| Monday, January 23 |
Allan Meltzer, Allan H. Meltzer University Professor of Political Economy, Carnegie Mellon University, Tepper Business School; distinguished visiting fellow, Hoover Institution; author, A History of the Federal Reserve, Vol. II, 1951-1986 (2010) and A History of the Federal Reserve, Vol. I, 1913-1951 (2002); "Why Capitalism?" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Monday, January 23 |
Steven A. Cook, Hasib J. Sabbagh Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign Relations; author, The Struggle for Egypt: From Nasser to Tahrir Square (2011) and Ruling but Not Governing: The Military and Political Developments in Egypt, Algeria, and Turkey (2007); "The United States, Egypt, and The New ‘New Middle East’" |
| Tuesday, January 24 |
David Orr, Paul Sears Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies and Politics, Oberlin College; author, Hope Is an Imperative: The Essential David Orr (2010) and Down to the Wire: Confronting Climate Collapse (2009); "Resilience in a Black Swan World" |
| Wednesday, January 25 |
Norman Lebrecht, cultural commentator and award-winning novelist; author, Why Mahler?: How One Man and Ten Symphonies Changed Our World (2010) and Maestros, Masterpieces, and Madness: The Secret Life and Shameful Death of the Classical Recording Industry (2007); "Why Mahler? and Other Cultural Brain-Benders" |
| Thursday, January 26 |
Susan L. Taylor, editor in chief (1981-2000) and editorial director, Essence; founder, National CARES Mentoring Movement (2006); author, All about Love: Favorite Selections from In the Spirit on Living Fearlessly (2008) and In the Spirit: The Inspirational Writing of Susan L. Taylor (1993); "Achieving Your Dream: Bold Visionary Leadership from the Inside Out" |
| Monday, January 30 |
Joel Kotkin, Distinguished Presidential Fellow in Urban Futures, Roger C. Hobbs Institute, Chapman University; author, The Next Hundred Million: America in 2050 (2010) and The City: A Global History (2006); "Class in California" |
| Wednesday, February 1 |
Richard Newell Boyd, Susan Linn Page Professor of Philosophy, Cornell University; author, The Madisonian Paradox of Freedom of Association (2008) and co-editor, The Philosophy of Science (1991); "Is Evolutionary Psychology Misleading Us?" |
| Thursday, February 2 |
Elizabeth Wydra '98, Chief Counsel, Constitutional Accountability Center (CAC); "The Constitutionality of Health Care Reform and the Supreme Court" |
| Monday, February 6 |
Ameena Mirza Qazi, staff attorney and executive deputy director, Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR); "Islamophobia, Discrimination, and National Security" |
| Tuesday, February 7 |
R. Scott Hawley, American Cancer Society Research Professor, Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, MO; co-author, Drosophilia: A Laboratory Handbook (2004) and Advanced Genetic Analysis: Finding Meaning in a Genome (2003); "When Good Eggs Go Bad--Because Sometimes Even Chromosomes Aren’t Perfect" |
| Wednesday, February 8 |
Stephen D. Smith, executive director, Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education, USC; author, Making Memory: Creating Britain’s First Holocaust Centre (2002) and Forgotten Places: The Holocaust and the Remnants of Destruction (2001); "Never Again, Yet Again: Listening to the Voices of Genocide" |
| Thursday, February 9 |
David Treuer, professor of English, USC; author, forthcoming Rez Life: An Indian's Journey Through Reservation Life (2012) and The Translation of Dr. Apelles (2006) and Native American Fiction: A User’s Manual (2006); "Reading Reservations: Writing (and Living) Rez Life" |
| Friday, February 10 |
Jennifer Waggoner '95, president, League of Women Voters of California; "Nobody Wants To Be a Leaderette" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Monday, February 13 |
Daniel Lurie, founder and CEO, Tipping Point Community; At the Tipping Point: The Future of Philanthropy" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Monday, February 13 |
John C. Williams, president and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco; co-author, Simple and Robust Rules for Monetary Policy (2011) and Welfare-Maximizing Monetary Policy under Parameter Uncertainty (2010); "The Federal Reserve’s Mandate and Best Practice Monetary Policy" |
| Tuesday, February 14 |
Nick Bostrom, professor of philosophy; director, Future of Humanity Institute, St. Cross College, Oxford; editor, Global Catastrophic Risks (2011) and author, Anthropic Bias: Observation Selection Effects in Science and Philosophy (2010); "Superintelligence: The Machine Intelligence Revolution" |
| Wednesday, February 15 |
Barry Riley, visiting scholar, Center on Food Security and the Environment, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University; co-author, The Development Effectiveness of Food Aid- Does Tying Matter? (2006); "Whither Food Security—The Food Insecure Poor: What Future Awaits Them?" |
