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Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum

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Current Semester Schedule

Athenaeum events are posted here as detailed information becomes available.

Mon, November 19, 2007
Erwin Chemerinsky, Alston & Bird professor of law and professor of political science, Duke University; author, Interpreting the Constitution (1987) and Constitutional Law (2001); "The Roberts Court and the Future of Constitutional Law"
 
Thu, November 15, 2007
Carl Schramm, president, CEO, Ewing Marion Kaufman Foundation; co-author, Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism (2007), and author, The Entrepreneurial Imperative (2006); "Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity"
 
Wed, November 14, 2007
Gregg Easterbrook, senior editor, The New Republic, contributing editor, The Atlantic Monthly and The Washington Monthly; visiting fellow, Brookings Institution; author, The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse (2003) and The Here and Now (2002); "'Green' Industries in the 21st Century: Organization and Accountability"
 
Tue, November 13, 2007
Anderson Cooper, journalist, CNN anchor, Anderson Cooper 360; author, Dispatches from the Edge (2006); "Today's Headlines with Anderson Cooper" (11:00 a.m. McKenna Auditorium)
 
Mon, November 12, 2007
Ishmael Reed, lecturer emeritus, Department of English, U.C. Berkeley; editor, From Totems to Hip-Hop: A Multicultural Anthology of Poetry Across the Americas, 1900-2002 (2003) and author, Blue City: A Walk in Oakland (2002); "Selected Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar"
 
Thu, November 8, 2007
Bei Dao, poet; author, Midnight's Gate: Essays (2005) and At the Sky's Edge: Poems 1991-1996 (1996); "An Evening with the Poet"
 
Wed, November 7, 2007
Noa Baum, performance artist; member, National Storytelling Network; author, "A Land Twice Promised" (2002)
 
Tue, November 6, 2007
Elizabeth Kolbert, staff writer, The New Yorker; author, The Prophet of Love and Other Tales of Power and Deceit (2004) and "Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature and Climate Change" (2006)
 
Mon, November 5, 2007
Oona Eisenstadt, Fred Krinsky Chair of Jewish Studies and assistant professor of religious studies, Pomona College; author, Driven Back to the Text: The Premodern Sources of Levinas's Post Modernism (2001), "Is Judaism a Political Philosophy?: Reflections on Spinoza, Strauss, and Levinas"
 
Fri, November 2, 2007
Adrian Buono, guitar; Santiago Lee, guitar; Jose Agote, guitar; Juan Manzur, guitar; Juan Manuel Leguizamon, percussion; artists on albums Live in Los Angeles (2005) and Peripecias (2006); "Los Pinguos: A Musical Celebration for the Pacific Coast Council on Latin American Studies Conference" (12:30 p.m.)
 
Thu, November 1, 2007
Paul Shapiro, director, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum; "Opening the Archives of the International Tracing Service" (12:15 p.m.)
 
Wed, October 31, 2007
William Kristol, editor, The Weekly Standard; chairman and co-founder, Project for the New American Century; author, The Weekly Standard: A Reader, 1995-2005 (2006) and co-author, War Over Iraq: Saddam's Tyranny and America's Mission (2003); "American Politics Today: The Presidency and the War"
 
Tue, October 30, 2007
Bono, lead singer, U2; co-founder, advocacy organization DATA (Debt AIDS Trade Africa) ; "A Lesson in Giving Back" (7:30 p.m. Bridges Auditorium)
 
Mon, October 29, 2007
Billy Collins, U.S. poet laureate consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress (2001-2003); distinguished professor of English, Lehman College, City University of New York; author, The Trouble with Poetry and Other Poems (2005) and 180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Everyday Life (2005); "An Evening with the Poet"
 
Thu, October 25, 2007
David Talbot, founder, former editor-in-chief, Salon.com; author, Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years (2007); "Why JKF is Still Ahead of His Time"
 

Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum

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