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Fostering Intimacy with Intelligent Machines
This performance-lecture (with a robot dog) presents artist and engineer Robert Twomey’s artistic research into the ways we live with, think through, and feel alongside machines. From his dissertation "Machines for Livi…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/fostering-intimacy-intelligent-machinesHip Hop, Spiritual Outlaws & the Contested Social Visions of Tupac, Ice Cube, Kanye West, Lauryn Hill & Kendrick Lamar
Despite Hip Hop's reputation for drugs, violence, and sacrilegious excess and rebellion, Gastón Espinosa, professor of religious studies at CMC, will offer an analysis of the disquieted spiritual impulses of revolution…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/hip-hop-spiritual-outlaws-contested-social-visions-tupac-ice-cube-kanye-west-lauryn-hillAn Evening of Ghanaian Music: Drumming, Dance, and Song
Step into the vibrant world of Ghanaian music, where rhythms, songs, and dances are paths to self-discovery. Featuring traditional Ghanaian cuisine, the evening will be led by renowned musician, dancer, and cultural his…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/evening-ghanaian-music-drumming-dance-and-songGot Milk? The Past, Present, and Future of Human-Animal Relations
Milk is ubiquitous in our lives—in our coffee cups, cereal bowls, refrigerators, grocery stores, and ads. Modern milk is a story about technology, industrialization, science, and culture and drinking milk is tangled up…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/got-milk-past-present-and-future-human-animal-relationsImmigration: The Latest Battle for Civil Rights in America
There is no greater flashpoint in American politics today than the issue of immigration. It touches on our most basic senses of identity, community, and home. Residents of Los Angeles and thousands of other cities acros…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/immigration-latest-battle-civil-rights-americaMastering Civility: A Manifesto for Life
Incivility is prevalent, and it’s getting worse. In addition to personal discomfort, the tangible costs of incivility are rising too. Christine Porath, professor at the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/mastering-civility-manifesto-lifeThe Unresolved Question of Kashmir
The dispute between India and Pakistan over the state of Jammu and Kashmir has persisted since the emergence of the two countries following the end of the British Indian Empire in 1947. The dispute has resulted in three…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/unresolved-question-kashmirFictional Histories
Joshua Cohen, author of the Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Netanyahus, will speak about fiction and its complicated relationship to history.
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/fictional-historiesBorderlands and Diaspora: Contemporary Photography’s Engagements with Race in the Americas
Theresa Delgadillo, professor of English and Chicanx/e and Latinx/e Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will examine the work of three contemporary photographers—Tony Gleaton, Wendy Philips, and Louis Carlos…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/borderlands-and-diaspora-contemporary-photographys-engagements-race-americasMidnight on the Potomac: The Last Year of the Civil War, the Lincoln Assassination, and the Rebirth of America
During the last fraught months of the Civil War, the fate of the United States was far from secure. Tens of thousands of Rebel troops were still in the field, the Lincoln presidency was collapsing, and a peace movement…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/midnight-potomac-last-year-civil-war-lincoln-assassination-and-rebirth-america