humanities

Another Look at the Permanent Collection

Ongoing every day from September 9, 2015 through March 21, 2016.
Anderson Collection at Stanford University


Yosemite National Park 125th Anniversary exhibit

Ongoing every weekday (M-F) from October 1, 2015 through September 30, 2016.  8:00 AM.
Green Library, 2nd Floor, Human Resources Suite


Archaeology Exhibit~ From "Curios" to Ambassadors: Changing Roles of the Daggett Collection from Tribes of the Lower Klamath River

Ongoing every day from June 4, 2015 through June 1, 2016.  8:30 AM.
Archaeology center, bldg. 500, room 106


Joseph Goldyne: Books, Prints & Proofs

Ongoing every day from September 21, 2015 through January 31, 2016.  10:00 AM.
Green Library Bing Wing


Double Exposure: Russia's Secret Police under the Last Tsars

Ongoing from October 29, 2015 through March 12, 2016. See details for exact dates and times.
Herbert Hoover Memorial Exhibit Pavilion, located next to Hoover Tower


Annual Messiah Sing / Play Along

Friday, December 11, 2015.  7:30 PM.
Memorial Church


Piranesi's Paestum Saturday Tours

Ongoing every week from December 5, 2015 through December 26, 2015.  11:00 AM.
Cantor Arts Center (meet in Main Lobby)


Windhover Saturday Tours

Ongoing from December 5, 2015 through August 26, 2017. See details for exact dates and times.
Meet at Windhover entrance, located on Santa Teresa Street at Sam Morris Way, between Governor's Avenue and Lomita Drive.


Artists at Work Saturday Tours

Ongoing every week from December 5, 2015 through January 23, 2016.  2:00 PM.
Cantor Arts Center (meet in Main Lobby)


Human Rights Day Film Screening

Saturday, December 12, 2015.  2:00 PM.
Bechtel International Center


Family Sundays at the Cantor Arts Center

Ongoing from November 1, 2015 through October 28, 2018. See details for exact dates and times.
Cantor Arts Center, just off Palm Drive, at Museum Way and Lomita Drive


Artists at Work Sunday Tours

Ongoing every week from December 6, 2015 through January 24, 2016.  2:00 PM.
Cantor Arts Center (meet in Main Lobby)


Artists at Work Thursday Tours

Ongoing every week from December 3, 2015 through January 14, 2016.  12:15 PM.
Cantor Arts Center (meet in Main Lobby)


Piranesi's Paestum Thursday Tours

Ongoing every week from December 3, 2015 through December 31, 2015.  2:00 PM.
Cantor Arts Center (meet in Main Lobby)


Plant along Deer Creek

Saturday, January 2, 2016.  10:00 AM.
Deer Creek


Cameron Esposito: Purveyor of Fine Jokes

Wednesday, January 6, 2016.  8:00 PM.
CEMEX Auditorium


Artists at Work Gallery Talk: Ali Gass and Caroline Winterer

Thursday, January 7, 2016.  5:30 PM.
Pigott Family Gallery, 1st floor of the Cantor


The Chinese Typewriter: The Design and Science of East Asian Information Technology

Ongoing every week from January 11, 2016 through August 29, 2016.
Lathrop East Asia Library


Carola Groppe, “West German Universities in the Sixties: Academic and Political Debates on the Humanities and the Sciences and the Role of Generation Conflicts”

Tuesday, January 12, 2016.  12:00 PM.
Pigott Hall (Bldg 260), room 252


What Matters to Me & Why - Lucy Shapiro

Wednesday, January 13, 2016.  12:00 PM.
Common Room in the Center for Inter-Religious Community, Learning and Experiences (CIRCLE) at Old Union, 3rd Floor


Voluptuous Virtuosity: Busnoys and Ockeghem, ca. 1465

Wednesday, January 13, 2016.  7:30 PM.
Memorial Church


Christensen Distinguished Lecture with Hilton Als

Thursday, January 14, 2016.  5:30 PM.
McMurtry Building


John Dornenburg, viola da gamba, and Yuko Tanaka, harpsichord

Thursday, January 14, 2016.  7:30 PM.
Memorial Church Side Chapel


Camp Fremont: Stanford's World War I Battlefield

Tuesday, January 19, 2016.  5:00 PM.
Bechtel International Center Assembly Room


Elaine Thornburgh, harpsichord, and Elizabeth Blumenstock, violin

Tuesday, January 19, 2016.  7:30 PM.
Memorial Church Side Chapel


NOON CONCERT: Flute Students of Melody Holmes-Vedder

Wednesday, January 20, 2016.  12:30 PM.
Campbell Recital Hall


The Chinese Typewriter: The Design and Science of East Asian Information Technology | Opening Reception

