Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum

Lily Donge '94, senior social research analyst, Calvert Group, Ltd.; "Greening Global Investments"
 

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"
 

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"
 

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"
 

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.)
 

Uzodinma Iweala, author, Beasts of No Nation: A Novel (2005); "Beasts of No Nation" (12:15 p.m.)
 

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?"
 

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"
 

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"
 

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"
 

J. Michael Fay, explorer in residence, National Geographic Society; conservationist, Wildlife Conservation Society; "Saving Africa's Eden"
 

Les Murray, poet; author, The Biplane Houses (2006) and Fredy Neptune: A Novel in Verse (1998); "An Evening with the Poet"
 

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.)
 

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.)
 

Hugo Vickers, Royal historian; author, Alice: Princess Andrew of Greece (2001) and Elizabeth, The Queen Mother (2005); "Cecil Beaton: His Biography & His Biographer"