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Guns in America: A Year After Sandy Hook
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Just over a year after Sandy Hook, one of the worst mass shootings in United States history, Stanford Law School professor John Donohue and attorney Donald E. J. Kilmer will take stock of gun use and ownership regulation in the US.
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2/12/2014
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Medieval Matters: Art, Music, and Politics in the Book of Revelation
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Elaine Pagels' speaks of her most recent book on the Book of Revelation.
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2/12/2014
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Celebrating Robert Frost
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This year is the 50th anniversary of Robert Frost's death, and the passing years have not displaced him from his standing as one of America's favorite poets. In 'Fire and Ice', Frost's poems will be performed as dramatic readings in a unique production assembled and produced by Hilton Obenzinger and directed and performed by Kay Kostopoulos.
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2/5/2014
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Creative Writing at Stanford: A History
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Stanford Continuing Studies Program
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7/5/2013
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The Medieval and Modern Cathedral
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Stanford Continuing Studies
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4/26/2013
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VideoStanford Women in Space
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Stanford Continuing Studies
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4/26/2013
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VideoDemystifying the Higgs Boson with Leonard Susskind
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Stanford Continuing Studies
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8/16/2012
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An Evening with Stephen Foster
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(October 11, 2011) Ken Emerson talks about Stephen Foster's music and his impact on American culture while three other musicians perform various songs written by the composer.
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2/23/2012
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Jewish Ritual in Christian Eyes: Crossing Cultures and Religions in the 15th and 16th Centuries
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(November 2, 2011) Anthony Grafton explores the state of Judaism in Europe during the 15th and 16th centuries and how it's position within different cultures slowly changed over time.
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2/21/2012
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Speak, Memory: Dylan Thomas' "Dead Voices"
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(April 13, 2011) Robert Harrison discusses how poetry has traditionally served as such a medium and then will focus on how the work of Dylan Thomas remains true to ancient vocation of poetry.
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6/2/2011
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Speak, Memory
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(March 8, 2011) Kay Kostopoulos produced a program with readings from authors Vladimir Nabokov, Shelagh Stephenson, and Stanford's own Hilton Obenzinger. The focus of the readings and selections is on memory and perception.l
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4/13/2011
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How to Lead a Good Life: Lessons from the Greeks
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(March 2, 2011) Professor Marsh McCall gives a presentation on how Greek ideology can apply in today's society and allow us to live a good life. He brings the Homer, Sophocles, Euripides, and many others back to life to look deeply at the lives we live.
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3/23/2011
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Miracle Cures
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(February 23, 2011) Robert Scott discusses the idea of pilgrimages and other religious activities that have carried over from medieval times to the present day. He makes an argument for why there are still benefits in these expeditions.
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3/23/2011
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Speak, Memory
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drama, performance, arts, theater, creativity, literature, reading, memory, speech, oliver sacks, gorge luis brogues, anne tyler, words, thought, attack, loss, idea, novel, story, childhood, youth, amnesia
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12/16/2010
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Time and the End of the World: Heresy and Apocalypse in Medieval Europe
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(November 4, 2010) Teofilo Ruiz gives a presentation on the heresy and apocalyptic movements that swept through Medieval Europe. He shows how this time of feared catastrophe and terror was necessary for the progress of the world.
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12/16/2010
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Memory, the Engine of Thought
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(April 13, 2010) Mary Carruthers, Professor of Literature at New York University, discusses the importance of memory in medieval culture.
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5/20/2010
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Why You Can't Understand 21st-Century Politics with an 18th-Century Brain
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(March 1, 2010) George Lakoff, Berkeley Professor of Cognitive Science and Linguistics, argues that the political divide in the US between red and blue, conservative and progressive, has its source in the deep cognitive frames, prototypes, and metaphors.
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3/23/2010
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An Evening with WIRED Magazine's Chris Anderson
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(March 1, 2010) Chris Anderson, Editor in Chief at Wired Magazine, discusses how the web is shifting the marketplace traditionally dominated by industrial manufacturers to niche marketing with far fewer barriers to entry.
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3/23/2010
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An Evening with Eavan Boland
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(January 27, 2010) Eavan Boland, award-winning author of ten volumes of poetry and currently the Bella Mabury and Eloise Mabury Knapp Professor in the Humanities and Melvin and Bill Lane Professor and Director of the Creative Writing Program at Stanford.
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3/17/2010
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When Mathematics Changed Us
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(January 21, 2010) At four distinct stages in the development of modern society, a mathematical development changed how people understand the world and live their lives. In this talk, Keith Devlin will look at how human life and cognition have changed.
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2/17/2010
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VideoEudora Welty at 100
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(December 2, 2009) The 100th anniversary of the birth of one of America's finest prose writers, the incomparable Eudora Welty, was marked in 2009. She was a native and life-long resident of Jackson Mississippi.
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1/27/2010
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Thanksgiving Harvest Reading
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(November 19, 2009) David Mas Masumoto, an organic farmer in California and an award-winning author, reads from his memoir, entitled the Wisdom of the Last Farmer.
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12/18/2009
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Pilgrimage to the End of the World: The Road to Santiago de Compostela
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(October 27, 2009) UC Riverside Professor of Medieval Art History, Conrad Rudolph, discusses his pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela as a very internal experience in a very physical context. Rudolph states that the journey itself is the pilgrimage.
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12/16/2009
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Wild Things: Nature, Language, and Perception
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(November 10, 2009) Verlin Kinkenborg, published author and editorial writer for the New York Times, discusses his writing on farm animals as a search to understand perspective and state of being.
