| Monday, January 26 |
Michael Behe, professor of biochemistry, Lehigh University; author, Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution (1996) and co-author, Intelligent Design: The Bridge Between Science and Technology (1999); "Science Stumbles on Design" |
| Tuesday, January 27 |
Manning Marable, professor of history and political science, Columbia University; author, The Great Wells of Democracy: The Meaning of Race in American Life (2003) and Speaking Truth to Power: Essays on Race, Radicalism and Resistance (1996); "Integration Denied/Equality Deferred: The Failure of Brown vs. Board" (7:00 p.m. McKenna Auditorium) |
| Wednesday, January 28 |
Coleen Rowley, FBI special agent, Minneapolis FBI field division; "Always Do Right" |
| Thursday, January 29 |
Lunar New Year Celebration, Karen Han, erhu; Cecelia Liu, zither; Jerry Chen, piano; "Year of the Monkey" |
| Monday, February 2 |
Rebecca Butler, founding director, Equal Connections: Educating to Stop Gender Violence; "Respect" |
| Tuesday, February 3 |
Darrell Smith '74 P'00, executive director, Pan-African Children's Fund/Save Africa's Children; "Crisis in Africa: A New Pan-African Vision" |
| Wednesday, February 4 |
Norman Corwin, screen writer and producer of radio broadcasts; co-author, The Encyclopedia of American Radio: An A-Z Guide to Radio from Jack Benny to Howard Stern (2000) and Norman Corwin's Letters (1994); Jonelle Allen, actor; "Challenging Boundaries in Life and in the Media" |
| Thursday, February 5 |
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, The World Must Know: History of the Holocaust Told in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (1993) and A Promise to Remember: The Holocaust in the Words and Voices of Its Survivors (2000); Dario Gabbai, Auschwitz survivor; Gideon Greif, professor of history, Yad Yashem, Israel; co-editor, The Historiography of the Holocaust Period (1988) and author, We Wept Without Tears: Testimonies of the Jewish Sonderkommandos from Auschwitz (1999); Joseph Russin, assistant managing editor for multimedia, Los Angeles Times; "Gray Zones: The Sonderkommandos" |
| Monday, February 9 |
Butch Ballard, drums; John Lamb, bass; Buster Cooper, trombone; Barrie Lee Hall, trumpet; Louie Bellson, drums; Rocky White, drums; Jeff Castleman, guitar; Milt Grayson, vocals; Vince Prudente, trombone; Barbara Winfield, vocals; Jimmy Woode, bass; Eve Smith, vocals; Lil Greenwood, vocals; Dave Black, drums; Herb Jeffries, vocals; Devonne Gardner, vocals; Dolores Parker, vocals; Milcho Leviev, piano; "Duke Ellington Orchestra Reunion Jam" |
| Tuesday, February 10 |
Michael Saks, professor of law and psychology, Arizona State University; co-author, Science Law: Social Science Issues (2002) and Forensic Science (2002); "The Law Takes a New Look at Some Old Forensic Sciences" |
| Wednesday, February 11 |
Aris Janigian, author, Bloodvine: A Novel (2003) and co-author, Something from Nothing (2002); "Author Reads from His Work" |
| Thursday, February 12 |
Alexandra Levine, M.D., chief, hematology division, USC medical school; co-author, AIDS-related Cancers and Their Treatment (2000) and editor, Lymphoma: Cancer in AIDS Gynecologic Cancer (1993); "AIDS: A National and Global Concern" |
| Monday, February 16 |
Ray Drummond '68, bass, assistant professor of jazz, theory, and practice, C.S.U. Monterey Bay; Bill Mays, piano; performers on album and song One to One (1990); "Jazz: America's Classical Music" |
| Tuesday, February 17 |
Steve Davis, Russell K. Pitzer professor of philosophy and religious studies, CMC; author, God, Reason, and Theistic Proofs (1997) and co-editor, Incarnation: An Interdisciplinary Symposium on the Incarnation of the Son of God (2002); "Is God Allowed Here? A Christian Professor Looks at Academia Today" |
| Wednesday, February 18 |
Philip Hamburger, John P. Wilson professor of law, University of Chicago; author, Separation of Church and State (2002) and Matters of State: A Political Excursion (2000); "The Ku Klux Klan: Separation of Church and State" (12:15 p.m.) |
| Wednesday, February 18 |
Lee Alston, professor of economic development, University of Colorado, Boulder; co-author, Titles, Conflict, and Land Use: The Development of Property Rights and Land Reform on the Brazilian Amazon Frontier (1999) and Southern Paternalism and the American Welfare State: Economics, Politics, and Institutions in the South, 1865-1965 (1998); "Why Isn't the Whole World Wealthy?" |
| Thursday, February 19 |
