Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum

S. Brock Blomberg, Peter K. Barker '70 professor of economics and George R. Roberts Fellow, CMC; co-author, How Much Does Violence Tax Trade (2006) and The Impacts of Terrorism on Urban Form (2007); "Rationalizing Terrorism"
 

Pierre Hassner, Podlich distinguished scholar, CMC; research director emeritus of National Foundation for Political Science, and Centre d'Etudes et Recherches Internationales (CERI), Paris; author, Violence and Peace (1996); (see February 4); "Democratic and Totalitarian Passions in Modern Societies"
 

Ray Drummond '68, bass; faculty of jazz improvisation, The Julliard School; Russell Malone, guitar; "An Evening of Jazz"
 

Jeffry Morrison, associate professor of government, Regent University; author, forthcoming The Political Philosophy of George Washington (2009) and John Witherspoon and the Founding of the American Republic (2005); "President Washington and Public Religion" (12:00 p.m.)
 

Jonathan Hart, professor of English, director, Medieval and Early Modern Institute, University of Alberta, Canada; author, forthcoming City of the End of Things: Lectures on Civilization and Empire (2009) and Empires and Colonies (2007); "Lawrence of Arabia: Between Myth and History"
 

Con Gioia Early Music Ensemble: Preethi de Silva, fortepiano and harpsichord; professor emerita of music, Scripps College; Julianne Baird, soprano, professor of music, Rutgers University; Michael DuPree, oboe; M.Anne Rardin, violin; Danielle Cummins, violin; Roger Lebow, cello; Jason Yoshida, guitar and lute; "Music of George Frideric Handel and Franz Joseph Haydn"
 

Philip Glass, composer, Einstein on the Beach (1976) and Book of Longing: A Song Cycle Based on the Poetry and Artwork of Leonard Cohen (2006); Tim Page, music critic; author, Dawn Powell: A Biography (1998) and Parallel Play: Life as an Outsider (2009); "An Evening with Philip Glass" (7:00 p.m.)
 

June Carbone, Edward A. Smith/Missouri Chair of Law, the Constitution, and Society, University of Missouri, Kansas City; author, From Partners to Parents: The Second Revolution in Family Law (2000) and forthcoming Red Families v. Blue Families (2009); "Red Families v. Blue Families: Cultural Division and the Prospects for a New Work-Family Agenda"
 

Round Table Discussion- "Rediscovering the Passions in International Relations: History, Philosophy, and the Contemporary World" Pierre Hassner, Podlich distinguished scholar, CMC; research director emeritus of National Foundation for Political Science, and Centre d'Etudes et Recherches Internationales (CERI), Paris; author, Violence and Peace (1996); Jim Nichols, Jr. P'06, professor of government, CMC; translator, Gorgias and Phaedrus by Plato (1998), author, Alexandre Kojève: Wisdom at the End of History (2007); P.Edward Haley, W.M. Keck Foundation chair and professor of International strategic studies; director, Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights, CMC; author, Strategies of Dominance: The Misdirection of U.S. Foreign Policy (2006) and co-author, After 9/11: The Roles of Civil Society in International Security (2006); Chris Nadon, associate professor of government, CMC; author, Xenophon's Prince: Republic and Empire in the Cyropaedia (2001)
 

Jamaica Kincaid, visiting lecturer in African and African American Studies and on English and American literature and language, Harvard University; author, Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalayas (2005) and The Autobiography of My Mother (1996); "Coming of Age in a Small Place"
 

Daniel Hamermesh, Edward Everett Hale Centennial professor in economics, University of Texas, Austin; co-author, forthcoming Two-sided Learning with Applications to Labor Turnover and Worker Displacement (2009) and author, Economics is Everywhere (2004); "Beauty in the Labor Market"
 

Tom Linebarger '86, president and COO, Cummins, Inc.; "Lunch with a Leader: Discovering the Leader Within You" (12:00 p.m.)
 

Adam Michnik, editor-in-chief, Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland; author, The Church and the Left (1993) and Letters from Freedom: Post-cold War Realities and Perspectives (1998); "Global Anti-Semitism"
 

Jonathan Rosenberg '83, senior vice president of product management and marketing, Google, Inc.; "Lunch with a Leader: The Ubiquity of Information" (12:00 p.m.)
 

Anne Hastings, executive director, Fonkoze (Alternative Bank for the Organized Poor); Port au Prince, Haiti; Nzinga Broussard, assistant professor of economics, CMC; author, forthcoming articles “(Why) Do Self-Employed Parents Have More Children?” and “Aid and Agency in Africa: Explaining Food Disbursements Across Ethiopian Households, 1994-2004”; Jorge Aguero, assistant professor of economics, U.C. Riverside; co-author, Motherhood and Female Labor Force Participation: Evidence from Fertility Shocks (2008); "Building an Economic Foundation for Democracy" (12:00 p.m.)