<p>Spoke to a friend whose D is a student at Bucknell and she was telling me that Tim Russert (a favorite commentator of mine) is going to speak on campus this fall. I thought it might be fun to know about other interesting speakers/programs that are being held on the various campuses. Any others?</p>
<p>My college has been considering started a program for speakers to come to campus. They sent out a survey to students last year asking for our opinions on different types of speakers and whether we would rather money be spent on a speaker series or a number of other possibilities. I really like that students were consulted about how we’d like money to be spent. </p>
<p>On the same line as Tim Russert, though, there was a program on campus last year that brought Tucker Carlson I believe it was to speak.</p>
<p>Free on the Hillsdale College Campus (between Detroit and Chicago):</p>
<p>THE VIETNAM WAR: HISTORY AND ENDURING SIGNIFICANCE</p>
<p>September 9-13, 2007</p>
<p>The Vietnam War marked a turning point in American history, to which many of the political divisions in our country today can be traced. Not only the justification for America’s presence in Vietnam and the U.S. strategy for victory, but even many of the facts surrounding the war remain controversial to this day.</p>
<p>This first CCA of the 2007-08 academic year will consider the history, controversies and legacy of the Vietnam War.</p>
<p>SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 9</p>
<p>8:00 p.m. “Vietnam: An Overview”
Mark Moyar
Author, Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965</p>
<p>MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10</p>
<p>4:00 p.m. “Engagement and Escalation: Vietnam Under Kennedy and Johnson”
H.R. McMaster
International Institute for Strategic Studies</p>
<p>8:00 p.m. “Lessons from the Tet Offensive”
Victor Davis Hanson
Hoover Institution</p>
<p>TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11</p>
<p>4:00 p.m. “Vietnam and the Rise of the New Left”
Michael Medved*
Author and Radio Host</p>
<p>8:00 p.m. “Vietnam: The End Game”
Lewis Sorley
Author, A Better War: The Unexamined Victories and Final Tragedy of America’s Last Years in Vietnam</p>
<p>WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12</p>
<p>4:00 p.m. “Vietnam: A Disaster From the Outset?”
Michael Lind
New America Foundation</p>
<p>8:00 p.m. “The Legacy of Vietnam”
Mackubin T. Owens
Naval War College</p>
<p>Mary Robinson, President of Ireland, is speaking at Notre Dame in October at a conference on Race and Immigration in the New Ireland. Also speaking on campus this fall are the CEOs of Office Max, Kinkos, Vodophone, and Sara Lee, COO of Blockbuster & CFO of Whirlpool. Nobel Laureate Goa Xingjian, author Ann Cummins, and poet/novelist Julia Alvarez.</p>
<p>Funny you should mention Tim Russert, he spoke at the Fall Convocation last week at the University of Miami where S2 attends.</p>
<p>At Miami University (Ohio):</p>
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<p>At UMiami (Florida) -democratic debate with free tickets to students. From what I hear, they went really fast. Last year we had Bill Clinton, who my son was able to get tickets for and Al Gore, who he couldn’t get tickets for. I’m sure there are other things that I am not aware of.</p>
<p>Smith had the Dalai Lama, to celebrate the anniversary of their Tibetan studies program.</p>
<p>Last year C3P0 spoke at Carnegie Mellon (Anthony Daniels was out as a visiting professor and actor-in-residence at Carnegie Mellon’s Entertainment Technology Center). The students got to take pictures with the robot costume.</p>
<p>William & Mary hosted the Queen of England last year.</p>
<p>Steven Colbert is speaking at Cornell’s parents weekend this Oct. I like him, but it would have been better with Jon Stewart.</p>
<p>It would be hard for the Claremont McKenna Atheneum to beat a season that included a visit of President Clinton. However, this year will include a few interesting characters, starting with Paul Hewson on October 30th. Look at the bottom of the post for his stage name. 
