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, March 26, 2003

Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland; former U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights; co-author, International Encyclopedia of Human Rights: Freedom, Abuses, and Remedies (2000) and co-editor, The Poverty of Rights: Human Rights and the Eradication of Poverty (2001); "Human Rights and Ethical Globalization"

Tue, March 25, 2003

bell hooks, author, Feminism is for Everybody (2000) and Communion: The Female Search for Love (2002); "Feminist Education: Changing All Our Lives"

Mon, March 24, 2003

Hershel Parker, H. Fletcher Brown professor emeritus of English, University of Delaware; author, Flawed Texts and Verbal Icons: Literacy Authority in American Fiction (1984) and Herman Melville: A Biography (Volume 2, 1851-1891) (2002); "Damned by Dollars: Moby-Dick and the Price of Genius"

Thu, March 13, 2003

Valerie Bunce, professor of political science, Cornell University; author, Subversive Institutions: The Design and Destruction of Socialism and the State (1999) and Do New Leaders Make a Difference?: Executive Succession and Public Policy under Capitalism and Socialism (1981); "The Sources of Ethnic Conflict: Insights from the Post-communist Experience"

Wed, March 12, 2003

Gary Comstock, professor of philosophy, director of ethics program, North Carolina State University; author, Vexing Nature: On the Ethical Case Against Agricultural Biotechnology (2000) and Life Science Ethics (2002); "Vexing Nature? On Ethics and Genetically Modified Food"

Tue, March 11, 2003

Nicholas Turro, William P. Schweitzer professor of chemistry, Columbia University; author, Modern Molecular Photochemistry (1991) and Annual Survey of Photochemistry Volume 3 (1971); "Paradigms Found and Paradigms Lost. Science Extraordinary and Science Pathological. Which is Which? And How to Tell the Difference"

Mon, March 10, 2003

Thomas Metcalf, Sarah Kailath chair and professor of history and Indian studies, U.C. Berkeley; author, Ideologies of the Raj (1995) and An Imperial Vision: Indian Architecture and Britain's Raj (1989); "Gandhi: Imperialist, Nationalist, Hindu?"

Thu, March 6, 2003

Edward Burger, professor of mathematics, Williams College; co-author, The Heart of Mathematics: An Invitation to Effective Thinking (1999) and author, Exploring the Number Jungle: A Journey into Diophantine Analysis (2000); "The Beauty and Art of Paper Folding for the Origamically Challenged"

Wed, March 5, 2003

Harold Mulherin, Don and Loraine Freeberg chair and professor of economics and finance, CMC; co-author, Valuing the Process of Corporate Restructuring (2001) and Comparing Acquisitions and Divestitures (2000); "Research in Corporate Finance"

Tue, March 4, 2003

Il SaKong, former finance minister, Republic of Korea; author, Korea in the World Economy (1993) and co-editor, The Korea-United States Economic Relationship (1997); "Towards an Enchanted East Asian Economic Cooperation"

Mon, March 3, 2003

Ted Bergstrom, Aaron and Cherie Raznick chair and professor of economics, U.C. Santa Barbara; co-author, Experiments with Economic Principles: Microeconomics (1999) and Workouts in Intermediate Microeconomics (1999); "An Evolutionary View of the Economics of the Family"

Thu, February 27, 2003

Ersky Freeman as Malcolm X; Dudley Craig II as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; Mark Anderson as bodyguard; "Pin Points Theatre: The Meeting"

Wed, February 26, 2003

Jorge Dominquez, professor of international affairs, Harvard University; editor, The Future of Inter-American Relations (1999) and co-author; "The United States and Mexico: Between Partnership and Conflict" (2001)

Tue, February 25, 2003

Michael Berenbaum, adjunct professor of theology and director, Sigi Ziering Center for the Study of the Holocaust and Ethics, University of Judaism, Los Angeles; co-author, False Papers: Deception and Survival in the Holocaust (2000) and In the Shadow of the Swastika (1998); "Creating Something from Nothing: The Scholar as Entrepreneur"

Mon, February 24, 2003

James Young, professor of English and Judaic studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; author, Memory's Edge: After-Images of the Holocaust in Contemporary Art and Architecture (2000) and editor, Holocaust Memorials in History: The Art of Memory (1997); "Memory, Counter-memory, and the End of the Holocaust Monument"

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