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A Conversation with Peter Rice, Chairman of Walt Disney Television
Peter Rice, chairman of Walt Disney Television, will discuss the television business, trends over time, and his own career path, including nearly 30 years at Fox where he began as an intern before rising to the head of…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/conversation-with-peter-rice-chairman-of-walt-disney-televisionHalf of Oklahoma Is Now Indian Country: What Does That Mean for Criminal Justice There?
Cary Aspinwall, a Dallas-based staff writer for The Marshall Project, has reported extensively on the impact of the criminal justice system on minorities, women and children in Oklahoma, Texas and rural America. She wil…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/half-of-oklahoma-is-now-indian-country-what-does-that-mean-for-criminal-justice-thereMonumental Debates: Academic Perspectives on Global Movements to Topple Historical Monuments
This summer, protesters throughout the United States and around the globe demanded the removal of statues memorializing historical figures such as Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Experts who study the meaning behind…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/monumental-debates-academic-perspectives-on-global-movements-to-topple-historicalThe Science of Lockdown: What Happens to Our Brains in Isolation?
Our brain spends years building a model of the outside world—and that’s what allows it to operate so effectively. But what happens when our model breaks down—like when we unable to make good predictions about what tomor…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/science-of-lockdown-what-happens-to-our-brains-in-isolationA Miscarriage of Justice: Women’s Reproductive Lives and the Law in Early Twentieth-Century Brazil
Cassia Roth examines women’s reproductive health in relation to legal and medical policy in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Analyzing court cases, law, medical writings, and health data, Roth argues that the increasingly interv…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/miscarriage-of-justice-womens-reproductive-lives-and-law-in-early-twentieth-century-brazilChallenges to Liberalism: Antiblackness, Constitutional Fidelity and the Politics of Bad Faith
When the House of Representatives began its impeachment inquiry into President Trump’s abuse of presidential power, political commentators decried the country was in a “genuine” constitutional crisis. The claim emerged,…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/challenges-to-liberalism-antiblackness-constitutional-fidelity-and-politics-of-bad-faithThe Limits of Lessons
Jennifer Grossman, CEO of The Atlas Society, believes that facts alone are no match for the seductive moral appeal of socialism, which will fail as many times as it is pursued. She will make the case that the argument a…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/limits-of-lessonsProposition 13—Then and Now
Proposition was appropriate for its time, is it appropriate for our time? Prop 13 passed 41 years ago. Despite California being a different place today—demographically, politically, ideologically—when pollsters ask vote…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/proposition-13%E2%80%94then-and-nowAmerica Should Fight Like a Girl
Why is America’s national security defined as securing our borders and buildings? What about the security of our values as a nation, the resiliency of our democratic republic? America's understanding of national securit…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/america-should-fight-like-girlMeanwhile: Making California's Abolition Geographies
Ruth Wilson Gilmore, professor of earth & environmental sciences and director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics at the City University of New York Graduate Center and author of "Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surpl…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/meanwhile-making-californias-abolition-geographies