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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.

Fri, February 16, 1990
Michael Deane Lamkin, professor of music, Scripps College; conductor, Claremont chamber orchestra; "Evening in Vienna"
 
Thu, February 15, 1990
Thomas Bernstein, professor of political science, chief researcher, East Asian Institute, Columbia University; author, Up to the Mountains and Down to the Villages: The Transfer of Youth from Urban to Rural China (1977); "Reform of Leninst States: Comparing Reform in China and the Soviet Union"
 
Mon, February 12, 1990
Rachel MacNair, president, Feminists for Life of America; "The Pro-life Feminist View"
 
Thu, February 8, 1990
David Shipler, senior associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; author, Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land (1986) and Russia: Broken Idols, Solemn Dreams (1983); "Gorbachev's Glasnost: Authoritarianism and Democracy"
 
Wed, February 7, 1990
Eleanor Smeal, founder and president, The Fund for the Feminist Majority; author, How and Why Women Will Elect the Next President (1984); "A Woman's Right to Choose"
 
Tue, February 6, 1990
Katherine Auspitz, associate professor of social studies, Harvard University; author, The Radical Bourgeoisie: The Ligne de l'Enseignement and the Origins of the Third Republic, 1866-1885 (1982); "In Defense of the Republic of Virtue"
 
Thu, February 1, 1990
Barry Rand, group vice president, Xerox; "Business and Higher Education as Partners in Empowering the New Majority as Leaders" (7:30 p.m. McKenna Auditorium)
 
Tue, January 30, 1990
Fred Rhodewalt, professor of psychology, University of Utah; "Turtles and Peacocks: Self-Handicapping" (12:00 p.m.)
 
Mon, January 29, 1990
S. Frederick Starr, president, Oberlin College; author, Red and Hot: The Fate of Jazz in the Soviet Union, 1917-1980 (1983) and New Orleans Unmasked (1985); "Political Pluralism: Perestroika's Next Phase"
 
Thu, January 25, 1990
William Rusher, publisher, National Review; author, How to Win Arguments (1985); "The Twilight of the Enlightenment?"
 
Wed, January 24, 1990
Jean Kilbourne, visiting research scholar, Center for Women, Wellesley College; author, Deadly Persuasion: Why Women and Girls Must Fight The Addictive Power of Advertising (1990); "The Naked Truth: Advertising's Image of Women"
 
Tue, January 23, 1990
Murry Wood, regional director, American Israel Public Affairs Committee; "Get Out the Vote"
 
Mon, January 22, 1990
Raine Eisler, co-founder, Center of Partnership Studies; author, The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future (1987); "The Chalice and the Blade: Models of Partnership Between Women and Men"
 
Thu, January 18, 1990
James Farmer, Virginia Commonwealth professor of history, Mary Washington College; founding director, Congress of Racial Equality (CORE); author, Lay Bare the Heart: An Autobiography of the Civil Rights Movement (1985) and Freedom When (1965); "Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday Remembrance"
 
Wed, January 17, 1990
Franklin Chang-Diaz, astronaut, NASA; "Flight of the Space Shuttle Atlantis"
 

Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum

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