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Events Calendar: May 2012

CO-SPONSORED EVENTS HELD AT THE HUMANITIES CENTER
Evans-Wentz Lecture - Professor Gananath Obeyesekere
Tuesday May 01, 2012 | 07:30 -09:30 PM Stanford Humanities Cenetr



INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES TO CONSCIOUSNESS
Hank Greely "Neural Implants: Legal and Ethical Issues."
Wednesday May 02, 2012 | 12:00 -01:00 PM Barwise Conf Rm 100



VERBAL AND VISUAL LITERACIES OF ANCIENT ROME
Rebecca Benefiel: "The presence of writing in elite residences: graffiti and space in ancient Pompeii"
Wednesday May 02, 2012 | 12:00 -02:15 PM Room 380



CONTEXT DEPENDENCE IN LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION
Mitchell Green (Philosophy, UVA)
Wednesday May 02, 2012 | 04:30 -06:00 PM



WORKING GROUP ON THE NOVEL
Héctor Hoyos on TBD
Wednesday May 02, 2012 | 06:00 -08:00 PM Humanities Center Board Room



CO-SPONSORED EVENTS HELD AT THE HUMANITIES CENTER
CREAL presents: Racing Language, Languaging Race Conference
Thursday May 03, 2012 | 12:00 -05:30 PM Stanford Humanities Center



CO-SPONSORED EVENTS HELD AT THE HUMANITIES CENTER
Denis Cohen-Tannoudji Lecture
Thursday May 03, 2012 | 04:00 -06:00 PM Stanford Humanities Center



CONTEXT DEPENDENCE IN LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION
Mitchell Green (Philosophy, UVA)
Thursday May 03, 2012 | 04:30 -06:00 PM



CO-SPONSORED EVENTS HELD AT THE HUMANITIES CENTER
CREAL presents: Racing Language, Languaging Race Conference
Friday May 04, 2012 | 09:00 AM -05:30 PM Stanford Humanities Center



CO-SPONSORED EVENTS HELD AT THE HUMANITIES CENTER
CREAL presents: Racing Language, Languaging Race Conference
Friday May 04, 2012 | 09:00 AM -05:30 PM Stanford Humanities Center



COGNITION & LANGUAGE
How the brain makes meaning: explorations in the cognitive science and cognitive neuroscience of semantic cognition
Friday May 04, 2012 | 01:30 -05:15 PM TBA



ETHICS & POLITICS, ANCIENT & MODERN
Ben Miller
Friday May 04, 2012 | 03:15 -05:00 PM 90



STANFORD HUMANITIES CENTER EVENTS
Humanities Circle: What Does It Mean to Work in the Humanities?
Monday May 07, 2012 | 06:00 -07:30 PM Stanford Humanities Center Board Room



MYTHOS AND LOGOS: RELIGION AND RATIONALITY IN THE HUMANITIES
Jay Garfield: Buddhist Logic and Analytic Philosophy
Wednesday May 09, 2012 | 05:00 -07:00 PM Humanities Center Baker Room



WORKSHOP IN POETICS
Guest Speaker: Prof. Michelle Clayton (Comparative Literature, Spanish & Portuguese, UCLA),"New World Views"
Wednesday May 09, 2012 | 06:00 -08:00 PM Boardroom



GRAPHIC NARRATIVE PROJECT
Comics Journalist Dan Archer as Guest Speaker
Wednesday May 09, 2012 | 06:00 -08:00 PM Margaret Jacks Hall



ARCHAEOLOGY TODAY
Arek Marciniak (University of Poznań): Heritage archaeologies of the united Europe
Thursday May 10, 2012 | 05:00 -07:00 PM Stanford Archaeology Center



CO-SPONSORED EVENTS HELD AT THE HUMANITIES CENTER
Symposium on Questions
Friday May 11, 2012 | 03:00 -05:00 PM Stanford Humanities Center Board Room



ETHICS & POLITICS, ANCIENT & MODERN
Chris Bobonich
Friday May 11, 2012 | 03:15 -05:00 PM 90



CO-SPONSORED EVENTS HELD AT THE HUMANITIES CENTER
Symposium on Questions
Saturday May 12, 2012 | 09:00 AM -05:30 PM Stanford Humanities Center Board Room



