The Humanities at Stanford

This fall STAMP presents "The Exonerated," a play by Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen based off the true stories of six individuals who were taken off of death row after being found innocent for the allegations against them. Moving and political, the show explores how social stratification and discrimination in the United... States can be a matter of life and death.

Tickets: Free

Dates:
November 12 at 7pm
November 13-14 at 7 and 9pm
Location: The Nitery

TICKET INFO.
http://www.stanford.edu/group/politicaltheatre/cgi-bin/stamp/node/79Read More

Jamie Bernstein, the eldest daughter of composer Leonard Bernstein, celebrates her father’s musical legacy in an evening of song and storytelling with pianist/conductor Michael Barrett and vocalists from the New York Festival of Song. Bernstein’s narration combines frank and funny anecdotes with plot synopses, musical ...insights, and a glimpse of the creative process behind some of Bernstein’s signature works, including West Side Story, Candide, On the Town, and Wonderful Town, the expansive Songfest cycle and one of the composer’s final works, Arias and Barcarolles. Barrett, a protégé of Leonard Bernstein, accompanies vocalists culled from his critically acclaimed New York Festival of Song series in New York City.

Saturday, November 7, 2009 | 8:00 pm
Dinkelspiel Auditorium

$40–46 (Adult) | $10 (Stanford Student)
$37–43 (Other Student)
$20–23 (Youth Under 18)

http://livelyarts.stanford.edu/event.php?code=BERN&utm_source=Publicaster&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=November%20E-News:%20Prokofiev%20celebration%20begins...Read More

Sir Geoffrey Lloyd, Emeritus Professor of Classics, Cambridge University, will review recent developments in the study of science, medicine, and religion in ancient Greece, China, and Mesopotamia.

Focusing on the social and intellectual institutions that favored or inhibited innovation, the lecture will suggest that und...erstanding the past is an exercise in understanding others and that nothing could be more vital in the world today.

For details:
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/classics/cgi-bin/web/events/11-18-2009/lorenz-eitner-lecture-sir-geoffrey-lloyd-cambridgeRead More

National Poet of Wales Gwyneth Lewis is the 2009-2010 Joint SiCa/Stanford Humanities Center Fellow in the Arts and Humanities.

In welcoming her to campus, SiCa is hosting a presentation and lunch in Wallenberg Hall Learning Theatre on November 10.

Lewis was appointed Wales's first National Poet in 2005 and has published ...six books of poetry in Welsh and English.

She was a scholar at Girton College, Cambridge and was awarded a double first in English literature and the Laurie Hart Prize for outstanding intellectual work. She received a D.Phil in English from Oxford, having written a thesis on eighteenth-century literary forgery.

She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a member of the Welsh Academi and a NESTA (National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts) Fellow.

In 2005, Lewis was elected Honorary Fellow of Cardiff University. In the past, she spent three years in the US as a Harkness Fellow and was a documentary producer and director at BBC Wales, where she won a BAFTA. She left the BBC to become a freelance writer.

*If you wish to attend, please RSVP by November 6th: sicaRSVP@stanford.edu*

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Stanford Lively Arts brings us a four day long series on PROKOFIEV!

Russian piano virtuoso Alexander Toradze and curator Joseph Horowitz will be collaborating with faculty pianists George Barthand Kumaran Arul, the Stanford Symphony Orchestra led by Jindong Cai, and puppet artist Robin Walsh to interpret Prokofiev's sem...inal works, including Romeo & Juliet!

Thursday, November 12, 2009 | 7:30 pm
Oak Tree Lounge, Tresidder Memorial Union
THE PROKOFIEV PROJECT: INTERPRETING PROKOFIEV:
JOSEPH HOROWITZ AND ALEXANDER TORADZE IN CONVERSATION
Joined by Stanford pianists Kumaran Arul and George Barth, Alexander Toradze and Joseph Horowitz explore Prokofiev, the man and artist.
http://livelyarts.stanford.edu/event.php?code=PINR

Friday, November 13, 2009 | 8:00 pm
Dinkelspiel Auditorium
THE PROKOFIEV PROJECT: PIANISTIC PROKOFIEV:
ALEXANDER TORADZE, KUMARAN ARUL, GEORGE BARTH, PIANO; JOSEPH HOROWITZ, SPEAKER
This piano recital with commentary surveys the radical Prokofiev of 1914 (Sarcasms, performed by Arul), the patriotic wartime Prokofiev (the Seventh Sonata, performed by Toradze), and the Romantic Prokofiev (Cinderella, in a two-piano version performed by Arul and Barth). How does Prokofiev’s stylistic odyssey align with the Russian, European, and Soviet chapters of his tumultuous life and times?
http://livelyarts.stanford.edu/event.php?code=PINI

Saturday, November 14, 2009 | 8:00 pm
Dinkelspiel Auditorium
THE PROKOFIEV PROJECT: ORCHESTRAL PROKOFIEV:
ALEXANDER TORADZE, PIANO, WITH THE STANFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, JINDONG CAI, CONDUCTOR, AND ROBIN WALSH, PUPPETRY
Toradze’s famous interpretation of Prokofiev’s Second Piano Concerto challenges all other understandings of this enormous work, which he understands as a requiem for the composer’s friend Maksimilian Shmitgoff, who had committed suicide.
(Pre-Performance Talk: Guest scholar and curator Joseph Horowitz discusses the music of Prokofiev from 7:00–7:30pm in Dinkelspiel Auditorium.)
http://livelyarts.stanford.edu/event.php?code=PORC

Sunday, November 15, 2009 | 2:30 pm
Dinkelspiel Auditorium
THE PROKOFIEV PROJECT: FAMILY PROKOFIEV—ROMEO & JULIET:
THE STANFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, JINDONG CAI, CONDUCTOR, ROBIN WALSH, PUPPET ARTIST, AND ERINN KNYT, NARRATOR
Large-scale puppetry creates a three-dimensional counterpart for Prokofiev’s vivid music to Romeo and Juliet, one of the most successful of all Soviet ballets.
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Every month, stanfordalumni.org holds a Stanford Book Salon, hosted by a different faculty member.

Alumni are invited to read the month's chosen title, listen to a taped discussion with the hosting faculty member (available on the web) and contribute to an online discussion group.

November's reading is 'Wuthering Heigh...ts' by Emily Bronte. The host will be professor emerita, Barbara Gelpi (http://english.stanford.edu/bio.php?name_id=57).

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The Program in History & Philosophy of Science & Technology is pleased to present:

"Science and Religion: New Approaches"

Speakers include:

Stephen Gaukroger, University of Sydney, Australia
"The Enlightenment Historicization of Philosophy and Religion: Fontenelle, d'Alembert, and Hume"

Peter Harrison, University of Oxfor...d
"Natural Philosophy and Experimental Religion in Early Modern England"

Jonathan Sheehan, University of California, Berkeley
"On Providence and Probability"

Moderated by Jessica Riskin, Stanford University

Co-sponsored with the Stanford Humanities Center, Philosophy Department, History Department, and Medieval and Early Modern StudiesRead More

Don't miss this film screening.

City of Factories tells the story of the human costs of globalization; specifically focusing on factory workers in Tijuana, which is home to hundreds of maquiladoras (i.e., multinational-owned factories). Over the course of five years, a group of factory workers worked with the filmmakers... to tell their stories. The workers faced human rights abuses, danger from toxic chemicals — both in the factory and in the environments all around the factories — and a complete lack of infrastructure in the neighborhoods where they lived but this particular group of workers became community advocates, and actively pushed to improve their situation. Can a small group of workers really make a difference?

Faculty Talk Back led by Gabe Garcia.

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