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Is 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…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/how-civil-war-era-law-changed-way-we-eatWhy is Rama Still (All) Around?
Why has the ancient tale of Rama, Sita, and their companions remained (so to speak) a “bestseller” in the realm of South Asian popular narrative for more than two millennia, and why does it continue to have traction in…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/why-is-rama-still-all-aroundMake I Contact. Portraiture & (Me)mory
It has been suggested that in today’s surveillance culture, anonymity is impossible. Moreover, privacy is a fallacy and conformity a lie. Just as every person’s face—like DNA or a thumbprint—is unique, portraiture makes…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/make-i-contact-portraiture-memoryFood Evolution Revolution: The Cutting Edge Fusion of Archaeology, Anthropology, and the Modern Kitchen
Understanding the role that technology played in our 3.4 million-year-old dietary past is essential in learning to rethink food and eat like humans again, asserts William Schindler, associate professor of anthropology a…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/food-evolution-revolution-cutting-edge-fusion-of-archaeology-anthropology-and-modernChina’s Changing Wartime Past and How It Will Affect the Future: History, Memory And Politics in China Today
Beijing’s policies continue to dominate the news in the Asia-Pacific region. Will China and Japan clash in the seas of East Asia? Will China be able to implement social welfare policies to calm dissent and social unrest…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/chinas-changing-wartime-past-and-how-it-will-affect-future-history-memory-and-politics-in