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The Ever-Changing Music Business
Writer and producer of the 2016 hit song “Shut up and Dance,” Ryan McMahon ’08 will expose all sides of the ever-changing music industry, from writing and producing songs to recording contracts to music streaming servic…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/ever-changing-music-businessSymmetric Polyhedra — From Platon to Modern Computational Mathematics
Achill Schürmann, professor of mathematics, will discuss how polyhedras—beautiful geometric constructions pondered since ancient times by both mathematicians and philosophers—have turned over time into powerful computat…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/symmetric-polyhedra-%E2%80%94-from-platon-to-modern-computational-mathematicsBoy Meets Depression: Confessions of a Depressed Comic
Kevin Breel, author of “Boy Meets Depression,” openly and honestly shares real life experiences, including his own, to expose issues around mental health and provide a look inside the life and mind of a struggling young…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/boy-meets-depression-confessions-of-depressed-comicArtificial Intelligence for Business
Jay Bellissimo P’20, general manager and chief revenue office for of IBM Watson & Cloud Platform, will explore state-of-the-art developments in AI, including illustrations/case studies of how the cognitive potential of…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/artificial-intelligence-for-businessOrdinary Jews: Choice and Survival during the Holocaust
Drawing from his most recent book, Ordinary Jews: Choice and Survival during the Holocaust, Evgeny Finkel, assistant professor of political science and international affairs at George Washington University, will focus o…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/ordinary-jews-choice-and-survival-during-holocaustCalifornia Squashes its Young: How the Golden State’s Economic Policies Are Driving Out a New Generation
Many progressives see California as a model of enlightenment and the Golden State’s post-2010 recovery has won plaudits in the progressive press. Yet, Joel Kotkin, Presidential Fellow in Urban Futures at Chapman Univers…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/california-squashes-its-young-how-golden-states-economic-policies-are-driving-out-newBeyond Bhangra: Punjabi Drumming in Devotional Contexts
Punjabi drummers are heard globally through the vehicle of hedonistic bhangra music. Yet, as Gibb Schreffler, assistant professor of music and director of ethnomusicology at Pomona College will demonstrate with unfamili…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/beyond-bhangra-punjabi-drumming-in-devotional-contextsArtificial Intelligence, Jane Austen, and the Law
Apoorv Agarwal, co-founder and CEO of Text IQ, is an expert in artificial intelligence and natural language processing whose doctoral research focused on applying these technologies to the field of literature. He will a…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/artificial-intelligence-jane-austen-and-law"Mirabai speaks....": The Emergent Voice of Medieval Saint
Nancy Martin, chair and associate professor of Religious Studies at Chapman University, will explore how regular people participate in co-creating the voice of the immensely popular Hindu saint Mirabai, highlighting mar…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/mirabai-speaks-emergent-voice-of-medieval-saintThe 2016 Election One Year Later
Michael Nelson, editor of The Elections of 2016 (Sage/CQ), and CMC’s own Andrew Busch and Jack Pitney, professors and authors of "Defying the Odds: The 2016 Elections and American Politics" (Rowman & Littlefield), will…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/2016-election-one-year-later