A Company of Authors
- Code:
- EVT 637
- Day:
- Saturday
- Date(s):
- Apr 19
- Time:
- 1:00—5:00 pm (PT)
- Location:
- Zoom
- Cost:
- FREE
- Additional Info:
- The sessions will be recorded and video links will be shared following the event.
Closed
For the 22nd consecutive year, a distinguished group of Stanford writers will make a brief presentation about their recently published books.
The authors and editors who are scheduled to present include: Zach Williams (Beautiful Days: Stories); James R. Doty (Mind Magic: The Neuroscience of Manifestation and How It Changes Everything); Thomas Ehrlich (The Search: An Insider’s Novel about a University President); Giovanna Ceserani (A World Made by Travel: The Digital Grand Tour); Ana Raquel Minian (In the Shadow of Liberty: The Invisible History of Immigrant Detention in the United States); Adrian Daub (The Cancel Culture Panic: How an American Obsession Went Global); Deborah M. Gordon (The Ecology of Collective Behavior); Caroline Winterer (How the New World Became Old: The Deep Time Revolution in America); Soledad Artiz Prillaman (The Patriarchal Political Order: The Making and Unraveling of the Gendered Participation Gap in India); Emanuele Lugli (Measuring in the Renaissance: An Introduction); Christina Holloway (Whispers Across a Sea: A Novel of Victorian Ireland); George Fisher (Beware Euphoria: The Moral Roots and Racial Myths of America’s War on Drugs); Matthew H. Sommer (The Fox Spirit, the Stone Maiden, and Other Transgender Histories from Late Imperial China); Nicholas Jenkins (The Island: War and Belonging in Auden’s England); Bissera V. Pentcheva (Audiovision in the Middle Ages: Sainte-Foy at Conques); Albert M. Camarillo (Compton in My Soul: A Life in Pursuit of Racial Equality); Jeannette Ferrary (San Francisco…Flowers in Our Hair); Peter N. Carroll (Sketches from Spain: Homage to the Abraham Lincoln Brigade); Thomas S. Mullaney (The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the Information Age); Wendy Salkin (Speaking for Others: The Ethics of Informal Political Representation); Jonathan Gienapp (Against Constitutional Originalism: A Historical Critique).
This free online program is hosted by Peter Stansky, Frances and Charles Field Professor of History, Emeritus, Stanford, and will be dedicated in memory of fellow author, Peter N. Carroll. Drop in, or even better, indulge yourself by spending the entire afternoon in the company of these bright, entertaining, and stimulating writers.
Please note: The schedule and authors are subject to change.
For questions, contact continuingstudies@stanford.edu.
This program is co-sponsored by Stanford Continuing Studies and the Stanford Humanities Center.
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