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, November 5, 1997
Latif Bolat, musical director, Mevlevi Association of America; "Turkish Folk and Sufi Music Ensemble"
 
Tue, November 4, 1997
Joseph Chasing Horse, ambassador to the United Nations for the Lakota Sioux Nation; "Creating a World for Our Children: Present Day Implications of the Lakota Sioux Prophecies"
 
Mon, November 3, 1997
Tom Harrell, trumpet; Xavier Davis, piano; Yoron Israel, drums; Greg Tardy, saxophone; Ugonna Okegwo, bass; "The Tom Harrell Quintet: A Jazz Concert"
 
Thu, October 30, 1997
Michael Parkin, professor of economics, University of Western Ontario, Canada; author, Inflation in Open Economies (1993) and co-author, Inflation in the World Economy (1993); "Monetary and Fiscal Policies for Growth and Development"
 
Tue, October 28, 1997
Joy Harjo, professor of English, UCLA; author, The Woman Who Fell from the Sky (1994) and In Mad Love and War (1990); "Poet Reads From Her Work"
 
Mon, October 27, 1997
Dick Wolf, creator/producer, Law & Order; "The Storm Clouds of Media Censorship"
 
Thu, October 23, 1997
Don Newcombe, director of community relations, Los Angeles Dodgers; "Substance Abuse in Professional Athletics"
 
Wed, October 22, 1997
Donald Winters, directorate of operations officer, Central Intelligence Agency; "The CIA in Latin America: Fighting the Secret Wars"
 
Wed, October 15, 1997
Juliet Schor, associate professor of economics, Harvard University; author, The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline in Leisure (1992) and forthcoming "When Spending Becomes You: Pitfalls of the New Consumerism" (1998) C-SPAN
 
Tue, October 14, 1997
Robert O'Neill, Chichele professor of the history of war, Oxford University; author, East Asia, the West, and International Security (1987) and Doctrine, the Alliance and Arms Control (1987); "East Asian Security" (12:15 p.m.)
 
Mon, October 13, 1997
Sandy Chau, principal, Trident Investment; "Overseas Chinese Business in the New Hong Kong"
 
Wed, October 8, 1997
Harry Clor, professor of political science, Kenyon College; author, Public Morality and Liberal Society: Essays on Decency, Law, and Pornography (1996) and Obscenity and Public Morality: Censorship in a Liberal Society (1985); "The Case for Public Morality"
 
Tue, October 7, 1997
Jo-Ellan Dimitrius, managing director, Forensic Technologies International; "Show and Tell in the 21st Century: The New Juror"
 
Mon, October 6, 1997
Gordon O'Brien, guitar; "Classical Guitar"
 
Thu, October 2, 1997
Kathy Robinson, niece of Jackie Robinson; Dick Simpson, Negro League historian; Earl "Stick" Robinson, Negro League player; and Bobbie McDonald, (moderator), president, Orange County Black Chamber of Commerce; co-author, Black College Football: 100 Years of History, Education and Pride (1993); "A Celebration of the Negro Leagues"
 

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