Current Semester Schedule

Wed, April 12, 2006

Dinner Theater, "California Suite" by Neil Simon (1978) (6:00 p.m.)

Mon, April 10, 2006

G. Cameron Hurst III, professor of Japanese and Korean studies, director, Center for East Asian Studies, University of Pennsylvania; author, Insei: Abdicated Sovereigns in the Politics of Late Heian Japan, 1086-1185 (1960) and Samurai Painters (1983); "Whither Japan? The Future of U.S.-Japan Relations" (12:15 p.m.)

Fri, April 7, 2006

Timothy Roemer, United States Congress, retired, (D- Indiana , 3rd district); distinguished scholar, Mercatus Center, George Mason University; president, Center for National Policy; "A New Direction for the Parties?" (12:15 p.m.)

Thu, April 6, 2006

Peter Singer, Olin national security senior fellow in foreign policy studies, Brookings Institution; author, Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry (2003) and "Children at War" (2005)

Wed, April 5, 2006

Sung-Joo Han, president, Seoul Forum of International Affairs; former South Korean Minister of Foreign Affairs, former South Korean Ambassador to the United States; author, Korea in a Changing World (1995) and Korea Diplomacy in an Era of Globalization (1995); "Revisiting the Korea-U.S. Alliance

Tue, April 4, 2006

Jodi Quas, assistant professor of psychology and social behavior, U.C. Irvine; co-editor, Memory and Suggestibility in the Forensic Interview (2001) and Linking Child Maltreatment and Juvenile Delinquency: Causes, Correlates, and Consequences (2002); "Beyond the Questions, 'Are Children Suggestible?': Child Witness Research in the 21st Century"

Mon, April 3, 2006

Richard Evans, professor of modern history, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (UK); author, In Hitler's Shadow: West German Historians and the Attempt to Escape from the Nazi Past (1989) and Telling Lies About Hitler: History, Theft, and the David Irving Trial (2002); "Coercion and Consent in Nazi Germany"

Thu, March 30, 2006

Sal Castro, political activist, former Lincoln High School history teacher; "Mexican Americans and Their Contributions to the United States" (12:15 p.m.)

Wed, March 29, 2006

Roderic Camp, Philip M. McKenna professor of the Pacific Rim, CMC; author, Politics in Mexico: The Democratic Transformation (2003) and Mexico's Mandarins: Crafting a Power Elite for the 21st Century (2002); "Mexico's Presidential Election: What Do Voters Want and Who They Will Vote For?" (12:15 p.m.)

Tue, March 28, 2006

Grover Norquist, president, Americans for Tax Reform; "The Next 25 Years of The Modern Conservative Movement" (12:15 p.m.)

Mon, March 27, 2006

Steven Shapin, Franklin L. Ford professor of the history of science, Harvard University, co-author, Leviathan and the Air-pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life (1986) and author, A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England (1994); "The Way We Trust Now: The Authority of Science and the Character of the Scientist"

Thu, March 23, 2006

Charles Smith, professor of near eastern studies, University of Arizona; author, Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict (1988) and Islam and the Search for Social Order in Modern Egypt (1983); "Chaos and the Illusion that Peace is Attainable: What is Really Going On in Israel/Palestine"

Wed, March 22, 2006

Gary Smith, Fletcher Jones professor of economics, Pomona College; author, Introduction to Statistical Reasoning (1998) and Financial Assets, Markets, and Institutions (1993); "When is a Housing Bubble Not a Bubble?"

Tue, March 21, 2006

Elizabeth Clark, John Carlisle Kilgo professor of religion, Duke University; author, History, Theory, Text: Historians and the Linguistic Turn (2004) and Women and Religion: The Original Sourcebook of Women in Christian Thought (1997); "Renouncing Reunification: Nineteenth-Century 'Family Values' and Early Christian Asceticism"

Mon, March 20, 2006

Touraj Daryaee, professor of ancient Persian history, C.S.U. Fullerton; author, History and Culture of the Sasanians (2002) and The Spirit of Wisdom: Essays in Memory of Ahmad Tafassoli (2003); "Persian Culture in the 6th and 7th Centuries CE and Its Significance for World Civilization"

Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum