Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum

Razia Jan, Founder, Zabuli Education Center, Afghanistan; program director, ARZU, Inc.; "Leadership Lessons from Afghan Girls School Founder, Razia Jan, 2012 Top 10 CNN Hero" (12:00 p.m.)

Bruce Hoffman, professor at Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service; director, Center for Security Studies, Georgetown University; author, Inside Terrorism (1998) and The Victims of Terrorism: An Assessment of Their Influence and Growing Role in Policy, Legislation, and the Private Sector (2007); "Al Qaeda and the Future of Terrorism"

Shana Levin, Crown Professor of Psychology and George R. Roberts Fellow, CMC; co-author, forthcoming Testing a Dual Process Model of Prejudice: Assessment of Group Threat Perceptions and Emotions and Social Dominance Orientation: Revisiting the Structure and Function of a Variable Predicting Social and Political Attitudes (2012); "Universal and Culture-specific Predictors of Group Prejudice" (12:00 p.m.)

Ju Hui Judy Han, assistant professor of geography, University of Toronto, Scarborough; "Reaching for the World: Korean/American Missionary Aspirations and Evangelical Encounters"

David Teece P'16, author, Dynamic Capabilities and Strategic Management: Organizing for Innovation and Growth (2011) and Managing Intellectual Capital: Organizational, Strategic, and Policy Dimensions (2002); "Profiting from Innovation: Building Firm Level and National Competitiveness" (12:00 p.m.)

Joel Appel '87, CEO, Launch Pad, LLC.; co-founder and former president, Orange Glo, International; "Lunch with a Leader: The Orange Glo Story, from Benson to Bentonville" (12:00 p.m.)

Ting Wu, director, Personal Genetics Education Project; professor of Genetics, Harvard University Medical School; “Personal Genetics: Miracles and Technologies, Promises and Challenges” (12:00 p.m.)

Andrew Schroeder, assistant professor of philosophy, CMC; author, Incidence, Prevalence, and Hybrid Approaches to Calculating Disability-adjusted Life Years (2012) and You Don't Have to Do What's Best! (2011); “Good and Bad Ways to Allocate Scarce Medical Resources"

Rachel Lloyd, founder and Chief Executive Officer, Girls Educational & Mentoring Service (GEMS); author, Girls Like Us (2011) and co-executive documentary producer, Very Young Girls (2007); "Girls Like Us : The Commercial Sexual Exploitation and Trafficking of Girls in the U.S."

Michael Berube, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Literature and Director of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities, Pennsylvania State University; author, Life As We Know It: A Father, A Family, and an Exceptional Child (Pantheon, 1996; paper, Vintage, 1998); and What's Liberal About the Liberal Arts? Classroom Politics and “ Bias” in Higher Education (W. W. Norton, 2006); “Bioethics: Too Important to Be Left to Bioethicists"

Douglas Peterson '80 P'14 P'15, Chief Operating Officer, Citibank; president, Standard & Poor's; "2013 Claremont Finance Conference: Risk, Regulation & Return – The New State of the Financial Services Industry" (6:15 p.m.)

Jennifer Mattson, journalist; GlobalPost Breaking News; TheAtlantic.com; USA TODAY; The Boston Globe; The Women's Review of Books; and CNN.com; "On Deadline: Writing and Reporting in the 21st Century" (12:00 p.m. Parents Dining Room)

Cristanne Miller, SUNY Distinguished Professor and Chair of the English Department, SUNY Buffalo; author, Emily Dickinson: A Poet's Grammar (1989); Marianne Moore: Questions of Authority (1995); and Reading in Time: Emily Dickinson in the Nineteenth Century (2012); “'The Ear is the Last Face': Reading Dickinson in Lyrical Time” (12:00 p.m. Parents Dining Room)

Tareq Azim, co-founder, Hope of Mother, Afghanistan (2004); founder, Women’s Boxing Federation, Afghanistan (2007); "Make a Purpose of Your Ability" (12:00 p.m.)

Ilai Saltzman, Schusterman-AICE visiting Israeli Assistant professor of government, CMC; author, Securitizing Balance of Power Theory: A Polymorphic Reconceptualization (Lexington Books, 2012); “Israel’s 2013 Elections and the Future of U.S.-Israel Special Relations" (12:00 p.m.)