| Friday, January 19 |
Michael Boardman '74, colonel, U.S. Army, director, Army Intelligence Electronic Warfare Test Directorate, Ft. Huachuca, AZ; "Improvised Explosive Devices in Iraq" (12:15 p.m.) |
| Monday, January 22 |
Thomas Cushman, professor of sociology, Wellesley College; editor, Journal of Human Rights and A Matter of Principle: Humanitarian Arguments for War in Iraq (2005) and author of The Human Rights Case for War: Ethics, International Law, and the Conflict in Iraq (2006); "Orwell in the 21st Century" |
| Tuesday, January 23 |
Mong Joon Chung, member, South Korea National Assembly; author, Ideology of Business Management and The Relationship between Government and Industry in Japan; "The United States and South Korea: Changing Relations" (12:15 p.m.) |
| Tuesday, January 23 |
Carl Pope, executive director, Sierra Club; co-author, Strategic Ignorance: Why the Bush Administration is Recklessly Destroying a Century of Environmental Progress (2004) and author, Hazardous Waste in America (1981); "Convenient Opportunities: How We Can Learn to Love Licking Global Warming" |
| Wednesday, January 24 |
Hans Florine, professional rock climber; co-author, Speed Climbing!: How to Climb Faster and Better (2004) and Climb On!: Skills for More Efficient Climbing (2001); "Light and Fast Adventures with Hans" |
| Thursday, January 25 |
C.K. Williams, instructor of creative writing, Princeton University; author, The Singing (2003) and Repair (1999); "A Reading" |
| Thursday, January 25 |
Tavis Smiley, talk show host; editor, The Covenant with Black America (2006) and author, What I Know for Sure: My Story of Growing Up in America (2006); "Pathways to Civic Action: The Conscience of the Nation" (7:00 p.m. McKenna Auditorium) |
| Monday, January 29 |
David De Cremer, professor of social psychology, Tilburg University, The Netherlands, visiting researcher, Kennedy School, Harvard University; co-editor, Social Psychology and Economics (2006) and editor, forthcoming Advances in the Psychology of Justice and Affect; "Social Psychology and Economics: Some Illustrations in the Fields of Fairness and Leadership" |
| Tuesday, January 30 |
Jerry Fowler, visiting professor in religious studies, CMC, former staff director, Committee on Conscience, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum; "Torch in the Night, Candle in the Dark: Promoting Human Rights Since the Holocaust" |
| Wednesday, January 31 |
Antonin Scalia, Justice, U.S. Supreme Court; author, A Matter of Interpretation: Federal Courts and the Law (1998); "A Matter of Constitutional Interpretation" |
| Thursday, February 1 |
Kurt Campbell, Henry A. Kissinger chair in national security, director, International Security Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies; co-author, The Nuclear Tipping Point: Why States Reconsider Their Nuclear Choices (2004) and "Hard Power: The New Politics of National Security" (2006) |
| Monday, February 5 |
Julianne Baird, soprano, professor of music, Rutgers University; Preethi di Silva, fortepiano, professor emerita of music, Scripps College; Alfred Cramer, violin; Lauren Mikov '07, narrator; Edward Mauger, narrator; "Con Gioia Early Music Ensemble: The Musical World of Jane Austen" |
| Tuesday, February 6 |
Vali Nasr, professor of Middle East and South Asia politics, U.S. Naval Postgraduate School; adjunct senior fellow, Council on Foreign Affairs; author, Democracy in Iran (2006) and The Shia Revival: How Conflicts within Islam Will Shape the Future (2006); "The Shia Revival: Politics in the Muslim World" |
| Wednesday, February 7 |
Suzanne Jill Levine, professor of Latin American literature, U.C. Santa Barbara; author, Manuel Puig and the Spider Woman: His Life and Fictions (2000) and The Subversive Scribe: Translating Latin American Fiction (1991); "The Translator in Academe" |
| Thursday, February 8 |
Robert Audi, David E. Gallo professor of business ethics, University of Notre Dame; author, Naturalism, Realism, and Ethical Objectivity (2003) and Ethical Generality and Moral Judgment (2003); "The Problem of Evil: Divine Love and Human Suffering" (12:15 p.m.) |
| Thursday, February 8 |
