Symposium #1

"The Public Role of the Humanities"

November 13-14, 1998

Schwab Center, Stanford Business School

Schedule:

 

Friday November 13

9:30am Welcome

Malcolm Beasley, Dean of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University

 

10:00am Panel #1: "Historical Diagnoses"

John Guillory, Professor of English, Harvard University: "The Place of Literary Study in the Formation of Modern Disciplines"

Neil Harris, Professor of History, University of Chicago: "Humanities as Public Policy: Some American Phases"

James Quay, Executive Director, California Council for the Humanities: ""Only Connect": Humanities and Public Pedagogy"

Chair: Bliss Carnochan, Richard Lyman Professor of English, Emeritus, Stanford University

 

2:00pm Keynote Address

WILLIAM FERRIS, Chair, National Endowment for the Humanities

Chair: Keith Michael Baker, Director, Stanford Humanities Center

 

3:30pm Panel #2: "Cultural Institutions"

Constance Carroll, President, San Diego Mesa College: "Islands of Diversity: The Role of the Humanities in Defining Local Communities"

John D'Arms, President, American Council of Learned Societies: "Defining the "publics" for the Humanities: Perspectives from Learned Societies"

Douglas Greenberg, President, Chicago Historical Society: "History is a Luxury: Mrs. Thatcher, Mr. Disney and (Public) History"

Chair: Michael Keller, Stanford University Librarian, Director of Academic Information Resources, and Publisher of HighWire Press

 

Saturday November 14

10:00am Roundtable: "What Public? What Humanities?"

Carolyn Dinshaw, Professor of English, U.C., Berkeley: "'Silly Projects': Congress, History, and the NEH."

Teri Edelstein, Deputy Director, Art Institute of Chicago: "Defining Publics: Theories and Realities"

Ramón Gutiérrez, Vice Chancellor and Professor of Ethnic Studies, U.C., San Diego: "TBA"

Kathleen Woodward, Director, Center for 20th Century Studies: "Reaching Out: Humanties Centers and the Liberal Arts"

Chair: Harry Elam, Professor of Drama, Stanford University

 

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