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 23, 2013
Stephen Greenblatt, John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University; author, The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (2011) and Will in the World: How Shakespeare became Shakespeare (2005); "Lucretius and the Toleration of Intolerable Ideas"
Thu, October 17, 2013
Henry Olsen, III '83, senior fellow, Ethics and Public Policy Center; "40th Anniversary of the Rose Institute of State and Local Government"
Wed, October 16, 2013
Thanassis Cambanis, journalist; fellow, The Century Foundation; author, A Privilege to Die: Inside Hezbollah's Legions and Their Endless War Against Israel (2010); "The Arab Uprisings Aren’t Over"
Tue, October 15, 2013
Eric Karpeles, writer, translator, painter; author, Paintings in Proust: A Visual Companion to In Search of Lost Time (2008) and co-translator, Proust's Overcoat: The True Story of One Man's Passion for All Things Proust (2010); "Was Proust Convinced? Art and the Power of Redemption"
Mon, October 14, 2013
Lev Gonick, co-chair, higher education committee, CIO Executive Council; co-chair, Higher Education Executive Exchange, Cisco; "From Digital Campus to Connected Community: The Story of NEOhio's OneCommunity" (12:00 p.m.)
Fri, October 11, 2013
G. Jeffrey Records, Jr. '81, Chairman and CEO, Midfirst Bank; "Lunch with a Leader: Commercial Banking" (12:00 p.m.)
Thu, October 10, 2013
Dorothy Fadiman, documentary filmmaker; director, Stealing America: Vote by Vote (2008); Motherhood by Choice, Not Chance (2010), and co-author, Producing with Passion: Making Films that Changed the World (2008); "When a Filmmaker's Passion Catches Fire: An Evening with Documentary Producer Dorothy Fadiman"
Wed, October 9, 2013
Christopher Harmon, MajGen Matthew C. Horner Chair of Military Theory, Marine Corps University; author, Toward a Grand Strategy Against Terrorism (2010) and co-editor, Statecraft and Power: Essays in Honor of Harold W. Rood (1994); "State Sponsors of Terrorism" (12:00 p.m.)
Tue, October 8, 2013
Harold Koh, Department and Sterling Professor of International Law, Yale University; Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (1998-2001); co-author, Transnational Business Problems (2008) and author Transnational Litigation in United States Courts (2008); "Is There An Obama-Clinton Doctrine?"
Mon, October 7, 2013
Sheila Malovany-Chevallier and Constance Borde, translators; professors emeritus of American Literature and American Studies, Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Paris; co-translators, Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex (2009) and co-authors, My English is French: Corrigez facilement vos erreurs les plus courantes en anglais (1983); "Revisiting Simone de Beauvoir in the 21st Century"
Thu, October 3, 2013
Shirin Ebadi, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (2003); founder, Defenders of Human Rights Center, Iran (2001); author, The Golden Cage: Three Brothers, Three Choices, One Destiny (2011) and Refugee Rights in Iran (2008); "Human Rights and the Role of Faith in World Peace"
Wed, October 2, 2013
Jonathan V. Last, senior writer, The Weekly Standard; author, What to Expect When No One’s Expecting: America’s Coming Demographic Disaster (2013); "No More Babies: What to Expect When No One's Expecting" (12:00 p.m.)
Tue, October 1, 2013
Jeff Wasserstrom, professor of history, U.C. Irvine; author, China in the 21st Century: What Everybody Needs to Know (2010) and Global Shanghai, 1850-2010 (2008); "China Beyond the Sound Bites"
Mon, September 30, 2013
Jackson Katz, co-founder, Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP)(1993); film creator, Tough Guise: Violence, Media, and the Crisis in Masculinity (2000); author, Leading Men: Presidential Campaigns and the Politics of Manhood (2012) and The Macho Paradox: Why Some Men Hurt Women and How All Men Can Help (2006); "More Than a Few Good Men: American Manhood and Violence Against Women"
Thu, September 26, 2013
Chae-Jin Lee, Bank of America professor emeritus of Pacific Basin Studies, professor emeritus of government, and director, Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies (1988-2009), CMC; author, A Troubled Peace: U.S. Policy and the Two Koreas (2006) and China and Korea: Dynamic Relations (1996); "U.S. Policy toward Korea: Containment and Engagement"

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