presidential LECTURER
October 29-30, 2007
Simon Schama
University Professor of Art History and History
Columbia University
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University Professor of Art History and History, Columbia University
About the Speaker
SIMON SCHAMA is University Professor of Art History and History at Columbia University, and the author of thirteen books (including Citizens, Landscape and Memory, Rembrandt's Eyes, Rough Crossings and, most recently, The Power of Art) which have been translated into fifteen languages.
As broadcaster he has written and presented over thirty films for the BBC including the Emmy-nominated "A History of Britain" and the eight-part "Power of Art" which aired on PBS in June 2007. Schama writes regularly on culture and politics for The Guardian newspaper in London and The New Yorker and won a National Magazine Award for his art criticism in 1996. He was Mellon Lecturer at the National Gallery in the fall of 2006.
Program
Monday, October 29, 7:00 p.m.
Lecture
Cubberley Auditorium
School of Education
485 Lasuen Mall
Stanford UniversityTuesday, October 30, 10:00 a.m.
Discussion
Stanford Humanities Center
424 Santa Teresa Street
Stanford University
Resources
Events
Book celebration
March 15, 2007
2007 marked the fourteenth annual Humanities Center celebration to honor works written, edited, and performed by humanities faculty members at Stanford and published during the 2006 calendar year.
The annual "book" celebration has now expanded to include compact discs and other multimedia works.
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