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<p>Tuesday, September 11 Hilary Appel, associate professor of government, CMC; author, A New Capitalist Order: Privatization and Ideology in Russia and Eastern Europe (2004) and co-editor, The Expansion of NATO and the European Union (2007); “Vladimir Putin and the State of Russian Politics” </p>
<p>Wednesday, September 12 Cornelius Eady, poet; associate professor of literature, University of Notre Dame; author, Brutal Imagination (2001) and The Autobiography of a Jukebox (1997); “An Evening with the Poet” </p>
<p>Thursday, September 13 Gloria Molina, Supervisor, First District, Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors; “The State of Health Care in Los Angeles County” </p>
<p>Monday, September 17 Jabari Asim, syndicated columnist, deputy book editor, Washington Post; author, The N. Word: Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn’t, and Why (2007) and Not Guilty: Twelve Black Men Speak Out on Law, Justice, and Life (2002); “Burying the “N” Word?” </p>
<p>Tuesday, September 18 Gore Vidal, novelist; author, Point to Point: A Memoir (2006) and Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson (2004); James Morrison, associate professor of literature and film studies, CMC; author, Broken Fever (2001) and Passport to Hollywood: Hollywood Films, European Directors (1998); “A Conversation with Gore Vidal” </p>
<p>Wednesday, September 19 Eugene Sheppard, associate professor of modern Jewish history and thought, Brandeis University; author, Leo Strauss and the Politics of Exile: The Making of a Political Philosopher (2007) and co-editor, forthcoming Babylon and Jersalem: Engaging the Thought and Legacy of Simon Rawidowicz (2008); “Leo Strauss and Judaism: Epicureanism and Its Discontents” </p>
<p>Thursday, September 20 Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Dosti chair in Indian history, founding director, Center for India and South Asia, UCLA; author, Explorations in Connected History: Mughals and Franks (2004) and co-editor, “India-Persian Travels in the Age of Discovery” (2007) </p>
<p>Wednesday, September 26 Tim Ward, author, Arousing the Goddess: Sex and Love in the Buddhist Ruins of India (2003) and “Savage Breast: One Man’s Search for the Goddess” (2006) </p>
<p>Thursday, September 27 Ronald Heifetz, co-founder, Center for Public Leadership, director, Leadership Education Project, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; co-author, Leadership on the Line: Staying Alive through the Dangers of Leading (2002) and author, Leadership Without Easy Answers (1994) </p>
<p>Monday, October 1 Terry Tempest Williams, Annie Clark Tanner scholar in environmental humanities, University of Utah; author, The Open Space of Democracy (2004) and forthcoming MOSAIC: Finding Beauty in a Broken World (2008) </p>
<p>Thursday, October 4 Abbas Amanat, professor of history and international and area studies, chair, Council on Middle East Studies, Yale University; author, The United States and the Middle East: A Historical Perspective (2007) and forthcoming In Search of Modern Iran: Authority, Nationhood, and Culture (1501-2001) (2008); “Toleration and Nonconformity in the Iranian Cultural Climate” </p>
<p>Monday, October 8 Miemie Wynn Byrd '89, associate professor, Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies; “Combating Terrorism: A Socio-Economic Approach” (12:15 p.m.) </p>
<p>Monday, October 8 Amity Shlaes, syndicated columnist; visiting senior fellow, Council on Foreign Relations; author, The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression (2007) and The Greedy Hand: How Taxes Drive Americans Crazy and What to Do about It (2000) </p>
<p>Tuesday, October 9 Rudi Matthee, professor of Middle Eastern history, University of Delaware; author, The Pursuit of Pleasure: Drugs and Stimulants in Iranian History, 1500-1900 (2005) and The Politics of Trade in Safavid: Silk for Silver, 1600-1730 (1999); “Christians in Safavid Iran: Hospitality and Harassment” </p>
<p>Wednesday, October 10 Neil Budde, vice president, editor in chief, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, Yahoo! Sports; founding editor and publisher, The Wall Street Journal Online </p>
