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Thursday, |
Jennifer Taw, associate professor of government, CMC; author, Mission Revolution: The U.S. Military and Stability Operations (2012) and co-author, World Politics in a New Era (2003); "Voices from the Past (OK, the Not-So-Distant Past): Advice from Former Freshmen" |
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Monday, |
Toshia Shaw, founder and executive director, Purple W.I.N.G.S. (Women Inspiring Noble Girls Successfully); “From Tragedy to Triumph: How I Stepped Out of Victimization and Into Success” |
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Tuesday, |
Tim Haughton, reader (associate professor) in European Politics; director, Center for Russian and Eastern European Studies (2012-2014), University of Birmingham, UK; editor, Party Politics in Central and Eastern Europe: Does EU Membership Matter? (2011) and author, Constraints and Opportunities of Leadership in Post-Communist Europe (2005); "Is Crisis the New Normal in the European Union?" |
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Wednesday, September 16 |
Wajahat Ali, attorney; co-host, Al Jazeera America's The Stream; author, The Domestic Crusaders (2011) and co-author, The Myth of the Muslim Tide: Do Immigrants Threaten the West? (2012); “Islamopholia and the Media” |
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Thursday, |
Victoria Sanford, professor of anthropology and founding director, Center for Human Rights and Peace Studies, Lehman College, City University of New York; author, forthcoming The Land of Pale Hands- Feminicide and Impunity in Guatemala and Buried Secrets: Truth and Human Rights in Guatemala (2003); "Maya Women as Targets: Gender Violence and the Guatemalan Genocide" |
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Monday, |
David Barboza, Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent, Shanghai bureau chief, The New York Times; "Reporting from China" |
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Thursday, |
Megan Falley, spoken word artist; author, Redhead and the Slaughter King: A Collection of Poetry (2014) and After the Witch Hunt (2012); Olivia Gatwood, slam poet; author, I've Removed Myself from the Kitchen (2011); "Speak Like A Girl: An Evening of Spoken Word" |
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Friday, September 25 Lunch 12:00 p.m. |
Gordon Phillips, Charles E. Cook-Community Bank Chair of Finance and professor of finance and business economics, USC Marshall School of Business; co-author, “Text-Based Network Industries and Endogenous Product Differentiation" (2015) and "Product Market Threats, Payouts, and Financial Flexibility" (2014); "The Need for Industrial Organizational Foundations in Corporate Finance and Asset Pricing" (12:30 p.m. program) |
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Monday, September 28 |
Elaine Ostrander, chief and distinguished investigator, National Human Genome Research Institute; co-editor, The Role of Genetics in Breast and Reproductive Cancers (2009) and co-author, Canine Genetics Facilitates Understanding of Human Biology (2009); "Old Dogs and New Tricks: How Dog Genetics Informs Human Health" |
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Tuesday, September 29 Lunch 11:30 a.m. |
C. Steven McGann ’73, Deputy Commandant and International Affairs Advisor, Dwight D. Eisenhower School for National Security and Resource Strategy, National Defense University; U.S. Ambassador to the Republics of Fiji, Nauru, Kiribati, and the Kingdom of Tonga and Tuvalu (2008-2011); “Implementing UNSCR 1325: The U.S. National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security” (12:00 p.m. program) |
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Tuesday, |
Deborah Dwork, Rose Professor of Holocaust History; founding director, Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark University; author, A Boy in Terezin: The Private Diary of Pavel Weiner, April 1944-April 1945 (2011) and co-author, Flight from the Reich: Refugee Jews, 1933-1946 (2009); "Jewish Orphans after the Holocaust" |
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Wednesday, |
