Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum

A distinctive
feature of social and
cultural life at CMC

 

Past Semester Schedules

 
Tue, March 20, 2001
Steve Lopez '75 P'01, professor of psychology, UCLA; "Shifting Identities: From CMC Grad to UCLA Professor"
 
Wed, March 21, 2001
George Weigel, senior fellow, Ethics and Public Policy Center; author, Witness to Hope: A Biography of John Paul II (1999) and The Final Revolution: The Resistance Church and the Collapse of Communism (1992); "The Achievement of Pope John Paul II"
 
Thu, March 22, 2001
Preethi de Silva, professor of music, Scripps College, harpsichord; Gregory Maldonado, violin; Stephen Schultz, flute; Jennifer Paul, harpsichord; Stephan Moss, harpsichord; Denise Briese, viola da gamba; Susan Feldman, violin; William Skeen, cello; Ondine Young, viola; "Con Gioia Early Music Ensemble: Bach and the Cembalo Concertato"
 
Mon, March 26, 2001
Sally Satel, W.H. Brady fellow, American Enterprise Institute; author, PC MD: How Political Correctness is Corrupting Medicine (2000) and Drug Treatment: The Case for Coercion (1999); "The Politics of Medicine"
 
Tue, March 27, 2001
Christopher Key Chapple, professor of theological studies, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles; author, Nonviolence to Animals, Earth, and Self in Asian Traditions (1993) and Hinduism and Ecology (2000); "The Great Elements and the Continuity of Life: Ecology in Hinduism and Jainsism"
 
Wed, March 28, 2001
Elizabeth Morgan, registrar, CMC; P. Edward Haley, professor of government, CMC, co-author, American Security in an Interpendent World (1988) and editor, U.S. Relations with Europe (1999); Gary Gilbert, professor of religious studies, CMC, editor, The Papers of Henry Luce III Fellows in Theology (1996); Sarah Baird '01; Cynthia Humes, professor of religious studies, CMC, co-editor, Living Banaras: Hindu Religion in Cultural Context (1993),(moderator), "Academic Honesty on Trial"
 
Thu, March 29, 2001
Steve May '93, state representative, Arizona State House of Representatives; "Don't Ask, Don't Tell: A Soldier's Journey"
 
Mon, April 2, 2001
William Gleysteen, Jr., former U.S. ambassador to Korea; author, Massive Entanglement, Marginal Influence: Carter and Korea in Crisis (1999); "How America Has Become So Engaged in Korea: Limits of Its Influence" (12:15 p.m.)
 
Tue, April 3, 2001
Wendy Kao '01, piano; Michael Deane Lamkin, Bessie and Cecil Frankel professor of music, Dean of Faculty, Scripps College; conductor, Claremont chamber orchestra; "Senior Recital"
 
Wed, April 4, 2001
Nicholas Eberstadt, Henry Wendt chair of political economy, American Enterprise Institute; author, Prosperous Paupers and Other Population Problems (2000) and The End of North Korea (1999); "The Coming Population Implosion"
 
Thu, April 5, 2001
R. Gerard Ward, professor emeritus of human geography, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, Canberra; co-author, Samoa: Mapping the Diversity (1998) and editor, Land Custom and Practice in the South Pacific (1995); "Reshaping Places: Examples from the Pacific Islands"
 
Mon, April 9, 2001
Edward Williams, professor of political science, University of Arizona; co-author, Mexico Faces the 21st Century (1995) and Latin American Politics: A Developmental Approach (1975); "Vicente Fox and the New Mexico: The U.S. Connection"
 
Tue, April 10, 2001
Gillian Beer, King Edward VII professor of English literature, Cambridge University; author, Darwin's Plots: Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin, George Elliot, and 19th Century Fiction (1985) and Open Fields: Science in Cultural Encounter (1996); "Darwin and the Former Giants"
 
Wed, April 11, 2001
John La Porta, clarinet and tenor saxophone; Mark Masters, conductor, American Jazz Institute Big Band; Scott Englebright, Les Lovitt, Kye Palmer, Ron Stout, trumpet; Les Benedict, Dave Woodley, Bob McChesney, Pete Brockman, trombone; Danny House, Ray Reed, Brian Williams, Jerry Pinter, woodwind; Milcho Leviev, piano; Putter Smith, bass; Randy Drake, drums; "American Jazz Institute Big Band: An Evening with John La Porta"
 
Thu, April 12, 2001
John Beer, professor emeritus of English, Cambridge University; author, Romantic Influences: Contemporary-Victorian-Modern (1994) and Coleridge the Visionary (1959); "Romantic Apocalypses"
 

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