Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum

Odir Pereira, president, Leadership Institute of Brazil; "Self-Leadership in a Changing World: A Brazilian Perspective" (12:15 p.m.)
 

Gaston Espinosa, assistant professor of religious studies, CMC; co-editor, Latino Religions and Social Activism in the United States (2004) and author, The Pentecostalization of Latin American and U.S. Latino Christianity (2004); "Latino Politics, Religions, and the 2004 Presidential Election"
 

Peter Siavelis, associate professor of political science and Hultquist Fellow, Wake Forest University; author, The President and Congress in Post-Authoritarian Chile: Institutional Constraints to Democratic Consolidation (2000); "The Legacy of Chile's Pinochet: Domestic Politics and International Human Rights"
 

Niall Ferguson, professor of history, Harvard University; senior research fellow, Jesus College, Oxford University; author, Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power (2004) and Colossus: The Price of America's Empire (2004); "Are Capitalism and Democracy Bound to Win?"
 

Sander Vanocur, journalist; author, The Nixon-Kennedy Debates (1996) and co-editor, A Tribute to John F. Kennedy (1964); "Media Malarky: Can Democracy Survive the Mass Media?"
 

Paul Krugman, professor of economics, Princeton University; author, The Return of Depression Economics (2000) and "The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century" (2003)
 

Jennifer Walsh, assistant professor of criminal justice and criminalistics, C.S.U. Los Angeles; "Tough for Whom? A Discussion on the California Three-Strikes Law" (12:15 p.m.)
 

Victor Davis Hanson, professor of classical studies, C.S.U. Fresno; author, Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise of Western Power (2002) and An Autumn of War: What America Learned from September 11 and the War on Terrorism (2002); "Western War in the Postmodern Age"
 

John Milton, William R. Kenan professor of computational neuroscience, CMC; co-author, Dynamical Diseases: Mathematical Analysis of Human Illness (1995) and Epilepsy as a Dynamic Disease (2002); "Milestones Along the Road to Expertise"
 

Richard Thaler, Robert P. Gwinn professor of behavioral science and economics, University of Chicago; author, The Winner's Curse: Paradoxes and Anomalies of Economic Life (1991) and Advances in Behavioral Finance (1993); "Investor Behavior and Public Policy: The Approach of a Libertarian Paternalist"
 

Seymour Hersh, journalist; author, The Dark Side of Camelot (1997) and The Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib (2004); "Inside Iraq's Abu Ghraib Prison"
 

Michael Nutkiewicz, executive director, Program for Torture Victims, Los Angeles; author, Holocaust Museums: The Paradox of Sacred Spaces and Public Access (1993) and Not a Useable Past?: The Holocaust and American Society (1999); Hector Aristizabel, performance artist, Theater of the Oppressed; Enzo Fina, drums; "I'll Take You to the Verge of Death: Towards an Understanding of Torture"
 

T.J. Pempel, professor of political science, director, Institute of East Asian Studies, U.C. Berkeley; co-editor, Remapping Asia: The Emergence of Regional Connectedness (2004) and "Beyond Bilateralism: The U.S.-Japan Relationship in the New Asia-Pacific" (2004)
 

Bob Curnow, big band conductor on albums The Music of Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays (1994) and Towednack- Celtic Big Band (2002); Don Shelton, saxophone; Jerry Pinter, saxophone; Brian Williams, saxophone; Mike McGuffey, trumpet; Steve Huffsteter, trombone; Dave Woodley, trombone; Rick Blanc, trombone; Dean Taba, bass; Danny House, saxophone; Brian Sanders, saxophone; Louis Fasman, trumpet; Les Lovitt, trumpet; Les Benedict, trumpet; Scott Whitfield, trombone; Cecilia Coleman, piano; Randy Drake, drums; "Bob Curnow's L.A. Big Band: The Music of Bob Curnow, Pat Metheny, & Lyle Mays"
 

Jared Diamond, professor of geography and physiology, UCLA; author, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (1999) and "Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed" (2004)