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The Road to Gender Justice in the Era of Resistance
How can the movement for gender justice build for the long haul during a period of resistance? Fatima Goss Graves, long-time civil and gender rights activist and president and CEO of the National Women’s Law Center, wil…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/road-to-gender-justice-in-era-of-resistanceReflections on Work, Servitude, and Slavery in Medieval India
Donald Davis, professor in the department of Asian Studies at the University of Texas, Austin, examines how a thirteenth-century Sanskrit legal text conceptualizes slavery, servitude, and work. Rather than draw a sharp…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/reflections-on-work-servitude-and-slavery-in-medieval-indiaDalit Question and Politics in the 2000s
With a reorientation from the desire for social justice to economic aspiration, two rapid shifts are visible in the political preferences of Dalits in India’s northern state of Uttar Pradesh. Attracted by promises of de…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/dalit-question-and-politics-in-2000sBeyond the 'Now:' Epistemic Oppression and the So-Called "Common Sense" of Incarceration
Kristie Dotson, professor of philosophy at both Carleton College and Michigan State University, will explore how in situations that call for accountability for serious wrongdoings, one can find oneself trapped in a “now…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/beyond-now-epistemic-oppression-and-so-called-common-sense-of-incarcerationWill the real Dr. Martin Luther King please stand up?
As we celebrate a national holiday commemorating the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Timothy Wright III ’77, lawyer, public servant, theologian, and activist asks who, really, do we celebrate? Is it the gentle D…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/will-real-dr-martin-luther-king-please-stand-upIdentity and Citizenship
In an age of identity consciousness, Mark Lilla, professor of humanities at Columbia University and author of “The Once and Future Liberal: After Identity Politics” explores what has happened to the idea of equal citize…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/identity-and-citizenshipBlack 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-faith