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.

Tue, January 21, 1986
Dinner Theater, "Peking Acrobat Pre-performance Dinner" (8:00 p.m. Bridges Auditorium)
 
Tue, December 3, 1985
William Trogdon, professor of journalism, University of Missouri; author, "Blue Highways: A Journey Into America" (1983) (11:00 a.m.)
 
Tue, November 26, 1985
Morton Smith, biblical scholar; author, The Secret Gospel: The Discovery and Interpretation of the Secret Gospels According to Mark (1982) and Clement of Alexandria and a Secret Gospel of Mark (1973); "An Evening with Morton Smith"
 
Mon, November 25, 1985
P. Edward Haley, professor of government, CMC; author, Qaddafi and the United States Since 1969 (1984) and co-editor of Lebanon in Crisis: Participants and Issues (1979); "War, PBS series, Part VIII: The Knife Edge of Deterrence" (4:15 p.m.)
 
Thu, November 21, 1985
Elie Wiesel, Andrew W. Mellon professor of humanities, Boston University; author, A Beggar in Jerusalem (1970) and The Testament (1981); "Why I Write" (11:00 a.m.)
 
Wed, November 20, 1985
Elie Wiesel, Andrew W. Mellon professor of humanities, Boston University; author, Night (1961) and The Fifth Son (1985); "How I Write" (11:00 a.m.)
 
Tue, November 19, 1985
Anton Lowenberg, assistant professor of economics, CMC; Peter Duignan, senior fellow, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace; author, Colonialism in Africa, 1870-1960 (1975) and Africa South of the Sahara (1981); Dean McHenry, Jr., associate professor of government, Claremont Graduate School; author, Tanzania's Ujama Villeges, The Implementation of a Rural Development Strategy (1979); William Moses '84, Watson fellow; Marie-Denise Shelton, associate professor of French, CMC, (moderator); "The Political Economy of Apartheid" (11:00 a.m. Bauer Lecture Hall)
 
Mon, November 18, 1985
David Keithly, professor of military science, CMC; "War, PBS series, Part VII: Goodbye War"
 
Tue, November 12, 1985
John Finney, Jr., deputy director, Office of Regional Security Affairs, State Department; "Asian Politics: Military Affairs"
 
Mon, November 11, 1985
Harold Rood, professor of government, CMC; author, Kingdom of the Blind: How the Great Democracies Have Resumed the Follies That So Nearly Cost Them Their Life (1980); "War, PBS series, Part VI: Notes on Nuclear War"
 
Thu, November 7, 1985
Gaines Post, Jr., professor of history, CMC; author, The Civil-Military Fabric of Weimar Foreign Policy (1973) and The Humanities in American Life: Report of the Commission on the Humanities (1980); "War, PBS series, Part V: Keeping the Old Game Alive" (5:15 p.m.)
 
Wed, November 6, 1985
Paul van Buren, professor of religion, Temple University; author, The Secular Memory of Gospel: Based on an Analysis of Its Language (1963) and The Edges of Language: An Essay in the Logic of a Religion (1972); Clark Williamson, professor of religion, Christian Theological Seminary; author, Has God Rejected His People? (1982) and God is Never Absent (1977); "Jewish-Christian Relations" (12:00 p.m.)
 
Tue, November 5, 1985
P. Edward Haley, professor of government, CMC; author, Congress and the Fall of South Vietnam and Cambodia (1982); "War, PBS series, Part IV: The Deadly Game of Nations" (5:15 p.m.)
 
Mon, November 4, 1985
Theodore Puck, director, Eleanor Roosevelt Institute for Cancer Research; author, The Mammalian Cell As a Microorganism: Genetic and Biochemical Studies in Vitro (1972); "World Health Problems"
 
Wed, October 30, 1985
John White, commanding officer, juvenile division, LAPD; "Child Abuse and Neglect" (12:30 p.m.)
 

Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum

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