Digital technologies are revolutionizing how archaeologists study the past. Today, it is common to see a tablet, laser scanner, or drone used hand in hand with a shovel, trowel, or wheelbarrow. In this talk, Eric Poehle…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/new-tools-of-trade-archaeology-in-21st-centuryHowever the story ends, most literary works dwell on chaos, crisis, confusion, disruption, and change. Utopian literary works evoke the alternative—the possibility of stability, equity, and balance provided by a rationa…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/literature-and-utopiaSenior year is moving fast. Soon-to-be graduates reflect on their biggest takeaways from life at CMC – and for a future beyond Claremont. Why CMC: “I was drawn to CMC because of its strong economics reputation and small…
Dr. Michael Martin Riley, professor of film and literature from 1968-2001 and the founding director of the Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum, died Dec. 18. He was 83. When the Athenaeum moved from the President’s House to a n…
Kristie Dotson, professor of philosophy at both Carleton College and Michigan State University, will explore how in situations that call for accountability for serious wrongdoings, one can find oneself trapped in a “now…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/beyond-now-epistemic-oppression-and-so-called-common-sense-of-incarcerationWith a reorientation from the desire for social justice to economic aspiration, two rapid shifts are visible in the political preferences of Dalits in India’s northern state of Uttar Pradesh. Attracted by promises of de…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/dalit-question-and-politics-in-2000sDonald Davis, professor in the department of Asian Studies at the University of Texas, Austin, examines how a thirteenth-century Sanskrit legal text conceptualizes slavery, servitude, and work. Rather than draw a sharp…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/reflections-on-work-servitude-and-slavery-in-medieval-indiaHow can the movement for gender justice build for the long haul during a period of resistance? Fatima Goss Graves, long-time civil and gender rights activist and president and CEO of the National Women’s Law Center, wil…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/road-to-gender-justice-in-era-of-resistanceApproved by the CMC Board of Trustees, December 6, 2018 Claremont McKenna College is a nonpartisan institution of higher education. To ensure the full freedom of faculty, students, and staff to express their views, the…
https://www.cmc.edu/free-expression/institutional-nonpartisanshipApproved by the CMC Board of Trustees, December 6, 2018 The Open Academy The National Higher Education Challenge In response to our most pressing national challenges, structural forces have separated, fragmented, and po…
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