Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum

Bronislaw Maj, professor of literature, Jagellonian University, Krakow; author, Destruction of the Holy City (1986) and Family Albums (1986), Robert Faggen, associate professor of literature, CMC; editor, Selected Poems (1997) and Striving Towards Being: The Letters of Thomas Merton and Czeslaw Milosz (1997); "Readings" (2:00 p.m. Pickford Auditorium)
 

Jane Hirshfield, author, Women in Praise of the Sacred (1994) and Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry: Essays (1997); Steve Kowit, professor of English language and humanities, Southwestern College; author, The Maverick Poets: An Anthology (1988) and Pranks (1990); Jack Miles, visiting fellow, California Institute of Technology; author, God: A Biography (1995) and co-author, Hiding (1997); Blanford Parker, adjunct associate professor of English, Claremont Graduate University; author, forthcoming The Triumph of Augustan Poetics: English Literary Culture from Butler to Johnson (1998); Al Zolynas, professor of literature, United States International University; co-editor, Men of Our Time: An Anthology of Male Poetry in Contemporary America (1992) and The New Physics (1979); "Poetry and the Sacred" (10:30 a.m.)
 

Irena Grudzinska-Gross, fellow, Remarque Institute, New York; author, The Scar of Revolution: Custine, Tocqueville, and the Romantic Imagination (1991) and editor, War Through Children's Eyes: The Soviet Occupation of Poland and the Deportations, 1939-41 (1985); Edith Kurzweil, editor, Partisan Review; author, Literature and Psychoanalysis (1983) and A Partisan Century (1996); Adam Michnik, editor-in-chief, Gazata Wyborcza; author, Letters from Prison and Other Essays (1985) and forthcoming Letters from Freedom: Post-Cold War Realities and Perspectives (1998); Andrej Walicki, professor of history, University of Notre Dame; author, Legal Philosophies of Russian Liberalism (1992) and A History of Russian Thought from the Enlightenment to Marxism (1980); "The Captive Mind" (10:30 a.m.)
 

Jerzy Illg, editor, NaGlos; author, The Challenges of Publishing in Poland (1996) and Conversations with Joseph Brodsky (1993); "An Invisible Rope: Milosz's Underground Publications" (1:00 p.m.)
 

Tony Kushner, playwright, author, Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes (1993) and A Bright Room Called Day (1985); "The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures"
 

Hao Huang, piano; associate professor of music, Scripps College; Ramona Sohn Allen, piano; doctoral candidate, Claremont Graduate University; "An Evening with Louis Moreau Gottschalk, America's First Musical Multiculturalist"
 

John Taylor, Mary and Robert Raymond professor of economics, director, Introductory Economic Studies Center, Stanford University; author, Macroeconomic Policy in a World Economy: From Econometric Design to Practical Operation (1994) and co-author, Inflation, Unemployment, and Monetary Policy (1998); "The Long Boom: Economic Policy or Good Fortune?"
 

Yvonne Brathwaite Burke, board of supervisors, second district, Los Angles County; "Women and Minorities in Government"
 

Dinner Theater, "Oedipus at Colonus" by Sophocles (405 B.C.) (8:00 p.m.)
 

Dinner Theater, "Oedipus at Colonus" by Sophocles (405 B.C.) (8:00 p.m.)
 

Dinner Theater, "Oedipus at Colonus" by Sophocles (405 B.C) (8:00 p.m.)
 

Billy Collins, distinguished professor of English, Lehman College, City University of New York; author, The Art of Drowning (1995) and The Apple That Astonished Paris (1988), "A Poetry Reading"
 

Michael Shermer, director, Skeptics Society; co-author, Cycling: Endurance and Speed (1987) and author, "Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time" (1997) (12:15 p.m.)
 

Sterling Stuckey, professor of history, U.C. Riverside; author, Slave Culture: Nationalist Theory and the Foundations of Black America (1987) and I Want to be African: Paul Robeson and the Ends of Nationalist Theory and Practice, 1919-1945 (1976); "A Centennial Retrospective: The Impact of Paul Robeson in the Americas"
 

Peter Lee, professor of Asian studies, UCLA; author, Pine River and Lone Peak: An Anthology of Three Choson Poets (1991) and The Silence of Love: Twentieth Century Korean Poetry (1980); "Critical Issues in Korean Literary History"