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A Conversation with "Homeland's" Howard Gordon
Robert Faggen, the Barton Evans and H. Andrea Neves Professor of Literature at CMC, will moderate a conversation with award-winning creator and producer of Showtime's Homeland series, Howard Gordon.
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/conversation-with-homelands-howard-gordonWhat Turns Us Violent? Sacred Emergencies
As long as there have been recorded histories, humanity has engaged in violence. In this macabre mosaic that pits human against human, religion becomes a reoccurring justifier. While religion has been a force for genero…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/what-turns-us-violent-sacred-emergenciesFrom 1989 to 1984: The Formation of China's High-Tech Totalitarianism
Due to the marketization reform, entry to the WTO and the “low human rights disadvantage,” China has become the second-largest economy. But contrary to what most had presumed and predicted, the market economy and rapid…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/from-1989-to-1984-formation-of-chinas-high-tech-totalitarianismThe Mad Historian: The Mission and Responsibilities of History Makers in a Fractured World
Global political, economic, social, and environmental upheavals since the early 2000s have proven that the 21st Century will be full of volatility and uncertainty. People are seeking systems of knowledge and practice to…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/mad-historian-mission-and-responsibilities-of-history-makers-in-fractured-worldFrom Unlearning Liberty to "Coddling:" The Surprising Connection between Campus Free speech & Mental Health
Since 2001, Greg Lukianoff, now president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (“FIRE”) has been defending students and faculty across the political spectrum who have come under fire for their speech. Af…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/from-unlearning-liberty-to-coddling-surprising%C2%A0connection-between%C2%A0campus-free-speechCelebrating Writing and Writers at CMC: An Evening with the 2019 Appel Fellows
The 2019-20 Appel Fellows, recipients of summer funding to engage in independent writing projects, read some of their work—journal entries, zines, short stories, documentaries, podcasts, and travel narratives—and reflec…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/celebrating-writing-and-writers-at-cmc-evening-with-2019-appel-fellows-0An American Summer: Emerging from the Gun Violence of Our Cities
In "An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago," journalist and author Alex Kotlowitz returns a generation later to the scene of this 1991 book, “There Are No Children Here” and to some of Chicago’s most turbulent ne…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/american-summer-emerging-from-gun-violence-of-our-citiesFighting on Two Fronts: The Hello Girls and America's First Women Soldiers
In 1918, the U.S. Army Signal Corps recruited 223 women at General Jack Pershing’s request. They were masters of the latest technology: the telephone switchboard. While suffragettes picketed the White House for the vote…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/fighting-on-two-fronts-hello-girls-and-americas-first-women-soldiersRevisiting the “Dark Ages” of Arabic Literature
The conventional account of Arabic literature in the 16th through 18th centuries is that it was repetitive, unoriginal, lacking vitality. Only in the 19th century, thanks to contacts with the West, did the spiral of con…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/revisiting-%E2%80%9Cdark-ages%E2%80%9D-of-arabic-literatureWhy Psychiatry Gave up on Freud and Embraced the Brain: What Really Happened and What Really Happened Next
In the 1980s, American psychiatry underwent a rapid pivot away from previously dominant psychoanalytic and social science perspectives and instead embraced an approach focused on drugs, biology, and the brain. The stand…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/why-psychiatry-gave-up-on-freud-and-embraced-brain-what-really-happened-and-what-really