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Blaxicans of LA: Then and Now
By situating the Blaxican (Black-Mexican) experience in the context of the country’s current racial climate, Walter Luis Thompson-Hernandez talk asks: What is the role of multiracial individuals such as Blaxicans in the…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/blaxicans-of-la-then-and-nowHuman Trafficking: Addressing a Global Issue at a Local Level
Human trafficking is a problem that impacts all communities across the United States: How can this complex global crime be tackled at the local level? Maria Trujillo ’01 has been working to combat human trafficking loca…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/human-trafficking-addressing-global-issue-at-local-levelAmerica’s Long War in Afghanistan: Fifteen Years after 9/11
Fifteen years after America's military intervention in Afghanistan, the Afghan government remains fragile and Taliban insurgents control significant amounts of territory outside of major urban areas. Ambassador Karl W.…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/americas-long-war-in-afghanistan-fifteen-years-after-911Are there limits to what we can imagine?
Occasionally, novels and stories ask us to imagine certain things, yet readers have difficulty complying. That is, they experience difficulty in imagining what they are supposed to. Kathleen Stock, philosopher from the…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/are-there-limits-to-what-we-can-imagineThe Human Journey: A Genetic Odyssey
Population geneticist Spencer Wells will provide an overview of genetic anthropology, including new developments in the field, as wells as future directions in the fast growing field of consumer genomics.
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/human-journey-genetic-odysseyArt Thinking or Inventing Point B in any area of life
Whether making sense of your career or the future of the geopolitical world order, Amy Whitaker asserts that art thinking is a way of creating space to focus on big messy questions, whether you can answer them or not.
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/art-thinking-or-inventing-point-b-in-any-area-of-life2017 MLK Commemorative Speech
President and CEO of the NAACP Cornell Brooks will offer his thoughts on the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/2017-mlk-commemorative-speechThe Young Turks to the Young Nazis: The Genocides that Scar Us Still
Chris Bohjalian, author of New York Times bestselling novels about both the Armenian Genocide (The Sandcastle Girls) and the Holocaus (Skeletons at the Feast) discusses the links between these historical cataclysms. In…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/young-turks-to-young-nazis-genocides-that-scar-us-stillWar Powers in the 21st Century
Author of a forthcoming book on drones, cyber warfare, and coercion, John Yoo, professor law at Berkeley Law, will respond to Charles Lofgren's scholarship on war powers in the context of the security challenges of the…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/war-powers-in-21st-centuryHoliday Concert 2016
In addition to music for the holidays, the program will include music by Palestrina, Debussy, Poulenc, and Los Angeles composer Morten Lauridsen.
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/holiday-concert-2016