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Bridging the Divide through Storytelling
Apeirogon, Colum McCann’s 2020 novel, has been hailed as “transformative” by both Israeli and Palestinian writers. Taking as its fulcrum the real-life story of two fathers who have lost their young daughters to the conf…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/bridging-divide-through-storytellingResponsible AI in Finance (THIS EVENT WAS DELAYED TO THE 2022-23 ACADEMIC YEAR.)
Mathematical models play a very prominent role in financial institutions for decision making. The use of models including Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) carry both financial and non-financial ris…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/responsible-ai-finance-event-was-delayed-2022-23-academic-yearUpheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis (THIS EVENT IS POSTPONED TO THE FALL.)
Based on his 2019 book Upheaval, Jared Diamond reveals how successful nations recover from crisis through selective change. In an exhaustive comparative study, he shows how seven countries have survived upheavals in th…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/upheaval-turning-points-nations-crisis-event-postponed-fallRace and Commerce: The American Experience
Glenn Loury, the Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences and Professor of Economics at Brown University, in conversation with Michael Fortner, an associate professor of government at CMC, will discuss the uniq…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/race-and-commerce-american-experienceCan (Should) Algorithms Be Used to Reduce Incarceration in the United States?
Statistically derived algorithms, adopted by many jurisdictions in an effort to identify the risk of reoffending posed by criminal defendants, have been labeled as racist, dehumanizing, and antithetical to the foundatio…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/can-should-algorithms-be-used-reduce-incarceration-united-statesAyn Rand, Milton Friedman, and the Ethics of Capitalism
Historian and biographer Jennifer Burns, associate professor of history at Stanford University and research fellow at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace, will draw on original research to explore the i…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/ayn-rand-milton-friedman-and-ethics-capitalismMachiavelli for Women: Power in the Workplace
In her new book, "Machiavelli For Women," NPR host of The Indicator from Planet Money Stacey Vanek Smith looks at how women can apply the principles of the 16th-century philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli to their 21st-cen…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/machiavelli-women-power-workplaceThe Splendid and the Vile
In The Splendid and the Vile, renowned author Erik Larson shows, in cinematic detail, how Winston Churchill taught the British people “the art of being fearless.” It is a story of political brinksmanship but also an int…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/splendid-and-vileThe Voltage Effect: How to Make Good Ideas Great and Great Ideas Scale
Why do some ideas make it big while others fail to take off? According to award-winning University of Chicago behavioral economist John List, the answer comes down to a single question: Can the idea scale? Using a mix o…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/voltage-effect-how-make-good-ideas-great-and-great-ideas-scaleOn Juneteenth
Weaving together American history, family chronicle, and personal memoir in her most recent book On Juneteenth, Annette Gordon-Reed, the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard University, provides a historian’s vi…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/juneteenth