Current Semester Schedule

Tue, November 9, 1999

Loren Finkelstein, program director, Free The Planet!; "Are We Headed For a Green Millennium?"

Mon, November 8, 1999

Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, co-director, National Marriage Project, Rutgers University; author, The Divorce Culture: Rethinking Our Commitments to Marriage and Family (1997) and co-author, Goodbye to Girlhood: What's Troubling Girls and What Can We Do About It (1999); "Marriage and Children: Looking at the Data"

Thu, November 4, 1999

Deborah Buck, violin; Eric Charnosky, piano; "Violin Recital"

Wed, November 3, 1999

Tim Judah, British journalist; author, forthcoming Kosovo: War and Revenge (2000) and "The Serbs: History, Myth, and the Destruction of Yugoslavia " (1997)

Tue, November 2, 1999

Victor Davis Hanson, professor of classics, CSU Fresno; author, The Soul of Battle: From Ancient Times to the Present Days, Three Great Liberators Vanquished Tyranny (1999) and Who Killed Homer: The Demise of Classical Education and the Recovery of Greek Wisdom (1998); "The Countryside and Civilization, Ancient and Modern"

Mon, November 1, 1999

Richard Landes, associate professor of history, Boston University; editor, forthcoming Encyclopedia of Millennnialism and Millennial Movements (2000) and author, Relics, Apocalypse, and the Deceits of History: Ademar of Chabannes, 989-1034 (1995); "The Apocalyptic Curve: Anatomy of a Millennial Moment"

Thu, October 28, 1999

William Kristol, editor and publisher, The Weekly Standard; co-editor, forthcoming Present Dangers: Crisis and Opportunity in American Foreign and Defense Policy (2000) and editor, Neoconservative Imagination: Essays in Honor of Irving Kristol (1995); "Liberalism, Conservatism and the 2000 Election" (12:15 p.m.)

Wed, October 27, 1999

Lois Gibbs, founder, executive director, Center for Health, Environment and Justice; author, Love Canal: My Story (1982) and co-author, Deeper Shades of Green: The Rise of Blue-collar and Minority Environmentalism in America (1994); "Lessons Learned From Love Canal Applied to the 21st Century" (12:15 p.m.)

Mon, October 25, 1999

Orville Schell, dean, graduate school of journalism, U.C. Berkeley; co-editor, The China Reader: The Reform Era (1999) and Discos and Democracy: China in the Throes of Reform (1988); "China and Tibet: An Uneasy Relationship"

Thu, October 21, 1999

Oscar Arias, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (1987); former president of Costa Rica; co-editor, Costa Rica: A Traveler's Literary Companion (1994) and El Camino de la Paz; "Moral Leadership in the Age of Globalization" (4:00 p.m. McKenna Auditorium)

Wed, October 20, 1999

Josh Farley, director, Environmental Economics Institute, University of Maryland; author, The Impact of McC: Economic, Population, and Land Use Trends (1985) and co-author, R & D as an Economic Development Strategy: The Microelectric and Computer Technology Corporation Comes to Austin, No. 35 (1985); "The Limits of the Market Economy With Respect to Public Goods or Why Ecological Economics?"

Thu, October 14, 1999

David Hayes-Bautista, professor of medicine and director, Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture, UCLA; co-author, The Burden of Support: Young Latinos in an Aging Society (1988) and No Longer a Minority: Latinos and Social Policy in California (1992); "Latino Health in California: Window on the Future"

Wed, October 13, 1999

Nelson Polsby, Heller professor of political science, U.C. Berkeley; co-author, The Divided Democrats: Ideological Unity, Party Reform, and Presidential Elections (1996) and editor, The Modern Presidency (1981), "What Do We Know About Presidential Elections?" (12:15 p.m.)

Tue, October 12, 1999

Nelson Polsby, Heller professor of political science, U.C. Berkeley; author, Community Power and Political Theory: A Further Look at Problems of Evidence and Inference (1980) and editor, Media and Momentum: The New Hampshire Primary and Nomination Politics (1987); "A Revolution in Congress"

Mon, October 11, 1999

Alan Segal, Ingeborg Rennert professor of Jewish Studies, Barnard College, Columbia University; author, Rebecca's Children: Judaism and Christianity in the Roman World (1986) and Paul the Convert: The Apostolate and Apostasy of Saul the Pharisee (1990); "The Origins of Messianism: Social Perspectives"

Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum