| Monday, January 23 |
Gary Gray, clarinet, professor of clarinet, UCLA; Cecilia Tsan, cello; Robert Thies, piano; gold medal winner (1995), Second International Sergei Prokofiev Competition, St. Petersburg, Russia; "The Tres Amis Trio: 19th Century German Romantic Chamber Music of Beethoven, Schumann, and Brahms" |
| Tuesday, January 24 |
Michael Corriero, judge, Court of Claims, Supreme Court of New York; "A Model Juvenile Justice System Based on Human Rights Principles" |
| Wednesday, January 25 |
Al Sharpton, Jr., civil rights activist; author, Al on America (2002) and Go Tell Pharaoh (1996); "Redefining 'The Dream'" (6:45 p.m. McKenna Auditorium) |
| Friday, January 27 |
Michael Boardman '74, colonel, U.S. Army, director of Intelligence Electronic Warfare (IEW) Test Directorate, Fort Huachuca, AZ; Alexander Alejo, captain, U.S. Army, test officer for unmanned aircraft systems, Intelligence Electronic Warfare (IEW) Test Directorate; "Emerging Military Intelligence Systems and Use of Army Aviation in the Global War on Terrorism" (12:15 p.m.) |
| Monday, January 30 |
Gerben van Kleef, assistant professor of social psychology, University of Amsterdam; co-author, The Interpersonal Effects of Anger and Happiness in Negotiations (2004) and The Influence of Power on the Information Search, Impression Formation, and Demands in Negotiation (2004); "The Interpersonal Effects of Emotions in Organizations: The Emotions as a Social Information (EASI) Model" (12:15 p.m.) |
| Monday, January 30 |
Robert Conquest, senior research fellow, Hoover Institution; author, The Great Terror: Stalin's Purge of the Thirties (1968) and The Dragons of Expectation (2005); "The Open Society and the Open Mind" |
| Tuesday, January 31 |
John J. Pitney, Jr., Roy P. Crocker professor of American history and politics, CMC; author, The Art of Political Warfare (2001) and co-author, forthcoming American Government: Deliberation and Citizenship (2006); "Politics Goes to the Movies" |
| Wednesday, February 1 |
Ralph Rossum P'01 P'08, Henry Salvatori professor of political philosophy and American constitutionalism, director, Rose Institute for State and Local Government, CMC; author, Federalism, the Supreme Court, and the Seventeenth Amendment: The Irony of Constitutional Democracy (2001) and forthcoming "Antonin Scalia's Jurisprudence: Text and Tradition" (2006) C-SPAN |
| Thursday, February 2 |
James Bennet, reporter and former Jerusalem bureau chief, The New York Times; "Reporting from the Middle East: Whose Truth?" |
| Friday, February 3 |
Jonathan Macey, Sam Harris professor of corporate law, corporate finance, and securities law, Yale University; author, Macey on Corporation Laws: Model Business Corporation Acts, Delaware's General Corporation Laws, ALI Principles of Corporate Governance (1997) and An Introduction to Modern Financial Theory (1998); "Politicization and American Corporate Governance" (12:30 p.m.) |
| Monday, February 6 |
Du Zhaozhi, cello, professor of music; Su Li, piano; Su Jie, piano; Zheng Shaofang, soprano; Suoyila, soprano; College of the Arts, Xiaman University, China; "Music from the Grasslands of Inner Mongolia" (12:15 p.m.) |
| Monday, February 6 |
Peter Thum '90, co-founder, Ethos Water, vice president, Starbucks Coffee; "Social Entrepreneurship: Ethos Water and the World Water Crisis" |
| Tuesday, February 7 |
Simon Cole, assistant professor of criminology, law, and society, U.C. Irvine; author, Suspect Identities: A History of Fingerprinting and Criminal Identification (2001); "Fingerprint Evidence: Science, Psychology, Law" (12:15 p.m.) |
| Tuesday, February 7 |
John Jackson, Jr., assistant professor of cultural anthropology, Duke University, author, Harlemworld: Doing Race and Class in Contemporary Black America (2001) and Real Black: Adventures in Racial Sincerity (2005); "African American Hebrews in the Promised Land: Race, Religion, and the Reconfiguring of Diaspora" |
| Wednesday, February 8 |
Edouard Duval-Carrie, Haitian artist; "Of Migration and Others" |
| Thursday, February 9 |
John Demos, Samuel Knight professor of history, Yale University; author, The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America (1994) and Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England (1982); "In the Shadow of the Founders: The Meaning and Significance of "Generations" in American History" |
| Monday, February 13 |
Victor Navasky, editor, The Nation; George Delacorte professor of magazine journalism, Columbia University; author, Naming Names (1980) and co-author, A Matter of Opinion (2005); "Distinguishing Truth from Objectivity: The Case for the Partisan Press" |