Wednesday, January 20, 2016.  5:00 PM.
Lathrop East Asia Library


The Role of SNAP in the U.S. Social Safety Net: Assessing effects on poverty, food insecurity and health

Thursday, January 21, 2016.  3:30 PM.
Bechtel Conference Center, Encina Hall


Lecture: Jane Shaw, "Empathy and the Arts" (DATE CHANGED)

Thursday, January 21, 2016.  5:30 PM.
Cantor Auditorium


Ronald Davidson: "Why are there mantras in Buddhism?"

Thursday, January 21, 2016.  6:00 PM.
Humanities Center


Francisco Prado-Vilar (Harvard), “Silentium made Visible: The Poetics and Materiality of Silence in Medieval Art”

Friday, January 22, 2016.  4:00 AM.
Humanities Center Board Room


Charles Ferguson, guitar: Bach, then Spain

Saturday, January 23, 2016.  7:30 PM.
Campbell Recital Hall


From the Other Shore: A Conference Celebrating the Careers of Aron Rodrigue and Steve Zipperstein - 25 Years of Collaboration at Stanford

Ongoing every day from January 24, 2016 through January 25, 2016.  9:00 AM.
Stanford Humanities Center


Larissa MacFarquhar Reading

Monday, January 25, 2016.  8:00 PM.
Bechtel Conference Center, Encina Hall, 616 Serra Street


Exploring Life in the Human Body through Poetry

Ongoing every week from January 27, 2016 through February 10, 2016.  12:30 PM.
Education Bldg. (Cubberly), Rm 334 


Angles on Art Gallery Talk: Edward Hopper's "New York Corner"

Thursday, January 28, 2016.  5:30 PM.
Sigall Gallery, 2nd floor of the Cantor


Thursday Nights at the Anderson: Artist Talk by Mark Fox

Thursday, January 28, 2016.  6:00 PM.
Denning Family Resource Center at the Anderson Collection


Annalisa Taylor and Tessa Eckley, sopranos: Voice Recital

Sunday, January 31, 2016.  2:30 PM.
Campbell Recital Hall


NOON CONCERT: Flute Students of Alexandra Hawley

Wednesday, February 3, 2016.  12:30 PM.
Campbell Recital Hall


Faculty Lecture: Mark Braude on Speed and Power

Wednesday, February 3, 2016.  5:30 PM.
Cantor Auditorium


Mimi and Peter E. Haas Distinguished Visitor Rick Lowe: Art in the Social Context

Thursday, February 4, 2016.  5:15 PM.
McCaw Hall, Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center, 326 Galvez Street


Bernard Faure: "Giving the gods their due: Looking back at Japanese religion"

Thursday, February 4, 2016.  6:00 PM.
Levinthal Hall, Stanford Humanities Center


Victoria Wang, violin

Saturday, February 6, 2016.  7:30 PM.
Campbell Recital Hall


Barney Frank / To Govern is to Choose: Policing the Globe Versus Improving the Quality of Our Lives

Monday, February 8, 2016.  5:30 PM.
CEMEX Auditorium


DHAsia Presents | Digital Research into the Authorship of the Jin Ping Mei, by Paul Vierthaler

Tuesday, February 9, 2016.  4:15 PM.
CESTA, Wallenberg Hall, 4th Floor


NOON CONCERT: Calidore String Quartet

Wednesday, February 10, 2016.  12:30 PM.
Campbell Recital Hall


DHAsia Hands-On Clinic | Stylometrics and Genre Research in Imperial Chinese Studies, with Paul Vierthaler

Thursday, February 11, 2016.  1:30 PM.
CESTA, Wallenberg Hall, 4th Floor


Dialogues in Art

Saturday, February 13, 2016.  2:00 PM.
Anderson Collection


Stanford Philharmonia

Saturday, February 13, 2016.  7:30 PM.
Bing Concert Hall


Stanford Woodwind Quintet with Jon Nakamatsu

Saturday, February 13, 2016.  7:30 PM.
Dinkelspiel Auditorium


Stanford Philharmonia

Sunday, February 14, 2016.  2:30 PM.
Bing Concert Hall


What Matters to Me & Why - Allyson Hobbs

Wednesday, February 17, 2016.  12:00 PM.
Common Room in the Center for Inter-Religious Community, Learning and Experiences (CIRCLE) at Old Union, 3rd Floor


