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California’s Choices: 2022 Ballot Measures
Exercising the power to determine important policy issues by direct popular vote, this fall Californians will vote on seven ballot measures covering a broad range of subjects including a measure to change the California…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/californias-choices-2022-ballot-measuresWriting From the Heart: The Joys and Terrors of Being Vulnerable in Journalism
Award-winning essayist and syndicated columnist Donna Britt had written extensively in The Washington Post about being black, female, and spiritual in a society that often devalues all three. How does one successfully n…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/writing-heart-joys-and-terrors-being-vulnerable-journalismSmackdown: Memory v History
Today's young readers are tomorrow's problem-solvers, whose task, asserts Linda Sue Park, Newberry Medal award winning author of children’s books, is nothing less than saving the planet and human decency. She will talk…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/smackdown-memory-v-historyHuman Rights and the Origins of the Refugee Crisis in the Middle East
Michelle Tusan, professor of history at UNLV, explores the origins of the response to stateless refugees by international institutions and humanitarian organizations. It has its roots in one of the forgotten stories of…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/human-rights-and-origins-refugee-crisis-middle-eastReading and Reflection: An Evening of Poetry with Jane Hirshfield
Described by The Washington Post as belonging “among the modern masters” and by The New York Times as “passionate and radiant,” award-winning poet Jane Hirshfield work ranges from the political, ecological, and scientif…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/reading-and-reflection-evening-poetry-jane-hirshfieldChina’s Unusual Rise: How China Builds and Exercises Military Power, 1995-2020
How do rising countries like China build influence in a world dominated by more established powers? Whereas most experts assume that China has sought to emulate the U.S., Oriana Skylar Mastro, Center Fellow at the Freem…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/chinas-unusual-rise-how-china-builds-and-exercises-military-power-1995-2020Resolution: This House Should Abolish the Electoral College
In November 2016, Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton in the U.S. presidential election despite losing the popular vote by almost 2.9 million votes. The result spurred a national conversation about the Electoral Colle…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/resolution-house-should-abolish-electoral-collegeCharles Darwin meets Computer Science: How Computation has Led to Fundamental Discoveries in Evolution
Charles Darwin wrote in The Origin of Species that he could imagine how flowers and bees might evolve in tandem to adapt to one another. In this talk, Ran Libeskind-Hadas, Founding Chair of the Integrated Sciences Depar…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/charles-darwin-meets-computer-science-how-computation-has-led-fundamental-discoveries-0After Roe: What Happens When You Lose a Constitutional Right
The reversal of Roe v. Wade is about much more than reproductive rights – so argues Mary Ziegler, a professor of law at U.C. Davis and an expert on the law, history, and politics of reproduction, health care, and conser…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/after-roe-what-happens-when-you-lose-constitutional-rightWhat "It" Is: Does Creative Activity Have a Biological Function?
Why do people wish they could write, sing, dance, and draw, long after they’ve given up on these things? Does creative activity have a biological function? Is there something common to everything we call the arts? What…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/what-it-does-creative-activity-have-biological-function