| Wednesday, January 23 |
Jonathan Franzen, National Book Award winner; author, Freedom: A Novel (2011) and The Corrections: A Novel (2001); “An Evening with the Author” |
| Monday, January 28 |
Ray Ryan, Senior Commissioning Editor for English and American Literature, Cambridge University Press; author, The Good of the Novel (Faber 2011) and Ireland and Scotland: Literature and Culture, State and Nation, 1966-2000 (2002); "Publishing Academic Research in the Humanities" (12:00 p.m. Parents Dining Room) |
| Monday, January 28 |
Jaime Ayala P'16, Ernst & Young Entrepreneur; Social Entrepreneur of the Year 2012, Philippines; founder and CEO; Hybrid Social Solutions Inc.; "Can Social Business Save the World?" |
| Wednesday, January 30 |
C. Anthony Bush '76, drums; author/composer, The Battle Hymn of a Freedman: African-American Soldiers in the Civil War (2011) and artist on CD, Answered Prayer/The Vision of H.R.A. Wells (2009); Samuel Reece '74, (narrator); David Murray, tenor saxophone; artist on CD, Answered Prayer/The Vision of H.R.A. Wells (2009); Sissel Bakken, mezzo-soprano; Gregory Cook; actor; Yartumo Gborkorquellie; Thorton Hudson, Jr., piano; Bobbie Kyles-Cole; Andrew Robinson; “Battle Hymn of a Freedman: African-American Soldiers in the Civil War” |
| Thursday, January 31 |
John Agnew, Distinguished Professor of Geography and professor of Italian, UCLA; author, Globalization and Sovereignty (2009) and co-editor, The SAGE Handbook of Geographical Knowledge (2010); "Citizenship and Nationality: How Immigration Rules Relate to Different Conceptions of Nationality around the World" |
| Friday, February 1 |
John Agnew, Distinguished Professor of Geography and professor of Italian, UCLA; author, Berlusconi's Italy (2008) and co-editor, Politics: Critical Essays in Human Geography (2008); "Rethinking the World Water Problem" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Monday, February 4 |
Joyce Carol Oates, Roger S. Berlind '52 Professor in the Humanities and Professor in Creative Writing, Princeton University; author, Black Dahlia & White Rose: Stories (2012) and Mudwoman: A Novel (2012); “An Evening with Joyce Carol Oates” |
| Wednesday, February 6 |
Jon E. Lendon, professor of history, University of Virginia; author, Songs of Wrath: The Peloponnesian War Begins (2010) and Soldiers and Ghosts: A History of the Battle in Classical Antiquities (2005); “The Strangeness of Greco-Roman Thinking about Foreign Affairs-A Guide to the Eccentric Behavior of Modern States?” |
| Thursday, February 7 |
Murray Dry, Charles A. Dana Professor of Political Science, Middlebury College; co-editor, The Anti-Federalist: An Abridgment of The Complete Anti-Federalist (2006) and author, Civil Peace and the Quest for Truth: The First Amendment Freedoms in Political Philosophy and American Constitutionalism (2004); “Same Sex Marriage and the Constitution” (12:00 p.m.) |
| Thursday, February 7 |
Bruce Cumings, Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor of History and the College, University of Chicago; author, The Korean War: A Modern History (2010) and Dominion from Sea to Sea: Pacific Ascendancy and American Power (2009); "America in the Pacific, From Polk's War to Obama's 'Pivot'" |
| Monday, February 11 |
Steve Mariotti, founder, Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) (1987); co-author, Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management (2011) and Entrepreneurship: Starting and Operating a Small Business (2006) "Using Entrepreneurial Education as an Educational Strategy for Low-income Youth" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Monday, February 11 |
Sharon Olds, Erich Maria Remarque Professor of English, New York University; poet; National Book Critics Circle Award; New York State Poet Laureate for 1998-2000; author, One Secret Thing (2008) and Strike Sparks: Selected Poems 1980-2002 (2004); “A Reading” |
| Tuesday, February 12 |
Philip Zimbardo, professor of psychology emeritus, Stanford University; PBS series "Discovering Psychology"; Stanford Prison Experiment (1971); author, The Time Paradox: The New Psychology of Time That Will Change Your Life (2008) and The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil (2007); "My Journey from Evil to Heroism" |
