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All lectures free and open to the public.
Steven Pinker, Harvard University
The Humanities and the Human Mind
Kresge Auditorium
555 Nathan Abbott Way
Levinthal Hall, Stanford Humanities Center
Margaret Livingstone, Harvard Medical School
Vision and Art
David Freedberg, Columbia University
Empathy, Motion and Emotion in the History of Art
Brian Rotman, Ohio State University
Some Remarks on the Virtual
Mark Turner, Case Western Reserve University
The Confluence of Story, Metaphor, and Vision
Levinthal Hall, Stanford Humanities Center
Elaine Scarry, Harvard University
Imagining Colors
Semir Zeki, University College London
Ambiguity in Art and the Brain
Eve Sweetser, University of California, Berkeley
"Viewpoints": Concrete, Abstract, Visual/Gestural and Literary
Mark Johnson, University of Oregon
Imagination Incarnate
V.S. Ramachandran, University of California, San Diego
The Human Brain: A Bridge Between the Two Cultures
April 16-17, 2004
"The study of the humanities is grounded in tradition. But at Stanford we also believe that tradition can inspire innovation. To be a 'university of high degree' we must continue to be on the frontiers of the search for knowledge."
—Stanford President John Hennessy
Past Presidential Lectures available online
Kwame Anthony Appiah's November 1, 2004 lecture The Ethics of Identity and Isabel Allende's May 10, 2004 lecture A Sense of Place are now available in RealPlayer format.
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