Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum

Guy Sorman, contributing editor, City Journal; author, Economics Does Not Lie: A Defense of the Free Market in a Time of Crisis (2009) and The Empire of Lies: The Truth about China in the Twenty-First Century (2008); "The Sovereign Debt Crisis in Europe and the Future of the Euro"(12:00 p.m.)

Peter Balakian, Donald M. and Constance H. Rebar Professor of Humanities, Colgate University; author, Ziggurat (2010) and The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response (2003); "The Transmission of Trauma across Generations: Writing a Memoir about the Armenian Genocide and Growing up in Suburbia" (12:00 p.m.)

Dinner Theater; "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie (1939) (6:00 p.m.)

Moises Naim, senior associate, International Economics program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; author, The End of Power: From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States: Why Being in Charge Isn't What It Used to Be (2013) and How Smugglers, Traffickers, and Copycats are Hijacking the Global Economy (2006); "The End of Power" (6:00 p.m. Parents Dining Room)

Dinner Theater; "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie (1939) (6:00 p.m.)

Joshua Walker, International Affairs Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations; co-author, The Shifting Tectonics of Japan One Year After March 11, 2011 (2012) and Turkey and Its Neighbors (2011); "Partnerships for the Middle East and North Africa in 21st Century American Statecraft" (12:00 p.m.)

Rebecca Skloot, author, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2010); "An Evening with Rebecca Skloot"

Lenny Fukshansky, associate professor and chair, Department of Mathematical Sciences, CMC; Mark Huber, Fletcher Jones Foundation Associate Professor of Mathematics and Statistics and George R. Roberts Fellow, CMC; Deanna Needell, assistant professor of mathematics, CMC; Sam Nelson, associate professor of mathematics; “A Challenge for the Millennium: The Million Dollar Problems in Mathematics”

Doron Weber, vice president of programs, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation; author, Immortal Bird: A Family Memoir (2013) and Safe Blood: Purifying the Nation's Blood Supply in the Age of AIDS (1990); "Lunch with the Author" (12:00 p.m.)

Jonathan Zimmerman, professor of history of education, New York University, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development; author, Small Wonder: The Little Red Schoolhouse in History and Memory (2009) and Innocent Abroad: American Teachers in the American Century (2006); "You Can't Say That: Teachers and the Limits of Freedom in American Schools" (12:00 p.m.)

Stanley McChrystal, general, U.S. Army, retired; Commander, International Security Assistance Force; Commander, U.S. Forces Afghanistan (2009-2010); author, My Share of the Task: A Memoir (2012) and co-author, Behavioral Conflict: Why Understanding People and Their Motives Will Prove Decisive in Future Conflict (2011); "The State of International Affairs and the Security Challenges Facing America"

David Bjerk, Russell S. Bock Chair of Public Economics and Taxation; associate professor of economics, CMC; author, Re-examining the Longer-term Impact of Dropping Out on Criminal and Labor Market Outcomes (2012) and Thieves, Thugs, and Neighborhood Poverty (2010); "Hmm, That Doesn't Sound Like Economics: An Economist’s Perspective on Sentencing Laws, Discrimination, and Willful Ignorance"

Dina Buchbinder Auron, founder and director, Desport-es para Compartir (Sports to Share); Ashoka Fellow; "Sports for Sharing: Waking Up Children’s Inner Agent of Change Through Sports and Games" (12:00 p.m.)

Alexandria Dionne, production manager and co-producer, The Documentary Group, 10X10, LLC.; "Girl Rising" (6:45 p.m. Parents Dining Room) (3:00 p.m. “Girl Rising” film viewing, Mary Pickford Auditorium)

Francisco Varela, Jr. '93, Global Director of Platform Partnerships, YouTube; “Making You Famous: Reaching 6 Billion People on YouTube”