Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum

John West, author, The Last Goodnights: Assisting My Parents with Their Suicides (A Memoir) (2009); "The Last Goodnights" (12:00 p.m.)
 

Eric Topol, M.D; Gary and Mary West Chair of innovative medicine, professor of translational genomics, Scripps Research Institute, director, Scripps Translational Science Institute; author, forthcoming Digitizing Man (2012) and co-editor, Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine (1998); "Entering the Epoch of Life Sciences, Genomics, Wireless Medicine, and Society"
 

"CMC Forum Election Night at the Ath: 2010 Midterm Elections"
 

Charles Calomiris, Henry Kaufman Professor of Financial Institutions, Columbia University School of Business; author, Sustaining India's Growth Miracle (2008) and China's Financial Transition at a Crossroads (2007); "Making Financial Reform Work" (12:00 p.m.)
 

Douglas Peterson '80 P'14, Chief Operating Officer, Citibank; "Lunch with a Leader: Leadership During a Crisis" (12:00 p.m.)
 

Josef Joffe, Marc and Anita Abramowitz Fellow in International Relations, Hoover Institution, Stanford University; publisher-editor, Die Zeit; author, Uber-Power: The Imperial Temptation of America (2006) and The Future of International Politics: The Great Powers (1998); "At the Cassandra Crossing" (12:00 p.m.)
 

Frank Deford, NPR commentator; senior contributing writer, Sports Illustrated; author, Bliss, Remembered (2010) and The Entitled: The Tale of Modern Baseball (2007); "An Evening with Frank Deford"
 

Charles Kamm, tenor; associate professor of music, Scripps College; Hao Huang, piano; professor of music, Scripps College; Rachel Vetter Huang, violin; lecturer in music, Scripps College; Gayle Blankenburg, piano, lecturer in music , Scripps College; "Saluting Robert Schumann's 200th Birthday"
 

Thomas Fingar, Oksenberg/Rohlen Distinguished Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute of International Studies, Stanford University; co-author, Global Trends and Security in the Muslim World: Dilemmas for U.S. and Regional Policy (2009); "China on the World Stage"
 

Susan Wolf, Edna J. Koury Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; author, The Meaning of Life and Why It Matters (2010) and Freedom Within Reason (1990); "Love, the Basic Question"
 

Leszek Balcerowicz, professor of economics, Warsaw School of Economics; former Deputy Prime Minister (1989-91, 1997-2000); Minister of Finance (1989-91, 1997-2000); and President of the National Bank of Poland (2001-2007); co-author, Living Standards and Wealth of Nations: Successes and Failures in Real Convergence (2006) and Barriers to Entry and Growth of New Firms in Early Transition: A Comparative Study of Poland, Hungry, Czech Republic, Albania, and Lithuania (2002); "How to Avoid Another Financial Crisis"
 

William Kristol, editor, The Weekly Standard; chairman and co-founder, Project for the New American Century; author, The Weekly Standard: A Reader, 1995-2005 (2006) and co-editor, The War Over Iraq: Saddam's Tyranny and America's Mission (2003); "The Future of American Politics: Obama, the Tea Party, and the 2010 and 2012 Elections"
 

Bruce McKenna, Emmy-winning screenwriter, Writer's Guild Award-winner; co-executive producer and writer, Band of Brothers (2001) and The Pacific (2010); "Writing History onto Screen"
 

Lucas Guttentag, founding national director, Immigrants' Rights Project, American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU); "Protecting Immigrants’ Rights in the Era of Arizona SB1070" (12:00 p.m.)
 

George Halvorson, chairman and CEO, Kaiser Permanente; author, Health Care Will Not Reform Itself: A User's Guide to Refocusing and Reforming American Health Care (2009) and Health Care Reform Now: A Prescription for Change (2007); "The Current State of Health Care Reform in the United States"