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Readings 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-laureateRace 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-freewayHow 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-communityBelieving
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/believingReadings 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-jessRace 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-experienceUpheaval: 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-fallResponsible 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-yearBridging 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-storytellingInvisibility, 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