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Where Ritual and Civic Practice Meet
Join Cara Hagan, a contemporary dancer and artist, to explore civic practice through the lens of artmaking. Learning to live mindfully in community is the first step to having what Hagan calls, a “civic practice,” which…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/where-ritual-and-civic-practice-meetWord Wars: Wokeism and the Battle Over Language
Linguists traditionally criticize prescriptivism: attempts by certain grammarians to enforce how language should be from the outside, in contrast to linguists’ descriptivism, which seeks, like the biologist, to describe…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/word-wars-wokeism-and-battle-over-languageFrom Roots to Returns: The Journey of Venture Capital into 2024 and Beyond
Joins Hans Swildens, founder and CEO of Industry Ventures, a leading venture capital firm with over $7 billion of committed capital under management, for a discussion of the history of the venture capital industry, curr…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/roots-returns-journey-venture-capital-2024-and-beyondAppel Scholars Celebration
Please join the Center for Writing & Public Discourse for a celebration of the 2023 Appel Scholars and Joel A. Appel '87 P'20. The Appel Fellowship provides first-year CMC students with funding to support purposeful, i…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/appel-scholars-celebration"On Earth As It Is": Martin Luther King, Jr., Ethics, and the Environment in the Age of the Anthropocene
“We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there is such a thing as being too late. . . . Over…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/earth-it-martin-luther-king-jr-ethics-and-environment-age-anthropoceneAround the World at the Ath: Mardi Gras
Join the Athenaeum and ASCMC's Social Life Working Group for the next installment of Around the World at the Ath, a series designed to combine faculty and student expertise about international cultures and traditions wi…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/around-world-ath-mardi-grasA Winter's "Singing Party"
Join the Athenaeum to celebrate a beloved CMC tradition to cap off the semester: The "Singing Party!"For decades, renowned Professor of Government Ward Elliott (1937 - 2022) held "singing parties" every semester in his…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/winters-singing-partyAround the World at the Ath: Thanksgiving
The Athenaeum and ASCMC's Social Life Working Group present this fall's final installment of Around the World at the Ath, a new series designed to combine faculty and student expertise about international cultures and t…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/around-world-ath-thanksgivingThreats and Promises Across the Nuclear Age: a Lecture in Memoriam of Professor Ed Haley
When leaders make nuclear threats, what are the implications for conflict and war? Why has Vladimir Putin issued nuclear threats in the context of the Russian war in Ukraine, and are those threats credible? In this talk…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/threats-and-promises-across-nuclear-age-lecture-memoriam-professor-ed-haleyInhabiting Earth: Stories from a Climate Scientist
Human-caused climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing life on Earth. In this talk, Branwen Williams, George R. Roberts Professor of Integrated Sciences: Environmental Science at Claremont McKenna College…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/inhabiting-earth-stories-climate-scientist