Speakers, Spring 2002

 

Monday,
January 28
Michael Eric Dyson, professor of religious studies, DePaul University; author, I May Not Get There With You: The True Martin Luther King, Jr. (2000) and Between God and Gangsta Rap: Bearing Witness to Black Culture (1995); "Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemoration" (7:00 p.m. McKenna Auditorium)
 
Tuesday,
January 29

Deborah Buck, violin; Robert Thies, piano; gold medal winner (1995), Second International Sergei Prokofiev Competition, St. Petersburg, Russia; "Beethoven Sonata in F Major, No. 5 "Spring" and Prokofiev Sonata No. 2 in D Major"

Wednesday,
January 30

Diane Halpern, professor of psychology, director, Berger Institute for Work, Family, and Children, CMC; author, Thought and Knowledge: An Introduction to Critical Thinking (1995) and "Sex Differences in Cognitive Abilities" (1986)

Thursday,
January 31

Aaron McGruder, cartoonist, creator of the comic strip The Boondocks; author, Boondocks Collection (2001) and The Boondocks: Because I Know You Don't Read the Newspaper (2000), "What's the Color of Funny: Race, Society, and Comic Strips"

Monday,
February 4

Claudia Black, founder, past chairperson, National Association for Children of Alcoholics; author, It's Never Too Late to Have A Happy Childhood: Inspirations for Adult Children (1989) and It Will Never Happen to Me (1982); "Legacy of Addiction"

Tuesday,
February 5

Charlayne Hunter-Gault, African bureau chief and correspondent, CNN; author, In My Place (1992), "'New' News From Africa"

Wednesday,
February 6

Billy Harper, tenor saxophone; Tim Hagans, trumpet; Ray Drummond '68, bass; Mark Masters, conductor, American Jazz Institute big band; Joe LaBarbera, drums; Dave Woodley, trombone; Gary Smulyan, baritone saxophone; Cecilia Coleman, piano; Scott Englebright, trumpet; Bill Roper, tuba; Les Benedict, trombone; Louis Fasman, trumpet; Les Lovitt, trumpet; Don Shelton, saxophone and alto flute; Allen Savedoff, saxophone and bassoon; Stephanie O'Keefe, french horn; Mort Sahl, host; "American Jazz Institute Big Band: Porgy and Bess ... Redefined!"

Thursday,
February 7

Robert Gellately, Strassler professor of Holocaust history, Clark University; author, Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany (2001) and The Gestapo and German Society: Enforcing Radical Policy, 1933-1945 (1990); "Nazi Concentration Camps and German Society"

Monday,
February 11

John Singleton, film director, Baby Boy (2001), Shaft (2000), Higher Learning (1995), Poetic Justice (1993), Boyz N the Hood (1991); "The World According to John Singleton: Film and Society"

Tuesday,
February 12

Thomas Leabhart, director; Emily Vigneron, assistant director; Joannah Bryan; Kristl Dorschner; Emily Eiden; Lisa Horst; Stasia Patwell; Jack Rosenfeld; Anna Smolentzov; Elizabeth von Doemming; "The Pomona College Department of Theater: Seven Against Thebes" by Aeschylus (467 B.C.) (12:15 p.m.)

Tuesday,
February 12

Leszek Kolakowski, former Fellow, All Soul's College, Oxford University; professor in the committee of social thought, professor emeritus of philosophy, University of Chicago; author, Bergson (1985) and Husserl and the Search for Certitude (1975); "On Natural Law"

Wednesday,
February 13

Lunar New Year Celebration, "Year of the Black Horse, Spring Thunder Chinese Music Ensemble"

Thursday,
February 14

Jeffie Pike Durham, daughter of artist Marion Pike; "Marion Pike Portraits: Who's Who? The Artist's Daughter Remembers"

Monday,
February 18

Ann Crittenden, author, The Price of Motherhood: Why the Most Important Job in the World is Still the Least Valued (2001) and Killing the Sacred Cows: Bold Ideas for a New Economy (1992); "Are Mothers as Important as Warriors?"

Tuesday,
February 19

David Dreier '75, U.S. House of Representatives (R), (CA-28th district); "Reflections on the 107th Congress: What's Been Accomplished and What Lies Ahead" (12:15 p.m.)

