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, |
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, |
Kyozan Joshu, Roshi, Mount Baldy Zen Center; "Dharma Talk" |
Wednesday, |
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, |
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, |
Peter Olney, associate director, Institute for Labor and Employment, U.C. Berkeley; "Conflict Management and Resolution: Labor and Unions" |
Monday, |
Michael Cunningham, author, The Hours (1998) and Flesh and Blood (1995); "An Evening with the Author" |
Tuesday, |
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, |
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, |
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, |
Ray Drummond '68, bass; Craig Handy, saxophone; Sherman Ferguson, drums; Danny Grissett, piano; "The Ray Drummond Jazz Quartet" |
Tuesday, |
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, |
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, |
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, |
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, |
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, |
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, |
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, |
Paul Orfalea, founder, Kinkos, Inc.; "Corporate Responsibility to Working Families" (12:45 p.m.) |
Monday, |
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, |
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, |
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, |
Ersky Freeman as Malcolm X; Dudley Craig II as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; Mark Anderson as bodyguard; "Pin Points Theatre: The Meeting" |
Monday, |
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, |
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, |
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, |
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, |
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, |
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, |
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, |
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, |
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, |
bell hooks, author, Feminism is for Everybody (2000) and Communion: The Female Search for Love (2002); "Feminist Education: Changing All Our Lives" |
Wednesday, |
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, |
Alexander Gonzalez, president, C.S.U. San Marcos; "Cesar Chavez Commemoration" |
Monday, |
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, |
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, |
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, |
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, |
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, |
Gary Biszantz '56, president and owner, Cobra Farm; Suzanne Biszantz, president, Greg Norman Collection, Reebok International; "Ethics in Business" |
Monday, |
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, |
J. Michael Fay, conservationist, Wildlife Conservation Society; National Geographic explorer; "The Last of the True African Explorers" (12:15 p.m.) |
Tuesday, |
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, |
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, |
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, |
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, |
Sarah Awad '03, "Senior Art Show" (3:00 p.m.) |
Monday, |
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, |
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, |
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, |
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, |
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, |
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, |
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, |
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, |
Dinner Theater, Eat Your Heart Out by Nick Hall (1975) (6:00 p.m.) |
Friday, |
Dinner Theater, Eat Your Heart Out by Nick Hall (1975) (6:00 p.m.) |
Saturday, |
Dinner Theater, Eat Your Heart Out by Nick Hall (1975) (6:00 p.m.) |
Tuesday, |
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, |
Benjamin Royas '03, "Visual Arts Senior Thesis: The Tragedy of September 11" Parker Mason '03, "Creative Thesis: Sculptural Grotesqueries" (3:00 p.m.) |