Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum

Sean Carroll, professor of molecular biology, genetics, and medical genetics, University of Wisconsin, Madison; author, The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution (2007) and "Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in Search for the Origin of Species" (2009)
 

Paul Lauren, Regents Professor of History and Mansfield Professor of Ethics and Public Affairs, University of Montana; author, The Evolution of International Human Rights: Visions Seen (1998) and co-author, Force and Statecraft: Diplomatic Challenges of Our Time (1983); "Human Rights and the Law: Should Leaders be Held Responsible for War Crimes?"
 

Richard Brookhiser, senior editor, National Review; author, George Washington on Leadership (2008) and "Right Time, Right Place: Coming of Age with William F. Buckley Jr. and the Conservative Movement" (2009)
 

Stephen Bullock '88, Attorney General, Montana Department of Justice; "Can a Single Lawyer Make a Difference? The State Attorney General's Role in Human Rights and Social Change" (12:00 p.m.)
 

Harry McMahon '75 P'08 P'09, executive vice chairman, Global Corporate & Investment Banking, Bank of America Merrill Lynch; "2009 Claremont Finance Conference/Lunch with a Leader: The Investment Banking Industry" (12:30 p.m.)
 

Roderick MacFarquhar, Leroy B. Williams professor of history and political science, director, John King Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University; co-author, Mao's Last Revolution (2006) and editor, The Politics of China: The Eras of Mao and Deng (1997); "Liberation: Reflections on the 60th Anniversary of the People's Republic of China"
 

John Doar, senior counsel, Doar Rieck Kaley and Mack, New York and civil rights activist; "I Stand for What is Right" and Frederick Doar P'12, "The Search for Subatomic Realism"
 

RuPaul Charles, actor; singer-songwriter; author, Lettin' It All Hang Out (1995); artist on album Supermodel of the World (1993); "Observations from the Inside"
 

Ilan Wurman '10, Daniel Evans '12, Charles Sprague '10, Abhi Nemani '10, Carl Peaslee '11, Aditya Pai Dhungat '13; "CMC Forum Debate Night at the Ath: Is CMC a True Liberal Arts College?"
 

Francisco Vazquez '72, professor of liberal studies; director, Hutchins Institute for Public Policy and Community Action, Sonoma State University; co-author, Latino/a Thought: Culture, Politics, and Society (2003); "Latinos in the United States: A Continental Quest for Democracy"
 

Roxana Saberi, freelance journalist; "On the Streets of Tehran"
 

Steven Spiegel, professor of political science, director, Center for Middle East Development, UCLA; author, The Other Arab-Israeli Conflict: Making America's Middle East Policy, from Truman to Reagan (1986) and co-author, World Politics in a New Era (1996); "Prospects for Peace in the Middle East"
 

Robert Thomas, Jr. '99, Chief Investment Officer, George Kaiser Family Foundation; "Reflections of a McKenna Scholar"
 

Edward Stone, David Morrisroe professor of physics, California Institute of Technology; "A Journey to the Edge of Interstellar Space"
 

Roderic Camp, Philip M. McKenna Professor of the Pacific Rim, CMC; author, Politics in Mexico: The Democratic Consolidation (2007) and Mexico's Military on the Democratic Stage (2005); "Drugs, Guns, and Violence: Mexico's Path to National Security"