Tuesday,
February 19

Jon Sumida, associate professor of history, University of Maryland; author, In Defense of Naval Supremacy: Financial Limitation, Technological Innovation and British Naval Policy, 1899-1914 (1989) and Inventing Grand Strategy and Teaching Command: The Classic Works of Alfred Thayer Mahan Reconsidered (2000); "The Influence of Technological Change, Financial Limitation, and Strategic Contingency Upon National Security Policy"

Wednesday,
February 20

K.M. Thiagarajan, former chairman and CEO, Bank of Madura, India; "Lending to the Poor: The Experience of a Bank in India"

Thursday,
February 21

William Tuttle, Jr., professor of history, University of Kansas; author, Daddy's Gone to War: The Second World War in the Lives of America's Children (1993) and Bottle Hill and Madison: Glimpses and Reminiscences from Its Earliest Settlement to the Civil War (1997); "Writing Interdisciplinary Children's History: A Personal Perspective"

Friday,
February 22

Stephen Dobbs, adjunct professor of humanities, San Francisco State University; executive vice president, Bernard Osher Foundation; co-author, Leaders Who Make a Difference: Essential Strategies for Meeting the Nonprofit Challenge (1999) and author, Learning In and Through Art: A Guide to Discipline Based Art Education (1997); "Strategies for Meeting the Nonprofit Challenge" (12:30 p.m.)

Saturday,
February 23

Joanne Ciulla, professor of leadership and ethics, Jepson School of Leadership Studies; author, Ethics, the Heart of Leadership (1998) and The Working Life: The Promise and Betrayal of Modern Work (2000); "Ethical Challenges of Leaders in Nonprofit Organizations" (12:30 p.m.)

Monday,
February 25

Anita Hunter, assistant professor of nursing, Clemson University; co-author, Adolescent Resilience (1999) and An Advanced Practice International Health Initiative: The Ghana Health Mission (2001); "Cultural Differences in Health and Health Practices: Why Does It Matter?"

Tuesday,
February 26

Patrick Chamorel, Crown Foundation visiting scholar, CMC; co-author, The New American Political Disorder: An Essay (1994); "France and Globalization"

Wednesday,
February 27

Anita Khanzadian, director; Doug Ballard, narrator, guard, station master/bailiff; Greg White, man one, ticket master, hofbauer; Lance Davis, man two, Koby, a blind eunuch, doctor; James Calvert, man three, painter, Loby, a blind eunuch, second reporter, Toby; Sandy Kenyon, mayor; James Gleason, school master; Michael Manuel, priest; Steven Gilborn, Alfred Ill; Marilyn McIntyre, Claire Zachanassian; Don Fischer, husbands VII - IX; J. Downing, Butler baby, first reporter, radio commentator; Dave Florek, policeman; David Mauer, Roby/guitarist, Ill's son, cameraman; Carole Goldman, Mrs. Ill, woman one; Rachael Harris, Annie Dummermutt, Ill's daughter, woman two; "Interact Theater Company: Friedrich Durrenmatt's The Visit" (1956)

Thursday,
February 28

Preethi de Silva, harpsichord, professor of music, Scripps College; Kathleen McIntosh, harpsichord; Lisa Weiss, violin; Janet Worsley Strauss, violin; Stephen Schultz, flute; James Bell, viola; Denise Briese, viola da gamba; Alfred Cramer; Benjamin Wyatt, cello; "Con Gioia Early Music Ensemble: Bach and the Cembalo Concertato"

Saturday,
March 2

Betsy Berns '90, founder and president, BVision Sportsmedia, LP; author, The Female Fan Guide to Motorsports (2000) and Win, Place, and Show: An Introduction to the Thrill of Thoroughbred Horse Racing (2001); "From CMC to the Kentucky Derby: Following Your Passion" (12:15 p.m.)

Saturday,
March 2

Jerry Garris P'91 P'01, professor of government, director of corporate relations, CMC; Janet Myhre, Dengler-Dykema professor of mathematics and mathmatical economics, CMC; John Roth, Russell K. Pitzer professor of philosophy, CMC; author, American Diversity, American Identity: The Lives and Works of 145 Writers Who Define the American Experience (1995) and co-editor, American Ground: Vistas, Visions, and Revisions (1988); "1976 to Present: A Discussion with Faculty" (3:45 p.m.)