STANFORD HUMANITIES CENTER EVENTS
How I Write with Tom Hare and Hilton Obenzinger
Monday May 14, 2012 | 07:30 -09:00 PM Stanford Humanities Center Levinthal Hall



WORKING GROUP ON THE NOVEL
Hannah Doherty on TBD
Wednesday May 16, 2012 | 06:00 -08:00 PM Humanities Center Board Room



CO-SPONSORED EVENTS HELD AT THE HUMANITIES CENTER
Shinnyo-en Lectures in Buddhist Studies 2011-12
Wednesday May 16, 2012 | 07:30 -09:30 PM Stanford Humanities Center



CO-SPONSORED EVENTS HELD AT THE HUMANITIES CENTER
Closeness in Boxing
Thursday May 17, 2012 | 05:00 -06:30 PM Stanford Humanities Center



ARCHAEOLOGY TODAY
Giovanna Cesarini (Department of Classics)
Thursday May 17, 2012 | 05:00 -07:00 PM Stanford Archaeology Center



CO-SPONSORED EVENTS HELD AT THE HUMANITIES CENTER
Multipliers Leadership Workshop
Friday May 18, 2012 | 09:00 AM -01:00 PM Stanford HumanitiesCenter



CO-SPONSORED EVENTS HELD AT THE HUMANITIES CENTER
The Annual Kieve Distinguished Speaker Lecture: Junot Díaz
Friday May 18, 2012 | 04:00 -06:00 PM Stanford Humanitires Center



CO-SPONSORED EVENTS HELD AT THE HUMANITIES CENTER
What is the Contemporary?
Monday May 21, 2012 | 09:00 AM -07:00 PM Stanford Humanities Center



CO-SPONSORED EVENTS HELD AT THE HUMANITIES CENTER
What is the Contemporary?
Tuesday May 22, 2012 | 09:30 AM -05:00 PM Stanford Humanities Center



CONTEXT DEPENDENCE IN LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION
David Barner (Psychology, UCSD)
Wednesday May 23, 2012 | 04:30 -06:00 PM



MYTHOS AND LOGOS: RELIGION AND RATIONALITY IN THE HUMANITIES
Johanna Sprondel (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin), Myth and Method
Wednesday May 23, 2012 | 05:00 -07:00 PM SHC Board Room



GRAPHIC NARRATIVE PROJECT
Haerin Shin (Complit Ph.D.) on Metropolis (Osamu Tezuka and Fritz Lang)
Wednesday May 23, 2012 | 06:00 -08:00 PM SHC Baker Room



CONTEXT DEPENDENCE IN LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION
David Barner (Psychology, UCSD)
Thursday May 24, 2012 | 04:30 -06:00 PM



ARCHAEOLOGY TODAY
Anna S. Agbe-Davies
Thursday May 24, 2012 | 05:00 -07:00 PM Stanford Archaeology Center



VISUALIZING COMPLEXITY AND UNCERTAINTY: EXPLORING HUMANISTIC APPROACHES TO GRAPHIC REPRESENTATION
Amir Husak: Dayton Express
Thursday May 24, 2012 | 05:00 -07:00 PM Baker Room



CO-SPONSORED EVENTS HELD AT THE HUMANITIES CENTER
Sanctified Indulgence: Exploring the Excessiveness of Religion
Friday May 25, 2012 | 01:00 -06:30 PM Stanford Humanities Center



CO-SPONSORED EVENTS HELD AT THE HUMANITIES CENTER
Sanctified Indulgence: Exploring the Excessiveness of Religion
Friday May 25, 2012 | 01:00 -06:30 PM Stanford Humanities Center



CO-SPONSORED EVENTS HELD AT THE HUMANITIES CENTER
Sanctified Indulgence: Exploring the Excessiveness of Religion
Saturday May 26, 2012 | 08:00 AM -06:30 PM Stanford Humanities Center



WORKSHOP IN POETICS
Workshop in Poetics: Emily Kopley: “The Waves as Lyric Poem”
Wednesday May 30, 2012 | 06:00 -08:00 PM Boardroom



ARCHAEOLOGY TODAY
Brian Codding (Stanford Post-Doc): "Ideal Free Distribution and the Development of Ethnolinguistic Diversity in Central California"
Thursday May 31, 2012 | 05:00 -07:00 PM Stanford Archaeology Center



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.