| Wednesday, February 13 |
Sandra Fluke, social justice advocate; Public Interest Law Scholar, Georgetown University Law Center; former member, Manhattan Borough Presidents Taskforce on Domestic Violence; co-founder, New York Statewide Coalition for Fair Access to Family Court; "Making Our Voices Heard" |
| Thursday, February 14 |
Robert Caro, winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, two National Book Critics Circle Awards, the National Book Award, and the Francis Parkman Prize; author, The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Passage of Power (2012), Master of the Senate (2002), Means of Ascent (1990), The Path to Power (1982) and The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (1974); "An Evening with Robert Caro" |
| Friday, February 15 |
Hinh Dinh P'14, Lead Economist, Office of the Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank, Washington DC; author, Light Manufacturing in Africa: Targeted Policies to Enhance Private Investment and Create Jobs (2012) and Performance of Manufacturing Firms in Africa: An Empirical Analysis ( 2012); “Lunch with a Leader: Industrial Development in Africa” (12:00 p.m.) |
| Monday, February 18 |
Avy Stein P'14, co-founder, managing partner, Willis Stein and Partners, LLC; former managing director, Continental Illinois Venture Corporation; "Preparing America and Yourself for the 21st Century Workforce" |
| Tuesday, February 19 |
Ilai Saltzman, Schusterman-AICE visiting Israeli Assistant professor of government, CMC; author, Securitizing Balance of Power Theory: A Polymorphic Reconceptualization (Lexington Books, 2012); “Israel’s 2013 Elections and the Future of U.S.-Israel Special Relations" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Tuesday, February 19 |
Herman Tull, lecturer in Classics, Princeton University; author, The Vedic Origins of Karma: Cosmos as Man in Ancient Indian Myth and Ritual (1989) and co-editor, Comity and Grace of Method: Essays in Honor of Edmund Perry (2003); “Whence Sanskrit? (kutah samskrtamiti): The Rise (and Fall) of Sanskrit in the West” |
| Wednesday, February 20 |
Tareq Azim, co-founder, Hope of Mother, Afghanistan (2004); founder, Women’s Boxing Federation, Afghanistan (2007); "Make a Purpose of Your Ability" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Wednesday, February 20 |
Jaclyn Friedman, writer, performer, and activist; author, What You Really Really Want: The Smart Girl’s Shame-Free Guide to Sex & Safety (2011) and Yes Means Yes!: Visions of Female Sexual Power & a World Without Rape (2008) and "Drinking and Rape: Let’s Wise Up About It", Women’s eNews, February 2007; “What You Really Want” |
| Thursday, February 21 |
Cristanne Miller, SUNY Distinguished Professor and Chair of the English Department, SUNY Buffalo; author, Emily Dickinson: A Poet's Grammar (1989); Marianne Moore: Questions of Authority (1995); and Reading in Time: Emily Dickinson in the Nineteenth Century (2012); “'The Ear is the Last Face': Reading Dickinson in Lyrical Time” (12:00 p.m. Parents Dining Room) |
| Thursday, February 21 |
Tim Conlan, professor of government and politics, George Mason University; co-author, American Federalism in the 21st Century (2010) and co-editor, Intergovernmental Management for the 21st Century (2008) "The Development of Federalism in the Obama Administration"(12:00 p.m.) |
| Thursday, February 21 |
Athanasios Orphanides, senior lecturer, MIT Sloan School of Management; co-editor, forthcoming The Great Inflation; "Politics, Economics, and the Euro Area Crisis" |
| Friday, February 22 |
Jennifer Mattson, journalist; GlobalPost Breaking News; TheAtlantic.com; USA TODAY; The Boston Globe; The Women's Review of Books; and CNN.com; "On Deadline: Writing and Reporting in the 21st Century" (12:00 p.m. Parents Dining Room) |
| Friday, February 22 |
