Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum

Andrew Bacevich, professor of international relations and U.S. history, Boston University; author, The New American Militarism: How Americans are Seduced by War (2005) and editor, The Long War: A New History of U.S. National Security Policy since World War II (2007); "The Limits of American Power"
 

Zev Garber, professor emeritus of Jewish Studies, Los Angeles Valley College; author, Mel Gibson's Passion: The Film, the Controversy, and Its Implications (2006) and The Impact of the Shoah in America and in Jewish American Life (2008); "Kristallnacht: Memory and Legacies"
 

Jeffrey Klein '75 P'08 P'11, non-executive chairman of the board, 1105 Media, Inc.; "Lunch with a Leader: The Media Industry" (12:30 p.m.)
 

David Grossman, author, Writing in the Dark: Essays on Literature and Politics (2008) and Death as a Way of Life: Israel Ten Years after Oslo (2003); "Israel at 60: Nation, Identity, and Literature"
 

Claudia Stevens, producing artistic director, PIANOPLY; visiting scholar in music, College of William and Mary; creator, "An Evening with Madame F" (1990)
 

Andrew Busch, professor of government, associate dean of the faculty, CMC; author, The Constitution on the Campaign Trail: The Surprising Political Career of America's Founding Document (2007) and editor, The Future of America's Political Parties (2007); Ken Miller, assistant professor of government, CMC; co-author, The Populist Legacy: Initiatives and the Undermining of Representative Government (2001) and author, Constraining Populism: The Real Agenda of Initiative Reform (2001); "Election Night at the Athenaeum"
 

Claude Alexandre, director, board of directors, Fonkoze USA; "Microfinance, NGO's, and the Emergency in Haiti"
 

James Quella P'08, senior managing director and senior operating director; The Blackstone Group; co-author, Profit Patterns: 30 Ways to Anticipate and Profit from the Strategic Forces Reshaping Your Business; "Lunch with a Leader: The Private Equity Industry"(12:30 p.m.)
 

Alan Taylor, professor of economics, director, Center for the Evolution of the Global Economy, U.C. Davis; co-author, International Economics (2008) and Global Capital Markets: Integration, Crisis, and Growth (2003); "The Financial Crisis of 2008"
 

Matthew Yglesias, blogger; ThinkProgress.org; senior editor, Center for American Progress; author, Heads in the Sand: How the Republicans Screw Up Foreign Policy and Foreign Policy Screws Up Democrats (2008); "National Security and the 2008 Elections"
 

Paul Muldoon, Howard G.B. Clark '21 university professor in the humanities and professor of creative writing and chair, Peter B. Lewis Center for the Creative and Performing Arts, Princeton University; author, Horse Latitudes (2006) and Moy Sand and Gravel (2002); "A Poet Reads from His Work" (12:00 p.m.)
 

Ed McClanahan, author, O the Clear Moment (2008) and Famous People I Have Known (1985); former Merry Prankster; "An Evening with the Author"
 

Heather Coyne, senior program officer, Center for Mediation and Conflict Resolution, United States Institute for Peace, Washington, D.C.; "Amateur Hour in Iraq: A Worm's Eye View on the Failure of Nation Building"
 

Jean Baker, professor of history, Goucher College; author, Sisters: The Lives of America's Suffragists (2005) and James Buchanan (2004); "Repeated Injuries and Usurpations: Women's Struggles for Civil Rights from 1848-1970"
 

Bassam Frangieh, professor of Arabic, CMC; translator of Love, Death, and Exile by Abdul Wahab Al-Bayati (tr. 1990) "An Evening of Arabic Poetry Reading and Recitation"