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A Company of Authors

Code:
EVT 637
Day:
Saturday
Date(s):
Apr 18
Time:
1:00—5:35 pm (PT)
Location:
Levinthal Hall, Stanford Humanities Center or Zoom
Cost:
FREE
Additional Info:
Click on "Get Tickets" below to register. The sessions will be recorded and video links will be shared following the event.
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For the 23rd consecutive year, a distinguished group of Stanford writers will make a brief presentation about their recently published books. The program will be presented in a hybrid format.

This program is hosted by Peter Stansky, Frances and Charles Field Professor of History, Emeritus, Stanford.

Drop in, or even better, indulge yourself by spending the entire afternoon in the company of these bright, entertaining, and stimulating writers.

The sessions will be recorded and video links will be shared following the event.

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

1:00 Welcome: Peter Stansky

1:05-1:35 Communism, Law and Crime
Peter Stansky, chair

Charles G. Palm, Documenting Communism: The Hoover Project to Microfilm and Publish the Soviet Archives
Alan O. Sykes, The Law and Economics of International Trade Agreements
David A. Sklansky, Criminal Justice in Divided America: Police, Punishment, and the Future of Our Democracy

1:45-2:15 Writing
Cynthia Haven, chair

Laura Goode, Pitch Craft: The Writer’s Guide to Getting Agented, Published, and Paid
Thomas Ehrlich, Murder at Seascape
Shane Denson, Bride of Frankenstein

2:25-2:55 The Wide World
Leslie Friedman, chair

Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs, 90 Seconds to Midnight: A Hiroshima Survivor’s Nuclear Odyssey
John G. Brock-Utne, Memories from the German Occupation of Norway 1940-45
Leslie Friedman, Coming Home to India

3:05-3:35 Literature
Roland Greene, chair

Keith Ekiss, Burial Fragments: Poems
Adam Johnson, The Wayfinder: A Novel
Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Jim: The Lives and Afterlives of Huckleberry Finn’s Comrade

3:45-4:15 History
Carolyn Lougee, chair

Rowan Dorin, No Return: Jews, Christian Usurers, and the Spread of Mass Expulsion in Medieval Europe
Gordon H. Chang, War, Race, and Culture: Journeys in Trans-Pacific and Asian American Histories
Jonathan Clark, Ottawa, Illinois: 1967

4:25-4:55 Coping with America
Larry Horton, chair

William B. Gould IV, Those Who Travail and Are Heavy Laden: Memoir of a Labor Lawyer
Liran Einav & Amy Finkelstein, We’ve Got You Covered: Rebooting American Health Care presented by Liran Einav
Mark G. Kelman, Understanding Harm: How the Law Should Assess Injury

5:05-5:35 Dealing with the World
Charlie Junkerman, chair

Keith Michael Baker, Jean-Paul Marat: Prophet of Terror
Dan Edelstein, The Revolution to Come: A History of an Idea from Thucydides to Lenin
Steven J. Zipperstein, Philip Roth: Stung by Life

Most books will be available for sale from the Stanford Bookstore. The books can be purchased in-person at the event or online. A 10% discount will be available for Stanford staff, faculty, and members of the Alumni Association.


For questions, contact continuingstudies@stanford.edu.

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