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CSS Grad and Family Reception
and CSS Alumni Reception

CSS will be hosting two receptions to honor current and past CSS graduates on Saturday, May 26th in the CSS Lounge, 4th floor of PAC. The CSS Grad and Family Reception will be held from 1:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. with the CSS Alumni Reception being held from 3:00 p.m. until 5:00 p.m. Light fare and refreshments will be served at both events.

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Spring 2012 Banquet

David Garrow

The 2012 Spring Banquet speaker was held at the Inn at Middletown on April 17, 2012 with guest speaker David Garrow, CSS ’75, Research Professor of History and Law at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (HarperCollins, 1986), widely regarded as one of the best studies
of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the civil rights movement. Garrow received his Wesleyan BA magna cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa in 1975, and then went on to earn both an MA and PhD from Duke University. He has published four books, most recently Liberty and Sexuality: The Right to Privacy and the Making of Roe v. Wade (Macmillan 1994), co-authored or edited numerous other volumes, and written scores of scholarly articles and book chapters on such topics as abortion law, affirmative action, school desegregation, the civil rights movement, and Supreme Court history. He has also written many journalistic essays and reviews on similar topics that have enjoyed a wide national readership in such magazines and newspapers as Newsweek, The New York times, The Washington Post and Los Angeles Times. He was a senior advisor to the noted PBS series Eyes on the Prize and has been the recipient of numerous awards and grants, among them from the Ford Foundation and The Twentieth Century Fund and in 1995 he received Wesleyan's own Distinguished Alumnus Award.

Fall 2011 Banquet

The annual CSS Fall Banquet was held on Tuesday, October 18th in the Daniel Family Commons in the Usdan University Center.

The guest speaker was Professor William Howell, CSS '93, of the University of Chicago. His talk was entitled “How the CSS Helped Me Write The Wartime President.”

Professor Howell is the Sydney Stein Professor in American Politics in the Harris School, co-director of the Program on Political Institutions, and a professor in the Department of Political Science and the College. He has written widely on separation-of-powers issues and American political institutions, especially the presidency. He is currently working on a book, tentatively entitled The Wartime President, that examines the impact of war on the power that U.S. presidents wield at home. Howell is the co-author (with Jon Pevehouse) of While Dangers Gather: Congressional Checks on Presidential War Powers (Princeton University Press, 2007); author of Power without Persuasion: The Politics of Direct Presidential Action (Princeton University Press, 2003); co-author (with Paul Peterson) of The Education Gap: Vouchers and Urban Schools (Brookings Institution Press, 2002); and editor, among other publications, of The Oxford Handbook on the American Presidency (Oxford University Press, 2009). His research also has appeared in numerous professional journals and edited volumes. Before coming to the University of Chicago, Howell taught in the government department at Harvard University and the political science department at the University of Wisconsin. In 2000, he received a PhD in political science from Stanford University.

Emma Rothschild

Spring 2011 Banquet

The 2011 CSS Spring Banquet speaker was Emma Rothschild, the Jeremy and Jane Knowles Professor of History at Harvard University, and Director of the Joint Center for History and Economics at Harvard and the University of Cambridge. She is the author of Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet and the Enlightenment (2001), and has written extensively about the history of economic thought and economic history. She is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and other publications. The Inner Life of Empires: An Eighteenth-Century History will be published in 2011. Spring Banquet was held on April 13, 2011.

CSS 50th Celebrations - Homecoming Weekend, November 6^th - 8^th, 2009

Friday, November 6th

On Friday evening, November 6th, at 8 p.m., a Public Lecture by John Goldberg (CSS 1983, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School) was held at the Center for the Arts Hall (Old Cinema). His talk was entitled "John Locke on Tort Reform (Really!): A CSS Parable." John Goldberg was introduced by Brian Fay, and Richie Adelstein gave a response following the lecture.

Almost Beer and Bull was held in the Daniel Family Commons, top floor of the Usdan Center, following the Public Lecture.

Saturday, November 7th

On Saturday, November 7th, there were two Alum Speaker Panels, in PAC 002, from 9:00 a.m.-12:00 noon. The first Panel was on CSS Entrepreneurs and was chaired by Peter Kilby, and the panelists were Steve Torok (CSS 1973), Donald Zilkha (CSS 1973), Lincoln Frank (CSS 1979), and Jonathan Bush (CSS 1993). The second Panel, from 10:45-12:00 noon, was on International Affairs. Andrew Crawford (CSS 1997) chaired, and the panelists were Bob Hunter (CSS 1962), John Stremlau (CSS 1966), Carl Robichaud (CSS 1999), and Michael Brotchner (CSS 1995).

Following the Alum Panels, in PAC 002, at noon, there was a Champagne Book Party honoring Bill Barber and the latest publication of his book, A History of Economic Thought (1967, 2009). Alan Gayer (CSS 1964) spoke at this event. David Morgan was the MC for these morning/early afternoon sessions.

A CSS Alum Reception, took place in the CSS Lounge, PAC Fourth Floor, from 3:00-5:00 p.m. that afternoon. There was well attended by CSS Alum as well as current and past CSS Tutors.

A Joint Reception with COL was held in the Daniel Family Commons, top floor of the Usdan Center, at 5:30 p.m. This event began with a Slideshow and Talk by Suzy Taraba (COL 1977), Head of Special Collections and University Archivist. Her talk was entitled "The College Plan: The Early Years."

The CSS Banquet was held at the Inn at Middletown, 70 Main Street, Middletown, CT 06457, at 7:30 p.m. Drinks and Dinner, followed by a program arranged by CSS alums, tutors, and current students, from 1959-2012.

Sunday, November 8th

A Coffee Meeting for Alums/Current CSS Students was held in the CSS Lounge from11:00 a.m.-noon.

CSS Tutors

In addition to the past and present CSS tutors noted above, many attended the CSS 50th as well, including Don Moon, Peter Rutland, Joyce Jacobsen, Gil Skillman, and Erik Grimmer-Solem.

Thank you to the many CSS'ers who helped with this Celebration!

Cheers.

Cecilia Miller
CSS Co-Chair (2008-2010)

Peter Kilby Retirement Events

Friday, May 22, 2009

A Symposium was held in honor of Professor Peter Kilby, who retired on June 30, 2009, after 44 years at Wesleyan, which included 17 years as Co-Chair of the CSS.

The Symposium was entitled "Issues in Economic Development."

Five papers were presented on the role of culture, entrepreneurship, and political configuration in China, Korea, and Africa. The Symposium was a celebration of Peter Kilby's research and teaching.

Program Speakers:

Loren Brandt "77, University of Toronto
"Explaining China's Growth Puzzle"
Respondent: John Bonin, Wesleyan University

Jung Ho Kim "85, Korea University
"The Role of IT in Korean Economic Growth"
Respondent: Masami Imai, Wesleyan University

Matthew Baker "93, Hunter College
"Human Capital and Hold-Up in Indigenous Societies"
Respondent: Richard A. Miller, Wesleyan University

Christopher Kilby, Villanova University
"Changing Foreign Aid Regimes: U. S. Foreign Aid from the Cold War to the War on Terror"
Respondent:Mark Eisner, Wesleyan University

Peter Kilby
"The Quiddity of Third World Entrepreneurship"
Respondent:Michael C. Lovell, Wesleyan University

Moderator: Richard A. Miller
Organizers: Cecilia Miller and Mickie Dame, Wesleyan University

There was a banquet in Peter Kilby's honor at the Inn at Middletown that evening. The Banquet was attended by many CSS alums some traveling from other countries as well as by many colleagues, friends, and family members. The group represented Peter's time at Wesleyan since 1966.