Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum

Audrey Bilger, associate professor of literature & faculty director, Center for Public Writing and Discourse, CMC; author of Laughing Feminism: Subversive Comedy of Frances Burney, Maria Edgeworth, and Jane Austen (1998) and co-author of An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting (2003); "From Jane Austen to Feminist Hulk: Gender Studies in a Digital Age"
 

Gregory Hess, vice president for academic affairs, Dean of Faculty, James G. Boswell Professor of Economics, George R. Roberts Fellow, CMC; editor,  forthcoming Guns and Butter and co-author, Where Have All the Heroes Gone? A Self-Interested, Economic Theory of Heroism (2008); S. Brock Blomberg P'13, Dean, Robert Day School of Economics and Finance; Peter K. Barker '70 professor of economics and George R. Roberts Fellow, CMC; co-author, Terrorism and the Economics of Trust (2011) and On the Duration and Sustainability of Transnational Terrorist Organizations (2010); Manfred Keil, associate professor of economics, CMC;  co-author, forthcoming: Measures of Financial Openness and How to Apply Them to International Political Economy and Research and Minimum Wages and Employment (2001);  Marc Martos-Vila, visiting assistant professor of economics, CMC; "Our Turbulent Economy: How Did We Get Here and How Do We Move Forward?"
 

Anthony Julius, attorney, deputy chairman, Mishcon de Reya, London; author, Trials of the Diaspora: A History of Anti-Semitism in England (2010) and Transgressions: The Offences of Art (2002); "Literary Lies about Jews"
 

BD Wong, actor; author: Following Foo: The Electronic Adventures of the Chestnut Man (2003); "All the World's a Stage: From Exclusion to Inclusion"
 

James Stewart, Pulitzer Prize-winning business columnist, The New York Times; author, Tangled Webs: How False Statements are Undermining America: From Martha Stewart to Bernie Madoff (2011) and DisneyWar: The Battle for the Magic Kingdom (2006); "Leadership and Ethics"
 

Joshua Landis, associate professor of Middle East studies, director, Center for Middle East Studies, University of Oklahoma; author, Will Failure to Solve the Arab-Israeli Conflict Mean a New Cold War in the Middle East? (2010) and Can a Syrian-Israeli Peace Agreement Be Reached? (2008); "Syria and the Arab Spring: What It Means for the United States"
 

Jacqueline Calkin '89 , MD; faculty, U.C. San Francisco School of Medicine; fellow, American Academy of Dermatology;  "What a Violinist Knows about Leadership"
 

Deogratias Niyizonkiza, founder, Village Health Works-Seed of Hope,  Burundi; “Where There is Health; There is Hope"
 

Seth Lerer, Dean of Arts and Humanities, Distinguished Professor of Literature, U.C. San Diego; author, Children's Literature: A Reader's History from Aesop to Harry Potter (2008) and editor, The Wind in the Willows: An Annotated Edition (2009); "Prayer and Possession: Stories of Devotion in a Newly Discovered Book of Hours;" (6:45 p.m. Parents Dining Room)
 

Edward Leamer, Director of Anderson Forecast, Chauncey J. Medberry Chair in Management, professor of economics and statistics, UCLA; author, Macroeconomic Patterns and Stories (2009) and co-editor, Handbook of Econometrics, Vol. 6B (2007); "Economists are Pattern-Seeking Story-Telling Animals"
 

Hamza Yusuf, co-founder, Zaytuna College (1996); author, The Prayer of the Oppressed and Walking On Water (2010) and The Creed of al-Tahawi (2007); "Law, Ethics, and Shari'a" (12:00 p.m.)
 

Timothy Naftali, director, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum; author, George H.W. Bush (2007); "To Tell the Truth: Public History in a Public Museum"
 

Mark Bauerlein, professor of English, Emory University; author, The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (Or, Don’t Trust Anyone Under 30) (2008) and Negrophobia: A Race Riot in Atlanta, 1906 (2001); "The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (Or, Don’t Trust Anyone Under 30)"
 

Thomas Carothers, vice president for studies, international politics, and governance, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; author, Confronting the Weakest Link: Aiding Political Parties in New Democracies (2006) and Promoting the Rule of Law Abroad: In Search of Knowledge (2006); "Understanding and Responding to the New Middle East"
 

David Card, Class of 1950 Professor of Economics, U.C. Berkeley; co-editor, Finding Work: Jobs and Welfare Reform (2000) and Handbook of Labor Economics (1999); "Immigration: Economics, Attitudes and Policies" (12:30 p.m.)