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, October 5, 1994
Thomas Andrews, director, Historical Society of Southern California; consultant to the documentary film, "The Donner Party" (1992)
 
Tue, October 4, 1994
L. Douglas Wilder, former governor of Virginia; "Electoral Politics in Virginia" (4:00 p.m. McKenna Auditorium)
 
Mon, October 3, 1994
Andrew Gordon, professor of history, Duke University; author, Postwar Japan as History (1993) and Labor and Imperial Democracy in Prewar Japan (1991); "Fascism in Wartime Japan: Toward the Revival of a Concept"
 
Thu, September 29, 1994
Ed Rollins, vice president, strategic communications firm, Washington, D.C.; Bob Beckel, founder, National Strategies and Marketing Group, Inc.; "What's at Stake in the Midterm Elections?"
 
Wed, September 28, 1994
D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, co-directors of documentary films Rockaby (1983) and "The War Room" (1993)
 
Tue, September 27, 1994
Suzi Landolphi, AIDS activist; author, "Hot, Sexy, and Safer" (1994)
 
Mon, September 26, 1994
Cornel West, professor of Afro-American studies, Harvard University; author, Prophesy Deliverance: An Afro-American Revolutionary Christianity (1982) and "Race Matters" (1993) (McKenna Auditorium)
 
Thu, September 22, 1994
Kenton Youngstrom, guitar; "Classical and Jazz Guitar: A Musical Journey Through Three Centuries of Guitar Music"
 
Wed, September 21, 1994
Stacey Kabat, director, Battered Women Fighting Back!; co-producer of documentary "Defending Our Lives" (1993)
 
Tue, September 20, 1994
Horace Clarence Boyer, professor of music, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; co-author, We'll Understand It Better By and By (1993) and New Grove Dictionary of American Music (1986); "The Old Ship of Zion: African American Gospel Music"
 
Mon, September 19, 1994
Luis Valdez, playwright; author, Zoot Suit (1977) and La Bamba (1987); "Hemispheric American" (McKenna Auditorium)
 
Wed, April 27, 1994
Reed Tuckson, president, Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science, Los Angeles; "Health Care: Hope and Reality"
 
Tue, April 26, 1994
Adam Pack, senior research coordinator, Kewalo Basin Marine Mammal Laboratory; "Are Dolphins Even Smarter Than We Thought?"
 
Wed, April 20, 1994
Frank LaMere, executive director, Nebraska Indian Intertribal Development Corporation; "Indigenous People in the Modern World"
 
Tue, April 19, 1994
William Cronon, professor of history, University of Wisconsin-Madison; author, Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England (1983) and Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (1991); "Telling Tales on Canvas: Landscapes of Frontier Change"
 

Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum

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