Search Results
Climate Solutions: Air
No country or state has taken a stronger lead in fighting climate change than California. Directing those efforts for the past decade as chair of the Air Resources Board has been Mary Nichols. Formerly at the EPA and a…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/climate-solutions-airLife After College (For Folks Still in College)
Follow your dreams! Yeah, sure. But... how? In clear, accessible, entertaining, and deeply personal terms, bestselling author, Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, and creator of Found Magazine, Davy Rothbart breaks down 12 st…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/life-after-college-folks-still-collegeA Miscarriage of Justice: Women's Reproductive Lives and the Law in Early Twentieth-Century Brazil
Cassia Roth examines women's reproductive health in relation to legal and medical policy in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Analyzing court cases, law, medical writings, and health data, Roth argues that the increasingly interv…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/miscarriage-justice-womens-reproductive-lives-and-law-early-twentieth-century-brazilThe Economy of Promises: Trust, Power, and Credit in America
Today’s economy depends on promises as millions of borrowers promise to repay their loans. How do lenders decide whose promises to trust? Initially, lenders judged a borrower’s personal character and used the social t…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/economy-promises-trust-power-and-credit-america1619? 1776? Race and the American Founding
The publication of the New York Times’ 1619 Project brought to the foreground issues of race, slavery, and the American Founding. Was the true founding of America in 1619, the year the first slaves reportedly arrived in…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/1619-1776-race-and-american-foundingImplications of the 2025 L.A. Wildfires for California’s Residential Insurance Market
Lloyd Dixon, director of the RAND Kenneth R. Feinberg Center for Catastrophic Risk Management and Compensation and senior economist at RAND, will discuss the evolving challenges in insuring properties against wildfire r…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/implications-2025-la-wildfires-californias-residential-insurance-marketBuilding a Supportive Community for Art and Artists
As a former dancer, now choreographer and teacher, Theodore “Ted” Thomas believes that artists are a mirror of the human condition and, in many cases, recorders of time and history. Though artists feel that their art is…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/building-supportive-community-art-and-artistsThe Ravine: A Family, a Photograph, a Holocaust Massacre Revealed
In her latest book, The Ravine: A Family, a Photograph, a Holocaust Massacre Revealed, Wendy Lower, the John K. Roth Professor of History at Claremont McKenna College and director of the Mgrublian Center for Human Right…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/ravine-family-photograph-holocaust-massacre-revealedA Winter's "Singing Party"
Join the Athenaeum to celebrate a beloved CMC tradition to cap off the semester: The "Singing Party!"For decades, renowned Professor of Government Ward Elliott (1937 - 2022) held "singing parties" every semester in his…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/winters-singing-partyAround the World at the Ath: Mardi Gras
Join the Athenaeum and ASCMC's Social Life Working Group for the next installment of Around the World at the Ath, a series designed to combine faculty and student expertise about international cultures and traditions wi…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/around-world-ath-mardi-gras