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John Hennessy Stanford President
Dipesh Chakrabarty,
University of Chicago
The Public and Cloistered Lives of Historical Facts
Iain McCalman,
Australian National University
Video Voyaging: Historical Re-enactment and Reality TV
Peggy Phelan, Stanford University
Double Vision
John Etchemendy Stanford Provost
Thelma Foote,
University of CA, Irvine
Too Marvelous for Words:
The Unciteable Past and Redemption in the Archive
Tim Lenoir,
Stanford University
Emerging from the Digital
Dark Ages
Lynn Hunt,
UCLA
Is Time Historical?
Meaghan Morris,
Lingnan University, Hong Kong
Looting and Local History
Brian Fagan,
UC Santa Barbara (emeritus)
Looting and the Plundered Past
John Frow,
University of Edinburgh
Disrepossessing
Terry Castle,
Stanford University
iPod, Therefore I am
« Conference attendees enjoy antipasti in the atrium of the Packard building on the Stanford campus.
April 16-17, 2004
"The study of the humanities is grounded in tradition. But at Stanford we also believe that tradition can inspire innovation. To be a 'university of high degree' we must continue to be on the frontiers of the search for knowledge."
—Stanford President John Hennessy
Past Presidential Lectures now availble online
Bruno Latour's April 7, 2003 lecture Why has critical spirit run out of steam? and Hazel Carby's Child of Empire are now available in RealPlayer format.
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