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Decisions on the Brain: Neural Dynamics of Valuation and Choice During Human Decision Making
From selecting a snack to considering a monetary bargain, choices are a defining feature of our lives. A cognitive neuroscientist, Alison Harris, the Ostby-Cook Associate Professor of Psychology and George R. Roberts Fe…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/decisions-brain-neural-dynamics-valuation-and-choice-during-human-decision-makingCharles 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-discoveriesTrends in Finance: The Long View
John Shrewsberry ’87 P’24 will draw on his 25 years in financial services to provide a summary and take questions covering elements of the current state of fintech and what it means for various players in legacy financ…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/trends-finance-long-viewThe CMC Way: Entrepreneurship, Creativity, and Following Your Own Path
Join Matt Pyken ’83, writer and executive producer, for an in-depth discussion with Datta Dave ’02, about Dave’s unorthodox path from a CMC econ/accounting major, to founding the largest and most prestigious talent, wri…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/cmc-way-entrepreneurship-creativity-and-following-your-own-pathReadings and Reflections: An Evening of Poetry Tyehimba Jess
Tyehimba Jess is the author of two books of poetry: leadbelly and Olio. Olio received the 2017 Pulitzer Prize and an Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation from the Black Caucus of the American Library Associat…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/readings-and-reflections-evening-poetry-tyehimba-jessBelieving
Anita Hill’s most recent book, Believing: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence, is a new manifesto about the origins and course of gender violence in our society; a combination of memoir, personal accounts, la…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/believingHow Knowledge of African Traditional Religions Created Pandemic Community
New York Times bestseller Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler invokes deities from traditional West African religion. The ability to recognize these deities and what they represent shifts understanding of survival an…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/how-knowledge-african-traditional-religions-created-pandemic-communityRace and Infrastructure in the Age of the Freeway
Eric Avila, professor of history, Chicana/o Studies and urban planning at UCLA, historian of Los Angeles and author of The Folklore of the Freeway: Race and Revolt in the Modernist City, will discuss the history of high…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/race-and-infrastructure-age-freewayReadings and Reflections: An Evening of Poetry with Louise Glück, Nobel Laureate
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2020 for her "unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal," Louise Glück is considered by many to be one of America’s most talented co…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/readings-and-reflections-evening-poetry-louise-gluck-nobel-laureateInvisibility, Disappearance, and the Native American Future
Native Americans are, perversely, the most visible invisible minority. They represent a fraction of the U.S. population and most Americans go through their lives without having had any meaningful or daily interactions w…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/invisibility-disappearance-and-native-american-future