Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum

Peter Berkowitz, Tad and Dianne Taube senior fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University; author, Virtue and the Making of Modern Liberalism (1999) and editor, Never a Matter of Indifference: Sustaining Virtue in a Free Republic (2003); "Constitutional Conservatism: A Way Forward for a Troubled Political Coalition"
 

Joseph Tse-Hei Lee, professor of history, Pace University; author, The Bible and the Gun: Christianity in South China, 1860-1900 (2003); "Guanxi and Gospel: Mapping Christian Kinship and Lineage Networks in South China" (10:00 a.m.)
 

Lunar New Year Celebration; "Year of the Tiger"
 

Jonathan Rosenberg '83, senior vice president of product management and marketing, Google, Inc.; "From the Chaos, Rules of Success"
 

Rick Perlstein, journalist; author, Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus (2001) and Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America (2008); "Whatever Happened to Hope? Why Obama Cannot Become a Transformational President"
 

Adam Michnik, editor-in-chief, Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland; author, The Church and the Left (1993) and Letters from Freedom: Post-cold War Realities and Perspectives (1998) "The State of Democracy in Europe"
 

Christopher Dodds P'13, senior advisor, The Carlyle Group; former executive vice president and chief financial officer, Charles Schwab Corporation; "Lunch with a Leader: The Investment Management Industry" (12:00 p.m.)
 

Michael Black P'11, MD; Chief of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery; surgical director, Pediatric and Adult Congenital Heart Program, California Pacific Medical Center; "The Biotech Rebelution: Inspired by Nature"
 

Manfred Keil, associate professor of economics, Robert Day School of Economics and Finance, 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); "The Great Recession, the Great Stabilization, and the Shape of the Recovery"
 

Thomas Lentz '74, Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director, Harvard Art Museum; "Changing Roles of the Museum Director" (12:00 p.m.)
 

Jim Beattie P'11, vice president and financial advisor, Bernstein Global Wealth Management; former major league baseball player (1978-1986); "Life in Major League Baseball: Opportunities and Options"
 

Adam Bradley, associate professor of literature, CMC; co-editor, Three Days Before the Shooting...: The Unfinished Novel (2010) and author, Ralph Ellison-In-Progress (2009); John Callahan, Morgan S. Odell Professor of Humanities, Lewis and Clark College; literary executor, Ralph Ellison's estate; editor, The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison (1995) and co-editor, Three Days before the Shooting...: The Unfinished Second Novel (2010); "Three Days before the Shooting by Ralph Ellison"
 

Gina Kim, filmmaker; author and director, Never Forever (2007) and "Faces of Seoul" (2009)
 

William Kolbrener, associate professor of English, Bar-Ilan University, Israel; author, Milton's Warring Angels: A Study of Critical Engagements (2008) and co-author, Mary Astell: Reason, Gender, Faith (2007); "The Materialist Modern: Theology, Politics and Community in Thomas Hobbes and John Milton"
 

Sapphire, poet; author, Black Wings and Blind Angels: Poems (2000) and Push: A Novel (1996); "When Push Comes to Precious: The Novel, the Film, the Reality"