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, November 16, 2005
Jamie Court, president, Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights; author, Corporateering: How Corporate Power Steals Your Personal Freedom... and What You Can Do about It (2003) and co-author, Making a Killing: HMOs and the Threat to Your Health (1999); "The Health Insurance Crisis and What You Can Do about It"
 
Tue, November 15, 2005
Ezra Vogel, Henry Ford II professor emeritus of social sciences, Harvard University; author, Is Japan Still Number One? (2000) and The Four Little Dragons: The Spread of Industrialization in East Asia (1991); "Needed: A New U.S.-Asian Policy to Respond to the Rise of China"
 
Mon, November 14, 2005
Jay Conger, Henry Kravis Research Chair professor of leadership studies, CMC; co-author, Growing Your Company's Leaders: How Great Organizations Use Succession Management to Sustain Competitive Advantage (2004) and Shared Leadership: Reframing the How's and Why's of Leading Others (2002); "Why CEOs Fail"
 
Thu, November 10, 2005
B.G. Burkett, military researcher; co-author, Stolen Valor: How the Vietnam Generation was Robbed of Its Heroes and Its History (1998); "After Vietnam: The Myth, the Media, the Truth"
 
Wed, November 9, 2005
Sam Tanenhaus, editor, The New York Times Book Review; author, Whittaker Chambers: A Biography (1997) and Literature Unbound: A Guide for the Common Reader (1986); "One Who Made a Revolution: William F. Buckley Jr. and the Rise of Modern Conservatism"
 
Tue, November 8, 2005
James A. Baker III, senior partner, Baker Botts, LLP; senior counsel, The Carlyle Group; former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, Secretary of State, and White House Chief of Staff; author of The Politics of Diplomacy (1995); "A Conversation about World Events"
 
Mon, November 7, 2005
Heidi Brown, colonel, U.S. Army, chief of staff, U.S. Army Air Defense Artillery Center; "Training Leaders for Today's Military" (12:15 p.m.)
 
Thu, November 3, 2005
Thomas Pogge, professor of philosophy, Columbia University; author, World Poverty and Human Rights (2002) and co-editor, Global Institutions and Responsibilities (2005); "World Poverty: Explanations and Responsibilities"
 
Tue, November 1, 2005
Abigail Thernstrom, vice-chair, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights; Stephan Thernstrom, professor of history, Harvard University; co-authors, No Excuses: Closing the Racial Gap in Learning (2003) and America in Black and White: One Nation, Indivisible (1999); "Let's Talk About Segregation"
 
Mon, October 31, 2005
George Swaner '06, "Halloween Magic"
 
Thu, October 27, 2005
W.S. Merwin, U.S. special bicentennial consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress (1999-2000); author, Migration (2005) and Summer Doorways: A Memoir (2005); "The Poet and Nature"
 
Wed, October 26, 2005
Elizabeth Loftus, distinguished professor of psychology and social behavior, criminology, law and society, U.C. Irvine; co-author, The Myth of Repressed Memory: False Memories and Allegations of Sexual Abuse (1994) and Witness for the Defense: The Accused, the Eyewitness and the Expert Who Put Memory on Trial (1991); "Illusions of Memory"
 
Tue, October 25, 2005
Eric Helland, associate professor of economics, CMC; co-author, Using Placebo Laws to Test "More Guns, Less Crime": A Note (2004) and Regulation and Evolution of Corporate Boards: Monitoring, Advising or Window Dressing? (2004); "Judge and Jury: American Tort Law on Trial"
 
Mon, October 24, 2005
Oscar Torres, former El Salvadorian child soldier and co-screen writer of documentary film "Innocent Voices" (2004) (Film screening, 6:00 p.m.)
 
Thu, October 20, 2005
David Elliott, H. Russell Smith professor of international relations and professor of politics, Pomona College; author, Wag the Dog: Vietnam and the Cold War (2000) and The Vietnam War: Revolution and Social Change in the Mekong Delta (2002); "Rethinking Vietnam" (12:15 p.m.)
 

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