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, April 3, 2012
Erica Grieder, southwest correspondent, The Economist; Eric Helland, Robert J. Lowe Professor of Economics and George R. Roberts Fellow, CMC; co-author, forthcoming The Impact of Liability on the Physician Labor Market and The Optimal Jury Size when Jury Deliberation Follows a Random Walk (2008); Chuck Devore '85, Visiting Senior Scholar for Fiscal Policy, Texas Public Policy Foundation; "As Texas Goes…How California Lost Its Edge"
 
Mon, April 2, 2012
David Rodin, moral philosopher,  co-director of the Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict,  Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford; senior fellow, Carnegie Council for Ethics and International Affairs; author, War and Self-Defense (2005) and co-author, The Ethics Of War: Shared Problems In Different Traditions (2006); "After Just War Theory"
 
Tue, March 27, 2012
Allison Melangton, CEO and president, 2012 Super Bowl Host Committee; "Super Bowl XLVI: Financial Success and Community Building"
 
Mon, March 26, 2012
Cindy Shea, trumpet, founding director; Gina Duran, trumpet; Ariana Mejia, flute, vocals; Sandie Castaneda, congas, percussion; Daniela Gutierrez, guitarron; Wendy Alarcon, vihuela;  Melinda Salcido, guitar, vocals; Karina Zurita, guitar, vocals; Angel Garcia, violin, vocals; Cathy Baeza, violin; Diana Benitez, violin; Stephanie Martinez, violin, vocals; Valerie Carlos, guitar, vocals; Ruby Torres, violin; "Mariachi Divas: A Musical Celebration in Honor of Cesar Chavez"
 
Thu, March 22, 2012
Carl Schramm, CEO and president, Ewing Marion Kaufman Foundation (2002-2011); co-author, Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism (2007), and author, The Entrepreneurial Imperative (2006); "The Entrepreneurial Imperative" (12:00 p.m.)
 
Wed, March 21, 2012
Soraya Salti,  2012 Henry R. Kravis Prize in Leadership co-recipient; executive director, INJAZ Al-Arab and senior vice president, Middle East/North Africa for Junior Achievement Worldwide; Gene Falk,  co-founder and CEO, mothers2mothers, 2012 Henry R. Kravis Prize in Leadership co-recipient; Robin Smalley, International director, mothers2mothers, 2012 Henry R. Kravis Prize in Leadership co-recipient; Divya Vishwanath '11,  alumni moderator; Nicholas Egger-Bovet '12, student moderator; "Transforming the World Through Leadership and Social Innovation" (12:00 p.m.)
 
Tue, March 20, 2012
Sheldon Pollock, William B. Ransford Professor of Sanskrit and Indian Studies, Columbia University; author, Forms of Knowledge in Early Modern Asia: Explorations in the Intellectual History of India and Tibet, 1500–1800 (2011) and The Language of the Gods in the World of Men: Sanskrit, Culture, and Power in Premodern India (2009); “Does the Past have a Future? On the Fate of Classical Cultures”
 
Mon, March 19, 2012
Elliott Abrams, Deputy National Security Advisor for Global Democracy Strategy (2005-2009); Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign Relations; co-author, Democracy: How Direct? Views from the Founding Era and the Polling Era (2002) and The Influence of Faith (2001); “Arab Spring and Arab Winter: The Fate of Democracy in the Middle East”
 
Thu, March 8, 2012
Ian Frazier, staff writer, The New Yorker; author, Travels in Siberia (2010) and On the Rez (2000); "An Evening with the Author"
 
Wed, March 7, 2012
Gigi Birchfield '82 P'12, attorney,  managing partner, and co-Global Practice Leader; Major, Lindsey & Major LLC, Los Angeles ; John Doyle P'11 P'13, California Superior Court Judge, Los Angeles County; Carolyn Kuhl P'11, California Superior Court Judge, Los Angeles County; Margaret Nagle P'10 P'12,  Federal Magistrate Judge, United States District Court for the Central District of California; Suzanne Segal '82, Chief Magistrate Judge, Unites States District Court for the Central District of California  (moderator); "A Career in Law: Can You Achieve Work/Life Satisfaction?" (12:00 p.m.)
 
Tue, March 6, 2012
Esra'a Al Shafei, founder of MideastYouth.com, CrowdVoice.org, and mideastunes.com; "Creating New Visions of the Middle East" (12:00 p.m.)
 
Mon, March 5, 2012
Michael Bordo, professor of economics, director, Center for Monetary and Financial History, Rutgers University; co-author, Credibility and the International Monetary Regime: A Historical Perspective (2012) and Theories of International Trade (2006); "Whither the Euro: Some Reflections from the History of Fiscal and Monetary Unions"  (12:00 p.m.)
 
Thu, March 1, 2012
Charles Bernstein, poet, theorist, literary scholar, Donald T. Regan Chair, professor of English, University of Pennsylvania; author, Attack of the Difficult Poems  (2011) and All the Whiskey in Heaven (2010); “The Politics of Poetic Form”
 
Wed, February 29, 2012
Dan Savage, creator of the "It Gets Better" project and "Savage Love" column, author, It Gets Better: Coming Out, Overcoming Bullying, and Creating a Life Worth Living (2011) and Skipping Towards Gomorrah (2003); "It Gets Better"
 
Tue, February 28, 2012
Fran Lebowitz,  journalist, social commentator, and author,  forthcoming Exterior Signs of Wealth and The Fran Lebowitz Reader (1994); Eric Puchner, assistant professor of literature, CMC; author, Model Home: A Novel (2010) and Music through the Floor (2005);  "A Conversation with Fran Lebowitz"
 

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