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Black Silent Majority: Race, Class, and the Politics of Punishment
Michael Fortner, assistant professor of political science at City University of New York’s Graduate Center and author of “Black Silent Majority: The Rockefeller Drug Laws and the Politics of Punishment” will address the…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/black-silent-majority-race-class-and-politics-of-punishmentNegotiating Change: What We Can Learn from Complex International Negotiations
Wendy Sherman, former U.S. under-secretary of state for political affairs and the successful lead negotiator for the multilateral, complex deal with Iran, reveals strategies and tactics from her years of high-level inte…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/negotiating-change-what-we-can-learn-from-complex-international-negotiationsGreen Careers: How a Liberal Arts Education Prepared me for a Career in Renewable Energy
Carolyn Campbell ‘11, the renewable energy manager at Facebook, will reflect on her experience working in renewable energy and climate mitigation consulting and in leveraging her renewable energy background to help Face…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/green-careers-how-liberal-arts-education-prepared-me-for-career-in-renewable-energyCounterculture Faith
Erick Erickson, editor of The Resurgent and conservative commentator, will explore how people of faith navigate the waters of American politics that increasingly call on those of faith to make sacrifices and to compromi…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/counterculture-faithIs ISIS Over?
Mark Juergensmeyer, professor of sociology and global studies at U.C. Santa Barbara, will give an illustrated analysis of the rise of ISIS and its current state of regional and global influence, based on site visits to…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/is-isis-overSerial: Murder Case of State vs. Adnan Syed
Made immensely popular through the global phenomenon of the podcast Serial, this case examined the 1999 murder of Hae Min Lee and the subsequent conviction of her classmate, Adnan Syed. Rabia Chaudry, who took Syed’s ca…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/serial-murder-case-of-state-vs-adnan-syedApollo in the Age of Aquarius: How Grassroots Politics Grounded the Space Race
Neil Maher, professor of environmental and political history at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers University, will explore the interrelationship between the space race to the moon and the grassroots str…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/apollo-in-age-of-aquarius-how-grassroots-politics-grounded-space-raceA Foreigner and a Stranger: The Life, Death, and Legacy of a Jewish Woman Writer in 20th-Century France
Irène Némirovsky was a Russian Jewish immigrant to France who achieved a brilliant career as a novelist during the 1930s but was deported as a “foreign Jew” in 1942 and died in Auschwitz. Like many deported "foreign Jew…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/foreigner-and-stranger-life-death-and-legacy-of-jewish-woman-writer-in-20th-century-franceMathematics and Culture: Geometry and Everything Else
Geometric ideas are used in many cultures, both to give order to the cosmos and to build bridges, military emplacements, and houses of worship. In the West, geometry had an especially amazing trajectory. Euclid’s geomet…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/mathematics-and-culture-geometry-and-everything-elseHow a Civil War Era Law Changed the Way We Eat
Legislation passed during the height of the Civil War established a network of public universities focused on "agriculture and mechanic arts." As Heidi Zoerb '95 of the University of Wisconsin will argue, these universi…
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