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All events take place at Stanford University, unless otherwise noted.
The Calendar of Events lists events sponsored and co-sponsored by the Stanford Humanities Center. For a more comprehensive listing of university-wide events, see the Stanford Event Calendar.
The Calendar of Events lists events sponsored and co-sponsored by the Stanford Humanities Center. For a more comprehensive listing of university-wide events, see the Stanford Event Calendar.
Events Calendar
VERBAL AND VISUAL LITERACIES OF ANCIENT ROME
Q & A with "Spartacus" creator Steven DeKnight
Thursday February 23, 2012 | 03:00 -04:00 PM | Building 110
ARCHAEOLOGY TODAY
Willem J.H. Willems (Leiden University)
Thursday February 23, 2012 | 05:00 -07:00 PM | Stanford Archaeology Center
CO-SPONSORED EVENTS HELD AT THE HUMANITIES CENTER
Religion and Gender Series - Dyan Elliot
Thursday February 23, 2012 | 05:30 -07:00 PM | Stanford Humanities Center Levinthal Hall
COGNITION & LANGUAGE
Andreas Stuhlmüller, probabilistic modelling of cognition tutorial
Friday February 24, 2012 | 12:00 -02:00 PM | Cordura 100
COGNITION & LANGUAGE
Ariel Cohen: probabilistic modeling of generics
Monday February 27, 2012 | 04:30 -05:30 PM | TBA
MODERN MIDDLE EAST
Cemal Kafadar
Tuesday February 28, 2012 | 06:00 -08:30 PM | Humanities Center Board Room
CO-SPONSORED EVENTS HELD AT THE HUMANITIES CENTER
Roundable - Philosophical and Literary Nihilism
Wednesday February 29, 2012 | 05:15 -07:15 PM | Stanford Humanities Center Levinthal Hal
CO-SPONSORED EVENTS HELD AT THE HUMANITIES CENTER
Roundable - Philosophical and Literary Nihilism
Wednesday February 29, 2012 | 05:15 -07:15 PM | Stanford Humanities Center Levinthal Hal
WORKSHOP IN POETICS
Workshop in Poetics: Roundtable, "The Poetics of Mourning: Elegies and Anti-Elegies"
Wednesday February 29, 2012 | 06:00 -08:00 PM | Boardroom
CO-SPONSORED EVENTS HELD AT THE HUMANITIES CENTER
Techniques of the City: Grids, Infrastructure and the Materiality of Urban Life
Thursday March 01, 2012 | 10:00 AM -05:00 PM | Stanford Humanities Center
ARCHAEOLOGY TODAY
Stratos Nanoglou (University of Thessaly)
Thursday March 01, 2012 | 05:00 -07:00 PM | Stanford Archaeology Center
SEMINAR ON ENLIGHTENMENT AND REVOLUTION, 1660-1830
Jonathan Israel, "The French Revolution: Do We Need a New Interpretation?"
Thursday March 01, 2012 | 06:30 -08:30 PM | Stanford Humanities Center
CO-SPONSORED EVENTS HELD AT THE HUMANITIES CENTER
Techniques of the City: Grids, Infrastructure and the Materiality of Urban Life
Friday March 02, 2012 | 10:00 AM -05:00 PM | Stanford Humanities Center
CO-SPONSORED EVENTS HELD AT THE HUMANITIES CENTER
Career Exploration Panel for Humanities Graduate Students
Friday March 02, 2012 | 03:00 -04:30 PM | Stanford Humanities Center
ETHICS & POLITICS, ANCIENT & MODERN
CDC Reeve: TBA
Friday March 02, 2012 | 03:15 -05:00 PM | 90
VISUALIZING COMPLEXITY AND UNCERTAINTY: EXPLORING HUMANISTIC APPROACHES TO GRAPHIC REPRESENTATION
Gert van Tonder: "Op Art and the Genius of the Eye"
Monday March 05, 2012 | 04:30 -06:30 PM | Levinthall Hall
STANFORD HUMANITIES CENTER EVENTS
19th Annual Celebration of Publications
Tuesday March 06, 2012 | 04:00 -06:00 PM | Humanities Center Levinthal Hall
CONTEXT DEPENDENCE IN LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION
Susan Gelman (Psychology, Michigan)
Wednesday March 07, 2012 | 04:30 -06:00 PM |
WORKING GROUP ON THE NOVEL
Alex Woloch on George Orwell
Wednesday March 07, 2012 | 06:00 -08:00 PM | HUMANITIES CENTER BOARD ROOM
CONTEXT DEPENDENCE IN LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION
Susan Gelman (Psychology, Michigan)
Thursday March 08, 2012 | 04:30 -06:00 PM |
ETHICS & POLITICS, ANCIENT & MODERN
Daniel Devereaux
Friday March 09, 2012 | 03:00 -05:00 PM | 90
CO-SPONSORED EVENTS HELD AT THE HUMANITIES CENTER
