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James Q. Wilson, Ronald Reagan professor of public policy, Pepperdine University; author, The Moral Sense (1993) and The Marriage Problem: How Our Culture Has Weakened Families (2003); "Character and Culture"  

David Sadava, Pritzker Family Foundation professor of biology, CMC; co-editor, Life: The Science of Biology (1997) and co-author, Plants, Genes, and Agriculture (1994); "Cloning Cloning"  

Robert Faggen, Barton Evans and H. Andrea Neves Professor of Literature, CMC; editor, The Cambridge Companion to Robert Frost (2001) and author, Robert Frost and the Challenge of Darwin (1997); "Tree of Life or Burning…

Leslie Peirce, professor of history and Near Eastern Studies, U.C. Berkeley; author, The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire (1993) and Morality Tales: Law and Gender in the Ottoman Court of Aint…

Abigail Garner, creator of website FamiliesLikeMine.com; author, Families Like Mine: Children of Gay Parents Tell It Like It Is (2004); "Families Like Mine: An Adult Daughter of Gay Parents Speaks Out"  

David Mason '79, commissioner, Federal Election Commission; "Should Bloggers Be Regulated?" (12:15 p.m.)  

Richard Saller, Edward L. Ryerson Distinguished Service professor of history and classics, University of Chicago; author, Patriarchy, Property, and Death in the Roman Family (1994) and Personal Patronage Under the Early…

John Allen Paulos, professor of mathematics, Temple University; author, Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences (1989) and "A Mathematician Plays the Stock Market" (2003)  

Robert Hass, U.S. poet laureate consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress (1995-1997); professor of English, U.C. Berkeley; author, Sun Under Wood (1996) and editor, The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Busan,…

S. Brock Blomberg, associate professor of economics, CMC; author, The Macroeconomic Consequences of Terrorism (2004) and co-author, forthcoming Economic Conditions and Terrorism; "The Political Economy of Terrorism"