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Celebrating Writing and Writers at CMC: An Evening with the 2019 Appel Fellows
The 2019-20 Appel Fellows, recipients of summer funding to engage in independent writing projects, read some of their work—journal entries, zines, short stories, documentaries, podcasts, and travel narratives to —and re…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/celebrating-writing-and-writers-at-cmc-evening-with-2019-appel-fellowsIsraeli Society at a Crossroads
Do current trends in Israeli society have the potential to bring about a new Israeli order? Could the growing divisions among secular, national-religious, ultra-Orthodox, and Arab communities be the harbinger of signifi…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/israeli-society-at-crossroadsFrance: How Can One Be Black in a Country Where Race Does Not Exist?
In France, race does not exist. French people are raised believing that there is only one race: the human race. Despite this belief, racial disparities operate at every level of French society, which creates a major con…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/france-how-can-one-be-black-in-country-where-race-does-not-existPoetry Reading and Reflections with Forrest Gander
Forrest Gander, poet and writer, will read some of his works and share personal reflections.
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/poetry-reading-and-reflections-with-forrest-ganderHoliday Concert 2019
The Claremont Treble Singers will perform "A Ceremony of Carols" in which 20th century British composer Benjamin Britten sets medieval and renaissance carols for harp and choir. The Claremont Treble Singers, an ensemble…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/holiday-concert-2019Theatre in the Round: CHECK PLEASE
Dating can be hard. Especially when your date happens to be a raging kleptomaniac, or your grandmother's bridge partner, or a mime. Check Please follows a series of blind dinner dates that couldn't get any worse—until t…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/theatre-in-round-check-pleaseTheatre in the Round: CHECK PLEASE
Dating can be hard. Especially when your date happens to be a raging kleptomaniac, or your grandmother's bridge partner, or a mime. Check Please follows a series of blind dinner dates that couldn't get any worse—until t…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/theatre-in-round-check-please-0Constitutionalizing Black Inequality
Brown v. Board of Education is one of the most celebrated cases in United States constitutional history. In the popular imagination, the case marks a dichotomy between a “then”—a moment in which the Supreme Court consti…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/constitutionalizing-black-inequality(Event Cancelled) The #MeToo Movement: The Legacy of Black Women's Testimonials
CANCELED: Allyson Hobbs, director of African and African American Studies at Stanford and an associate professor of history at Stanford University, will explore themes from her upcoming book on the history of Black wome…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/event-cancelled-metoo-movement-legacy-of-black-womens-testimonialsLiving Machines: How the Next Tech Revolution Will Change Our Lives
A century ago, discoveries in physics came together with engineering to produce an array of revolutionizing new technologies which changed the world and the human experience. Today, says Susan Hockfield, former presiden…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/living-machines%C2%A0how-next-tech-revolution-will-change-our-lives