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An Evening With Poet Laureate Ada Limón
(Photo credit: Ayna Lorenzo)Join the United States Poet Laureate, Ada Limón, for an evening of poetry and discussion. Limón, the 24th and current Poet Laureate of the United States, has been called "a Poet Laureate for…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/evening-poet-laureate-ada-limonThe Suburban Crisis: White America and the War on Drugs
Matthew Lassiter, professor of history at the University of Michigan and author of The Suburban Crisis: White America and the War on Drugs, will provide an overview of American drug control politics and policy from the…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/suburban-crisis-white-america-and-war-drugsThe Policies and Politics of California
Join Anthony Rendon, Speaker Emeritus of the California State Assembly, as he shares his journey from struggling high school student to second longest-serving Speaker in California history, and gives an inside look at C…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/policies-and-politics-californiaEndgame Scenarios for the Russia-Ukraine War
The brutal war in Ukraine has lasted nearly two years with no end in sight. The costs of the war are extraordinarily high. Tragically, many hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian troops and civilians have died in this war a…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/endgame-scenarios-russia-ukraine-warAn Evening With Michael Chabon
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, screenwriter, and essayist Michael Chabon will join Wohlford Professor of American Political Institutions George Thomas for a brief reading followed by a wide-ranging discussion about li…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/evening-michael-chabonCampaign 2024: The Future or Demise of the GOP?
Join leading GOP political consultant Mike Murphy for a moderated conversation with CMC's own John J. Pitney, Jr., the Roy P. Crocker Professor of Politics. Murphy and Pitney will check in on the current state of the pr…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/campaign-2024-future-or-demise-gopThe Sentinel State: Surveillance and the Survival of Dictatorship in China
CMC's own Professor Minxin Pei will address his upcoming book on the endurance of China’s dictatorship. For decades China watchers argued that economic liberalization and increasing prosperity would bring democracy to t…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/sentinel-state-surveillance-and-survival-dictatorship-chinaThe Fundamentals of American Employment Law: What You Need To Know To Employ/Manage People And Stay Out Of The Headlines And The Courts
Join the Kravis Lab for the first session of CIVITAS, a new series intended to provide timely, practical information to understand the institutions and systems that are at the center of many questions we face in modern…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/fundamentals-american-employment-law-what-you-need-know-employmanage-people-and-stay-outSaving Malbec: A Medical Doctor’s Journey to Elevating Argentina's Wines and People One Vine at a Time
Join Dr. Laura Catena P'24, a Harvard- and Stanford-trained biologist and physician, managing director of Bodega Catena Zapata, and the founder of the Catena Institute of Wine in Argentina, as she discusses preserving t…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/saving-malbec-medical-doctors-journey-elevating-argentinas-wines-and-people-one-vine-timeThe Antislavery Origins of the Civil War and Emancipation
We know the proslavery origins of the Civil War: The slave states seceded to protect slavery. But the war had antislavery origins that are not as well understood. James Oakes, one of the preeminent historians of the Ame…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/antislavery-origins-civil-war-and-emancipation