This week's production of Euripides' lyrical,
seldom-performed
play is a snapshot from an earlier life for the acclaimed poet –
the time he was a freelancer way back in the 1970s.
Stanford's Martin Luther King scholar Clay Carson took his
play,
Passages of Martin Luther King, to the Palestinian National Theatre
in
East Jerusalem and West Bank communities in March and early April.
The Roland Prize citation honoring Ross, director of the Dance
Division
in the Drama Department, praised her "for modeling a life
of
service that includes and integrates scholarship, social awareness
and
community learning."
"Creativity and the Human Condition: Humanities Research
and Arts
Endeavors at Stanford," set for April 30, aims to reach
students
early and encourage them expand their involvement in the humanities.
Comparative literature professor and MLA president Russell Berman
proposes "a national goal of universal bilingualism"
and an
emphasis on digital humanities in the MLA agenda.
In a study of the history of sexual violence in America, historian
Estelle Freedman examines the rise of public sexual harassment in
urban
America and how it reflected the changing demographics of the early
1900s.
The Lhasa native, who is the chair of Stanford's Tibetan
Studies
Initiative, awaits the results of the exiled government of Tibet's
March 20 election. Results will be announced on April 27.
Quotes chemical engineering sophomore Ivy Nguyen who helped create
the
exhibit, and Susan Roberts-Manganelli, manager of collections,
exhibitions, and conservation at the Cantor Center.
Mentions graduate students from across disciplines, including
business,
law, medicine, engineering, and education take classes at the Hasso
Plattner Institute of Design (the d.school) to learn creative
methods.
Plans for a new art building at Stanford include spaces for
programs in
art practice, design, art history, film and media studies, and
documentary film.
Workcenter, a theatrical endeavor founded by pioneering director
Jerzy
Grotowski, finishes its residency at Stanford with a performance of
'I Am America,' based on the writings of poet Allen
Ginsberg.