<p>Thursday, October 11 Leora Batnizky, associate professor of religion, acting director, Program in Judaic Studies, Princeton University; author, Leo Strauss and Emmanuel Lavinas: Philosophy and the Politics of Revelation (2006) and Idolatry and Representation: The Philosophy of Franz Rosenzweig Reconsidered (2000); “Leo Strauss’s Contribution to Modern Jewish Thought and the Philosophy of Religion” </p>
<p>Tuesday, October 16 Richard Peterson, managing partner, Market Psychology Consulting; author, Inside the Investor’s Brain: The Power of Mind Over Money (2007); “Inside the Investor’s Brain”
Thursday, October 18 Orhan Pamuk, Nobel laureate (2006); professor of comparative literature, Fellow, Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University; author, Istanbul: Memories and the City (2005) and My Name is Red (2001) </p>
<p>Monday, October 29 Billy Collins, U.S. poet laureate consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress (2001-2003); distinguished professor of English, Lehman College, City University of New York; author, The Trouble with Poetry and Other Poems (2005) and 180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Everyday Life (2005) </p>
<p>Tuesday, October 30 Paul Hewson, co-founder, advocacy organization DATA (Debt AIDS Trade Africa) (7:30 p.m. Bridges Auditorium) </p>
<p>Wednesday, October 31 William Kristol, editor, The Weekly Standard; chairman and co-founder, Project for the New American Century; author, The Weekly Standard: A Reader, 1995-2005 (2006) and co-author, War Over Iraq: Saddam’s Tyranny and America’s Mission (2003) </p>
<p>Thursday, November 1 Paul Shapiro, director, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum; “Opening the Archives of the International Tracing Service” (12:15 p.m.) </p>
<p>Thursday, November 1 Eun Mee Kim, professor of international studies, dean, International Education Institute, Ewha Womans University, Korea; author, Big Business, Strong State: Collision and Conflict in South Korean Development, 1960-1990 (1997) and editor, The Four Asian Tigers: Economic Development and the Global Political Economy (1998); “South Korean Culture Goes Global?: K-Pop and the Korean Wave” </p>
<p>Monday, November 5 Oona Eisenstadt, Fred Krinsky Chair of Jewish Studies and assistant professor of religious studies, Pomona College; author, Driven Back to the Text: The Premodern Sources of Levinas’s Post Modernism (2001), “Is Judaism a Political Philosophy?: Reflections on Spinoza, Strauss, and Levinas” </p>
<p>Tuesday, November 6 Elizabeth Kolbert, staff writer, The New Yorker; author, Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature and Climate Change (2006) and The Prophet of Love and Other Tales of Power and Deceit (2004) </p>
<p>Wednesday, November 7 Noa Baum, performance artist; member, National Storytelling Network; author, “A Land Twice Promised” (2002) </p>
<p>Thursday, November 8 Bei Dao, poet; author, Midnight’s Gate: Essays (2005) and At the Sky’s Edge: Poems 1991-1996 (1996); </p>
<p>Tuesday, November 13 Ronald Fogleman, general (retired), Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force </p>
<p>Wednesday, November 14 Gregg Easterbrook, senior editor, The New Republic, contributing editor, The Atlantic Monthly and The Washington Monthly; visiting fellow, Brookings Institution; author, The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse (2003) and The Here and Now (2002) </p>
<p>Thursday, November 15 Carl Schramm, president, CEO, Ewing Marion Kaufman Foundation; co-author, Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism (2007), and author, The Entrepreneural Imperitive (2006) </p>
<p>Tuesday, November 20 Judea Pearl, professor of computer science and statistics, director, Cognitive Systems Laboratory, UCLA; founder, Daniel Pearl Foundation; co-editor, I Am Jewish: Personal Reflections Inspired by the Last Words of Daniel Pearl (2994) and author, Causality: Models, Reasoning, and Inference (2000) </p>
<p>Wednesday, November 28 Charles Kamm, assistant professor of music, Scripps College; conductor, Claremont Chamber Choir; “Holiday Concert” (7:00 p.m.) </p>
