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Challenges in the Indo-Pacific Region and Beyond
The United States faces growing challenges in maintaining an international order favorable to the United States. General Vincent Brooks, a now retired four-star general, believes that the quality of American foreign pol…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/challenges-indo-pacific-region-and-beyondThe Campus and the Capitol: Higher Education and Federal Power
What do recent governmental attacks on colleges and universities say about the state of American politics? Susan McWilliams Barndt, a Podlich Distinguished Fellow in Government at CMC, will examine the Trump administrat…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/campus-and-capitol-higher-education-and-federal-powerChildren's Literature and the Challenge of Language
How can we learn to read and write when the English language is changing so quickly? How does children's literature help us understand our place in a world of signs and symbols, of sounds and letters? How do we move bet…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/childrens-literature-and-challenge-languageBroadening the Economic Perspective on Discrimination
Aislinn Bohren, associate professor of economics at the University of Pennsylvania, will examine new approaches in economics to the study of discrimination. From outlining how economics has traditionally measured discri…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/broadening-economic-perspective-discriminationAn Evening with William Kristol
Columnist, public intellectual, host of Conversations with Bill Kristol, and founding director of Defending Democracy Together, an organization dedicated to defending America's liberal democratic norms, principles, and…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/evening-william-kristolOne Man's Freedom: Goldwater, King, and the Struggle over an American Ideal
In the mid-1950s, Barry Goldwater and Martin Luther King Jr. emerged as the leaders of two diametrically opposed freedom movements that changed the course of American history—and still divide American politics. King mob…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/one-mans-freedom-goldwater-king-and-struggle-over-american-idealDark Face: The Untold History of Race, Makeup, and Hollywood
Desirée J. Garcia, professor of film and Latino studies at Dartmouth College, tells the story of the makeup artists and hairstylists who entered the Hollywood studios in the late 1960s, the moment when the Equal Employm…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/dark-face-untold-history-race-makeup-and-hollywoodFrom CMC to Cancer Care: A Physicist’s Journey at the Intersection of Science and Medicine
Jessica Fagerstrom ‘06, medical physicist and educator, will discuss how physics and medicine come together to diagnose and treat cancer and will share insights of her journey from a liberal arts education to a career a…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/cmc-cancer-care-physicists-journey-intersection-science-and-medicineLin-Manuel Miranda: The Education of an Artist
How did the sweet, sensitive son of Puerto Rican parents, growing up in an immigrant neighborhood on the far northern tip of Manhattan, become the preeminent musical storyteller of the 21st century? Examining Lin-Manuel…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/lin-manuel-miranda-education-artistThe Global Nuclear Order and the Proliferation of Delivery Systems
Debak Das, assistant professor in peace and security at the Josef Korbel School of Global and Public Affairs at the University of Denver, will speak to the proliferation of nuclear delivery systems, why the global nucle…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/global-nuclear-order-and-proliferation-delivery-systems