Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum

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

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

Alma Martinez, professor of theater and dance, Pomona College; "Opening Night: Zoot Suit Revival"
 

Andrei Illarionov, senior fellow, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, Cato Institute; author, Oil and Freedom in the New Russia (2007) and Russia's Potemkin Capitalism (2000); "Political and Economic Reform under President Putin: An Insider's Perspective" (12:00 p.m.)
 

William Dalrymple, author, Begums, Thugs, and White Mughals- The Journals of Fanny Parkes (2002) and "The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi, 1857" (2006)
 

Josh Lerner, Jacob H. Schiff professor of investment banking, Harvard University; co-author, Innovation and Its Discontents: How Our Broken Patent System is Endangering Innovation and Progress, and What to Do about It (2004) and author, The Money of Invention (2001); "The Great Debate: Private Equity and Its Impact on the Global Economy"
 

Charles Honts, professor of psychology, Boise State University; co-author, Information Does Not Affect the Validity of a Comparison Question Test (2006) and Automation of a Screening Polygraph Test Increases Accuracy (2006); "Lie Detection and the Polygraph: Misrepresented, Misunderstood, and Misused" (12:00 p.m.)
 

Mort Sahl, political satirist; author, Heartland (1976) and Mort Sahl's America (1997); "An Evening with Mort Sahl"
 

Scott Lewis, co-executive editor, voiceofsandiego.org; "Journalism: A Crisis and a Model" (12:00 p.m.)
 

Robert Rosenthal, distinguished professor of psychology, U.C. Riverside; co-author, Contrasts and Effect Sizes in Behavioral Research: A Correlational Approach (1999) and People Studying People: Artifacts and Ethics in Behavioral Research (1997); "Interpersonal Expectancy Effects and Self-Fulfilling Prophecies"
 

Nicholas Rhind, assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular pharmacology, University of Massachusetts Medical School; co-author, Basic Methods for Fission Yeast (2006) and DNA Replication Origins Fire Stochastocally in Fission Yeast (2006); "Model Organisms and Small Science: The Serendipitous Nature of Discovery" (12:00 p.m.)
 

Gary Smulyan, baritone saxophone; Mark Masters, conductor, American Jazz Institute Nonet; Dave Woodley, trombone; Jerry Pinter, saxophone; Stephanie O'Keefe, french horn; Cecila Coleman, piano; Ron Stout, trumpet; Putter Smith, bass; Kendall Kay, drums; Gary Foster, saxophone; "American Jazz Institute Nonet: The Jazz Soul of Frankie Laine"
 

Marcy Wheeler, political blogger (emptywheel), Comment is Free section, Manchester Guardian Online; author, Anatomy of Deceit: How the Bush Administration Used the Media to Sell the Iraq War and Out a Spy (2007); "(Un)Covering the Narrative Industry" (12:00 p.m.)
 

Kang Zhengguo, senior lector, East Asian languages and literature, Yale University; author, Confessions: An Innocent Life in Communist China (1997) and Deer Dreams (1999); "An Evening with the Author"
 

Richard Baum, professor of political science, UCLA; author, Reform and Reaction in Post-Mao China: The Road to Tiananmen (1991) and Burying Mao: Chinese Politics in the Age of Deng Xiaopin (1994); "Human Rights and the Beijing Olympics"; Stanley Rosen, professor of political science, director, East Asian Studies Center, USC; co-editor, State and Society in 21st-Century China: Crisis, Contention and Legitimization (2004) and On Socialist Democracy and the Chinese Legal System (1985); "Changing State-Society Relations and the Rights of Chinese Citizens"; Arthur Rosenbaum, associate professor of history, CMC; author, State and Society in China: The Consequences of Reform (1992) and co-author, U.S.-China Relations and the Bush Administration: A New Paradigm or Continuing Modalities (2002)(moderator); "China: State, Human Rights, and the Beijing Olympics" (9:00 a.m.)