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The Unresolved Question of Kashmir
The dispute between India and Pakistan over the state of Jammu and Kashmir has persisted since the emergence of the two countries following the end of the British Indian Empire in 1947. The dispute has resulted in three…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/unresolved-question-kashmirMastering Civility: A Manifesto for Life
Incivility is prevalent, and it’s getting worse. In addition to personal discomfort, the tangible costs of incivility are rising too. Christine Porath, professor at the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/mastering-civility-manifesto-lifeFictional Histories
Joshua Cohen, author of the Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Netanyahus, will speak about fiction and its complicated relationship to history.
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/fictional-historiesBorderlands and Diaspora: Contemporary Photography’s Engagements with Race in the Americas
Theresa Delgadillo, professor of English and Chicanx/e and Latinx/e Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will examine the work of three contemporary photographers—Tony Gleaton, Wendy Philips, and Louis Carlos…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/borderlands-and-diaspora-contemporary-photographys-engagements-race-americasChallenges in the Indo-Pacific Region and Beyond
The United States faces growing challenges in maintaining an international order favorable to the United States. General Vincent Brooks, a now retired four-star general, believes that the quality of American foreign pol…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/challenges-indo-pacific-region-and-beyondMidnight on the Potomac: The Last Year of the Civil War, the Lincoln Assassination, and the Rebirth of America
During the last fraught months of the Civil War, the fate of the United States was far from secure. Tens of thousands of Rebel troops were still in the field, the Lincoln presidency was collapsing, and a peace movement…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/midnight-potomac-last-year-civil-war-lincoln-assassination-and-rebirth-americaBroadening the Economic Perspective on Discrimination
Aislinn Bohren, associate professor of economics at the University of Pennsylvania, will examine new approaches in economics to the study of discrimination. From outlining how economics has traditionally measured discri…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/broadening-economic-perspective-discriminationChildren's Literature and the Challenge of Language
How can we learn to read and write when the English language is changing so quickly? How does children's literature help us understand our place in a world of signs and symbols, of sounds and letters? How do we move bet…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/childrens-literature-and-challenge-languageThe Campus and the Capitol: Higher Education and Federal Power
What do recent governmental attacks on colleges and universities say about the state of American politics? Susan McWilliams Barndt, a Podlich Distinguished Fellow in Government at CMC, will examine the Trump administrat…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/campus-and-capitol-higher-education-and-federal-powerAn Evening with William Kristol
Columnist, public intellectual, host of Conversations with Bill Kristol, and founding director of Defending Democracy Together, an organization dedicated to defending America's liberal democratic norms, principles, and…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/evening-william-kristol