| Monday, January 25 |
Jeff Greenwald, sport psychology consultant; former professional tennis player; author, The Best Tennis of Your Life: 50 Mental Strategies for Fearless Tennis (2007); audio CD, Fearless Tennis: The 5 Mental Keys to Unlocking Your Potential (2002); "Finding Your Path to Peak Performance" |
| Tuesday, January 26 |
John Bilezikjian, oud; founder, Dantz Records; Helen Bilezikjian, soprano; founder, Opera by the Sea; performers on CD Yeraz: To Armenia with Love (2000) and All-Time Armenian Favorites (2008); "Songs from the Middle East" |
| Wednesday, January 27 |
Jesse Jackson, founder and president, Rainbow/PUSH Coalition; co-author, Legal Lynchings: The Death Penalty and America's Future (2001) and It's About Money!: The Fourth Movement of the Freedom Symphony: How to Build Wealth, Get Access to Capital, and Achieve Your Financial Dreams (1999); "With Justice for All: Human Rights and Civil Rights At Home and Abroad" |
| Thursday, January 28 |
Helen Prejean, Sister of St. Joseph of Medaille; spiritual advisor; prison reform activist; author, The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions (2004) and forthcoming River of Fire: My Spiritual Journey to Death Row; "Dead Man Walking: The Journey Continues" |
| Monday, February 1 |
Yun-han Chu, professor of political science; distinguished research fellow, Institute of Political Science, Academia Sinica; National Taiwan University; co-author, Dynamics of Local Governance in China During the Reform Era (2010), co-editor, How East Asians View Democracy (2008); "Taiwan’s Soft Power and Cross-Strait Relations" |
| Tuesday, February 2 |
Mariana Cook, photographer, portraitist; author, Mathematicians: An Outer View of the Inner World (2009) and co-author, Close at Hand (2007); "What Makes a Portrait" |
| Wednesday, February 3 |
Morgan McCall, Jr., professor of management and organization, Marshall School of Business, USC; co-author, Developing Global Experience: The Lessons of International Experience (2002) and author, High Flyers: Developing the Next Generation of Leaders (1998); "The Path to Leadership Mastery" |
| Thursday, February 4 |
Todd Sandler, Vibhooti Shukla Chair in Economics and Political Economy, University of Texas, Dallas; co-author, The Political Economy of Terrorism (2006) and author, Global Collective Action (2004); "The Past and Future of Terrorism Research" |
| Monday, February 8 |
Sapphire, poet; author, Black Wings and Blind Angels: Poems (2000) and Push: A Novel (1996); "When Push Comes to Precious: The Novel, the Film, the Reality" |
| Tuesday, February 9 |
William Kolbrener, associate professor of English, Bar-Ilan University, Israel; author, Milton's Warring Angels: A Study of Critical Engagements (2008) and co-author, Mary Astell: Reason, Gender, Faith (2007); "The Materialist Modern: Theology, Politics and Community in Thomas Hobbes and John Milton" |
| Wednesday, February 10 |
Gina Kim, filmmaker; author and director, Never Forever (2007) and "Faces of Seoul" (2009) |
| Thursday, February 11 |
Adam Bradley, associate professor of literature, CMC; co-editor, Three Days Before the Shooting...: The Unfinished Novel (2010) and author, Ralph Ellison-In-Progress (2009); John Callahan, Morgan S. Odell Professor of Humanities, Lewis and Clark College; literary executor, Ralph Ellison's estate; editor, The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison (1995) and co-editor, Three Days before the Shooting...: The Unfinished Second Novel (2010); "Three Days before the Shooting by Ralph Ellison" |
| Monday, February 15 |
Jim Beattie P'11, vice president and financial advisor, Bernstein Global Wealth Management; former major league baseball player (1978-1986); "Life in Major League Baseball: Opportunities and Options" |
| Tuesday, February 16 |
Thomas Lentz '74, Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director, Harvard Art Museum; "Changing Roles of the Museum Director" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Tuesday, February 16 |
Robert von Hallberg, Helen A. Regenstein Professor in English language and literature, Germanic studies, and comparative literature, University of Chicago; author, Poetry, Politics, Intellectuals (1996) and Literary Intellectuals and the Dissolution of the State (1996); "Love-Songs of Serial Desire" |
| Wednesday, February 17 |
