
Contact Information
- Mailing Address
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The Family of Benjamin Z. Gould Center for Humanistic Studies
Claremont McKenna College
850 Columbia Avenue
Claremont, CA 91711 - Campus Location
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385 E. Eighth Street
Claremont, CA 91711
Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum
Second Floor - gould@cmc.edu
- Phone
- 909-607-3782
- Fax
- 909-621-8419
Speaker Series Archives
Academic Year 2009-2010
2/9/10 William Kolbrener – “The Materialist Modern: Theology, Politics, and Community in Thomas Hobbes and John Milton”
2/16/10 Robert von Hallberg – “Love Songs of Serial Desire”
2/22/10 Adam Michnik, editor-in-chief of Gazeta Wyborcza
3/31/10 Angus Fletcher, author and CMC Podlich Fellow
11/3/09 Ertai Gao - "In Search of My Homeland"
10/26/09 W.S. Merwin - "An Evening with W.S. Merwin"
Academic Year 2008-09
3/10/09 Adam Michnik - "Global Anti-Semitism" (ATH VIDEO)
2/24/09 Jonathan Hart - "Lawrence of Arabia: Between Myth and History"
11/6/08 David Grossman - "Israel at 60: Nation, Identity, and Literature"
10/27/08 Paul Muldoon - "A Poet Reads from His Work"
10/23/08 Ed McClanahan - "An Evening with the Author" (ATH VIDEO)
9/18/08 Amos Oz - "Israel and the Question of Global Anti-Semitism"
Academic Year 2007-08
3/26/08 Mort Sahl - "An Evening with Mort Sahl" (ATH VIDEO)
3/12/08 American Jazz Institute Nonet: The Jazz Soul of Frankie Laine (ATH VIDEO)
3/10/08 Kang Zhengguo - "An Evening with the Author" (ATH VIDEO)
3/7/08 China and Human Rights: A Symposium
3/6/08 Orville Schell - "The Global Environmental Consequences of China's 'Right' to Development" (ATH VIDEO)
2/21/08 Martin Marty - "Religion and Public Life"
2/13/08 Duology Plus Two
11/8/07 Bei Dao - "An Evening with the Poet"
10/18/07 Orhan Pamuk - "Orhan Pamuk: Other Colors, Other Stories" (ATH VIDEO)
Academic Year 2006-07
4/24/07 Elisa Massimino - "Torture and the War on Terror" (ATH VIDEO)
4/4/07 Adam Michnik - "Democracy and Religion" (ATH VIDEO)
3/28/07 Uzodinma Iweala - "Beasts of No Nation" (ATH VIDEO)
3/7/07 Barry Kosmin - "Surveying Contemporary Free Market of Religious and Non-religious Americans" (ATH VIDEO)
3/6/07 Hugo Vickers - "Cecil Beaton: His Biography and His Biographer" (ATH VIDEO)
2/20/07 Paul Barolsky - "Ovid's Metamorphoses and the History of Art"
2/12/07 Carl Wilkens - "Defying Genocide in Rwanda" (ATH VIDEO)
1/25/07 C. K. Williams - "A Reading"
1/22/007 - Thomas Cushman - "Orwell in the 21st Century"
11/20/06 The Bobby Bradford Mo'tet: Jazz!
11/15/06 A Panel Discussion: Women and Journalism (ATH VIDEO)
11/6/06 Stephanie Coontz - "The Way We Never Were and the Way We Really Are: Myths and Realities about America's Changing Families"
10/25/06 Joanne Ciulla - "Work, Leisure, and The Good Life"
10/19/06 A Concert in Commemoration of Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
9/26/06 Jeremy Rifkin - "The European Dream: How Europe's Vision of the Future is Changing the Global Economy"
Academic Year 2005-06
4/19/06 Harvey Klehr - "Was Joe McCarthy Right? New Archival Evidence on Soviet Espionage in America"
4/3/06 Richard Evans - "Coercion and Consent in Nazi Germany"
3/2/06 Salman Rushdie - "Step Across This Line: An Evening with Salman Rushdie"
2/20/06 The Lark Quartet Plays Bolcom, Gershwin, and Debussy
2/9/06 John Demos - "In the Shadow of the Founders: The Meaning and Significance of 'Generations' in American History"
2/6/06 Music from the Grasslands of Inner Mongolia
1/23/06 Tres Amis Trio: 19th Century German Romantic Chamber Music of Beethoven, Schumann, and Brahms
10/24/05 Oscar Torres - "Innocent Voices" (ATH VIDEO)
10/6/05 Andrew Sullivan - "The Conservative Case for Gay Marriage"
Academic Year 2004-05
4/27/05 James Q. Wilson - "Character and Culture" (ATH VIDEO)
4/18/05 Richard Evans - "History, Truth and Memory: Reflections on the Irving-Lipstadt Libel Case" (ATH VIDEO)
4/12/05 Kevin Warwick - "Practical Experiments Using Implant Technology" (ATH VIDEO)
4/11/05 Taryn Benarroch '05 - "A Recital of Songs and Arias"
4/4/05 Cyrille and Drummond Play Thelonious Monk
3/10/05 A.S. Byatt - "Glass as Metaphor: Reflections on the Development of My Work"
2/23/05 Brannon Braga - "Confessions of a Star Trek Writer"
2/8/05 Brian Greene - "String Theory: Reaching for Einstein's Dream"
2/2/05 A Recital of Arias and Art Songs
1/26/05 Richard Hanley - "No Need for Miracles: Simulation and the Supernatural"
10/21/04 Niall Ferguson - "Are Capitalism and Democracy Bound to Win?" (ATH VIDEO)
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Author Salman Rushdie speaks to students at the Athenaeum.


