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First Annual Dreier Roundtable Civility Award and a Bipartisan Conversation on the Future of American Political Parties
In today’s world, civil discourse is the exception rather than the rule. That's precisely why the Dreier Roundtable wants to recognize public servants who engage in a vigorous clash of ideas while recognizing that their…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/first-annual-dreier-roundtable-civility-award-and-bipartisan-conversation-future-americanU.S. Climate Change Policy In the Biden Administration
Roger Karapin, professor of political science at City University of New York’s Graduate Center and author of "Political Opportunities for Climate Policy: California, New York, and the Federal Government," will discuss t…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/us-climate-change-policy-biden-administrationSexual Politics on Campus
A cultural critic and occasionally irreverent feminist, Laura Kipnis didn’t know much about Title IX until she found herself brought up on Title IX complaints…for writing an essay. Without minimizing the realities of se…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/sexual-politics-campusConversations with Mexican Elites, the Life of an American Academic
Roderic Camp, professor of government at Claremont McKenna College, whose scholarship since 1970 has focused on Mexican elites, explores the fascinating insights and significance of hundreds of interviews, including sev…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/conversations-mexican-elites-life-american-academicBeauty and Plunder: Landscape and Historical Memory in a Public Garden
How do the stories that are told about places we love matter? How can we learn to tell different stories in order to create a more just present and future? Wendy Cheng, associate professor of American Studies at Scripps…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/beauty-and-plunder-landscape-and-historical-memory-public-gardenRecognition, Acknowledgment, and Stewardship: The Challenges and Opportunities for Rematriating Tovaangar
The Tongva have long struggled to gain acknowledgment on their ancestral land of Tovangaar, located in the Los Angeles basin, and to be able to fulfill their responsibility to be stewards to the land, plants, and animal…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/recognition-acknowledgment-and-stewardship-challenges-and-opportunities-rematriatingThe Long Walk Home: A Story of War and the Life that Follows
Brian Castner, a Bronze Star recipient, served three tours of duty in the Middle East, two of them in Iraq as the head of an Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit. Whenever IEDs were discovered, he and his team would lead th…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/long-walk-home-story-war-and-life-followsFatphobia and Capitalism
Ragen Chastain, an internationally recognized thought leader in the fields of health at every size and weight stigma, will explore how capitalism, weight stigma, and diet culture intersect to create marginalization, ali…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/fatphobia-and-capitalismDigital Currencies—More than a Passing Fad?
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. IT WILL BE RESCHEDULED FOR THE FALL. The financial sector is currently in one of those periods of exceptionally rapid change that punctuate history. From the adoption of cloud computing to…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/digital-currencies-more-passing-fadHidden History: The Tulsa Race Massacre and the Challenge of Facing Up to Our Past
The 1921 Tulsa race massacre was the single worst incident of racial violence in American history. Scott Ellsworth, faculty in the Afroamerican and African Studies department at the University of Michigan and author of…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/hidden-history-tulsa-race-massacre-and-challenge-facing-our-past