| Thursday, January 20 |
Wendy Kopp, founder and president, Teach for America; author, "One Day, All Children: The Unlikely Triumph of Teach For America and What I Learned Along the Way" (2001) (12:15 p.m.) |
| Monday, January 24 |
Christopher Edley, Jr., dean, Boalt Hall School of Law, U.C. Berkeley; author, Not All Black & White: Affirmative Action, Race, and American Values (1996) and co-author, Out of Many: One Radical and Ethnic Justice in 21st Century America (2004); "The Future of the Civil Rights Movement" |
| Tuesday, January 25 |
Roger Ames, professor of philosophy, University of Hawaii; co-author, Daodejing: Making This Life Significant, A Philosophical Translation (2003) and Focusing the Familiar: A Translation and Philosophical Interpretation of the Zhongyong (2001); "Confucianism and A-theistic Righteousness" |
| Wednesday, January 26 |
David Haight, lieutenant colonel, commander, 2nd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment, U.S. Army; "Realities of Fighting the Global War on Terrorism" (12:15 p.m.) |
| Wednesday, January 26 |
Richard Hanley, assistant professor of philosophy, University of Delaware; author, Is Data Human? The Metaphysics of Star Trek (1997) and co-editor, forthcoming A Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Language; "No Need for Miracles: Simulation and the Supernatural" |
| Thursday, January 27 |
David Finegold, associate professor of management, Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences; co-author, Corporate Boards: Adding Value at the Top (2001) and Are Skills the Answer?: A Comparison of Education, Training, and Employment Systems in Seven Industrialized Countries (1999); "Ethical Decision-Making in Bioscience Companies" |
| Tuesday, February 1 |
Daniel Maximin, author, Tu, c'est l'enfance (You, It Is Childhood) (2004) and L'Invention des Desirades (The Invention of Desirades) (2000); "An Encounter with the Writer" |
| Wednesday, February 2 |
Mija Kang, soprano, visiting professor of voice, UCLA; Judith Hansen, piano, adjunct assistant professor of vocal music, UCLA; Gary Gray, clarinet, principal, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, professor of clarinet, UCLA; "A Recital of Arias and Art Songs" |
| Thursday, February 3 |
Sean Elsbernd '97, San Francisco County Supervisor, District 7; "San Francisco Values + a CMC Education = San Francisco's Most Moderate Politician" |
| Monday, February 7 |
Heather Callender Potters '87, director, Baring Communication Equity (Emerging Europe), Ltd, Poland; "It's All A Matter of Perspective- from Education, to Economics, to Human Rights" |
| Tuesday, February 8 |
Brian Greene, professor of physics and mathematics, Columbia University; author, The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory (2000) and The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality (2004); "String Theory: Reaching for Einstein's Dream" |
| Wednesday, February 9 |
Kenneth French, Carl E. and Catherine M. Heidt professor of finance, Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College; co-author, Disappearing Dividends: Changing Firm Characteristics or Lower Propensity to Pay? (2004) and The Cross Section of Expected Stock Returns (1992); "What Your Parents Didn't Know about Investing- and You Should!" |
| Thursday, February 10 |
Linda Gregerson, Frederick G.L. Huetwell professor of English, University of Michigan; author, Waterborne (2002) and Negative Capability: Contemporary American Poetry (2001); "Poetry Reading" |
| Monday, February 14 |
Lunar New Year Celebration, Yun-Jieh Jia, maid Tsun Shiang; C.C. Wong, tutor Chen Zhuei-Liang; Li-Yun Wang, Lady Du Li-Niang; Henry Chang, dizi; Yu-Hua Li, erhu; Lang C. Chu, sansian; Zhu-Fan Wu, drum; Leonard Tong, small gong; Fu-Yun Sun, make-up artist; "Year of the Rooster, Chinese Kwun Opera Society: Scenes from The Peony Pavilion" (6:00 p.m.) |
| Tuesday, February 15 |
Anson Chan, former chief secretary for administration, government of Hong Kong; co-author, Wings Over Hong Kong (1998) author, Economic Freedom in Hong Kong (2000); "China and Hong Kong- One Country, Two Systems" |
| Wednesday, February 16 |
Andrew Rolle, research scholar, Huntington Library, San Marino; professor emeritus of history, Occidental College; author, California: A History (1963) and John Charles Fremont: Character as Destiny (1991); "The California Indians: Brutalizing or Preserving?" |
| Thursday, February 17 |
Larry Weinberg, executive vice president, ISRAEL21c; author, forthcoming A New Paradigm for Israel Advocacy (2005); "Beyond the Conflict: A Realistic View of Israeli Society" (12:15 p.m.) |
| Thursday, February 17 |
