For the 21st consecutive year, a distinguished group of Stanford writers and editors will make brief presentations about their recently published books. Drop in, log on, or even better, indulge yourself by spending the entire afternoon in the company of these bright, entertaining, and stimulating writers in-person or online. This program is hosted by Peter Stansky, Frances and Charles Field Professor of History, Emeritus, Stanford. Registration required. The program will be recorded with the video(s) being available at later date.

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This program is co-sponsored by Stanford Continuing Studies and the Stanford Humanities Center.

 

SCHEDULE

Please note: The schedule and authors are subject to change.

1:00 pm: Welcome (Peter Stansky)
 
1:05 – 1:35 pm: Literature and Art
Roland Greene, Chair
Shane Denson, Post-Cinematic Bodies
Nancy J. Troy & Ann Marguerite Tartsinis, Mondrian’s Dress: Yves Saint Laurent, Piet Mondrian, and Pop Art, presented by Ann Tartsinis 
René Girard and Cynthia Haven, ed., All Desire is a Desire for Being
                       
1:45 – 2:15 pm: The World About Us
Noah Sveiven, Chair
Barton H. Thompson, Liquid Asset: How Business and Government Can Partner to Solve the Freshwater Crisis
William B. Gould IV, For Labor to Build Upon: Wars, Depression and Pandemic
Jennifer Burns, Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative  
                       
2:25 - 2:55 pm: America Coping
Larry Horton, Chair
Robert B. Rakove, The United States and Afghanistan Before the Soviet Invasion 
Lerone A. Martin, The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover: How the FBI Aided and Abetted the Rise of White Christian Nationalism 
Bertrand Patenaude & Joan Nabseth Stevenson, Bread + Medicine: American Famine Relief in Soviet Russia, 1921-1923, presented by Bertrand Patenaude
 
3:05 - 3:35 pm: Poetry and Fiction
Cynthia Haven, Chair
John Angell Grant, The Green Notebook: Poems on Family, Relationships, Spirituality, Self-Enquiry, Recovery, ACA, Disruption, Death, Walking Through the Mirror, and Cats
Malavika Kannan, All the Yellow Suns
Jackson Holbert, Winter Stranger
 
3:45 - 4:15 pm: History
Carolyn Lougee, Chair
Joel Cabrita, Written Out: The Silencing of Regina Gelana Twala 
Rachel Jean-Baptiste, Multiracial Identities in Colonial French Africa: Race, Childhood, and Citizenship
Nora Elizabeth Barakat, Bedouin Bureaucrats: Mobility and Property in the Ottoman Empire 
 
4:25 - 4:55 pm: Taking Action
Leslie Friedman, Chair
Myra Strober & Abby Davisson, Money & Love: An Intelligent Roadmap for Life’s Biggest Decisions, presented by Myra Strober
Ilana Yurkiewicz, Fragmented: A Doctor’s Quest to Piece Together American Health Care
Susan Wels, An Assassin in Utopia: The True Story of a Nineteenth-Century Sex Cult and a President’s Murder  
      
5:05 - 5:35 pm: Stanford and Beyond
Charles Junkerman, Chair
James J. Sheehan, Making a Modern Political Order: The Problem of the Nation State
Roxanne L. Nilan & Cassius L. Kirk, Stanford’s Wallace Sterling: Portrait of a Presidency 1949-1968, presented by Larry Horton