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Local Investigative Journalism and the Future of the Press: A Conversation with David Dreier '75 and Scott Woolley '92
Local journalism is at a crossroads. Declining revenues, shrinking newsrooms, and the pressures of the digital attention economy have reshaped how—and whether—local stories get told. At the same time, the need for rigor…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/local-investigative-journalism-and-future-press-conversation-david-dreier-75-and-scottLights, Camera, Leap! Turning Creativity into a Career
In partnership with the award-winning film studio Optimist, founded by CMC alumnus Zach Ingrasci '12 – who began his journey in film with Chris Temple '12 by making a documentary during the summer of his Junior year – w…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/lights-camera-leap-turning-creativity-career-0A Reading and Conversation with Cristina Jiménez
Cristina Jiménez is an award-winning community organizer, political strategist, and one of the leading voices in the immigrant justice movement. She is the Co-Founder and former Executive Director of United We Dream (UW…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/reading-and-conversation-cristina-jimenezIs “Race” Over? Citizenship, Backlash, and the Quiet Politics of Self-Censorship
In recent years, American public life has entered a period of reassessment and backlash. The post-2020 surge in anti-racist politics has been met by the rollback of affirmative action, growing skepticism toward DEI init…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/race-over-citizenship-backlash-and-quiet-politics-self-censorshipA Special Russian Truth
A Special Russian Truth uncovers how a calculated Soviet disinformation campaign—engineered decades ago by the KGB to demonize Israeli statehood and sow division in the United States—planted the seeds of today’s anti-Is…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/special-russian-truthStories the State Tries to Erase
Some lives exist only in files, headlines, or accusations. How do paperwork, policing, and media narratives quietly decide who belongs? What does democracy look like from below? Drawing on her book 'The Many Lives of Sy…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/stories-state-tries-eraseMaking Congress Great Again
Public frustration with Congress has been the status quo since the institution’s very first days. Many point to constant gridlock and high levels of partisanship as the main problems that have led to Congress’s recent d…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/making-congress-great-againNever Again – for Whom? Racial Hierarchy in American Holocaust Memory
Barry Trachtenberg, historian of modern Jewish history, the Holocaust, and genocide at Wake Forest University, will trace the shifting American interpretations of the U.S. response to the Holocaust since World War II, f…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/never-again-whom-racial-hierarchy-american-holocaust-memoryCould AI systems be conscious soon?
When people worry about AI, they usually worry about what AI might do to us. But what about what we might do to AI? Robert Long, a philosopher who works on AI consciousness and welfare, and the Executive Director of Ele…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/could-ai-systems-be-conscious-soon*POSTPONED* - Our Souls, Our Selves: Race and the Religious Imagination in U.S. Cinema
How does the cinematic lens capture the evolution of the human soul? A decade remembered for the rise of the blockbuster, the 1990s also hosted a profound spiritual revolution led by filmmakers of color. Jane Naomi Iwam…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/postponed-our-souls-our-selves-race-and-religious-imagination-us-cinema