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Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum

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cultural life at CMC

 

Current Semester Schedule

Athenaeum events are posted here as detailed information becomes available.

Mon, September 19, 2005
John Allen Paulos, professor of mathematics, Temple University; author, Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences (1989) and "A Mathematician Plays the Stock Market" (2003)
 
Thu, September 15, 2005
Richard Saller, Edward L. Ryerson Distinguished Service professor of history and classics, University of Chicago; author, Patriarchy, Property, and Death in the Roman Family (1994) and Personal Patronage Under the Early Empire (1982); "Human Capital and the Growth of the Roman Economy"
 
Wed, September 14, 2005
David Mason '79, commissioner, Federal Election Commission; "Should Bloggers Be Regulated?" (12:15 p.m.)
 
Tue, September 13, 2005
Abigail Garner, creator of website FamiliesLikeMine.com; author, Families Like Mine: Children of Gay Parents Tell It Like It Is (2004); "Families Like Mine: An Adult Daughter of Gay Parents Speaks Out"
 
Mon, September 12, 2005
Leslie Peirce, professor of history and Near Eastern Studies, U.C. Berkeley; author, The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire (1993) and Morality Tales: Law and Gender in the Ottoman Court of Aintab (2003); "Gender, Generation, Sex, and the Law in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire" (12:15 p.m.)
 
Thu, September 8, 2005
Robert Faggen, Barton Evans and H. Andrea Neves Professor of Literature, CMC; editor, The Cambridge Companion to Robert Frost (2001) and author, Robert Frost and the Challenge of Darwin (1997); "Tree of Life or Burning Bush: Science and Myth in the Age of Politics"
 
Wed, September 7, 2005
David Sadava, Pritzker Family Foundation professor of biology, CMC; co-editor, Life: The Science of Biology (1997) and co-author, Plants, Genes, and Agriculture (1994); "Cloning Cloning"
 
Wed, April 27, 2005
James Q. Wilson, Ronald Reagan professor of public policy, Pepperdine University; author, The Moral Sense (1993) and The Marriage Problem: How Our Culture Has Weakened Families (2003); "Character and Culture"
 
Thu, April 21, 2005
L. Paul Bremer III, former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq; author, The Alliance Response to Nuclear Weapons Proliferation: Deterrence, Defense, and Cooperative Options (1995) and Countering the Changing Threat of International Terrorism: Report from the National Commission on Terrorism (2000); "A Conversation with the Ambassador"
 
Wed, April 20, 2005
Invisible Children, documentary film of Uganda's Achioli children abducted by rebels and forced to become soldiers; "Invisible Children: Discover the Unseen" (12:00 p.m.)
 
Tue, April 19, 2005
Joanna Zach, Institute for Polish Literary Studies; author, Milosz's Search for Self (2002); "The Mind in Captivity: Czeslaw Milosz and Modernity" (12:15 p.m.)
 
Mon, April 18, 2005
Richard Evans, professor of modern history, Cambridge University; author, The Coming of the Third Reich (2003) and Telling Lies About Hitler: History, the Holocaust, and the David Irving Trial (2002); "History, Truth, and Memory: Reflections on the Irving-Lipstadt Libel Case" (12:15 p.m.)
 
Sat, April 16, 2005
Dinner Theater, "The Real Thing" by Tom Stoppard (1982) (6:00 p.m.)
 
Fri, April 15, 2005
Dinner Theater, "The Real Thing" by Tom Stoppard (1982) (6:00 p.m.)
 
Thu, April 14, 2005
Dinner Theater, "The Real Thing" by Tom Stoppard (1982) (6:00 p.m.)
 

Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum

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