Manfred Keil, associate professor of economics, Robert Day School of Economics and Finance, CMC; co-author, forthcoming: Measures of Financial Openness and How to Apply Them to International Political Economy and Research and Minimum Wages and Employment (2001); "The Great Recession, the Great Stabilization, and the Shape of the Recovery" |
| Thursday, February 18 |
Michael Black P'11, MD; Chief of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery; surgical director, Pediatric and Adult Congenital Heart Program, California Pacific Medical Center; "The Biotech Rebelution: Inspired by Nature" |
| Friday, February 19 |
Christopher Dodds P'13, senior advisor, The Carlyle Group; former executive vice president and chief financial officer, Charles Schwab Corporation; "Lunch with a Leader: The Investment Management Industry" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Monday, February 22 |
Adam Michnik, editor-in-chief, Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland; author, The Church and the Left (1993) and Letters from Freedom: Post-cold War Realities and Perspectives (1998) "The State of Democracy in Europe" |
| Tuesday, February 23 |
Rick Perlstein, journalist; author, Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus (2001) and Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America (2008); "Whatever Happened to Hope? Why Obama Cannot Become a Transformational President" |
| Wednesday, February 24 |
Jonathan Rosenberg '83, senior vice president of product management and marketing, Google, Inc.; "From the Chaos, Rules of Success" |
| Thursday, February 25 |
Lunar New Year Celebration; "Year of the Tiger" |
| Friday, February 26 |
Joseph Tse-Hei Lee, professor of history, Pace University; author, The Bible and the Gun: Christianity in South China, 1860-1900 (2003); "Guanxi and Gospel: Mapping Christian Kinship and Lineage Networks in South China" (10:00 a.m.) |
| Friday, February 26 |
Albert Park, assistant professor of history, CMC; "A Sacred Economy of Value and Production: Capitalism and Protestantism in Early Modern Korea (1885-1919)" (10:30 a.m.) |
| Friday, February 26 |
Park Yun-jae, researcher, department of medical history, Yonsei University, Korea; author, The Origin of Korean Modern Medical System (2005); "Between Mission and Medicine: The History of Severance Hospital, 1885-1945" (2:00 p.m.) |
| Friday, February 26 |
Chang Kyu-sik, professor of history, Chung-Ang University, Korea; author, A Critical Biography of Cho Man-sik and The Christian Nationalism in Modern Korea; "Christianity and Civil Society in Colonial Korea: The Civil Society Movement of Cho Mansik and the Pyengyang YMCA Against Japanese Colonialism" (2:30 p.m.) |
| Friday, February 26 |
Emily Anderson '99, Ph.D. candidate, UCLA; "After the March First Movement: The "Korean Problem" in Shanghai and Fengtian" (3:00 p.m.) |
| Tuesday, March 2 |
Peter Berkowitz, Tad and Dianne Taube senior fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University; author, Virtue and the Making of Modern Liberalism (1999) and editor, Never a Matter of Indifference: Sustaining Virtue in a Free Republic (2003); "Constitutional Conservatism: A Way Forward for a Troubled Political Coalition" |
| Wednesday, March 3 |
Walter Scheidel, Dickason Professor of Humanities and professor of classics, Stanford University; co-editor, The Oxford Handbook of Roman Studies (2010) and editor, Rome and China: Comparative Perspectives on Ancient World Empires (2009); "The Rise and Demise of Universal Empire: Rome, Europe, and China" and Mark Edward Lewis, Kwoh-Ting Li Professor of Chinese Culture, Stanford University; author, China's Cosmopolitan Empire: The Tang Dynasty (2009) and China Between Empires: The Northern and Southern Dynasties (2009); "China: From Empire to Nation" |
| Thursday, March 4 |
Larry Diamond, professor by courtesy of political science and sociology; senior fellow, Hoover Institution; Stanford University; author, The Spirit to Build Free Societies Throughout the World (2008) and Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to bring Democracy to Iraq (2006); "Asian Values and the Future of Democracy in Asia" |
| Friday, March 5 |
Peter Bossaerts, William D. Hacker professor of economics and management, California Institute of Technology; author, The Paradox of Asset Planning (2002) and Lecture Notes in Corporate Finance (2001); "What Decision Neuroscience Teaches Us about Financial Decision Making" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Monday, March 8 |
