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Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum

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Current Semester Schedule

Athenaeum events are posted here as detailed information becomes available.

Wed, November 16, 2005
Jamie Court, president, Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights; author, Corporateering: How Corporate Power Steals Your Personal Freedom... and What You Can Do about It (2003) and co-author, Making a Killing: HMOs and the Threat to Your Health (1999); "The Health Insurance Crisis and What You Can Do about It"
 
Tue, November 15, 2005
Ezra Vogel, Henry Ford II professor emeritus of social sciences, Harvard University; author, Is Japan Still Number One? (2000) and The Four Little Dragons: The Spread of Industrialization in East Asia (1991); "Needed: A New U.S.-Asian Policy to Respond to the Rise of China"
 
Mon, November 14, 2005
Jay Conger, Henry Kravis Research Chair professor of leadership studies, CMC; co-author, Growing Your Company's Leaders: How Great Organizations Use Succession Management to Sustain Competitive Advantage (2004) and Shared Leadership: Reframing the How's and Why's of Leading Others (2002); "Why CEOs Fail"
 
Thu, November 10, 2005
B.G. Burkett, military researcher; co-author, Stolen Valor: How the Vietnam Generation was Robbed of Its Heroes and Its History (1998); "After Vietnam: The Myth, the Media, the Truth"
 
Wed, November 9, 2005
Sam Tanenhaus, editor, The New York Times Book Review; author, Whittaker Chambers: A Biography (1997) and Literature Unbound: A Guide for the Common Reader (1986); "One Who Made a Revolution: William F. Buckley Jr. and the Rise of Modern Conservatism"
 
Tue, November 8, 2005
James A. Baker III, senior partner, Baker Botts, LLP; senior counsel, The Carlyle Group; former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, Secretary of State, and White House Chief of Staff; author of The Politics of Diplomacy (1995); "A Conversation about World Events"
 
Mon, November 7, 2005
Heidi Brown, colonel, U.S. Army, chief of staff, U.S. Army Air Defense Artillery Center; "Training Leaders for Today's Military" (12:15 p.m.)
 
Thu, November 3, 2005
Thomas Pogge, professor of philosophy, Columbia University; author, World Poverty and Human Rights (2002) and co-editor, Global Institutions and Responsibilities (2005); "World Poverty: Explanations and Responsibilities"
 
Tue, November 1, 2005
Abigail Thernstrom, vice-chair, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights; Stephan Thernstrom, professor of history, Harvard University; co-authors, No Excuses: Closing the Racial Gap in Learning (2003) and America in Black and White: One Nation, Indivisible (1999); "Let's Talk About Segregation"
 
Mon, October 31, 2005
George Swaner '06, "Halloween Magic"
 
Thu, October 27, 2005
W.S. Merwin, U.S. special bicentennial consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress (1999-2000); author, Migration (2005) and Summer Doorways: A Memoir (2005); "The Poet and Nature"
 
Wed, October 26, 2005
Elizabeth Loftus, distinguished professor of psychology and social behavior, criminology, law and society, U.C. Irvine; co-author, The Myth of Repressed Memory: False Memories and Allegations of Sexual Abuse (1994) and Witness for the Defense: The Accused, the Eyewitness and the Expert Who Put Memory on Trial (1991); "Illusions of Memory"
 
Tue, October 25, 2005
Eric Helland, associate professor of economics, CMC; co-author, Using Placebo Laws to Test "More Guns, Less Crime": A Note (2004) and Regulation and Evolution of Corporate Boards: Monitoring, Advising or Window Dressing? (2004); "Judge and Jury: American Tort Law on Trial"
 
Mon, October 24, 2005
Oscar Torres, former El Salvadorian child soldier and co-screen writer of documentary film "Innocent Voices" (2004) (Film screening, 6:00 p.m.)
 
Thu, October 20, 2005
David Elliott, H. Russell Smith professor of international relations and professor of politics, Pomona College; author, Wag the Dog: Vietnam and the Cold War (2000) and The Vietnam War: Revolution and Social Change in the Mekong Delta (2002); "Rethinking Vietnam" (12:15 p.m.)
 

Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum

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