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, September 18, 2006
Adrian Buono, guitar; Santiago Lee, guitar; Jose Agote, guitar; Juan Manzur, guitar; Juan Manuel Leguizamon, percussion; artists on albums Live in Los Angeles (2005) and Peripecias (2006); "Los Pinguos: A Musical Celebration of Latino Heritage Month"
 
Fri, September 15, 2006
R. Glenn Hubbard, dean, Russell L. Carson professor of economics and finance, Columbia University's School of Business; co-author, Healthy, Wealthy, & Wise: Five Steps to a Better Health Care System (2005) and author, forthcoming Principles of Economics (2006); "The Value of a Business Education" (12:15 p.m.)
 
Thu, September 14, 2006
Christina Hoff Sommers, W.H. Brady fellow, American Enterprise Institute; co-author, One Nation Under Therapy: How the Helping Culture Undermines Self Reliance (2005) and author, The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism is Harming Our Young Men (2001); "Where the Boys Are"
 
Wed, September 13, 2006
Firuz Kazemzadeh, professor emeritus of history, Yale University; member, United States Commission on International Religious Freedom; author, The Struggle for Transcaucasin, 1917-1921 (1952) and Russia and Britain in Persia: A Study in Imperialism, 1864-1914 (1968); "Iran and the Baha'is: A History of Persecution"
 
Tue, September 12, 2006
Raymond Huey, professor of biology, University of Washington; co-author, Hypoxia, Global Warming, and Terrestrial Late Permian Extinctions (2005) and Climbing a Triassic Mount Everest into Thinner Air (2005); "Life and Death at High Altitude: What Himalayan Mountaineers and Late Permian Vertebrates Have in Common"
 
Mon, September 11, 2006
John Sprouse '88, president and CEO, Shoreline Advisors, Inc; "Reflections on the Life of a McKenna Scholar"
 
Thu, September 7, 2006
Thomas Poon, assistant professor of chemistry, CMC; co-author, Introduction to Organic Chemistry (2004); "Serendipity, Science, and the Bird Flu"
 
Thu, April 27, 2006
Ian Miller, professor of modern Japanese history, Arizona State University; "The Nature of the Beast: Modernity and Empire at the Tokyo Imperial Zoological Gardens" (12:30 p.m. Parents Dining Room)
 
Wed, April 26, 2006
Wangari Maathai, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (2004); founder, Green Belt Movement; assistant minister of environment, natural resources, and wildlife, Kenya; author, The Green Belt Movement: Sharing the Approach and the Experience (1985); "Sustainable Development, Democracy, and Peace: A Critical Link"
 
Thu, April 20, 2006
Fabio Lanza, assistant professor of history and East Asian Studies, University of Arizona; "Accommodating the West: Beijing, the City, and Its University" (12:30 p.m. Parents Dining Room)
 
Wed, April 19, 2006
James Piereson, president, William E. Simon Foundation; author, The Left University: How It was Born; How It Grew; How to Overcome It (2005) and co-author, Political Tolerance and American Democracy (1989); "The University in the Minds of the Founders" (12:15 p.m.)
 
Tue, April 18, 2006
George Will, columnist, The Washington Post; author, With A Happy Eye But...: America and the World, 1997-2002 (2002) and Statecraft as Soulcraft: What Government Does (1983); "The Political Argument Today"
 
Mon, April 17, 2006
Lisa Cody, associate professor of history, CMC; author, "Birthing the Nation: Sex, Science, and the Conception of Britons" (2005)
 
Fri, April 14, 2006
Dinner Theater, "California Suite" by Neil Simon (1978) (6:00 p.m.)
 
Thu, April 13, 2006
Dinner Theater, "California Suite" by Neil Simon (1978) (6:00 p.m.)
 

Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum

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