Miwon Kwon, professor of art history, UCLA; author, One Place after Another: Site Specific Art and Locational Identity (2002) and co-author, Oscar Tuazon (2014); Jorge Pardo, installation artist; Rochelle Steiner, professor of critical studies, USC Roski School of Art and Design; writer; public art producer; curator, 6 Under 60 (2011) and Olafur Eliasson's The New York Waterfalls (2008); co-author and editor, Do Ho Suh Drawings (2014) and Glenn Brown: Three Exhibitions (2010) ; Oscar Tuazon, artist; solo exhibition, "A Home, Zurich" (2014) and "Alone in an Empty Room", Cologne (2014); Robert Faggen, Barton Evans and H. Andrea Neves Professor in Literature, director, Family of Benjamin Z. Gould Center for Humanistic Studies, CMC; author, forthcoming, Sparks Fly Up: The Life of Ken Kesey and co-editor, The Letters of Robert Frost, Volume 1: 1886 - 1920 (2014), co-moderator; Philipp Kaiser, Gould Center Distinguished Visiting Fellow, CMC; senior curator, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA) (2007-2011); co-author, Manfred Pernice: Haldensleben, Bibette Headland, Hotel Hangelar (2014) and Ends of the Earth: Land Art to 1974 (2012), co-moderstor; "Art on Campus: Public Spheres” |
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Thursday, October 1 Lunch 11:30 a.m. |
Adrienne Martin, Akshata Murty ’02 and Richi Sunak Associate Professor of Philosophy, Politics, and Economics and George R. Roberts Fellow, CMC; author, forthcoming, Hope in Humanity and How We Hope: A Moral Philosophy (2013); "Broken Campaign Promises and Their Emotional Aftermath" (12:00 p.m. program) |
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Monday, |
Ted Rall, staff editorial cartoonist, Los Angeles Times; editor-in-chief, SkewedNews.net; author, Snowden (2015) and After We Kill You, We Will Welcome You Back as Honored Guests (2014); "Political Cartooning and Satire in the Digital Age" |
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Tuesday, |
Michael McConnell, Richard and Frances Mallery Professor of Law; director, Stanford Constitutional Law Center, Stanford University, senior fellow, Hoover Institution; co-author, The Constitution of the United States (2010) and author, Religion and the Constitution (2002); “Our Seventeenth Century Executive” |
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Wednesday, |
Asuman Aksoy P’05, Crown Professor of Mathematics and George R. Roberts Fellow, CMC; co-author, “Minimal Projections with respect to various norms” (2012) and “Some results in metric trees” (2011); Blake Hunter, assistant professor of mathematics, CMC; co-author, “Community detection using spectral clustering on sparse geosocial data” (2013) and “Linking Social Media and Disorder, Emerging Topic Detection in Microblogs” (2013); Chiu-Yen Kao, associate professor of mathematics, CMC; co-author, "Minimal Convex Combinations of Sequential Laplace-Dirichlet Eigenvalues" (2013) and "Bounded Domain Problem for the Modified Buckley-Leverett Equation" (2013); Lenny Fukshansky, professor of mathematics, CMC; co-author, "Permutation invariant lattices", Discrete Mathematics, vol. 338 no. 8 (2015) and "Toeplitz determinants with perturbations in the corners", Journal of Functional Analysis, vol. 268 no. 1 (2015); "Math for the New Millennium: Ideas that Change the World" |
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Thursday, |
Henri Cole, poet; professor of literature, CMC; author, Nothing to Declare: Poems (2015) and Touch: Poems (2011); “A Poetry Reading with Henri Cole” |
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Friday, October 9 Lunch 11:30 a.m. |
David Dreier ‘75, Brookings Institution Distinguished Fellow; U.S. House of Representatives (R), (CA - 35th, 33rd, 28th, 26th district) (1981-2013); Chairman of the House Rules Committee (1999-2007, 2011-2013); Tom Campbell, dean, Donald P. Kennedy Chair in Law and professor of economics, Chapman University School of Law; author, Separation of Powers in Practice (2004); Thomas Mann, senior fellow of governance studies, Brookings Institution; co-author, It’s Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the New Politics of Extremism (2012) and The Broken Branch: How Congress Is Failing America and How to Get It Back on Track (2008); Zachary Courser ’99, visiting assistant professor of government, CMC, author, forthcoming Keeping the Republic, moderator; "Dreier Roundtable: Examining the Roots of Polarization in Our Constitutional Order" (12:00 p.m. program) |
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Monday, |
Martha Bayles, visiting associate professor of the practice of the humanities, Boston College; visiting fellow, Hudson Institute; author, Through a Screen Darkly: Popular Culture, Public Diplomacy, and America's Image Abroad (2014) and Ain't That a Shame? Censorship and the Culture of Transgression (1996); "Soft Power is Hard!” |
