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Human 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-eastSmackdown: 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-historyWriting 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-journalismCalifornia’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-measuresAn Evening of Poetry and Prose
In describing Mary Ruefle’s poems, the poet Tony Hoagland said, “Her work combines the spiritual desperation of Dickinson with the rhetorical virtuosity of Wallace Stevens. The result (for those with ears to hear) is a…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/evening-poetry-and-proseWhat "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-functionAfter 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-rightCharles 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-0South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
We all think we know the South. Even those who have never lived there can rattle off a list of signifiers: the Civil War, Gone with the Wind, the Ku Klux Klan, plantations, football, Jim Crow, slavery. But the idiosyncr…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/south-america-journey-below-mason-dixon-understand-soul-nationFintech: Fables, Fallacies, and Futures
Fintech has disrupted industries globally, driving trillion-dollar value creation and destruction. Having been on the frontiers of fintech growth over the last two decades working on a PayPal competitor and Google Walle…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/fintech-fables-fallacies-and-futures