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.

Mon, April 27, 1998
Bronislaw Maj, professor of literature, Jagellonian University, Krakow; author, Destruction of the Holy City (1986) and Family Albums (1986), Robert Faggen, associate professor of literature, CMC; editor, Selected Poems (1997) and Striving Towards Being: The Letters of Thomas Merton and Czeslaw Milosz (1997); "Readings" (2:00 p.m. Pickford Auditorium)
 
Sun, April 26, 1998
Jane Hirshfield, author, Women in Praise of the Sacred (1994) and Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry: Essays (1997); Steve Kowit, professor of English language and humanities, Southwestern College; author, The Maverick Poets: An Anthology (1988) and Pranks (1990); Jack Miles, visiting fellow, California Institute of Technology; author, God: A Biography (1995) and co-author, Hiding (1997); Blanford Parker, adjunct associate professor of English, Claremont Graduate University; author, forthcoming The Triumph of Augustan Poetics: English Literary Culture from Butler to Johnson (1998); Al Zolynas, professor of literature, United States International University; co-editor, Men of Our Time: An Anthology of Male Poetry in Contemporary America (1992) and The New Physics (1979); "Poetry and the Sacred" (10:30 a.m.)
 
Sat, April 25, 1998
Irena Grudzinska-Gross, fellow, Remarque Institute, New York; author, The Scar of Revolution: Custine, Tocqueville, and the Romantic Imagination (1991) and editor, War Through Children's Eyes: The Soviet Occupation of Poland and the Deportations, 1939-41 (1985); Edith Kurzweil, editor, Partisan Review; author, Literature and Psychoanalysis (1983) and A Partisan Century (1996); Adam Michnik, editor-in-chief, Gazata Wyborcza; author, Letters from Prison and Other Essays (1985) and forthcoming Letters from Freedom: Post-Cold War Realities and Perspectives (1998); Andrej Walicki, professor of history, University of Notre Dame; author, Legal Philosophies of Russian Liberalism (1992) and A History of Russian Thought from the Enlightenment to Marxism (1980); "The Captive Mind" (10:30 a.m.)
 
Fri, April 24, 1998
Jerzy Illg, editor, NaGlos; author, The Challenges of Publishing in Poland (1996) and Conversations with Joseph Brodsky (1993); "An Invisible Rope: Milosz's Underground Publications" (1:00 p.m.)
 
Thu, April 23, 1998
Tony Kushner, playwright, author, Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes (1993) and A Bright Room Called Day (1985); "The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures"
 
Wed, April 22, 1998
Hao Huang, piano; associate professor of music, Scripps College; Ramona Sohn Allen, piano; doctoral candidate, Claremont Graduate University; "An Evening with Louis Moreau Gottschalk, America's First Musical Multiculturalist"
 
Tue, April 21, 1998
John Taylor, Mary and Robert Raymond professor of economics, director, Introductory Economic Studies Center, Stanford University; author, Macroeconomic Policy in a World Economy: From Econometric Design to Practical Operation (1994) and co-author, Inflation, Unemployment, and Monetary Policy (1998); "The Long Boom: Economic Policy or Good Fortune?"
 
Mon, April 20, 1998
Yvonne Brathwaite Burke, board of supervisors, second district, Los Angles County; "Women and Minorities in Government"
 
Sat, April 18, 1998
Dinner Theater, "Oedipus at Colonus" by Sophocles (405 B.C.) (8:00 p.m.)
 
Fri, April 17, 1998
Dinner Theater, "Oedipus at Colonus" by Sophocles (405 B.C.) (8:00 p.m.)
 
Thu, April 16, 1998
Dinner Theater, "Oedipus at Colonus" by Sophocles (405 B.C) (8:00 p.m.)
 
Tue, April 14, 1998
Billy Collins, distinguished professor of English, Lehman College, City University of New York; author, The Art of Drowning (1995) and The Apple That Astonished Paris (1988), "A Poetry Reading"
 
Mon, April 13, 1998
Michael Shermer, director, Skeptics Society; co-author, Cycling: Endurance and Speed (1987) and author, "Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time" (1997) (12:15 p.m.)
 
Thu, April 9, 1998
Sterling Stuckey, professor of history, U.C. Riverside; author, Slave Culture: Nationalist Theory and the Foundations of Black America (1987) and I Want to be African: Paul Robeson and the Ends of Nationalist Theory and Practice, 1919-1945 (1976); "A Centennial Retrospective: The Impact of Paul Robeson in the Americas"
 
Wed, April 8, 1998
Peter Lee, professor of Asian studies, UCLA; author, Pine River and Lone Peak: An Anthology of Three Choson Poets (1991) and The Silence of Love: Twentieth Century Korean Poetry (1980); "Critical Issues in Korean Literary History"
 

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