| Tuesday, February 14 |
Mark Bellini, Quartermaster General, U.S. Army, commanding brigadier general, Quartermaster Training Center and School, "Service to Country: A Family and Community Endeavor" |
| Wednesday, February 15 |
Kumea Shorter-Gooden, professor, California School of Professional Psychology, Alliant International University, Los Angeles; co-author, "Shifting: The Double Lives of Black Women in America" (2003) (12:15 p.m.) |
| Wednesday, February 15 |
Jonah Goldberg, editor-at-large, National Review Online; author, forthcoming Liberal Fascism: The Totalitarian Temptation from Mussolini to Hillary Clinton (2006); writer and producer of documentaries Gargoyles: Guardians of the Gate (1995) and Notre Dame: Witness to History; "Fascism: A Work in Progress" |
| Thursday, February 16 |
Dale Minami, civil rights attorney, partner, Minami, Lew and Tamaki, San Francisco; Supreme Court litigant, Korematsu v. U.S. (1980); "Fraud on the Supreme Court: Civil Rights and the Japanese American Experience" |
| Monday, February 20 |
Deborah Buck, violin, faculty, Kinhaven Music School, Weston, Vermont; Maria Bachmann, violin, faculty, Adelphi University; Kathryn Lockwood, viola, faculty, University of Massachusetts, Amherst and Concordia; Astrid Schween, cello, faculty, Julliard School of Music, Music Advancement Program; recording artists on CDs Schickele on a Lark (2004) and The Lark Quartet Plays Aaron Jay Kernis (1999); "The Lark Quartet Plays Bolcom, Gershwin, Debussy" |
| Tuesday, February 21 |
Michael Marrus, Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe professor of Holocaust studies, University of Toronto; author, The Holocaust in History: The Known, the Unknown, the Disputed, and the Reexamined (1987) and The Nuremberg War Crimes Trial 1945-46: A Documentary History (1997); "Nuremberg Sixty Years After: Rhetoric and Meaning" |
| Wednesday, February 22 |
Michael Marrus, Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe professor of Holocaust studies, University of Toronto; author, The Holocaust in History: The Known, the Unknown, the Disputed, and the Reexamined (1987) and The Nuremberg War Crimes Trial 1945-46: A Documentary History (1997); Jurgen Matthaus, historian, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, author, Operation Barbossa and the Onset of the Holocaust (2004) and co-author, Contemporary Responses to the Holocaust (2004); Patricia Heberer, historian, Office of the Senior Historian, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; co-editor, forthcoming Atrocities on Trial: The Politics of Prosecuting War Crimes in Historical Perspective (2006); John Roth, Edward J. Sexton professor of philosophy and religious studies, director, Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights, CMC; co-editor, Fire in the Ashes: God, Evil, and the Holocaust (2005) and Genocide in Rwanda: Complicity of the Churches? (2004); Jonathan Petropoulos, John V. Croul professor of European history, director, Family of Benjamin Z. Gould Center for Humanistic Studies, associate director, Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights, CMC, author, forthcoming German Royals and the Reich: The Princes of Hesse in Nazi Germany (2006) and author, The Faustian Bargain: The Art World in Nazi Germany (2000) (moderator); "After Nuremberg: Legal, Political, and Ethical Implications" |
| Thursday, February 23 |
Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said professor of Arab Studies, Middle East Institute, Columbia University; author, Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America's Perilous Path in the Middle East (2004) and Palestinian Identity (1998); "Iraq and American Empire" |
| Friday, February 24 |
Joseph Rost, professor emeritus of education, University of San Diego; author, Leadership for the Twenty-first Century (1991); "Followership: An Outmoded Concept" (12:30 p.m.) |
| Monday, February 27 |
Nicholas Owchar, Jr. '90, deputy book editor, Los Angeles Times; "Building a Career in Journalism" |
| Tuesday, February 28 |
Richard Epstein, James Parker Hall distinguished professor of law, University of Chicago; Peter and Kristen Bedford senior fellow, The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace; author, forthcoming How the Progressives Rewrote the Constitution (2006) and Free Markets under Siege: Cartels, Politics, and Social Welfare (2005); "The Light and the Dark Side of Class Actions" |
| Wednesday, March 1 |
