Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum

Michelle Abend Bauman '89, business and personal life coach; "Creating a Context for Success: Leading Yourself So You Can Lead Others" (12:00 p.m.)

Nigel Smith, William and Annie S. Paton Foundation Professor of Ancient and Modern Literature; co-director, Center for the Study of Books and Media, Princeton University; author, Andrew Marvell: The Chameleon (2010) and Is Milton Better than Shakespeare? (2008); "The European Marvell"

Laurence Iannaccone, professor of economics and director, Institute for the Study of Religion, Economics, and Society, Chapman University; author, forthcoming, Divine Economy: Perspectives on the Market for Religion and The Economics of Religion; "Religious Extremism: The Good, the Bad, and the Deadly"

Eve Ensler, playwright, performer, activist; author, The Vagina Monologues (1996) and In the Body of the World: A Memoir (2013); creator of V-Day; co-founder of City of Joy, Congo; "In the Body of Justice" (12:00 p.m.)

Shimon Shetreet, Greenblatt Professor of Public and International Law, director, Sacher Institute of Comparative Law, Hebrew University, Jerusalem; author, Law and Social Pluralism (2002) and On Adjudication (2004); "Creating a Culture of Peace in the Middle East" (12:00 p.m.)

Hiram Chodosh, president, CMC; co-author, forthcoming The Uniform Civil Code of India: Blueprint for Scholarly Discourse (2014) and Law in Iraq: A Document Companion (2012); "Depolarizing Conflict in an Era of Globalization"

Claremont Chamber Choir; Charles Kamm, associate professor of music, Scripps College; conductor, Claremont chamber choir; "A Winter Holiday Concert"

Uri Resnick, Deputy Consul General of Israel, Los Angeles; author, forthcoming Dynamics of Asymmetric Territorial Conflict: The Evolution of Patience (2013); "Israeli Foreign Policy in a Changing Region" (12:00 p.m.)

Kimberly Reed, documentary filmmaker; producer, Prodigal Sons (2008) and Paul Goodman Changed My Life (2011); "Kimberly Reed and Prodigal Sons"

Ricardo Quinones P'89, Josephine Olp Weeks Chair emeritus and professor emeritus of literature, CMC; author, A Sorting of the Ways: New and Selected Poems (2011) and Through the Years (2010); Todd Mandel, associate director of leadership giving, CMC; A. Richard Sogliuzzo; former assistant professor of theatre, SUNY, Albany; author, Luigi Pirandello, Director: The Playwright in the Theater (1982) and Edward H. Sothern and Julia Marlowe, Shakespearean Producers (1967); Rachel Vetter Huang, violin; lecturer in music, Scripps College; "The Way We Used to Be: Dreams of Americana in Verse"

Tremaine Williams, recording engineer; Cheryl Pawelski, three-time GRAMMY nominated producer; Marcy Kraft, Live Nation concert and festival specialist; Mindi Abair, singer, songwriter, instrumentalist; "GRAMMY U Off the Record: Music Business 101" (12:00 p.m.)

Bruce Cain, Charles Louis Ducommun Professor in Humanities and Sciences, professor of political science; director, Bill Lane Center for the American West, Stanford University; co-editor, Development in American Politics VI (2010) and Racial and Ethnic Politics in California: Continuity and Change, Vol. 3 (2008); Marguerite Leoni, senior partner, Nielsen Marksamer Parrinello Gross & Leoni LLP; Ken Miller, associate professor of government; associate director, Edessa Rose Institute of State and Local Government, CMC; author, Direct Democracy and the Courts (2009) and co-editor, The New Political Geography of California (2008); moderator; "The Voting Rights Act after Shelby County v. Holder" (12:00 p.m.)

Deborah Lipstadt, Dorot professor of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies, Emory University; author, The Eichmann Trial (2011) and History on Trial: My Day in Court with David Irving (2006); "The Eichmann Trial: Its Impact After 50 Years"

Charles Armstrong, The Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Studies in the Social Sciences, director, Center for Korean Research, Columbia University; author, Tyranny of the Weak: North Korea and the World, 1950-1990 (2013) and The Koreas (2007); "North Korea and the World, a Complicated Relationship" (12:00 p.m.)

Aleena Ali '17, Clare Hamben, Braden Holstege, William Mitchell '14; "Claremont Colleges Debate Union: Edward Snowden – Traitor or Hero? – Debating Privacy, Whistleblowing and National Security in the Context of NSA Surveillance Programs"