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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.

Thu, February 1, 2001
Chappell Lawson, professor of political science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; author, The Elections of 1997: Campaign Effects and Voting Behavior in Mexico (1998) and forthcoming Building the Fourth Estate: Democratization and the Rise of a Free Press in Mexico (2002); "The Campaign of 2000: Voting Behavior and Campaign Effects in Mexico's Watershed Presidential Election"
 
Wed, January 31, 2001
Dorothy Cotton, former education director, Southern Christian Leadership Conference; "Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: His Work, Implications for Our Time"
 
Tue, January 30, 2001
Anne Lamott, author, Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith (2000) and Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life (1995); "Author Reads From Her Work"
 
Mon, January 29, 2001
James Sleeper, department of political science, Yale University; author, The Closest of Strangers (1990) and Liberal Racism (1998); "How American National Identity Heralds a Post-National Age"
 
Thu, January 25, 2001
Lunar New Year Celebration, "Year of the Snake, Draco Arts Golden Dragon Team"
 
Wed, January 24, 2001
Oliver Ryder, Kleberg Genetics Chair, Center for the Reproduction of Endangered Species, Zoological Society of San Diego; "Conserving Endangered Species in the Era of Genomics"
 
Tue, January 23, 2001
Douglass North, Nobel laureate in economic sciences (1993); Spencer T. Olin professor in the arts and science, Washington University, St. Louis; author, Structure and Change in Economic History (1981) and Economic Performance Through Time (1994); "Development Lessons in a Non-Ergodic World"
 
Mon, January 22, 2001
J. William Schopf, director of the Center for the Study of Evolution and the Origin of Life, UCLA; author, Cradle of Life (1999) and editor, Major Events in the History of Life (1992); "Discovery of Earth's Earliest Fossils: Solution to Darwin's Dilemma"
 
Fri, January 19, 2001
Diane Nash, civil rights activist; "Chaos or Community" (12:15 p.m.)
 
Thu, January 18, 2001
Vaclav Klaus, speaker, Czechoslovakia Parliament; former Prime Minister of the Czech Republic; author, Renaissance: The Rebirth of Liberty in the Heart of Europe (1997) and The Ten Commandments of Systemic Reform (1993); "Creating Capitalism in Eastern Europe: The Czech Case"
 
Thu, November 16, 2000
George Mitchell, Jr., former U.S. Senator (D-Maine); author, Not for America Alone: The Triumph of Democracy and the Fall of Communism (1997) and World on Fire: Saving an Endangered Earth (1991); "Making Peace in Northern Ireland" (4:00 p.m. Pickford Auditorium)
 
Wed, November 15, 2000
Takatoshi Kato, former vice minister of finance for international affairs, Japan's Ministry of Finance; "Japan's Identity Dilemma in Asia" (12:15 p.m.)
 
Tue, November 14, 2000
Consuelo Castillo Kickbusch, lieutenant colonel, U.S. Army, retired; "Moving Forward Without Forgetting (Avanzando y No Olvidanda)"
 
Mon, November 13, 2000
Randy Katz, United Microelectronics Corporation distinguished professor of electrical engineering and computer science, U.C. Berkeley; author, Information Management for Engineering Design (1985) and Contemporary Logic Design (1993); "History of Communications Infrastructure or From Smoke Signals to the Internet"
 
Thu, November 9, 2000
Peter Neufeld, cofounder and director, The Innocence Project; co-author, Actual Innocence: Five Days to Execution and Other Dispatches from the Wrongly Convicted (2000); "Wrongful Convictions: Causes and Remedies; What is to be Done?"
 

Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum

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