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 19, 2011
Eric Hughson, Don and Lorraine Freeberg Professor of Finance and Economics, CMC; co-author, The Misuse of Expected Returns (2006) and Hybrid Markets, Tick Size, and Investor Welfare (2006); "Funding Constraints, Asset Volatility, Market Liquidity, and Financial Crises: Lessons from History"
 
Tue, December 7, 2010
Dinner Theater, Murder at Rutherford House by Tom Chiodo and Peter DePietro (1990) (6:00 p.m.)
 
Thu, December 2, 2010
Matthew Kahn, professor of economics, political science, and public policy, UCLA; author, Climatopolis: How Our Cities Will Thrive in Our Hotter Future (2010) and Green Cities: Urban Growth and the Environment (2006)
 
Tue, November 30, 2010
Charles Kamm, associate professor of music, Scripps College; conductor, Claremont chamber choir; "A Winter Holiday Concert"
 
Mon, November 29, 2010
Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature, U.C. Irvine; author, Something Torn and New: An African Renaissance (2009) and Wizard of the Crow (2006); "An Evening with the Author"
 
Tue, November 23, 2010
Pauline Jones Luong, associate professor of political science, Brown University; co-author, Oil is Not a Curse: Ownership Structure and Institutions in Petroleum-rich Soviet Successor States (2010) and editor, The Transformation of Central Asia: States and Societies from Soviet Rule to Independence (2003); "The Myth of the Resource Curse"
 
Mon, November 22, 2010
Rohini Somanathan, professor of economics, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi; Podlich Visiting Fellow, CMC; co-author, forthcoming Mapping Indian Districts Across Census Years, 1971-2001 and Micro-finance Lifespan: A Study of Attrition and Exclusion in Self-Help Groups in India (2008); "Group Inequality in Democracies: Lessons from India and the United States"(12:00 p.m.)
 
Thu, November 18, 2010
Martha Bailey, assistant professor of economics, University of Michigan; research affiliate, National Poverty Center and Population Studies Center; co-author, Did Improvements in Household Technology Cause the Baby Boom? Evidence from Electrification, Appliance Diffusion, and the Amish (2009) and author, Mamma's Got the Pill: How Anthony Comstock and Griswold v. Connecticut Shaped U.S. Childbearing (2009); "More Power to the Pill: Economic Implications of the Birth Control Pill for Women in the Labor Force"
 
Wed, November 17, 2010
Daoud Nassar, Palestinian farmer; "The Tent of Nations: The Road to Peace in Israel and Palestine" (12:00 p.m.)
 
Tue, November 16, 2010
Andrew Ross Sorkin, assistant editor of Business and Financial News, The New York Times; founder and editor, DealBooks; author, Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System - and Themselves (2009); "The Politics of Too Big to Fail"
 
Mon, November 15, 2010
Erwin Chemerinsky, founding dean, U.C. Irvine School of Law; author, The Conservative Assault on the Constitution (2010) and Empowering Government: Federalism for the 21st Century (2008); "The Constitution in the Headlines: Gay Marriage, Immigration, and Health Care Reform"
 
Fri, November 12, 2010
Adam Ritz, former radio disk jockey; "So You Think You're Invincible" (11:00 a.m.)
 
Thu, November 11, 2010
Elizabeth Samet, professor of English, United States Military Academy, West Point; author, Soldier's Heart: Reading Literature through Peace and War at West Point (2007) and Willing Obedience: Citizens, Soldiers, and the Progress of Consent in America, 1776-1898 (2003)
 
Wed, November 10, 2010
Michael Gottlieb, M.D.; assistant clinical professor of medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA; co-author, Pneumocystis Pneumonia (1981) and Pneumocystis Carinii Pneumonia and Mucosal Candidiasis in Previously Healthy Homosexual Men: Evidence of a New Acquired Immunodeficiency (1981); "AIDS: Thirty Years of Silence" (12:00 p.m.)
 
Tue, November 9, 2010
Henrik Cronqvist, McMahon Family Associate Professor of Corporate Finance and George R. Roberts Fellow, CMC; co-author, forthcoming Nature or Nurture: What Determines Investor Behavior? (2010) and Large Shareholders and Corporate Policies (2009); "Nature, Nurture, and Financial Decision-Making"
 

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