Ian Frazier, author, Gone to New York: Adventures in the City (2005) and On the Rez (2000) and Jamaica Kincaid, Josephine Olp Weeks Chair and Professor of Literature, CMC; author, Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalayas (2005) and The Autobiography of My Mother (1996); "Ian Frazier and Jamaica Kincaid in Dialogue" |
| Tuesday, March 9 |
Abdourahman Waberi, visiting professor of literature, CMC; author, The Land Without Shadows (2005) and In the United States of Africa (2009); "A Nomadic Soul" |
| Wednesday, March 10 |
Joanna Strober, senior managing director of private equity, Sterling Stamos; co-author, Getting to 50/50: How Working Couples Can Have It All by Sharing It All, and Why It's Great for Your Marriage, Your Career, Your Kids,... and You (2009); "Getting to 50/50" |
| Monday, March 22 |
Teddy Cruz, principal architect, Estudio Teddy Cruz; associate professor in public culture and urbanism, U.C. San Diego; "Radicalizing the Local: Post Bubble Urban Strategies" |
| Tuesday, March 23 |
Ingrid Jordt, associate professor of anthropology, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; author, Burma's Mass Lay Meditation Movement: Buddhism and the Cultural Construction of Power (2007) "Religion and the Politics of Legitimacy in Burma" |
| Wednesday, March 24 |
Cindy Shea, trumpet and founding director; Norma Herrera, trumpet; Ariana Mejia, flute, vocals; Melena Francis, congas, percussion; Diana McConnell, guitarron; Mayra Martinez, vihuela; Martha Ramirez, vihuela, guitar, vocals; Jeanette Martinez, guitar, vocals; Leticia Sierra, violin; Cathy Baeza, violin; Angel Garcia, violin, vocals; Diana Reyes, violin, vocals; Lilly Vargas, violin, vocals; Stephanie Martinez, violin, vocals; Valerie Carlos, guitar, vocals; "Mariachi Divas: A Musical Celebration in Honor of Cesar Chavez" |
| Thursday, March 25 |
Rukmini Banerji, Pratham program director and head of the ASER Center; Pratham- 2010 Henry R. Kravis Prize in Leadership recipient; "The Pratham Story: Inspiration, Challenges and Ideas" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Thursday, March 25 |
Jeremy Wolff '13, "CMC Forum Idea Night at the Ath: Circular Thinking"; John-Clark Levin '12 and Jason Stoll '12, "CMC Forum Idea Night at the Ath: Poverty has Nothing to do with Money"; Eric Scott '11 and Ben Kraus'11, "CMC Forum Idea Night at the Ath: The Committee"; Emily Forden '10, "CMC Forum Idea Night at the Ath: Roman Execution- A Practicum"; Roxanne Phen '10, "CMC Forum Idea Night at the Ath: The Future of Philanthropy"; Alex Caldwell '09, "CMC Forum Idea Night at the Ath: The Technological Utopia" |
| Monday, March 29 |
Denise Johnston, director, Center for Children of Incarcerated Parents, Los Angeles; author, forthcoming Working with Children of Criminal Offenders & Their Families: A Handbook for Practitioners; "A Developmental Approach to Work with Prisoners' Children" |
| Tuesday, March 30 |
Drew Altman, president and CEO, Kaiser Family Foundation; "How We Did -- or Did Not -- Get Health Care Reform" |
| Wednesday, March 31 |
Angus Fletcher, Distinguished professor emeritus of comparative literature, City University of New York; author, Time, Space, and Motion in the Age of Shakespeare (2007) and A New Theory for American Poetry: Democracy, the Environment, and the Future of Imagination (2004); "The Tipping Point: How Do Humanistic Studies Count?" |
| Thursday, April 1 |
Bryant Simon, professor of history, Temple University; author, Everything but the Coffee: Learning about America from Starbucks (2009) and Boardwalk of Dreams: Atlantic City and the Future of Urban America (2004); "Learning about America from Starbucks" |
| Wednesday, April 7 |
Dinner Theater, The Dining Room by A.R. Gurney (1981)(6:00 p.m.) |
| Thursday, April 8 |
Dinner Theater, The Dining Room by A.R. Gurney (1981)(6:00 p.m.) |
| Friday, April 9 |
Dinner Theater, The Dining Room by A.R. Gurney (1981)(6:00 p.m.) |
| Monday, April 12 |
Mark Green P'12, former partner, Goldman Sachs & Co.; "Lunch with a Leader: What to do about Banks and Mortgages" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Monday, April 12 |
Angus Fletcher, Distinguished professor emeritus of comparative literature, City University of New York; author, Time, Space, and Motion in the Age of Shakespeare (2007) and A New Theory for American Poetry: Democracy, the Environment, and the Future of Imagination (2004); "Poetic Wisdom and the Barbarism of Civilization" |
