February 27 |
John Wooden, former men's basketball head coach, UCLA; author, Practical Modern Basketball (1966) and "They Call Me Coach" (1972) |
| Wednesday, February 28 |
Carol Mayo Jenkins, chorus; Monique Sims, Antigone; Mary Carver, nurse; Emily Deschanel, Ismene; Josh Adell, Haemon; Steve Gilborn, Creon; Lance Davis, first guard; Greg White, second guard; Matt Sullivan, messenger; Cosmo Sher, page; "Interact Theater Company: Jean Anouilh's Antigone" (1944) |
| Thursday, March 1 |
Mary Rose O'Reilley, author, The Barn at the End of the World: The Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd (2000) and Radical Presence: Teaching as Contemplative Practice (1998); "Being Mindful When Your Mind is Already Too Full" |
| Monday, March 5 |
Peter Navarro, associate professor of economics and public policy, U.C. Irvine; author, The Dimming of America: The Real Costs of Electric Utility Regulatory Failure (1984) and forthcoming If It's Raining in Brazil, Buy Starbucks: The Investor's Guide to Profiting from News and Other Market Moving Events (2001); John Jurewitz, director of regulatory policy, Southern California Edison; Benjamin Zycher, senior economist, RAND Corporation; Robert Michaels, professor of economics, C.S.U. Fullerton; Rod Smith, senior vice president of Stratecon Inc. and president and managing director of J&M Water Development LLC; author, Troubled Waters: Financing Water in the West (1984) and Trading Water: An Economic and Legal Framework for Water Marketing (1988); Tom Borcherding, professor of economics, Claremont Graduate University, author, Egg Marketing: A Case Study of Monopoly (1980) and editor, Budgets and Bureaucrats: The Sources of Government Growth (1977), (moderator); "California's Energy Crisis: Who's to Blame and What to Do" (12:15 p.m.) |
| Monday, March 5 |
Susan Shirk, professor of political science, U.C. San Diego; author, Power and Prosperity: Economics and Security Linkages in Asia-Pacific (1996) and The Political Logic of Economic Reform in China (1993); "What Kind of Rising Power is China?" |
| Tuesday, March 6 |
Nathan Rosenberg, Fairleigh S. Dickinson Jr. professor of public policy, Stanford University; author, How the West Grew Rich: The Economic Transformation of the Industrial World (1987) and The Emergence of Economic Ideas: Essays in the History of Economics (1994); "American Universities as Economic Institutions" |
| Wednesday, March 7 |
David Abshire, president, Center for the Study of the Presidency; co-author, Putting America's House in Order: The Nation as a Family (1996) and "Triumphs and Tragedies of the Modern Presidency" (2001) (12:15 p.m.) |
| Wednesday, March 7 |
Sergio Aguayo, professor of political science, Center for International Studies, El Colegio de Mexico; author, Myths and [Mis]preceptions: Changing U.S. Elite Visions of Mexico (1998) and Escape from Violence: Conflict and the Refugee Crisis in the Developing World (1997); "The Future of Human Rights in Mexico |
| Monday, March 19 |
Daniel Patrick Moynihan, former U.S. senator (D-NY); author, Secrecy: The American Experience (1999) and Miles to Go: A Personal History of Social Policy (1996); James Q. Wilson, Ronald Reagan professor of public policy, Pepperdine University; author, The Moral Sense (1993) and The Politics of Regulation (1982); "A Dahrendorf Inversion? The Twilight of Family in the North Atlantic Region" C-SPAN, Webcast |
| Tuesday, March 20 |
Steve Lopez '75 P'01, professor of psychology, UCLA; "Shifting Identities: From CMC Grad to UCLA Professor" |
| Wednesday, March 21 |
George Weigel, senior fellow, Ethics and Public Policy Center; author, Witness to Hope: A Biography of John Paul II (1999) and The Final Revolution: The Resistance Church and the Collapse of Communism (1992); "The Achievement of Pope John Paul II" |
| Thursday, March 22 |
Preethi de Silva, professor of music, Scripps College, harpsichord; Gregory Maldonado, violin; Stephen Schultz, flute; Jennifer Paul, harpsichord; Stephan Moss, harpsichord; Denise Briese, viola da gamba; Susan Feldman, violin; William Skeen, cello; Ondine Young, viola; "Con Gioia Early Music Ensemble: Bach and the Cembalo Concertato" |
| Monday, March 26 |
Sally Satel, W.H. Brady fellow, American Enterprise Institute; author, PC MD: How Political Correctness is Corrupting Medicine (2000) and Drug Treatment: The Case for Coercion (1999); "The Politics of Medicine" |
| Tuesday, March 27 |
Christopher Key Chapple, professor of theological studies, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles; author, Nonviolence to Animals, Earth, and Self in Asian Traditions (1993) and Hinduism and Ecology (2000); "The Great Elements and the Continuity of Life: Ecology in Hinduism and Jainsism" |
