Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum

Wendy Kopp, founder and president, Teach for America; author, "One Day, All Children: The Unlikely Triumph of Teach For America and What I Learned Along the Way" (2001) (12:15 p.m.)
 

David Andrews, associate professor of politics and international relations, director, European Union Center of California, Scripps College; author, forthcoming The Alliance Under Stress: Atlantic Relations after Iraq (2005) and co-editor, Governing the World's Money (2002); "Is Atlanticism Dead? Transatlantic Relations after the U.S. Elections" (12:15 p.m.)
 

June Miyasaki, assistant professor of French, CMC; Francine Conley, assistant professor of French, College of St. Catherine, Minnesota; author, Shoes (2003) and How Dumb the Stars (2001); Christine Iaderosa, director; "Theatre de la Chandelle Verte: Scenes from Plays by Jean-Michel Ribes"
 

Meron Benvenisti, former deputy major, Jerusalem; author, Sacred Landscape: The Buried History of the Holy Land since 1948 (2000) and Intimate Enemies: Jews and Arabs in a Shared Land (1995); "What Will Happen? The Path to Compromise and Reconciliation in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict" (12:15 p.m.)
 

Howard Wolpe, public policy scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center; former United States Congressman (D-Michigan); former chair, U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee's Subcommittee on Africa; author, Urban Politics in Nigeria (1973) and co-author, The United States and Africa: A Post-Cold War Perspective (1998); "Challenges to Peacemaking in the Great Lakes Region of Africa"
 

Magnus Bernhardsson, assistant professor of history, Williams College; co-editor, Imagining the End: Visions of Apocalypse from the Ancient Middle East to Modern America (2002) and forthcoming Reclaiming the Plundered Past: Archaeology and Nationalism in Modern Iraq (2005); "Picking Up the Pieces: Archaeology and Nationalism in Modern Iraq"
 

Adam Kokesh '06, sergeant, U.S. Marine Corps Reserve; "So...How was Iraq?" (12:15 p.m.)
 

Gerard Alexander, associate professor of politics, University of Virginia; author, The Sources of Democratic Consolidation (2002) and Institutions, Path Dependence, and Democratic Consolidation (2001); "The Myth of the Racist Republicans" (12:15 p.m.)
 

Allen Weiner, Warren Christopher professor of the practice of International law and diplomacy, Stanford University; author, Indirect Expropriations: The Need for a Taxonomy of "Legitimate" Regulatory Purposes (2003); "International Law and America's War on Terrorism"
 

Lee Baca, Sheriff, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department; "Policing Urban America in the 21st Century"
 

Michael Armacost, associate director, Asia-Pacific Research Center, Stanford University; co-author, Terrorism and U.S. Foreign Policy (2001) and Japan's Policy Trap: Dollars, Deflation, and the Crisis of Japanese Finance (2002); "Where is U.S. Foreign Policy Headed Now that the Election is Over?" (12:15 p.m.)
 

Michael Boardman '74, colonel, U.S. Army Intelligence; "U.S. Operations in Afghanistan: Military Objectives and Broader Strategic Goals"
 

Andrew Busch, associate professor of government, CMC; co-author, Front-Loading Problem in Presidential Nominations (2003) and author, Horses in Midstream: U.S. Midterm Elections and Their Consequences (1999) and 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: Analyzing the Results" (6:00 p.m.)
 

Richard Holdaway, adjunct senior research fellow, University of Canterbury, New Zealand; author, The Lost World of the Moa: Prehistoric Life of New Zealand (2002) and editor, Chatham Islands Ornithology (1994); "New Zealand: A Place Apart"
 

Michal Zgiet, Jaroslaw Tomica, Jacek Brzezinski, Witold Mazurkiewicz; Piotr Szamryk, stage manager; Janusz Oprynski, light and sound design; "Teatr Provisorium: Ferdydurke" (1937) (7:00 p.m. McKenna Auditorium)