Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum

Eric Hughson, Don and Lorraine Freeberg Professor of Finance and Economics, CMC; co-author, The Misuse of Expected Returns (2006) and Hybrid Markets, Tick Size, and Investor Welfare (2006); "Funding Constraints, Asset Volatility, Market Liquidity, and Financial Crises: Lessons from History"
 

Dinner Theater, Murder at Rutherford House by Tom Chiodo and Peter DePietro (1990) (6:00 p.m.)
 

Matthew Kahn, professor of economics, political science, and public policy, UCLA; author, Climatopolis: How Our Cities Will Thrive in Our Hotter Future (2010) and Green Cities: Urban Growth and the Environment (2006)
 

Charles Kamm, associate professor of music, Scripps College; conductor, Claremont chamber choir; "A Winter Holiday Concert"
 

Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature, U.C. Irvine; author, Something Torn and New: An African Renaissance (2009) and Wizard of the Crow (2006); "An Evening with the Author"
 

Pauline Jones Luong, associate professor of political science, Brown University; co-author, Oil is Not a Curse: Ownership Structure and Institutions in Petroleum-rich Soviet Successor States (2010) and editor, The Transformation of Central Asia: States and Societies from Soviet Rule to Independence (2003); "The Myth of the Resource Curse"
 

Rohini Somanathan, professor of economics, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi; Podlich Visiting Fellow, CMC; co-author, forthcoming Mapping Indian Districts Across Census Years, 1971-2001 and Micro-finance Lifespan: A Study of Attrition and Exclusion in Self-Help Groups in India (2008); "Group Inequality in Democracies: Lessons from India and the United States"(12:00 p.m.)
 

Martha Bailey, assistant professor of economics, University of Michigan; research affiliate, National Poverty Center and Population Studies Center; co-author, Did Improvements in Household Technology Cause the Baby Boom? Evidence from Electrification, Appliance Diffusion, and the Amish (2009) and author, Mamma's Got the Pill: How Anthony Comstock and Griswold v. Connecticut Shaped U.S. Childbearing (2009); "More Power to the Pill: Economic Implications of the Birth Control Pill for Women in the Labor Force"
 

Daoud Nassar, Palestinian farmer; "The Tent of Nations: The Road to Peace in Israel and Palestine" (12:00 p.m.)
 

Andrew Ross Sorkin, assistant editor of Business and Financial News, The New York Times; founder and editor, DealBooks; author, Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System - and Themselves (2009); "The Politics of Too Big to Fail"
 

Erwin Chemerinsky, founding dean, U.C. Irvine School of Law; author, The Conservative Assault on the Constitution (2010) and Empowering Government: Federalism for the 21st Century (2008); "The Constitution in the Headlines: Gay Marriage, Immigration, and Health Care Reform"
 

Adam Ritz, former radio disk jockey; "So You Think You're Invincible" (11:00 a.m.)
 

Elizabeth Samet, professor of English, United States Military Academy, West Point; author, Soldier's Heart: Reading Literature through Peace and War at West Point (2007) and Willing Obedience: Citizens, Soldiers, and the Progress of Consent in America, 1776-1898 (2003)
 

Michael Gottlieb, M.D.; assistant clinical professor of medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA; co-author, Pneumocystis Pneumonia (1981) and Pneumocystis Carinii Pneumonia and Mucosal Candidiasis in Previously Healthy Homosexual Men: Evidence of a New Acquired Immunodeficiency (1981); "AIDS: Thirty Years of Silence" (12:00 p.m.)
 

Henrik Cronqvist, McMahon Family Associate Professor of Corporate Finance and George R. Roberts Fellow, CMC; co-author, forthcoming Nature or Nurture: What Determines Investor Behavior? (2010) and Large Shareholders and Corporate Policies (2009); "Nature, Nurture, and Financial Decision-Making"