Mushfiq Mobarak, associate professor of economics, Yale University School of Management; co-chair, Urban Services Initiative, Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) at MIT; director, Bangladesh Research Program for the 'International Growth Centre (IGC)' at LSE and Oxford; author, The Transforming Power of Democracy: Regime Type and the Distribution of Electricity (2009); "Why is the Demand for Welfare-Improving Technologies and Behaviors Low in Developing Countries? Lessons from Field Experiments in Asia and Africa" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Saturday, February 23 |
Douglas Peterson '80 P'14 P'15, Chief Operating Officer, Citibank; president, Standard & Poor's; "2013 Claremont Finance Conference: Risk, Regulation & Return – The New State of the Financial Services Industry" (6:15 p.m.) |
| Monday, February 25 |
Michael Berube, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Literature and Director of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities, Pennsylvania State University; author, Life As We Know It: A Father, A Family, and an Exceptional Child (Pantheon, 1996; paper, Vintage, 1998); and What's Liberal About the Liberal Arts? Classroom Politics and “ Bias” in Higher Education (W. W. Norton, 2006); “Bioethics: Too Important to Be Left to Bioethicists" |
| Tuesday, February 26 |
Rachel Lloyd, founder and Chief Executive Officer, Girls Educational & Mentoring Service (GEMS); author, Girls Like Us (2011) and co-executive documentary producer, Very Young Girls (2007); "Girls Like Us : The Commercial Sexual Exploitation and Trafficking of Girls in the U.S." |
| Wednesday, February 27 |
Andrew Schroeder, assistant professor of philosophy, CMC; author, Incidence, Prevalence, and Hybrid Approaches to Calculating Disability-adjusted Life Years (2012) and You Don't Have to Do What's Best! (2011); “Good and Bad Ways to Allocate Scarce Medical Resources" |
| Thursday, February 28 |
Ting Wu, director, Personal Genetics Education Project; professor of Genetics, Harvard University Medical School; “Personal Genetics: Miracles and Technologies, Promises and Challenges” (12:00 p.m.) |
| Thursday, February 28 |
Naomi Nye, poet, writer, anthologist; author, 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East (2002); A Maze Me: Poems for Girls (2005); There Is No Long Distance Now (2011); and Transfer (2011); “A Reading” |
| Friday, March 1 |
Joel Appel '87, CEO, Launch Pad, LLC.; co-founder and former president, Orange Glo, International; "Lunch with a Leader: The Orange Glo Story, from Benson to Bentonville" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Monday, March 4 |
David Teece P'16, author, Dynamic Capabilities and Strategic Management: Organizing for Innovation and Growth (2011) and Managing Intellectual Capital: Organizational, Strategic, and Policy Dimensions (2002); "Profiting from Innovation: Building Firm Level and National Competitiveness" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Monday, March 4 |
Victor Masayesva, Jr., author, Gila (2012); photographer, Husk of Time: The Photographs of Victor Masayesva (2006); Hopi experimental filmmaker, "Ritual Clowns" (1988); "But Seriously: Clowning and Humor in Traditional Storytelling" |
| Tuesday, March 5 |
Ju Hui Judy Han, assistant professor of geography, University of Toronto, Scarborough; "Reaching for the World: Korean/American Missionary Aspirations and Evangelical Encounters" |
| Wednesday, March 6 |
Shana Levin, Crown Professor of Psychology and George R. Roberts Fellow, CMC; co-author, forthcoming Testing a Dual Process Model of Prejudice: Assessment of Group Threat Perceptions and Emotions and Social Dominance Orientation: Revisiting the Structure and Function of a Variable Predicting Social and Political Attitudes (2012); "Universal and Culture-specific Predictors of Group Prejudice" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Wednesday, March 6 |
Linda Fayne Levinson, independent director, The Western Union Co.; Ingram Micro, Inc.; NCR Corp.; Jacobs Engineering Group, Inc.; "What is Effective Corporate Governance? An Insider’s View of the Boardroom Experience" |
| Thursday, March 7 |
