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STANFORD HUMANITIES CENTER EVENTS
Wendy Doniger: Self-Imitation in Ancient India, Shakespeare, and Hollywood
Monday February 23, 2004 | 06:00 -08:00 PM |
Presidential Lecturer
Wendy Doniger considered stories from the mythology of self-impersonation in which people who set out to become other people, through a kind of triple cross, or double back, end up masquerading as themselves, a motif that Doniger sees as having broad cultural implications for how we negotiate reality, illusion, identity, and authenticity, not to mention memory, amnesia, and the process of aging.
Wendy Doniger: Self-Imitation in Ancient India, Shakespeare, and Hollywood
Monday February 23, 2004 | 06:00 -08:00 PM |
Presidential Lecturer
Wendy Doniger considered stories from the mythology of self-impersonation in which people who set out to become other people, through a kind of triple cross, or double back, end up masquerading as themselves, a motif that Doniger sees as having broad cultural implications for how we negotiate reality, illusion, identity, and authenticity, not to mention memory, amnesia, and the process of aging.
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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.