Keynote Address
Thursday, Feburary 4, 11:00 AM, Armstrong Theatre
Samuel Huntington, Keynote Speaker
Dr. Huntington is Eaton Professor of the Science of Government and Director of the John M.
Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University. He wrote the acclaimed and
controversial work, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order.
Presentation / Discussion Forums
The Global Politics of Environmental Protection
Thursday, Feburary 4, 3:00 PM, Packard Hall
• Eugene Linden Mr. Linden is a Senior Writer for TIME
magazine. He has been writing about science, the environment and humanity's relationship
with nature in books, articles and essays for over 20 years. His most recent book is The
Future in Plain Sight.
• Daniel Zwerdling Mr. Zwerdling is NPR’s
host of Weekend All Things Considered® and a
correspondent covering environmental, health, science and Third World development issues.
He is the author of Workplace Democracy.
- Forum Chair: Sylvia "Tass" Kelso, Associate Professor of
Biology
The Islamic World
Thursday, Feburary 4, 7:30 PM, Packard Hall
• Roy Mottahedeh Dr. Mottahedeh is the Gurney
Professor of History at Harvard University. His major work is on the pre-modern social and
intellectual history of the Islamic Middle East. His publications include Loyalty and
Leadership in an Early Islamic Society and The Mantle of the Prophet: Religion and
Politics in Iran.
• Sulayman Nyang Dr. Nyang is a Professor of Political
Science at Howard University. He specializes in West Africa and Political Party
Development. Dr. Nyang is the author of Islam in the United States of America; Islam,
Black Nationalism and Slavery: A Detailed History; and Islam, Christianity, and
African Identity.
- Forum Chair: Tazim Kassam, Assistant Professor of Religion
The Confucian World
Friday, Feburary 5, 11:00 AM, Packard Hall
• Roger Ames Dr. Ames is the Director of the Center
for Chinese Studies and Editor of Philosophy East and West at the University of
Hawaii. His teaching and research interests focus on comparative philosophy, the
philosophy of culture, environmental philosophy, classical Confucianism and Taoism.
• Li Zehou Professor Li (a former Visiting Professor at
CC) is currently a Research Professor at the Institute of Chinese Modern Culture at the
University of Colorado, Boulder. He is author of the acclaimed book, The Path of
Beauty: A Study of Chinese Aesthetics.
• Tu Wei-ming Dr. Tu is a Professor of Chinese History
and Philosophy at Harvard University. He specializes in Chinese intellectual history,
Asian and comparative philosophy, East Asian religious thought and Confucian studies.
- Forum Chair: Timothy Cheek, Associate Professor of History
The Communitarian Impulse
Friday, Feburary 5, 3:00 PM, Packard Hall
• Donna Haraway Dr. Haraway (CC class of '66) is
a Professor of the History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Her latest book is Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium.FemaleMan©_Meets_OncoMouse™.
• Richard Rorty Dr. Rorty is a Professor in the
Comparative Literature Department at Stanford University. His most recent books are Achieving
Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America and Essays on Heidegger
and Others.
• Richard Shweder Dr. Shweder is a Professor of
Human Development at the University of Chicago. He researches in the area of
ethnopsychology and cultural psychology. He is the author of Thinking Through Cultures:
Expeditions in Cultural Psychology.
- Forum Chair: Judith Genova, Professor of Philosophy
Social Implications of a Global Economy
Saturday, Feburary 6, 9:30 AM, Packard Hall
• Kenneth Minogue Professor Minogue is Emeritus
Professor of Political Science at the London School of Economics. His most recent books
are Politics: A Very Short Introduction and Essays in Conservative Realism.
• Dani Rodrik Dr. Rodrik is Rafiq Hariri Professor of
International Political Economy at the Kennedy School at Harvard University. He is the
author of the 1997 book, Has Globalization Gone Too Far?
- Forum Chair: Libby T. Rittenberg, Professor of Economics
The Future of Populist Politics
Saturday, Feburary 6, 12:00 PM, Gates Common Room
• Linda Chavez-Thompson Ms.
Chavez-Thompson is the Executive Vice-President of the AFL-CIO. She was the first person
of color elected to an executive office of the AFL-CIO and is the highest ranking woman in
the labor movement.
• Robert Kaplan Mr. Kaplan is a Contributing Editor
of The Atlantic Monthly magazine. He has reported on assignment from Europe,
Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Latin America and the United States. He wrote, "Was
Democracy Just A Moment?" recently published in The Atlantic, and his latest
book is An Empire Wilderness: Travels into America's Future.
• Patricia Nelson Limerick Dr. Limerick is a
Professor of History at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She wrote The Legacy of
Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West among other books and numerous
articles.
- Forum Chair: Anne Farrar Hyde, Associate Professor of History
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