Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum

Gregg Ireland '72, senior vice president, Capital Research and Management Company; "Lunch with a Leader: The Mutual Fund Industry" (12:00 p.m.)
 

Andrew Sullivan, blogger, The Daily Dish; author, Intimations Pursued: The Voice of Practice in the Conversation of Michael Oakeshott (2008) and The Conservative Soul: Fundamentalism, Freedom, and the Future of the Right (2007); "American Politics at Home and Abroad"
 

Imad Moustapha, Syrian Ambassador to the United States; author, The Echoes of Orpheus and Creativity Out from the Windows of Hell; "Syria-USA Relations: A Thaw or a False Start?"
 

Peter Brown, Philip and Beulah Rollins professor of history, Princeton University; author, Poverty and Leadership in the Later Roman Empire (2002) and The Rise of Western Christendom: Triumph and Diversity, AD 200-1000 (1996); "Wealth, Work and the Holy Poor: Early Christian Monasticism between Syria and Egypt"
 

Round Table Discussion: "The State of the Hip Hop Union"; Jeff Chang, author, Total Chaos: Art and Aesthetics of Hip-Hop (2007) and Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation (2005); Ebony Utley, assistant professor of communication studies, C.S.U. Long Beach; author, forthcoming, The Gansta God: Deciphering the Divine's Role in Rap and co-editor, Critical Mixtape: Deciphering Hip-Hop Songs; Cheo Hodari Coker, author, Unbelievable: The Life, Death, and Afterlife of the Notorious B.I.G. (2004) and co-author, Dreamgirls (2007); Crooked I, hip hop artist; CEO, Dynasty Entertainment; senior vice president, Treacherous Records; Adam Bradley, moderator; assistant professor of literature, CMC; author, Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip-Hop (2009)
 

Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University professor; director, W.E.B. DuBois Institute for African and African American Research, Harvard University; author, forthcoming In Search of Our Roots (2009) and Finding Oprah's Roots: Finding Your Own (2007); "Genetics, Genealogy and African American History"
 

Minxin Pei, senior associate in the China Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; author, China's Trapped Transition: The Limits of Developmental Autocracy (2006) and From Reform to Revolution: The Demise of Communism in China and the Soviet Union (1994); "Why Has Economic Development Not Led to Democratization in China?" (12:00 p.m. Parents Dining Room)
 

Claremont Chamber Choir, Charles Kamm, conductor; assistant professor of music, Scripps College; "A Winter Holiday Concert"
 

John Nagl, lieutenant colonel, U.S. Army, retired; fellow, Center for a New American Security; author, Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam: Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife (2002) and co-author, The U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual (2007); "Global War on Terror: A New American Security"
 

Wacira Gethaiga, professor emeritus of Afro-ethnic studies, C.S. Fullerton; "Going Global with Leadership: Developing Sustainable Economies in Africa"(12:15 p.m.)
 

Narendra Mishra, sitar; Abhiman Kaushal, tabla; adjunct assistant professor of music, UCLA; Nandini Majumdar '10, tanpura; "Peace and Excitement: A Sitar Concert"
 

Roy Mottahedeh, Gurney professor of Islamic history, director, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program, Harvard University; co-author, Globalization and the Muslim World: Culture, Religion, and Modernity (2004) and author, The Mantle of the Prophet: Learning and Power in Modern Iran (1985); "The Strange and Wonderful in Medieval Persian and Arabic Literature and Art"
 

Maureen Dowd, Op-Ed columnist, New York Times; author, Are Men Necessary?: When Sexes Collide (2005) and Bushworld: Enter at Your Own Risk (2005); "Fit to Print: Writing on Washington"
 

Wendy Doniger, Mircea Eliade distinguished service professor of the history of religions, University of Chicago; author, The Woman Who Pretended to Be Who She Was: Myths of Self-Imitation (2004) and The Bedtrick: Tales of Sex and Masquerade (2000); "The Woman Who Pretended to Be Who She Was"
 

Lori Damrosch, Henry L. Moses professor of international law and organization, Columbia University; author, Enforcing International Law through Non-forcible Measures (1997) and co-editor, Beyond Confrontation: International Law for the Post-Cold War Era (1995); "International Courts and the U.S. Supreme Court: Who Has the Final Word" (12:00 p.m.)