Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum

Todd Sandler, Vibhooti Shukla Chair in Economics and Political Economy, University of Texas, Dallas; co-author, The Political Economy of Terrorism (2006) and author, Global Collective Action (2004); "The Past and Future of Terrorism Research"
 

Morgan McCall, Jr., professor of management and organization, Marshall School of Business, USC; co-author, Developing Global Experience: The Lessons of International Experience (2002) and author, High Flyers: Developing the Next Generation of Leaders (1998); "The Path to Leadership Mastery"
 

Mariana Cook, photographer, portraitist; author, Mathematicians: An Outer View of the Inner World (2009) and co-author, Close at Hand (2007); "What Makes a Portrait"
 

Yun-han Chu, professor of political science; distinguished research fellow, Institute of Political Science, Academia Sinica; National Taiwan University; co-author, Dynamics of Local Governance in China During the Reform Era (2010), co-editor, How East Asians View Democracy (2008); "Taiwan’s Soft Power and Cross-Strait Relations"
 

Helen Prejean, Sister of St. Joseph of Medaille; spiritual advisor; prison reform activist; author, The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions (2004) and forthcoming River of Fire: My Spiritual Journey to Death Row; "Dead Man Walking: The Journey Continues"
 

Jesse Jackson, founder and president, Rainbow/PUSH Coalition; co-author, Legal Lynchings: The Death Penalty and America's Future (2001) and It's About Money!: The Fourth Movement of the Freedom Symphony: How to Build Wealth, Get Access to Capital, and Achieve Your Financial Dreams (1999); "With Justice for All: Human Rights and Civil Rights At Home and Abroad"
 

John Bilezikjian, oud; founder, Dantz Records; Helen Bilezikjian, soprano; founder, Opera by the Sea; performers on CD Yeraz: To Armenia with Love (2000) and All-Time Armenian Favorites (2008); "Songs from the Middle East"
 

Jeff Greenwald, sport psychology consultant; former professional tennis player; author, The Best Tennis of Your Life: 50 Mental Strategies for Fearless Tennis (2007); audio CD, Fearless Tennis: The 5 Mental Keys to Unlocking Your Potential (2002); "Finding Your Path to Peak Performance"
 

Geoffrey Forden P'10, research associate, Program on Science, Technology and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; author, Evaluation of the Chinese A SAT Test (2007) and How the World's Most Underdeveloped Nations Get the World's Most Dangerous Weapons (2007); "Iran: A Challenge for Today's Nonproliferation Regime"
 

Cheryl Maxson, associate professor, Department of Criminology, Law and Society, U.C. Irvine; co-author, Street Gang Patterns and Policies (2006) and Responding to Troubled Youth (1997); "Responding to Street Gangs: Using Evidence to Build Effective Policy"
 

Charles Sprague '10 and Natalia Bailey '10, "CMC Forum Debate Night at the Ath: Should CMC Expand to 1400 Students?"; Shamil Hargovan '10 and Ben Kraus '11, "CMC Forum Debate Night at the Ath: Should CMC's Alcohol Policy Change?"; Patrick Atwater '10 and Elise Viebeck '10, "CMC Forum Debate Night at the Ath: Is CMC Male-dominated?"
 

Chester Spatt, Pamela R. and Kenneth B. Dunn professor of finance; director, Center for Financial Markets, Carnegie Mellon University; author, Systemic Risks in our Global Marketplace (2009) and forthcoming, Equilibrium Asset Pricing and Portfolio Choice Under Asymmetric Information; "Economic Principles, Government Policy and the Market Crisis"
 

Anna Simons, professor of defense analysis; Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey; author, The Company They Keep: Life Inside the U.S. Army Special Forces (1997) and Networks of Dissolution: Somalia Undone (1995); "Finding a Sovereignty Solution for Afghanistan" (12:00 p.m.)
 

Nelson Lichtenstein, professor of history; director, Center for Work, Labor and Democracy, U.C. Santa Barbara; author, The Retail Revolution: How Wal-Mart Created a Brave New World of Global Capitalism (2009) and American Capitalism: Social Thought and Political Economy in the Twentieth Century (2007); "Wal-Mart from Bentonville to Guangdong: The 21st Century Face of Global Capitalism"
 

Minxin Pei P'12, Tom and Margot Pritzker '72 professor of government and director of the Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies, CMC; author, China's Trapped Transition: The Limits of Developmental Autocracy (2006) and From Reform to Revolution: The Demise of Communism in China and the Soviet Union (1994); "Obama Goes to Beijing: Charting a New Course or Following Bush’s Footsteps?"