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Athenaeum
A distinctive
feature of social and
cultural life at CMC
Open Events
Welcome to the registration page for the spring 2019 season of the Athenaeum.
Please note that this registration page is the only recognized mechanism for signing up for meals associated with Athenaeum events. Alternative registrations provided by third parties (such as Eventbrite) are not managed or controlled by the College, and unfortunately such registrations cannot be honored to allow dining with us in advance of the talk.
Events generally open for registration on a rolling basis every two weeks over the course of the semester. The CMC community has priority for dinner reservations. Space permitting, when meal spots are available for members of the other Claremont Colleges, a note is added to the event listing and registration is open for all others.
Unless otherwise noted, the talk itself is free and open to all, and no reservations are required to attend the talk only. Seating for only the talk itself is on a first-come basis.
Please click "Sign Up" under individual events to sign up for open events. If there is no button showing, the registration is currently closed either because the event is full or the reservation window has passed. Please check back later or contact the Ath at athenaeum@cmc.edu.
Unless otherwise noted, lunch begins at 11:45 a.m; speaker presentations begin at 12:15 p.m. Evening programs typically begin with a reception at 5:30 p.m.; dinner is served at 6 p.m; and the talk begins at 6:45 p.m. Reservations are required for all meals.
Note to students: Head table sign-ups are now electronic.
To sign up for the head table, please follow these steps:
- Register for the speaker event you wish to attend;
- Look for the event registration confirmation email in your inbox;
- Click on the head table sign-up link embedded in the confirmation email; if the head table is already full, you will automatically be directed to the waitlist.
Please note that lunch and events in the smaller dining rooms do not require head table sign-ups. Seating with the speaker at such events is on a first-come, first-served basis, or at the discretion of the Athenaeum.
An explanation of the reservation process and a list of frequently asked questions is available. Additional questions may also be directed to the Ath at athenaeum@cmc.edu.
Saraswati Nandini Majumdar, an 2010 graduate of Claremont McKenna College, has trained in North Indian classical singing since her childhood in Banaras, India. She also teaches music and works for cross-cultural exchange.
Nawal Kishore Singh is a performer of the tabla, the North Indian classical drum. Based in India, he teaches and collaborates with world artists.
Paul Livingstone is a sitarist and senior disciple of the world-famous Ravi Shankar. He is a founder of Ragajazz and the Soul Force Project.
Together, the three artists will present a traditional evening of North Indian classical ragas, featuring voice, sitar, and tabla.
The research institutes and centers at Claremont McKenna College share a common goal: To provide CMC students with graduate-level research opportunities in collaboration with the College's distinguished faculty. The Institute Night @ the Ath offers a look inside the college eleven institutes and their unique mission, academics and co-curricular objectives. It’s a night of inspired sharing and learning too, where students present research and talk about the ways engaging and working with institute faculty enriches the CMC learning experience.
Sarah Moody is associate professor of Spanish in the department of modern languages and classics at the University of Alabama, where she is also the director of the Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies program. Moody’s research examines Modernismo and women’s writing in Latin American literature of the 19th and early 20th centuries, especially focusing on the relationship between aesthetic systems and identity formulations like gender or nationalism. Her current book project, "Las Raras: Gendered Aesthetics, Women’s Writing and Intellectual Networks in Spanish-American Modernismo", examines ideas of femininity that were both fundamental to Modernismo’s formation and exclusionary towards women’s active participation in the movement as writers and authors.
(Parents Dining Room)
Roselyn Hsueh is an associate professor of political science at Temple University and a Global Order Visiting Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of "China’s Regulatory State: A New Strategy for Globalization" (Cornell University Press, 2011). Hsueh’s current research include her next book, under contract with Cambridge University Press, which investigates the mediating role of market governance in the relationship between global economic integration and development outcomes. The political economy of identity in the age of globalization is another major theme in her research agenda.
Hsueh regularly provides expert analysis and commentary. The Economist, Foreign Affairs, National Public Radio (NPR), Inside Higher Ed, The Huffington Post, The Washington Post and other outlets have featured her research. She has testified in Congress in front of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission and consulted for The Center for Strategic and International Studies. She serves on the Fulbright’s National Selection Committee.
Hsueh is a member of the Georgetown Initiative for U.S.-China Dialogue on Global Issues and has served as a residential research faculty fellow and visiting scholar at U.C. Berkeley. She has also lectured as a visiting professor at the Graduate School of Finance and Asia Pacific Center, Tecnológico de Monterrey. Prior to arriving at Temple, Hsueh held the Hayward R. Alker Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Southern California and conducted in-depth fieldwork as a Fulbright Scholar and a David L. Boren Fellow of the National Security Education Program. She earned her B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from U.C. Berkeley.