| Wednesday, March 28 |
Elizabeth Morgan, registrar, CMC; P. Edward Haley, professor of government, CMC, co-author, American Security in an Interpendent World (1988) and editor, U.S. Relations with Europe (1999); Gary Gilbert, professor of religious studies, CMC, editor, The Papers of Henry Luce III Fellows in Theology (1996); Sarah Baird '01; Cynthia Humes, professor of religious studies, CMC, co-editor, Living Banaras: Hindu Religion in Cultural Context (1993),(moderator), "Academic Honesty on Trial" |
| Thursday, March 29 |
Steve May '93, state representative, Arizona State House of Representatives; "Don't Ask, Don't Tell: A Soldier's Journey" |
| Monday, April 2 |
William Gleysteen, Jr., former U.S. ambassador to Korea; author, Massive Entanglement, Marginal Influence: Carter and Korea in Crisis (1999); "How America Has Become So Engaged in Korea: Limits of Its Influence" (12:15 p.m.) |
| Monday, April 2 |
Hilary Appel, assistant professor of government, CMC; "Ideology and Economic Change in Transition Countries" |
| Tuesday, April 3 |
Wendy Kao '01, piano; Michael Deane Lamkin, Bessie and Cecil Frankel professor of music, Dean of Faculty, Scripps College; conductor, Claremont chamber orchestra; "Senior Recital" |
| Wednesday, April 4 |
Nicholas Eberstadt, Henry Wendt chair of political economy, American Enterprise Institute; author, Prosperous Paupers and Other Population Problems (2000) and The End of North Korea (1999); "The Coming Population Implosion" |
| Thursday, April 5 |
R. Gerard Ward, professor emeritus of human geography, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, Canberra; co-author, Samoa: Mapping the Diversity (1998) and editor, Land Custom and Practice in the South Pacific (1995); "Reshaping Places: Examples from the Pacific Islands" |
| Monday, April 9 |
Edward Williams, professor of political science, University of Arizona; co-author, Mexico Faces the 21st Century (1995) and Latin American Politics: A Developmental Approach (1975); "Vicente Fox and the New Mexico: The U.S. Connection" |
| Tuesday, April 10 |
Gillian Beer, King Edward VII professor of English literature, Cambridge University; author, Darwin's Plots: Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin, George Elliot, and 19th Century Fiction (1985) and Open Fields: Science in Cultural Encounter (1996); "Darwin and the Former Giants" |
| Wednesday, April 11 |
John La Porta, clarinet and tenor saxophone; Mark Masters, conductor, American Jazz Institute Big Band; Scott Englebright, Les Lovitt, Kye Palmer, Ron Stout, trumpet; Les Benedict, Dave Woodley, Bob McChesney, Pete Brockman, trombone; Danny House, Ray Reed, Brian Williams, Jerry Pinter, woodwind; Milcho Leviev, piano; Putter Smith, bass; Randy Drake, drums; "American Jazz Institute Big Band: An Evening with John La Porta" |
| Thursday, April 12 |
John Beer, professor emeritus of English, Cambridge University; author, Romantic Influences: Contemporary-Victorian-Modern (1994) and Coleridge the Visionary (1959); "Romantic Apocalypses" |
| Friday, April 13 |
Mary Kay Thompson Tetreault, provost and vice president for academic affairs, Portland State University; author, Women in America: Half of History (1978) and co-author, "The Feminist Classroom: An Inside Look at How Professors and Students are Transforming Higher Education for a Diverse Society" (1994) (12:15 p.m.) |
| Monday, April 16 |
Robert Higgs, editor, The Independent Review: A Journal of Political Economy; author, Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government (1989) and Competition and Coercion: Blacks in the American Economy (1976); "The Role of the State in the Rise of the West" |
| Wednesday, April 18 |
Harry Jaffa, Henry Salvatori professor emeritus of political philosophy and American Constitutionalism, CMC; author, Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1959) and "A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War" (2000) |
| Thursday, April 19 |
Michael Ondaajte, author, The English Patient (1992) and Handwriting (1999); "An Evening with Michael Ondaatje" |
| Friday, April 20 |
Dinner Theater, "Rumors" by Neil Simon (1988) (6:00 p.m.) |
| Saturday, April 21 |
Brunch Theater, "Rumors" by Neil Simon (1988) (11:30 a.m.) |
| Saturday, April 21 |
Dinner Theater, "Rumors" by Neil Simon (1988) (6:00 p.m.) |
| Thursday, April 26 |
Charles Goodhart, Norman Sosnow professor of banking and finance, London School of Economics; author, The Central Bank and the Financial System (1995) and The Evolution of Central Banks (1988); "The Anatomy of Deflations" |