Joint Faculty Lecture: Alex Nemerov & Scott Sagan on Red Horse: Drawings of the Battle of the Little Bighorn

Wednesday, February 17, 2016.  5:30 PM.
Cantor Auditorium


Stanford Jazz Orchestra

Wednesday, February 17, 2016.  7:30 PM.
Bing Concert Hall


Claudia Rankine Reading

Wednesday, February 17, 2016.  8:00 PM.
Cemex Auditorium, Zambrano Hall, Knight Management Center


Tracking a Lost Voice: The Chinese Workers on Governor Stanford's Transcontinental Railroad

Thursday, February 18, 2016.  5:00 PM.
History Corner (Building 200, Room 2)


Gabriella Safran, “When Is Vocal Imitation Mockery? Comedy and Ethnography on the 19th-Century Russian Stage”

Friday, February 19, 2016.  4:00 PM.
Humanities Center Board Room


Flute Studio of Melody Holmes-Vedder: An Evening of Flute Music

Friday, February 19, 2016.  7:30 PM.
Campbell Recital Hall


Jean Ferrandis: Flute Masterclass

Saturday, February 20, 2016.  12:00 PM.
Campbell Recital Hall


Stanford Percussion Ensemble

Tuesday, February 23, 2016.  7:30 PM.
Dinkelspiel Auditorium


Faculty Panel: Richard Meyer, Ivan Lupic, and Terry Castle, "Queer Mannerism"

Wednesday, February 24, 2016.  5:30 PM.
Cantor Auditorium


Jinah Kim: "Mind pictures and manuscript paintings: Examples from twelfth century South Asia"

Thursday, February 25, 2016.  6:00 PM.
Hartley Conference Center, Mitchell Earth Science Building


Stanford Symphony Orchestra and Stanford Symphonic Chorus

Friday, February 26, 2016.  7:30 PM.
Bing Concert Hall


Stanford Symphony Orchestra and Stanford Symphonic Chorus

Sunday, February 28, 2016.  2:30 PM.
Bing Concert Hall


Shenson Recital Series: Jesse Bloomberg, baritone, and Martin Katz, piano

Sunday, February 28, 2016.  2:30 PM.
Campbell Recital Hall


Masterclass with Jesse Bloomberg, baritone

Monday, February 29, 2016.  4:30 PM.
Campbell Recital Hall


"Searching for Wallenberg" with Alan Lelchuk

Monday, February 29, 2016.  5:00 PM.
Wallenberg Hall, Rm 124


DHAsia Presents | Narrative as Algorithm: A Macroanalysis of Modern Japanese and Chinese Texts, by Richard Jean So and Hoyt Long

Tuesday, March 1, 2016.  4:15 PM.
CESTA, Wallenberg Hall, 4th Floor


DHAsia Hands-On Clinic | Large-Scale Text Analysis of Japanese and Chinese Literature: An Introduction to Text Mining for Humanists, with Richard Jean So and Hoyt Long

Thursday, March 3, 2016.  1:30 PM.
CESTA, Wallenberg Hall, 4th Floor


Christensen Distinguished Lecture with Thomas Elsaesser

Thursday, March 3, 2016.  5:30 PM.
McMurtry Building


Vincent Barletta, "Rhythm as Form"

Friday, March 4, 2016.  4:00 AM.
Terrace Room, English Department (Margaret Jacks Hall, Building 460)


