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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, February 24, 1997
Winona LaDuke, campaign director, White Earth Reservation Recovery Project; author, The Wind Won't Know Me: A History of the Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute (1993) and Beyond the Four Corners of the World: A Navajo Woman's Journey (1995); "Native Americans and the Environment"
 
Thu, February 20, 1997
Seth Lerer, professor of English and comparative literature, Stanford University; author, Chaucer and His Readers (1993) and Reading from the Margins: Textual Studies, Chaucer, and Medieval Literature (1996); "Chaucer and His Voyeurs: Medieval Texts, Early Modern Readers"
 
Wed, February 19, 1997
Gary Okihiro, professor of history, Cornell University; author, Margins and Mainstreams: Asians in American History and Culture (1994) and co-author, "Whispered Silences: Japanese Americans and World War II" (1996)
 
Tue, February 18, 1997
Phillip Johnson, professor of criminal law, U.C. Berkeley; author, Darwin on Trial (1991) and Reason in the Balance: The Case Against Naturalism in Science, Law, and Education (1995); "The New Creation/Evolution Controversy"
 
Mon, February 17, 1997
Rosemari Johnson, anesthesiologist, Scripps Clinic, La Jolla; "The History of Women in Medicine"
 
Sun, February 16, 1997
James Earl Jones, actor; author, James Earl Jones: Voices and Silences (1994); "An Afternoon with James Earl Jones" (4:00 p.m. Bridges Auditorium)
 
Thu, February 13, 1997
Will Bagley, author, Frontiersman: Abner Blackburn's Narrative (1992) and co-author, This is the Place: A Crossroads of Utah's Past (1996); "Saints, Sinners, and Scoundrels: A New Look at the Overland Emigration of 1846"
 
Wed, February 12, 1997
Ken Gergen, Gil and Frank Mustin professor of psychology, Swarthmore College; author, Realities and Relationships: Soundings in Social Construction (1994) and The Saturated Self: Dilemmas of Identity in Contemporary Life (1991); "Technology, Self, and the Moral Project"
 
Tue, February 11, 1997
Xylina Bean, medical director, King/Drew Medical Center; "Medicine in the Year 2000: Meeting the Health Care Needs of High Risk Populations"
 
Mon, February 10, 1997
Kathleen Connell, California State Controller; "The Future of Government in California"
 
Thu, February 6, 1997
Christopher Logue, poet; author, Kings: An Account of Books One and Two of Homer's Iliad (1991) and The Husbands: An Account of Books Three and Four of Homer's Iliad (1995); "An Account of Homer's Iliad" (800 B.C.E.)
 
Wed, February 5, 1997
Anthony Hecht, U.S. poet laureate and consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress (1982-84); professor of English, Georgetown University; author, Flight Among the Tombs: Poems (1996) and Collected Earlier Poems: The Complete Texts of the Hard Times (1967); Millions of Strange Shadows (1977); The Venetian Vespers (1975) (1990); "Poet Reads From His Work"
 
Tue, February 4, 1997
Orley Ashenfelter '64, Joseph Douglas Green 1895 professor of economics, Princeton University; author, Collecting Panel Data in Developing Countries: Does It Make Sense (1985) and co-author, The Economics of Training (1996); "Anatomy of an Inefficient Market: Wine"
 
Mon, February 3, 1997
Orley Ashenfelter '64, Joseph Douglas Green 1895 professor of economics, Princeton University; author, forthcoming Economic Institutions and the Demand and Supply of Labor: The Collected Essays of Orley Ashenfelter, Volume Three (1997) and Education, Training, and Discrimination: The Collected Essays of Orley Ashenfelter, Volume Two (1997); "The Economic Payoff to Education"
 
Thu, January 30, 1997
Donna Shirley, director of the Mars program, Jet Propulsion Laboratory; "Invading Mars"
 

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