Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum

Ronald Lewis Graham, Irwin and Joan Jacobs professor of computer science and engineering; U.C. San Diego; chief scientist, California Institute for Telecommunication and Information Technology; "Computers and Mathematics: Problems and Prospects"
 

Tibor Machan '65, R.C. Hoiles chair of business ethics and free enterprise, Chapman University; author, The Morality of Business: A Profession for Human Wealthcare (2007) and Revisiting Marxism: A Bourgeois Reassessment (2006); "Classical Liberalism in the Age of Obama" (12:00 p.m.)
 

Maurice Obstfeld, Class of 1958 Professor of Economics, director, Center for International and Development Economic Research (CIDER), U.C. Berkeley; author, Globalization and Macroeconomics (2000) and co-author, Foundation of International Macroeconomics (1996); "International Economic Challenges of the Obama Administration"
 

Cindy Shea, founder and trumpet; Addie Benavides, trumpet; Ariana Mejia, flute; Claudia Cubides, congas; Diana McConnell, guitarron; Martha Ramirez, vihuela and vocals; Valerie Carlos, guitar and vocals; Melinda Salcido, guitar and vocals; Leticia Sierra, violin; Cathy Baeza, violin; Cindy Reifler, violin; Angel Garcia, violin; Rosalie Rodriguez, violin; Diana Reyes, violin; "Mariachi Divas: A Musical Celebration in Honor of Cesar Chavez"
 

Kenneth Pyle, Henry M. Jackson professor of history and Asian Studies, University of Washington; author, Japan Rising: The Resurgence of Japanese Power and Purpose (2007) and From APEC to Xanadu: Creating a Viable Community in the Post-Cold War Pacific (1997); "U.S.-Japan Relations and the Obama Administration" (12:00 p.m.)
 

Janet Currie, chair and professor of economics, Columbia University; author, The Invisible Safety Net: Protecting the Nation's Poor Children and Families (2006); "Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise? The Relationship between Child Health and Human Capital Development"
 

Anne Hastings, executive director, Fonkoze (Alternative Bank for the Organized Poor); Port au Prince, Haiti; Nzinga Broussard, assistant professor of economics, CMC; author, forthcoming articles “(Why) Do Self-Employed Parents Have More Children?” and “Aid and Agency in Africa: Explaining Food Disbursements Across Ethiopian Households, 1994-2004”; Jorge Aguero, assistant professor of economics, U.C. Riverside; co-author, Motherhood and Female Labor Force Participation: Evidence from Fertility Shocks (2008); "Building an Economic Foundation for Democracy" (12:00 p.m.)
 

Jonathan Rosenberg '83, senior vice president of product management and marketing, Google, Inc.; "Lunch with a Leader: The Ubiquity of Information" (12:00 p.m.)
 

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); "Global Anti-Semitism"
 

Tom Linebarger '86, president and COO, Cummins, Inc.; "Lunch with a Leader: Discovering the Leader Within You" (12:00 p.m.)
 

Daniel Hamermesh, Edward Everett Hale Centennial professor in economics, University of Texas, Austin; co-author, forthcoming Two-sided Learning with Applications to Labor Turnover and Worker Displacement (2009) and author, Economics is Everywhere (2004); "Beauty in the Labor Market"
 

Jamaica Kincaid, visiting lecturer in African and African American Studies and on English and American literature and language, Harvard University; author, Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalayas (2005) and The Autobiography of My Mother (1996); "Coming of Age in a Small Place"
 

Round Table Discussion- "Rediscovering the Passions in International Relations: History, Philosophy, and the Contemporary World" Pierre Hassner, Podlich distinguished scholar, CMC; research director emeritus of National Foundation for Political Science, and Centre d'Etudes et Recherches Internationales (CERI), Paris; author, Violence and Peace (1996); Jim Nichols, Jr. P'06, professor of government, CMC; translator, Gorgias and Phaedrus by Plato (1998), author, Alexandre Kojève: Wisdom at the End of History (2007); P.Edward Haley, W.M. Keck Foundation chair and professor of International strategic studies; director, Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights, CMC; author, Strategies of Dominance: The Misdirection of U.S. Foreign Policy (2006) and co-author, After 9/11: The Roles of Civil Society in International Security (2006); Chris Nadon, associate professor of government, CMC; author, Xenophon's Prince: Republic and Empire in the Cyropaedia (2001)
 

June Carbone, Edward A. Smith/Missouri Chair of Law, the Constitution, and Society, University of Missouri, Kansas City; author, From Partners to Parents: The Second Revolution in Family Law (2000) and forthcoming Red Families v. Blue Families (2009); "Red Families v. Blue Families: Cultural Division and the Prospects for a New Work-Family Agenda"
 

Philip Glass, composer, Einstein on the Beach (1976) and Book of Longing: A Song Cycle Based on the Poetry and Artwork of Leonard Cohen (2006); Tim Page, music critic; author, Dawn Powell: A Biography (1998) and Parallel Play: Life as an Outsider (2009); "An Evening with Philip Glass" (7:00 p.m.)