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An 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-outEndgame 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-warSaving 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-emancipationDear Me: An Advice Columnist's Advice for Navigating Culture, Class, and Sexuality
John Paul Brammer, author of the popular advice column and memoir ¡Hola Papi!, will talk about the road from rural Oklahoma to celebrated gay New York writer, and how the stories we tell shape our identities in a confus…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/dear-me-advice-columnists-advice-navigating-culture-class-and-sexualityHow to Walk 20,000 Miles
With a mix of storytelling, how-to tips, and gear show-and-tell, record-holding hiker and award-winning author Liz Thomas ’07 will share lessons from 20,000 miles in the mountains. She will explore the legacy and the fu…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/how-walk-20000-milesKeynote for the 10th Annual Green Careers Conference
Dr. Michael Crooke is a CEO and professor of business strategy. After becoming CEO of outdoor apparel compony Pearl Izumi in 1998, he was recruited by Patagonia Inc. founder Yvon Chouinard to become President and CEO of…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/keynote-10th-annual-green-careers-conference