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Finding a Voice, Finding Community
Finding one's voice as a storyteller is one of the most important aspects of writing fiction. Angie Cruz, award-winning author of How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water and Dominicana, will discuss how she honed her story…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/finding-voice-finding-communityUndocumented Motherhood: Conversations on Love, Trauma, and Border Crossing
Elizabeth Farfán-Santos, medical anthropologist and author, will discuss her new book, Undocumented Motherhood: Conversations on Love, Trauma, and Border Crossing. The book is about Claudia Garcia who crossed the border…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/undocumented-motherhood-conversations-love-trauma-and-border-crossingFrom Rome to Western Christendom: A Socio-Economic Shift
The collapse of the Roman Empire in western Europe has been categorized as a catastrophe and also as a period of continuity. Ian Wood, a scholar early medieval history, is professor emeritus at the University of Leeds a…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/rome-western-christendom-socio-economic-shift2021-22 Presidential Initiative Faculty Fellows on Anti-Racism across Disciplines
In Spring 2021, the Presidential Initiative on Anti-Racism and the Black Experience in America launched a Faculty Fellows program and Teaching Innovations Grant Program to enhance the capacity of CMC faculty to address…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/2021-22-presidential-initiative-faculty-fellows-anti-racism-across-disciplines-0Sustainability on the Big Screen!
Stacey Hoppe, vice president for social responsibility and sustainability for Warner Bros. Discovery, oversees strategy, programs, and initiatives in the area environmental sustainability, including climate strategy, em…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/sustainability-big-screenReinventing the Los Angeles Times
Since taking charge of the Los Angeles Times newsroom more than a year and a half ago, Executive Editor Kevin Merida has set out to reinvent the largest newspaper on the West Coast, and one of the largest in the country…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/reinventing-los-angeles-timesBlack Rodeo: A History of the African American Western
African American westerns have a rich cinematic history and visual culture. Mia Mask, professor of film at Vassar College and author of Divas on Screen: Black Women in American Film, examines the African American weste…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/black-rodeo-history-african-american-westernUnsettling Climate Science
Popular and political discussions of the changing climate invariably invoke “The Science” as settled. But as theoretical physicist Steven Koonin, University Professor at New York University and a senior fellow at the Ho…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/unsettling-climate-scienceLiving a Life of Purpose
Finding your purpose is not an easy thing to do and not often found in a single experience or moment. For Tom Linebarger '86, executive chairman of Cummins, Inc.—a global power technology company that pioneers new techn…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/living-life-purposeWill the Harvard/UNC Cases at the Supreme Court Transform U.S. Higher Education? (THIS EVENT HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED FOR WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12.)
In October 2022, the Supreme Court heard challenges to the admissions systems at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina. Most legal observers expect the Court will make a broad ruling substantially rest…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/will-harvardunc-cases-supreme-court-transform-us-higher-education-event-has-been