Join the Gould Center for Humanistic Studies at our annual Humanities Labs Showcase as we celebrate the accomplishments of our 2023-2024 Humanities Labs, Race, Spirituality, and Hip-Hop with Professor Gaston Espinosa and Politics and Storytelling with Professor Nicholas Buccola.

Students, faculty, and staff, please come out to support this incredible cohort!

Are you applying for the Summer 2024 Gould’s Creative Works Fellowship? Need help or advice with your application? Drop-in for office hours at the Gould Center in Kravis Lower Court to meet with Coordinator of Student Research, Professor Tamara Venit-Shelton.

It has been said that we are living in the Golden Age of Television, due in no small part to the explosion of streaming media providers over the past decade. Yet as media outlets multiply, executives have an even greater need to combine business sense with a knack for storytelling. Morgan Wandell ’93, head of international content development for Apple TV+, exemplifies this particular nexus of business and the arts. In conversation with Michael Yu ’24, Wandell will discuss his path from economics major and Ath Fellow to studio executive, highlight his most recent work, and provide insights into the future of streaming TV.

Register for this event here: https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/events/20240327

Are you applying for the Summer 2024 Gould’s Creative Works Fellowship? Need help or advice with your application? Drop-in for office hours at the Gould Center in Kravis Lower Court to meet with Coordinator of Student Research, Professor Tamara Venit-Shelton.

CMC alumni work at some of the most innovative and consequential news outlets in the world: Ellis Simani ’17 analyzes large sets of data to inform his reporting about inequality, taxes, stock trading and wealthy Americans at ProPublica; Caroline Mimbs Nyce ’13 covers a broad beat encompassing technology and modern culture as a staff writer at The Atlantic, and Elise Viebeck ’10 spent a dozen years as a political and investigative journalist at The Washington Post. Join these three distinguished alumni (moderated by Viebeck) for a candid discussion of careers in journalism, what it takes to break into the field, and the ever-changing media landscape.

Register for this event here: https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/events/20240325

Are you applying for the Summer 2024 Gould’s Creative Works Fellowship? Need help or advice with your application? Drop-in for office hours at the Gould Center in Kravis Lower Court to meet with Coordinator of Student Research, Professor Tamara Venit-Shelton.

The publishing industry says it wants more "diverse voices," attached to "diverse stories." But what does that mean? Can the diverse voices only write identity-based stories? Can non-white people write white characters? Is it more important to "stay in your lane" or to embrace different perspectives? Real-life literary scandals such as the controversy surrounding American Dirt, as well as recent books and films like The Other Black Girl and American Fiction have all tackled issues of voice, cultural appropriation and cancel culture in their own ways. In conjunction with the release of her most recent novel, A Suffragist's Guide to the Antarctic, CMC's Assistant Director of Fellowships Advising Yi Shun Lai '96 will discuss her own experience publishing both in her own voice and out of it--and give us an insider's look at the considerations and ramifications that come with each.

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Join the Celebration of Creativity team at the Gould Center in Kravis Lower Court on Friday, March 1st from 6-7 PM where you will have the opportunity to decorate your own trinket boxes using glass shards like mosaics. All materials and templates will be provided. Stop by and try making your own mosaic! For any questions, please contact Daniella Reyes ’26 at dreyes26@students.claremontmckenna.edu.

Join the Gould Center’s Celebration of Creativity team and CMC’s Class of 2025 for a night of music, friends, and fun for the Spring Tiny Hub Concert! A space will be created on campus for you to share your talent with others or support your peers who will be performing. Sign-up to perform using the link below. Porto’s will be provided.

Click the link HERE to sign-up to perform!

Photo credit: Anya Lorenzo

Join the United States Poet Laureate, Ada Limón, for an evening of poetry and discussion. Limón, the 24th and current Poet Laureate of the United States, has been called "a Poet Laureate for the 21st Century," and is interested in exploring "what it looks like to have America in the room." Originally from Sonoma, California, her signature project is called You Are Here and focuses on how poetry can help connect us to the natural world. The project includes an anthology of poetry and a collaboration with the National Parks Service on poetry installations within America's most important natural spaces. The recipient of numerous accolades, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and a MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship, she has also written a poem that will be engraved on NASA's Europa Clipper Spacecraft that will be launched to the second moon of Jupiter in October 2024.

Ms. Limón's Athenaeum presentation is co-sponsored by the Center for Writing and Public Discourse and the Gould Center for Humanistic Studies at CMC.

Drop by the Gould Center during the lunch hour as we showcase the work that our Passion Project Fellows completed over the Winter Break. At this event, you will be able to walk through the Gould, chat with our fellows, and learn more about how we support humanistic research at CMC. Light snacks will be provided. Parents welcome!

John Paul Brammer, author of the popular advice column and memoir ¡Hola Papi!, will talk about the road from rural Oklahoma to celebrated gay New York writer, and how the stories we tell shape our identities in a confusing, chaotic world. 

Embrace the art of storytelling and join the Gould Center’s Celebration of Creativity team in celebrating Valentine’s Day with a writing contest! Whether you are a seasoned storyteller or a novice, this contest is an opportunity to grow as a writer. There will be prizes for the top-three stories, and all submissions will be reviewed by accomplished author and Gould Center board member, Shelley Blanton-Stroud. For more information and questions, please contact Maxwell Kim at mkim25@cmc.edu. Click the link below for details and how to apply!

Join the Gould Center’s Celebration of Creativity team for a Creative Debate: Should Robert confess his feelings for Kecktina??? In teams of two, students will come together to debate this topic which will be judged by DT! Prizes will be awarded to the winning team. There will also be an audience raffle, so make sure to come out and watch as your peers engage in this creative debate. Open to all 5C student applications. Questions? Contact Yui Kurosawa ’26 at ykurosawa26@cmc.edu.

Join us on Monday, February 5th from 4:15-5:15pm in the Freeberg Forum, Kravis LC62 for the opportunity to participate in the Gould Center's Panel on Careers in Publishing. This panel discussion features four highly accomplished individuals who have achieved success in a variety of different publishing careers — as editors, agents, and authors. They will discuss how they got started in their respective careers and will provide advice on how to pursue a profession in publishing.

Join us at the Athenaeum on Wednesday, January 31st for a night of engaging conversation with Kate Quinn, a bestselling author of historical fiction, who will discuss the process of researching, writing, and utilizing the historical record in service of telling women’s stories, focusing on the brave real-life heroines whose incredible deeds during linchpin historical epochs such as World War I and World War II inspired her novels The Alice Network, The Rose Code, and her most recent novel The Diamond Eye.

Quinn will deliver the Gould Center for Humanistic Studies' 2023-24 Lerner Lecture on Hinge Moments in History.

Join us at the Ath with Cara Hagan, a mover, maker, writer, curator, champion of communities, and a dreamer, for a presentation exploring civic practice through the lens of artmaking. Cara will share works of varied genres as a way of stitching together her experience of living in community with a passion for reimagining the world and how we exist in it.

Corey D. B. Walker, Dean of Wake Forest University School of Divinity, Wake Forest Professor of the Humanities, Inaugural Director of the Program in African American Studies, and 2023-2024 Phi Beta Kappa Frank M. Updike Memorial Scholar, will take us on a journey through a lecture that calls for a broad conception of environmental ethics as a critical and necessary response to our contemporary climate crisis. This event is sponsored by Phi Beta Kappa and the Gould Center for Humanistic Studies.