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Creating Transgender Art: Reflections of a Trans Woman Writer
Partially inspired by her experiences as a trans woman, Meredith Russo's debut novel, If I Was Your Girl, won the Stonewall Award in 2016. It has been described as "a universal story about feeling different and a love s…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/creating-transgender-art-reflections-of-trans-woman-writerAn Evening with Symone Sanders
The national press secretary for U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign, Symone Sanders offers practical advice for engaging in meaningful policy reforms. Drawing on her experience on the national stage to…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/evening-with-symone-sandersEducated: A Memoir
Born to Mormon survivalist parents opposed to public education, Tara Westover never attended school. Instead she spent her days working in her father's junkyard or stewing herbs for her mother, a self-taught herbalist a…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/educated-memoirHow to Live with China: US-China Relations post-40
As the highest-ranking official dealing with East Asia for the first eighteen months of the Trump administration, Susan Thornton, a 28-year veteran of the State Department with expertise on East and Central Asia who is…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/how-to-live-with-china-us-china-relations-post-40Who's the Fairest of Them All? The Truth About Opportunity, Taxes, and Wealth in America
Stephen Moore, economic policy analyst at CNN and economic advisor to candidate Donald Trump, will explore what it means for our economic system and our economic results to be "fair." Does it mean that everyone has a fa…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/whos-fairest-of-them-all-truth-about-opportunity-taxes-and-wealth-in-americaPoetry Reading and Reflections with Carl Phillips
Poet and author Carl Phillips, professor of English and of African and Afro-American Studies at Washington University in St. Louis, will read some of his award-winning poetry and share personal reflections.
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/poetry-reading-and-reflections-with-carl-phillipsCrashing Out: Will Britain Leave the EU on October 31?
Three years have passed since the British public voted for the United Kingdom to leave the European Union. But so far the British parliament has been unwilling, and a succession of Conservative governments unable, to de…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/crashing-out-will-britain-leave-eu-on-october-31Strange Days Indeed: The 2016 Election
As we close out this election season, CMC's own Jack Pitney will offer insights on this most peculiar of presidential election cycles and his thoughts on what this year’s events might portend for the future of American…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/strange-days-indeed-2016-electionCovering China: A Journalist’s Tale
Andrew Jacobs will present an insider’s look at the challenges—and occasional joys—of the nearly eight years he spent reporting for the New York Times from China.
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/covering-china-journalists-taleShould the U.S. Try to Broker Israeli-Palestinian Peace—or Get Out of the Way?
A central U.S. foreign policy objective of the past several presidential administrations has been to broker a sustainable peace between Israelis and Palestinians. Yet, decades later, that goal seems as elusive as ever.…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/should-us-try-to-broker-israeli-palestinian-peace%E2%80%94or-get-out-of-way