| Thursday, February 16 |
Sheri Berman, professor of political science, Barnard College; author, The Primacy of Politics: Social Democracy and the Making of Europe's Twentieth Century (2006) and The Social Democratic Moment: Ideas and Politics in the Making of Interwar Europe (1998); "Social Democracy and the Creation of Modern Europe" |
| Friday, February 17 |
Karl Schade '96, managing director, Presidio Financial Partners LLC; "2012 Claremont Finance Conference: Boom and Bust- A Discussion of Investing in a Dichotomous Market" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Friday, February 17 |
Les Waite '67, managing director, Lombardia Capital Partners; "2012 Claremont Finance Conference: Boom and Bust- A Discussion of Investing in a Dichotomous Market" |
| Monday, February 20 |
Connie Duckworth P'12 P'14, founder and CEO, ARZU, Inc; partner and managing director, emeritus, Goldman Sachs & Co.; author, The Old Girls Network: Insider Advice for Women Building Businesses in a Man's World (2003); "A Conversation with a Leader" |
| Tuesday, February 21 |
Ken Ono, Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Mathematics, Emory University; co-author, Number Theory and Modular Forms: Papers in Memory of Robert A. Rankin (2010) and author, The Web of Modularity: Arithmatic of the Coefficients of Modular Forms and Q-series (2001); "Unearthing the Visions of a Master: The Story and Legacy of Ramanujan" |
| Wednesday, February 22 |
Meg Wolitzer, award-winning and best-selling author, The Uncoupling: A Novel (2011), The Ten-Year Nap (2008), The Position (2006), The Wife (2004), Surrender, Dorothy (2000); "An Evening with the Author" |
| Thursday, February 23 |
Arne Flaten, associate professor of art history; chair, Department of Visual Arts, Thomas W. and Robin W. Edwards College of Humanities and Fine Arts, Coastal Carolina University; author, Medals and Plaquettes: The Middledorf Collection (2011) and co-editor, The Medal, No. 56 (2010); "Computers and Cultural Conflict: Digital Humanities in Tumultuous Times" |
| Saturday, February 25 |
Jay Conger, Henry Kravis Research Chair professor of leadership studies, CMC; editor, Boardroom Realities: Leveraging the Leadership Capability of Your Board (2009) and co-author, Growing Your Company's Leaders: How Great Organizations Use Succession Management to Sustain Competitive Advantage (2004); "What the Science of Memory Can Teach Us about Leadership" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Monday, February 27 |
Aseema Sinha, Wagener Family Associate Professor of Comparative Politics and George R. Roberts Fellow, CMC; co-author, Democracy, History, and Economic Performance: A Case-Study Approach (2010) and author, The Regional Roots of Developmental Politics in India: A Divided Leviathan (2005); "India: A Revolution of Rising Expectations" |
| Tuesday, February 28 |
Fran Lebowitz, journalist, social commentator, and author, forthcoming Exterior Signs of Wealth and The Fran Lebowitz Reader (1994); Eric Puchner, assistant professor of literature, CMC; author, Model Home: A Novel (2010) and Music through the Floor (2005); "A Conversation with Fran Lebowitz" |
| Wednesday, February 29 |
Dan Savage, creator of the "It Gets Better" project and "Savage Love" column, author, It Gets Better: Coming Out, Overcoming Bullying, and Creating a Life Worth Living (2011) and Skipping Towards Gomorrah (2003); "It Gets Better" |
| Thursday, March 1 |
Charles Bernstein, poet, theorist, literary scholar, Donald T. Regan Chair, professor of English, University of Pennsylvania; author, Attack of the Difficult Poems (2011) and All the Whiskey in Heaven (2010); “The Politics of Poetic Form” |
| Monday, March 5 |
Michael Bordo, professor of economics, director, Center for Monetary and Financial History, Rutgers University; co-author, Credibility and the International Monetary Regime: A Historical Perspective (2012) and Theories of International Trade (2006); "Whither the Euro: Some Reflections from the History of Fiscal and Monetary Unions" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Monday, March 5 |
Anne-Marie Slaughter, Bert G. Kerstetter '66 University Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University; author, The Idea That Is America: Keeping Faith with Our Values in a Dangerous World (2007) and A New World Order (2005); “The Big Picture: Beyond Hot Spots & Crises in Our Interconnected World” |
| Tuesday, March 6 |
Esra'a Al Shafei, founder of MideastYouth.com, CrowdVoice.org, and mideastunes.com; "Creating New Visions of the Middle East" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Tuesday, March 6 |
