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David White, professor of religious studies, U.C. Santa Barbara; author, Kiss of the Yogini: "Tantric Sex" in its South Asian Contexts (2003) and Sinister Yogis (2008); "Yoga Before the Yoga Sutras, or, What does Sittin…

Connie Rice, civil rights activist, attorney; co-founder and co-director, Advancement Project, Los Angeles; "Presidential Politics: What Happened to 'We the People'?" (7:00 p.m.)  

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 (1…

Christopher DeMuth, former president, American Enterprise Institute; co-editor, The Neoconservative Imagination: Essays in Honor of Irving Kristol (1995) and Religion and the American Future (2008); "American Conservati…

Arthur Melzer, professor of political science, co-founder and co-director, Symposium on Science, Reason, and Modern Democracy, Michigan State University; co-author, Multiculturalism and American Democracy (1999) and The…

Adam Bradley, assistant professor of literature, CMC; author, forthcoming Ralph Ellison's 'Three Days Before the Shooting. . .' (2009); Ralph Ellison-In-Progress (2009); and Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip Hop (2009)…

Raymond Burghardt, former U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam (2001-2004); director, East-West Center Seminars, East-West Center, Hawaii; "Prospects for Peace in Relations Across the Taiwan Strait" (12:00 p.m.)  

David "Scotty" Dawson, Command historian, U.S. Central Command; co-author, The U.S. Marines in Vietnam, 1968: The Defining Year (1997) and co-editor, The Impact of Project 100,000 on the Marine Corps (1996); "Working wi…

Round Table Discussion: "The Recovery of 2009: Myth or Reality?" Gregory Hess, Russell S. Bock Chair of Public Economics and Taxation, professor of economics, vice president for academic affairs, Dean of Faculty, CMC; c…

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 Terro…