Monday,
March 4

Barbara Schneider, professor of sociology, director, Center on Parents, Children, and Work, University of Chicago; author, Adolescence, Adolescents (1991) and co-author, Becoming Adult: How Teenagers Prepare for the World of Work (2000); "Today's Working Families: The Importance of Quality Time"

Tuesday,
March 5

Alex Johnson '75, chair, law school admission council, University of Virginia; "Perspectives on Law School Admissions"

Wednesday,
March 6

Susan Zucotti, author, The Italians and the Holocaust: Persecution, Rescue and Survival (1987) and "Under His Very Windows: The Vatican and the Holocaust in Italy" (2000)

Thursday,
March 7

Leszek Kolakowski, former Fellow, All Soul's College, Oxford University; professor in the committee of social thought, professor emeritus of philosophy, University of Chicago; author, The Presence of Myth (1989) and Religion: If There is No God...On God, the Devil, Sin, and Other Worries of the So-Called Philosophy of Religion (1990); "On the Future of Truth"

Monday,
March 11

Laurie Garrett, staff writer, Newsday; author, Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance (1994) and "The Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health" (2000)

Tuesday,
March 12

Anna Simons, associate professor of defense analysis, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey; author, Networks of Dissolution: Somalia Undone (1995) and The Company They Keep: Life Inside the U.S. Army Special Forces (1997); "The Women in Combat Debate"

Wednesday,
March 13

Robert Sapolsky, professor of biology and neurology, Stanford University; author, A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons (2001) and "Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: Stress, Disease, and Coping" (1998)

Thursday,
March 14

Charles Johnson, professor of English, University of Washington; author, Dreamer (1993) and Middle Passage (1988); "A Tribute to Ricardo Quinones"

Monday,
March 25

David Edwards, professor of anthropology, Williams College; author, Before Taliban: Genealogies of the Afghan Jihad (1998) and Heroes of the Age: Moral Fault Lines on the Afghan Frontier (1996); "The Arab Jihad in Afghanistan: Pictures From an Occupation"

Tuesday,
March 26

Daniel Krauss, assistant professor of psychology, CMC; co-author, The Effects of Clinical and Scientific Expert Testimony in Juror Decision-making in Capital Sentencing (2001) and Legal Standards, Expertise, and Experts in the Resolution of Contested Child Custody Cases (2000); "Can Juries Differentiate Between Good Science and Bad Science?"

Wednesday,
March 27

Xavier Becerra, California congressman, (D-30th District); "Cesar Chavez Commemoration"

Monday,
April 1

Hedrick Smith, journalist; author, The New Russians (1990) and The Power Game: How Washington Works (1988); "Walking the Tightrope: The Tensions Between Work and Family in America Today"

Tuesday,
April 2

Cathy Guisewite, cartoonist, creator of the comic strip Cathy; author, A Mouthful of Breath Mints and No One to Kiss: A Cathy Collection (1983) and Abs of Steel, Buns of Cinnamon: A Cathy Collection (1997); "25 Years of Humorous Wisdom From Cathy"

Wednesday,
April 3

Jack Montrose, tenor saxophone; Mark Masters, conductor, American Jazz Institute Brass Ensemble; Joe LaBarbera, drums; Ron Stout, trumpet; Scott Englebright, trumpet; Les Lovitt, trumpet; Stephanie O'Keeffe, french horn; Tom Ranier, piano; Putter Smith, bass; Dave Woodley, trombone; Bill Roper, tuba; Les Benedict, trombone; "Jelly Roll Blues: The Music of Jelly Roll Morton"

Thursday,
April 4

Patrick Caddell, former Democratic pollster; writer for NBC's West Wing; "Politics and the Bush Administration After 9/11"

Monday,
April 8

Berel Lang, professor of humanities, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut; author, Heidegger's Silence (1996) and The Future of the Holocaust: Between History and Memory (1999); "Undoing Certain Mischievous Questions About the Holocaust"