Ronald Grigor Suny, professor of political science and history, University of Chicago; author, The Structure of Soviet History: Essays and Documents (2003) and A State of Nations: Empire and Nation-making in the Age of Lenin and Stalin (2001); "Why We Hate You: The Passions of National Identity and Ethnic Conflict" |
| Friday, February 20 |
Dan Walters, political columnist, Sacramento Bee; author, The New California: Facing the 21st Century (1986) and co-author, The Third House: Lobbyists, Money and Power in Sacramento (2002); "Governing California in the 21st Century" (12:15 p.m.) |
| Monday, February 23 |
Elizabeth Birch, former executive director, Human Rights Campaign; "An Awakening Planet: LGBT America on the Edge of History" |
| Tuesday, February 24 |
Barry Lopez, author, Artic Dreams (1986) and Light Action in the Caribbean: Stories (2000); "Readings" (2:00 p.m.) |
| Tuesday, February 24 |
Gary Gilbert, assistant professor of philosophy and religious studies, CMC; editor, The Papers of the Henry Luce III Fellows in Theology (1996); Steve Davis, Russell K. Pitzer professor of philosophy and religious studies, CMC; author, God, Reason, and Theistic Proofs (1997) and co-editor, Incarnation: An Interdisciplinary Symposium on the Incarnation of the Son of God (2002); Robert Faggen, professor of literature, CMC; author, Robert Frost and the Challenge of Darwin (1997) and editor, Striving Towards Being: The Letters of Thomas Merton and Czeslaw Milosz (1997); John Roth, Edward J. Sexton professor of philosophy and religious studies, CMC; co-editor, Holocaust: Religious and Philosophical Implications (1989) and Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust (2002); Michael Berenbaum, adjunct professor of theology and director, Sigi Ziering Center for the Study of the Holocaust and Ethics, University of Judaism, Los Angeles; editor, The Holocaust and History: The Known, the Unknown, the Disputed, and the Reexamined (1998) and co-editor, The Bombing of Auschwitz: Should the Allies Have Attempted It? (2000); Jeff Siker, professor of theological studies, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles; author, Disinheriting the Jews: Abraham in Early Christian Controversy (1995) and Scripture and Ethics: Twentieth Century Portraits (1997); "Interpreting the Crucifixion of Jesus: The Passion Narratives and Jewish-Christian Relations" |
| Wednesday, February 25 |
Takakazu Kuriyama, former Japanese vice minister of foreign affairs; former Japanese Ambassador to the United States; author, The Japan-U.S. Alliance: From Drift to Revitalization (1997) and Japan and the United States: Partnership in Need of Repair (1999); "Japan and the United States: In Search of a New Partnership" |
| Thursday, February 26 |
Bernardo Carducci, professor of psychology, founding director, Shyness Research Institute, Indiana University; co-author, Shyness: A Bold New Approach (2000) and author, The Pocket Guide to Making Successful Small Talk: How to Talk to Anyone Anytime Anywhere about Anything (1999); "Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Shyness but Were Too Shy to Ask" |
| Monday, March 1 |
Amelia Tyagi, co-founder, HealthAllies, health benefits firm; co-author, "The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Mothers and Fathers Are Going Broke" (2003) |
| Tuesday, March 2 |
Leslie Bonci, director of sports medicine nutrition, University of Pittsburg; author, American Dietetic Association Guide to Better Digestion (2003) and co-author, Total Fitness for Women (2002); "Dangers of the Low-Carb Diet" (12:15 p.m.) |
| Tuesday, March 2 |
William Dembski, associate research professor in the conceptual foundations of science, Baylor University; author, The Design Inference: Eliminating Chance Through Small Probabilities (1999) and No Free Lunch: Why Specified Complexity Cannot Be Purchased Without Intelligence (2001); "Detecting Design in Biological Systems" |
| Thursday, March 4 |
Barbara Lewalski, William A. Kenan professor of English literature, history, and literature, Harvard University; author, Writing Women in Jacobean England, 1603-1625 (1998) and The Life of John Milton: A Critical Biography (2001); "Why Milton Still Matters" |
| Monday, March 8 |
Eugenie Scott, executive director, National Center for Science Education; co-author, Teaching about Evolution and the Nature of Science (1998) and forthcoming Evolution vs. Creationism: An Introduction (2004); "The Case Against Intelligent Design" |
| Tuesday, March 9 |
Aviva Brecher, senior scientist, national technological expert on transportation, safety, health and environmental issues, office of environmental preservation and modernization, Department of Transportation, Volpe National Transportation Center; "Balancing Transportation, Energy, and the Environment" |