Bruce Hoffman, professor at Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service; director, Center for Security Studies, Georgetown University; author, Inside Terrorism (1998) and The Victims of Terrorism: An Assessment of Their Influence and Growing Role in Policy, Legislation, and the Private Sector (2007); "Al Qaeda and the Future of Terrorism" |
| Monday, March 11 |
Razia Jan, Founder, Zabuli Education Center, Afghanistan; program director, ARZU, Inc.; "Leadership Lessons from Afghan Girls School Founder, Razia Jan, 2012 Top 10 CNN Hero" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Monday, March 11 |
Farah Godrej, associate professor of political science, U.C. Riverside; author, Cosmopolitan Political Thought: Method, Practice, Discipline (2011); "Ascetics, Warriors, and a Gandhian Ecological Citizenship: Thinking through M.K. Gandhi" (6:45 p.m. Parents Dining Room) |
| Monday, March 11 |
Ezekiel Emanuel, Diane and Robert Levy University Professor, Vice Provost for Global Initiatives, University of Pennsylvania; author, Global Justice and Bioethics (2012) and Healthcare, Guaranteed (2008); "Health Care Reform and the Future of American Medicine" |
| Tuesday, March 12 |
Francisco Varela, Jr. '93, Global Director of Platform Partnerships, YouTube; “Making You Famous: Reaching 6 Billion People on YouTube” |
| Wednesday, March 13 |
Alexandria Dionne, production manager and co-producer, The Documentary Group, 10X10, LLC.; "Girl Rising" (6:45 p.m. Parents Dining Room) (3:00 p.m. “Girl Rising” film viewing, Mary Pickford Auditorium) |
| Wednesday, March 13 |
Jennifer Pozner, media critic; founder and executive director, Women in Media & News (WIMN); author, Reality Bites Back: The Troubling Truth about Guilty Pleasure TV (2010); "Reality Bites Back" |
| Monday, March 25 |
Dina Buchbinder Auron, founder and director, Desport-es para Compartir (Sports to Share); Ashoka Fellow; "Sports for Sharing: Waking Up Children’s Inner Agent of Change Through Sports and Games" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Monday, March 25 |
Cindy Shea, trumpet, founding director; Beto Jimenez, musical director; Ballet Folklorico Ollin; Sabrina Rodgers, trumpet; Dilly Alarcon, trumpet; Ariana Mejia, flute, vocals; Melena Frances, congas, percussion; Vaneza Calderon, guitarron; Mayra Martinez, vihuela; Melinda Salcido, guitar, vocals; Karina Zurita, guitar, vocals; Maria Lupita Lopez, violin, vocals; Cathy Baeza, violin; Jillian Kardell, violin; Stephanie Martinez, violin, vocals; "Mariachi Divas: A Musical Celebration in Honor of Cesar Chavez" |
| Tuesday, March 26 |
David Bjerk, Russell S. Bock Chair of Public Economics and Taxation; associate professor of economics, CMC; author, Re-examining the Longer-term Impact of Dropping Out on Criminal and Labor Market Outcomes (2012) and Thieves, Thugs, and Neighborhood Poverty (2010); "Hmm, That Doesn't Sound Like Economics: An Economist’s Perspective on Sentencing Laws, Discrimination, and Willful Ignorance" |
| Wednesday, March 27 |
Stanley McChrystal, general, U.S. Army, retired; Commander, International Security Assistance Force; Commander, U.S. Forces Afghanistan (2009-2010); author, My Share of the Task: A Memoir (2012) and co-author, Behavioral Conflict: Why Understanding People and Their Motives Will Prove Decisive in Future Conflict (2011); "The State of International Affairs and the Security Challenges Facing America" |
| Thursday, March 28 |
Jonathan Zimmerman, professor of history of education, New York University, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development; author, Small Wonder: The Little Red Schoolhouse in History and Memory (2009) and Innocent Abroad: American Teachers in the American Century (2006); "You Can't Say That: Teachers and the Limits of Freedom in American Schools" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Thursday, March 28 |
Alison Davis O'Keefe '00, photojournalist; author, One Goal (2012); "Across America in the Century's First Decade: The Odyssey of a Photojournalist" |
| Monday, April 1 |
