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Leading through Crisis: The Power of Going Local to Make Change
Steve Grove '00 has spent his career at the intersection of politics, media, and tech. His recent book, How I Found Myself in the Midwest, shares his journey of leaving a successful career at Google in Silicon Valley to…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/leading-through-crisis-power-going-local-make-changeThe Future Is Implausible: Why Science Fiction Always Gets the Future Wrong (And Why That’s a Good Thing)
Through a series of images drawn by artists from the past imagining life in the future, Ken Liu, award-winning author of speculative fiction, asks the audience to think through provocative questions about the science fi…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/future-implausible-why-science-fiction-always-gets-future-wrong-and-why-thats-good-thingAre We at War? The History and Meaning of Wartime in the United States
When does a war begin? When does it end? Start dates and end dates for wars are readily available in textbooks, but are the beginnings and endings really so obvious? Currently, the U.S. claims not to be at war with any…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/are-we-war-history-and-meaning-wartime-united-statesContested Curriculum: Fighting for Queer History in K-12 Schools
Historian Don Romesburg '93, a lead scholar implementing California's groundbreaking FAIR Education Act, will discuss the long journey to bring LGBTQ history education to the nation's K-12 schools. Today, many states ha…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/contested-curriculum-fighting-queer-history-k-12-schoolsThe Ministry is Interfering at Hogwarts: The Promise, Perils and Politics of Modern Neuroscience
Sandeep Robert Datta P’26, M.D., PhD., professor of neuroscience at Harvard University, will discuss how new technology is revolutionizing our understanding of the brain and how abrupt changes in the compact between uni…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/ministry-interfering-hogwarts-promise-perils-and-politics-modern-neuroscienceWhat State for Lebanon? Revolutionaries, the State, and Foreign Powers in Lebanon’s Contemporary History
James Stocker, associate professor of global affairs at Trinity Washington University, will discuss how the logics of state, revolution, and foreign intervention have played out in contemporary Lebanese history, from in…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/what-state-lebanon-revolutionaries-state-and-foreign-powers-lebanons-contemporary-historyThe Moral Circle: Who Matters, What Matters, and Why
Jeff Sebo, director of the Center for Mind, Ethics, and Policy at New York University and author of The Moral Circle and Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves, will discuss current debates about the sentience and moral statu…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/moral-circle-who-matters-what-matters-and-whySounds of Brazil: Storytelling and Folklore through Regional Musical Traditions
The unlikely duo of Brazilian composer/guitarist Ian Faquini and American trombonist/vocalist Natalie Cressman explores the rituals, relationships, and emotions of human nature through the Brazilian songwriting traditio…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/sounds-brazil-storytelling-and-folklore-through-regional-musical-traditionsTHE TWO PARENT PRIVILEGE: How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling Behind
Melissa S. Kearney, professor of economics at the University of Notre Dame and a leading economist of family and social policy, will discuss the forces behind America’s declining birth rates and changing family structur…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/two-parent-privilege-how-americans-stopped-getting-married-and-started-falling-behindChanging Juvenile Justice in California Prisons
Every day, young people enter California’s criminal justice system. Some are caught up in gang affiliations, others simply in areas of high police surveillance. But often the particularities of their social contexts are…
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