Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum

Lillian Faderman, professor of literature and creative writing, CSU Fresno; author, Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America (1991) and "Naked in the Promised Land: A Memoir" (2003)
 

Amde Hamilton, Otis O'Solomon, author, Wake Up World (2001); Richard Dedeaux, artists on Rappin' Black in a White World (1971) and In the Streets of Watts (1970); Dre Gibson, keyboard; "The Watts Prophets: Talk Up, Not Down"
 

Thomas Pettigrew, research professor of social psychology, U.C. Santa Cruz; author, How to Think Like a Social Scientist (1997) and The Sociology of Race Relations: Reflections and Reform (1980); "Justice Delayed: 49 Years after Brown"
 

Dan Walters, political columnist, Sacramento Bee; author, The New California: Facing the 21st Century (1986) and co-author, The Third House: Lobbyists, Money and Power in Sacramento (2002); "Rose Institute 30th Anniversary Address"
 

Andrew Roberts, squadron leader, Royal Air Force; "NATO in the 21st Century" (12:15 p.m.)
 

Katie Purvis-Roberts, assistant professor of chemistry, CMC; "Research on the Long-term Effects of Radioactive Fallout in Kazakhstan"
 

Janet Reno, former United States Attorney General; author, Crime Scene Investigation: A Guide for Law Enforcement (2001) and Promising Strategies to Reduce Gun Violence (1999); "A Conversation with Janet Reno"
 

Paul Loeb, associated scholar, Seattle Center for Ethical Leadership; author, Generation at the Crossroads: Apathy and Action on the American Campus (1994) and "Soul of a Citizen: Living with Conviction in a Cynical Time" (1999)
 

Richard Hovannisian, Armenian Educational Foundation Endowed Chair and professor of modern Armenian history, UCLA; editor, Remembrance and Denial: The Case of the Armenian Genocide (1998) and The Armenian People from Ancient to Modern Times (1997); "Reflections on the Armenian Genocide"
 

Margaret Batjer, violin, concertmaster, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra; Jeffrey Kahane, piano, music director, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra; "Bravo Brahms!"
 

Dan Kammen, professor of energy and society, public policy and nuclear engineering, director of Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory, U.C. Berkeley; co-author, Should We Risk It? Exploring Environmental, Health and Technological Problem Solving (1999) and Solar Cookbook: Less Wood, Less Smoke, Better Health (1996); "The Smoking Gun: Energy and Health in Developing Nations"
 

J. Michael Hagopian, founder, Armenian Film Foundation; director, The Forgotten Genocide (1975) and Voices from the Lake: The Secret Genocide (2000); "Germany and the Secret Genocide: A Documentary Film"
 

David Ebershoff, publishing director, Modern Library, Random House; author, The Danish Girl (2000) and Pasadena (2001); "An Evening with David Ebershoff"
 

William Stueck, Distinguished Research professor of history, University of Georgia; author, The Korean War: An International History (1995) and Rethinking the Korean War: A New Diplomatic and Strategic History (2002); "The Korean War: The Legacy for U.S.-Korean Relations"
 

Michael Armacost, Shorestein Distinguished Fellow, Asia/Pacific Research Center, Stanford University; author, Friends or Rivals? : The Insider's Account of U.S.-Japan Relations (1996) and Asian Alliances and American Politics (1999); "Challenges and Opportunities in America's Relations with East Asia"