Doron Weber, vice president of programs, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation; author, Immortal Bird: A Family Memoir (2013) and Safe Blood: Purifying the Nation's Blood Supply in the Age of AIDS (1990); "Lunch with the Author" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Monday, April 1 |
Tim Storer '15, "CMC Forum Idea Night at the Ath: Don't Have Kids"; Nadeem Farooqi '15, "CMC Forum Idea Night at the Ath: I'm On a Boat"; Manav Kohli '16, "CMC Forum Idea Night at the Ath: Fish are Catching On to Fishing"; Alexandria Brill '16, "CMC Forum Idea Night at the Ath: Sex DRIVE" |
| Tuesday, April 2 |
Lenny Fukshansky, associate professor and chair, Department of Mathematical Sciences, CMC; Mark Huber, Fletcher Jones Foundation Associate Professor of Mathematics and Statistics and George R. Roberts Fellow, CMC; Deanna Needell, assistant professor of mathematics, CMC; Sam Nelson, associate professor of mathematics; “A Challenge for the Millennium: The Million Dollar Problems in Mathematics” |
| Wednesday, April 3 |
Rebecca Skloot, author, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2010); "An Evening with Rebecca Skloot" |
| Thursday, April 4 |
Joshua Walker, International Affairs Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations; co-author, The Shifting Tectonics of Japan One Year After March 11, 2011 (2012) and Turkey and Its Neighbors (2011); "Partnerships for the Middle East and North Africa in 21st Century American Statecraft" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Thursday, April 4 |
Daniel Mendelsohn, Charles Ranlett Flint Professor of Humanities, Bard College; author, Waiting for the Barbarians: Essays from the Classics to Pop Culture (2012) and The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million (2006); ""Lost" Between Memory and History: Writing the Holocaust for the Next Generation" |
| Monday, April 8 |
Dinner Theater; "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie (1939) (6:00 p.m.) |
| Tuesday, April 9 |
Moises Naim, senior associate, International Economics program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; author, The End of Power: From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States: Why Being in Charge Isn't What It Used to Be (2013) and How Smugglers, Traffickers, and Copycats are Hijacking the Global Economy (2006); "The End of Power" (6:00 p.m. Parents Dining Room) |
| Tuesday, April 9 |
Dinner Theater; "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie (1939) (6:00 p.m.) |
| Wednesday, April 10 |
Dinner Theater; "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie (1939) (6:00 p.m.) |
| Friday, April 12 |
Peter Balakian, Donald M. and Constance H. Rebar Professor of Humanities, Colgate University; author, Ziggurat (2010) and The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response (2003); "The Transmission of Trauma across Generations: Writing a Memoir about the Armenian Genocide and Growing up in Suburbia" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Monday, April 15 |
Guy Sorman, contributing editor, City Journal; author, Economics Does Not Lie: A Defense of the Free Market in a Time of Crisis (2009) and The Empire of Lies: The Truth about China in the Twenty-First Century (2008); "The Sovereign Debt Crisis in Europe and the Future of the Euro"(12:00 p.m.) |
| Monday, April 15 |
Joseph W. Esherick, professor emeritus of history, U.C. San Diego; author, Ancestral Leaves: A Family Journey Through Chinese History (U. California Press: 2011); "China: From Sick Man of Asia to Emerging Superpower" |
| Tuesday, April 16 |
Daniel Markert ’91, operations advisor, Afghan National Security Forces in Regional Command East; chief of current operations, California National Guard; "Influence of CMC on a Combat Advisor to the Afghan National Army" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Tuesday, April 16 |
Pico Iyer, travel writer; author, The Man Within My Head (2012) and The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama (2008); "Our New Global Culture: Visions and Divisions" |
| Wednesday, April 17 |
Kenneth Fields, professor of English and creative writing, Stanford University; author, Classic Rough News (2005); "Yvor Winters’ Wild West: Adventures in Poetry (12:00 p.m. Parents Dining Room) |
