Speakers, Spring 2003

 

Friday,
January 24

Dick Gregory, comedian, activist, vegetarian; co-editor, African American Humor: The Best Black Comedy from Slavery to Today (2002) and author, Dick Gregory's Natural Diet for Folks Who Eat: Cookin' with Mother Nature (1983); 5-C sponsored talk to be in Bridges Hall of Music (Little Bridges) at 7:00 p.m.; "Reception and Book Signing" at the Athenaeum (8:00 p.m.)

Monday,
January 27

Alvin Poussaint, clinical professor of psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; co-author, Lay My Burden Down: Suicide and the Mental Health Crisis Among African Americans (2000) and Raising Black Children: Two Leading Psychiatrists Confront the Educational, Social, and Emotional Problems Facing Black Children (1992); "The Impact of Racism and Prejudice on Children"

Tuesday,
January 28

Kyozan Joshu, Roshi, Mount Baldy Zen Center; "Dharma Talk"

Wednesday,
January 29

William Beezley, professor of history, University of Arizona; co-author, Latin America: The Peoples and Their History (1999) and co-editor, The Oxford History of Mexico (2000); "The Popular Origins of Mexican National Identity"

Thursday,
January 30

Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, associate professor of psychology, University of Cape Town, South Africa; author, A Human Being Died That Night: A South African Story of Forgiveness (2002); "Are Some Things Unforgivable?" (12:15 p.m.)

Thursday,
January 30

Peter Olney, associate director, Institute for Labor and Employment, U.C. Berkeley; "Conflict Management and Resolution: Labor and Unions"

Monday,
February 3

Michael Cunningham, author, The Hours (1998) and Flesh and Blood (1995); "An Evening with the Author"

Tuesday,
February 4

Lunar New Year Celebration; Karen Han, erhu; Johnson Hsu, geh-hu; Li Cheng Zhao, percussion, hulusi, sheng; Terry Lin, percussion; Judy Ying, yangqin; Yu Hwa Li, erhu; Mei-Ye Ma, pipa; Lang Chu, zheng; "Year of the Ram, Spring Thunder Chinese Music Ensemble"

Wednesday,
February 5

Robert Goldberg, professor of molecular, cell, and developmental biology, UCLA; editor, Plant Molecular Biology (1985) and Plant Cell (1989); "The Use of Genetically Modified Organisms in Agriculture"

Thursday,
February 6

Greg Victoroff, copyright attorney, partner, Rohde & Victoroff, Los Angeles; Neil Smith, copyright attorney, litigation department, Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Falk, and Rabkin, San Francisco; "Copyrights in Education, Research, and Publishing: History and Current Use"

Monday,
February 10

Ray Drummond '68, bass; Craig Handy, saxophone; Sherman Ferguson, drums; Danny Grissett, piano; "The Ray Drummond Jazz Quartet"

Tuesday,
February 11

Herbert Meyer P'03, founder and chairman, Real-World Intelligence, Inc.; author, Real-World Intelligence: Organized Information for Executives (1988) and Hard Thinking: The Fusion of Politics and Science (1993); "The Siege of Western Civilization- and How to Think about the War in Iraq"

Wednesday,
February 12

Robert Audi, Charles J. Mach University professor of philosophy, University of Nebraska; author, The Architecture of Reason: The Structure and Substance of Rationality (2001) and Religious Commitment and Secular Reason (2000); "Religion, Politics, and International Justice"

Thursday,
February 13

Sterling Lord, literary agent and chairman, Sterling Lord Literistic, Inc.; author, Returning the Serve Intelligently (1976); "The Publishing World- Then and Now" (4:00 p.m.)

Thursday,
February 13

Michael Berenbaum, adjunct professor of theology and director, Sigi Ziering Center for the Study of the Holocaust and Ethics, University of Judaism, Los Angeles; co-author, False Papers: Deception and Survival in the Holocaust (2000) and In the Shadow of the Swastika (1998); "Time and History, Politics, Memory, and Identity: The Shifting Consciousness of the Holocaust"

Monday,
February 17

P. Edward Haley, W.M. Keck Foundation chair of International strategic studies, CMC; author, Qaddafi and the United States Since 1969 (1984) and Congress and the Fall of South Vietnam and Cambodia (1982); "War in Iraq?"

