For the seventeenth consecutive year, a distinguished group of Stanford authors and editors made brief presentations about their recently published books. The program was hosted by Peter Stansky, Frances and Charles Field Professor of History, Emeritus, Stanford. The program was co-sponsored by Stanford Continuing Studies and the Stanford Humanities Center.
Please note the videos have been added to each panel. All videos are posted on Vimeo.
SCHEDULE
1:00 pm Welcome (Peter Stansky)1:05 - 1:40 pm Poetry, Dance, and Literature
Peter Stansky, Chair
Peter N. Carroll, Something is Bound to Break: Poems
Leslie Friedman, The Dancer’s Garden
Cynthia Haven, ed., Conversations with René Girard
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1:45 - 2:25 pm The Richness of Writing
Barbara Gelpi, Chair
Stina Katchadourian, trans., Märta Tikkanen's The Love Story of the Century
Carol Sklenicka, Alice Adams: Portrait of a Writer
Paul Robinson presenting John L’Heureux's The Heart is a Full-Wild Beast
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2:30 - 3:05 pm Conflict
Larry Horton, Chair
Bertrand Patenaude, Defining Moments: The First One Hundred Years of the Hoover Institution
Norman Naimark, Stalin and the Fate of Europe
Shaili Jain, The Unspeakable Mind: Stories of Trauma and Healing from the Frontlines of PTSD Science
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3:10 - 3:30 pm The World of Literature
Roland Greene, Chair
Elaine Treharne, Text Technologies
Amir Eshel, Poetic Thinking Today
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3:35 - 3:55 pm Facts
Carolyn Lougee, Chair
Emanuele Lugli, The Making of Measure and the Promise of Sameness
Debra Meyerson and Steve Zuckerman, Identity Theft: Rediscovering Ourselves after Stroke
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4:00 - 4:20 pm Desert and Disease
Tania Granoff, Chair
Ruchika Tomar, A Prayer for Travelers
Kris Newby, Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons
VIEW Panel 6 Video >>
4:25 - 5:00 pm Action and Inaction
Paul Robinson, Chair
Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
Fred Leventhal and Peter Stansky, Leonard Woolf: Bloomsbury Socialist
VIEW Panel 7 Video >>
All listed titles are available for sale at a 10% discount from the Stanford Bookstore online.