Sean McQueen '13, "CMC Forum Idea Night at the Ath: Technological Future- When Humans Become God"; Jennifer Ringoen '12, "CMC Forum Idea Night at the Ath: A New Era for CMC Athletics"; Max Zipperman '14, "CMC Forum Idea Night at the Ath: Why Eating Bugs Can Save the World- The Case for Entomophagy"; Nadeem Farooqi '15, "CMC Forum Idea Night at the Ath: Fly Me to the Moon (and Beyond)" |
| Wednesday, March 7 |
Gigi Birchfield '82 P'12, attorney, managing partner, and co-Global Practice Leader; Major, Lindsey & Major LLC, Los Angeles ; John Doyle P'11 P'13, California Superior Court Judge, Los Angeles County; Carolyn Kuhl P'11, California Superior Court Judge, Los Angeles County; Margaret Nagle P'10 P'12, Federal Magistrate Judge, United States District Court for the Central District of California; Suzanne Segal '82, Chief Magistrate Judge, Unites States District Court for the Central District of California (moderator); "A Career in Law: Can You Achieve Work/Life Satisfaction?" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Wednesday, March 7 |
Ray Kurzweil, inventor, futurist; author, forthcoming How the Mind Works and How to Build One and New York Times best seller The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology (2005); "The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology" |
| Thursday, March 8 |
Ian Frazier, staff writer, The New Yorker; author, Travels in Siberia (2010) and On the Rez (2000); "An Evening with the Author" |
| Monday, March 19 |
Elliott Abrams, Deputy National Security Advisor for Global Democracy Strategy (2005-2009); Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign Relations; co-author, Democracy: How Direct? Views from the Founding Era and the Polling Era (2002) and The Influence of Faith (2001); “Arab Spring and Arab Winter: The Fate of Democracy in the Middle East” |
| Tuesday, March 20 |
Sheldon Pollock, William B. Ransford Professor of Sanskrit and Indian Studies, Columbia University; author, Forms of Knowledge in Early Modern Asia: Explorations in the Intellectual History of India and Tibet, 1500–1800 (2011) and The Language of the Gods in the World of Men: Sanskrit, Culture, and Power in Premodern India (2009); “Does the Past have a Future? On the Fate of Classical Cultures” |
| Wednesday, March 21 |
Soraya Salti, 2012 Henry R. Kravis Prize in Leadership co-recipient; executive director, INJAZ Al-Arab and senior vice president, Middle East/North Africa for Junior Achievement Worldwide; Gene Falk, co-founder and CEO, mothers2mothers, 2012 Henry R. Kravis Prize in Leadership co-recipient; Robin Smalley, International director, mothers2mothers, 2012 Henry R. Kravis Prize in Leadership co-recipient; Divya Vishwanath '11, alumni moderator; Nicholas Egger-Bovet '12, student moderator; "Transforming the World Through Leadership and Social Innovation" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Wednesday, March 21 |
Soraya Salti, 2012 Henry R. Kravis Prize in Leadership co-recipient; executive director, INJAZ Al-Arab; senior vice president, Middle East/North Africa for Junior Achievement Worldwide; Gene Falk, co-founder and CEO, mothers2mothers, 2012 Henry R. Kravis Prize in Leadership co-recipient; "Henry R. Kravis Prize in Leadership Award Ceremony" |
| Thursday, March 22 |
Carl Schramm, CEO and president, Ewing Marion Kaufman Foundation (2002-2011); co-author, Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism (2007), and author, The Entrepreneurial Imperative (2006); "The Entrepreneurial Imperative" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Thursday, March 22 |
Oran Hesterman, president and CEO, Fair Food Network; author, Fair Food: Growing a Healthy Sustainable Food System for All (2011); "Fair Food for All: Growing a Healthy, Sustainable Food System for All" |
| Monday, March 26 |
Cindy Shea, trumpet, founding director; Gina Duran, trumpet; Ariana Mejia, flute, vocals; Sandie Castaneda, congas, percussion; Daniela Gutierrez, guitarron; Wendy Alarcon, vihuela; Melinda Salcido, guitar, vocals; Karina Zurita, guitar, vocals; Angel Garcia, violin, vocals; Cathy Baeza, violin; Diana Benitez, violin; Stephanie Martinez, violin, vocals; Valerie Carlos, guitar, vocals; Ruby Torres, violin; "Mariachi Divas: A Musical Celebration in Honor of Cesar Chavez" |
| Tuesday, March 27 |
Allison Melangton, CEO and president, 2012 Super Bowl Host Committee; "Super Bowl XLVI: Financial Success and Community Building" |
| Monday, April 2 |
David Rodin, moral philosopher, co-director of the Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict, Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford; senior fellow, Carnegie Council for Ethics and International Affairs; author, War and Self-Defense (2005) and co-author, The Ethics Of War: Shared Problems In Different Traditions (2006); "After Just War Theory" |
| Tuesday, April 3 |
