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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, November 7, 1994
Ana Delgado '97; Zackary Erickson '95; Jason Goldberg '95; Andrew Mittler '95; "The Importance of the 1994 Elections"
 
Thu, November 3, 1994
Daniel Gaisford, cello; "Suites No. 1 in G Major and No. 3 in C Major by Johann Sebastian Bach"
 
Wed, November 2, 1994
Alan Gewirth, E. C. Waller Distinguished Service professor of philosophy, University of Chicago; author, Reason and Morality (1980) and Human Rights: Essays (1983); "Can Property Rights Be Justified?"
 
Tue, November 1, 1994
R. Ervn Taylor, professor of anthropology, U.C. Riverside; author, Radio Carbon Dating: An Archaeological Perspective (1987) and co-editor, Radio Carbon After Four Decades: An Interdisciplinary Perspective (1992); "Science, Metascience, and Pseudoscience: Radio Carbon Dating Confronts Pliocene Man in the New World, Noah's Ark, and the Shroud of Turin"
 
Mon, October 31, 1994
Doris Lessing, author, Under My Skin Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949 (1994) and The Real Thing: Stories and Sketches (1992); "Readings from Her Work" (4:00 p.m. McKenna Auditorium)
 
Thu, October 27, 1994
Kenneth Pyle, professor of history and Asian studies, University of Washington; author, The Japanese Question: Power and Purpose in a New Era (1992) and The Trade Crisis: How Will Japan Respond? (1987); "Fascism in Asia"
 
Wed, October 26, 1994
Jack Crouch II, associate professor of defense and strategic studies, Southwest Missouri State University; author, The President and Nuclear Testing (1982) and A National Missile Defense (1993); "American Strategic Policy Under Reagan and After"
 
Tue, October 25, 1994
Robert Abzug, professor of history, University of Texas, Austin; author, Cosmos Crumbling: American Reform and the Religious Imagination (1994) and Inside the Vicious Heart: Americans and the Liberation of Nazi Concentration Camps (1987); "America and the Holocaust Reconsidered: Looking Back from Bosnia and Rwanda"
 
Mon, October 24, 1994
Robert Alter, professor of Hebrew and comparative literature, U.C. Berkeley; author, The Art of Biblical Narrative (1983) and The Pleasures of Reading in an Ideological Age (1989); "Criticism and the Common Reader"
 
Thu, October 20, 1994
Kailash Pandya, director, Darpana Academy of Performing Arts, India; Kottakal Sasidharan Nair, performance artist; "Classical Indian Dance"
 
Wed, October 19, 1994
James Linahon, director, Fullerton College Jazz Band; Sunny Wilkinson, vocalist; "Jazz: An American Perspective"
 
Wed, October 12, 1994
Paul Apodaca, curator of Native American art, Bowers Museum, Santa Ana; "The Navajo 'Code Talkers' of World War II"
 
Tue, October 11, 1994
David Brown '69, director of documentary films A Question of Power (1986) and "Bound by the Wind" (1993)
 
Mon, October 10, 1994
James Reston, Jr., author, Galileo: A Life (1994) and To Defend, To Destroy (1971); "The Art of Biography"
 
Thu, October 6, 1994
John Roemer, professor of economics, U.C. Davis; author, A Future for Socialism (1994) and forthcoming "What Real Equality of Opportunity Requires" (1995)
 

Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum

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Claremont, CA 91711

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