While mainstream representations of queer migration often privilege North–South liberation narratives, Christina Carney’s project complicates such binaries by tracing how African American queer mobility participates in…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/now-what-i-paid-black-queer-expatriates-south-americas-black-meccaA celebrated writer and biographer, Sam Tanenhaus will discuss the remarkable life and times of William F. Buckley, Jr., arguably America's greatest conservative, all while discussing the art of story-telling, portraitu…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/buckley-life-and-revolution-changed-america-case-study-art-science-and-challengesCMC’s commitment to blurring the lines between disciplinary boundaries is actively at work this fall in a new course, “Social and Environmental Inequalities in the Inland Empire.” Merging their respective expertise in t…
This performance-lecture (with a robot dog) presents artist and engineer Robert Twomey’s artistic research into the ways we live with, think through, and feel alongside machines. From his dissertation "Machines for Livi…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/fostering-intimacy-intelligent-machines“Without memory we would not know where we are going or who we are—Memory is not a sideline for architecture, it's the fundamental way to orient the mind, the emotions, and the soul.”—Daniel LibeskindDaniel Libeskind is…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/memory-foundations-cancelledDespite Hip Hop's reputation for drugs, violence, and sacrilegious excess and rebellion, Gastón Espinosa, professor of religious studies at CMC, will offer an analysis of the disquieted spiritual impulses of revolution…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/hip-hop-spiritual-outlaws-contested-social-visions-tupac-ice-cube-kanye-west-lauryn-hillMilk is ubiquitous in our lives—in our coffee cups, cereal bowls, refrigerators, grocery stores, and ads. Modern milk is a story about technology, industrialization, science, and culture and drinking milk is tangled up…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/got-milk-past-present-and-future-human-animal-relationsGerald (Jerry) Eyrich P’83, CMC Emeritus Associate Professor of Economics, died on September 20, 2025, at age 95.Eyrich joined CMC in the late 1960s, and in September 2017, the community celebrated his 50 years of servi…
Step into the vibrant world of Ghanaian music, where rhythms, songs, and dances are paths to self-discovery. Featuring traditional Ghanaian cuisine, the evening will be led by renowned musician, dancer, and cultural his…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/evening-ghanaian-music-drumming-dance-and-songIn Daniel Tam-Claiborne's debut novel, Transplants, two young women in China and the United States negotiate coming of age, identity, and belonging in a world upended by the COVID-19 pandemic. Tam-Claiborne will read fr…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/transplants-reading-and-conversation