Speaker Series

2011

May 2 , – Robert Martin, World War II veteran, will give a lecture in the History 149. America in Depression and War classroom of Professor Diana Selig

April 20 Timothy Naftali, director, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum; author, George H.W. Bush (2007); "To Tell the Truth: Public History in a Public Museum"

April 14 Jennifer Burns, Assisatant Professor of History, University of Virginia; author, Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right (2009); "Godless Capitalism: Ayn Rand, Faith, and Politics"

Sigma Delta Pi, Spanish Honorary Society ceremony

February 16, Spanish Cinema, “Nueve Reinas”, written and directed by Favian Bielinsky, Bauer Center, Room 33, at 7:00 pm

2010

October 6, – Debashish Dey, student, teacher and performer of the Natyashastra of Bharata illuminates aesthetic theory in the class of Professor Nita Kumar.

March 22, – Teddy Cruz, Associate Professor in Public Culture and Urbanism, U. C. San Diego; Principal Architect of Estudio Cruz,  "Radicalizing the Local: Bubble Urban Strategies".  6:45-8 PM, Athenaeum, Claremont McKenna College

March 8, – Suzy Kim, Assistant Professor of History, Emerson College, "The Woman Question: Making of North Korean Women as Revolutionary Mothers (1945-1950)" Parents Dining Room, Athenaeum, Claremont McKenna College

March 8, – Mark Edward Lewis and Walter Scheidel, Rome and China: New Frontiers in Imperial History

Feb 10, – Gina Kim, writer, director and producer of films, “Faces of Seoul: An Evening with Filmmaker Gina Kim,”6:45-8:00 PM,  Athenaeum, Claremont McKenna College

2009

December 2, – Associate Professor in East Asian History, Jai-hoon Shim, visiting scholar from Dankook University, Yong’in, Korea lectures on the tomb of Qin Shihuangdi in the class of Professor Rosenbaum

Thursday Lunch and Conversation Series at International Place:
November 6, – “Why We Hate To Love Bollywood” - Nita Kumar, Professor of History, Claremont McKenna College

2006

October 30 – Nita Kumar P'10, Brown family professor of South Asian history, CMC; editor, Explorations in the Intellectual History of Colonial and Precolonial India (2001) and author, Lessons from Schools: A History of Education in Banaras (2000); "The Fantastic World of Gulnaz: Education and Modernity in India"

March 20 Touraj Daryaee, professor of ancient Persian history, C.S.U. Fullerton; author, History and Culture of the Sasanians (2002) and The Spirit of Wisdom: Essays in Memory of Ahmad Tafassoli (2003); "Persian Culture in the 6th and 7th Centuries CE and Its Significance for World Civilization"

March 8 Erich Gruen, professor of history and classics, U.C. Berkeley, author, Diaspora: Jews Amidst Greeks and Romans (2002) and Heritage and Hellenism: The Reinvention of Jewish Tradition (1998); "The Jew and the 'Other' in Antiquity"

February 22 Michael Marrus, Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe professor of Holocaust studies, University of Toronto; author, The Holocaust in History: The Known, the Unknown, the Disputed, and the Reexamined (1987) and The Nuremberg War Crimes Trial 1945-46: A Documentary History (1997); Jurgen Matthaus, historian, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, author, Operation Barbossa and the Onset of the Holocaust (2004) and co-author, Contemporary Responses to the Holocaust (2004); Patricia Heberer, historian, Office of the Senior Historian, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; co-editor, forthcoming Atrocities on Trial: The Politics of Prosecuting War Crimes in Historical Perspective (2006); John Roth, Edward J. Sexton professor of philosophy and religious studies, director, Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights, CMC; co-editor, Fire in the Ashes: God, Evil, and the Holocaust (2005) and Genocide in Rwanda: Complicity of the Churches? (2004); Jonathan Petropoulos, John V. Croul professor of European history, director, Family of Benjamin Z. Gould Center for Humanistic Studies, associate director, Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights, CMC, author, forthcoming German Royals and the Reich: The Princes of Hesse in Nazi Germany (2006) and author, The Faustian Bargain: The Art World in Nazi Germany (2000) (moderator); "After Nuremberg: Legal, Political, and Ethical Implications"

February 15 Jonah Goldberg, editor-at-large, National Review Online; author, forthcoming Liberal Fascism: The Totalitarian Temptation from Mussolini to Hillary Clinton (2006); writer and producer of documentaries Gargoyles: Guardians of the Gate (1995) and Notre Dame: Witness to History; "Fascism: A Work in Progress"