Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum

Avy Stein P'14, co-founder, managing partner, Willis Stein and Partners, LLC; former managing director, Continental Illinois Venture Corporation; "Preparing America and Yourself for the 21st Century Workforce"

Hinh Dinh P'14, Lead Economist, Office of the Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank, Washington DC; author, Light Manufacturing in Africa: Targeted Policies to Enhance Private Investment and Create Jobs (2012) and Performance of Manufacturing Firms in Africa: An Empirical Analysis ( 2012); “Lunch with a Leader: Industrial Development in Africa” (12:00 p.m.)

Robert Caro, winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, two National Book Critics Circle Awards, the National Book Award, and the Francis Parkman Prize; author, The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Passage of Power (2012), Master of the Senate (2002), Means of Ascent (1990), The Path to Power (1982) and The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (1974); "An Evening with Robert Caro"

Sandra Fluke, social justice advocate; Public Interest Law Scholar, Georgetown University Law Center; former member, Manhattan Borough Presidents Taskforce on Domestic Violence; co-founder, New York Statewide Coalition for Fair Access to Family Court; "Making Our Voices Heard"

Philip Zimbardo, professor of psychology emeritus, Stanford University; PBS series "Discovering Psychology"; Stanford Prison Experiment (1971); author, The Time Paradox: The New Psychology of Time That Will Change Your Life (2008) and The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil (2007); "My Journey from Evil to Heroism"

Steve Mariotti, founder, Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) (1987); co-author, Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management (2011) and Entrepreneurship: Starting and Operating a Small Business (2006) "Using Entrepreneurial Education as an Educational Strategy for Low-income Youth" (12:00 p.m.)

Murray Dry, Charles A. Dana Professor of Political Science, Middlebury College; co-editor, The Anti-Federalist: An Abridgment of The Complete Anti-Federalist (2006) and author, Civil Peace and the Quest for Truth: The First Amendment Freedoms in Political Philosophy and American Constitutionalism (2004); “Same Sex Marriage and the Constitution” (12:00 p.m.)

Jon E. Lendon, professor of history, University of Virginia; author, Songs of Wrath: The Peloponnesian War Begins (2010) and Soldiers and Ghosts: A History of the Battle in Classical Antiquities (2005); “The Strangeness of Greco-Roman Thinking about Foreign Affairs-A Guide to the Eccentric Behavior of Modern States?”

Joyce Carol Oates, Roger S. Berlind '52 Professor in the Humanities and Professor in Creative Writing, Princeton University; author, Black Dahlia & White Rose: Stories (2012) and Mudwoman: A Novel (2012); “An Evening with Joyce Carol Oates”

John Agnew, Distinguished Professor of Geography and professor of Italian, UCLA; author, Berlusconi's Italy (2008) and co-editor, Politics: Critical Essays in Human Geography (2008); "Rethinking the World Water Problem" (12:00 p.m.)

John Agnew, Distinguished Professor of Geography and professor of Italian, UCLA; author, Globalization and Sovereignty (2009) and co-editor, The SAGE Handbook of Geographical Knowledge (2010); "Citizenship and Nationality: How Immigration Rules Relate to Different Conceptions of Nationality around the World"

C. Anthony Bush '76, drums; author/composer, The Battle Hymn of a Freedman: African-American Soldiers in the Civil War (2011) and artist on CD, Answered Prayer/The Vision of H.R.A. Wells (2009); Samuel Reece '74, (narrator); David Murray, tenor saxophone; artist on CD, Answered Prayer/The Vision of H.R.A. Wells (2009); Sissel Bakken, mezzo-soprano; Gregory Cook; actor; Yartumo Gborkorquellie; Thorton Hudson, Jr., piano; Bobbie Kyles-Cole; Andrew Robinson; “Battle Hymn of a Freedman: African-American Soldiers in the Civil War”

Ray Ryan, Senior Commissioning Editor for English and American Literature, Cambridge University Press; author, The Good of the Novel (Faber 2011) and Ireland and Scotland: Literature and Culture, State and Nation, 1966-2000 (2002); "Publishing Academic Research in the Humanities" (12:00 p.m. Parents Dining Room)

Jonathan Franzen, National Book Award winner; author, Freedom: A Novel (2011) and The Corrections: A Novel (2001); “An Evening with the Author”

Gary Biszantz '56 P'08, president and owner, Cobra Farm; "Lunch with a Leader: Entrepreneurism" (12:00 p.m.)