Erica Grieder, southwest correspondent, The Economist; Eric Helland, Robert J. Lowe Professor of Economics and George R. Roberts Fellow, CMC; co-author, forthcoming The Impact of Liability on the Physician Labor Market and The Optimal Jury Size when Jury Deliberation Follows a Random Walk (2008); Chuck Devore '85, Visiting Senior Scholar for Fiscal Policy, Texas Public Policy Foundation; "As Texas Goes…How California Lost Its Edge" |
| Wednesday, April 4 |
Robert Gates, 22nd United States Secretary of Defense (2006-2011) and Director of the CIA (1991-1993) and president of Texas A&M University (2002-2006); author, From the Shadows: The Ultimate Insider's Story of Five Presidents and How They Won the Cold War (1996); "Remarks by Robert Gates" |
| Thursday, April 5 |
Roderick Camp, Philip M. McKenna Professor of the Pacific Rim, CMC; author, Mexico: Everything You Need to Know (2011) and The Metamorphosis of Leadership in a Democratic Mexico (2010); "Mexico's Presidential Election, What it Means for the Future" |
| Friday, April 6 |
Javier Leon '88, managing director, Andell Sports Group; "Lunch with a Leader: Sports Management" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Monday, April 9 |
Dinner Theater, "Finnegan's Farewell" by Kevin Alexander (1999) (5:30 p.m. Pickford Auditorium/6:00 p.m. M.M.C. Athenaeum) |
| Tuesday, April 10 |
Dinner Theater, "Finnegan's Farewell" by Kevin Alexander (1999) (5:30 p.m. Pickford Auditorium/6:00 p.m. M.M.C. Athenaeum) |
| Wednesday, April 11 |
Dinner Theater, "Finnegan's Farewell" by Kevin Alexander (1999) (5:30 p.m. Pickford Auditorium/6:00 p.m. M.M.C. Athenaeum) |
| Thursday, April 12 |
Kevin McCarthy, California Congressman (R-22nd district); Majority Whip, United States House of Representatives; "Leadership in Government: Remarks from Congressman Kevin McCarthy" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Monday, April 16 |
Tony Kushner, award-winning playwright and screen writer; author, Munich (2005) and forthcoming The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism & Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures (2012) and Tiny Kushner: Five One-Act Plays (2012); James Morrison, associate professor of literature and film studies, CMC; author, Hollywood Reborn: Movie Stars of the 1970s (2010) and Roman Polanski (2007); "A Conversation" |
| Tuesday, April 17 |
Yehuda Bauer, Professor of Holocaust Studies, Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; author, The Death of the Shtetl (2010) and Jews for Sale?: Nazi-Jewish Negotiations, 1933-1945 (2009); "Genocide and the Holocaust" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Tuesday, April 17 |
Naval Krishna, historian and scholar of Indian Arts & Traditions; author, The Ananda-Vana of Indian Art (2004); "How We are in Indian Arts and How Indian Arts and Traditions are in Us" |
| Wednesday, April 18 |
Jaime Serra P'14, chairman, SAI Law and Economics and founder, Aklara, CAM (Arbitration Center of Mexico); "Lunch with a Leader: Can North America Compete with China?" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Wednesday, April 18 |
Uma Chowdhry, Chief Science and Technology Officer emeritus of DuPont; “Transforming an American Industry” |
| Thursday, April 19 |
Ian Frazier, staff writer, The New Yorker; author, Travels in Siberia (2010) and On the Rez (2000); Jamaica Kincaid, Josephine Olp Weeks Chair and professor of literature, CMC; author, Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalayas (2005) and Mr. Potter (2002); "Friendship, Literature, and Life" |
| Friday, April 20 |
Peter Desberg, professor emeritus of graduate education, C.S.U. Dominguez Hills; co-author, Show Me the Funny!: At the Writers' Table with Hollywood's Top Comedy Writers (2010) and Own the Room: Business Presentations that Persuade, Engage, and Get Results (2009); Jeffrey Davis, co-author, Show Me the Funny!: At the Writers' Table with Hollywood's Top Comedy Writers (2010) and author, Speed Dating 101 (2008); "I Wrote, I Worried, I Pitched: Pitching Comedy Scripts" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Tuesday, April 24 |
Abdlatif Al-Hamad '60 P'89, Chairman of the Board of Directors and Director General, Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development; "Honorary Degree Presentation and Remarks" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Thursday, April 26 |
Linnea Conrad Roberts, partner and managing director of Investment banking, Goldman Sachs & Co.; "Lunch with a Leader: Investment Banking" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Monday, April 30 |
John List, Homer J. Livingston Professor of Economics, University of Chicago, author, Using Experimental Methods in Environmental and Resource Economics (2007) and co-author, Recent Advances in Environmental Economics (2003); "Tackling Economic Problems Using Field Experiments" |