Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum

David Lambertson, former U.S. Ambassador to Thailand; Freeman Foundation visiting professor of Asian Affairs, CMC; "Episodes in a Career: A Diplomat's Perspective on Asia"
 

Ernest Fleischmann, principal artistic advisor and former manager, Los Angeles Philharmonic; co-author, Is the Symphony Orchestra Dead: An Exchange (1987); "Classical Music in Los Angeles" (4:00 p.m.)
 

Walter Russell Mead, senior fellow for U.S. foreign policy, Council on Foreign Relations; author, Mortal Splendor: The American Empire in Transition (1987) and Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World (2001); "The American Foreign Policy Tradition and the Bush Administration"
 

Norah Vincent, columnist, Los Angeles Times and The Advocate; author, How to Sound Smart: A Quick and Witty Guide (2000) and co-author, The Instant Intellectual: The Quick and Easy Guide to Sounding Smart and Cultured (1998); "The Great Gay Political Debate"
 

Rafik Mansour, second secretary for political affairs, U.S. embassy, Rome, Italy; "The Foreign Service Today"
 

William Black, assistant professor of public affairs, University of Texas, Austin; visiting scholar, Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, Santa Clara University; author, Libraries and Student Assistants: Critical Links (1995); "The Myths about the S&L Debacle and the Ongoing Financial Scandals"
 

Paul Krassner, satirist and editor, The Realist; author, Confessions of a Raving, Unconfined Nut: Misadventures in the Counter-Culture (1993) and Murder at the Conspiracy Convention: And Other American Absurdities (2002); "The Satirist as Public Intellectual"
 

Mark Blitz, Fletcher Jones professor of political philosophy, CMC; co-editor, Educating the Prince (2000) and author, Heidegger's Being and Time and the Possibility of Political Philosophy (1981); P. Edward Haley, W. M. Keck Foundation chair of International strategic studies, CMC; author, Nuclear Strategy, Arms Control and the Future (1988) and Congress and the Fall of South Vietnam and Cambodia (1982); Diane Halpern, professor of psychology; director, Berger Institute for Work, Family and Children, CMC; author, Thought and Knowledge: An Introduction to Critical Thinking (1995) and Sex Differences in Cognitive Abilities (1992); Gregory Hess, Russell S. Bock chair of public economics and taxation and professor of economics, CMC; co-editor, International Macroeconomics (2000); Paul Kapur, assistant professor of government, CMC; Diana Selig, assistant professor of history, CMC; Andrew Brehm '03, White House intern on 9/11; William Ascher, Donald C. McKenna professor of government and economics, dean of faculty, CMC; co-author, Strategic Planning and Forecasting: Political Risk and Economic Opportunity (1983) and author, Why Governments Waste National Resources: Policy Failures in Developing Countries (1999), (moderator); "Reflections on September 11th"
 

John Farrell, associate professor of literature, CMC; author, Freud's Paranoid Quest: Psychoanalysis and Modern Suspicion (1996); "No Second Troy: Love and Politics in the Poetry of W. B. Yeats"
 

J. Bradford DeLong, professor of economics, U.C. Berkeley; research associate, National Bureau of Economic Research; author, Macroeconomics (2001) and co-author, Understanding America's Hesitant Steps Toward Financial Capitalism (1996); "Economic Causes and Consequences of September 11th"

Dinner Theater, Arsenic and Old Lace by Joseph Kesselring (1952) (6:00 p.m.)

Dinner Theater, Arsenic and Old Lace by Joseph Kesselring (1952) (6:00 p.m.)

Dinner Theater, Arsenic and Old Lace by Joseph Kesselring (1952) (6:00 p.m.)

Catherine Bowman, professor of English, Indiana University; author, Rock Farm (1996) and 1-800-HOT-RIBS (1993); and CD recording Deep Listening Space (2001) with John Lindberg, bass; "Poetry and Jazz at the Athenaeum"

Pat Carroll, actress in The Show Off (1992) and Gertrude Stein Gertrude Stein Gertrude Stein (1979); and the voice of Ursula in The Little Mermaid (1989); "Readings and Reflections"