Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum

Orhan Pamuk, Nobel laureate in literature (2006); professor of comparative literature, Fellow, Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University; author, Other Colors: Essays and a Story (2007) and Istanbul: Memories and the City (2005); "Orhan Pamuk: Other Colors, Other Stories"
 

Richard Peterson, managing partner, Market Psychology Consulting; author, Inside the Investor's Brain: The Power of Mind Over Money (2007); "Inside the Investor's Brain"
 

Robert Thies, piano; gold medal winner (1995), Second International Sergei Prokofiev Competition, St. Petersburg, Russia; artist on album Live in Recital (2006); "Music and Conversation"
 

Harry McMahon '75 P'08 P'09, vice chairman, Executive Client Coverage Group, Merrill Lynch; "2007 Claremont Finance Conference: Investment Banking Still Rocks" (12:00 p.m.)
 

Leora Batnitzky, associate professor of religion, acting director, Program in Judaic Studies, Princeton University; author, Leo Strauss and Emmanuel Lavinas: Philosophy and the Politics of Revelation (2006) and Idolatry and Representation: The Philosophy of Franz Rosenzweig Reconsidered (2000); "Leo Strauss's Contribution to Modern Jewish Thought and the Philosophy of Religion"
 

Neil Budde, vice president, editor in chief, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, Yahoo! Sports; founding editor and publisher, The Wall Street Journal Online; "The Future of the Fourth Estate"
 

Rudi Matthee, professor of Middle Eastern history, University of Delaware; author, The Pursuit of Pleasure: Drugs and Stimulants in Iranian History, 1500-1900 (2005) and The Politics of Trade in Safavid: Silk for Silver, 1600-1730 (1999); "Christians in Safavid Iran: Hospitality and Harassment"
 

Miemie Winn Byrd '89, associate professor, Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies; "Combating Terrorism with Socioeconomics: Leveraging the Private Sector" (12:15 p.m.)
 

Abbas Amanat, professor of history and international and area studies, chair, Council on Middle East Studies, Yale University; author, The United States and the Middle East: A Historical Perspective (2007) and forthcoming In Search of Modern Iran: Authority, Nationhood, and Culture (1501-2001) (2008); "Toleration and Nonconformity in the Iranian Cultural Climate"
 

Adam Bradley, assistant professor of literature, CMC; author, forthcoming Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip-Hop (2008) and The Collected Manuscripts of Ralph Ellison's Second Novel (2008); Samantha Stecker '08; Natalia Bailey '10; Osie Leon Wood, Jr., director, Ronald McNair Scholars Program, CGU; pastor and founder, North Long Beach Community Prayer; James Blake; Jefferson Huang, vice president for student affairs and dean of students, CMC; (moderator); "Using the N Word: Should Anyone?"
 

Terry Tempest Williams, Annie Clark Tanner scholar in environmental humanities, University of Utah; author, The Open Space of Democracy (2004) and forthcoming MOSAIC: Finding Beauty in a Broken World (2008); "Finding Beauty in a Broken World"
 

Ronald Heifetz, co-founder, Center for Public Leadership, director, Leadership Education Project, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; co-author, Leadership on the Line: Staying Alive through the Dangers of Leading (2002) and author, Leadership Without Easy Answers (1994); "Leadership, Authority, and the Paradox of Trust"
 

Tim Ward, president, Intermedia Communications Training, Inc.; author, Arousing the Goddess: Sex and Love in the Buddhist Ruins of India (2003) and "Savage Breast: One Man's Search for the Goddess" (2006)
 

Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Dosti chair in Indian history, founding director, Center for India and South Asia, UCLA; author, Explorations in Connected History: Mughals and Franks (2004) and co-editor, "Indio-Persian Travels in the Age of Discovery" (2007)
 

Eugene Sheppard, associate professor of modern Jewish history and thought, Brandeis University; author, Leo Strauss and the Politics of Exile: The Making of a Political Philosopher (2007) and co-editor, forthcoming Babylon and Jerusalem: Engaging the Thought and Legacy of Simon Rawidowicz (2008); "Leo Strauss and Judaism: Epicureanism and Its Discontents"