Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum

James Gavrilis, major, U.S. Army Special Forces; associate, Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, Georgetown University; "The New Way Forward in Iraq"
 

Robert Kagan, senior associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; author, Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order (2003) and "Dangerous Nation: America's Place in the World From Its Earliest Days to the Dawn of the 20th Century" (2006)
 

Marc Fisher, staff writer, Washington Post; author, After the Wall: Germany, the Germans and the Burdens of History (1995) and "Something in the Air: Radio, Rock and the Revolution That Shaped a Generation" (2007)
 

Thomas Friedman, foreign affairs columnist, The New York Times; author, The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century (2005) and Longitudes and Attitudes: Exploring the World after September 11 (2002); "The Next Phase of Globalization"
 

John Yoo, professor of law, U.C. Berkeley School of Law, Boalt Hall; author, War by Other Means: An Insider's Account of the War on Terror (2006) and The Powers of War and Peace: The Constitution and Foreign Affairs after 9/11 (2005); "War by Other Means: Fighting the War on Terrorism"
 

Howard Gardner, John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs professor of cognition and education, senior director, Project Zero, Harvard University; co-author, Making Good: How Young People Cope with Moral Dilemmas at Work (2004) and author, Changing Minds: the Art and Science of Changing Our Own and Other People's Minds (2004); "Positioning Future Leaders on the Good Work Track" (12:45 p.m.)
 

Julie Buring, professor of medicine, ambulatory care and prevention, Harvard University Medical School; deputy director, Brigham and Woman's Hospital, Boston; "Women and Heart Disease: An Under Appreciated Threat" (12:15 p.m.)
 

Francis Bok, former Dinka slave, Sudan; lecturer, American Anti-Slavery Group; author, Escape from Slavery: The True Story of My Ten Years in Captivity, and My Journey to Freedom in America (2003), "21st Century Slavery: Living Proof"
 

Paul Barolsky, Commonwealth professor of art history, University of Virginia; author, Michelangelo and the Finger of God (2003) and The Fawn in the Garden: Michelangelo and the Poetic Origins of Italian Renaissance Art (1994); "Ovid’s Metamorphoses and the History of Art"
 

Diane Halpern, professor of psychology, director, Berger Institute for Work, Family and Children, CMC; co-editor, From Work-Family Balance to Work-Family Interaction: Changing the Metaphor (2005) and author, Thought and Knowledge: An Introduction to Critical Thinking (1995); "Why Don't We Have More Women in Science? Was Larry Summers Right?"
 

David Hayes-Bautista, professor of medicine, director, Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture, UCLA; author, Healing Latinos: Fantasia y Realidad (1999) and "La Nueva California: Latinos in the Golden State" (2004)
 

Mitch Capel, co-founder, The National African-American Storytellers' Retreat; "We Wear The Mask: A Performance Reading of the Poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar"
 

Andrew Lo, Harris and Harris group professor of finance, director, Laboratory for Financial Engineering, MIT Sloan School of Management; co-author, A Non-Random Walk Down Wall Street (1999) and The Econometrics of Financial Markets (1997): "Lizard Brains and the Stock Market: An Evolutionary Synthesis of Rational and Behavioral Finance"
 

Ellis Krauss, professor of Japanese politics and policy making, U.C. San Diego; co-author, Beyond Bilateralism: U.S.-Japan Relations in the New East Asia (2003) and Japan and North America (2004); "Koizumi Legacy, Abe Challenges, and U.S.-Japan Relations" (12:15 p.m.)
 

Robert Audi, David E. Gallo professor of business ethics, University of Notre Dame; author, Naturalism, Realism, and Ethical Objectivity (2003) and Ethical Generality and Moral Judgment (2003); "The Problem of Evil: Divine Love and Human Suffering" (12:15 p.m.)