Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum

Alvin Poussaint, clinical professor of psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; co-author, Lay My Burden Down: Suicide and the Mental Health Crisis Among African Americans (2000) and Raising Black Children: Two Leading Psychiatrists Confront the Educational, Social, and Emotional Problems Facing Black Children (1992); "The Impact of Racism and Prejudice on Children"

Dick Gregory, comedian, activist, vegetarian; co-editor, African American Humor: The Best Black Comedy from Slavery to Today (2002) and author, Dick Gregory's Natural Diet for Folks Who Eat: Cookin' with Mother Nature (1983); 5-C sponsored talk to be in Bridges Hall of Music (Little Bridges) at 7:00 p.m.; "Reception and Book Signing" at the Athenaeum (8:00 p.m.)

Mario Martelli, professor of mathematics, CMC; author, Discrete Dynamical Systems and Chaos (1992) and co-author, Topological Methods for Ordinary Differential Equations (1991); "The Secret (and Mystery) of Brunelleschi's Cupola"
 

Eugenia Dallas, author, The Destiny of Ukranian Beauty (1993) and "One Woman, Five Lives, Five Countries" (1998) (4:00 p.m.)
 

Juliet Funt, eating disorder consultant; co-author, The Wellness Path: Your Roadmap For Living Healthy and Feeling Great! (2002); "It's Not About Food"
 

Donal O'Sullivan, visiting assistant professor of history, CMC; author, Furcht und Faszination-deutsche und britische Russlandbilder 1921-1933 (Fear and Fascination- German and British Images of Soviet Russia 1921-1933) (1996), and co-editor, Sonderwege im Vergleich- Deutschland und Russland im 19. und im 20. Jahrhundert (Special Path in Comparison- Germany and Russia in the 19th and 20th Century) (2001); "The English Only Understand Force: The USSR and the Outbreak of the Cold War" (4:00 p.m.)
 

Omar Ali, director of research, Committee for a United Independent Party (CUIP); contributing author, History in Dispute- Social and Political Movements, 1945-2000 (2000) and Encyclopedia of African American Culture and History (2001); "The Role of Independents in the 2004 Presidential Election" (12:15 p.m.)
 

Lee Hamilton, director of Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; former Indiana congressman (D-9th district); co-author, A Creative Tension: The Foreign Policy Roles of the President and Congress (2002) and Iran-Contra Affair with the Minority View (1988); "Major U.S. Foreign Policy Challenges" (12:15 p.m.)
 

William Quandt, Edward R. Stettinius chair and vice provost and professor of government and foreign affairs, University of Virginia; author, Between Ballots and Bullets: Algeria's Transition from Authoritarianiam (1998) and Peace Process: American Diplomacy and the Arab-Israeli Conflict Since 1967 (2001); "Bush's New Strategy for the Middle East"
 

Louis Menand, professor of English, City University of New York; contributing editor, New York Review; author, The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America (2001) and editor, Pragmatism: A Reader (1997); "Public Intellectuals in American Life"
 

Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the House; former Georgia congressman, (R-6th district); author, To Renew America (1995) and Contract with America: The Bold Plan to Change the Nation (1994); "The 2002 Election Outlook" (12:15 p.m.)
 

John Herald, vocals and guitar; founder of the Greenbriar Boys; Brantley Kearns, vocals and fiddle; Fred Sokolow, fiddle, mandolin, banjo; Tom Sauber, fiddle, mandolin, banjo; Pat Campbell, bass; "From the Grand Ol' Opry to Carnegie Hall"
 

Kanan Makiya, professor of Middle East studies, Brandeis University; author, Cruelty and Silence: War, Tyranny, Uprising, and the Arab World (1993) and Republic of Fear: The Politics of Modern Iraq (1991); "A Model for Post-Saddam Iraq"
 

Clint Bolick, vice president and director of litigation, Institute for Justice, Washington, D.C.; author, Grassroots Tyranny: The Limits of Federalism (1993) and forthcoming Voucher Wars: Waging the Legal Battle Over School Choice (2003); "Litigating for Local Liberty: Fighting Grassroots Tyranny in the Schools, City Hall, and Other Government Bureaucracies" (12:15 p.m.)
 

Gail Goodman, professor of psychology, U.C. Davis; author, Child Victims, Child Witnesses: Understanding and Improving Testimony (1992) and co-editor, International Perspectives on Child Abuse and Children's Testimony: Psychological Research and Law (1996); "Trauma, Memory, and Law"