Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum

Aseema Sinha, Wagener Family Associate Professor of Comparative Politics and George R. Roberts Fellow, CMC; co-author, Democracy, History, and Economic Performance: A Case-Study Approach (2010) and author, The Regional Roots of Developmental Politics in India: A Divided Leviathan (2005); "India: A Revolution of Rising Expectations"
 

Jay Conger, Henry Kravis Research Chair professor of leadership studies, CMC; editor, Boardroom Realities: Leveraging the Leadership Capability of Your Board (2009) and co-author,  Growing Your Company's Leaders: How Great Organizations Use Succession Management to Sustain Competitive Advantage (2004); "What the Science of Memory Can Teach Us about Leadership" (12:00 p.m.)
 

Arne Flaten, associate professor of art history; chair, Department of Visual Arts, Thomas W. and Robin W. Edwards College of Humanities and Fine Arts, Coastal Carolina University; author, Medals and Plaquettes: The Middledorf Collection (2011) and co-editor, The Medal, No. 56 (2010); "Computers and Cultural Conflict: Digital Humanities in Tumultuous Times"
 

Meg Wolitzer, award-winning and best-selling author, The Uncoupling: A Novel (2011), The Ten-Year Nap (2008), The Position (2006), The Wife (2004), Surrender, Dorothy (2000); "An Evening with the Author"
 

Ken Ono, Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Mathematics, Emory University; co-author, Number Theory and Modular Forms: Papers in Memory of Robert A. Rankin (2010) and author, The Web of Modularity: Arithmatic of the Coefficients of Modular Forms and Q-series (2001); "Unearthing the Visions of a Master: The Story and Legacy of Ramanujan"
 

Connie Duckworth P'12 P'14, founder and CEO, ARZU, Inc; partner and managing director, emeritus, Goldman Sachs & Co.; author, The Old Girls Network: Insider Advice for Women Building Businesses in a Man's World (2003); "A Conversation with a Leader"
 

Karl Schade '96, managing director, Presidio Financial Partners LLC; "2012 Claremont Finance Conference: Boom and Bust- A Discussion of Investing in a Dichotomous Market" (12:00 p.m.)
 

Sheri Berman, professor of political science, Barnard College; author, The Primacy of Politics: Social Democracy and the Making of  Europe's Twentieth Century (2006) and The Social Democratic Moment: Ideas and Politics in the Making of Interwar Europe  (1998); "Social Democracy and the Creation of Modern Europe"
 

Barry Riley, visiting scholar, Center on Food Security and the Environment, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University; co-author, The Development Effectiveness of Food Aid- Does Tying Matter? (2006); "Whither Food Security—The Food Insecure Poor:  What Future Awaits Them?"
 

Nick Bostrom, professor of philosophy; director, Future of Humanity Institute, St. Cross College, Oxford; editor, Global Catastrophic Risks (2011) and author, Anthropic Bias: Observation Selection Effects in Science and Philosophy (2010); "Superintelligence: The Machine Intelligence Revolution"
 

Daniel Lurie, founder and CEO, Tipping Point Community; At the Tipping Point: The Future of Philanthropy" (12:00 p.m.)
 

Jennifer Waggoner '95, president, League of Women Voters of California; "Nobody Wants To Be a Leaderette" (12:00 p.m.)
 

David Treuer, professor of English, USC; author, forthcoming Rez Life: An Indian's Journey Through Reservation Life (2012) and The Translation of Dr. Apelles (2006) and Native American Fiction: A User’s Manual (2006); "Reading Reservations: Writing (and Living) Rez Life"
 

Stephen D. Smith, executive director, Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education, USC; author, Making Memory: Creating Britain’s First Holocaust Centre (2002) and Forgotten Places: The Holocaust and the Remnants of Destruction (2001); "Never Again, Yet Again: Listening to the Voices of Genocide"
 

R. Scott Hawley, American Cancer Society Research Professor, Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, MO; co-author, Drosophilia: A Laboratory Handbook (2004) and Advanced Genetic Analysis: Finding Meaning in a Genome (2003);  "When Good Eggs Go Bad--Because Sometimes Even Chromosomes Aren’t Perfect"