<p>Thursday, November 29 Charles Kamm, assistant professor of music, Scripps College; conductor, Claremont Chamber Choir; “Holiday Concert” (7:00 p.m.) </p>
<p>Source: <a href=“http://www.claremontmckenna.edu/mmca/cur_fall_07.asp[/url]”>http://www.claremontmckenna.edu/mmca/cur_fall_07.asp</a></p>
<p>[Hewson Bio](<a href=“Bono - Wikipedia”>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bono</a>)</p>
<p>While spending some grad school time in the mid-1980s at a very SOUTHERN, very conservative (rebel flags everywhere) university, I met the late Abbe Hoffman at the local dive. The former radical had just come from a campus speaking engagement. I walked over to Hoffman, shook his hand and asked him if he felt the students had learned anything from his speech. He flashed a huge grin and said [in so many words] ‘there’s a reason why this place isn’t called Lincoln & F.D. Roosevelt University.’</p>
<p>Colin Powell is speaking at the University of Rochester in mid-October.</p>
<p>Chaos and Complex Systems Seminar</p>
<p>“On the Complexity of the Human Genome: New Insights From the ENCODE Project.” Colin Dewey, biostatistics, challenges the concepts of “junk” DNA and the comparative-genomics belief that evolutionary constraints and function are correlated</p>
<p>Lecture by Devendra Oza</p>
<p>“Possibilities of Peace in the Modern World: A Gandhian’s Perspective.” The lecture evaluates the history of peace building from 1945 onward, the role of the United Nations, the long-term impacts of large-scale conflicts and how a Gandhian approach may aid conflict resolution.</p>
<p>Hilldale Lecture Series</p>
<p>“Nikita Khrushchev: The Man and His Era.” William Taubman, Bertrand Snell Professor of Political Science at Amherst College, will analyze Khrushchev’s personality and show how it helps to explain his role in unmasking Stalin and in sparking the Berlin and Cuban crises.
Americanist Speakers and Colloquium Series</p>
<p>“American Studies on the Little Bighorn.” Michael Elliott, Emory University, will lecture on the annually staged Crow Indian reenactment of the Battle of Little Bighorn. He will talk about how the imagination of the 19th century fosters, and frustrates, different forms of belonging at the turn of the 21st century.</p>
<p>“Creole Awakening and the Formation of Filipino Political Consciousness in the 18th and Early 19th Centuries.” Ruth De Llobet. history, tells about the awakening of a new political consciousness among the Creoles in Manila at the end of the 18th century. This consciousness developed a new identity among Creoles, setting the basis of mainstream political discourse over nation, ethnicity and modernity. </p>
<p>Robert L. Metzenberg Memorial Lecture</p>
<p>“DNA Methylation and Genome Defense in Neurospora Crassa.” Eric Selker, University of Oregon, presents. </p>
<p>Small Arms: Children of Conflict." Photojournalist Michael Kienitz will talk about working in areas of economic and political conflict and reflect on why a photographer risks his life to tell a story with images. The lecture is in conjunction with his photography exhibition at the Chazen Museum, Sept. 7-Oct. 28.</p>
<p>My D who is at Univ. of Toronto is going to see Jane Goodall speak next week. On Thursday, Nobel Prize winner and also a professor at U of T, John Polanyi is giving a lecture which is open to the public. The speaker schedule for the year will go up later this week as classes do not begin until next Monday.</p>
<p>At Elon this term, a fairly eclectic mix including George Will, Parke Puterbaugh and Arun Gandhi: </p>
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<p>UNC-CH is hosting a public symposium on the ethics of the death penalty in early October. This is somewhat of a theme on campus this fall as their freshmen read Sister Helen Prejean’s book called “Death of Innocents” prior to coming to campus. It’s thought-provoking topics like this one that make me want to go back to school!</p>
<p>Chief Justice John Roberts is speaking at the dedication ceremony of Building 3 of Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Public Communications on September 19th. D1 will be attending.</p>
<p>Univ. at Buffalo (NY) will be hosting Michael Moore at the end of this month. Last year, they also hosted the Dalai Lama!</p>