Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum

Stephen Dale, professor of history, Ohio State University; author, Indian Merchants and Eurasian Trade, 1600-1750 (2002) and Islamic Society on the South Asian Frontier: The Mappilas of Malubar, 1498-1922 (1981); "The Economy and Merchants of Safavid Iran: A View from the Khyber" (12:30 p.m.)
 

Amos Oz, professor of literature, Ben-Gurion University, Israel; author, A Tale of Love and Darkness (2003 tr. 2004) and Panther in the Basement (1995 tr. 1997); "Israel and the Question of Global Anti-Semitism"
 

Claudia Martinez '00, Director of Operations and Development, Chicago Foundation for Education; author, The Smell of Old Lady Perfume (2008); "Literature YA! Engaging a New Generation of Readers"
 

Tom Bevan, co-founder and executive editor, RealClearPolitics.com; "The Breakfast of Politicos: A New Way to Get the News"
 

Karl Rove, former deputy chief of staff and senior advisor to President George W. Bush (2000-2007); commentator, Fox News; "Politics and the Presidency"
 

Andrew Busch, professor of government, associate dean of the faculty, CMC; author, The Constitution on the Campaign Trail: The Surprising Political Career of America's Founding Document (2007) and editor, The Future of America's Political Parties (2007); "The Codger versus the Whippersnapper: Prospects for the Election of 2008"
 

Sally Pipes, president and CEO, Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy; author, Miracle Cure: How to Solve America's Health Care Crisis and Why Canada Isn't the Answer (2004) and A Tale of Two Cities: If New York Can Reduce Homelessness, Why Can't San Francisco? (2002); "How to Solve America's Health Care Crisis"
 

Roy Gutman, foreign editor, McClatchy Washington bureau; author, How We Missed the Story: Osama Bin Laden, the Taliban, and the Hijacking of Afghanistan (2008) and co-editor, Crimes of War: What the Public Should Know (1999); "Crimes of War"
 

Sudipta Sen, professor of history, U.C. Davis; author, forthcoming Ganges: The Many Pasts of An Indian River (2009) and Liberal Empire and Illiberal Trades: The Political Economy of 'Responsible Government' in Early British India (2004); "Sacred and Forbidding Terrain: On the Historic Pilgrim Trail to the Sources of the Ganga" (12:00 p.m.)
 

Eban Goodstein, professor of economics, Lewis & Clark College; project director, Focus the Nation; executive director, Green House Network; author, Fighting for Love in the Century of Extinction: How Passion and Politics Can Stop Global Warming (2007) and The Trade-off Myth: Fact and Fiction about Jobs and the Environment (1999); "How Today's 20 Year Olds Will Become the Greatest Generation" (12:00 p.m.)
 

Genevieve Renault, high school teacher, Lycee Adolphe Cherioux, Vitry-sur Seine, France; "French Public Schools and the Ban on Headscarves" (12:00 p.m.)
 

Gerald Davis '11; Cassandra Gurrola '11; Elizabeth Schmitz-Robinson '11; Nick Warshaw '09; Aaron Champagne '10, moderator; "Claremont Colleges Debate Union: America Should Prefer Negative Campaigning"
 

Ross Parke, distinguished professor of psychology, director, Center for Family Studies, U.C. Riverside; co-author, Throwaway Dads: The Myths and Barriers that Keep Men from Being the Fathers They Want to Be (1999) and author, Fatherhood (1996); "Fatherhood: Remembering the Past, Imagining the Future"
 

Codou Diaw, executive director, Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE); Simone de Comarmond, founder; chair, Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE); FAWE- 2008 Henry R. Kravis Prize in Leadership recipient; "Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE)" (12:00 p.m.)
 

Dinner Theater, "Rumors" by Neil Simon (1988)(6:00 p.m.)