The troupe's farewell tour comes to Stanford two years
after the
death of its founder, who collaborated with Stanford composer Mark
Applebaum and whose work is described by dance lecturer Diane Frank
as
having "tremendous clarity".

Richard Serra's Sequence is temporarily installed at the
Cantor
Arts Center. This month, the SFMOMA presents a rare collection of
his drawings with Drawing: A Retrospective.

"The Keats Brothers" by Stanford professor
Denise Gigante,
with a transatlantic sweep and epic narrative, offers a detailed
study of the stunning vicissitudes of the Keats brothers'
lives.

Professor emeritus of philosophy John Perry has been awarded a
2011
Ig Nobel Prize for an essay published 15 years ago explaining how
procrastinators can exploit their tendencies to make themselves
"effective human beings".

Stanford's new controversial writer-in-residence has been called Russia's greatest living writer.

The Telegraph, October 16, 2011

The concept of a flexible core curriculum, as outlined by Stanford French and Italian scholar Dan Edelstein, is cited as a potential solution to inter-departmental conflict in a time of Humanities budget crises.

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has donated a $1.4 million grant
to a
multi-year, multi-school project supporting dance studies to
Stanford, Northwestern and Brown.

The curator of the History of Science & Technology and
Film &
Media collections, Henry Lowood, recalls Steve Jobs'
donation of
various pieces of Apple history to Stanford's Silicon Valley
Archive.

The $2.5 million gift to Stanford, along with matching money from
the
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, will pay for an endowed chair
in
Buddhist Studies.