Tuesday,
February 18

Daniel Goldhagen, professor of government, Harvard University; author, A Moral Reckoning: The Role of the Catholic Church in the Holocaust and Its Unfulfilled Duty of Repair (2002) and Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust (1996); John Roth, Russell K. Pitzer professor of philosophy and religious studies, CMC; author, Ethics after the Holocaust: Perspectives, Critiques, and Responses (1999) and Private Needs, Public Selves: Talk about Religion in America (1997); Michael Berenbaum, adjunct professor of theology and director, Sigi Ziering Center for the Study of the Holocaust and Ethics, University of Judaism, Los Angeles; author, In the Shadow of the Swastika (1998) and False Papers: Deception and Survival in the Holocaust (2000); Eva Fleischner, Roman Catholic theologian; editor, Auschwitz- Beginning of a New Era?: Reflections on the Holocaust (1994) and co-author, Cries in the Night: Women Who Challenged the Holocaust (1997); Jonathan Petropoulos, John V. Croul professor in European history, CMC; author, forthcoming Royals and the Reich: The Princes of Hesse in Nazi Germany (2004) and The Faustian Bargain: The Art World in Nazi Germany (1999); moderator; "The Vatican, Daniel Goldhagen, and the Holocaust: A Panel Discussion"

Thursday,
February 20

Walter Mignolo, William H. Wannamaker Distinguished professor of literature, cultural anthropology, and romance studies, Duke University; co-editor, Writing Without Words: Alternative Literacies in Mesoamerica and the Andes (1994) and author, The Darker Side of the Renaissance: Literacy, Territoriality, Colonization (1995); "Globalization and the Geopolitics of Knowledge: The Role of the Humanities in the Corporate University"

Saturday,
February 22

Paul Orfalea, founder, Kinkos, Inc.; "Corporate Responsibility to Working Families" (12:45 p.m.)

Monday,
February 24

James Young, professor of English and Judaic studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; author, Memory's Edge: After-Images of the Holocaust in Contemporary Art and Architecture (2000) and editor, Holocaust Memorials in History: The Art of Memory (1997); "Memory, Counter-memory, and the End of the Holocaust Monument"

Tuesday,
February 25

Michael Berenbaum, adjunct professor of theology and director, Sigi Ziering Center for the Study of the Holocaust and Ethics, University of Judaism, Los Angeles; co-author, False Papers: Deception and Survival in the Holocaust (2000) and In the Shadow of the Swastika (1998); "Creating Something from Nothing: The Scholar as Entrepreneur"

Wednesday,
February 26

Jorge Dominquez, professor of international affairs, Harvard University; editor, The Future of Inter-American Relations (1999) and co-author; "The United States and Mexico: Between Partnership and Conflict" (2001)

Thursday,
February 27

Ersky Freeman as Malcolm X; Dudley Craig II as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; Mark Anderson as bodyguard; "Pin Points Theatre: The Meeting"

Monday,
March 3

Ted Bergstrom, Aaron and Cherie Raznick chair and professor of economics, U.C. Santa Barbara; co-author, Experiments with Economic Principles: Microeconomics (1999) and Workouts in Intermediate Microeconomics (1999); "An Evolutionary View of the Economics of the Family"

Tuesday,
March 4

Il SaKong, former finance minister, Republic of Korea; author, Korea in the World Economy (1993) and co-editor, The Korea-United States Economic Relationship (1997); "Towards an Enchanted East Asian Economic Cooperation"

Wednesday,
March 5

Harold Mulherin, Don and Loraine Freeberg chair and professor of economics and finance, CMC; co-author, Valuing the Process of Corporate Restructuring (2001) and Comparing Acquisitions and Divestitures (2000); "Research in Corporate Finance"

Thursday,
March 6

Edward Burger, professor of mathematics, Williams College; co-author, The Heart of Mathematics: An Invitation to Effective Thinking (1999) and author, Exploring the Number Jungle: A Journey into Diophantine Analysis (2000); "The Beauty and Art of Paper Folding for the Origamically Challenged"

Monday,
March 10

Thomas Metcalf, Sarah Kailath chair and professor of history and Indian studies, U.C. Berkeley; author, Ideologies of the Raj (1995) and An Imperial Vision: Indian Architecture and Britain's Raj (1989); "Gandhi: Imperialist, Nationalist, Hindu?"

