Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum

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Past Semester Schedules

 
Tue, February 17, 2009
S. Brock Blomberg, Peter K. Barker '70 professor of economics and George R. Roberts Fellow, CMC; co-author, How Much Does Violence Tax Trade (2006) and The Impacts of Terrorism on Urban Form (2007); "Rationalizing Terrorism"
 
Wed, February 18, 2009
Pierre Hassner, Podlich distinguished scholar, CMC; research director emeritus of National Foundation for Political Science, and Centre d'Etudes et Recherches Internationales (CERI), Paris; author, Violence and Peace (1996); (see February 4); "Democratic and Totalitarian Passions in Modern Societies"
 
Thu, February 19, 2009
Ray Drummond '68, bass; faculty of jazz improvisation, The Julliard School; Russell Malone, guitar; "An Evening of Jazz"
 
Mon, February 23, 2009
Jeffry Morrison, associate professor of government, Regent University; author, forthcoming The Political Philosophy of George Washington (2009) and John Witherspoon and the Founding of the American Republic (2005); "President Washington and Public Religion" (12:00 p.m.)
 
Tue, February 24, 2009
Jonathan Hart, professor of English, director, Medieval and Early Modern Institute, University of Alberta, Canada; author, forthcoming City of the End of Things: Lectures on Civilization and Empire (2009) and Empires and Colonies (2007); "Lawrence of Arabia: Between Myth and History"
 
Thu, February 26, 2009
Con Gioia Early Music Ensemble: Preethi de Silva, fortepiano and harpsichord; professor emerita of music, Scripps College; Julianne Baird, soprano, professor of music, Rutgers University; Michael DuPree, oboe; M.Anne Rardin, violin; Danielle Cummins, violin; Roger Lebow, cello; Jason Yoshida, guitar and lute; "Music of George Frideric Handel and Franz Joseph Haydn"
 
Sat, February 28, 2009
Philip Glass, composer, Einstein on the Beach (1976) and Book of Longing: A Song Cycle Based on the Poetry and Artwork of Leonard Cohen (2006); Tim Page, music critic; author, Dawn Powell: A Biography (1998) and Parallel Play: Life as an Outsider (2009); "An Evening with Philip Glass" (7:00 p.m.)
 
Mon, March 2, 2009
June Carbone, Edward A. Smith/Missouri Chair of Law, the Constitution, and Society, University of Missouri, Kansas City; author, From Partners to Parents: The Second Revolution in Family Law (2000) and forthcoming Red Families v. Blue Families (2009); "Red Families v. Blue Families: Cultural Division and the Prospects for a New Work-Family Agenda"
 
Tue, March 3, 2009
Round Table Discussion- "Rediscovering the Passions in International Relations: History, Philosophy, and the Contemporary World" Pierre Hassner, Podlich distinguished scholar, CMC; research director emeritus of National Foundation for Political Science, and Centre d'Etudes et Recherches Internationales (CERI), Paris; author, Violence and Peace (1996); Jim Nichols, Jr. P'06, professor of government, CMC; translator, Gorgias and Phaedrus by Plato (1998), author, Alexandre Kojève: Wisdom at the End of History (2007); P.Edward Haley, W.M. Keck Foundation chair and professor of International strategic studies; director, Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights, CMC; author, Strategies of Dominance: The Misdirection of U.S. Foreign Policy (2006) and co-author, After 9/11: The Roles of Civil Society in International Security (2006); Chris Nadon, associate professor of government, CMC; author, Xenophon's Prince: Republic and Empire in the Cyropaedia (2001)
 
Wed, March 4, 2009
Jamaica Kincaid, visiting lecturer in African and African American Studies and on English and American literature and language, Harvard University; author, Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalayas (2005) and The Autobiography of My Mother (1996); "Coming of Age in a Small Place"
 
Thu, March 5, 2009
Daniel Hamermesh, Edward Everett Hale Centennial professor in economics, University of Texas, Austin; co-author, forthcoming Two-sided Learning with Applications to Labor Turnover and Worker Displacement (2009) and author, Economics is Everywhere (2004); "Beauty in the Labor Market"
 
Mon, March 9, 2009
Tom Linebarger '86, president and COO, Cummins, Inc.; "Lunch with a Leader: Discovering the Leader Within You" (12:00 p.m.)
 
Tue, March 10, 2009
Adam Michnik, editor-in-chief, Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland; author, The Church and the Left (1993) and Letters from Freedom: Post-cold War Realities and Perspectives (1998); "Global Anti-Semitism"
 
Wed, March 11, 2009
Jonathan Rosenberg '83, senior vice president of product management and marketing, Google, Inc.; "Lunch with a Leader: The Ubiquity of Information" (12:00 p.m.)
 
Thu, March 12, 2009
Anne Hastings, executive director, Fonkoze (Alternative Bank for the Organized Poor); Port au Prince, Haiti; Nzinga Broussard, assistant professor of economics, CMC; author, forthcoming articles “(Why) Do Self-Employed Parents Have More Children?” and “Aid and Agency in Africa: Explaining Food Disbursements Across Ethiopian Households, 1994-2004”; Jorge Aguero, assistant professor of economics, U.C. Riverside; co-author, Motherhood and Female Labor Force Participation: Evidence from Fertility Shocks (2008); "Building an Economic Foundation for Democracy" (12:00 p.m.)
 

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