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Story of Us: Allyship
The Kravis Lab's “Story of Us” Fellowship provides students with a reflective opportunity to unearth their own stories of strength, to identify their call to leadership on a cause, to connect with others through shared…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/story-us-allyshipThe California Paradox
Over the past half century, California has experienced sweeping demographic, economic, cultural, and political changes. The state has emerged from these changes as a paradox—flourishing on a grand scale yet beset by eno…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/california-paradoxFree Markets for a World on Fire: Thinking Historically to Confront Today's Challenges
Free Market thought is one of the most powerful and controversial ideas. Surprisingly, nobody has ever written a complex history of its origins. That is until Jacob Soll, University Professor and professor of philosophy…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/free-markets-world-fire-thinking-historically-confront-todays-challengesTurkish Genocide Denial as a National Security Concept
Taner Akçam, the inaugural director of the Armenian Genocide Research Program at the Promise Institute at UCLA, will discuss the national security implications of Turkish denial of the Armenian genocide on stability and…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/turkish-genocide-denial-national-security-conceptWill the Harvard/UNC Cases at the Supreme Court Transform U.S. Higher Education? (THIS EVENT HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED FOR WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12.)
In October 2022, the Supreme Court heard challenges to the admissions systems at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina. Most legal observers expect the Court will make a broad ruling substantially rest…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/will-harvardunc-cases-supreme-court-transform-us-higher-education-event-has-beenLiving a Life of Purpose
Finding your purpose is not an easy thing to do and not often found in a single experience or moment. For Tom Linebarger '86, executive chairman of Cummins, Inc.—a global power technology company that pioneers new techn…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/living-life-purposeBlack Rodeo: A History of the African American Western
African American westerns have a rich cinematic history and visual culture. Mia Mask, professor of film at Vassar College and author of Divas on Screen: Black Women in American Film, examines the African American weste…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/black-rodeo-history-african-american-westernUnsettling Climate Science
Popular and political discussions of the changing climate invariably invoke “The Science” as settled. But as theoretical physicist Steven Koonin, University Professor at New York University and a senior fellow at the Ho…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/unsettling-climate-scienceReinventing the Los Angeles Times
Since taking charge of the Los Angeles Times newsroom more than a year and a half ago, Executive Editor Kevin Merida has set out to reinvent the largest newspaper on the West Coast, and one of the largest in the country…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/reinventing-los-angeles-timesFinding a Voice, Finding Community
Finding one's voice as a storyteller is one of the most important aspects of writing fiction. Angie Cruz, award-winning author of How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water and Dominicana, will discuss how she honed her story…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/finding-voice-finding-community