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Reformed Worship and Huguenot Identity
French Reformed Protestants, commonly known as Huguenots, were fundamentally a religious minority. Accordingly, they sought to distinguish themselves from Catholics. Two prominent liturgical events – the Lord’s Supper a…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/reformed-worship-and-huguenot-identityOur Democracy is a Debate
A legal and cultural historian whose work examines how Black Americans have shaped the story of American democracy, Martha Jones is the Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor, Professor of History, and a Profess…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/our-democracy-debateSupreme Court Matters: The 2021-22 Landmark Cases
The U.S. Supreme Court has the final word on the major legal and constitutional controversies of our day. Abortion. Concealed carry. Church and state. Immigration. Healthcare. What will the Supreme Court decide in 2021-…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/supreme-court-matters-2021-22-landmark-casesWhy Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
Why are some nations extremely rich while others remain cripplingly poor? And why is the gap between the two widening? What separates the haves from the have-nots, Daron Acemoglu, professor of applied economics at MIT,…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/why-nations-fail-origins-power-prosperity-and-povertyAyn 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-capitalismFinancing Global Decarbonization
Erik Anderson ’80 P'23 is founder and CEO of WestRiver Group, a global innovation investment platform, and Chief Executive Officer of the DCRB+ Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs), which seek to identify impac…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/financing-global-decarbonizationFire Is Not a Country: A Poetry Reading
In her third collection, award-winning Indonesian American poet Cynthia Dewi Oka dives into the implications of being parents, children, workers, and unwanted human beings under the reign of global capitalism and resurg…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/fire-not-country-poetry-readingFatphobia and Capitalism
Ragen Chastain, an internationally recognized thought leader in the fields of health at every size and weight stigma, will explore how capitalism, weight stigma, and diet culture intersect to create marginalization, ali…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/fatphobia-and-capitalismDigital Currencies—More than a Passing Fad?
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. IT WILL BE RESCHEDULED FOR THE FALL. The financial sector is currently in one of those periods of exceptionally rapid change that punctuate history. From the adoption of cloud computing to…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/digital-currencies-more-passing-fadHidden History: The Tulsa Race Massacre and the Challenge of Facing Up to Our Past
The 1921 Tulsa race massacre was the single worst incident of racial violence in American history. Scott Ellsworth, faculty in the Afroamerican and African Studies department at the University of Michigan and author of…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/hidden-history-tulsa-race-massacre-and-challenge-facing-our-past