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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.

Mon, March 6, 1995
Richard Goodwin, columnist, Los Angeles Times; author, Remembering America (1988) and The American Condition (1974); "Quiz Show: The Loss of Innocence"
 
Thu, March 2, 1995
Patricia Meyer Spacks, Edgar F. Shannon professor of English, University of Virginia; author, Boredom: The Literary History of a State of Mind (1994) and Desire and Truth: Functions of Plot in Eighteenth-Century Novels (1990); "Logics of Self-Love"
 
Wed, March 1, 1995
Danny Glover, screen actor, Lethal Weapon (1987) and The Color Purple (1985); Ben Guillory, stage actor; "Langston Hughes and Paul Robeson" (7:00 p.m. McKenna Auditorium)
 
Tue, February 28, 1995
Anthony Lewis, columnist, The New York Times; author, Gideon's Trumpet (1964) and Make No Law: The Sullivan Case and the First Amendment (1991); "So It Goes: The Bosnian Tragedy"
 
Mon, February 27, 1995
Mihaly Cskszentmihalyi, professor of human development and education, University of Chicago; author, Beyond Boredom and Anxiety (1975) and "Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience" (1990)
 
Thu, February 23, 1995
Richard Keeling, professor of medicine, University of Wisconsin, Madison; author, AIDS and HIV (1992) and Crisis: Heterosexual Sexual Behavior in the Age of AIDS (1989); "Sex, Alcohol, and Self-Esteem: Health on Campus in the 1990's"
 
Wed, February 22, 1995
Justin Biggs '95, guitar; Anand Subramanian '97, vocals; "Musical Tea" (3:00 p.m.)
 
Tue, February 21, 1995
Fredrick Shair, manager of educational affairs, Jet Propulsion Laboratory; author, Atmospheric Tracer Studies to Characterize the Transport and Dispersion of Pollutants in the California Delta Region (1977) and co-author, Convective Downmixing of Plumes in a Coastal Environment (1981); "The Use of Atmospheric Tracers to Study the Transport and Dispersion of Pollutants"
 
Mon, February 20, 1995
John Dower, Henry R. Luce professor of history, MIT; author, War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War (1987) and Japan in War and Peace (1995); "Japan and America: Thinking About the Bomb"
 
Thu, February 16, 1995
Robert Scalapino, Robson research professor emeritus of government, U.C. Berkeley; co-author, Communism in Korea (1972) and author, Major Power Relations in Northeast Asia (1987); "Korea and the U.S.: What Lies Ahead?"
 
Wed, February 15, 1995
Yuji Ichioka, professor of history, UCLA; author, The Issei: The World of the First Generation Japanese Immigrants, 1885-1924 (1988) and Views from Within: The Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement (1989); "Our Worst Wartime Mistake?"
 
Tue, February 14, 1995
Mike Campbell, Scottish storyteller; Dylan Schwilk, guitar; "Celtic Folktales"
 
Mon, February 13, 1995
Christina Hoff Sommers, associate professor of philosophy, Clark University; author, Right and Wrong: Basic Readings in Ethics (1986) and "Who Stole Feminism?: How Women Have Betrayed Women" (1994)
 
Thu, February 9, 1995
Henry Kravis '67, founding partner, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Company (KKR); "The Strengths of Leadership: Some Personal Thoughts"
 
Wed, February 8, 1995
Daniel Kevles, Koepfli professor of humanities, California Institute of Technology; author, In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity (1995) and The Code of Codes: Scientific and Social Issues in the Human Genome Project (1992); "Genetics, Race and IQ: Historical Reflections from Binet to the Bell Curve"
 

Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum

Claremont McKenna College
385 E. Eighth Street
Claremont, CA 91711

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