NOON CONCERT: Jessica Moffitt, soprano

Friday, March 4, 2016.  12:30 PM.
Campbell Recital Hall


Stanford Wind Ensemble

Friday, March 4, 2016.  7:30 PM.
Bing Concert Hall


Stanford Afro-Latin Jazz Ensemble

Friday, March 4, 2016.  7:30 PM.
Campbell Recital Hall


Stanford Chamber Chorale

Saturday, March 5, 2016.  7:30 PM.
Bing Concert Hall


Stanford Baroque Soloists

Monday, March 7, 2016.  7:30 PM.
Memorial Church Side Chapel


Chamber Music Showcase I

Tuesday, March 8, 2016.  7:30 PM.
Campbell Recital Hall


NOON CONCERT: Piano Students of George Barth and Kumaran Arul

Wednesday, March 9, 2016.  12:30 PM.
Campbell Recital Hall


Stanford Early Music Singers

Wednesday, March 9, 2016.  7:30 PM.
Memorial Church


Chamber Music Showcase II

Wednesday, March 9, 2016.  7:30 PM.
Campbell Recital Hall


NOON CONCERT: Voice Students of Claire Giovannetti

Friday, March 11, 2016.  12:30 PM.
Campbell Recital Hall


CCRMA Concert I

Friday, March 11, 2016.  7:30 PM.
Bing Concert Hall


CCRMA Concert II

Saturday, March 12, 2016.  7:30 PM.
Bing Concert Hall


DHAsia Presents | Digital Perspectives on Imperial Chinese Political History, by Hilde De Weerdt

Tuesday, April 12, 2016.  4:15 PM.
CESTA, Wallenberg Hall, 4th Floor


DHAsia Hands-On Clinic | Markus and Visus: Linking and Visualizing Data in the Chinese Humanities, with Hilde De Weerdt

Thursday, April 14, 2016.  1:30 PM.
CESTA, Wallenberg Hall, 4th Floor


Heng-Ching Shih: "The Development of Buddhist Studies and education in Modern Taiwan - A Monastic in Academia"

Thursday, April 14, 2016.  6:00 PM.
TBA


Anna Friz, “Resonant Subjectivity in Acousmatic and Radio Spaces”

Friday, April 15, 2016.  4:00 PM.
Humanities Center Board Room


Fresh Perspectives on Diversity – Marcia McNutt, Editor-in-Chief of Science Magazine

Monday, April 18, 2016.  12:00 PM.
Berg Hall, Li Ka Shing Center


Jennifer Egan Reading

Monday, April 18, 2016.  8:00 PM.
Cemex Auditorium, Zambrano Hall, Knight Management Center


Faculty Lecture: Alexander Nemerov, "The Mysteries of Grandma Moses and Shirley Jackson"

Thursday, April 21, 2016.  5:30 PM.
Cantor Auditorium


DHAsia Presents | Intellectual History and Computing: Modeling and Simulating the World of the Korean Yangban, by Javier Cha

Tuesday, April 26, 2016.  4:15 PM.
CESTA, Wallenberg Hall, 4th Floor


Philip Gourevitch Reading

Wednesday, April 27, 2016.  8:00 PM.
Bechtel Conference Center, Encina Hall, 616 Serra Street


DHAsia Hands-On Clinic | Visualization and Analysis of Korean Genealogical Data using Cytoscape, with Javier Cha

Thursday, April 28, 2016.  1:30 PM.
CESTA, Wallenberg Hall, 4th Floor


Faculty Lecture: Gail Wight

Thursday, May 5, 2016.  5:30 PM.
Cantor Auditorium


Jason Neelis: "Moving Narratives – Transmission of Avadānas and Jātakas in Gandharan Texts and Images"

Thursday, May 5, 2016.  6:00 PM.
TBA


Christensen Distinguished Lecture with Rebecca Solnit

Thursday, May 12, 2016.  5:30 PM.
McMurtry Building


Paul Groner: "What Did It Mean to Be Ordained in Medieval Japanese Tendai?"

Thursday, May 12, 2016.  6:00 PM.
TBA


NOON CONCERT: Piano Students of George Barth and Kumaran Arul

Friday, May 20, 2016.  12:30 PM.
Campbell Recital Hall


DHAsia Presents | The Visualization of Voice: Bengali Intellectuals in the Age of Decolonization, 1950-1980, by Kris Manjapra

Tuesday, May 24, 2016.  4:15 PM.
CESTA, Wallenberg Hall, 4th Floor


DHAsia Hands-On Clinic | The Curation of Voice: Enhancing Search, Discovery and Content Structure in Oral History Collections, with Kris Manjapra

Thursday, May 26, 2016.  1:30 PM.
CESTA, Wallenberg Hall, 4th Floor


Paul Copp: "Manuscript Culture and the Ritualist's Craft at Dunhuang"

Thursday, May 26, 2016.  6:00 PM.
TBA


Faculty Lecture: Alexander Nemerov, "Soulmaker: The Times of Lewis Hine"

Thursday, June 2, 2016.  5:30 PM.
Cantor Auditorium


Vanessa Chang, “From Playback to Play: Gestural Invention and Digital Music”

Friday, June 3, 2016.  4:00 PM.
Humanities Center Board Room