Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum

Manfred Keil, associate professor of economics, CMC; co-author, Minimum Wages and Employment (2001) and Why is the Unemployment Rate so Very Low Near Full Employment? (1999); Gregory Hess, Russell S. Bock Chair of Public Economics and Taxation, professor of economics, Dean of Faculty, CMC; co-author, War and Democracy (2001) and Is the Political Business Cycle for Real? (2002); Marc Weidenmier, William F. Podlich '66 associate professor of economics and George R. Roberts Fellow; associate director, Lowe Institute for Political Economy, CMC; co-author, forthcoming Competing with the NYSE and Volatility in an Era of Reduced Uncertainty: Lessons from Pax Britanica (2006); S. Brock Blomberg, Peter K. Barker '70 professor of economics and George R. Roberts Fellow, CMC; co-author, How Much Does Violence Tax Trade (2006) and forthcoming The Impacts of Terrorism on Urban Form; Tom Borcherding, professor of economics, CGU; co-author, The Supply Side of Democratic Governments: A Brief Survey (2006) and Growth in the Real Size of Government since 1970 (2004) (moderator); "The Recession of 2008: Myth or Reality" (12:00 p.m.)
 

John Coffee, Adolf A. Berle professor of law, director, Center on Corporate Governance, Columbia University; author, Gatekeepers: The Role of the Professions in Corporate Governance (2006) and co-author, Business Organizations and Finance: Legal and Economic Principles; "Accountability, Competition and Collusion: The Dilemma of the Securities Class Action" (12:30 p.m.)
 

Kazuhiko Togo, former Japanese ambassador to the Netherlands; visiting professor of international relations, Seoul National University; author, Japan's Foreign Policy 1945-2003: The Quest for a Proactive Policy (2005) and co-author, Japanese Strategic Thought Toward Asia (2007); "Japan's Foreign Policy: Between the Pacific Ocean and the Asian Continent" (12:00 p.m.)
 

Steven Hayward, F.K. Weyerhaeuser Fellow, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research; author, Greatness: Reagan, Churchill, and the Making of Extraordinary Leaders (2005) and The Real Jimmy Carter: How Our Worst Ex-president Undermines American Foreign Policy, Coddles Dictators, and Created the Party of Clinton and Kerry (2004); "Is the 'Age of Reagan' Over?" (12:00 p.m.)
 

James Yee, former U.S. Army captain and Muslim chaplain; author, For God and Country: Faith and Patriotism Under Fire (2005); "For God and Country"
 

May Berenbaum, Swanlund professor of entomology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; author, Bugs in the System: Insects and Their Impact on Human Affairs (1996) and Buzzwords: A Scientist Muses on Sex, Bugs, and Rock 'N' Roll (2000); "The Birds and the Bees and the GNP"
 

Dmitry Dubrovsky, associate professor of international relations, political science, and human rights, Smolny College, St. Petersburg, Russia; Galina Starovoitova Fellow in Human Rights and Conflict Resolution, Keenan Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; "Human Rights in Russia"
 

Katie Purvis-Roberts, associate professor of chemistry, CMC; Alex Rajczi, assistant professor of philosophy, CMC; author, Vindicating Ordinary Morality (2007) and The Moral Theory behind Moral Dilemmas (2002); S. Brock Blomberg, Peter K. Barker '70 professor of economics and George R. Roberts Fellow, CMC; co-author, How Much Does Violence Tax Trade (2006) and forthcoming The Impacts of Terrorism on Urban Form; William Christian, visiting lecturer in government, CMC; project manager, Amargosa River Project, The Nature Conservancy; "Global Warming: Is It Our Responsibility?"
 

Joel Kotkin, Presidential Fellow, Roger C. Hobbs Institute, Chapman University; author, The City: A Global History (2006) and The New Geography: How the Digital Revolution is Reshaping the American Landscape (2000); "The Future of California after the Bubble"
 

Severin Borenstein, E.T. Grether professor of business administration and public policy, U.C. Berkeley; director, University of California Energy Institute; author, Wealth Transfers Among Large Customers from Implementing Real-Time Retail Electricity Pricing (2007) and Customer Risk from Real-Time Electricity Pricing: Bill Volatility and Hedgeability (2007); "Meeting the U.S. Energy Challenges"
 

Julian Bond, chair, NAACP; president emeritus, Southern Poverty Law Center; distinguished adjunct professor of history, University of Virginia; author, A Time to Speak, A Time to Act (1972) and Black Candidates Southern Campaign Experiences (1969); "Civil Rights: In the Day, Today, and Tomorrow"
 

Charles Kamm, assistant professor of music, Scripps College; conductor, Claremont Chamber Choir; "A Winter Holiday Concert" (7:00 p.m.)
 

Charles Kamm, assistant professor of music, Scripps College; conductor, Claremont Chamber Choir; "A Winter Holiday Concert" (7:00 p.m.)
 

Daniel Kurtzer, S. Daniel Abraham professor of Middle East Studies, The Woodrow Wilson School of Public and Independent Affairs, Princeton University; former U.S. Ambassador to Eqypt (1997-2001) and Israel (2001-2005); "Annapolis and Beyond: High Stakes and High Risk in the Middle East Peace Process"
 

Judea Pearl, professor of computer science and statistics, director, Cognitive Systems Laboratory, UCLA; founder, Daniel Pearl Foundation; author, Causality: Models, Reasoning, and Inference (2000) and co-editor, "I Am Jewish: Personal Reflections Inspired by the Last Words of Daniel Pearl" (2004)