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Dreamland: America's Opiate Epidemic and How We Got To Where We Are
Sam Quinones' newest book reads like fiction, but unfortunately it is not. It's the true story of descent into opiate addiction and the sweeping resurgence of heroin from coast to coast.
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/dreamland-americas-opiate-epidemic-and-how-we-got-to-where-we-areSex, Lies and Politics in the Early Middle Ages
Yitzhak Hen will discuss the correspondence between Bishop Chrodobert of Tours and Bishop Importunus of Paris, which reveals a fascinating story of episcopal enmity, sex scandals, and political alliance in the Merovingi…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/sex-lies-and-politics-in-early-middle-agesThe Young Turks to the Young Nazis: The Genocides that Scar Us Still
Chris Bohjalian, author of New York Times bestselling novels about both the Armenian Genocide (The Sandcastle Girls) and the Holocaus (Skeletons at the Feast) discusses the links between these historical cataclysms. In…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/young-turks-to-young-nazis-genocides-that-scar-us-stillWar Powers in the 21st Century
Author of a forthcoming book on drones, cyber warfare, and coercion, John Yoo, professor law at Berkeley Law, will respond to Charles Lofgren's scholarship on war powers in the context of the security challenges of the…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/war-powers-in-21st-centuryTectonic Shifts in Turkey's Domestic and Foreign Policies: How Did it Come to This?
Events in Turkey in the last decade suggest a potential nightmare for Turkish democracy, relations with Western Allies, and regional stability in the Greater Middle East. Briol Yesilada will consider how this happened a…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/tectonic-shifts-in-turkeys-domestic-and-foreign-policies-how-did-it-come-to-thisPublishing and Diversity: A Panel Discussion
Authors and CMC alumni Camille Griep ’99 and Yi Shun Lai ’96 will join executive editor Rachel Kahan of William Morrow and Company and book publicist Kima Jones of Jack Jones Literary Arts for a panel discussion regardi…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/publishing-and-diversity-panel-discussion"Theatre is truth, journalism is not."
Internationally recognized playwright J.T. Rogers and CMC professor Eric Helland debate and discuss politics and art, and the role of the theater in shaping public policy.
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/theatre-is-truth-journalism-is-notBlaxicans of LA: Then and Now
By situating the Blaxican (Black-Mexican) experience in the context of the country’s current racial climate, Walter Luis Thompson-Hernandez talk asks: What is the role of multiracial individuals such as Blaxicans in the…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/blaxicans-of-la-then-and-nowHuman Trafficking: Addressing a Global Issue at a Local Level
Human trafficking is a problem that impacts all communities across the United States: How can this complex global crime be tackled at the local level? Maria Trujillo ’01 has been working to combat human trafficking loca…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/human-trafficking-addressing-global-issue-at-local-levelAmerica’s Long War in Afghanistan: Fifteen Years after 9/11
Fifteen years after America's military intervention in Afghanistan, the Afghan government remains fragile and Taliban insurgents control significant amounts of territory outside of major urban areas. Ambassador Karl W.…
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