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We Move As a Group: Uniting the Genders in the Fight Against Rape Culture
Alice Sebold, best selling author and memoirist, was raped while a student at Syracuse University and subsequently successfully prosecuted her assailant. She will draw from that personal experience to speak to the idea…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/we-move-as-group-uniting-genders-in-fight-against-rape-cultureAmerica's Role in a Changing World
After years of war and international instability, Americans feel a profound sense of insecurity and fatigue about engagement with the world. Baffled and battered by the dislocating forces of globalization, Americans won…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/americas-role-in-changing-worldThe Politics of Movie and TV Endings: A Screenwriter’s Perspective
From It’s a Wonderful Life to Erin Brockovich to Game of Thrones’ Red Wedding episode to Moonlight to Wonder Woman: What does the ending of a movie or television show tell you about the politics of the storyteller, the…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/politics-of-movie-and-tv-endings-screenwriters-perspectiveDivorce without Separation? Reimagining the Two-State Solution and Middle East Peace
The vision of "two states for two peoples" has guided efforts to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict for decades. Omar Dajani, professor of law at McGeorge School of Law and former legal adviser to the Palestinian…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/divorce-without-separation-reimagining-two-state-solution-and-middle-east-peaceToday’s Economy and Its Discontents
President Trump was elected in part because of some disquieting economic trends. N. Gregory Mankiw, professor of economics at Harvard University, will discuss those trends, their causes and origins, and how they can be…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/todays-economy-and-its-discontentsReform Contradictions Facing China's New Leadership
Drawing on his book, Cracking the China Conundrum—Why Conventional Economic Wisdom Is Wrong, Yukon Huang, senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment, will highlight the reform challenges facing China's new leadership. Thes…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/reform-contradictions-facing-chinas-new-leadershipA Plan To Promote Equity Across Our Region
Marianne Haver Hill, executive director of Propel LA, the countywide strategic plan for economic development housed at the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation, will discuss is the implementation of this…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/plan-to-promote-equity-across-our-regionThe Complicated South
The son of a Baptist preacher, memoirist and author of Boy Erased, Garrard Conley grew up gay in rural Arkansas. His experience attending an “ex-gay” conversion therapy facility, followed by years of strained relationsh…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/complicated-southHeavens on Earth: The Scientific Search for the Afterlife, Immortality & Utopia
In his newest book, Heavens on Earth, Michael Shermer, publisher of Skeptic Magazine, monthly columnist for Scientific American, and presidential fellow at Chapman University where he teaches Skepticism 101, set out to…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/heavens-on-earth-scientific-search-for-afterlife-immortality-utopiaPicking for Keeps: Shaping the Future, One Justice at a Time
The process of selecting and confirming life-tenured Supreme Court justices—and other federal judges—can shape our laws and society for decades. Long after a President is gone, the individuals appointed to the federal b…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/picking-for-keeps-shaping-future-one-justice-at-time