Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum

Panel Discussion; "Milosz Centenary Festival: Milosz and Modern Poetry " (10:00 a.m. McKenna Auditorium)
 

Panel Discussion; "Milosz Centenary Festival: Milosz in the United States and Poland" (10:00 a.m.)
 

W.S. Merwin, U.S. poet laureate consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress (2010-2011); U.S. special bicentennial consultant in poetry  to the Library of Congress (1999-2000); Pulitzer Prize-winning (1970, 2009) and National Book Award winning (2005) poet and essayist; author,  The Shadow of Sirius (2008) and The Book of Fables (2007); "Milosz Centenary Festival"
 

George Lakoff, professor of linguistics, U.C. Berkeley; author, The Political Mind: Why You Can't Understand 21st-Century American Politics with an 18th-Century Brain (2008) and Whose Freedom?: The Battle Over America's Most Important Idea (2006); "The Brain's Politics: When the Nature of Reason Matters"
 

Dan Walters, political columnist, The Sacramento Bee; author,  The New California: Facing the 21st Century (1986) and co-author,   The Third House: Lobbyists, Money and Power in Sacramento (2002); "Is California Ungovernable?"
 

Brenda Patterson, mezzo soprano; Donald Berman, piano; David Bowlin, violin; Darrett Adkins, violoncello;  Jamaica Kincaid, Josephine Olp Weeks Chair and Professor of Literature, CMC; author, Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalayas (2005)  and Mr. Potter (2002); "Piano Trio in B, Opus 8 (1854) by Johannes Brahms and Jamaica's Songs (2000) Music by Su Lian Tan and Text by Jamaica Kincaid"
 

Paul Hurley, Edward J. Sexton Professor of Philosophy, CMC; author, Beyond Consequentialism (2009) and co-author, History of Philosophy (1993); "Adam Smith's Dirty Little Secret: The Curiously Intimate Relationship between Markets and Morality"
 

Melissa Harris-Perry, professor of political science, founding director, Anna Julia Cooper Project on Gender, Race, and Politics of the South, Tulane University; author, Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America; For Colored Girls Who've Considered Politics When Being Strong Isn't Enough (2011) and Barbershops, Bibles, and BET: Everyday Talk and Black Political Thought (2006); "A Writing Life in a 24-Hour News Cycle"
 

Francesc de Paula Soler, guitar; "Homage to Federico Garcia Lorca: Commemorating the 75th Anniversary of His Death"
 

Geoffrey Hartman, Sterling Professor Emeritus and senior research scholar of English and comparative literature, Yale University; author, The Third Pillar: Essays in Judaic Studies (2011) and A Scholar's Tale: Intellectual Journey of a Displaced Child of Europe (2009); "Theology and Imagination"
 

Tom Campbell, dean, Donald P. Kennedy Chair in Law and professor of economics, Chapman University School of Law; "Uneasy Compromise" (12:00 p.m.)
 

Benjamin Bagby, vocalist and harpist, co-founder and director, Sequentia; associate professor of medieval music performance practice, Sorbonne University; artist on CD Fragments for the End of Time (2008) and Chant Wars (2005); "A Performance of Beowulf, the Epic"
 

Brett Hoebel '93, founder, Hoebel Fitness; trainer, NBC's The Biggest Loser; "Join the Revolution"
 

Luis Alberto Urrea, professor of creative writing, University of Illinois-Chicago; author, Into the Beautiful North (2009) and The Devil's Highway (2004); "An Evening with the Author"
 

Deborah Buck, violin; Robert Thies, piano; gold medal winner (1995), Second International Sergei Prokofiev Competition, St. Petersburg, Russia; artist on album Live in Recital (2006); "Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 30 for Piano and Violin; Antonin Dvorak: Romance for Violin and Piano, Op. 11; Johannes Brahms: Sonata No. 1 in G Major for Violin and Piano, Op. 78"