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, January 29, 1997
David Doud '90, author; "Berlin 2000: The Center of Europe" (1995)
 
Tue, January 28, 1997
Preethi de Silva, professor of music, Scripps College; Mary Beth Haag, lecturer in voice, Scripps College; Roland Kato, principal violist, L.A. Chamber Orchestra; Charles Zukovsky, clarinet; "Con Gioia Early Music ensemble: Concert Commemorating Mozart's 241st Birthday (January 27), Schubert's 200th Birthday (January 31), and the 150th Anniversary of the Death of Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel (1805-1847)"
 
Mon, January 27, 1997
John Roth, Russell K. Pitzer professor of philosophy and religious studies, CMC; author, Inspiring Teaching: Carnegie Professors of the Year Speak (1996) and co-author, Different Voices: Women and the Holocaust (1993); Steve Smith, professor of philosophy, CMC; co-author, Now Zen (1995) and Nothing Special: Living Zen (1994); Mark Blitz, professor of government, CMC; author, Heidegger's Being and Time and the Possibility of Political Philosophy (1981); Jim Nichols, Jr., professor of government, CMC; co-editor, From Political Economy to Economics---And Back? (1990) and author, Epicurean Political Philosophy: The Dererum Nature of Lucretius (1976); "Government /Philosophy Faculty Debate: The Criminal Justice System Should be Based on Retribution"
 
Thu, January 23, 1997
Helena Norberg-Hodge, anthropologist; author, Ancient Futures: Learning from the Ladakh (1991) and co-author, The Future of Progress: Reflections on Environment and Development (1995); "Economic Literacy for Personal and Political Renewal"
 
Tue, January 21, 1997
Constance Baker Motley, senior United States district judge; "Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemorative Lecture: The Supreme Court and Affirmative Action"
 
Tue, November 19, 1996
Hao Huang, piano; assistant professor of music, Scripps College; Rachel Vetter Huang, violin; lecturer in music, Scripps College; "An Evening of Slavic Music with the Mei Duo"
 
Mon, November 18, 1996
Luis Alfaro, performance artist; author, Straight as a Line (1994) and Bitter Homes and Gardens (1992); Marisela Norte, performance artist; co-author, Black Butterflies, Jaguar Girl, Pinata Woman, and Other Super Hero Girls Like Me; "Crossing the Border: U.S. Latino Writers on the Move"
 
Thu, November 14, 1996
David Reid '69, essayist; co-author, West of the West: Imagining California (1989) and editor, Sex, Death, and God in L.A. (1992); "The Disappearance of the Samurai, or Whatever Happened to the Managerial Revolution?"
 
Wed, November 13, 1996
Richard Rodriguez, editor, Pacific News Service; author, Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father (1992) and Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez (1983); "Crossing the Border: U.S. Latino Writers on the Move"
 
Tue, November 12, 1996
Christopher Brinegar, associate professor of plant molecular biology, San Jose State University; "A Rainforest 40 Stories Tall: The History and Ecology of the California Coast Redwoods"
 
Mon, November 11, 1996
Lewis Millett, colonel, U.S. Army; "Duty, Honor, Country"
Thu, November 7, 1996
Martin Gilbert, historian and fellow, Merton College, Oxford University; author, Auschwitz and the Allies (1981) and "Jerusalem in the 20th Century" (1996)
 
Wed, November 6, 1996
Diane Silver '88, coordinator, Cuyahoga Valley Environmental Education Center; "A Road Less Taken: A Journey and Overview of Environmental Education"
 
Tue, November 5, 1996
John J. Pitney Jr., professor of government, CMC; contributor, Congress's Permanent Minority?: Republicans in the U.S. House (1994); "Election Night Commentary"
 
Mon, November 4, 1996
Deborah Lipstadt, Dorot professor of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies, Emory University; author, Beyond Belief: The American Press and the Coming of the Holocaust (1986) and Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory (1993); "Remembering the Holocaust and American Popular Culture, 1945-1967"
 

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