Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum

John J. Pitney, Jr., associate professor of government, CMC; author, The Art of Political Warfare (2001) and co-author, American Government: Democracy and Citizenship (2002); 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); David Menefee-Libey, associate professor of politics, Pomona College; author, The Triumph of Campaign-Centered Politics (1999) and co-author, Decentralization in Practice: Toward a System of Schools (1998); "California Politics: Losing Ground or Making Strides?"
 

Ernesto Fundora, film and video director; Juan Antonio Garcia Borrero, critic and film historian; Alejandro Rios, drama and literary critic and essayist; Everardo Chavez, film and performing arts producer; "Independent Cuban Short Films"
 

Taylor Mali, performance artist; author, What Learning Leaves (2002) and recording of Poems from the Like Free Zone (CD- 2000); "Spoken Word Performance"
 

Tony Kushner, playwright; author, Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes (1993) and Homebody/Kabul (2000); James Morrison, associate professor of literature and film studies, CMC; author, Broken Fever (2001) and Passport to Hollywood: Hollywood Films, European Directors (1998); "A Conversation with Tony Kushner"
 

Thomas Kelsey '88, Country Desk Officer for Germany, U.S. State Department; former special assistant to the Secretary of State; "U.S.-German Relations in the Aftermath of the War in Iraq"
 

John Dovidio, professor of psychology, Colgate University; author, Prejudice, Discrimination, and Racism (1986) and co-editor, Immigrants and Immigration (2001); "Racism: The Social Consequences of Personal Prejudices"
 

James Walsh, executive director, Managing the Atom project at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University; author, The Two Faces of Bush on Defense (2001) and Multilateral Non-proliferation Regimes, Weapons of Mass Destruction Technologies and the War on Terrorism (2002); John Meany, director, Claremont Colleges Debate Union, (moderator); co-author, Art, Argument, and Advocacy: Mastering Parliamentary Debate (2002) and On That Point: An Introduction to Parliamentary Debate (2003); Jenny Bindel '04; Sarah Rice '04; "Political Dissent during National Security Crises: A Panel Discussion"
 

David Broder, national political columnist, Washington Post; co-author, The System: The American Way of Politics at the Breaking Point (1996) and The Man Who Would Be President: Dan Quayle (1992); "American Politics Beyond Recall"
 

Julie Spellman '89, partner, Cravath, Swaine, & Moore, New York; "Leadership and the McKenna Scholar"
 

Deborah Buck, violin, professor of music, Kinhaven Music School, Weston, Vermont; Kevin Fitz-Gerald, piano, professor of piano and collaborative arts, Thornton School of Music, USC; "Encore Concert"
 

Mary Hatcher-Skeers, associate professor and Clare Booth Luce chair of chemistry, CMC; co-author, The Dynamic Impact of CpG Methylation in DNA (2000) and Early and Late Intermediates in the Bacteriohodopsin Photocycle: A Solid-State NMR Study (1998); "Fifty Years of DNA: Where Are We Now?"
 

William Bennett, former Secretary of Education; founder of Empower America; author, The Death of Outrage: Bill Clinton and the Assault on American Ideals (1998) and editor, The Book of Virtues: A Treasury of Great Moral Stories (1993); "Integrity in Public and Private Life"

Dinner Theater, Eat Your Heart Out by Nick Hall (1975) (6:00 p.m.)

Dinner Theater, Eat Your Heart Out by Nick Hall (1975) (6:00 p.m.)

David Brooks, senior editor, The Weekly Standard; author, Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There (2000) and editor, Backward and Upward: The New Conservative Writing (1996); "The Last (Suburban) Man: The Suburbs and American Politics" (12:15 p.m.)