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 6, 1985
Daniel Boorstin, director, Library of Congress; author, "The Discovers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself" (1983)
 
Thu, February 28, 1985
Moshe Lazar, professor of drama and comparative literature, USC; co-author; Pinchas Shaaz (1982) and author, The Sephardic Tradition: Ladino and Spanish-Jewish Literature (1972); "The Sephardic Diaspora"
 
Wed, February 27, 1985
Stephen Conner, lobbyist for the Saudis; Cranwell Montgomery, foreign policy advisor; "Interaction of the Agent for a Foreign Government and Members of the U.S. Senate"
 
Thu, February 21, 1985
Richard Elliot, saxophone; "Jazz Revival" (8:00 p.m.)
 
Wed, February 20, 1985
Nelson Polsby, professor of political science, U.C. Berkeley; author, Political Innovation in America (1984) and Consequences of Party Reform (1983); "Political Power"
 
Sat, February 16, 1985
Michael Deane Lamkin, professor of music, Scripps College; conductor, Claremont chamber orchestra; "Evening in Vienna"
 
Fri, February 15, 1985
Michael Deane Lamkin, professor of music, Scripps College; conductor, Claremont chamber orchestra; "Evening in Vienna"
 
Thu, February 7, 1985
Maxine Hong Kingston, author, The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (1976) and China Men (1980); "Fulfillment and Denial of the American Dream"
 
Wed, February 6, 1985
Maxine Hong Kingston, author, The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (1976) and China Men (1980); "Fulfillment and Denial of the American Dream"
 
Fri, February 1, 1985
Harlan Marquardt, magician; "Illusions of Marquardt"
 
Thu, January 31, 1985
Albert Wohlstetter, director of research, Pan Heuristics; author, The Delicate Balance of Terror (1958) and No Highway to High Purpose (1960); "Between an Unfree World and None"
 
Tue, December 11, 1984
Susan Kaufman Purcell, director, Latin American program, Council on Foreign Relations; Jane Jacquette, professor of political science, Occidental College, (moderator); Mark Rosenberg, director, Latin American and Caribbean Center, Florida International University, (commentator); Eduardo Ulibarri, editor, La Nacion, Costa Rica, (commentator); "Security Perspectives of Key Basin Actors: The Contadora States" (9:00 a.m. Bauer Center)
 
Mon, December 10, 1984
David Ronfeldt, research staff, political science department, RAND Corporation; author, Atencingo: The Politics of Agrarian Struggle in a Mexican Ejido (1973) and Modern Mexican Military: A Reassessment (1984); Philip Koldewyn, professor of modern languages, CMC, author, Carlos Fuentes and the Nature of Myth (1981) and Voluntary Associations in Neugen, Argentina (1984); (moderator); Nathaniel Davis, professor of humanities, Harvey Mudd College; former U.S. Ambassador to Chile (commentator); Henry Rowen, senior fellow, Hoover Institution; editor, Options for U.S. Energy Policy (1977) (commentator); "The Caribbean Basin: The Basin's Importance to the United States" (9:15 a.m. Bauer Center)
 
Wed, November 14, 1984
Bjorn Ekblom, ambassador; permanent representative of Finland's mission to the U.N.; "Economic and Social Affairs Between Industrialized and Developing Countries" (12:30 p.m.)
 
Tue, November 13, 1984
John Anderson, former Illinois congressman, (R-16th district); "Religion in Politics"
 

Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum

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