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The Volume of Small Voices: How Consumers Forced Agriculture to Change Antibiotic Use
In the early 1950s, farmers began adding small doses of antibiotics to the diets of livestock. The drugs caused animals to put on weight more quickly and protected them against diseases, laying the foundation for modern…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/volume-of-small-voices-how-consumers-forced-agriculture-to-change-antibiotic-useReadings and Reflections: An Evening with Joyce Carol Oates
Award winning writer, essayist, poet, and novelist Joyce Carol Oates will read from her works, including her newest works, and share personal reflections.
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/readings-and-reflections-evening-with-joyce-carol-oatesChurchill and Education
Churchill lived in an age of rapid scientific development and advancement. With the utopian dreams afforded by new technology, however, came the great horrors of modern warfare. How would Churchill preserve the noble bu…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/churchill-and-educationChina’s Changing Wartime Past and How It Will Affect the Future: History, Memory And Politics in China Today
Beijing’s policies continue to dominate the news in the Asia-Pacific region. Will China and Japan clash in the seas of East Asia? Will China be able to implement social welfare policies to calm dissent and social unrest…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/chinas-changing-wartime-past-and-how-it-will-affect-future-history-memory-and-politics-inFood Evolution Revolution: The Cutting Edge Fusion of Archaeology, Anthropology, and the Modern Kitchen
Understanding the role that technology played in our 3.4 million-year-old dietary past is essential in learning to rethink food and eat like humans again, asserts William Schindler, associate professor of anthropology a…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/food-evolution-revolution-cutting-edge-fusion-of-archaeology-anthropology-and-modernMake I Contact. Portraiture & (Me)mory
It has been suggested that in today’s surveillance culture, anonymity is impossible. Moreover, privacy is a fallacy and conformity a lie. Just as every person’s face—like DNA or a thumbprint—is unique, portraiture makes…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/make-i-contact-portraiture-memoryWhy is Rama Still (All) Around?
Why has the ancient tale of Rama, Sita, and their companions remained (so to speak) a “bestseller” in the realm of South Asian popular narrative for more than two millennia, and why does it continue to have traction in…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/why-is-rama-still-all-aroundHow a Civil War Era Law Changed the Way We Eat
Legislation passed during the height of the Civil War established a network of public universities focused on "agriculture and mechanic arts." As Heidi Zoerb '95 of the University of Wisconsin will argue, these universi…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/how-civil-war-era-law-changed-way-we-eatMathematics and Culture: Geometry and Everything Else
Geometric ideas are used in many cultures, both to give order to the cosmos and to build bridges, military emplacements, and houses of worship. In the West, geometry had an especially amazing trajectory. Euclid’s geomet…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/mathematics-and-culture-geometry-and-everything-elseA Foreigner and a Stranger: The Life, Death, and Legacy of a Jewish Woman Writer in 20th-Century France
Irène Némirovsky was a Russian Jewish immigrant to France who achieved a brilliant career as a novelist during the 1930s but was deported as a “foreign Jew” in 1942 and died in Auschwitz. Like many deported "foreign Jew…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/foreigner-and-stranger-life-death-and-legacy-of-jewish-woman-writer-in-20th-century-france