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What State for Lebanon? Revolutionaries, the State, and Foreign Powers in Lebanon’s Contemporary History
James Stocker, associate professor of global affairs at Trinity Washington University, will discuss how the logics of state, revolution, and foreign intervention have played out in contemporary Lebanese history, from in…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/what-state-lebanon-revolutionaries-state-and-foreign-powers-lebanons-contemporary-historyThe Moral Circle: Who Matters, What Matters, and Why
Jeff Sebo, director of the Center for Mind, Ethics, and Policy at New York University and author of The Moral Circle and Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves, will discuss current debates about the sentience and moral statu…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/moral-circle-who-matters-what-matters-and-whySounds of Brazil: Storytelling and Folklore through Regional Musical Traditions
The unlikely duo of Brazilian composer/guitarist Ian Faquini and American trombonist/vocalist Natalie Cressman explores the rituals, relationships, and emotions of human nature through the Brazilian songwriting traditio…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/sounds-brazil-storytelling-and-folklore-through-regional-musical-traditionsTHE TWO PARENT PRIVILEGE: How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling Behind
Melissa S. Kearney, professor of economics at the University of Notre Dame and a leading economist of family and social policy, will discuss the forces behind America’s declining birth rates and changing family structur…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/two-parent-privilege-how-americans-stopped-getting-married-and-started-falling-behindChanging Juvenile Justice in California Prisons
Every day, young people enter California’s criminal justice system. Some are caught up in gang affiliations, others simply in areas of high police surveillance. But often the particularities of their social contexts are…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/changing-juvenile-justice-california-prisonsDisagree Better: What Women—and Everyone—Can Learn About Conflict and Connection
Amy Gallo, contributing editor at Harvard Business Review and author of Getting Along: How to Work with Anyone, and Ryan Patel, global business executive and William F. Podlich Distinguished Fellow at CMC, will explore…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/disagree-better-what-women-and-everyone-can-learn-about-conflict-and-connection250 Years of Our Declaration of Independence: Why an Old Text Still Serves Us Now
Danielle Allen, professor of political philosophy, ethics, and public policy at Harvard University, draws an arc from the American founding to the present to explore how the original vision of the Declaration of Indepen…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/250-years-our-declaration-independence-why-old-text-still-serves-us-nowFour Years of Ukraine and the Arctic: The Expansion and Threatened Collapse of NATO
In three years leading U.S. Embassy Stockholm, Ambassador Erik Ramanathan P’27 saw enviable diplomatic wins. Persuading Sweden to send crucial arms to defend Ukraine despite longstanding pacifist prohibitions. Shepherdi…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/four-years-ukraine-and-arctic-expansion-and-threatened-collapse-natoThe Rest of the Story: Transforming Trauma to Voice, Agency, and Leadership
Michael Patrick MacDonald, author, professor of practice, community builder, draws on his lived experience and his work leading The Rest of the Story, a trauma-informed, peer-led storytelling program supporting people i…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/rest-story-transforming-trauma-voice-agency-and-leadershipThe Enlightened Omnivore: What Coyotes, Crows, and Backyard Chickens Taught Me About Modern Life
Steve Sabicer, food writer and former butcher shop owner, draws on a life lived across farms and cities, boardrooms and butcher blocks, to examine what modern humans have gained—and lost—in our relationship with food an…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/enlightened-omnivore-what-coyotes-crows-and-backyard-chickens-taught-me-about-modern-life