Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum

Stephen Greenblatt, John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University; author, The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (2011) and Will in the World: How Shakespeare became Shakespeare (2005); "Lucretius and the Toleration of Intolerable Ideas"

Henry Olsen, III '83, senior fellow, Ethics and Public Policy Center; "40th Anniversary of the Rose Institute of State and Local Government"

Thanassis Cambanis, journalist; fellow, The Century Foundation; author, A Privilege to Die: Inside Hezbollah's Legions and Their Endless War Against Israel (2010); "The Arab Uprisings Aren’t Over"

Eric Karpeles, writer, translator, painter; author, Paintings in Proust: A Visual Companion to In Search of Lost Time (2008) and co-translator, Proust's Overcoat: The True Story of One Man's Passion for All Things Proust (2010); "Was Proust Convinced? Art and the Power of Redemption"

Lev Gonick, co-chair, higher education committee, CIO Executive Council; co-chair, Higher Education Executive Exchange, Cisco; "From Digital Campus to Connected Community: The Story of NEOhio's OneCommunity" (12:00 p.m.)

G. Jeffrey Records, Jr. '81, Chairman and CEO, Midfirst Bank; "Lunch with a Leader: Commercial Banking" (12:00 p.m.)

Dorothy Fadiman, documentary filmmaker; director, Stealing America: Vote by Vote (2008); Motherhood by Choice, Not Chance (2010), and co-author, Producing with Passion: Making Films that Changed the World (2008); "When a Filmmaker's Passion Catches Fire: An Evening with Documentary Producer Dorothy Fadiman"

Christopher Harmon, MajGen Matthew C. Horner Chair of Military Theory, Marine Corps University; author, Toward a Grand Strategy Against Terrorism (2010) and co-editor, Statecraft and Power: Essays in Honor of Harold W. Rood (1994); "State Sponsors of Terrorism" (12:00 p.m.)

Harold Koh, Department and Sterling Professor of International Law, Yale University; Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (1998-2001); co-author, Transnational Business Problems (2008) and author Transnational Litigation in United States Courts (2008); "Is There An Obama-Clinton Doctrine?"

Sheila Malovany-Chevallier and Constance Borde, translators; professors emeritus of American Literature and American Studies, Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Paris; co-translators, Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex (2009) and co-authors, My English is French: Corrigez facilement vos erreurs les plus courantes en anglais (1983); "Revisiting Simone de Beauvoir in the 21st Century"

Shirin Ebadi, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (2003); founder, Defenders of Human Rights Center, Iran (2001); author, The Golden Cage: Three Brothers, Three Choices, One Destiny (2011) and Refugee Rights in Iran (2008); "Human Rights and the Role of Faith in World Peace"

Jonathan V. Last, senior writer, The Weekly Standard; author, What to Expect When No One’s Expecting: America’s Coming Demographic Disaster (2013); "No More Babies: What to Expect When No One's Expecting" (12:00 p.m.)

Jeff Wasserstrom, professor of history, U.C. Irvine; author, China in the 21st Century: What Everybody Needs to Know (2010) and Global Shanghai, 1850-2010 (2008); "China Beyond the Sound Bites"

Jackson Katz, co-founder, Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP)(1993); film creator, Tough Guise: Violence, Media, and the Crisis in Masculinity (2000); author, Leading Men: Presidential Campaigns and the Politics of Manhood (2012) and The Macho Paradox: Why Some Men Hurt Women and How All Men Can Help (2006); "More Than a Few Good Men: American Manhood and Violence Against Women"

Chae-Jin Lee, Bank of America professor emeritus of Pacific Basin Studies, professor emeritus of government, and director, Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies (1988-2009), CMC; author, A Troubled Peace: U.S. Policy and the Two Koreas (2006) and China and Korea: Dynamic Relations (1996); "U.S. Policy toward Korea: Containment and Engagement"