As part of the College Advancement team, the Office of Events designs, produces, and manages exceptional events for our clients as we extend the Claremont McKenna College standard of hospitality and advance the College'…
https://www.cmc.edu/events/office-of-eventsIn the next few weeks, high school seniors contemplating which college or university to attend next fall will have some exciting decisions to make. And for a select group of outstanding seniors who will be matriculating…
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-africaRobert 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-evilDoes 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-americaIs 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-attachmentRolena 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-nowNeel 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-kashkariAs 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-energyHistorian 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-self