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Tuesday, October 13 |
Kyle Thiermann, pro surfer; CEO, Surfing for Change; "Surfing for Change" |
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Wednesday, |
Kris Perry, executive director, First Five Years Fund; Sandy Stier, director, Information Systems, Alameda County Health Care Services Agency; Proposition 8 plaintiffs, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, and California Supreme Court; "The Fall of Prop. 8 - Marriage Equality at the U.S. Supreme Court" |
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Wednesday, |
Nina Tandon, CEO and co-founder, EpiBone; co-author, Super Cells: Building with Biology (2014); "Your Body 3.0" |
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Thursday, |
Anne Fausto-Sterling, Nancy Duke Lewis Professor Emeritia of Biology and Gender Studies, Brown University; author, Sex/Gender: Biology in a Social World (2012) and Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality (2000); "Gender is a Process, Not a Trait: The Dynamics of the Origins of Difference in Infancy" |
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Monday, October 26 Lunch 11:30 a.m. |
Mac Taylor, legislative analyst, California Legislative Analyst Office; "Taxing California" (12:00 p.m. program) |
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Monday, |
Susan Sered, assistant professor of sociology, Suffolk University; co-author, Can't Catch a Break: Gender, Jail, Drugs, and the Limits of Personal Responsibility (2014) and Uninsured in America: Life and Death in the Land of Opportunity (2006); "Incarceration by Any Other Name: The Unholy Alliance of Religion, Therapeutic Culture, and the State" |
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Tuesday, October 27 |
Elhanan Miller, Arab affairs reporter, The Times of Israel; research fellow, International Center for the Study of Radicalization and Political Violence, Kings College, U.K.; "Analyzing Recent Violence in Israel/Palestine" |
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Wednesday, October 28 |
Barbara Weinstein, Silver Professor of History, New York University; author, The Color of Modernity: Sao Paula and the Making of Race and Nation in Brazil (2015) and co-editor, The Making of the Middle Class: Toward a Transnational History (2012); "Rich Nation, Poor Nation: A History of Race, Region, and Inequality in Brazil" |
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Thursday, |
James Sonne, lecturer in law; founding director, Religious Liberty Clinic, Stanford University School of Law; "Teaching Religious Liberty" |
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Monday, November 2 |
David Quammen, contributing writer, National Geographic; author, The Chimp and the River: How AIDS Emerged from an African Forest (2015) and Ebola: The Natural and Human History of a Deadly Virus (2014); "Ebola and Beyond: Scary Viruses in a Globalized World" |
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Tuesday, November 3 |
Zachary Courser ’99, visiting assistant professor of government, associate director, Dreier Roundtable, CMC, author, forthcoming Keeping the Republic; Ken Miller, associate professor of government; associate director, Edessa Rose Institute of State and Local Government; co-drector, Dreier Roundtable , CMC; author, Direct Democracy and the Courts (2009) and co-editor, The New Political Geography of California (2008); Christina Bellantoni, associate politics editor , Los Angeles Times; “Dreier Roundtable: Presaging the Presidential Election- How the 2015 Election Will Shape the 2016 Presidential Race |
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Wednesday, November 4 |
Jeremy Strick, director, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas; Emi Fontana, creative director, West of Rome, Los Angeles; Thomas Hirschorn, artist; solo exhibition, "Flamme Eternelle," Paris (2014) and "Höhere Gewalt," Berlin (2014); Robert Faggen, Barton Evans and H. Andrea Neves Professor in Literature, director, Family of Benjamin Z. Gould Center for Humanistic Studies, CMC; author, forthcoming, Sparks Fly Up: The Life of Ken Kesey and co-editor, The Letters of Robert Frost, Volume 1: 1886 - 1920 (2014), co-moderator; Philipp Kaiser, Gould Center Distinguished Visiting Fellow, CMC; senior curator, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA) (2007-2011); co-author, Manfred Pernice: Haldensleben, Bibette Headland, Hotel Hangelar (2014) and Ends of the Earth: Land Art to 1974 (2012), co-moderstor; "Art on Campus: Sculptures, Buildings, and the Campus" |