Tuesday,
March 11

Nicholas Turro, William P. Schweitzer professor of chemistry, Columbia University; author, Modern Molecular Photochemistry (1991) and Annual Survey of Photochemistry Volume 3 (1971); "Paradigms Found and Paradigms Lost. Science Extraordinary and Science Pathological. Which is Which? And How to Tell the Difference"

Wednesday,
March 12

Gary Comstock, professor of philosophy, director of ethics program, North Carolina State University; author, Vexing Nature: On the Ethical Case Against Agricultural Biotechnology (2000) and Life Science Ethics (2002); "Vexing Nature? On Ethics and Genetically Modified Food"

Thursday,
March 13

Valerie Bunce, professor of political science, Cornell University; author, Subversive Institutions: The Design and Destruction of Socialism and the State (1999) and Do New Leaders Make a Difference?: Executive Succession and Public Policy under Capitalism and Socialism (1981); "The Sources of Ethnic Conflict: Insights from the Post-communist Experience"

Monday,
March 24

Hershel Parker, H. Fletcher Brown professor emeritus of English, University of Delaware; author, Flawed Texts and Verbal Icons: Literacy Authority in American Fiction (1984) and Herman Melville: A Biography (Volume 2, 1851-1891) (2002); "Damned by Dollars: Moby-Dick and the Price of Genius"

Tuesday,
March 25

bell hooks, author, Feminism is for Everybody (2000) and Communion: The Female Search for Love (2002); "Feminist Education: Changing All Our Lives"

Wednesday,
March 26

Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland; former U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights; co-author, International Encyclopedia of Human Rights: Freedom, Abuses, and Remedies (2000) and co-editor, The Poverty of Rights: Human Rights and the Eradication of Poverty (2001); "Human Rights and Ethical Globalization"

Thursday,
March 27

Alexander Gonzalez, president, C.S.U. San Marcos; "Cesar Chavez Commemoration"

Monday,
March 31

Michael Lamb, chief, section on social and emotional development, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; co-editor, Development in Infancy: An Introduction (1982) and co-author, Investigative Interviews of Children: A Guide for Helping Professionals (1998); "Promoting Child Well-Being Through Mother-and Father-Child Relationships"

Tuesday,
April 1

Paul Volcker, former chairman, Federal Reserve Board; author, The Quotable Investor (2001) and co-author, On Money and Markets: A Wall Street Memoir (2000); "Urgent Business for America: Revitalizing the Federal Government for the 21st Century"

Wednesday,
April 2

Zahara Heckscher, founder, Community Alliance for Youth Action; contributing editor Transitions Abroad; "How to Live Your Dream of Volunteering Overseas" (12:15 p.m.)

Wednesday,
April 2

James Waller, Lindaman chair and professor of psychology, Whitworth College; co-author, Prejudice Across America (2000) and author, "Becoming Evil: How Ordinary People Commit Genocide and Mass Killing" (2002)

Thursday,
April 3

Stuart Schram, research associate, Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University; author, Mao's Road to Power: Revolutionary Writings 1912-1949, National Revolution and Social Revolution December 1920-June 1927 (1995) and The Thought of Mao Tse-Tung (1989); "Mao's China: Before, During, and After" (12:15 p.m.)

Thursday,
April 3

Gary Biszantz '56, president and owner, Cobra Farm; Suzanne Biszantz, president, Greg Norman Collection, Reebok International; "Ethics in Business"

Monday,
April 7

Rosalind Barnett, senior scientist, Women's Studies Research Center, Brandeis University; co-author, She Works/He Works: How Two-income Families are Happy, Healthy, and Thriving (1998) and forthcoming The Seduction of Difference (2003); "Dual-Earner Couples: Good/Bad for Her and/or Him?"

Tuesday,
April 8

J. Michael Fay, conservationist, Wildlife Conservation Society; National Geographic explorer; "The Last of the True African Explorers" (12:15 p.m.)

