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On 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/juneteenthThe 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-scaleThe 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-vileMachiavelli 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-workplaceAyn 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-decarbonizationThe Mad Historian: The Mission and Responsibilities of History Makers in a Fractured World
Global political, economic, social, and environmental upheavals since the early 2000s have proven that the 21st Century will be full of volatility and uncertainty. People are seeking systems of knowledge and practice to…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/mad-historian-mission-and-responsibilities-history-makers-fractured-worldHidden 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-pastDigital 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-fadFatphobia 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-capitalism