Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum

Colin Camerer, Robert Kirby Professor of Behavioral Finance and Economics, California Institute of Technology; co-author, Neuroeconomics: Decision Making and the Brain (2008) and author, Behavioral Game Theory: Experiments in Strategic Interaction (2003); "Neuroeconomics: How Brains Decide What Stocks to Trade and What Foods to Eat"

Claremont Chamber Choir; Charles Kamm, associate professor of music, Scripps College; conductor, Claremont chamber choir; "A Winter Holiday Concert: Mass for Four Voices by William Byrd and Holiday Carols"

Jonathan Bolton, professor of Slavic languages and literatures, Harvard University; author, Worlds of Dissent: Charter 77, The Plastic People of the Universe, and Czech Culture under Communism (2012) and editor and translator, Wernisch, In the Puppet Gardens: Selected Poems, 1963-2005 (2007); "Narratives of Dissent" (12:00 p.m.)

Richard Eaton, professor of history, University of Arizona; co-editor, Slavery and South Asian History (2006) and author, Social History of the Deccan, 1300-1761: Eight Indian Lives (2005); "Sufis and the Growth of Islam in India—Two Patterns" (12:00 p.m.)

Selma James, founder, International Wages for Housework Campaign; co-author, Sex, Race, and Class: The Perspective of Winning, A Selection of Writings 1952-2011 (2012) and The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community (1973); "Sex, Race, and Class: The Perspective of Winning" (12:00 p.m.)

Kris James Mitchener, professor of economics, Warwick University (UK); "What Does History Have To Teach Us about Banking Panics and Central Bank Responses to Them?" (12:00 p.m.)

Marcus Rediker, Distinguished Professor of Atlantic History, University of Pittsburgh; author, The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom (2012) and The Slave Ship: A Human History (2007); "The Amistad Rebellion: A History from Below"

Wes Parker '62, professional baseball player, Los Angeles Dodgers (1964-1972); Jim Colborn, professional baseball player, Chicago Cubs (1969-1978); Milwaukee Brewers (1972-1976); Kansas City Royals (1977-1978); Seattle Mariners (1978); Scott Asasaki '98, director of team travel, Los Angeles Dodgers; "The Business of Baseball"

Joseph Lelyveld, executive editor, The New York Times (1994-2001); Pulitzer Prize-winner; author, Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India (2012) and Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White (1985); "Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India"

Burkhard Bilger, staff writer, The New Yorker, author, Noodling for Flatheads: Moonshine, Monster Catfish, and Other Southern Comforts (2000) and co-author, The Best American Science & Nature Writing 2001 (2001) "The Place of Science Writing in Literary Journalism" (12:00 p.m.)

Robert Samuelson, opinion writer and syndicated columnist, The Washington Post; author, The Great Inflation and Its Aftermath: The Past and Future of American Affluence (2008) and Untruth: Why the Conventional Wisdom Is (Almost Always) Wrong ( 2001); "Why We Don't Take Prosperity for Granted Anymore; The Real—And Lasting—Consequences of the Financial Crisis and Great Recession"

James Gelvin, professor of modern Middle Eastern history, UCLA; author, The Arab Uprisings: What Everyone Needs to Know (2012) and forthcoming Global Islam in the Age of Steam and Print, 1850-1930; "The Arab Uprisings"

Sotirios Barber, professor of political philosophy and the American Constitution, Georgetown University; author, Welfare and the Constitution (2005) and co-author, Constitutional Interpretation: The Basic Questions (2007); "The Fallacies of States' Rights" (12:00 p.m.)

Richard McGregor, journalist; author, Party: 1.3 Billion People, 1 Secret Regime (2011) and The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers (2010); "Reporting on American Democracy and Chinese Autocracy in the 21st Century"

Ann Meyers Drysdale, vice president, NBA's Phoenix Suns; president and general manager, WNBA's Phoeniz Mercury; author, You Let Some GIRL Beat You?: The Story of Ann Meyers Drysdale (2012)