Kimiko Adler’s interest in Ancient Rome traces back to fourth grade, sparked when she discovered and devoured her first “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” novel. Now a junior at CMC, Adler ’23 is pursuing her interest in…
Linguists traditionally criticize prescriptivism: attempts by certain grammarians to enforce how language should be from the outside, in contrast to linguists’ descriptivism, which seeks, like the biologist, to describe…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/word-wars-wokeism-and-battle-over-languageHistorically, the Jewish diaspora has been presented as the binary opposite to Jewish homeland. But a growing body of work by contemporary Israeli writers that Melissa Weininger calls “diaspora Israeli literature” recon…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/between-israel-and-diasporaNury Turkel, Commissioner at the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, and author of No Escape: The True Story of China's Genocide of the Uyghurs, shares his personal story and draws from his decades of ex…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/confronting-unthinkable-understanding-uyghur-genocide-chinaJoin the After School Specials, one of the Claremont Colleges' own A Cappella groups, for an evening of live music. Characterized by their upbeat attitudes and forest green attire, the group sings a range of songs, all…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/evening-live-music-after-school-specials-0Celebrate the extraordinary new anthology 50 Years of Ms.: The Best of the Pathfinding Magazine the Ignited a Revolution (2023) and engage in critical conversation with members of Ms.’s executive and advisory board team…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/feminist-fight-forward-lessons-50-years-msOver the next 30 years, our cities will be shaped by climate change – both by the impact of extreme weather events and by the regulatory and market forces looking to get us on a path to net zero. Billy Grayson, Chief In…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/energy-climate-and-future-built-environmentThe past six months in Israel and Palestine have been emotionally charged and deadly. Leveraging the Athenaeum’s traditional role as a forum for conversations that are both important and difficult, we invite you to join…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/talking-about-israel-and-palestine-faculty-perspectivesHicham Bou Nassif, currently the Weinberg Associate Professor of International Relations and the Middle East at Claremont McKenna College, is a distinguished scholar with a Ph.D. in Political Science from Indiana Univer…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/understanding-violence-middle-eastJordan Peterson, Andrew Tate, and Candace Owens all claim we are facing a crisis of masculinity, and who is to blame? Feminists. Man-hating, unshaved, angry lesbians.Or are they? Do feminists hate men? Do they want to b…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/feminism-what-and-who-it-good