David Schoenbrod, Trustee professor of law, New York Law School; senior fellow, Cato Institute; co-author, Saving Our Environment from Washington: How Congress Grabs Power, Shirks Responsibility, and Shortchanges the People (2005) and Democracy by Decree: What Happens When Courts Run Government (2003); "Saving Our Environment from Washington" |
| Monday, February 12 |
Ellis Krauss, professor of Japanese politics and policy making, U.C. San Diego; co-author, Beyond Bilateralism: U.S.-Japan Relations in the New East Asia (2003) and Japan and North America (2004); "Koizumi Legacy, Abe Challenges, and U.S.-Japan Relations" (12:15 p.m.) |
| Monday, February 12 |
Carl Wilkens, former director, Adventist Development and Relief Agency, Rwanda; "Defying Genocide in Rwanda" (12:15 p.m.) |
| Monday, February 12 |
Charles Bates, founder, president, senior partner, Bates White; "Having Your Tort and Eating It Too" |
| Tuesday, February 13 |
Andrew Lo, Harris and Harris group professor of finance, director, Laboratory for Financial Engineering, MIT Sloan School of Management; co-author, A Non-Random Walk Down Wall Street (1999) and The Econometrics of Financial Markets (1997): "Lizard Brains and the Stock Market: An Evolutionary Synthesis of Rational and Behavioral Finance" |
| Wednesday, February 14 |
Mitch Capel, co-founder, The National African-American Storytellers' Retreat; "We Wear The Mask: A Performance Reading of the Poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar" |
| Thursday, February 15 |
David Hayes-Bautista, professor of medicine, director, Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture, UCLA; author, Healing Latinos: Fantasia y Realidad (1999) and "La Nueva California: Latinos in the Golden State" (2004) |
| Monday, February 19 |
Diane Halpern, professor of psychology, director, Berger Institute for Work, Family and Children, CMC; co-editor, From Work-Family Balance to Work-Family Interaction: Changing the Metaphor (2005) and author, Thought and Knowledge: An Introduction to Critical Thinking (1995); "Why Don't We Have More Women in Science? Was Larry Summers Right?" |
| Tuesday, February 20 |
Paul Barolsky, Commonwealth professor of art history, University of Virginia; author, Michelangelo and the Finger of God (2003) and The Fawn in the Garden: Michelangelo and the Poetic Origins of Italian Renaissance Art (1994); "Ovid’s Metamorphoses and the History of Art" |
| Wednesday, February 21 |
Francis Bok, former Dinka slave, Sudan; lecturer, American Anti-Slavery Group; author, Escape from Slavery: The True Story of My Ten Years in Captivity, and My Journey to Freedom in America (2003), "21st Century Slavery: Living Proof" |
| Thursday, February 22 |
Julie Buring, professor of medicine, ambulatory care and prevention, Harvard University Medical School; deputy director, Brigham and Woman's Hospital, Boston; "Women and Heart Disease: An Under Appreciated Threat" (12:15 p.m.) |
| Thursday, February 22 |
Julie Buring, professor of medicine, ambulatory care and prevention, Harvard University Medical School; deputy director, Brigham and Woman's Hospital, Boston; "Issues in Women's Health: The Contribution of Statistical Thinking" |
| Saturday, February 24 |
Howard Gardner, John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs professor of cognition and education, senior director, Project Zero, Harvard University; co-author, Making Good: How Young People Cope with Moral Dilemmas at Work (2004) and author, Changing Minds: the Art and Science of Changing Our Own and Other People's Minds (2004); "Positioning Future Leaders on the Good Work Track" (12:45 p.m.) |
| Monday, February 26 |
John Yoo, professor of law, U.C. Berkeley School of Law, Boalt Hall; author, War by Other Means: An Insider's Account of the War on Terror (2006) and The Powers of War and Peace: The Constitution and Foreign Affairs after 9/11 (2005); "War by Other Means: Fighting the War on Terrorism" |
| Tuesday, February 27 |
Thomas Friedman, foreign affairs columnist, The New York Times; author, The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century (2005) and Longitudes and Attitudes: Exploring the World after September 11 (2002); "The Next Phase of Globalization" |
| Wednesday, February 28 |
