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Dismantling Terrorist Networks and Countering Violent Extremism in sub-Saharan Africa
Boko Haram, al Shabaab, al Qeada in the Islamic Maghreb further challenge the nations of sub-Saharan Africa. Adotei Akwei of Amnesty International USA will address how the nations of sub-Saharan Africa have faced the in…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/dismantling-terrorist-networks-and-countering-violent-extremism-in-sub-saharan-africaThe Biology of Good and Evil
Robert Sapolsky, professor of biology, neurosurgery, and neurology at Stanford University, wonders why do we do the things we do and digs deep in the history of our species and its genetic inheritance to posit answers.
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/biology-of-good-and-evilAgainst the Loveless World: To Be Raced in America
Does our collective American history assign race to some groups, Blacks, Latinos, people of color of various extractions, while assigning a kind of racial neutrality to whiteness? Using James Baldwin's The Fire Next Tim…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/against-loveless-world-to-be-raced-in-americaAbundance without Attachment
Is capitalism a great blessing and a fundamental force for good? Or does it encourage greed? The truth is that both perspectives are onto something. Free enterprise has lifted billions out of poverty worldwide. But whil…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/abundance-without-attachmentSpanish in the World, Then and Now
Rolena Adorno, professor of Spanish at Yale University, will discuss the importance of the Spanish language, from its emergence on the world stage at the end of the fifteenth century to its status today as the world's s…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/spanish-in-world-then-and-nowA Moderated Conversation with Neel Kashkari
Neel Kashkari, president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, will make some opening comments before a brief moderated conversation. The majority of the program will be dedicated to audience questions.
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/moderated-conversation-with-neel-kashkariFrom Jobs to Joules: The Current and Future State of Energy
As the keynote speaker for CMC's Third Annual Green Careers Conference, R.F. "Bob" Hemphill will speak about renewable energy and a sustainable future, challenges and opportunities to renewable energy job growth, and gl…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/from-jobs-to-joules-current-and-future-state-of-energySecrecy and the Self
Historian of science Richard Galison will speak about how surveillance has shaped our current sense of self by comparing the effects of censorship during World War I on Freudian concepts of self to how we frame our sens…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/secrecy-and-selfThe War on Police
The Black Lives Matter movement holds that the U.S. is experiencing an epidemic of racially-driven police shootings, and that policing is shot through with systemic bias. Contending that the central Black Lives Matter n…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/war-on-policeDinner Theatre: The Importance of Being Earnest (1st Night)
Under the Lights is proud to present Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People. An exciting, wild comedy that takes you through false identities, marriage proposals, babies in ha…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/dinner-theatre-importance-of-being-earnest-1st-night