Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum

William Ascher, Donald C. McKenna professor of government and economics, CMC; co-author, Revitalizing Political Psychology: The Legacy of Harold D. Laswell (2005) and co-editor, Guide to Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy (2001); "How So-Called 'Economic Rights' Have Infringed upon Political and Human Rights"; Richard Burdekin, Jonathan B. Lovelace professor of economics, CMC; author, forthcoming China's Monetary Challenges: Past Experiences and Future Prospects and Bondholder Gains from the Annexation of Texas and Implications of the U.S. Bailout (2006); "Financial Market Fluctuations and Chinese Government Policy Shifts"; Jerry Fowler, executive director, Save Darfur Coalition; author, A New Chapter of Irony: The Legal Consequences of the Darfur Genocide Determination (2006), and The Church and Power: Responses to Genocide and Massive Human Rights Abuses in Comparative Perspective (2004); "China and Darfur"; Jonathan Petropoulos, John V. Croul professor in European history, director, Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights, CMC; author, The Faustian Bargain: The Art World in Nazi Germany (2000) and Royals and the Reich: The Princes of Hesse in Nazi Germany (2006)(moderator); "China, Economics, and Human Rights" (3:00 p.m.)
 

William Quandt, Edward R. Stettinius professor of politics, University of Virginia; author, Peace Process: American Democracy and the Arab-Israeli Conflict Since 1967 (2001) and Between the Ballots and Bullets: Algeria's Transition from Authoritarianism (1998); "Arab-Israeli Peace Making: Is It Still Possible?"
 

Laura Starks, Charles E. and Sarah M. Seay chair of finance, director, AIM Investment Center (Applied Investment Management), McCombs School of Business, University of Texas, Austin; "Corporate Governance and Social Responsibility: What Do Investors Care About?"
 

Joel Fleishman, professor of law and public policy, director, Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Center on Ethics, Public Policy, and the Professions, Duke University; author, The Foundation: A Great American Secret- How Private Money is Changing the World (2007) and To Merit and Preserve the Public Trust in Not-for-Profit Organizations: The Urgent Need for New Strategies for Regulatory Reform (1998); "How Private Wealth is Changing the World"
 

Rudiger Frank, professor of East Asian economy and society, University of Vienna; co-author, The GDR and North Korea: The Reconstruction of Hamhùng 1954-1962 (1996) and author, Regulation in the Republic of Korea: Characteristics, Reforms and the Telecommunications Sector (2003); "Changing North Korea: Beyond the Point of No Return?"
 

Jonathan Rosenberg '83, senior vice president of product management and marketing, Google, Inc.; "Inside the Black Box: Technological Innovation at Google" (12:00 p.m.)
 

Arthur Eckstein, professor of history, University of Maryland; author, Mediterranean Anarchy, Interstate War, and the Rise of Rome (2007) and Mural Vision in the Histories of Polybius (1995); "Creating the Roman Juggernaut: How Rome Broke from the Pack in the Ancient Mediterranean"
 

Seth Lerer, Avalon Foundation in the humanities and professor of English and comparative literature, Stanford University; author, Inventing English: A Portable History of the Language (2007) and Children's Literature: A Reader's History from Aesop to Harry Potter (2008); "Does the English Language have a Future?"
 

Martin Marty, Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service professor emeritus of the history of modern Christianity, University of Chicago; author, The Mystery of the Child (2007) and Lutheran Questions, Lutheran Answers: Exploring Christian Faith (2007); "Religion and Public Life"
 

Efraim Inbar, professor of political science, director, Begin-Sadat (BESA) Center for Strategic Studies, Bar-Ilan University, Israel; author, The Israel-Turkish Entente (2001) and Rabin and Israel's National Security (1999); "Israel's Search for Peace and Security in the Middle East"
 

Chong-Wook Chung, author, Maoism and Development: The Politics of Industrial Management in China (1980) and co-editor, Korean Options in a Changing International Order (1993); "Asia and America in 2008"
 

Ryan Barilleaux, professor and chair of political science, Miami University, Ohio; author, American Government in Action: Principles, Process, Politics (1995) and co-author, Power and Prudence: The Presidency of George H.W. Bush (2004); "War, Peace, and George Washington's Presidency" (12:00 p.m.)
 

Ruth Kluger, professor emeritus of German literature, U.C. Irvine; author, Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered (2001) and To Continue to Live: A Childhood (1991); "The Aftermath: Living with Memories of the Holocaust"
 

Michael Marcus, multi-instrumentalist; Ted Daniel, trumpet; Dan Lutz, bass; Lorca Hart, drums; "Duology Plus Two"
 

David Gergen, professor of public service, director, Center for Public Leadership, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; author, Eyewitness to Power: The Essence of Leadership, Nixon to Clinton (2000); "Eyewitness to Power: Leadership in America"