Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum

Michael Behe, professor of biochemistry, Lehigh University; author, Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution (1996) and co-author, Intelligent Design: The Bridge Between Science and Technology (1999); "Science Stumbles on Design"
 

Ron Lehman II, '68, director, Center for Global Security Research, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory; "Weapons of Mass Destruction: Can We Change Our Fate?" (12:15 p.m.)
 

Omer Bartov, John P. Birkelund professor of European history, Brown University; co-editor, The Crimes of War: Guilt and Denial in the Twentieth Century (2002) and author, The Eastern Front 1941-45: German Troops and the Barbarisation of Warfare (1985); "Genocide as Leitmotif of the 20th Century: Rhetoric and Responsibility"
 

Gioconda Belli, poet; author, De la costilla de Eva (From Eve's Rib) (1989) and "The Country Under My Skin: A Memoir of Love and War" (2002)
 

Walter Willett, professor of epidemiology and nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health; author, Nutritional Epidemiology (1990) and Eat, Drink and Be Happy: The Harvard Medical School Guide to Healthy Eating (2001); "Is the U.S.D.A. Dietary Pyramid a Threat to Public Health?"
 

Eric Schlosser, author, Reefer-Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market (2003) and Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (2001); "Conversation with Eric Schlosser"
 

Alan Charles Kors, professor of history, University of Pennsylvania; co-editor, Witchcraft in Europe, 400-1700: A Documentary History (1990) and co-author, "The Shadow University: The Betrayal of Liberty on America's Campuses" (1998)
 

Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Trustee professor of economics, Syracuse University; director, Congressional Budget Office; co-editor, Making Work Pay: The Earned Income Tax Credit and Its Impact on America's Families (2002) and forthcoming Public Policy and the Economics of Entrepreneurship (2004); "The Federal Budget: Friend or Foe?"
 

W. D. Snodgrass, poet; author, The Fuhrer Bunker: The Complete Cycle (1995) and To Sound Like Yourself: Essays on Poetry (2003); "Reading from His Work"
 

Herbert Kelman, Richard Clarke Cabot Research professor of social ethics, director, Center for Conflict Resolution, Harvard University; author, A Time to Speak Out: On Human Values and Social Research (1968) and co-author, Crimes of Obedience: Towards a Social Psychology of Authority and Responsibility (1989); "Interactive Problem Solving: A Social-Psychological Approach to Conflict Resolution and Its Application to the Israeli-Palestinian Case"
 

Robert Meeropol, founder and executive director, Rosenberg Fund for Children; author, "An Execution in the Family: One Son's Journey" (2003)
 

Sylvia Brownrigg, author, Pages for You (2001) and Ten Women Who Shook the World (2001); "An Evening with Sylvia Brownrigg"
 

Susan Shirk, research director for security studies, Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation; author, How China Opened Its Door: The Political Success of the PRC's Foreign Trade and Investment Reform (1994) and The Political Logic of Economic Reform in China (1992); "China Rising: Responsible Power or Future Threat?" (12:15 p.m.)
 

Susan Woodward, Chairman of the Board, Sand Hill Econometrics; author, Price Fixing at Nasdaq? A Re-Evaluation of the Evidence (1998) and Overview of the U.S. Economy (1997); "Consumer Confusion in the Mortgage Market"
 

Gerhard Weinberg, William Rand Kenan, Jr. professor emeritus of history, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; author, World War II Leaders and Their Visions for the Future of Palestine (2002) and A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II (1994); "Exploring the Archives of the Third Reich: A Historian's Personal History"