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Thursday, |
Shyam Selvadurai, author, The Hungry Ghosts (2013) and Swimming in the Monsoon Sea (2007); "Writing from the Hyphen" |
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Monday, |
Yii Kah Hoe, Malaysian composer; vice president, Society of Malaysian Contemporary Composers; “Artist as Activist” |
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Tuesday, |
Jack J. Pitney, Jr., Roy P. Crocker Professor of American History and Politics, CMC; author, The Politics of Autism: Navigating The Contested Spectrum (2015) and co-author, After Hope and Change: The 2012 Elections and American Politics (2013); "The Politics of Autism" |
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Wednesday, November 11 Lunch 11:30 a.m. |
Meredith Uhlmann Brenalvirez ’80, president, Military Women in Need Foundation; "CMC Celebrates Veterans Day - Recognizing Their Courage" (12:00 p.m. program) |
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Wednesday, |
Susan Shirk, Ho Miu Lam Endowed Chair in China and Pacific Relations, 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), co-editor, Power and Prosperity: Economics and Security Linkages in the Asia-Pacific (1996); "Failure of Institutionalization in China" |
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Thursday, November 12 Lunch 11:30 a.m. |
Yaki Lopez, Consul for Political Affairs, Consulate General of Israel, Los Angeles; "Israeli Foreign Policy in a Changing Middle East" (12:00 p.m. program) |
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Thursday, |
Karen Blancato Rosenfelt ’80, executive producer, Twilight (2008) and The Devil Wears Prada (2006); "The Lonely Life of Hollywood: A Journey Through the Hollywood Maze" |
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Monday, |
Emilie Hafner-Burton, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of International Justice and Human Rights; director, laboratory on International Law and Regulation, U.C. San Diego; author, Making Human Rights A Reality (2013) and Forced to be Good: Why Trade Agreements Boost Human Rights (2009)"Making Human Rights a Reality" |
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Tuesday, November 17 Lunch 11:30 a.m. |
Ken Miller, associate professor of government, CMC; author, Direct Democracy and the Courts (2009) and co-editor, The New Political Geography of California (2008); Christopher Skinnell ’99, attorney, Nielsen Merksamer Parrinello Gross and Leoni LLP; “Taking Voter Equality Seriously: What Does One-Person, One-Vote Really Mean?” (12 :00 p.m. program) |
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Tuesday, November 17 |
James Finkel, adjunct faculty, Elliot School of International Affairs, George Washington University; Leonard and Sophie Davis Genocide Prevention Fellow, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (2012-2013); “The President's Atrocity Prevention Board “ (6:45 p.m. Parents Dining Room) |
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Tuesday, |
Theresa Williamson, founder (2000) and executive director, Catalytic Communities (CatComm); editor-in-chief, RioOnWatch; "Rio de Janeiro: Mega-Events and the Dynamics of Urban Change" |
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Wednesday, |
Scott Schoettes, senior attorney; HIV project director, Lambda Legal; "When Will We Have a Cure for AIDS? (We Already Have It!)" |
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Thursday, |
David Sedaris, humorist; author, Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls (2013) and Squirrel Seeks Chipmunks: A Modest Bestiary (2010); "An Evening with David Sedaris" (7:30 p.m.) |
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Tuesday, |
David Rentz, guest conductor, Claremont chamber choir, Scripps College; associate professor of music, Chaffey College; music director, Orange County Symphony; "Missa Fragmenta and Other Holiday Music" |
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Thursday, December 3 |
Irfana Majumdar, director, "Internationalism Performance" |
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Friday, December 4 |
Laverne Cox, actor, Orange is the New Black; transgender rights advocate; producer, Free CeCe, TRANSform Me; “Ain't I A Woman?" (6:00 p.m.) |