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, April 15, 2013
Guy Sorman, contributing editor, City Journal; author, Economics Does Not Lie: A Defense of the Free Market in a Time of Crisis (2009) and The Empire of Lies: The Truth about China in the Twenty-First Century (2008); "The Sovereign Debt Crisis in Europe and the Future of the Euro"(12:00 p.m.)
Fri, April 12, 2013
Peter Balakian, Donald M. and Constance H. Rebar Professor of Humanities, Colgate University; author, Ziggurat (2010) and The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response (2003); "The Transmission of Trauma across Generations: Writing a Memoir about the Armenian Genocide and Growing up in Suburbia" (12:00 p.m.)
Wed, April 10, 2013
Dinner Theater; "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie (1939) (6:00 p.m.)
Tue, April 9, 2013
Moises Naim, senior associate, International Economics program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; author, The End of Power: From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States: Why Being in Charge Isn't What It Used to Be (2013) and How Smugglers, Traffickers, and Copycats are Hijacking the Global Economy (2006); "The End of Power" (6:00 p.m. Parents Dining Room)
Mon, April 8, 2013
Dinner Theater; "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie (1939) (6:00 p.m.)
Thu, April 4, 2013
Joshua Walker, International Affairs Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations; co-author, The Shifting Tectonics of Japan One Year After March 11, 2011 (2012) and Turkey and Its Neighbors (2011); "Partnerships for the Middle East and North Africa in 21st Century American Statecraft" (12:00 p.m.)
Wed, April 3, 2013
Rebecca Skloot, author, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2010); "An Evening with Rebecca Skloot"
Tue, April 2, 2013
Lenny Fukshansky, associate professor and chair, Department of Mathematical Sciences, CMC; Mark Huber, Fletcher Jones Foundation Associate Professor of Mathematics and Statistics and George R. Roberts Fellow, CMC; Deanna Needell, assistant professor of mathematics, CMC; Sam Nelson, associate professor of mathematics; “A Challenge for the Millennium: The Million Dollar Problems in Mathematics”
Mon, April 1, 2013
Doron Weber, vice president of programs, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation; author, Immortal Bird: A Family Memoir (2013) and Safe Blood: Purifying the Nation's Blood Supply in the Age of AIDS (1990); "Lunch with the Author" (12:00 p.m.)
Thu, March 28, 2013
Jonathan Zimmerman, professor of history of education, New York University, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development; author, Small Wonder: The Little Red Schoolhouse in History and Memory (2009) and Innocent Abroad: American Teachers in the American Century (2006); "You Can't Say That: Teachers and the Limits of Freedom in American Schools" (12:00 p.m.)
Wed, March 27, 2013
Stanley McChrystal, general, U.S. Army, retired; Commander, International Security Assistance Force; Commander, U.S. Forces Afghanistan (2009-2010); author, My Share of the Task: A Memoir (2012) and co-author, Behavioral Conflict: Why Understanding People and Their Motives Will Prove Decisive in Future Conflict (2011); "The State of International Affairs and the Security Challenges Facing America"
Tue, March 26, 2013
David Bjerk, Russell S. Bock Chair of Public Economics and Taxation; associate professor of economics, CMC; author, Re-examining the Longer-term Impact of Dropping Out on Criminal and Labor Market Outcomes (2012) and Thieves, Thugs, and Neighborhood Poverty (2010); "Hmm, That Doesn't Sound Like Economics: An Economist’s Perspective on Sentencing Laws, Discrimination, and Willful Ignorance"
Mon, March 25, 2013
Dina Buchbinder Auron, founder and director, Desport-es para Compartir (Sports to Share); Ashoka Fellow; "Sports for Sharing: Waking Up Children’s Inner Agent of Change Through Sports and Games" (12:00 p.m.)
Wed, March 13, 2013
Alexandria Dionne, production manager and co-producer, The Documentary Group, 10X10, LLC.; "Girl Rising" (6:45 p.m. Parents Dining Room) (3:00 p.m. “Girl Rising” film viewing, Mary Pickford Auditorium)
Tue, March 12, 2013
Francisco Varela, Jr. '93, Global Director of Platform Partnerships, YouTube; “Making You Famous: Reaching 6 Billion People on YouTube”

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