Marc Fisher, staff writer, Washington Post; author, After the Wall: Germany, the Germans and the Burdens of History (1995) and "Something in the Air: Radio, Rock and the Revolution That Shaped a Generation" (2007) |
| Thursday, March 1 |
Robert Kagan, senior associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; author, Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order (2003) and "Dangerous Nation: America's Place in the World From Its Earliest Days to the Dawn of the 20th Century" (2006) |
| Monday, March 5 |
James Gavrilis, major, U.S. Army Special Forces; associate, Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, Georgetown University; "The New Way Forward in Iraq" |
| Tuesday, March 6 |
Hugo Vickers, Royal historian; author, Alice: Princess Andrew of Greece (2001) and Elizabeth, The Queen Mother (2005); "Cecil Beaton: His Biography & His Biographer" |
| Wednesday, March 7 |
Barry Kosmin, research professor in public policy and law, director, Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society and Culture, Trinity College; author, Religion in a Free Market: Religious and non-Religious Americans, Who, What, Why, Where (2006) and co-author, One Nation Under God: Religion in Contemporary American Society (1993); "Serving the Contemporary Free Market of Religious and non-Religious Americans" (12:15 p.m.) |
| Wednesday, March 7 |
Mark Crawford '89, adjunct assistant professor, Fuller Theological Seminary School of Intercultural Studies; co-founder, Just Food, Thailand; Christa Foster Crawford '91, adjunct assistant professor, Fuller Theological Seminary School of Intercultural Studies; co-founder, Just Food, Thailand; author, Combating Human Trafficking in Asia: A Resource Guide to International and Regional Legal Instruments, Political Commitments and Recommended Practices (2003); "Human Trafficking and Prostitution in Thailand and the Mekong Sub-region: Job Creation and Life Restoration" |
| Thursday, March 8 |
Morris Fiorina, Wendt Family professor of political science, Stanford University; senior fellow, Hoover Institution; co-author, Cultural War: The Myth of a Polarized America (2004) and The New American Democracy (1998); "The Present Disconnect in American Politics" (12:15 p.m.) |
| Monday, March 19 |
Les Murray, poet; author, The Biplane Houses (2006) and Fredy Neptune: A Novel in Verse (1998); "An Evening with the Poet" |
| Tuesday, March 20 |
J. Michael Fay, explorer in residence, National Geographic Society; conservationist, Wildlife Conservation Society; "Saving Africa's Eden" |
| Wednesday, March 21 |
Amos Guiora, professor of law, director, Institute for Global Security, Law and Policy; Case Western Reserve University School of Law; author, forthcoming Global Perspectives on Counterterrorism (2008); "The Global Perspectives on Counter-Terrorism: An Analysis of the U.S., Israel, Russia, Spain, and India" |
| Thursday, March 22 |
Akhil Reed Amar, Southnayd professor of law and political science, Yale University; author, America's Constitution: A Biography (2005) and The Bill of Rights: Creation and Reconstruction (1998); "America’s Constitution: As Seen from the Pacific Ocean" |
| Monday, March 26 |
Erwin Cook, T. Frank Murchison distinguished professor of classical studies, Trinity University; author, The Odyssey in Athens: Myths of Cultural Origins (1995); "Near Eastern Prototypes of the Palace of Alkinoos in the Odyssey" |
| Tuesday, March 27 |
Gregory Hess, Russell S. Bock Chair of Public Economics and Taxation, professor of economics, Dean of Faculty, CMC; co-editor of International Macroeconomics (2000) and author, The Economic Cost of War: An Empirical Assessment (2002); Alex Rajczi, assistant professor of philosophy, CMC; author, Vindicating Ordinary Morality (2007) and The Moral Theory behind Moral Dilemmas (2002); John Farrell, associate professor of literature, CMC; author, Freud's Paranoid Quest: Psychoanalysis and Modern Suspicion (1996) and Paranoia and Modernity: Cervantes to Rousseau (2005); Charles Kesler, professor of government, director, Henry Salvatori Center for the Study of Individual Freedom in the Modern World, CMC; author, Saving the Revolution: The Federalist Papers and the American Founding (1987) and co-author, Keeping the Tablets: Modern American Conservative Thought (1988); "Is War Ever Justified?" |
