Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum

Melvyn Goldstein, John Reynold Harkness Professor of Anthropology and co-director, Center for Research on Tibet, Case Western Reserve University; co-author, On the Cultural Revolution in Tibet: The Nyemo Incident of 1969 (2009) and A Tibetan Revolution: The Political Life of Bapa Phuntso Wangye (2004)  “Tibet Transformed: How Modernization is Affecting the Culture and Traditions of Tibet”
 

Atsuro Riley, author, Romey's Order (2010); "An Evening with the Poet"
 

Dean Vogel, president, California Teachers Association; Jed Wallace, president and CEO, California Charter Schools Association; Julia Brownley, State Assemblywoman (CA-41st District); Jeff Stark P'11, vice president, Claremont Unified School District Board of Education; David Abel '68, chairman and managing director, VERDEXCHANGE Institute; "Is California K-12 Education in Crisis? If So, What Do We Do about It?"
 

Hao Huang, pianist; professor of music, Scripps College; "The Pianist as Virtuoso: A Bicentennial Franz Liszt Piano Recital"
 

Richard Haass, president, Council on Foreign Relations; author, War of Necessity, War of Choice: A Memoir of Two Iraq Wars (2009) and The Opportunity: America's Moment to Alter History's Course (2006); "The Arab Spring"
 

Leslie Bonci, director of sports nutrition, University of Pittsburg; co-author, Run Your Butt Off: A Breakthrough Plan to Lose Weight and Start Running (No Experience Necessary!) (2011) and author, Sports Nutrition for Coaches (2009); "Fuel It Don't Fool It: Treat Your Body Right" (12:00 p.m.)
 

Glenn Greenwald, author, With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful (2011) and Great American Hypocrites: Topping the Big Myths of Republican Politics (2008); "With Liberty and Justice for Some" (12:00 p.m.)
 

Daniel Kahneman, Nobel laureate in economic sciences (2002); Eugene Higgins Professor Emeritus of Psychology, Princeton University;  and Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Public Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs; author, Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011) and co-editor, Heuristics and Biases: The Psychology of Intuitive Judgment (2002); "Thinking, Fast and Slow"
 

Martha Wheelock, director, co-producer and writer of California Women Win the Vote (2011); teacher of American literature, ethics, and women's studies, Harvard Westlake School, Los Angeles;  Diana Selig, associate professor of history, CMC; author, Americans All: The Cultural Gifts Movement (2008) and "Celebrating Cultural Diversity in the 1920s" (2007);  Lily Geismer, assistant professor of history, CMC;  "California Women Win the Vote: Film Viewing and Discussion"
 

Ananda Ganguly, Marcos Massoud Associate Professor of Accounting and George R. Roberts Fellow, CMC; co-author, Assurer Reputation for Competence in a Multi-Service Context (2007) and The Riskiness of Large Audit Firm Client Portfolios and Changes in Audit Liability Regimes: Evidence from the U.S. Audit Market (2004); "How an Accountant, Or Even You, Might Make Business Decisions: Some Evidence from the Laboratory"
 

John Bradley, author, Behind the Veil of Vice: The Business and Culture of Sex in the Middle East (2010) and Inside Egypt: The Land of the Pharaohs on the Brink of a Revolution (2008); "Debunking Five Myths About the Arab Spring"
 

John Dinan, professor of political science, Wake Forest University; author, The Virginia State Constitution (2011) and The American State Constitutional Tradition (2006); "Standing Up to Washington: State Resistance to Federal Policy, Past and Present" (12:00 p.m.)
 

Lisa Minshew Pitney '88, Vice President, Government Relations, The Walt Disney Company; Aleta Wenger, executive director, International programs, CMC; Hilary Appel, associate professor of government; Associate Dean of the Faculty, CMC; author, Tax Politics in Eastern Europe: Globalization, Regional Integration and the Democratic Compromise (2011) and co-editor, The Expansion of NATO and the European Union (2007) ; William Ascher, Donald C. McKenna professor of government and economics, CMC; co-author, Knowledge in the Environmental Policy Process (2010) and  author, Bringing in the Future: Strategies for Farsightedness and Sustainability in Developing Countries (2009); moderator;  "A Career in Government: Can You Achieve Work/Life Satisfaction?" (12:00 p.m.)
 

Daniel Yohannes '76, Chief Executive Officer, The Millennium Challenge Corporation; "CMC: Opening Doors to Opportunity" (12:00 p.m.)
 

Rick Welts, Jr., President and Chief Operating Officer, Golden State Warriors, National Basketball Association; "A Gay Man's Journey Through Men's Major League Sports"