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How to Tame a Fox and Build a Dog
Imagine speeding up thousands of years of evolution into a few decades…. Lee Alan Dugatkin will recount such a tale: In the depths of Siberia, Soviet scientists jump-started the effort to evolve foxes into dogs to recre…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/how-to-tame-fox-and-build-dogDataclysm: Who We Are (When We Think No One’s Looking)
From the data we have gathered, can we learn something new about our behaviors and attitudes? Christian Rudder thinks so. As co-founder of the dating site OkCupid, he possesses one of the richest data sets in the world…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/dataclysm%C2%A0who-we-are-when-we-think-no-ones%C2%A0lookingWork's Provocative Future
As we head toward a world defined by self-driving cars, drone-powered warfare, and AI-based chat bots, what's left for humans to do? George Anders, writer and contributing editor at Forbes magazine, argues that the worl…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/works-provocative-futureEcological Civilization: Is this the answer to fixing China's environment?
China has raised the concept of "Ecological Civilization" to guide future development, which takes the country's ecological capacity and constraints into account. Christine Loh, former under-secretary for the Environmen…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/ecological-civilization-is-this-answer-to-fixing-chinas-environmentHymns of Wisdom: The Ismaili Ginans of South Asia
Ali Asani, professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures at Harvard University, will introduce the ginans, hymns of wisdom of the South Asia’s Ismaili communities, and their most important themes, including…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/hymns-of-wisdom-ismaili-ginans-of-south-asiaAmerican Shtetl: A Hasidic Town in Suburban New York
David Myers, historian at UCLA, will explore the curious case of Kiryas Joel, a legally recognized municipality in the State of New York. Is this community's existence consistent with or is it a deviation from the Ameri…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/american-shtetl-hasidic-town-in-suburban-new-yorkTaking Responsibility for Racial Violence: Shooting the Racist Imagination
José Medina, professor of philosophy from Northwestern University, will analyze different kinds of complicity with racial violence and will defend a new paradigm of shared responsibility that goes beyond the bystander m…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/taking-responsibility-for-racial-violence-shooting-racist-imaginationWhat was the Russian Revolution? What is a Revolution?
Revolution in the Russian empire took place 100 years ago with its effects continuing to reverberate today. Steve Kotkin, an expert in Russian history and international affairs at Princeton University, will consider wha…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/what-was-russian-revolution-what-is-revolutionThe Appel Scholarship: Writing Matters
From left to right: Isaiah Tulanda, Zoey Ryu, Taylor Hughes, Shreya Bhatnagar, Rebecca Chung, Jafar Daniel, and Nick Sage (not pictured, Gabe Gluskin-Braun): The Appel Fellowship provides first-year students with fundin…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/appel-scholarship-writing-matters-0The 2016 Election One Year Later
Michael Nelson, editor of The Elections of 2016 (Sage/CQ), and CMC’s own Andrew Busch and Jack Pitney, professors and authors of "Defying the Odds: The 2016 Elections and American Politics" (Rowman & Littlefield), will…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/2016-election-one-year-later