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Holiday Concert 2022
The Claremont Treble Singers will perform a selection of a cappella and piano-accompanied music from the middle ages to the present, including music by the popular composer Eric Whitacre and works for the holidays. The…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/holiday-concert-2022The Fate of Food: What We’ll Eat in a Bigger, Hotter, Smarter World
In this fascinating look at the race to secure the global food supply, Amanda Little, environmental journalist and professor of journalism and science writing at Vanderbilt University, investigates how we will feed huma…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/fate-food-what-well-eat-bigger-hotter-smarter-worldCovering January 6: Journalists’ Reflection
On January 6th, 2021, insurrectionists breached the U.S. Capitol building as citizens across the country followed the unfolding events on television, social media, and other news sources. Information about what happened…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/covering-january-6-journalists-reflectionFintech: Fables, Fallacies, and Futures
Fintech has disrupted industries globally, driving trillion-dollar value creation and destruction. Having been on the frontiers of fintech growth over the last two decades working on a PayPal competitor and Google Walle…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/fintech-fables-fallacies-and-futuresSouth to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
We all think we know the South. Even those who have never lived there can rattle off a list of signifiers: the Civil War, Gone with the Wind, the Ku Klux Klan, plantations, football, Jim Crow, slavery. But the idiosyncr…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/south-america-journey-below-mason-dixon-understand-soul-nationCharles Darwin meets Computer Science: How Computation has Led to Fundamental Discoveries in Evolution
Charles Darwin wrote in The Origin of Species that he could imagine how flowers and bees might evolve in tandem to adapt to one another. In this talk, Ran Libeskind-Hadas, Founding Chair of the Integrated Sciences Depar…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/charles-darwin-meets-computer-science-how-computation-has-led-fundamental-discoveries-0What "It" Is: Does Creative Activity Have a Biological Function?
Why do people wish they could write, sing, dance, and draw, long after they’ve given up on these things? Does creative activity have a biological function? Is there something common to everything we call the arts? What…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/what-it-does-creative-activity-have-biological-functionAn Evening of Poetry and Prose
In describing Mary Ruefle’s poems, the poet Tony Hoagland said, “Her work combines the spiritual desperation of Dickinson with the rhetorical virtuosity of Wallace Stevens. The result (for those with ears to hear) is a…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/evening-poetry-and-proseCalifornia’s Choices: 2022 Ballot Measures
Exercising the power to determine important policy issues by direct popular vote, this fall Californians will vote on seven ballot measures covering a broad range of subjects including a measure to change the California…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/californias-choices-2022-ballot-measuresWriting From the Heart: The Joys and Terrors of Being Vulnerable in Journalism
Award-winning essayist and syndicated columnist Donna Britt had written extensively in The Washington Post about being black, female, and spiritual in a society that often devalues all three. How does one successfully n…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/writing-heart-joys-and-terrors-being-vulnerable-journalism