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.

Mon, February 27, 2012
Aseema Sinha, Wagener Family Associate Professor of Comparative Politics and George R. Roberts Fellow, CMC; co-author, Democracy, History, and Economic Performance: A Case-Study Approach (2010) and author, The Regional Roots of Developmental Politics in India: A Divided Leviathan (2005); "India: A Revolution of Rising Expectations"
 
Sat, February 25, 2012
Jay Conger, Henry Kravis Research Chair professor of leadership studies, CMC; editor, Boardroom Realities: Leveraging the Leadership Capability of Your Board (2009) and co-author,  Growing Your Company's Leaders: How Great Organizations Use Succession Management to Sustain Competitive Advantage (2004); "What the Science of Memory Can Teach Us about Leadership" (12:00 p.m.)
 
Thu, February 23, 2012
Arne Flaten, associate professor of art history; chair, Department of Visual Arts, Thomas W. and Robin W. Edwards College of Humanities and Fine Arts, Coastal Carolina University; author, Medals and Plaquettes: The Middledorf Collection (2011) and co-editor, The Medal, No. 56 (2010); "Computers and Cultural Conflict: Digital Humanities in Tumultuous Times"
 
Wed, February 22, 2012
Meg Wolitzer, award-winning and best-selling author, The Uncoupling: A Novel (2011), The Ten-Year Nap (2008), The Position (2006), The Wife (2004), Surrender, Dorothy (2000); "An Evening with the Author"
 
Tue, February 21, 2012
Ken Ono, Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Mathematics, Emory University; co-author, Number Theory and Modular Forms: Papers in Memory of Robert A. Rankin (2010) and author, The Web of Modularity: Arithmatic of the Coefficients of Modular Forms and Q-series (2001); "Unearthing the Visions of a Master: The Story and Legacy of Ramanujan"
 
Mon, February 20, 2012
Connie Duckworth P'12 P'14, founder and CEO, ARZU, Inc; partner and managing director, emeritus, Goldman Sachs & Co.; author, The Old Girls Network: Insider Advice for Women Building Businesses in a Man's World (2003); "A Conversation with a Leader"
 
Fri, February 17, 2012
Karl Schade '96, managing director, Presidio Financial Partners LLC; "2012 Claremont Finance Conference: Boom and Bust- A Discussion of Investing in a Dichotomous Market" (12:00 p.m.)
 
Thu, February 16, 2012
Sheri Berman, professor of political science, Barnard College; author, The Primacy of Politics: Social Democracy and the Making of  Europe's Twentieth Century (2006) and The Social Democratic Moment: Ideas and Politics in the Making of Interwar Europe  (1998); "Social Democracy and the Creation of Modern Europe"
 
Wed, February 15, 2012
Barry Riley, visiting scholar, Center on Food Security and the Environment, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University; co-author, The Development Effectiveness of Food Aid- Does Tying Matter? (2006); "Whither Food Security—The Food Insecure Poor:  What Future Awaits Them?"
 
Tue, February 14, 2012
Nick Bostrom, professor of philosophy; director, Future of Humanity Institute, St. Cross College, Oxford; editor, Global Catastrophic Risks (2011) and author, Anthropic Bias: Observation Selection Effects in Science and Philosophy (2010); "Superintelligence: The Machine Intelligence Revolution"
 
Mon, February 13, 2012
Daniel Lurie, founder and CEO, Tipping Point Community; At the Tipping Point: The Future of Philanthropy" (12:00 p.m.)
 
Fri, February 10, 2012
Jennifer Waggoner '95, president, League of Women Voters of California; "Nobody Wants To Be a Leaderette" (12:00 p.m.)
 
Thu, February 9, 2012
David Treuer, professor of English, USC; author, forthcoming Rez Life: An Indian's Journey Through Reservation Life (2012) and The Translation of Dr. Apelles (2006) and Native American Fiction: A User’s Manual (2006); "Reading Reservations: Writing (and Living) Rez Life"
 
Wed, February 8, 2012
Stephen D. Smith, executive director, Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education, USC; author, Making Memory: Creating Britain’s First Holocaust Centre (2002) and Forgotten Places: The Holocaust and the Remnants of Destruction (2001); "Never Again, Yet Again: Listening to the Voices of Genocide"
 
Tue, February 7, 2012
R. Scott Hawley, American Cancer Society Research Professor, Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, MO; co-author, Drosophilia: A Laboratory Handbook (2004) and Advanced Genetic Analysis: Finding Meaning in a Genome (2003);  "When Good Eggs Go Bad--Because Sometimes Even Chromosomes Aren’t Perfect"
 

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