Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum

Lauren Gard PO'99, staff writer, East Bay Express; Michele Kort, senior editor, Ms. magazine; Lisa Jervis and Andi Zeisler, co-founders, Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture; Audrey Bilger, associate professor of literature, CMC, moderator; author, Laughing Feminism: Subversive Comedy in Frances Burney, Maria Edgeworth, and Jane Austin (1998) and co-author, An Essay on the Art of Inseniously Tormenting (2003); "Women and Journalism: A Panel Discussion" (12:15 p.m.)
 

Jared Bernstein, director, Living Standards program, Economic Policy Institute; author, All Together Now: Common Sense for a Fair Economy (2006) and co-author, State of Working America (1997); "Inequality and the YOYO (You're On Your Own) Society"
 

Max Boot, senior fellow for national security studies, Council on Foreign Relations; contributing editor, The Weekly Standard; author, War Made New: Technology, Warfare, and the Course of History, 1500 to Today (2006) and The Savage Wars of Peace: Small Wars and the Rise of American Power (2002); "Revolutions in Military Affairs and the War on Terrorism"(12:15 p.m.)
 

Cynthia Cooper, former vice president of the internal audit department, WorldCom; president, Cynthia Cooper Consulting; "WorldCom Warnings: What Went Wrong in Corporate Governance, Lessons Learned"
 

Regan Ralph, executive director, Fund for Global Human Rights; "Human Rights: The Agenda for the 21st Century"
 

Stephanie Coontz, professor of history and women's studies, The Evergreen State College; director of research and public education, Council on Contemporary Families; author, Marriage, A History: From Obedience to Intimacy, or How Love Conquered Marriage (2005) and The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap (1992); "The Way We Never Were and the Way We Really Are: Myths and Realities About America's Changing Families"
 

Maurice Suh, former deputy major for Homeland Security and Public Safety, City of Los Angeles; "Homeland Security and Counter Terrorism in the Los Angeles Area" (12:15 p.m.)
 

Mark Krikorian, executive director, Center for Immigration Studies; National Review online contributor; "Immigration's Impact on Society"
 

Ehud Barak, Prime Minister of Israel, 1999-2001; "Economic Development in Today's World"
 

Christian Stocks, consul general, German consulate in Los Angeles; "A Changing Germany in a Changing World" (12:15 p.m.)
 

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, co-founder, City Lights bookstore (1953); author, Americus Book I (2004) and A Coney Island of the Mind (1958); "Lawrence Ferlinghetti Reads from His Work"
 

Joanne Ciulla, professor and Coston Family Chair in leadership and ethics, Jepson School of Leadership Studies, University of Richmond; author, The Working Life: The Promise and Betrayal of Modern Work (2000) and co-author, Honest Work: A Business Ethics Reader (2006); "Work, Leisure, and The Good Life"
 

David Wild, deputy consul general, British consulate in Los Angeles; "U.K. Foreign Policy: At the Crossroads of International Affairs"(12:15 p.m.)
 

Mary Oliver, author, Thirst (2006) and Why I Wake Early (2004); "A Reading"
 

Harry Jaffa, Henry Salvatori professor emeritus of political philosophy and American Constitutionalism, CMC; distinguished fellow, The Claremont Institute; author, A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War (2000) and Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1959); "Leo Strauss's Locke and the American Founding" (12:15 p.m.)