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Events Calendar: October 2012

EQUALITY OF EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY
Equality of Opportunity in Education Workshop
Monday October 01, 2012 | 12:00 -01:30 PM Boardroom


 SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN THE POSTCOLONIAL WORLD
Introductory Meeting
Tuesday October 02, 2012 | 04:00 -05:30 PM Humanities Center Board Room


 REPRESENTING TIME IN HISTORIOGRAPHY, ANCIENT AND MODERN
Caroline Winterer "Why Were There Seashells in Mountaintops? An Enlightenment Question with Some American Answers"
Wednesday October 03, 2012 | 05:30 -07:00 PM 110


 CO-SPONSORED EVENTS HELD AT THE HUMANITIES CENTER
Souleymane Bachir Diagne: "The Postcolonial and the Universal"
Wednesday October 03, 2012 | 05:30 -07:00 PM Stanford Humanities Center Levinthal Hall


 VISUALIZING COMPLEXITY AND UNCERTAINTY: EXPLORING HUMANISTIC APPROACHES TO GRAPHIC REPRESENTATION
Enrico Ruiz-Ramirez and Morgan MacLeod "Visualizing the Dynamic Universe"
Friday October 05, 2012 | 12:00 -01:30 PM SHC Boardroom


 SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN THE POSTCOLONIAL WORLD
Reading Group, Science and Technology in the Postcolonial World
Wednesday October 10, 2012 | 12:00 -01:30 PM Humanities Center Board Room


 GRAPHIC NARRATIVE PROJECT
Scott Bukatman on "Superman in Slumberland: Playful Plasmatics in the Comics"
Wednesday October 10, 2012 | 06:00 -08:00 PM Stanford Humanities Center


 THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES OF THE MIDDLE AGES
Medievality and Contexts outside of Europe
Wednesday October 10, 2012 | 06:00 -08:00 PM Stanford Humanities Center Board Room


 COGNITION & LANGUAGE
Andrew Maas: Learning Word Representations for Semantics and Sentiment
Thursday October 11, 2012 | 03:00 -04:00 PM Cordura Hall conference room


 FRENCH CULTURE
Kelly Summers (Ph.D. Candidate in History, Stanford)
Thursday October 11, 2012 | 04:00 -05:30 PM Pigott Hall


 RECOMBINATIONS: ART, MEDICINE, BIOSCIENCE
Presentation by Professor Gail Wight, Department of Art and Art History
Thursday October 11, 2012 | 05:00 -08:00 PM Pigott Hall Building 260 Room 252


 CITIES UNBOUND
Exploring Social 'Non-Movements' in the Urban Middle East Asef Bayat (
Thursday October 11, 2012 | 05:30 -07:15 PM Sociology


 INTERDISCIPLINARY WORKING GROUP IN CRITICAL THEORY
Reading Bruno Latour's Reassembling the Social across the disciplines
Thursday October 11, 2012 | 06:00 -08:00 PM Stanford Humanities Center Boardroom


 CO-SPONSORED EVENTS HELD AT THE HUMANITIES CENTER
On Activism and Academia: A Graduate Student Conference
Thursday October 11, 2012 | 06:30 -09:00 PM Stanford Humanities Center Levinthal Hall


 CO-SPONSORED EVENTS HELD AT THE HUMANITIES CENTER
On Activism and Academia: A Graduate Student Conference
Friday October 12, 2012 | 08:00 AM -07:00 PM Stanford Humanities Center Levinthal Hall


 STANFORD HUMANITIES CENTER EVENTS
Michael Ignatieff: "On Partisanship: Enemies and Adversaries in Politics"
Monday October 15, 2012 | 06:00 -08:00 PM Humanities Center Levinthal Hall


 STANFORD HUMANITIES CENTER EVENTS
Nuray Mert ile Söyleşi
Tuesday October 16, 2012 | 06:00 -08:00 PM Stanford Humanities Center Levinthal Hall


 CO-SPONSORED EVENTS HELD AT THE HUMANITIES CENTER
John Bender: "Ends of Enlightenment"
Wednesday October 17, 2012 | 04:30 -06:30 PM CISAC Conference Room


 CO-SPONSORED EVENTS HELD AT THE HUMANITIES CENTER
Spiritual Capitalism: The Prosperity Gospel of Oprah Winfrey
Wednesday October 17, 2012 | 05:15 -07:15 PM Stanford Humanities Center Levinthal Hall


 GRAPHIC NARRATIVE PROJECT
Angela Becerra Vidergar on "The Walking Dead: Hope, Despair, and the Art of Survival."
Wednesday October 17, 2012 | 06:00 -08:00 PM Stanford Humanities Center


 FRENCH CULTURE
Göran Blix (French, Princeton)
Thursday October 18, 2012 | 04:00 -05:30 PM Pigott Hall


 CO-SPONSORED EVENTS HELD AT THE HUMANITIES CENTER
Strategic Communications: Crisis, Rhetoric, Strategy – David Demarest
Friday October 19, 2012 | 01:00 -05:00 PM Humanities Center


 ETHICS & POLITICS, ANCIENT & MODERN
Josh Ober (Stanford)
Friday October 19, 2012 | 03:15 -05:00 PM 90


 SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN THE POSTCOLONIAL WORLD
Reading Group, Science and Technology in the Postcolonial World
Wednesday October 24, 2012 | 12:00 -01:30 PM Humanities Center Board Room


 FRENCH CULTURE
Olivier Wieviorka (History, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan)
Thursday October 25, 2012 | 04:00 -05:30 PM Pigott Hall


 CO-SPONSORED EVENTS HELD AT THE HUMANITIES CENTER
Big Business & Big Blue: Forbes Global 2000 & IBM 101 – Jim Spohrer
Friday October 26, 2012 | 09:00 AM -12:00 PM Humanities Center


 CO-SPONSORED EVENTS HELD AT THE HUMANITIES CENTER
Mobile Africa Conference
Friday October 26, 2012 | 03:00 -08:00 PM Stanford Humanities Center Levinthal Hall


 LANGUAGE, INFORMATION, AND TECHNE
Seth Jacobowitz (SFSU), Postal Modernity in Meiji Japan: From Hokusai’s Post Card to Mokuami’s Telegraph
Friday October 26, 2012 | 04:15 -06:00 PM Building 200 Room 307


 CO-SPONSORED EVENTS HELD AT THE HUMANITIES CENTER
Mobile Africa Conference
Saturday October 27, 2012 | 08:00 AM -02:00 PM Stanford Humanities Center Levinthal Hall


 CO-SPONSORED EVENTS HELD AT THE HUMANITIES CENTER
"Corrective Lenses: On the Politics of Revision" - 2012 Bay Area Graduate Symposium in Art History, Film & Media
Saturday October 27, 2012 | 10:00 AM -06:00 PM The Contemporary Jewish Museum


 STANFORD HUMANITIES CENTER EVENTS
Democratization and Freedom of Speech: A Focus on Turkey, Arab World, and Ukraine
Tuesday October 30, 2012 | 03:30 -05:00 PM Encina Hall East


 MODERN MIDDLE EAST
Modern Middle East Workshop Meeting
Tuesday October 30, 2012 | 06:00 -08:30 PM Humanities Center Board Room
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.