Luis Rodriguez, author, Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gangs Days in L.A. (1993) and The Republic of East L.A.: Stories (2002); "Readings and Reflections" |
| Monday, February 21 |
Jeffrey Klein '75 P'08, CEO, 101communications, LLC, Los Angeles; "The Business of the Media" |
| Tuesday, February 22 |
Ilya Prizel, professor of political science, University of Pittsburgh; author, National Identity and Foreign Policy: Nationalism and Leadership in Poland, Russia, and Ukraine (1998) and Postcommunist Eastern Europe: Crisis and Reform (1992); "Europe- The Vulnerable Giant" |
| Wednesday, February 23 |
Walid Kazziha, professor of political science, American University, Cairo; co-author, Renewal of Islamic Law (2004) and State and Society in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Egypt (2003); "Prospects for Peace in Palestine" (12:15 p.m.) |
| Wednesday, February 23 |
Brannon Braga, co-creator and executive director, Star Trek: Enterprise; co-writer of films Star Trek: Generations (1994) and Star Trek: First Contact (1996); "Confessions of a Star Trek Writer" |
| Thursday, February 24 |
Kenneth Cloke, director, Center for Dispute Resolution, Los Angeles; author, Mediating Dangerously: The Frontiers of Conflict Resolution (2001) and forthcoming Into the Heart of Conflict: A Guide to Resolution (2005); "Mediating Evil, War, and Terrorism" (12:15 p.m.) |
| Thursday, February 24 |
Gregory Boyle, founder and director of Jobs for a Future/Homeboy Industries, Los Angeles; "Tattoos on the Heart: Empowering Those for Whom Hope is Foreign" |
| Friday, February 25 |
Joanne Ciulla, professor and Coston Family Chair in leadership and ethics, Jepson School of Leadership Studies, University of Richmond; author, The Ethics of Leadership (2002) and The Working Life: The Promise and Betrayal of Modern Work (2000); "Leadership in a Morally Divided World" |
| Saturday, February 26 |
Mitchell Lee Marks, management consultant; author, Charging Back Up the Hill: Workplace Recovery after Mergers, Acquisitions, and Downsizing (2003) and Joining Forces: Making One Plus One Equal Three in Mergers, Acquisitions, and Alliances (1997); "Workplace Recovery after Major Organization Transition: Best Practices in Leading Organizational Change" (12:45 p.m.) |
| Monday, February 28 |
Paul Rusesabagina, former acting manager, Hotel des Mille Collines, Rwanda; as seen in film Hotel Rwanda (2004); "Hotel Rwanda: A Lesson Yet to Be Learned" (12:15 p.m.) |
| Monday, February 28 |
Lilia Shevtsova, senior associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; author, Yeltsin's Russia: Myths and Reality (1999) and Putin's Russia (2003); "Is Russia Returning to Dictatorship?" |
| Tuesday, March 1 |
Lauren Weeth '05, "A Bridge to Islam: A Documentary Film Directed by Jean-Louis Boudart" |
| Wednesday, March 2 |
Debra Erickson, conservation director, Orangutan Foundation International; "Saving the Orangutans of Borneo" |
| Thursday, March 3 |
Dewey Redman, saxophone, artist on albums Live in London (1998) and Look for the Black Star (1966); Tim Hagans, trumpet; Dave Woodley, trombone; Danny House, alto saxophone; Cecilia Coleman, piano; Darek Oles, bass; Joe LaBarbera, drums; "The Dewey Redman Septet: An Evening with Dewey Redman" |
| Monday, March 7 |
Rena Repetti, associate professor of psychology, UCLA; co-author, Risky Families: Family Social Environments and the Mental and Physical Health of Offspring (2002) and author, Effects of Paid Employment on Women's Mental and Physical Health (1988); "Families Reuniting after Work" |
| Tuesday, March 8 |
Kirk Bloodsworth, pardoned death row inmate; program officer, The Justice Project; John Terzano, president, The Justice Project; "Surviving Injustice: The True Story of the First Death Row Inmate Exonerated by DNA" |
| Wednesday, March 9 |
William Schulz, executive director, Amnesty International USA; author, Tainted Legacy: 9/11 and the Ruin of Human Rights (2003) and In Our Own Best Interest: How Defending Human Rights Benefits Us All (2001); Rick Smith, CEO, TASER International; P. Edward Haley, W.M. Keck Foundation chair of International strategic studies, CMC; editor, The United States and Europe (1999) and Arms Control and the End of the Cold War: An Oral History of the Negotiations on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (2002), moderator; "Amnesty International-TASER Debate" |
| Thursday, March 10 |
A.S. Byatt, author, Possession: A Romance (1990) and A Whistling Woman (2002); "Glass as Metaphor: Reflections on the Development of My Work" |
| Monday, March 21 |
Mark Macarro, tribal chair of the Pechanga Band of Luiseno Indians; "Tribal Gaming in California" |
| Tuesday, March 22 |
