Current Semester Schedule

Wed, February 28, 2001

Carol Mayo Jenkins, chorus; Monique Sims, Antigone; Mary Carver, nurse; Emily Deschanel, Ismene; Josh Adell, Haemon; Steve Gilborn, Creon; Lance Davis, first guard; Greg White, second guard; Matt Sullivan, messenger; Cosmo Sher, page; "Interact Theater Company: Jean Anouilh's Antigone" (1944)

Tue, February 27, 2001

John Wooden, former men's basketball head coach, UCLA; author, Practical Modern Basketball (1966) and "They Call Me Coach" (1972)

Mon, February 26, 2001

Victor Pestoff, professor of political science, Sodertorns Hogskola, Sweden; author, Between Markets and Politics: Co-operatives in Sweden (1991) and "Beyond the Market and State: Social Enterprises and Civil Democracy in a Welfare Society" (1998) (12:15 p.m.)

Thu, February 22, 2001

Ralph Rossum P'01, Henry Salvatori professor of political philosophy and American constitutionalism, CMC; author, American Constitutional Law: Cases and Interpretation (1983) and Reverse Discrimination: The Constitutional Debate (1980); "The Seventeenth Amendment and the Death of Federalism"

Wed, February 21, 2001

Robert George, McCormick professor of jurisprudence, Princeton University; author, Making Men Moral: Civil Liberties and Public Morality (1995) and In Defense of Natural Law (1999); "Civil Liberties and Public Morality"

Tue, February 20, 2001

Robert Goldich '71, national defense specialist, Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress; "No Such Thing as Total Civilian Control of the Military" (12:15 p.m.)

Mon, February 19, 2001

Steven Pinker, professor of cognitive science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; author, How the Mind Works (1999) and The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (2000); "How the Mind Works: Words and Rules"

Thu, February 15, 2001

Barry Menikoff, professor of English literature, University of Hawaii; editor, forthcoming Kidnapped; Or the Lad with the Silver Button (2001) and Tales from the Prince of Storytellers (1993); "F. Scott Fitzgerald and Hollywood"

Wed, February 14, 2001

Jennifer Warnes, vocalist; Billy Watts, guitar; Skip Edwards, keyboard; David Jackson, bass; Lee Spah, drums; Hani Nassen, percussion; Matt Cartsonis and Chris Darrell, mandolin; "An Evening with Jennifer Warnes"

Tue, February 13, 2001

Richard Lewontin, Alexander Agassiz research professor of biology, Harvard University; author, The Triple Helix (2000) and It Ain't Necessarily So: The Dream of the Human Genome and Other Illusions (2000); "Genomemania"

Mon, February 12, 2001

Timothy Colton, Morris and Anna Feldberg professor of government and Russian studies, director, Davis Center for Russian Studies, Harvard University; author, Transitional Citizens: Voters and What Influences Them in the New Russia (2000) and Moscow: Governing the Socialist Metropolis (1996); "Russia's Stalled Transition"

Thu, February 8, 2001

David Hull, Dressler professor of philosophy, Northwestern University; author, Science as a Process: An Evolutionary Account of the Social and Conceptual Development of Science (1988) and Darwin and His Critics: The Reception of Darwin's Theory of Evolution by the Scientific Community (1973); "Deconstructing Darwin"

Wed, February 7, 2001

Robert Pinsky, U.S. poet laureate consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress (1997-2000); professor of creative writing, Boston University; author, Jersey Rain (2000) and The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems 1966-1996 (1996); "Reading From His Poetry"

Tue, February 6, 2001

Alfred Crosby, professor emeritus of American studies, University of Texas; author, The Measure of Reality: Quantification in Western Europe, 1250-1600 (1997) and America's Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918 (1990); "The West Chooses Quantification"

Mon, February 5, 2001

Mark Baird P'01 P'04, country director, World Bank, Indonesia; editor, Uganda: Country Economic Memorandum (1982); "What is Happening in Indonesia?"

Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum