Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum

A distinctive
feature of social and
cultural life at CMC

 

Current Semester Schedule

Athenaeum events are posted here as detailed information becomes available.

Fri, January 30, 2009
Gregg Ireland '72, senior vice president, Capital Research and Management Company; "Lunch with a Leader: The Mutual Fund Industry" (12:00 p.m.)
 
Thu, January 29, 2009
Andrew Sullivan, blogger, The Daily Dish; author, Intimations Pursued: The Voice of Practice in the Conversation of Michael Oakeshott (2008) and The Conservative Soul: Fundamentalism, Freedom, and the Future of the Right (2007); "American Politics at Home and Abroad"
 
Wed, January 28, 2009
Imad Moustapha, Syrian Ambassador to the United States; author, The Echoes of Orpheus and Creativity Out from the Windows of Hell; "Syria-USA Relations: A Thaw or a False Start?"
 
Tue, January 27, 2009
Peter Brown, Philip and Beulah Rollins professor of history, Princeton University; author, Poverty and Leadership in the Later Roman Empire (2002) and The Rise of Western Christendom: Triumph and Diversity, AD 200-1000 (1996); "Wealth, Work and the Holy Poor: Early Christian Monasticism between Syria and Egypt"
 
Mon, January 26, 2009
Round Table Discussion: "The State of the Hip Hop Union"; Jeff Chang, author, Total Chaos: Art and Aesthetics of Hip-Hop (2007) and Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation (2005); Ebony Utley, assistant professor of communication studies, C.S.U. Long Beach; author, forthcoming, The Gansta God: Deciphering the Divine's Role in Rap and co-editor, Critical Mixtape: Deciphering Hip-Hop Songs; Cheo Hodari Coker, author, Unbelievable: The Life, Death, and Afterlife of the Notorious B.I.G. (2004) and co-author, Dreamgirls (2007); Crooked I, hip hop artist; CEO, Dynasty Entertainment; senior vice president, Treacherous Records; Adam Bradley, moderator; assistant professor of literature, CMC; author, Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip-Hop (2009)
 
Thu, January 22, 2009
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University professor; director, W.E.B. DuBois Institute for African and African American Research, Harvard University; author, forthcoming In Search of Our Roots (2009) and Finding Oprah's Roots: Finding Your Own (2007); "Genetics, Genealogy and African American History"
 
Tue, December 9, 2008
Minxin Pei, senior associate in the China Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; author, China's Trapped Transition: The Limits of Developmental Autocracy (2006) and From Reform to Revolution: The Demise of Communism in China and the Soviet Union (1994); "Why Has Economic Development Not Led to Democratization in China?" (12:00 p.m. Parents Dining Room)
 
Tue, December 2, 2008
Claremont Chamber Choir, Charles Kamm, conductor; assistant professor of music, Scripps College; "A Winter Holiday Concert"
 
Mon, November 24, 2008
John Nagl, lieutenant colonel, U.S. Army, retired; fellow, Center for a New American Security; author, Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam: Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife (2002) and co-author, The U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual (2007); "Global War on Terror: A New American Security"
 
Fri, November 21, 2008
Wacira Gethaiga, professor emeritus of Afro-ethnic studies, C.S. Fullerton; "Going Global with Leadership: Developing Sustainable Economies in Africa"(12:15 p.m.)
 
Wed, November 19, 2008
Narendra Mishra, sitar; Abhiman Kaushal, tabla; adjunct assistant professor of music, UCLA; Nandini Majumdar '10, tanpura; "Peace and Excitement: A Sitar Concert"
 
Tue, November 18, 2008
Roy Mottahedeh, Gurney professor of Islamic history, director, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program, Harvard University; co-author, Globalization and the Muslim World: Culture, Religion, and Modernity (2004) and author, The Mantle of the Prophet: Learning and Power in Modern Iran (1985); "The Strange and Wonderful in Medieval Persian and Arabic Literature and Art"
 
Mon, November 17, 2008
Maureen Dowd, Op-Ed columnist, New York Times; author, Are Men Necessary?: When Sexes Collide (2005) and Bushworld: Enter at Your Own Risk (2005); "Fit to Print: Writing on Washington"
 
Thu, November 13, 2008
Wendy Doniger, Mircea Eliade distinguished service professor of the history of religions, University of Chicago; author, The Woman Who Pretended to Be Who She Was: Myths of Self-Imitation (2004) and The Bedtrick: Tales of Sex and Masquerade (2000); "The Woman Who Pretended to Be Who She Was"
 
Wed, November 12, 2008
Lori Damrosch, Henry L. Moses professor of international law and organization, Columbia University; author, Enforcing International Law through Non-forcible Measures (1997) and co-editor, Beyond Confrontation: International Law for the Post-Cold War Era (1995); "International Courts and the U.S. Supreme Court: Who Has the Final Word" (12:00 p.m.)
 

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