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.

Wed, March 4, 1998
Frederick Crews, professor emeritus of English, U.C. Berkeley; author, The Memory Wars: Freud's Legacy in Dispute (1995) and The Pooh Perplex: A Freshman Casebook (1965); "Recovered Memory: The Freud Connection"
 
Tue, March 3, 1998
Delbert Mann, playwright; director, Marty (1954) and All Quiet on the Western Front (1979); William Luce, playwright, Bronte (1989) and Barrymore (1997); Mike Riley, professor of literature, CMC (moderator); author, Conversations with Ann Rice: An Intimate, Enlightening Portrait of Her Life and Work (1996); "Conversation with the Writer and Director of Bronte: Bringing the Classics to Life in Film"
 
Mon, March 2, 1998
Pablo Pozzi, professor of social science, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina; author, Crisis y Recomposicion de la Clase Obrera Argentina (1982-1993) (Crisis and Recomposition of the Argentine Working Class (1982-1993) (1994) and La Oposicion Obrera Dictadura (1976-1982) (Labor Opposition to Dictatorship (1976-1982) (1988); "Repression and Resistance in Latin America"
 
Thu, February 26, 1998
Gloria Molina, Supervisor, first district, Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors; "The Challenges of Leadership in the Public Sector"
 
Wed, February 25, 1998
Carolyn Costin, eating disorder expert; author, The Eating Disorder Sourcebook: A Comprehensive Guide to the Causes, Treatments, and Prevention of Eating Disorders (1996) and Your Dieting Daughter...Is She Starving for Attention? (1996); "Dying to be Thin"
 
Tue, February 24, 1998
Robert Staehle, Pluto express project manager, Jet Propulsion Laboratory; contributor, Project Solar Sail (1990); "Extraterrestrial Environment: Pluto Express Project"
 
Mon, February 23, 1998
Denise Dresser, professor of political science, Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico; author, Neopopulist Solutions to Neoliberal Problems: Mexico's National Solidarity Problem (1992); "Mexico After the National Elections of '97: Neither Heaven nor Hell"
 
Thu, February 19, 1998
First AME Gospel Choir, Los Angeles; Derrick Bell, visiting professor of law, New York University; author, Confronting Authority: Reflections of an Ardent Protester (1994) and "Gospel Choirs: Psalms of Survival in an Alien Land Called Home" (1953)
 
Tue, February 17, 1998
Robert O'Neil, Chichele professor of the history of war, Oxford University; author, The Strategic Nuclear Balance: An Australian Perspective (1974) and The Conduct of East-West Relations in the 1980's (1985); "Reflections on the Korean War" (12:30 p.m. Parents Dining Room)
 
Mon, February 16, 1998
Frank Sulloway, research scholar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; author, Born to Rebel: Birth Order, Family Dynamics, and Creative Lives (1996) and Freud, Biologist of the Mind: Beyond the Psychoanalytic Mind (1979); "Birth Order, Family Dynamics, and Creative Lives: From Darwinian Evolution to World History"
 
Thu, February 12, 1998
Lunar New Year, "Year of the Tiger, The Silk and Bamboo Music Ensemble"
 
Wed, February 11, 1998
Clifton Johnson, director emeritus of the Amistad Research Center, Tulane University; author, God Struck Me Dead: Religious Conversion Experiences and Autobiographies of Ex-Slaves (1969) and God Struck Me Dead: Voices of Ex-Slaves (1993); "A Perspective on the Historiography of African Americans"
 
Tue, February 10, 1998
Dale Burger, Mars explorer project manager, Jet Propulsion Laboratory; "Extraterrestrial Environment: Mars Explorer Project"
 
Mon, February 9, 1998
Morley Winograd, senior policy advisor for Vice President Al Gore; author, Taking Control: Politics in the Information Age (1996); "Creating an Information Age Government"
 
Thu, February 5, 1998
Burton Levin, director, The Mansfield Foundation; former U.S. Ambassador to Burma; "China and the U.S.: A Relationship Marked by Misperception"
 

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