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, February 13, 2006
Victor Navasky, editor, The Nation; George Delacorte professor of magazine journalism, Columbia University; author, Naming Names (1980) and co-author, A Matter of Opinion (2005); "Distinguishing Truth from Objectivity: The Case for the Partisan Press"
 
Thu, February 9, 2006
John Demos, Samuel Knight professor of history, Yale University; author, The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America (1994) and Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England (1982); "In the Shadow of the Founders: The Meaning and Significance of "Generations" in American History"
 
Wed, February 8, 2006
Edouard Duval-Carrie, Haitian artist; "Of Migration and Others"
 
Tue, February 7, 2006
Simon Cole, assistant professor of criminology, law, and society, U.C. Irvine; author, Suspect Identities: A History of Fingerprinting and Criminal Identification (2001); "Fingerprint Evidence: Science, Psychology, Law" (12:15 p.m.)
 
Mon, February 6, 2006
Du Zhaozhi, cello, professor of music; Su Li, piano; Su Jie, piano; Zheng Shaofang, soprano; Suoyila, soprano; College of the Arts, Xiaman University, China; "Music from the Grasslands of Inner Mongolia" (12:15 p.m.)
 
Fri, February 3, 2006
Jonathan Macey, Sam Harris professor of corporate law, corporate finance, and securities law, Yale University; author, Macey on Corporation Laws: Model Business Corporation Acts, Delaware's General Corporation Laws, ALI Principles of Corporate Governance (1997) and An Introduction to Modern Financial Theory (1998); "Politicization and American Corporate Governance" (12:30 p.m.)
 
Thu, February 2, 2006
James Bennet, reporter and former Jerusalem bureau chief, The New York Times; "Reporting from the Middle East: Whose Truth?"
 
Wed, February 1, 2006
Ralph Rossum P'01 P'08, Henry Salvatori professor of political philosophy and American constitutionalism, director, Rose Institute for State and Local Government, CMC; author, Federalism, the Supreme Court, and the Seventeenth Amendment: The Irony of Constitutional Democracy (2001) and forthcoming "Antonin Scalia's Jurisprudence: Text and Tradition" (2006) C-SPAN
 
Tue, January 31, 2006
John J. Pitney, Jr., Roy P. Crocker professor of American history and politics, CMC; author, The Art of Political Warfare (2001) and co-author, forthcoming American Government: Deliberation and Citizenship (2006); "Politics Goes to the Movies"
 
Mon, January 30, 2006
Gerben van Kleef, assistant professor of social psychology, University of Amsterdam; co-author, The Interpersonal Effects of Anger and Happiness in Negotiations (2004) and The Influence of Power on the Information Search, Impression Formation, and Demands in Negotiation (2004); "The Interpersonal Effects of Emotions in Organizations: The Emotions as a Social Information (EASI) Model" (12:15 p.m.)
 
Fri, January 27, 2006
Michael Boardman '74, colonel, U.S. Army, director of Intelligence Electronic Warfare (IEW) Test Directorate, Fort Huachuca, AZ; Alexander Alejo, captain, U.S. Army, test officer for unmanned aircraft systems, Intelligence Electronic Warfare (IEW) Test Directorate; "Emerging Military Intelligence Systems and Use of Army Aviation in the Global War on Terrorism" (12:15 p.m.)
 
Wed, January 25, 2006
Al Sharpton, Jr., civil rights activist; author, Al on America (2002) and Go Tell Pharaoh (1996); "Redefining 'The Dream'" (6:45 p.m. McKenna Auditorium)
 
Tue, January 24, 2006
Michael Corriero, judge, Court of Claims, Supreme Court of New York; "A Model Juvenile Justice System Based on Human Rights Principles"
 
Mon, January 23, 2006
Gary Gray, clarinet, professor of clarinet, UCLA; Cecilia Tsan, cello; Robert Thies, piano; gold medal winner (1995), Second International Sergei Prokofiev Competition, St. Petersburg, Russia; "The Tres Amis Trio: 19th Century German Romantic Chamber Music of Beethoven, Schumann, and Brahms"
 
Thu, November 17, 2005
John Farrell, professor of literature, CMC; author, Freud's Paranoid Quest: Psychoanalysis and Modern Suspicion (1996) and Paranoia and Modernity: Cervantes to Rousseau (2005); "Paranoia in the Modern World"
 

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