Nelly Cortez, guitarron; Cindy Shea, trumpet; founder, director; Mona Seda, trumpet; Ileana Garcia, vocals; Susie Garcia, violin; Keiko Okamoto, flute; Mayra Martinez, vuihuela; Rocio Marron, violin; Leticia Sierra, violin; Akiko Horii, congas; Cynthia Gonzalez, guitar, vocals; Lorena Panella, guitar, vocals; "Mariachi Divas: A Musical Celebration in Honor of Cesar Chavez" |
| Wednesday, March 23 |
Hung-mao Tien, former Foreign Minister of the Republic of China (Taiwan); co-editor, The Security Environment in the Asia-Pacific (2000) and Democratization in Taiwan: Implications for China (1998); "The Cross-Strait Relations: Recent Developments and Future Prospects" |
| Thursday, March 24 |
Dolores Huerta, co-founder, United Farm Workers of America, AFL-CIO (UFW); "The UFW: Past, Present, and Future" |
| Tuesday, March 29 |
Heidi Rutz, assistant professor of strategy and policy, U.S. Naval War College; "One Step Forward, Two Steps Back?: Anti-terrorism Measures and the Implications for Political Liberalization" |
| Wednesday, March 30 |
Adam Zagajewski, visiting associate professor of English, University of Houston; author, Mysticism for Beginners (1997) and Another Beauty (2000); "The Poet Reads from His Work" |
| Thursday, March 31 |
Gary Gilbert, associate professor of religious studies, CMC; editor, The Papers of the Henry Luce III Fellows in Theology (1996); Zayn Kassam, associate professor of religious studies, Pomona College; John Stratton Hawley, Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Religion, Barnard College, Columbia University; co-author, Songs of the Saints of India (2004) and author, Three Bhakti Voices: Mirabai, Surdas, and Kabir in Their Time and Ours (2005); "Teaching Difficult Subjects: World Religions in a Devisive World" (12:15 p.m.) |
| Thursday, March 31 |
Hugh Hewitt, professor of law, Chapman University; author, Blog: Understanding the Information Reformation That's Changing Your World (2005) and If It's Not Close, They Can't Cheat: Crushing the Democrats in Every Election and Why Your Life Depends on It (2004); "Bloggers: The Rise of the New Media and the Decline of the Old" |
| Monday, April 4 |
Ashley Orton '91, training and evaluation associate, membership mobilization department, Amnesty International USA; "Building a Career in International Development: Pros and Cons of Taking the Road Less Traveled" (12:15 p.m.) |
| Monday, April 4 |
Andrew Cyrille, drums; professor of jazz and contemporary music, New School for Social Research; Ray Drummond '68, bass; assistant professor of jazz, theory, and practice, C.S.U. Monterey Bay; performers on David Murray's album Like a Kiss That Never Ends (2001); Gary Foster, alto saxophone; Billy Harper, tenor saxophone; Gary Smulyan, baritone saxophone; Dave Woodley, trombone; Ron Stout, trumpet; "Cyrille and Drummond Play Thelonious Monk" |
| Monday, April 4 |
Adam Michnik, editor-in-chief, Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland; author, Church and the Left (1993) and Letters from Prison and Other Essays (1985); "The Legacy of Czeslaw Milosz" |
| Tuesday, April 5 |
Ron Riggio, Henry R. Kravis professor of leadership and organizational psychology, director, Kravis Leadership Institute, CMC; co-editor, The Future of Leadership Development (2003) and Multiple Intelligences and Leadership (2001); Andrew Busch associate professor of government, CMC; co-author, The Perfect Tie: The True Story of the 2000 Presidential Election (2001) and The Front-loading Problem in Presidential Nominations (2003); Elizabeth Spalding, assistant professor of government, CMC; author, forthcoming The War of Nerves: Harry S. Truman and the Origins of Containment; "Religion, Rhetoric, and Presidential Leadership" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Tuesday, April 5 |
David Aikman, print and broadcast journalist; author, A Man of Faith: The Spiritual Journey of George W. Bush (2004) and Jesus in Beijing: How Christianity is Transforming China and Changing the Global Balance of Power (2003); "Media, Religion, and the 2004 Election" |
| Wednesday, April 6 |
Leslie Bergson, rabbi, Hillel director, the Claremont Colleges; Jesse Miranda, Distinguished professor of religion, director, Center for Urban and Latino Leadership, Vanguard University; co-editor, Latino Religions and Civic Actions in the United States (2005) and author, Liderazgo y Amistad (1998); Cecil Murray, former pastor, First African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church, Los Angeles; Joe Fenton, Catholic Chaplain, the Claremont Colleges; "Congregations and the American Presidency" (11:45 a.m.) |
| Wednesday, April 6 |