Temple Grandin, assistant professor of animal science, Colorado State University, co-author, Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior (2005) and author, Thinking in Pictures: And Other Reports from My Life with Autism (1995); "Experiences with Autism" |
| Thursday, March 2 |
Salman Rushdie, author, The Satanic Verses (1988) and Shalimar the Clown: A Novel (2005); "Step Across This Line: An Evening with Salman Rushdie" |
| Monday, March 6 |
David Scheffer, visiting professor of international law, Northwestern University; former United States Ambassador at large for war crimes (1997-2001); author, Terror Suspects are Entitled to Legal Protection (2005) and Options for Prosecuting International Terrorists (2001); Terree Bowers, partner, Global Litigation Practice Group, Howrey, LLP, Los Angeles; former U.S. representative, International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague; "Realizing a Legacy: The International Criminal Court, War Crimes, and International Law 60 Years After Nuremberg" |
| Tuesday, March 7 |
Yoichi Funabashi P'94, chief diplomatic correspondent, foreign affairs columnist, Asahi Shimbun (Japan); author, Reconciliation in the Asia-Pacific (2003) and Alliance Adrift (1999); "The Future of U.S.-Japan Relations in the Post-American Century" |
| Tuesday, March 7 |
Claremont Colleges Debate Union, "Intertwined Destinies: The U.S. and the International Criminal Court" (6:45 p.m. Pickford Auditorium) |
| Wednesday, March 8 |
Erich Gruen, professor of history and classics, U.C. Berkeley, author, Diaspora: Jews Amidst Greeks and Romans (2002) and Heritage and Hellenism: The Reinvention of Jewish Tradition (1998); "The Jew and the 'Other' in Antiquity" |
| Monday, March 20 |
Touraj Daryaee, professor of ancient Persian history, C.S.U. Fullerton; author, History and Culture of the Sasanians (2002) and The Spirit of Wisdom: Essays in Memory of Ahmad Tafassoli (2003); "Persian Culture in the 6th and 7th Centuries CE and Its Significance for World Civilization" |
| Tuesday, March 21 |
Elizabeth Clark, John Carlisle Kilgo professor of religion, Duke University; author, History, Theory, Text: Historians and the Linguistic Turn (2004) and Women and Religion: The Original Sourcebook of Women in Christian Thought (1997); "Renouncing Reunification: Nineteenth-Century 'Family Values' and Early Christian Asceticism" |
| Wednesday, March 22 |
Gary Smith, Fletcher Jones professor of economics, Pomona College; author, Introduction to Statistical Reasoning (1998) and Financial Assets, Markets, and Institutions (1993); "When is a Housing Bubble Not a Bubble?" |
| Thursday, March 23 |
Charles Smith, professor of near eastern studies, University of Arizona; author, Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict (1988) and Islam and the Search for Social Order in Modern Egypt (1983); "Chaos and the Illusion that Peace is Attainable: What is Really Going On in Israel/Palestine" |
| Monday, March 27 |
Steven Shapin, Franklin L. Ford professor of the history of science, Harvard University, co-author, Leviathan and the Air-pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life (1986) and author, A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England (1994); "The Way We Trust Now: The Authority of Science and the Character of the Scientist" |
| Tuesday, March 28 |
Grover Norquist, president, Americans for Tax Reform; "The Next 25 Years of The Modern Conservative Movement" (12:15 p.m.) |
| Tuesday, March 28 |
Cindy Shea, trumpet, founder, director; Susie Garcia, violin; Kieko Okamoto, flute; Mayra Martinez, vihuela; Nelly Cortez, guitarron; Leticia Sierra, violin; Lorena Panella, guitar, vocals; Claudia Cuves, congas; Loraine Feesago-Perez, violin, vocals; Melinda Salcedo, guitar, vocals; Angel Garcia, violin; Cathy Baeza, violin; Lisa Paul, trumpet; Gabby Ramirez, vocals; "Mariachi Divas: A Musical Celebration in Honor of Cesar Chavez" |
| Wednesday, March 29 |
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); "Mexico's Presidential Election: What Do Voters Want and Who They Will Vote For?" (12:15 p.m.) |
| Wednesday, March 29 |
M. Steven Fish, associate professor of political science, U.C. Berkeley; author, Democracy Derailed in Russia: The Failure of Open Politics (2005) and Democracy from Scratch: Opposition and Regime in the Russian Revolution (1995); "Democracy Derailed in Russia" |
| Thursday, March 30 |
Sal Castro, political activist, former Lincoln High School history teacher; "Mexican Americans and Their Contributions to the United States" (12:15 p.m.) |
| Thursday, March 30 |