| Wednesday, March 10 |
Connie Rice, civil rights activist; attorney, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Los Angeles; co-founder and co-director, Advancement Project, Los Angeles; "Guaranteeing Community Justice: Making Every Voice Count" |
| Thursday, March 11 |
Phyllis Moen, McKnight Presidential Chair and professor of sociology, University of Minnesota; author, It's about Time: Couples and Careers (2003) and Social Integration in the Second Half of Life (2000); "Work, Family, and the Life Course Perspective" |
| Monday, March 22 |
Paul Fussell, Donald T. Regan professor emeritus of English literature, University of Pennsylvania; author, The Boy's Crusade: The American Infantry in Northwestern Europe, 1944-45 (2003) and The Great War and Modern Memory (1976); "The Poetry of Three Wars: World War I, World War II, and Vietnam" |
| Tuesday, March 23 |
Eric Hickey, professor of psychology, C.S.U. Fresno; co-author, Serial Murderers and Their Victims (1991) and editor, The Encyclopedia of Murder and Violent Crime (2003); "The Role of Paraphalia in Profiling Serial Murderers" |
| Wednesday, March 24 |
Jisi Wang, professor of international politics, Beijing University; director, Institute of American Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing; co-author, China-Japan Relations: Meeting New Challenges (2000) and co-editor, The Rise of China and a Changing East Asia Order (2004); "China's Policy Toward the United States" (12:15 p.m.) |
| Wednesday, March 24 |
Christy Haubegger, founder and former publisher, Latina magazine; author, Latina Beauty (2000), associate producer on film Chasing Papi (2003); "What Does the Hispanic Demographic Hold for American Business?" |
| Thursday, March 25 |
Cindy Shea-Carballo, trumpet, founder and director; Ileana Garcia, vocals; Susie Garcia, violin; Leticia Sierra, violin; Lorraine Feesago-Perez, violin; Keiko Okamoto, flute; Melinda Salcedo, guitar; Mayra Martin, vihuela; Nelly Cortez, guitarron; Rocio Marron, violin; "Mariachi Divas: A Musical Celebration in Honor of Cesar Chavez" |
| Monday, March 29 |
Shelby Steele P'96, research fellow, Hoover Institution; author, A Dream Deferred: The Second Betrayal of Black Freedom in America (1999) and The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race in America (1990); "How Race Changed America" |
| Tuesday, March 30 |
Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (1984); former Archbishop of Cape Town, Anglican church, South Africa; former chair, Truth and Reconciliation Committee; author, Crying in the Wilderness: Struggle for Justice in South Africa (1982) and The Rainbow People of God: The Making of a Peaceful Revolution (1994); "Bridging the Chasm Between Black and White" (7:00 p.m. Bridges Auditorium) |
| Wednesday, March 31 |
Michael McFaul, assistant professor of political science, Stanford University; author, Russia's Unfinished Revolution: Political Change from Gorbachev to Putin (2001) and Russia's 1996 Presidential Election: The End of Bi-Polar Politics (1997); "Is Russia a Dictatorship?" (12:15 p.m.) |
| Wednesday, March 31 |
Joseph Prueher, former U.S. Ambassador to China; former commander-in-chief, U.S. Pacific command; co-author, Navy's Performance Testing Manual; "The United States and China: Diplomatic Experiences" |
| Thursday, April 1 |
Allan Vogel, oboe; Paul Sherman, oboe; Gary Gray, clarinet; David Beaudry, clarinet; Kenneth Munday, bassoon; William Wood, bassoon; Richard Todd, horn; Kristy McArthur Morrell, horn; "Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra Soloists: Mozart Wind Serenades" |
| Monday, April 5 |
Russell Iungerich '63 P'96, attorney at law, Iungerich & Spackman; "Arguing Cases Before the United States Supreme Court: Reflections of a CMC Alumnus" (12:15 p.m.) |
| Monday, April 5 |
Carol Swain, professor of political science and law, Vanderbilt University; author, The New White Nationalism in America: Its Challenge to Integration (2002) and Black Faces, Black Interests: The Representation of African Americans in Congress (1993); "From Affirmative Action to White Nationalism: The Implications for America's Future" |
| Tuesday, April 6 |
Jean Howard, William E. Ransford professor of English, Columbia University; author, Shakespeare's Art of Orchestration: Stage Technique and Audience Response (1984) and The Stage and Social Struggle in Early Modern England (1994); "The Making of The Norton Shakespeare" (12:15 p.m.) |
| Tuesday, April 6 |