| Wednesday, April 17 |
Francine Prose, visiting professor of literature, Bard College; author, My New American Life (2011) and Ann Frank: The Book, the Life, the Afterlife (2009); "The Literary Genius of Anne Frank" |
| Thursday, April 18 |
Johann Olav Koss, 2013 Henry R. Kravis Prize in Leadership recipient; founder, Right to Play; Olympic speedskating medalist; "2013 Henry R. Kravis Prize in Leadership Recipient" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Friday, April 19 |
Hilary Hoynes, professor of economics, U.C. Davis; co-editor, American Economic Review; "The Health Impacts of the Non-Health Safety Net" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Monday, April 22 |
John Abizaid, former commander of United States Central Command, U.S. Army; Distinguished Chair, Combating Terrorism Center, West Point; "A Conversation with a Leader" (12:00 p.m. Parents Dining Room) |
| Monday, April 22 |
Norman Finkelstein, American political scientist, activist; author, Knowing too Much: Why American Jewish Romance with Israel is Coming to an End (2012) and What Ghandi Says about Nonviolence, Resistance, and Courage (2012); “How to Solve the Israel-Palestine Conflict” (12:00 p.m.) |
| Monday, April 22 |
Nannerl O. Keohane, Laurance S. Rockefeller Distinguished Visiting Professor of Public Affairs, Princeton University; president, Wellesley College (1981-1993), president, Duke University (1993-2004); author, Thinking about Leadership (2010) and Higher Ground: Ethics and Leadership in the Modern University (2006) “Leadership Out Front and Behind the Scenes” |
| Tuesday, April 23 |
John-Clark Levin ’12; journalist; co-author, forthcoming Private Anti-Piracy Navies (2013); John J. Pitney, Jr., Roy P. Crocker Professor of American History and Politics, CMC; co-author, American Government: Deliberation, Democracy, and Citizenship (2011) and co-author, forthcoming Private Anti-Piracy Navies (2013); "Private Anti-Piracy Navies: How Warships for Hire will Change Maritime Security" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Tuesday, April 23 |
Diane Halpern, McElwee Family Professor of Psychology and George R. Roberts Fellow, CMC; author, Undergraduate Education in Psychology: A Blueprint for the Future of the Discipline (2010) and co-author, Women at the Top: Powerful Leaders Tell Us How to Combine Work and Family (2008); "The Psychological Science Behind Hyperpartisanship and What to Do About It" |
| Wednesday, April 24 |
Clark Lee '04, political director, Los Angeles County Democratic Party; Seema Mehta, political reporter, Los Angeles Times; Ray Remy '59, past president, L.A. Area Chamber of Commerce; "The Race for Los Angeles Mayor" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Wednesday, April 24 |
David Charters, professor of military history, Senior Fellow, Gregg Centre for the Study of War and Society , University of New Brunswick; “Counterinsurgency on the Double Double: The Canadian Campaign in Kandahar” |
| Thursday, April 25 |
Corey Brettschneider, professor of political science, Brown University; author, When the State Speaks, What Should It Say? How Democracies Can Protect Expression and Promote Equality (2012) and Democratic Rights: The Substance of Self Government (2007); "When the State Speaks, What Should It Say? How Democracies Can Protect Expression and Promote Equality" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Thursday, April 25 |
Carla Garapedian, documentary filmmaker of Children of the Secret State (2000), Dying for the President (2000), Lifting the Veil (2003), Iran Undercover: Inside the Hidden Revolution (2005), My Friend the Mercenary (2005), Screamers (2007); "Politics, History, and Truth: The Armenian Genocide" |
| Monday, May 6 |
Kevin Murphy, Kenneth L. Trefftzs Chair in Finance, Professor of Economics, Professor of Business and Law, USC; co-author, The Executive Compensation Controversy: A Transatlantic Analysis (2012) and The Politics of Pay: A Legislative History of Executive Compensation (2012); "Explaining CEO Pay" |