Professor Hsueh’s Athenaeum talk is co-sponsored by the Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies.
Photo Credit: Margo Reed Photography
Sheena Hui '19 is a CMC senior studying music (piano performance) and physics. At the Claremont Colleges, she has studied piano under Professors Gayle Blankenburg, Hao Huang, and Tatiana Thibodeaux. During her time at CMC, she has been actively involved in music through her solo piano performances, engagement in chamber music activities, composition studies, and more. Sheena hopes to pursue piano performance and music academia in the future. In her spare time, she enjoys hiking, ping pong and studying philosophy.
Blood. Spotify. Narcoterrorism. Mysticism. Civil War Anthems. Mongolia. Identity and Citizenship. Energy. Nationalism. Women, Law, and Literature. Our seniors have studied it all and more. Applying everything they have learned in class and in the field, seniors put their hearts and minds into their senior capstone project. Come hear about their research, motivation, and findings, as well as their overall thesis journey. Most importantly come support and celebrate CMC peers and students!
The senior thesis requirement at CMC is challenging and rewarding and seniors endeavor to produce innovative, thoughtful, comprehensive, and well written work. In this third annual Senior Thesis Showcase, seniors across the disciplines will present 5 to 7-minute synopses of their capstone project. Come hear about their research, motivation, and findings, as well as their overall thesis journey. Most importantly come support and celebrate your CMC peers!
Pictured from far left, clockwise: Lindsay Burton, Becky Shane, Jake Hudson-Humphrey, Brendan Suh, Connor Bloom, Maddie Lee, Lauren Broidy, Danielle Dominguez, and Melia Wong. Not pictured: Will Cullen.
Symone D. Sanders is a strategist, communications consultant, CNN political commentator, and served as a spring 2018 Resident Fellow at Harvard’s Institute of Politics at the Kennedy School. Sanders rose to prominence during her tenure as the national press secretary for U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign. Only 25 at the time, Sanders demonstrated a command of the issues earning her a place in history as the youngest presidential press secretary on record and a spot on Rolling Stone Magazine’s list of 16 young Americans shaping the 2016 election.
However, Sanders was not new to presidential politics. When she was 16, she introduced former President Bill Clinton at a luncheon in Omaha, Nebraska. Following her remarks, President Clinton said, “Symone spoke so well I really hate to follow her.” President Clinton went on to write about Sanders in his book, “Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World.”
Sanders has been featured on NPR, Fox News, MSNBC, NBC, BET, TV One and CNN. She has been profiled in the Washington Post, the New Yorker, ESSENCE Magazine, and ELLE.
Sanders is currently principal of the 360 Group, LLC. where she provides strategic communications guidance to organizations, businesses, individuals, campaigns and candidates and helps clients find sound solutions to difficult political and social problems. Sanders has also been selected to serve as one of USC Dornsife's 2019 Fellows.
Jennifer Tankersley P'20 supports leaders through personal and organizational change. A sought-after executive coach and expert in developing organizational strategy and managing large scale change, Tankersley has worked with leaders from organizations across a range of sectors and sizes.
Before transitioning to executive coaching, Tankersley was a global expert in change management for The Boston Consulting Group where she advised clients and internal case teams on both the programmatic and human sides of change. Earlier in her BCG career, she worked with Fortune 500 clients to develop and implement business and market strategies. Tankersley co-founded NP Strategies, a recognized leader of nonprofit strategy consulting in Southern California. As the principal advisor and chair, she worked with leaders to achieve greater organizational impact through strategy design, execution, and team leadership. She is a founding member of the Brightline Initiative, a coalition dedicated to helping bridge the gap between strategy design and delivery. Leveraging her expertise in business, leadership and social impact, she is dedicated to changing the world through work.
Tankersley is a certified leadership and transition coach through the Hudson Institute. She has an MBA with an emphasis in strategy and marketing, from the Anderson School at UCLA and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Scripps College with a BA in Economics and International Relations.
Ms. Tankersley’s Athenaeum talk is co-sponsored by the Kravis Leadership Institute and SOURCE.
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Unless otherwise noted, lunch begins at 11:45 a.m.; speaker presentations begin at 12:15 p.m.
Evening receptions begin at 5:30 p.m.; dinner is served at 6 p.m.; speaker presentations begin at 6:45 p.m.