Events

2011-2012 EVENTS:

Harvard Professor Louis Menand in conversation with Stanford Professor Lanier Anderson: "How to Read Philosophy or Literature: The Case of Plato's Symposium"

Friday March 9 2012 | 3:15 pm | Pigott Hall, Main Quad 260-113

Harvard Professor Louis Menand: "The Great Books Era"

Thursday March 8 2012 | 5:30 pm | Levinthall Hall, Stanford Humanities Center

Cornell University Press Editor in Chief, Peter Potter: eBooks and pBooks: Publishing in the Age of iPads and Kindles

Thursday February 9 2012 | 4:00 pm | Stanford Humanities Center Boardroom

Oxford University Press Editor, Susan Ferber: "Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Academic Publishing but Were Afraid to Ask"

November 3 2011 | 4:00 pm | History Building 200 Room 347

2010 EVENTS:

Stephen Mulhall on "Modernist Realism in Literature and Philosophy: Coetzee and Costello, Wittgenstein and Diamond"

Thursday, January 13 2010 | 5:45pm | Pigott Hall, Main Quad 260-113

Co-Sponsor Literature and Philosophy Initiative

This event is Free and Open to the Public

Wendy Doniger on "Rings and Ringers: Narratives of Circular Jewelry and Clever Women"

Tuesday, December 7, 2010 l 5:15pm I Stanford Humanities Center, Levinthal Hall

Why are sex and Jewelry so often connected? More precisely, what is it that connects an anxiety about the authenticity of fake jewelry with the anxiety about the authenticity of fake women, which is to say untrue, unfaithful, promiscuous women? Why are diamonds a girls best friend? More precisely, what kind of a girl is it who thinks diamonds are her best friend? Stories inspired by this theme include the tale of Tamar and Judah in the Hebrew Bible, Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well, the ring found in a fish in ancient Indian story of Shakuntala and in the hagiographies of Bishop Mungo of Glasgow, the genuine pearls pretending to be fake in W. Somerset Maugham's story "Mr. Know-All" and many more. This event is free and open to the public

Seth Lerer on "Devotion and Defacement: Children Writing in Books"

Thursday, October 21, 2010 | 5:15pm | Jordan Hall, Building 420, Rm 041

Seth Lerer is the Dean of Arts and Humanities at the University of California at San Diego. He received his Ph.D. from The University of Chicago and has taught at Princeton and Stanford. His teaching and research interests include Medieval and Renaissance literature, the history of the English Language, Children's Literature, and the history of scholarship. 

This event is free and open to the public