Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum

Charles Kesler, professor of government, CMC; author, Saving the Revolution: The Federalist Papers and the American Founding (1987) and co-author, Keeping the Tablets: Modern American Conservative Thought (1988); John Roth, Russell K. Pitzer professor of philosophy and religious studies, CMC; author, Ethics after the Holocaust: Perspectives, Critiques, and Responses (1999) and Private Needs, Public Selves: Talk about Religion in America (1997); William Ascher, Donald C. McKenna professor of government and economics, dean of faculty, CMC; (moderator); co-author, Strategic Planning and Forecasting: Political Risk and Economic Opportunity (1983) and author, Why Governments Waste National Resources: Policy Failures in Developing Countries (1999); P. Edward Haley, W. M. Keck Foundation Chair of International strategic studies, CMC; author, Nuclear Strategy, Arms Control and the Future (1988) and Congress and the Fall of South Vietnam and Cambodia (1982); Diane Halpern, professor of psychology; director, Berger Institute for Work, Family and Children, CMC; author, Thought and Knowledge: An Introduction to Critical Thinking (1995) and Sex Differences in Cognitive Abilities (1992); Marc Weidenmier, professor of economics, CMC; co-author, International Financial Crisis by Way of Localized Disaster: The San Francisco Earthquake and the Panic of 1907 (2001) and The Market for Confederate Cotton Bonds (2000); "Coping with the Tragedy: Security and Democracy" (4:00 p.m.)
 

Brian Lowry, television columnist, Los Angeles Times; author, The Truth is Out There: The Official Guide to the X-Files (1995) and Trust No One: The Official Guide to the X-Files: Third Season (1996); "Are the Media Giants Taking Over?"
 

Rachel Adler, joint assistant professor of modern Jewish thought, Hebrew Union College/USC; author, Engendering Judaism: An Inclusive Theology and Ethics (1998) and The Impoverished Student's Guide to Making Pesach (1974); "Pour Out Your Heart Like Water: Toward a Feminist Theology of the Holocaust"
 

John Roth, Russell K. Pitzer professor of philosophy and religious studies, CMC; author, Holocaust Politics (2001) and co-author, The Holocaust Chronicle (2000); "Take Nothing Good for Granted"
 

Brunch Theater, "Rumors" by Neil Simon (1988) (11:30 a.m.)
 

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

Michael Ondaajte, author, The English Patient (1992) and Handwriting (1999); "An Evening with Michael Ondaatje"
 

Harry Jaffa, Henry Salvatori professor emeritus of political philosophy and American Constitutionalism, CMC; author, Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1959) and "A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War" (2000)
 

Robert Higgs, editor, The Independent Review: A Journal of Political Economy; author, Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government (1989) and Competition and Coercion: Blacks in the American Economy (1976); "The Role of the State in the Rise of the West"
 

Mary Kay Thompson Tetreault, provost and vice president for academic affairs, Portland State University; author, Women in America: Half of History (1978) and co-author, "The Feminist Classroom: An Inside Look at How Professors and Students are Transforming Higher Education for a Diverse Society" (1994) (12:15 p.m.)
 

John Beer, professor emeritus of English, Cambridge University; author, Romantic Influences: Contemporary-Victorian-Modern (1994) and Coleridge the Visionary (1959); "Romantic Apocalypses"
 

John La Porta, clarinet and tenor saxophone; Mark Masters, conductor, American Jazz Institute Big Band; Scott Englebright, Les Lovitt, Kye Palmer, Ron Stout, trumpet; Les Benedict, Dave Woodley, Bob McChesney, Pete Brockman, trombone; Danny House, Ray Reed, Brian Williams, Jerry Pinter, woodwind; Milcho Leviev, piano; Putter Smith, bass; Randy Drake, drums; "American Jazz Institute Big Band: An Evening with John La Porta"
 

Gillian Beer, King Edward VII professor of English literature, Cambridge University; author, Darwin's Plots: Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin, George Elliot, and 19th Century Fiction (1985) and Open Fields: Science in Cultural Encounter (1996); "Darwin and the Former Giants"
 

Edward Williams, professor of political science, University of Arizona; co-author, Mexico Faces the 21st Century (1995) and Latin American Politics: A Developmental Approach (1975); "Vicente Fox and the New Mexico: The U.S. Connection"
 

R. Gerard Ward, professor emeritus of human geography, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, Canberra; co-author, Samoa: Mapping the Diversity (1998) and editor, Land Custom and Practice in the South Pacific (1995); "Reshaping Places: Examples from the Pacific Islands"