To Mix or Not to Mix? "A Mestizo Planet" in the Musée du Quai Branly (Paris) or the Historian as a Curator
Friday March 09, 2012 | 03:30 -05:30 PM | Stanford Humanities Center
VISUALIZING COMPLEXITY AND UNCERTAINTY: EXPLORING HUMANISTIC APPROACHES TO GRAPHIC REPRESENTATION
Daniel Rosenberg
Monday March 12, 2012 | 04:30 -06:30 PM | Board Room
CO-SPONSORED EVENTS HELD AT THE HUMANITIES CENTER
A Reading by Author: Geoff Dyer
Tuesday March 13, 2012 | 06:00 -09:00 PM | Stanford Humanities Center
CONTEXT DEPENDENCE IN LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION
Sarah-Jane Leslie (Philosophy, Princeton)
Wednesday March 14, 2012 | 04:30 -06:00 PM |
GRAPHIC NARRATIVE PROJECT
Professor Ursula Heise (English, Stanford) - high-modernist avantgarde (especially Max Ernst: Une semaine de bonté or other works of his that are visual narrative) and its continuations into high and pop culture of the later twentieth century
Wednesday March 14, 2012 | 06:00 -08:00 PM | Stanford Humanities Center Baker Room
WORKSHOP IN POETICS
Workshop in Poetics: James Wood, "Wordsworth's Anecdotal Poetics"
Wednesday March 14, 2012 | 06:00 -08:00 PM | Boardroom
CONTEXT DEPENDENCE IN LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION
Sarah-Jane Leslie (Philosophy, Princeton)
Thursday March 15, 2012 | 04:30 -06:00 PM |
STANFORD HUMANITIES CENTER EVENTS
Svetlana Boym: "Freedom and the Arts of Dissent"
Monday March 19, 2012 | 06:00 -07:30 PM | Humanities Center Levinthal Hall
CO-SPONSORED EVENTS HELD AT THE HUMANITIES CENTER
Negotiating French, Maghreb-French and Jewish Identities ThroughLiterature and History
Wednesday March 21, 2012 | 04:00 -06:00 PM | Stanford Humanities Center
CO-SPONSORED EVENTS HELD AT THE HUMANITIES CENTER
"Oh, Bless Us, Gedun Drup: a Prayer Hall for the Dalai Lama"
Thursday March 22, 2012 | 07:00 -10:00 PM | Stanford Humanities Center
CO-SPONSORED EVENTS HELD AT THE HUMANITIES CENTER
Tibetan Studies Initiative Workshop on the Four Noble Truths
Saturday March 24, 2012 | 10:00 AM -05:00 PM | Stanford Humanities Cenetr
Q & A with "Spartacus" creator Steven DeKnight
Thursday February 23, 2012 | 03:00 -04:00 PM | Building 110
ARCHAEOLOGY TODAY
Willem J.H. Willems (Leiden University)
Thursday February 23, 2012 | 05:00 -07:00 PM | Stanford Archaeology Center
CO-SPONSORED EVENTS HELD AT THE HUMANITIES CENTER
Religion and Gender Series - Dyan Elliot
Thursday February 23, 2012 | 05:30 -07:00 PM | Stanford Humanities Center Levinthal Hall
COGNITION & LANGUAGE
Andreas Stuhlmüller, probabilistic modelling of cognition tutorial
Friday February 24, 2012 | 12:00 -02:00 PM | Cordura 100
COGNITION & LANGUAGE
Ariel Cohen: probabilistic modeling of generics
Monday February 27, 2012 | 04:30 -05:30 PM | TBA
MODERN MIDDLE EAST
Cemal Kafadar
Tuesday February 28, 2012 | 06:00 -08:30 PM | Humanities Center Board Room
CO-SPONSORED EVENTS HELD AT THE HUMANITIES CENTER
Roundable - Philosophical and Literary Nihilism
Wednesday February 29, 2012 | 05:15 -07:15 PM | Stanford Humanities Center Levinthal Hal
CO-SPONSORED EVENTS HELD AT THE HUMANITIES CENTER
Roundable - Philosophical and Literary Nihilism
Wednesday February 29, 2012 | 05:15 -07:15 PM | Stanford Humanities Center Levinthal Hal
WORKSHOP IN POETICS
Workshop in Poetics: Roundtable, "The Poetics of Mourning: Elegies and Anti-Elegies"
Wednesday February 29, 2012 | 06:00 -08:00 PM | Boardroom
CO-SPONSORED EVENTS HELD AT THE HUMANITIES CENTER
Techniques of the City: Grids, Infrastructure and the Materiality of Urban Life
Thursday March 01, 2012 | 10:00 AM -05:00 PM | Stanford Humanities Center
ARCHAEOLOGY TODAY
Stratos Nanoglou (University of Thessaly)
Thursday March 01, 2012 | 05:00 -07:00 PM | Stanford Archaeology Center
SEMINAR ON ENLIGHTENMENT AND REVOLUTION, 1660-1830
Jonathan Israel, "The French Revolution: Do We Need a New Interpretation?"
