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.

Thu, April 10, 2008
Dinner Theater, "Rumors" by Neil Simon (1988)(6:00 p.m.)
 
Wed, April 9, 2008
Dinner Theater, "Rumors" by Neil Simon (1988)(6:00 p.m.)
 
Thu, April 3, 2008
Alma Martinez, professor of theater and dance, Pomona College; "Opening Night: Zoot Suit Revival"
 
Wed, April 2, 2008
Andrei Illarionov, senior fellow, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, Cato Institute; author, Oil and Freedom in the New Russia (2007) and Russia's Potemkin Capitalism (2000); "Political and Economic Reform under President Putin: An Insider's Perspective" (12:00 p.m.)
 
Tue, April 1, 2008
William Dalrymple, author, Begums, Thugs, and White Mughals- The Journals of Fanny Parkes (2002) and "The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi, 1857" (2006)
 
Mon, March 31, 2008
Josh Lerner, Jacob H. Schiff professor of investment banking, Harvard University; co-author, Innovation and Its Discontents: How Our Broken Patent System is Endangering Innovation and Progress, and What to Do about It (2004) and author, The Money of Invention (2001); "The Great Debate: Private Equity and Its Impact on the Global Economy"
 
Thu, March 27, 2008
Charles Honts, professor of psychology, Boise State University; co-author, Information Does Not Affect the Validity of a Comparison Question Test (2006) and Automation of a Screening Polygraph Test Increases Accuracy (2006); "Lie Detection and the Polygraph: Misrepresented, Misunderstood, and Misused" (12:00 p.m.)
 
Wed, March 26, 2008
Mort Sahl, political satirist; author, Heartland (1976) and Mort Sahl's America (1997); "An Evening with Mort Sahl"
 
Tue, March 25, 2008
Scott Lewis, co-executive editor, voiceofsandiego.org; "Journalism: A Crisis and a Model" (12:00 p.m.)
 
Mon, March 24, 2008
Robert Rosenthal, distinguished professor of psychology, U.C. Riverside; co-author, Contrasts and Effect Sizes in Behavioral Research: A Correlational Approach (1999) and People Studying People: Artifacts and Ethics in Behavioral Research (1997); "Interpersonal Expectancy Effects and Self-Fulfilling Prophecies"
 
Thu, March 13, 2008
Nicholas Rhind, assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular pharmacology, University of Massachusetts Medical School; co-author, Basic Methods for Fission Yeast (2006) and DNA Replication Origins Fire Stochastocally in Fission Yeast (2006); "Model Organisms and Small Science: The Serendipitous Nature of Discovery" (12:00 p.m.)
 
Wed, March 12, 2008
Gary Smulyan, baritone saxophone; Mark Masters, conductor, American Jazz Institute Nonet; Dave Woodley, trombone; Jerry Pinter, saxophone; Stephanie O'Keefe, french horn; Cecila Coleman, piano; Ron Stout, trumpet; Putter Smith, bass; Kendall Kay, drums; Gary Foster, saxophone; "American Jazz Institute Nonet: The Jazz Soul of Frankie Laine"
 
Tue, March 11, 2008
Marcy Wheeler, political blogger (emptywheel), Comment is Free section, Manchester Guardian Online; author, Anatomy of Deceit: How the Bush Administration Used the Media to Sell the Iraq War and Out a Spy (2007); "(Un)Covering the Narrative Industry" (12:00 p.m.)
 
Mon, March 10, 2008
Kang Zhengguo, senior lector, East Asian languages and literature, Yale University; author, Confessions: An Innocent Life in Communist China (1997) and Deer Dreams (1999); "An Evening with the Author"
 
Fri, March 7, 2008
Richard Baum, professor of political science, UCLA; author, Reform and Reaction in Post-Mao China: The Road to Tiananmen (1991) and Burying Mao: Chinese Politics in the Age of Deng Xiaopin (1994); "Human Rights and the Beijing Olympics"; Stanley Rosen, professor of political science, director, East Asian Studies Center, USC; co-editor, State and Society in 21st-Century China: Crisis, Contention and Legitimization (2004) and On Socialist Democracy and the Chinese Legal System (1985); "Changing State-Society Relations and the Rights of Chinese Citizens"; Arthur Rosenbaum, associate professor of history, CMC; author, State and Society in China: The Consequences of Reform (1992) and co-author, U.S.-China Relations and the Bush Administration: A New Paradigm or Continuing Modalities (2002)(moderator); "China: State, Human Rights, and the Beijing Olympics" (9:00 a.m.)
 

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