Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum

Ameena Mirza Qazi, staff attorney and executive deputy director, Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR); "Islamophobia, Discrimination, and National Security"
 

Elizabeth Wydra '98, Chief Counsel, Constitutional Accountability Center (CAC); "The Constitutionality of Health Care Reform and the Supreme Court"
 

Richard Newell Boyd, Susan Linn Page Professor of Philosophy, Cornell University; author, The Madisonian Paradox of Freedom of Association (2008) and co-editor, The Philosophy of Science (1991); "Is Evolutionary Psychology Misleading Us?"
 

Joel Kotkin, Distinguished Presidential Fellow in Urban Futures, Roger C. Hobbs Institute, Chapman University; author, The Next Hundred Million: America in 2050 (2010) and The City: A Global History (2006); "Class in California"
 

Susan L. Taylor, editor in chief (1981-2000) and editorial director, Essence; founder, National CARES Mentoring Movement (2006); author, All about Love: Favorite Selections from In the Spirit on Living Fearlessly (2008) and In the Spirit: The Inspirational Writing of Susan L. Taylor (1993); "Achieving Your Dream: Bold Visionary Leadership from the Inside Out"
 

Norman Lebrecht, cultural commentator and award-winning novelist; author, Why Mahler?: How One Man and Ten Symphonies Changed Our World (2010) and Maestros, Masterpieces, and Madness: The Secret Life and Shameful Death of the Classical Recording Industry (2007); "Why Mahler? and Other Cultural Brain-Benders"
 

David Orr, Paul Sears Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies and Politics, Oberlin College; author, Hope Is an Imperative: The Essential David Orr (2010) and Down to the Wire: Confronting Climate Collapse (2009); "Resilience in a Black Swan World"
 

Allan Meltzer, Allan H. Meltzer University Professor of Political Economy, Carnegie Mellon University, Tepper Business School; distinguished visiting fellow, Hoover Institution; author, A History of the Federal Reserve, Vol. II, 1951-1986 (2010) and A History of the Federal Reserve, Vol. I, 1913-1951 (2002); "Why Capitalism?" (12:00 p.m.)
 

Condoleezza Rice, professor of political economy, director, Global Center for Business and Economy, Stanford Graduate School of Business; Thomas and Barbara Stephenson Senior Fellow on Public Policy, Hoover Institution; professor of political science, Stanford University; United States Secretary of State (2005-2009) and  United States National Security Advisor (2001-2005); author, No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Years in Washington (2011) and  Extraordinary, Ordinary People: A Memoir of Family (2010); "Remarks by Condoleezza Rice" (6:15 p.m. Ducey)
 

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

Stewart Patrick, Senior Fellow and Director of the International Institutions and Global Governance Program, Council on Foreign Relations; author, Weak Links: Fragile States, Global Threats, and International Security (2011) and The Best Laid Plans: The Origins of American Multilateralism and the Dawn of the Cold War (2008);  "Weak Links: Fragile States, Global Threats, and International Security"
 

"Slavery/Women/Writing:  21 Refracted Portraits Based on Writings of Eduardo Galeano"; directed by Thomas Leabhart, professor of theater arts, Pomona College
 

Nick Owchar, Jr. '90, deputy book editor, Los Angeles Times; "From the Clay Tablet to the Electronic Tablet:  The Medium Keeps Changing, but Does the Message" (12:00 p.m.)
 

Ross King, professor of Korean, University of British Columbia; co-author, Continuing Korean (2002) and Elementary Korean (2000); "Colonial Korea and the Pleasures of Vicarious Book Collecting: The Secret Story of the Frederick McCormick Korean Collection at the Claremont Colleges"
 

Catherine Saillant, journalist, Los Angeles Times; "The Larry King Case:  Lessons on Juvenile Justice" (12:00 p.m.)