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.

Sat, February 22, 2003

Paul Orfalea, founder, Kinkos, Inc.; "Corporate Responsibility to Working Families" (12:45 p.m.)

Thu, February 20, 2003

Walter Mignolo, William H. Wannamaker Distinguished professor of literature, cultural anthropology, and romance studies, Duke University; co-editor, Writing Without Words: Alternative Literacies in Mesoamerica and the Andes (1994) and author, The Darker Side of the Renaissance: Literacy, Territoriality, Colonization (1995); "Globalization and the Geopolitics of Knowledge: The Role of the Humanities in the Corporate University"

Tue, February 18, 2003

Daniel Goldhagen, professor of government, Harvard University; author, A Moral Reckoning: The Role of the Catholic Church in the Holocaust and Its Unfulfilled Duty of Repair (2002) and Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust (1996); John Roth, Russell K. Pitzer professor of philosophy and religious studies, CMC; author, Ethics after the Holocaust: Perspectives, Critiques, and Responses (1999) and Private Needs, Public Selves: Talk about Religion in America (1997); Michael Berenbaum, adjunct professor of theology and director, Sigi Ziering Center for the Study of the Holocaust and Ethics, University of Judaism, Los Angeles; author, In the Shadow of the Swastika (1998) and False Papers: Deception and Survival in the Holocaust (2000); Eva Fleischner, Roman Catholic theologian; editor, Auschwitz- Beginning of a New Era?: Reflections on the Holocaust (1994) and co-author, Cries in the Night: Women Who Challenged the Holocaust (1997); Jonathan Petropoulos, John V. Croul professor in European history, CMC; author, forthcoming Royals and the Reich: The Princes of Hesse in Nazi Germany (2004) and The Faustian Bargain: The Art World in Nazi Germany (1999); moderator; "The Vatican, Daniel Goldhagen, and the Holocaust: A Panel Discussion"

Mon, February 17, 2003

P. Edward Haley, W.M. Keck Foundation chair of International strategic studies, CMC; author, Qaddafi and the United States Since 1969 (1984) and Congress and the Fall of South Vietnam and Cambodia (1982); "War in Iraq?"

Thu, February 13, 2003

Sterling Lord, literary agent and chairman, Sterling Lord Literistic, Inc.; author, Returning the Serve Intelligently (1976); "The Publishing World- Then and Now" (4:00 p.m.)

Wed, February 12, 2003

Robert Audi, Charles J. Mach University professor of philosophy, University of Nebraska; author, The Architecture of Reason: The Structure and Substance of Rationality (2001) and Religious Commitment and Secular Reason (2000); "Religion, Politics, and International Justice"

Tue, February 11, 2003

Herbert Meyer P'03, founder and chairman, Real-World Intelligence, Inc.; author, Real-World Intelligence: Organized Information for Executives (1988) and Hard Thinking: The Fusion of Politics and Science (1993); "The Siege of Western Civilization- and How to Think about the War in Iraq"

Mon, February 10, 2003

Ray Drummond '68, bass; Craig Handy, saxophone; Sherman Ferguson, drums; Danny Grissett, piano; "The Ray Drummond Jazz Quartet"

Thu, February 6, 2003

Greg Victoroff, copyright attorney, partner, Rohde & Victoroff, Los Angeles; Neil Smith, copyright attorney, litigation department, Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Falk, and Rabkin, San Francisco; "Copyrights in Education, Research, and Publishing: History and Current Use"

Wed, February 5, 2003

Robert Goldberg, professor of molecular, cell, and developmental biology, UCLA; editor, Plant Molecular Biology (1985) and Plant Cell (1989); "The Use of Genetically Modified Organisms in Agriculture"

Tue, February 4, 2003

Lunar New Year Celebration; Karen Han, erhu; Johnson Hsu, geh-hu; Li Cheng Zhao, percussion, hulusi, sheng; Terry Lin, percussion; Judy Ying, yangqin; Yu Hwa Li, erhu; Mei-Ye Ma, pipa; Lang Chu, zheng; "Year of the Ram, Spring Thunder Chinese Music Ensemble"

Mon, February 3, 2003

Michael Cunningham, author, The Hours (1998) and Flesh and Blood (1995); "An Evening with the Author"

Thu, January 30, 2003

Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, associate professor of psychology, University of Cape Town, South Africa; author, A Human Being Died That Night: A South African Story of Forgiveness (2002); "Are Some Things Unforgivable?" (12:15 p.m.)

Wed, January 29, 2003

William Beezley, professor of history, University of Arizona; co-author, Latin America: The Peoples and Their History (1999) and co-editor, The Oxford History of Mexico (2000); "The Popular Origins of Mexican National Identity"

Tue, January 28, 2003

Kyozan Joshu, Roshi, Mount Baldy Zen Center; "Dharma Talk"

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