Richard Burdekin, Jonathan B. Lovelace professor of economics, CMC; co-author, Confidence, Credibility and Macroeconomic Policy: Past, Present, Future (1995) and forthcoming Deflation: Current and Historical Perspectives (2004); "Some Chinese Monetary Lessons Old and New" |
| Tuesday, April 6 |
Edith Wong-Hee-Kam, professor, L'Universite de la Reunion; author, The Chinese Diaspora in the Mascarene Islands (1996); Jean-Christophe Royoux and Caecilia Tripp, co-directors of film Une Agora Reunionnaise; "Reunion Island: Crossroads of African, Chinese, Pakistani, Malay, and Malabar Indian Roots" (7:30 p.m. Mary Pickford Auditorium) |
| Wednesday, April 7 |
Larry Gold, founder, chairman, chief science officer, SomaLogic, Inc., Colorado-based proteomics company; "Better Health Through Molecular Diagnostics: Tensions Between Great New Science, Privacy, Ethics, and Wealth" |
| Thursday, April 8 |
William Kristol, editor and publisher, The Weekly Standard; co-author, The War Over Iraq: Saddam's Tyranny and America's Mission (2003) and author, forthcoming What's at Stake: The War on Terror and the 2004 Election (2004); "What's at Stake in the 2004 Election?" (12:15 p.m.) |
| Thursday, April 8 |
Michele Alfred, director, Inter-peintures, Haitian art center and gallery; "Creations and Visions in Contemporary Haitian Art" |
| Monday, April 12 |
William Lennox, Jr., Lieutenant General, U.S. Army; superintendent of the United States Military Academy at West Point; "West Point: The People's Academy" (12:15 p.m.) |
| Monday, April 12 |
Paul Muldoon, Howard G.B. Clark '21 professor of humanities, Princeton University; author, Unapproved Road (2002) and Hay (1998); "A Poet Reads from His Work" |
| Tuesday, April 13 |
William Darity, Cory C. Boshamer professor of economics and sociology, University of North Carolina; author, The Black Underclass: Critical Essays on Race and Unwantedness (1994) and Persistent Disparity: Race and Economic Inequality in the United States Since 1945 (1998); "The Economics of Reparations for African Americans" |
| Wednesday, April 14 |
Angela Oh, attorney, Oh & Barrera, LLP, Los Angeles; member Los Angeles city Human Relations Commission; Zen Buddhist priest, Rinzai sect; author, Open: One Woman's Journey (2002); "The Future of Race Relations in America" |
| Thursday, April 15 |
Deborah Buck, violin, faculty, Kinhaven Music School, Weston, Vermont; Maria Bachmann, violin, faculty, Adelphi University; Kathryn Lockwood, viola, faculty, University of Massachusetes, Amherst and Concordia; Astrid Schween, cello, faculty, Julliard School of Music, Music Advancement Program; "The Lark Quartet: Beethoven String Quartets, Opus 18, No. 4 and Opus 59, No. 1" |
| Monday, April 19 |
Robert Faggen, professor of literature, CMC; editor, The Cambridge Companion to Robert Frost (2001) and author, Robert Frost and the Challenge of Darwin (1997); "Oppenheimer's Vision of Knowledge: The Legacy of an American Hero" |
| Tuesday, April 20 |
Chong-Ha Yoo, professor of international relations, Sogang University, Korea; former South Korean Ambassador to the U.N.; former South Korean minister of foreign affairs; "The United States and North Korea: Nuclear Issues" (12:15 p.m.) |
| Tuesday, April 20 |
William Frey, demographer and research scientist, University of Michigan Population Studies Center; author, America by the Numbers: A Fieldguide to the U.S. Population (2001) and Investigating Change in American Society (1997); "Three Americas: How Migration is Transforming America" |
| Wednesday, April 21 |
Ira Glass, radio host and producer of NPR's This American Life; co-author, Radio- An Illustrated Guide (1999); "Lies, Sissies, & Fiascoes: Notes on Making A New Kind of Radio" |
| Thursday, April 22 |
Dinner Theater, Betty's Summer Vacation by Christopher Durang (1999) (6:00 p.m.) |
| Friday, April 23 |
Dinner Theater, Betty's Summer Vacation by Christopher Durang (1999) (6:00 p.m.) |
| Saturday, April 24 |
Dinner Theater, Betty's Summer Vacation by Christopher Durang (1999) (6:00 p.m.) |
| Thursday, April 29 |
Peggy Noonan, contributing editor, The Wall Street Journal; author, A Heart, a Cross, and a Flag (2003) and When Character was King: A Story of Ronald Reagan (2001); "Conversation with Peggy Noonan" (12:15 p.m.) |
| Thursday, April 29 |
George Andrews, Evan Pugh professor of mathematics, Pennsylvania State University; co-author, Number Theory (1971) and author, The Theory of Partitions (1976); "Math Wars: A Research Mathematician's View of Mathematics Education" |
| Tuesday, May 4 |
Harry McMahon '75, vice chairman, Executive Client Coverage Group, Merrill Lynch; "The Investment Banking Industry in 2010" |