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, April 4, 2001
Nicholas Eberstadt, Henry Wendt chair of political economy, American Enterprise Institute; author, Prosperous Paupers and Other Population Problems (2000) and The End of North Korea (1999); "The Coming Population Implosion"
 
Tue, April 3, 2001
Wendy Kao '01, piano; Michael Deane Lamkin, Bessie and Cecil Frankel professor of music, Dean of Faculty, Scripps College; conductor, Claremont chamber orchestra; "Senior Recital"
 
Mon, April 2, 2001
William Gleysteen, Jr., former U.S. ambassador to Korea; author, Massive Entanglement, Marginal Influence: Carter and Korea in Crisis (1999); "How America Has Become So Engaged in Korea: Limits of Its Influence" (12:15 p.m.)
 
Thu, March 29, 2001
Steve May '93, state representative, Arizona State House of Representatives; "Don't Ask, Don't Tell: A Soldier's Journey"
 
Wed, March 28, 2001
Elizabeth Morgan, registrar, CMC; P. Edward Haley, professor of government, CMC, co-author, American Security in an Interpendent World (1988) and editor, U.S. Relations with Europe (1999); Gary Gilbert, professor of religious studies, CMC, editor, The Papers of Henry Luce III Fellows in Theology (1996); Sarah Baird '01; Cynthia Humes, professor of religious studies, CMC, co-editor, Living Banaras: Hindu Religion in Cultural Context (1993),(moderator), "Academic Honesty on Trial"
 
Tue, March 27, 2001
Christopher Key Chapple, professor of theological studies, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles; author, Nonviolence to Animals, Earth, and Self in Asian Traditions (1993) and Hinduism and Ecology (2000); "The Great Elements and the Continuity of Life: Ecology in Hinduism and Jainsism"
 
Mon, March 26, 2001
Sally Satel, W.H. Brady fellow, American Enterprise Institute; author, PC MD: How Political Correctness is Corrupting Medicine (2000) and Drug Treatment: The Case for Coercion (1999); "The Politics of Medicine"
 
Thu, March 22, 2001
Preethi de Silva, professor of music, Scripps College, harpsichord; Gregory Maldonado, violin; Stephen Schultz, flute; Jennifer Paul, harpsichord; Stephan Moss, harpsichord; Denise Briese, viola da gamba; Susan Feldman, violin; William Skeen, cello; Ondine Young, viola; "Con Gioia Early Music Ensemble: Bach and the Cembalo Concertato"
 
Wed, March 21, 2001
George Weigel, senior fellow, Ethics and Public Policy Center; author, Witness to Hope: A Biography of John Paul II (1999) and The Final Revolution: The Resistance Church and the Collapse of Communism (1992); "The Achievement of Pope John Paul II"
 
Tue, March 20, 2001
Steve Lopez '75 P'01, professor of psychology, UCLA; "Shifting Identities: From CMC Grad to UCLA Professor"
 
Mon, March 19, 2001
Daniel Patrick Moynihan, former U.S. senator (D-NY); author, Secrecy: The American Experience (1999) and Miles to Go: A Personal History of Social Policy (1996); James Q. Wilson, Ronald Reagan professor of public policy, Pepperdine University; author, The Moral Sense (1993) and The Politics of Regulation (1982); "A Dahrendorf Inversion? The Twilight of Family in the North Atlantic Region" C-SPAN, Webcast
 
Wed, March 7, 2001
David Abshire, president, Center for the Study of the Presidency; co-author, Putting America's House in Order: The Nation as a Family (1996) and "Triumphs and Tragedies of the Modern Presidency" (2001) (12:15 p.m.)
 
Tue, March 6, 2001
Nathan Rosenberg, Fairleigh S. Dickinson Jr. professor of public policy, Stanford University; author, How the West Grew Rich: The Economic Transformation of the Industrial World (1987) and The Emergence of Economic Ideas: Essays in the History of Economics (1994); "American Universities as Economic Institutions"
 
Mon, March 5, 2001
Peter Navarro, associate professor of economics and public policy, U.C. Irvine; author, The Dimming of America: The Real Costs of Electric Utility Regulatory Failure (1984) and forthcoming If It's Raining in Brazil, Buy Starbucks: The Investor's Guide to Profiting from News and Other Market Moving Events (2001); John Jurewitz, director of regulatory policy, Southern California Edison; Benjamin Zycher, senior economist, RAND Corporation; Robert Michaels, professor of economics, C.S.U. Fullerton; Rod Smith, senior vice president of Stratecon Inc. and president and managing director of J&M Water Development LLC; author, Troubled Waters: Financing Water in the West (1984) and Trading Water: An Economic and Legal Framework for Water Marketing (1988); Tom Borcherding, professor of economics, Claremont Graduate University, author, Egg Marketing: A Case Study of Monopoly (1980) and editor, Budgets and Bureaucrats: The Sources of Government Growth (1977), (moderator); "California's Energy Crisis: Who's to Blame and What to Do" (12:15 p.m.)
 
Thu, March 1, 2001
Mary Rose O'Reilley, author, The Barn at the End of the World: The Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd (2000) and Radical Presence: Teaching as Contemplative Practice (1998); "Being Mindful When Your Mind is Already Too Full"
 

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