Tuesday,
April 9

F. Sherwood Rowland, Nobel laureate in chemistry (1995); Donald Bren research professor of chemistry, U.C. Irvine; author, Climate Change and Its Consequences (2001) and Atmospheric Changes Caused by Human Activities: From Science to Regulation (2001); "Global Pollution"

Wednesday,
April 10

Tom Campbell, professor of law, Stanford University; author, Predation and Competition in Antitrust: The Case of Nonfungible Goods (1987) and co-author, The Link Between Liability Reforms and Productivity: Some Empirical Evidence/Comments (1998); "Constitutional Issues in the War on Terrorism"

Thursday,
April 11

Sergei Chugrov, senior researcher, Center for Comparative Socio-Political Studies, Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), Russian Academy of Sciences; deputy editor in chief, The World Economy and International Relations journal; author, A Reader on Russia's Foreign Policy: A Book by a Diplomat Without Diplomacy (2002); "Russian Political Culture: Changes and Continuity" (12:15 p.m.)

Thursday,
April 11

Yukihiko Ikeda, former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Japan; "Japanese Relations with the United States" (4:00 p.m. Founders Room)

Thursday,
April 11

Robert Hare, professor of psychology, University of British Columbia; author, Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us (1993) and co-editor, Psychopathy: Theory, Research and Implications for Security (1998); "Psychopaths and Their Nature: Some Clues From Cognitive Neuroscience"

Monday,
April 15

Duncan Thomas, professor of economics, UCLA; author, Gender Differences in Household Resource Allocation (1991) and co-author, Longer Term Effects of Head Start (2000); "Real Costs of an Economic Crisis: Evidence From Indonesia"

Tuesday,
April 16

David Sedaris, humorist; author, Naked (1997) and Me Talk Pretty One Day (2000); "An Evening with David Sedaris"

Wednesday,
April 17

Burton Levin, former U.S. Ambassador to Burma; "The U.S. and China: A Relationship Marred by Misperception" (12:15 p.m.)

Wednesday,
April 17

Michael McFaul, assistant professor of political science, Stanford University; co-author, Post-Communist Politics: Democratic Prospects in Russia and Eastern Europe (1993) and The Troubled Birth of Russian Democracy: Political Parties, Programs and Profiles (1993); "Russia's Troubled Transition"

Thursday,
April 18

Stuart Eizenstat, former Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade; former Deputy Secretary of the Treasury; author, Appendix: U. S. and Allied Efforts to Recover and Restore Gold and Other Assets Stolen or Hidden by Germany during World War II (1997) and "Imperfect Justice: The Unfinished Business of World War II" (2002)

Monday,
April 22

Esther Maria Hernandez Arocha, assistant professor, Instituto Superior de Arte de la Habana (Havana University for the Arts); "Transformation of Cuban Art Since the Revolution: Creative Explosion vs. Censorship"

Tuesday,
April 23

Pat Carroll, actress in The Show Off (1992) and Gertrude Stein Gertrude Stein Gertrude Stein (1979); and the voice of Ursula in The Little Mermaid (1989); "Readings and Reflections"

Wednesday,
April 24

Catherine Bowman, professor of English, Indiana University; author, Rock Farm (1996) and 1-800-HOT-RIBS (1993); and CD recording Deep Listening Space (2001) with John Lindberg, bass; "Poetry and Jazz at the Athenaeum"

Thursday,
April 25

Dinner Theater, Arsenic and Old Lace by Joseph Kesselring (1952) (6:00 p.m.)

Friday,
April 26

Dinner Theater, Arsenic and Old Lace by Joseph Kesselring (1952) (6:00 p.m.)

Saturday,
April 27

Dinner Theater, Arsenic and Old Lace by Joseph Kesselring (1952) (6:00 p.m.)

Tuesday,
April 30

J. Bradford DeLong, professor of economics, U.C. Berkeley; research associate, National Bureau of Economic Research; author, Macroeconomics (2001) and co-author, Understanding America's Hesitant Steps Toward Financial Capitalism (1996); "Economic Causes and Consequences of September 11th"

Friday,
May 3

David Dreier '75, U.S. House of Representatives (R), (CA-28th district); "Solid Policy on Solid Waste" (12:00 p.m.)

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