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The Appel Scholarship: Writing Matters
From left to right: Isaiah Tulanda, Zoey Ryu, Taylor Hughes, Shreya Bhatnagar, Rebecca Chung, Jafar Daniel, and Nick Sage (not pictured, Gabe Gluskin-Braun): The Appel Fellowship provides first-year students with fundin…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/appel-scholarship-writing-matters-0What was the Russian Revolution? What is a Revolution?
Revolution in the Russian empire took place 100 years ago with its effects continuing to reverberate today. Steve Kotkin, an expert in Russian history and international affairs at Princeton University, will consider wha…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/what-was-russian-revolution-what-is-revolutionTaking Responsibility for Racial Violence: Shooting the Racist Imagination
José Medina, professor of philosophy from Northwestern University, will analyze different kinds of complicity with racial violence and will defend a new paradigm of shared responsibility that goes beyond the bystander m…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/taking-responsibility-for-racial-violence-shooting-racist-imaginationAmerican Shtetl: A Hasidic Town in Suburban New York
David Myers, historian at UCLA, will explore the curious case of Kiryas Joel, a legally recognized municipality in the State of New York. Is this community's existence consistent with or is it a deviation from the Ameri…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/american-shtetl-hasidic-town-in-suburban-new-yorkHymns of Wisdom: The Ismaili Ginans of South Asia
Ali Asani, professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures at Harvard University, will introduce the ginans, hymns of wisdom of the South Asia’s Ismaili communities, and their most important themes, including…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/hymns-of-wisdom-ismaili-ginans-of-south-asiaEcological Civilization: Is this the answer to fixing China's environment?
China has raised the concept of "Ecological Civilization" to guide future development, which takes the country's ecological capacity and constraints into account. Christine Loh, former under-secretary for the Environmen…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/ecological-civilization-is-this-answer-to-fixing-chinas-environmentWork's Provocative Future
As we head toward a world defined by self-driving cars, drone-powered warfare, and AI-based chat bots, what's left for humans to do? George Anders, writer and contributing editor at Forbes magazine, argues that the worl…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/works-provocative-futureDataclysm: Who We Are (When We Think No One’s Looking)
From the data we have gathered, can we learn something new about our behaviors and attitudes? Christian Rudder thinks so. As co-founder of the dating site OkCupid, he possesses one of the richest data sets in the world…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/dataclysm%C2%A0who-we-are-when-we-think-no-ones%C2%A0lookingHow to Tame a Fox and Build a Dog
Imagine speeding up thousands of years of evolution into a few decades…. Lee Alan Dugatkin will recount such a tale: In the depths of Siberia, Soviet scientists jump-started the effort to evolve foxes into dogs to recre…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/how-to-tame-fox-and-build-dogCan Europe come back in the age of Trump, Merkel, and Macron?
Europe faces severe crisis after crisis: Anemic economic growth, the rise of anti-European sentiment, right and left-wing populism, the Euro and Greek crises, massive immigration, the refugee crisis along with the rise…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/can-europe-come-back-in-age-of-trump-merkel-and-macron