| Tuesday, April 13 |
Peter Rutland, professor of government, Wesleyan University; author, The Politics of Economic Stagnation in the Soviet Union: The Role of Local Political Organs in Economic Management (2009) and forthcoming, Moscow Rules: The Politics of the Post-Soviet State; "Russia’s Search for a New Foreign Policy" |
| Wednesday, April 14 |
Joumana Nammour, anchor, Al Jazeera news network; "Arab Media Today" |
| Thursday, April 15 |
Mitt Romney, former governor (R-Massachusetts); co-founder, Bain Capital; author, No Apology: The Case for American Greatness (2010) |
| Friday, April 16 |
Francine Blau, Frances Perkins professor of Industrial and labor relations and labor economics, academic fellow, Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA), Cornell University; co-editor, The Declining Significance of Gender? (2006) and Gender and Family Issues in the Workplace (2000); "Gender, Source Country Characteristics, and Labor Market Assimilation among Immigrants" (1:00 p.m.) |
| Monday, April 19 |
Gil Hoffman, chief political correspondent and analyst, The Jerusalem Post; "Red States, Blue States and the Jewish State: Jerusalem-D.C. Relations from an Israeli Insider’s Perspective" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Monday, April 19 |
Jiya, professor of dance; Wang Yuanyuan, singer; Tergel, dancer; Origan, horse-head fiddle and throat singer; Burged, long-necked lute and throat singer, Minzu University of China; "Music, Song, and Dance of the Mongols and other Ethnic Nationalities of China" |
| Tuesday, April 20 |
George Roberts '66 P'93, founding partner, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Company (KKR); "Lunch with a Leader: The Private Equity Industry" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Wednesday, April 21 |
Mark Juergensmeyer, professor of sociology and global studies, affiliate professor of religious studies; director, Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies, U.C. Santa Barbara; author, Gandhi's Way: A Handbook of Conflict Resolution (2002) and Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence (2000); "Religious Rebellion in India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, and Afghanistan" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Wednesday, April 21 |
Mark Juergensmeyer, professor of sociology and global studies, affiliate professor of religious studies; director, Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies, U.C. Santa Barbara; author, Gandhi's Way: A Handbook of Conflict Resolution (2002) and Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence (2000); "Beyond Religious Violence in South Asia: Conflict and Reconciliation" |
| Thursday, April 22 |
Wayne Ferson, Ivadelle and Theodore Johnson Chair of Banking and Finance, Marshall School of Business, USC; co-author, Testing Portfolio Efficiency with Conditioning Information (2009) and Asset Pricing Models with Conditional Alphas and Betas: The Effects of Data Snooping and Spurious Regression (2008); "The Problem of Alpha and Performance Measurement" |
| Friday, April 23 |
Michael Armacost, Shorenstein Distinguished Fellow for Political Affairs, Asia-Pacific Research Center; Stanford University; co-author, "New Beginnings" in the U.S.-ROK Alliance: Recommendations to the Obama Administration (2009) and Asian Policy Challenges for the Next President (2008); "President Obama's Foreign Policy: A Preliminary Reckoning After One Year" (1:00 p.m.) |
| Tuesday, April 27 |
David Shulman, Renee Lang professor of Humanistic Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; co-author, Textures of Time: Writing History in South India, 1600-1800 (2003) and co-translator, God on the Hill: Temple Poems from Tirupati (2005); "Dark Hope: Working for Peace in Israel and Palestine" |
| Monday, May 3 |
Mohammed Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah '78 P'10, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Kuwait; "Honorary Degree Presentation" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Monday, May 3 |
Ken Rogoff, Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy and professor of economics, Harvard University; co-author, This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly (2009) and Foundations of International Microeconomics (1996); "McKenna Lecture on International Trade and Economics" |