Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum

Kyle Theodore ’91 is a senior vice president at Pacific Investment Management Company (PIMCO) as an account manager on the DC key accounts team. With over 19 years of investment sector experience, he was previously at Valuemetrics, a valuation and transaction advisory services company, and the Walt Disney Company. Theodore majored in government and literature at CMC and has an MBA from Yale University. He will speak at the Athenaeum as a Robert Day School Distinguished Speaker. "PIMCO’s Current Economic Views, and Thoughts on Behavioral Finance" (12:00 p.m.)

Dinner Theater, "The Bold, The Young and the Murdered" by Don Zolidis (2011) (6:00 p.m.)

Dinner Theater, "The Bold, The Young and the Murdered" by Don Zolidis (2011) (6:00 p.m.)

Dinner Theater, "The Bold, The Young and the Murdered" by Don Zolidis (2011) (6:00 p.m.)

Verlyn Klinkenborg, a writer and former editorial board member of The New York Times, has been praised for his NYT editorial series "The Rural Life," a collection of meditations on rural life and his farm in upstate New York. He teaches at Yale College and his most recent book, Several Short Sentences About Writing offers thoughtful and practical wisdom on the art and craft of writing. "The Writer at Work"(12:00 p.m. program)

Diana Linden, art historian, is the author of The New Deal Murals of Ben Shahn: Jewish Identity in the American Scene (Wayne State University Press, forthcoming 2015). Linden will situate Shahn’s New Deal mural production within the context of broad themes in American history, including American-Jewish history. "Red, White, and Jew: The New Deal Murals of Ben Shahn" (12:00 p.m. program)

Renowned Indian music artists Paul Livingstone, Vineet Vyas, and Pandit (‘Maestro’) Kanhaiya Lal Mishra will play solo and together on sitar, tabla, and sarangi a selection of Hindustani ragas and talas (melodic and rhythmic pieces). In this intimate, traditional concert, rasa — flavor — of the experience is created by musical improvisation within very disciplined structures. "An Evening of Indian Classical Music"

Jean Yarbrough is professor of government and the Gary M. Pendy, Sr. Professor of Social Sciences at Bowdoin College. A recipient of two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, she teaches political philosophy and American political thought. Active on numerous editorial boards, Yarbrough also is the author of many books, including most recently Theodore Roosevelt and the American Political Tradition (2012), which won the Richard E. Neustadt Award in 2013 for the best book on the American presidency. "Theodore Roosevelt and the American Political Tradition" (12:00 p.m. program)

Brian Parker is the director of education at The Taylor Hooton Foundation. The Foundation is solely dedicated to increasing education and awareness about the dangers of appearance and performance enhancing drugs (APEDs). Parker will offer a pragmatic view of APEDs and their popularity to improve not only athletic performance but increasingly also to enhance physical appearance. "Hoot’s Chalk Talk: A Pragmatic View of Appearance and Performance Enhancing Drugs" (12:00 p.m. program)

Marci Shore is associate professor of History at Yale University where she teaches European cultural and intellectual history. She is the author of Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation's Life and Death in Marxism, 1918-1968, and The Taste of Ashes: The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe. Currently she is at work on a book project titled Phenomenological Encounters: Scenes from Central Europe. "A Civilization that Needs Metaphysics': Existentialism and Dissent in Eastern Europe" (12:00 p.m. program)

Timothy Snyder is the Housum Professor of History at Yale University and a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences. He is a renowned scholar and author of numerous books on modern Eastern Europe and the Holocaust, including Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (2010). His forthcoming book, a history of the Holocaust entitled Black Earth, will be published in September 2015. "Russia and Ukraine, War and History"

Laura Eise '08 is a cyber security consultant with Booz Allen Hamilton, where she works with leaders across multiple industries in aligning cyber security programs to manage risk and meet the needs of the business. She is the co-author of a proprietary maturity model, CyberM3, which is used across multiple industries to gauge the completeness and maturity of cyber security programs. Eise’s talk will explore potential cyber attacks and threats as the automobiles we drive become increasingly "connected." "How Cyber is Driving Change in the Automotive Industry" (12:00 p.m. program)

Ari Elson of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, will present the results of research on molecules called protein tyrosine phosphatases (PTPe) and address the significant impact of science and engineering in Israeli society, from the founding of the Technion in the early 20th century to the numerous innovations that have contributed to Israel becoming the “start-up” nation. "Science and Society in Israel" (12:00 p.m. program)

Marcelo Suárez-Orozco is the Wasserman Dean & Distinguished Professor of Education?at UCLA’s Graduate School of Education and Information Sciences. A renowned administrator and prolific award-winning writer, his research primarily focuses on conceptual and empirical problems in the areas of cultural psychology and psychological anthropology with an emphasis on mass migration, globalization, and education. In 2012, he founded the Institute for Immigrant Children, Youth, and Families at UCLA, which he co-directs. "Globalization, Mass Migration and Inequality: Further Thoughts on Education in the Age of Vertigo"

Mignon Fogarty is the creator of Grammar Girl and the founder and managing director of Quick and Dirty Tips. A magazine writer, technical writer, and entrepreneur, Fogarty’s kicky, practical, and easy-to-remember advice about style and usage has won her fans across the globe. Her first book, Grammar Girl’s Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing, is a New York Times bestseller, and her weekly grammar podcasts have been downloaded twenty million times. "An Evening with Grammar Girl"