Stanford Presidential Lectures in the Humanities and Arts recordings, 1999-2006

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Summary

Creators:
Stanford Presidential Lectures in the Humanities and Arts.
Abstract:
Lecturers represented in this collection include Svetlana Alpers (art history), Elaine Scarry (human rights and the humanities), Lynn Hunt (the novel and human rights), Hazel V. Carby (racializing subjects in post-World War II Britain), Wendy Doniger (self-imitation in ancient India, Shakespeare and Hollywood), Merce Cunningham (in conversation with John Rockwell, dance critic for the NY Times), and Douglas R. Hofstadter (analogy as the core of cognition).
Extent:
2.5 Linear Feet
Language:
Undetermined .
Preferred citation:

Stanford Presidential Lectures in the Humanities and Arts Recordings (SC1103). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

Background

Scope and content:

Lecturers represented in this collection include Svetlana Alpers (art history), Elaine Scarry (human rights and the humanities), Lynn Hunt (the novel and human rights), Hazel V. Carby (racializing subjects in post-World War II Britain), Wendy Doniger (self-imitation in ancient India, Shakespeare and Hollywood), Merce Cunningham (in conversation with John Rockwell, dance critic for the NY Times), and Douglas R. Hofstadter (analogy as the core of cognition).

Biographical / historical:

The Stanford Presidential Lecture Series in the Humanities and Arts brings the most distinguished scholars, artists, and critics of our time to the Stanford University campus for lectures, seminars, panel discussions, and a variety of related interactions with faculty, students, and the community at large. Funded by the President's Office, and administered under the auspices of the Stanford Humanities Center, these programs explore new roles and relations for the Humanities and Arts in the academic community in the 21st Century.

Past Lecturers: SPRING 2011 Leon Botstein

WINTER 2011 Judith Jamison

FALL 2010 Robert Putnam

SPRING 2010 Mary Robinson

FALL 2009 André Aciman

SPRING 2009 James McPherson

WINTER 2009 Daniel Dennett

FALL 2008 Robert Wilson

Seyla Benhabib

SPRING 2008 Marina Warner

WINTER 2008 Richard Taruskin

FALL 2007 Simon Schama

SPRING 2007 Joan W. Scott

WINTER 2007 Partha Chatterjee This lecture was rescheduled as part of the November, 2007 conference "Ethnicity in Today's Europe"

FALL 2006 Talal Asad

SPRING 2006 Amy Gutmann

WINTER 2006 Douglas Hofstadter

FALL 2005 Lani Guinier

SPRING 2005 Carolyn Abbate

WINTER 2005 Merce Cunningham

FALL 2004 Kwame Anthony Appiah

SPRING 2004 Isabel Allende Wendy Doniger

FALL 2003 Hazel Carby

SPRING 2003 Bruno Latour

WINTER 2002-2003 Peter Brown

SPRING 2002 Lynn Hunt

WINTER 2001-2002 Elaine Scarry

WINTER 2000-2001 Gayatri Spivak

FALL 2000 Roger Chartier

SPRING 2000 Wolfgang Iser

WINTER 1999-2000 Marjorie Garber Homi Bhabha

FALL 1999 Pina Bausch Svetlana Alpers Bei Dao

SPRING 1999 Jacques Derrida Stefan Maul

WINTER 1998-99 Fredric Jameson Beatriz Sarlo Alexander Nehamas

FALL 1998 Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Stephen Jay Gould Karl Heinz Bohrer Wole Soyinka

SPRING 1998 Christo and Jeanne-Claude Peter Eisenman Hélène Cixous Harold Bloom

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The materials are open for research use. Audio-visual materials are not available in original format, and must be reformatted to a digital use copy.

Terms of access:

All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California 94304-6064. Consent is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s) or assigns. See: http://library.stanford.edu/depts/spc/pubserv/permissions.html.

Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research and educational purposes.

Preferred citation:

Stanford Presidential Lectures in the Humanities and Arts Recordings (SC1103). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

Location of this collection:
Stanford University Archives, Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064, US
Contact:
(650) 725-1022
specialcollections@stanford.edu
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