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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.

Thu, February 15, 1996
Lunar New Year Celebration, San Gabriel Valley Chinese Cultural Association; "Year of the Rat"
 
Wed, February 14, 1996
Kevin Phillips, political analyst, The American Political Research Corporation; author, Arrogant Capital: Washington, Wall Street, and the Frustration of American Politics (1994) and Boiling Point: Republicans, Democrats and the Decline of Middle Class Prosperity (1993); "Pitbulls and Puffers: Politics and Choices in 1996"
 
Tue, February 13, 1996
Nancy Fierro, professor of music, Mount St. Mary's College, Los Angeles; author, Hildegard of Bingen and Her Vision of the Feminine (1994); "The Remarkable Hildegard of Bingen: Her Life, Visions, and Music" (10:30 a.m.)
 
Mon, February 12, 1996
Jerzy Illg, editor-in-chief, ZNAK Publishing House; editor, The Politics of Impossible Worlds (1988) and Conversations with Joseph Brodsky (1993); "The Challenge to Literature and Publishing in Post-Communist Poland"
 
Thu, February 8, 1996
Joseph Kirshvink, professor of geobiology, California Institute of Technology; "Biological Bar Magnets and the Cancer-Electromagnetic Field Debate"
 
Wed, February 7, 1996
David Brower, chairman, Earth Island Institute; author, For Earth's Sake: The Life and Times of David Brower (1990) and Work in Process (1991); "A Vision of the Future: Environmental Imperatives in the Twenty-first Century"
 
Tue, February 6, 1996
Steve Remp '69, founder, Ramco, oil maintenance company; "Back to Baku: Re-emergence of the Caspian as a Great Oil Province"
 
Mon, February 5, 1996
Linda Chavez, president, Center for Equal Opportunity; author, Out of the Barrio: Toward a New Politics of Hispanic Assimilation (1991) and What To Do About Immigration (1995); "Immigration, Affirmative Action, and the American Dream"
 
Thu, February 1, 1996
Helena Viramontes, professor of creative writing, Cornell University; author, The Moth and Other Stories (1985) and "Under the Feet of Jesus" (1995)
 
Tue, January 30, 1996
Michael Uhlmann, senior fellow, Ethics and Public Policy Center; "Whatever Happened to Limited Government? Or, Why You'll Still Have a Headache the Morning After They Balance the Budget, If They Balance the Budget" (12:15 p.m.)
 
Mon, January 29, 1996
Susan Greenberg, flute; Clayton Haslop, violin; Jennie Hansen, viola; Barbara George, cello; "Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra Soloists: A Concert in Celebration of Mozart's Birthday"
 
Thu, January 25, 1996
Robert Pinsky, poet, professor of English and creative writing, Boston University; author, The Want Bone (1990) and Poetry and the World (1988); "Poet Reads From His Work"
 
Wed, January 24, 1996
Sergei Khrushchev, senior research fellow, Brown University; author, Khrushchev on Khrushchev: An Inside Account of the Man and His Era, By His Son (1990) and Disintegration and Consolidation: Natural Separatism and the Evolution of Center-Periphery Relations in the Russian Federation (1995); "Russian Economic and Political Reformation" C-SPAN
 
Tue, January 23, 1996
Christopher Harmon, professor of international relations, Command and Staff College, U.S. Marine Corps, co-editor, Statecraft and Power: Essays in Honor of Harold W. Rood (1994) and author, Terrorism and Political Violence (1992); "International Terrorism and the Foreign Relations of the U.S. in the Twenty-first Century"
 
Mon, January 22, 1996
Tammy Bruce, president, Los Angeles chapter of National Organization for Women (NOW); "Women's Issues/Women's Lives: A New Feminist Perspective"
 

Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum

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