| Wednesday, March 28 |
Uzodinma Iweala, author, Beasts of No Nation: A Novel (2005); "Beasts of No Nation" (12:15 p.m.) |
| Wednesday, March 28 |
Cindy Shea, founding director; trumpet; Susie Garcia, violin; Mayra Martinez, vihuela; Lorena Panella, guitar, vocals; Lorraine Feesago-Perez. violin, vocals; Melinda Salcedo, guitar, vocals; Cathy Baeza, violin; Leticia Sierra, violin; Norma Herrera, trumpet; Vaneza Calderon, guitarron; Deyra Murillo, guitar; "Mariachi Divas: A Musical Celebration Honoring Cesar Chavez" |
| Thursday, March 29 |
Fazle Abed, founder, BRAC (formerly Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee); recipient of the 2007 Henry R. Kravis Prize in Leadership; "Empowering the Poor in the Developing World" (12:15 p.m.) |
| Monday, April 2 |
Susan Shirk, professor of political science, director, Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, U.C. San Diego; author, China, Fragile Superpower: How China's Internal Politics Could Derail Its Peaceful Rise (2007) and How China Opened Its Door: The Political Success of the PRC's Foreign Trade and Investment Reforms (1994); "China: Fragile Superpower" |
| Tuesday, April 3 |
Gayle Blankenburg, piano, lecturer in music, Scripps College; Heinz Blankenburg, baritone, professor emeritus of music, UCLA; "Enoch Arden, by Alfred Lord Tennyson: A Setting for Narrator and Piano by Richard Strauss" |
| Wednesday, April 4 |
Adam Michnik, editor in chief, Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland; author of The Church and the Left (1993) and Letters from Freedom: Post-cold War Realities and Perspectives (1998); "Democracy and Religion" |
| Thursday, April 5 |
Lily Donge '94, senior social research analyst, Calvert Group, Ltd.; "Greening Global Investments" |
| Wednesday, April 11 |
Dinner Theater, "The Real Inspector Hound by Tom Stoppard" (1968) (6:00 p.m.) |
| Thursday, April 12 |
Lunch Theater, "Friends and Foibles by Lauren Mikov '07" (2007) (12:00 p.m.) |
| Thursday, April 12 |
Dinner Theater, "The Real Inspector Hound by Tom Stoppard" (1968) (6:00 p.m.) |
| Friday, April 13 |
Lunch Theater, "Friends and Foibles by Lauren Mikov '07" (2007) (12:00 p.m.) |
| Friday, April 13 |
Dinner Theater, "The Real Inspector Hound by Tom Stoppard" (1968) (6:00 p.m.) |
| Sunday, April 15 |
William Jefferson Clinton, 42nd President, United States of America; author, My Life (2004) and Between Hope and History: Meeting America's Challenge for the 21st Century (1996); "Embracing Our Common Humanity" (4:30 p.m. Bridges Auditorium) |
| Monday, April 16 |
Alain Mabanckou, visiting professor of French, Francophone studies, comparative literature, UCLA; author, Bleu-Blanc-Rouge (Blue-White-Red) (1998) and Verre Casse (Broken Glass) (2005); "For a World-Literature in French" |
| Tuesday, April 17 |
Jerry Fowler, visiting professor of religious studies, CMC; former staff director, Committee on Conscience, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum; "Darfur: So Far from Here" (12:15 p.m.) |
| Tuesday, April 17 |
Andy Marra, board president, National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE); Asian-Pacific media manager, Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD); "The State of the Transgender Movement" |
| Wednesday, April 18 |
Hilary Appel, associate professor of government, CMC; author, A New Capitalist Order: Privatization and Ideology in Russia and Eastern Europe (2004) and co-editor, The Expansion of NATO and the European Union (2007); "Political Change under Yeltsin and Putin" (12:15 p.m. Parents Dining Room) |
| Thursday, April 19 |
Lance Lanfear '99, independent filmmaker; producer, Jake's Closet (2007) and The Vinyl Battle (2002), Fearless Productions; "Independent Producing and the Art of Staying Busy in Hollywood" |
| Tuesday, April 24 |
Elisa Massimino, Washington director, Human Rights First; "Torture and the War on Terror" |
| Tuesday, May 1 |
David Neumark, professor of economics, senior fellow, Public Policy Institute of California, U.C. Irvine; author, Sex Differences in Labor Markets (2004) and co-editor, The Economics of Affirmative Action (2004); "Do Minimum Wages Help the Poor?" |