Tuesday,
April 8

Alex Melamid, Russian artist; co-author, When Elephants Paint: The Quest of Two Russian Artists to Save the Elephants of Thailand (2000) and co-editor, Painting by Numbers: Komar and Melamid's Scientific Guide to Art (1999); "Art as Absolute Truth"

Wednesday,
April 9

Peter Hayes, Theodore Z. Weiss professor of history, German, and Holocaust studies, Northwestern University; author, Industry and Ideology: I.G. Farben in the Nazi Era (1987) and editor, Lessons and Legacies: The Meaning of the Holocaust in a Changing World (1991); "Corporate Complicity in the Holocaust: Degussa from Aryanization to Auschwitz"

Thursday,
April 10

Chong-Wook Chung, visiting professor of Asian Affairs, CMC; author, Maoism and Development: The Politics of Industrial Management in China (1980) and co-editor, Korean Options in a Changing International Order (1993); "New Leaders in Asia: Implications for America" (12:15 p.m.)

Thursday,
April 10

Samantha Power, adjunct lecturer in public policy, Harvard University; co-editor, Realizing Human Rights: Moving from Inspiration to Impact (2000) and author, "A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide" (2002)

Friday,
April 11

Sarah Awad '03, "Senior Art Show" (3:00 p.m.)

Monday,
April 14

Patricia Mabee, harpsichord; Allen Vogel, oboe; Margaret Batjer, violin; Samuel Formicola, viola; Victoria Miskolczy, viola; Douglas Davis, cello; "Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra Soloists: Chamber Conversations"

Tuesday,
April 15

Gregory Hess, Russell S. Bock chair of public economics and taxation and professor of economics, CMC; co-editor, International Macroeconomics (2000) and author, "The Economic Welfare Cost of War: An Empirical Assessment" (2002)

Wednesday,
April 16

Nafis Sadik, former executive director, United Nations population fund; editor, An Agenda for People: UNFPA Through Three Decades (2002) and author, The State of the World: Lives Together, Worlds Apart- Men and Women in a Time of Change (2000); "The Global War Against Women"

Thursday,
April 17

Leszek Balcerowicz, former finance minister and deputy prime minister, Poland; author, Post-Communist Transition (2002) and Socialism, Capitalism, Transformation (1995); "EU Enlargement and Economic Catching-up of the Candidate Countries" (12:15 p.m.)

Thursday,
April 17

Y.M. Bammi, lieutenant general (retired), Indian Military; research fellow, United Services Institution of India, New Delhi; author, Kargil 1999: The Impregnable Conquered (2002); "South Asia- What Lies Ahead"

Monday,
April 21

Ronnie Spector, founding member, the Ronettes; co-author, Be My Baby: How I Survived Mascara, Mini Skirts, and Madness, or My Life as a Fabulous Ronette (1990); Tricia Scotti, guitar; Gabrielle Ostrowska, piano; "Beyond the Beehive"

Thursday,
April 24

David Brooks, senior editor, The Weekly Standard; author, Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There (2000) and editor, Backward and Upward: The New Conservative Writing (1996); "The Last (Suburban) Man: The Suburbs and American Politics" (12:15 p.m.)

Thursday,
April 24

Dieter Stiefel, professor of social and economic history, University of Vienna; co-editor, Contemporary Austrian Studies (2000) and author, The Great Depression in a Small Country: Austrian Finance and Political Economy, 1929-1938 (1988); "The Great War and the Great Depression of the 1930's" (4:00 p.m.)

Thursday,
April 24

Dinner Theater, Eat Your Heart Out by Nick Hall (1975) (6:00 p.m.)

Friday,
April 25

Dinner Theater, Eat Your Heart Out by Nick Hall (1975) (6:00 p.m.)

Saturday,
April 26

Dinner Theater, Eat Your Heart Out by Nick Hall (1975) (6:00 p.m.)

Tuesday,
April 29

William Bennett, former Secretary of Education; founder of Empower America; author, The Death of Outrage: Bill Clinton and the Assault on American Ideals (1998) and editor, The Book of Virtues: A Treasury of Great Moral Stories (1993); "Integrity in Public and Private Life"

Friday,
May 2

Benjamin Royas '03, "Visual Arts Senior Thesis: The Tragedy of September 11" Parker Mason '03, "Creative Thesis: Sculptural Grotesqueries" (3:00 p.m.)

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