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Cantor Art Museum at Stanford Unive...
Wednesday, September 16 at 12:00pm - Recent Arrivals: Rare Books, M...
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Thursday, December 3 at 1:00pm - Stanford Art Spaces
Paul Allen Center for Integrated Sy...
Friday, December 11 at 8:30am - Ethics@Noon
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Friday, January 8 at 12:00pm - “The Heart Could Never Speak..."
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Tuesday, January 12 at 5:15pm
The Humanities at Stanford Stanford technology helps scholars get 'big picture' of the Enlightenment
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Researchers map thousands of letters exchanged in the 18th century's "Republic of Letters" – and learn at a glance what it once took a lifetime of study to comprehend.
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Check out the English Department's official blog, Cellar Door.
http://www.stanford.edu/group/cellardoor
The Humanities at Stanford "We can't see the forest for the T-Mobiles" Wash. Post article quotes French & Italian professor Robert Harrison, author of "Gardens: An Essay on the Human Condition."
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You know you have crossed the river into Cyberland when the guy coming your way has his head buried in the hand-held screen. He will knock into you unless you get out of his way, and don't expect an apology. It's as if you aren't there.
The Humanities at Stanford A Classicist and scientist collaborate to solve early Roman population mystery.
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The Humanities at Stanford Iranian musician Mohsen Namjoo performed a few of his songs for the Stanford Humanities Center fellows last week.
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Renowned Iranian poet, musician, and music scholar, Mohsen Namjoo was an International visitor at the Stanford Humanities Center in the Fall of 2009. Namjoo performed a few of his songs, which incorporate ...
The Humanities at Stanford Stanford digital humanities project, Mapping the Republic of Letters, wins 'Digging into Data Challenge' NEH grant.
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Fifty-three thousand 18th-century letters. Twenty-three thousand hours of digitized world music. The records of more than 197,000 individual trials held in Britain over 240 years. What can humanities scholars ...
The Humanities at Stanford Preeminent Dostoevsky scholar, Professor Emeritus Joseph Frank's new volume on the writer has just been published.
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Dostoevsky's life embraced extremes – poverty, epilepsy, imprisonment, best-selling novels and meetings with the tsar – but that's not the reason "intellectual biographer" Joseph Frank has spent three decades documenting his life.
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Mixed Media by Mark Engel, Photomontages by Michael Golden, & Paintings by Anthony Ventura will be on exhibit at the Stanford Art Spaces from December 11, 2009 through February 11, 2010.
Exhibits are located on the Stanford University campus in the Paul G. Allen building (C.I.S.). The building is open 8:30 am to 5 pm, M...onday through Friday. A directory is available at the reception desk.
For more information on the artists, visit the website: http://cis.stanford.edu/~marigros
Mixed Media by Mark Engel, Photomontages by Michael Golden, & Paintings by Anthony Ventura
Time:8:30AM Friday, December 11th
Location:Paul Allen Center for Integrated Systems (CIS)
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Award-winning Iranian writer Shahryar Mandanipour will be giving a public lecture on Thursday December 10 in Lane Hall.
Shahryar Mandanipour won the Mehregan Award for the best Iranian children's novel of 2004; the Golden Tablet Award for best fiction of the past 20 years in Iran, 1998; and Best Film Critique at the Pre...ss Festival in Tehran (1994).
Shahryar was the founder of Asr-e Pandjshanbeh (Thursday Evening), a monthly literary journal published since 1999 in Shiraz. He was also director of the Hafiz Research Center in Shiraz and was previously director of the National Library of Fars and director of the Bureau of Fars Province Public Libraries in Shiraz. He holds a BA in political science from Tehran University. For the past two years, he has been Artist in Residence at Braun University and Harvard University. His new novel is published by Alfred Knoff in the US in seven different languages around the world. ”
Time:6:00PM Thursday, December 10th
Location:Room 030, Lane History Corner (Building 200)
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The Ethics@Noon lecture series kicks off the winter quarter with "This Little Kidney Went to Market: The Ethics of Organ Selling" presented by philosophy professor Debra Satz.
Series Details: http://ethicsinsociety.stanford.edu/ethi
"This Little Kidney Went to Market: The Ethics of Organ Selling"
Time:12:00PM Friday, January 8th
Location:Stanford University
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Rare books in this exhibit of recent library acquisitions span the 17th-century persecution of the Huguenots to the literary expression of the San Francisco Beats. The collection will be on display until December 31, 2009.
Event details:
http://library.stanford.edu/depts/spc/ex
exhibit of new library special collections materials
Time:1:00PM Thursday, December 3rd
Location:Stanford University
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On December 10th, the MFA Program in Documentary Film and Video will be screening short films created by first year students in the program. A Q&A with filmmakers and reception will follow.
For details: http://art.stanford.edu/news-events/even
Fall MFA Documentary Film Screening
Time:7:30PM Thursday, December 10th
Location:Stanford University
The Humanities at Stanford Painter and Art & Art History professor Enrique Chagoya will be talking about the secular and pop culture symbols in his art this Wednesday at Cantor Arts Center auditorium at 7pm. Check out a sneak preview in this video intvw.
Length:5:25
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Afghanistan and Pakistan Workshop on Dec. 3rd. This public discussion session will provide a culturally and historically informed discussion with the entangled politics of Afghanistan and Pakistan. Presentations will focus on the territory, kinship groups, and languages as well as the varied exchanges, networks, and id...eas that join the populations of the two countries.
View event poster: http://www.stanford.edu/dept/islamic_stu
A Discussion Session with
Tahir Andrabi, Economics, Pomona College
Shahzad Bashir, Religious Studies, Stanford University
James Caron, South Asia Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Robert Crews, History, Stanford University
Gilles Dorronsoro, The Carnegie Endowment
Jamal Elias, Religious Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Shah Mahmoud Hanifi, History, James Madison University
Fariba Nawa, Journalist, San Francisco
Thomas Ruttig, Afghanistan Analysts Network
Lutz Rzehak, Humboldt University
Farzana Shaikh, Asia Programme, Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House)
Amin Tarzi, Middle East Studies, the Marine Corps University
[Co-sponsored with CISAC, Center for South Asia, Department of History, CREEES]
sponsored by the Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies
Time:4:30PM Thursday, December 3rd
Location:Stanford U. - Encina Hall Central
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An Evening of Chicano Poetry, taking place on December 2nd, features three stellar poets whose work arose from the matrix of the civil rights movements of the 1960s and 1970s: José Montoya, Lorna Dee Cervantes, and Francisco X. Alarcón.
These three poets, with their long and productive careers and unique voices, will gi...ve members of the Stanford community an opportunity to experience the diversity and richness of Chican@ cultural production. This will also provide an opportunity to honor José Montoya for his lifetime achievement.
DETAILS: http://www.stanford.edu/dept/span-port/c
José Montoya, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Francisco X. Alarcón
Time:6:00PM Wednesday, December 2nd
Location:Stanford University
