Humanities
6.17.09Stanford celebrates jazz with more than 100 performers, 34 events
Stanford Jazz Festival showcases jazz masters and an eclectic menu of jazz, including swing, bebop, cool, big band, modern, blues and Latin shows.
Acclaimed 'Three Books' authors explore how the past affects the present
Lan Samantha Chang's Hunger, Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers and Abraham Verghese's My Own Country will been sent to incoming students this summer, with a talk by the authors planned in September.
Dick Lyman reflects on campus turmoil during era of student unrest
Stanford President Emeritus Richard W. "Dick" Lyman may be 85, but time has not softened his perspective on the period four decades ago when the university was roiled by waves of student protests against the Vietnam War.
6.3.09
Presidential Fund for Innovation in the Humanities announces 2009 grants
Stanford honors innovation in humanities with three new grants.
Ge Wang's Stanford Laptop Orchestra performs free concert on June 4
The Stanford Laptop Orchestra performs a free concert of all new works on June 4.
'Devised theater' project brings California's propositions onstage
Animal rights, drugs and gay marriage, all the target of recent California propositions, are spotlighted in "devised theater" at Stanford.
5.27.09
New grants promote arts at Stanford
Eighteen grants will support arts events and programming, and curricular innovation in the arts.
Michel Serres, one of France's 'immortels,' tells the 'grand récit' at Stanford
One of France's most celebrated intellectuals has taught at Stanford for nearly 30 years.
5.20.09
Real or forgery? Scholars gather at Stanford to debate origin of ancient Chinese text
Have scholars found a genuine copy of the millennia-old Bamboo Annals, or is it a more recent forgery, as evidenced by what some scholars believe to be anachronistic writing styles?
New website offers links to Stanford's global research
The Global Gateway will make information about Stanford's international scholarship easily available.
French professor, author and world soccer expert dies at 87
Leo Weinstein escaped from Nazi Germany, eventually becoming a Stanford professor and soccer pundit. He died at age 87.
Critic and author Adam Gopnik to speak at Stanford
Bestselling author and New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik discusses literary criticism May 13-14 on campus.
5.13.09
Continuing Studies summer registration begins May 18
Stanford's summer courses are open to all members of the community.
5.13.09
Database detailing thousands of Martin Luther King Jr. documents goes online
Researchers everywhere will be able to locate thousands of King's speeches, sermons, letters and photos.
Current MFA exhibition is collaborative, inflatable
Wünderflater, an unconventional approach by five artists to their MFA thesis presentation, is on view at the Thomas Welton Stanford Art Gallery.