Reading Gary Snyder'sMountains and Rivers Without End

http://shc.stanford.edu/shc/1997-1998/97-98workshops/Gary.Snyder.schedule.html

SPRING SCHEDULE

The Mountains & Rivers Workshop this spring will continue with a reading

group, have three seminar speakers and enjoy May 15-17 concluding events

with Gary Snyder. Concluding events will include a photograph exhibition,

poetry reading, day-long symposium and ritual circumambulation of Mt.

Tamalpais.

April 6-May 4 meetings are from 4:15-6:05 at the Stanford Humanities Center

Annex (579 Alvarado Row).

RESEARCH WORKSHOP

Monday, April 6:

Reading group: reading and discussion of Mountains & Rivers.

Monday, April 13:

Reading group: reading and discussion of Mountains & Rivers.

(Our reading group will meet these two Mondays and

continue on Wednesdays starting April 22.)

Monday, April 20

Charlie Junkerman, Associate Dean of Continuing Studies,

Stanford: "Walking to Work"

Monday, April 27:

Zoketsu Norman Fischer, Abbot, San Francisco Zen Center:

"Zen and the Art of Mountains & Rivers Without End."

Monday, May 4:

Tim Dean, Stanford Humanities Center Fellow:

"The Force of Poetic Impersonality in Mountains &

Rivers Without End."

CONCLUDING EVENTS (May 15-17)

Photograph Exhibition

MATTERING WITHOUT END

For Gary Snyder and the Community on San Juan Ridge

Photographs by David Robertson

Nathan Cummings Art Building Foyer Gallery

Stanford University

April 20-May 17, 1998

Reception for the Artist: 6:30-8:30 p.m., Friday, May 15

Friday, May 15 Poetry Reading

Gary Snyder & Nanao Sakaki: Stanford Bookstore, 4:00 p.m.

Saturday, May 16: Day-long Symposium (9:00-5:00)

ETHICS & AESTHETICS AT THE TURN OF THE FIFTIETH

MILLENNIUM: GARY SNYDER'S MOUNTAINS AND RIVERS

WITHOUT END. Speakers include Robert Hass,

Anthony Hunt, Stephanie Kaza, Theodore Roszak, David Abram,

Jim Dodge, Philip Williams, Katsunori Yamazato,

Nanao Sakaki & Gary Snyder.

Location: Building 320 (Geology), Room 105 (Braun Hall):

On the southwest corner of the Outer Quad behind

Memorial Church.

Sunday, May 17:

Ritual Circumambulation of Mt. Tamalpais

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This event is organized by the Stanford Humanities Center Mellon Foundation

Graduate Research Workshop, "Reading Gary Snyder's _Mountains and Rivers

Without End_." For further information contact Mark Gonnerman, Department

of Religious Studies (markg@leland.stanford.edu); or check:

http://shc.stanford.edu/shc/1997-1998/97-98workshops/Gary.Snyder.html

WINTER SCHEDULE

Meetings are Mondays, 4:15-6:05

at the Humanities Center Annex, 579 Alvarado Row:

1/12 Kimi Kodani Hill, "Life & Art of Chiura Obata"

1/26 Tom Hare, "Reclaiming Orientalism"

2/2 Robert Hass, Reading, Explication & Discussion of Mountains and Rivers Without End.

2/9 Michael McClure, Reading, Explication & Discussion of Mountains and Rivers Without End.

2/23 Haun Saussy, "Taking Nothing but Pictures (If That) with Wang

Wei as Predecessor"

3/2 David Freyberg, "Hydrology for Poets: Mountains & Rivers,

Canyons & Eddies"

We will also hold regular Wednesday afternoon meetings starting January 14 (4:15-6:05 at the Humanities Center Annex) for close reading and explication of Mountains and Rivers Without End.

FALL SCHEDULE

Meetings are on Mondays from 4:15-6:05 at the Humanities Center Annex 579 Alvarado Row, unless otherwise noted

10/9 (Thurs.) 3:15 Anthony Hunt,

"General Introduction to Mountains and Rivers Without End"

The Stanford Humanities Center Mellon Foundation Graduate Research Workshop: Reading Gary Snyder's "Mountains and Rivers Without End" will begin on Thursday, October 9, 1997

with Gary Snyder reading:

Mountains and Rivers Without End

7:00 p.m.

Kresge Auditorium

Stanford University

Free and open to the public

This reading has numerous sponsors, including:

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Center for Buddhist Studies

Center for East Asian Studies

Department of Art

Department of Asian Languages