Jonathan Rosenberg '83, vice president of product management, Google, Inc.; "Perspectives on Product Innovation and Technology: A Silicon Valley Insider's Report" |
| Monday, April 3 |
Richard Evans, professor of modern history, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (UK); author, In Hitler's Shadow: West German Historians and the Attempt to Escape from the Nazi Past (1989) and Telling Lies About Hitler: History, Theft, and the David Irving Trial (2002); "Coercion and Consent in Nazi Germany" |
| Tuesday, April 4 |
Jodi Quas, assistant professor of psychology and social behavior, U.C. Irvine; co-editor, Memory and Suggestibility in the Forensic Interview (2001) and Linking Child Maltreatment and Juvenile Delinquency: Causes, Correlates, and Consequences (2002); "Beyond the Questions, 'Are Children Suggestible?': Child Witness Research in the 21st Century" |
| Wednesday, April 5 |
Sung-Joo Han, president, Seoul Forum of International Affairs; former South Korean Minister of Foreign Affairs, former South Korean Ambassador to the United States; author, Korea in a Changing World (1995) and Korea Diplomacy in an Era of Globalization (1995); "Revisiting the Korea-U.S. Alliance |
| Thursday, April 6 |
Peter Singer, Olin national security senior fellow in foreign policy studies, Brookings Institution; author, Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry (2003) and "Children at War" (2005) |
| Friday, April 7 |
Timothy Roemer, United States Congress, retired, (D- Indiana , 3rd district); distinguished scholar, Mercatus Center, George Mason University; president, Center for National Policy; "A New Direction for the Parties?" (12:15 p.m.) |
| Monday, April 10 |
G. Cameron Hurst III, professor of Japanese and Korean studies, director, Center for East Asian Studies, University of Pennsylvania; author, Insei: Abdicated Sovereigns in the Politics of Late Heian Japan, 1086-1185 (1960) and Samurai Painters (1983); "Whither Japan? The Future of U.S.-Japan Relations" (12:15 p.m.) |
| Wednesday, April 12 |
Dinner Theater, "California Suite" by Neil Simon (1978) (6:00 p.m.) |
| Thursday, April 13 |
Dinner Theater, "California Suite" by Neil Simon (1978) (6:00 p.m.) |
| Friday, April 14 |
Dinner Theater, "California Suite" by Neil Simon (1978) (6:00 p.m.) |
| Monday, April 17 |
Lisa Cody, associate professor of history, CMC; author, "Birthing the Nation: Sex, Science, and the Conception of Britons" (2005) |
| Tuesday, April 18 |
George Will, columnist, The Washington Post; author, With A Happy Eye But...: America and the World, 1997-2002 (2002) and Statecraft as Soulcraft: What Government Does (1983); "The Political Argument Today" |
| Wednesday, April 19 |
James Piereson, president, William E. Simon Foundation; author, The Left University: How It was Born; How It Grew; How to Overcome It (2005) and co-author, Political Tolerance and American Democracy (1989); "The University in the Minds of the Founders" (12:15 p.m.) |
| Wednesday, April 19 |
Harvey Klehr, Andrew W. Mellon professor of politics and history, Emory University; co-author, In Denial: Historians, Communism, and Espionage (2003) and Verona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America (1999); "Was Joe McCarthy Right? New Archival Evidence on Soviet Espionage in America (With Reflections on 'Good Night and Good Luck')" |
| Thursday, April 20 |
Fabio Lanza, assistant professor of history and East Asian Studies, University of Arizona; "Accommodating the West: Beijing, the City, and Its University" (12:30 p.m. Parents Dining Room) |
| Thursday, April 20 |
Charles Fishman, distinguished service professor emeritus of English and director emeritus, Distinguished Speakers Program, S.U.N.Y, Farmingdale; author, Country of Memory (2004) and Chopin's Piano (2006); "Holocaust Poetry: A Reading" |
| Wednesday, April 26 |
Wangari Maathai, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (2004); founder, Green Belt Movement; assistant minister of environment, natural resources, and wildlife, Kenya; author, The Green Belt Movement: Sharing the Approach and the Experience (1985); "Sustainable Development, Democracy, and Peace: A Critical Link" |
| Thursday, April 27 |
Ian Miller, professor of modern Japanese history, Arizona State University; "The Nature of the Beast: Modernity and Empire at the Tokyo Imperial Zoological Gardens" (12:30 p.m. Parents Dining Room) |
| Tuesday, May 2 |
Anne Krueger, first deputy managing director, International Monetary Fund; author, Trade Policies and Developing Nations (1995) and editor, Economic Policy Reforms and the Indian Economy (2004); "Annual McKenna Lecture on International Trade and Economics" |