Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum

Dinner Theater, The Dining Room by A.R. Gurney (1981)(6:00 p.m.)
 

Bryant Simon, professor of history, Temple University; author, Everything but the Coffee: Learning about America from Starbucks (2009) and Boardwalk of Dreams: Atlantic City and the Future of Urban America (2004); "Learning about America from Starbucks"
 

Angus Fletcher, Distinguished professor emeritus of comparative literature, City University of New York; author, Time, Space, and Motion in the Age of Shakespeare (2007) and A New Theory for American Poetry: Democracy, the Environment, and the Future of Imagination (2004); "The Tipping Point: How Do Humanistic Studies Count?"
 

Drew Altman, president and CEO, Kaiser Family Foundation; "How We Did -- or Did Not -- Get Health Care Reform"
 

Denise Johnston, director, Center for Children of Incarcerated Parents, Los Angeles; author, forthcoming Working with Children of Criminal Offenders & Their Families: A Handbook for Practitioners; "A Developmental Approach to Work with Prisoners' Children"
 

Rukmini Banerji, Pratham program director and head of the ASER Center; Pratham- 2010 Henry R. Kravis Prize in Leadership recipient; "The Pratham Story: Inspiration, Challenges and Ideas" (12:00 p.m.)
 

Cindy Shea, trumpet and founding director; Norma Herrera, trumpet; Ariana Mejia, flute, vocals; Melena Francis, congas, percussion; Diana McConnell, guitarron; Mayra Martinez, vihuela; Martha Ramirez, vihuela, guitar, vocals; Jeanette Martinez, guitar, vocals; Leticia Sierra, violin; Cathy Baeza, violin; Angel Garcia, violin, vocals; Diana Reyes, violin, vocals; Lilly Vargas, violin, vocals; Stephanie Martinez, violin, vocals; Valerie Carlos, guitar, vocals; "Mariachi Divas: A Musical Celebration in Honor of Cesar Chavez"
 

Ingrid Jordt, associate professor of anthropology, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; author, Burma's Mass Lay Meditation Movement: Buddhism and the Cultural Construction of Power (2007) "Religion and the Politics of Legitimacy in Burma"
 

Teddy Cruz, principal architect, Estudio Teddy Cruz; associate professor in public culture and urbanism, U.C. San Diego; "Radicalizing the Local: Post Bubble Urban Strategies"
 

Joanna Strober, senior managing director of private equity, Sterling Stamos; co-author, Getting to 50/50: How Working Couples Can Have It All by Sharing It All, and Why It's Great for Your Marriage, Your Career, Your Kids,... and You (2009); "Getting to 50/50"
 

Abdourahman Waberi, visiting professor of literature, CMC; author, The Land Without Shadows (2005) and In the United States of Africa (2009); "A Nomadic Soul"
 

Ian Frazier, author, Gone to New York: Adventures in the City (2005) and On the Rez (2000) and Jamaica Kincaid, Josephine Olp Weeks Chair and Professor of Literature, CMC; author, Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalayas (2005) and The Autobiography of My Mother (1996); "Ian Frazier and Jamaica Kincaid in Dialogue"
 

Peter Bossaerts, William D. Hacker professor of economics and management, California Institute of Technology; author, The Paradox of Asset Planning (2002) and Lecture Notes in Corporate Finance (2001); "What Decision Neuroscience Teaches Us about Financial Decision Making" (12:00 p.m.)
 

Larry Diamond, professor by courtesy of political science and sociology; senior fellow, Hoover Institution; Stanford University; author, The Spirit to Build Free Societies Throughout the World (2008) and Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to bring Democracy to Iraq (2006); "Asian Values and the Future of Democracy in Asia"
 

Walter Scheidel, Dickason Professor of Humanities and professor of classics, Stanford University; co-editor, The Oxford Handbook of Roman Studies (2010) and editor, Rome and China: Comparative Perspectives on Ancient World Empires (2009); "The Rise and Demise of Universal Empire: Rome, Europe, and China" and Mark Edward Lewis, Kwoh-Ting Li Professor of Chinese Culture, Stanford University; author, China's Cosmopolitan Empire: The Tang Dynasty (2009) and China Between Empires: The Northern and Southern Dynasties (2009); "China: From Empire to Nation"