Thursday March 01, 2012 | 06:30 -08:30 PM | Stanford Humanities Center
CO-SPONSORED EVENTS HELD AT THE HUMANITIES CENTER
Techniques of the City: Grids, Infrastructure and the Materiality of Urban Life
Friday March 02, 2012 | 10:00 AM -05:00 PM | Stanford Humanities Center
CO-SPONSORED EVENTS HELD AT THE HUMANITIES CENTER
Career Exploration Panel for Humanities Graduate Students
Friday March 02, 2012 | 03:00 -04:30 PM | Stanford Humanities Center
ETHICS & POLITICS, ANCIENT & MODERN
CDC Reeve: TBA
Friday March 02, 2012 | 03:15 -05:00 PM | 90
VISUALIZING COMPLEXITY AND UNCERTAINTY: EXPLORING HUMANISTIC APPROACHES TO GRAPHIC REPRESENTATION
Gert van Tonder: "Op Art and the Genius of the Eye"
Monday March 05, 2012 | 04:30 -06:30 PM | Levinthall Hall
STANFORD HUMANITIES CENTER EVENTS19th Annual Celebration of Publications
Tuesday March 06, 2012 | 04:00 -06:00 PM | Humanities Center Levinthal Hall
CONTEXT DEPENDENCE IN LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION
Susan Gelman (Psychology, Michigan)
Wednesday March 07, 2012 | 04:30 -06:00 PM |
WORKING GROUP ON THE NOVEL
Alex Woloch on George Orwell
Wednesday March 07, 2012 | 06:00 -08:00 PM | HUMANITIES CENTER BOARD ROOM
CONTEXT DEPENDENCE IN LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION
Susan Gelman (Psychology, Michigan)
Thursday March 08, 2012 | 04:30 -06:00 PM |
ETHICS & POLITICS, ANCIENT & MODERN
Daniel Devereaux
Friday March 09, 2012 | 03:00 -05:00 PM | 90
CO-SPONSORED EVENTS HELD AT THE HUMANITIES CENTER
To Mix or Not to Mix? "A Mestizo Planet" in the Musée du Quai Branly (Paris) or the Historian as a Curator
Friday March 09, 2012 | 03:30 -05:30 PM | Stanford Humanities Center
VISUALIZING COMPLEXITY AND UNCERTAINTY: EXPLORING HUMANISTIC APPROACHES TO GRAPHIC REPRESENTATION
Daniel Rosenberg
Monday March 12, 2012 | 04:30 -06:30 PM | Board Room
CO-SPONSORED EVENTS HELD AT THE HUMANITIES CENTER
A Reading by Author: Geoff Dyer
Tuesday March 13, 2012 | 06:00 -09:00 PM | Stanford Humanities Center
CONTEXT DEPENDENCE IN LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION
Sarah-Jane Leslie (Philosophy, Princeton)
Wednesday March 14, 2012 | 04:30 -06:00 PM |
GRAPHIC NARRATIVE PROJECT
Professor Ursula Heise (English, Stanford) - high-modernist avantgarde (especially Max Ernst: Une semaine de bonté or other works of his that are visual narrative) and its continuations into high and pop culture of the later twentieth century
Wednesday March 14, 2012 | 06:00 -08:00 PM | Stanford Humanities Center Baker Room
WORKSHOP IN POETICS
Workshop in Poetics: James Wood, "Wordsworth's Anecdotal Poetics"
Wednesday March 14, 2012 | 06:00 -08:00 PM | Boardroom
CONTEXT DEPENDENCE IN LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION
Sarah-Jane Leslie (Philosophy, Princeton)
Thursday March 15, 2012 | 04:30 -06:00 PM |
STANFORD HUMANITIES CENTER EVENTSSvetlana Boym: "Freedom and the Arts of Dissent"
Monday March 19, 2012 | 06:00 -07:30 PM | Humanities Center Levinthal Hall
CO-SPONSORED EVENTS HELD AT THE HUMANITIES CENTER
Negotiating French, Maghreb-French and Jewish Identities ThroughLiterature and History
Wednesday March 21, 2012 | 04:00 -06:00 PM | Stanford Humanities Center
CO-SPONSORED EVENTS HELD AT THE HUMANITIES CENTER
"Oh, Bless Us, Gedun Drup: a Prayer Hall for the Dalai Lama"
Thursday March 22, 2012 | 07:00 -10:00 PM | Stanford Humanities Center
CO-SPONSORED EVENTS HELD AT THE HUMANITIES CENTER
Tibetan Studies Initiative Workshop on the Four Noble Truths
Saturday March 24, 2012 | 10:00 AM -05:00 PM | Stanford Humanities Cenetr