Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum

Suzanne Jill Levine, professor of Latin American literature, U.C. Santa Barbara; author, Manuel Puig and the Spider Woman: His Life and Fictions (2000) and The Subversive Scribe: Translating Latin American Fiction (1991); "The Translator in Academe"
 

Vali Nasr, professor of Middle East and South Asia politics, U.S. Naval Postgraduate School; adjunct senior fellow, Council on Foreign Affairs; author, Democracy in Iran (2006) and The Shia Revival: How Conflicts within Islam Will Shape the Future (2006); "The Shia Revival: Politics in the Muslim World"
 

Julianne Baird, soprano, professor of music, Rutgers University; Preethi di Silva, fortepiano, professor emerita of music, Scripps College; Alfred Cramer, violin; Lauren Mikov '07, narrator; Edward Mauger, narrator; "Con Gioia Early Music Ensemble: The Musical World of Jane Austen"
 

Kurt Campbell, Henry A. Kissinger chair in national security, director, International Security Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies; co-author, The Nuclear Tipping Point: Why States Reconsider Their Nuclear Choices (2004) and "Hard Power: The New Politics of National Security" (2006)
 

Antonin Scalia, Justice, U.S. Supreme Court; author, A Matter of Interpretation: Federal Courts and the Law (1998); "A Matter of Constitutional Interpretation"
 

Jerry Fowler, visiting professor in religious studies, CMC, former staff director, Committee on Conscience, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum; "Torch in the Night, Candle in the Dark: Promoting Human Rights Since the Holocaust"
 

David De Cremer, professor of social psychology, Tilburg University, The Netherlands, visiting researcher, Kennedy School, Harvard University; co-editor, Social Psychology and Economics (2006) and editor, forthcoming Advances in the Psychology of Justice and Affect; "Social Psychology and Economics: Some Illustrations in the Fields of Fairness and Leadership"
 

C.K. Williams, instructor of creative writing, Princeton University; author, The Singing (2003) and Repair (1999); "A Reading"
 

Hans Florine, professional rock climber; co-author, Speed Climbing!: How to Climb Faster and Better (2004) and Climb On!: Skills for More Efficient Climbing (2001); "Light and Fast Adventures with Hans"
 

Mong Joon Chung, member, South Korea National Assembly; author, Ideology of Business Management and The Relationship between Government and Industry in Japan; "The United States and South Korea: Changing Relations" (12:15 p.m.)
 

Thomas Cushman, professor of sociology, Wellesley College; editor, Journal of Human Rights and A Matter of Principle: Humanitarian Arguments for War in Iraq (2005) and author of The Human Rights Case for War: Ethics, International Law, and the Conflict in Iraq (2006); "Orwell in the 21st Century"
 

Michael Boardman '74, colonel, U.S. Army, director, Army Intelligence Electronic Warfare Test Directorate, Ft. Huachuca, AZ; "Improvised Explosive Devices in Iraq" (12:15 p.m.)
 

John O'Sullivan, editor-at-large, National Review online; editor-in chief, The National Interest; senior fellow, Hudson Institute, Washington D.C.; "Dispelling the Nightmare: Thatcher, Reagan, John Paul II, and the End of Communism" (12:15 p.m.)
 

Aria Ash-Rafzadeh '07, piano; "Musical Tea: A Dialogue between East and West- Persian Folk Music Meets the European Romantic" (3:00 p.m.)
 

John Roth, Edward J. Sexton professor of philosophy, director, Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights, CMC; author, Genocide and Human Rights: A Philosophical Guide (2005) and Ethics During and After the Holocaust: In the Shadow of Birkenau (2006); "The Holocaust and the Common Good"