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Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum

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cultural life at CMC

 

Current Semester Schedule

Athenaeum events are posted here as detailed information becomes available.

Wed, October 19, 2005
Joseph Wilson IV, former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq; author, The Politics of Truth: Inside the Lies That Led to War and Betrayed My Wife's CIA Identity: A Diplomat's Memoir (2004); "Speaking Truth to Power and Its Consequences"
 
Thu, October 13, 2005
David Lampton, Sadie Hyman professor and chair of China Studies, School of Advanced International Studies, John Hopkins University, author, Same Bed, Different Dreams: Managing U.S.- China Relations, 1989-2000 (2002) and editor, The Making of Chinese Foreign and Security Policy in the Era of Reform, 1978-2000 (2001); "U.S.-China Relations in the Context of Growing PRC Power"
 
Wed, October 12, 2005
Adrian Buono, guitar; Santiago Lee, guitar; Jose Agote, guitar; Juan Manzur, guitar; Juan Manuel Leguizamon, percussion; "Los Pinguos: A Musical Celebration"
 
Tue, October 11, 2005
Galway Kinnell, professor of creative writing, New York University; author, A New Selected Poems (2000) and Imperfect Thirst (1996); "Reading and Commentary"
 
Mon, October 10, 2005
Louise Erdrich, author, The Birchbark House (2002) and Love Medicine (1984); "An Evening with the Author"
 
Thu, October 6, 2005
Ellis Krauss, professor of Japanese politics and policymaking, U.C. San Diego; co-editor, Beyond Bilateralism: U.S.-Japan Relations in the New Asia Pacific (2004) and author, Broadcasting Politics in Japan: NHK and Television News (2000); "Japan's September 11: A Critical Election- What It Meant, What's It Going to Mean?" (12:15 p.m.)
 
Wed, October 5, 2005
Nancy Fitch, HIV/AIDS clinical services advisor, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in Rwanda; "Rwanda: Post-genocide and the Fight against HIV/AIDS" (12:15 p.m.)
 
Mon, October 3, 2005
Bobby Seale, former chairman and co-founder, Black Panther Party for Self-Defense; author, Seize the Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton (1970) and A Lonely Rage: The Autobiography of Bobby Seale (1978); "From the Sixties to the Future"
 
Thu, September 29, 2005
Gary Pak, associate professor of English, University of Hawaii, Manoa; author, The Language of Geckos and Other Stories (2005) and Children of a Fireland: A Novel (2002); "Living with Spirits, Writing as Activism"
 
Wed, September 28, 2005
Jameelah Xochitl Medina '99, owner, The Medina Academy of Overachievers; training coordinator, State Insurance Fund of California; author, The Afro-Latin Diaspora: Awakening Ancestral Memory, Avoiding Cultural Amnesia (2004); "The Afro-Latin Diaspora: From Opacity to Transparency"
 
Tue, September 27, 2005
Dae-sook Suh, Korea Foundation professor of political science, University of Hawaii, Manoa; editor, North Korea after the Summit Meeting: Perspectives and Changes in Inter-Korean Relations (2002) and Russo-Korean Relations (2000); "Trust in U.S.-North Korea Relations" (12:15 p.m.)
 
Mon, September 26, 2005
Bob Hall, founder and president, Learning To Live With Conflict Inc.; "Nonviolent Sexuality: A Dialogue on Sex, Conflict, Alcohol & Intimacy"
 
Fri, September 23, 2005
Jim Brulte, (R-CA) former state senate minority leader; Robert Hertzberg, (D-CA) former state assembly speaker; "Perspectives on Public Policy Issues" (12:00 p.m.)
 
Thu, September 22, 2005
S. Brock Blomberg, associate professor of economics, CMC; author, The Macroeconomic Consequences of Terrorism (2004) and co-author, forthcoming Economic Conditions and Terrorism; "The Political Economy of Terrorism"
 
Wed, September 21, 2005
Robert Hass, U.S. poet laureate consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress (1995-1997); professor of English, U.C. Berkeley; author, Sun Under Wood (1996) and editor, The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Busan, and Issa (1994); "An Evening with the Poet"
 

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