Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum

In-suk Kim, novelist; author, The Long Road: A Novel (2010) and So Long, Elena (2009); Yong-suk Kang, author, Rina (2011) and The Night He Lifts Weights (2011) ; Bruce Fulton, translator; Young-Bin Min Chair in Korean Literature and Literary Translation, University of British Columbia; co-translator, How in Heaven’s Name: A Novel of World War II (2012) and Fire: Stories by O Chonghui (2012) "Encounter 2013" (12:00 p.m.)

Avern Yonai, founder; Mike Marshall, musical director; Chris Acquavella, artistic director/conductor, New Expressions Mandolin Orchestra; founder/director, San Diego Classical Mandolin Camp; Tom Cohen, conductor/director, Mediterranean-Andalusian Orchestra of Ashkelon (Israel), L'Orchestra Symphonique Andalou De Montreal (Canada), MED Orchestra (Belgium); Tim Connell, Mando Planet and Rio Con Brio band member; Brian Oberlin, founder/director, River of the West Mandolin Camp and Oregon Mandolin Orchestra; Dana Rath, co-founder, Modern Mandolin Quartet; Adam Roszkiewicz, band member, Front Country and Modern Mandolin Quartet; Eric Stein, founder, Beyond the Pale; Don Stiernberg, teacher, Mandolin Symposium and European Mandolin Akademy; Jeff Warschauer, teacher, Mandolin Symposium and European Mandolin Akademy; Radim Zenkl, mandolin soloist; "Ger Mandolin Orchestra"

Tyler Burge, professor of philosophy, UCLA; author, Cognition Through Understanding: Self-Knowledge, Interlocution, Reasoning, Reflection (2013) and Foundations of Mind: Philosophical Essays, Volume 2 (2007); "Perception: Origins of Mind"

John Seery, George Irving Thompson Memorial Professor of Government and professor of politics, Pomona College; author, Too Young to Run? A Proposal for an Age Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (2012) and A Political Companion to Walt Whitman (2011); "The Best Kind of College is the U.S. SLAC (small liberal arts college), But Why Don't More People Know and Believe That?" (12:00 p.m. Parents Dining Room)

Roger Berkowitz, associate professor of politics, human rights, and philosophy; academic director, Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities, Bard College; co-author, Thinking in Dark Times: Hannah Arendt on Ethics and Politics (2009) and author, The Gift of Science: Leibniz and the Modern Legal Tradition (2005); "Hannah Arendt, Eichmann, and the Holocaust"

Yehuda Bauer, professor of Holocaust Studies, Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry, Hebrew University, Jerusalem; author, The Death of the Shtetl (2010) and Jews for Sale?: Nazi-Jewish Negotiations, 1933-1945 (2009); "The Warsaw Ghetto Rebellion- A New Look" (12:00 p.m.)

Vera Schwarcz, Mansfield Freeman Professor of East Asian Studies; director, Freeman Center for East Asian Studies, Wesleyan University; author, Ancestral Intelligence: Renditions and Poems (2013) and forthcoming Colors of Veracity: A Search for Truth in China, and Beyond; "The Small, Still Voice of the Past: How Memory Studies Changed Historical Truth in China, and Beyond"

Madeline Hsu, associate professor of history; director, Center for Asian American Studies, University of Texas, Austin; editor, Chinese American Transnational Politics (2010) and author, forthcoming Strategic Migrations: Immigration Selection and How the Yellow Peril Became a Model Minority, 1872-1966; "How Chinese Immigrants Became Model Minorities: Intellectuals, Refugees, and Immigration Selection, 1908-1962"

Guy Sorman, contributing editor, City Journal; author, Economics Does Not Lie: A Defense of the Free Market in a Time of Crisis (2009) and The Empire of Lies: The Truth about China in the Twenty-First Century (2008); "Photo Exhibit Showcasing the Silent Strength of Liu Xia" (12:00 p.m.)

Tom Ridge, U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security (2003-2005); Governor of Pennsylvania (1995-2001); Pennsylvania Congressman (R-21st District) (1983-1995); president and CEO, Ridge Global; co-author, The Test of Our Times: America Under Siege... And How We Can Be Safe Again (2010) and author, Next-Generation Homeland Security: Network Federalism and the Course to National Preparedness (2012); "Boston and Beyond: Homeland Security and the Hometown" (12:00 p.m.)

Gregory Currie, professor of philosophy, Director of Research in Humanities, University of Nottingham; author, Narratives and Narrators: A Philosophy of Stories (2010) and Image and Mind: Film, Philosophy and Cognitive Science (2008); "What We Learn From Literature"

Zadie Smith, professor of creative writing, New York University; author, NW: A Novel (2012) and White Teeth: A Novel (2000); "Man Versus Corpse”

Kevin Tan '86, former senior vice president, Northern Trust Global Investments; "Lunch with a Leader: Yes I Can! Short Stories of Creative Problem Solving" (12:00 p.m.)

Will Barndt, assistant professor of political studies, Pitzer College; "How To Get A Job Anywhere: The Nationalization of Our Liberal Arts Colleges" (12:00 p.m. Parents Dining Room)

Mike Strain, resident scholar, American Enterprise Institute; co-author, “Payday Credit, Overdrafts, and Bankruptcy, Both Formal and Informal” (2012) and “Job Loss and Effects on Firms and Workers” (2012); Stan Veuger, resident scholar, American Enterprise Institute; author, “Sexism and Maternity Leave Around the World” (2013) and “Solving the Chicken or Egg Job Problem” (2013); "What You Need to Know about the Economy You Will Be Entering" (12:00 p.m.)