Takakazu Kuriyama, former Japanese Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs and Ambassador to the U.S.; author, The Japan-U.S. Alliance: From Drift to Revitalization (1997) and Japan and the United States: Partnership in Need of Repair (1999); "Japan-U.S. Realtions: Strong or Fragile?" |
| Thursday, April 7 |
Kjell Lejon, director of religious studies, Linkoping University, Sweden; author, God Bless America!: President George Bush's Religio-politiska Budskap (1994) and Reagan, Religion, and Politics: The Revitalization of "a Nation Under God" during the 80s (1988); Roderic Camp, Philip M. McKenna professor of the Pacific Rim, CMC; author, Politics in Mexico: The Democratic Transformation (2003) and Mexico's Mandarins: Crafting a Power Elite for the 21st Century (2002); "International Perspectives on Religion and the Presidency" (11:45 a.m.) |
| Thursday, April 7 |
Carol Moseley Braun, former U.S. Senator (D-Illinois) (1993-1999); candidate for the Democratic nomination for President (2004); "The Religion Factor in the 2004 Election" |
| Friday, April 8 |
Adam Michnik, editor-in-chief, Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland; author, Church and the Left (1993) and Letters from Prison and Other Essays (1985); "Poland's Integration into Europe" (12:15 p.m.) |
| Saturday, April 9 |
Daniel Giesberg '76, president, American Medical Sales; "Fantastic! Congratulations! But Why Should Anyone Celebrate the Sixtieth Anniversary?" (12:30 p.m.) |
| Monday, April 11 |
Taryn Benarroch '05, soprano; Maribel Lim, piano; "A Recital of Songs and Arias" |
| Tuesday, April 12 |
Kevin Warwick, professor of cybernetics, University of Reading, U.K.; author, I, Cyborg (2002) and co-author, Computer Intensive Methods in Control and Signal Processing: The Curse of Dimensionality (1997); "Practical Experiments Using Implant Technology" |
| Wednesday, April 13 |
Hong-koo Lee, chairman, Seoul Forum for International Affairs; former Prime Minister of South Korea; co-editor, Korea-U.S. Relations: The Politics of Trade and Security (1988) and North Korea in a Regional and Global Context (1986); "Korea, Asia, and the United States" |
| Thursday, April 14 |
Dinner Theater, "The Real Thing" by Tom Stoppard (1982) (6:00 p.m.) |
| Friday, April 15 |
Dinner Theater, "The Real Thing" by Tom Stoppard (1982) (6:00 p.m.) |
| Saturday, April 16 |
Dinner Theater, "The Real Thing" by Tom Stoppard (1982) (6:00 p.m.) |
| Monday, April 18 |
Richard Evans, professor of modern history, Cambridge University; author, The Coming of the Third Reich (2003) and Telling Lies About Hitler: History, the Holocaust, and the David Irving Trial (2002); "History, Truth, and Memory: Reflections on the Irving-Lipstadt Libel Case" (12:15 p.m.) |
| Monday, April 18 |
Brian Druker, associate professor of medicine, Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU); author, Imatinib as a Paradigm of Targeted Therapies (2004) and Molecularly Targeted Therapy: Have the Floodgates Opened? (2004); "Cancer Therapy in the 21st Century" |
| Tuesday, April 19 |
Joanna Zach, Institute for Polish Literary Studies; author, Milosz's Search for Self (2002); "The Mind in Captivity: Czeslaw Milosz and Modernity" (12:15 p.m.) |
| Tuesday, April 19 |
Chivy Sok, former deputy director, Center for Human Rights, University of Iowa; "Leaving the Killing Fields Behind: The Quest for Social Justice and Human Dignity" |
| Wednesday, April 20 |
Invisible Children, documentary film of Uganda's Achioli children abducted by rebels and forced to become soldiers; "Invisible Children: Discover the Unseen" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Wednesday, April 20 |
Helen Zia, contributing editor, Ms. magazine; author, Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People (2000) and co-author, My Country Versus Me: The Firsthand Account by the Los Alamos Scientist Who was Falsely Accused (2002); "Building Bridges Across Communities" |
| Thursday, April 21 |
L. Paul Bremer III, former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq; author, The Alliance Response to Nuclear Weapons Proliferation: Deterrence, Defense, and Cooperative Options (1995) and Countering the Changing Threat of International Terrorism: Report from the National Commission on Terrorism (2000); "A Conversation with the Ambassador" |
| Wednesday, April 27 |
James Q. Wilson, Ronald Reagan professor of public policy, Pepperdine University; author, The Moral Sense (1993) and The Marriage Problem: How Our Culture Has Weakened Families (2003); "Character and Culture" |
| Tuesday, May 3 |
Orley Ashenfelter '64, Joseph Douglas Green 1895 professor of economics, Princeton University; author, Economics of Wine (2003) and Statistics and Econometrics: Methods and Applications (2002); "Measuring the Value of a Statistical Life: Problems and Pitfalls" |