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11/24/2009
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Malcolm Margolin: Bay Area Book Legend
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(May 15, 2008) Join us for an evening of stories, reflections, and speculations on books, writing, California history, and Bay Area culture, and you will know why the audience stood on their chairs and cheered when Margolin was awarded the Fred Cody Award.l
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9/8/2008
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Departing For War in the Age of the Crusades
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(May 28, 2008) It has been well established that extensive planning and accumulation of resources were necessary to meet the material needs of the combatants and of those who accompanied them.
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7/14/2008
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VideoThe Ghoul of Amherst
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(March 12, 2008) “The Ghoul of Amherst” is a short, comic vignette set during Emily’s death bed visit to a dying school chum. It addresses with admiration and humor Miss Dickinson’s more grisly preoccupations with the mysteries of the grave.
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5/28/2008
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VideoThe Music Emily Heard
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(February 13, 2008) This evening presents the music of Emily Dickinson’s life—parlor piano pieces drawn from her own Songbook; hymns she sang in meeting; songs drawn from the 1851 performance by Jenny Lind—the Swedish Nightingale—which Dickinson attended.
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5/28/2008
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Hermeneutics, Self-realization, and Cosmology in the Spiritual Couplets (Mathnawi) of Rumi and The Masnavi
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(January 27, 2007) A celebration of the 800th anniversary of the birth of Rumi, the great Persian poet of exuberant love and ecumenical wisdom. Mawlana Jalaluddin Rumi (1207–73) was a poet and a scholar, a Sufi mystic, and a learned theologian.
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1/7/2008
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Rumi the Poet: Self-Portrayal, Dialogue and Image-Making
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(January 27, 2007) A celebration of the 800th anniversary of the birth of Rumi, the great Persian poet of exuberant love and ecumenical wisdom. Mawlana Jalaluddin Rumi (1207–73) was a poet and a scholar, a Sufi mystic, and a learned theologian.
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1/7/2008
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Unsilencing the Sacred Self: the Music of Communication with the Divine
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(January 27, 2007) A celebration of the 800th anniversary of the birth of Rumi, the great Persian poet of exuberant love and ecumenical wisdom. Mawlana Jalaluddin Rumi (1207–73) was a poet and a scholar, a Sufi mystic, and a learned theologian.
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1/7/2008
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Rumi as a Healer: A Physician's Perspective
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(January 27, 2007) A celebration of the 800th anniversary of the birth of Rumi, the great Persian poet of exuberant love and ecumenical wisdom. Mawlana Jalaluddin Rumi (1207–73) was a poet and a scholar, a Sufi mystic, and a learned theologian.
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1/7/2008
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In Search of the Historical Rumi
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(January 27, 2007) A celebration of the 800th anniversary of the birth of Rumi, the great Persian poet of exuberant love and ecumenical wisdom. Mawlana Jalaluddin Rumi (1207–73) was a poet and a scholar, a Sufi mystic, and a learned theologian,
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1/7/2008
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Medieval Matters: Modern European Nationalism and the Fight to Control the Past
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(November 14, 2007) Patrick Geary examines contemporary uses of the Middle Ages by various political movements, left and right, in Europe today. He explores how modern-day Europeans proudly attempt to trace their national identities to medieval origins.
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12/10/2007
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Surgical Treatment of Heart Failure
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(March 10, 2007) Three leading researchers ask how heart disease has become the number-one killer in the US, and what are we doing about it. They examine the perceptions and realities of heart disease in America and new and emerging treatments.
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5/21/2007
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Current Therapies for Heart Disease
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(March 10, 2007) Three leading researchers ask how heart disease has become the number-one killer in the US, and what are we doing about it. They examine the perceptions and realities of heart disease in America and new and emerging treatments.
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5/21/2007
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Improving Children's Heart Health
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(March 10, 2007) Three leading researchers ask how heart disease has become the number-one killer in the US, and what are we doing about it. They examine the perceptions and realities of heart disease in America and new and emerging treatments.
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5/21/2007
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How Did Hannibal Cross the Alps?
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(April 5, 2007) For over 2,000 years, nobody has been able to identify with certainty the route that Hannibal used to cross the Alps in 218 BCE with 25,000 men and 37 elephants to the astonishment of the Romans.
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5/15/2007
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An Evening with Geoff Nunberg: The Paradox of Political Language
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Left and right may disagree as to which expressions count as deceptive packaging and which are merely effective branding, but both acknowledge that the American public is particularly suscept to linguistic manipulation.
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3/30/2007
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Sherlock Holmes: The Speckled Band (A Reading)
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Inspiring his audience with the notion that, in a world of crime, mystery, and danger, all things can be understood through calm logic and extraordinary intelligence, Sherlock Holmes is the man of minute observation and razor-sharp deduction.
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3/30/2007
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Life Science Symposium: Bodies Changed to Light
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Join three of Stanford's most imaginative and articulate humanists for a poetic, philosophical, and historic reflection on this universal experience: the end of life.
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3/30/2007
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The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil
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Philip G. Zimbardo is a Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Stanford. His work and research have addressed such issues as prisons, violence and evil, persuasion, political psychology, and terrorism.
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3/30/2007
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European Roundtable: The EU in Crisis? Difficult Choices between Integration and Expansion
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An expert team of scholars from Stanford and beyond addresses these and other issues in the light of recent developments and on the basis of a sober assessment of both the problems and promises that lie ahead on the road to further European integration.
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3/30/2007
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European Roundtable: "Stretching the Safety Net: Is the European Welfare State in Crisis"
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Torn between the time-honored social democratic traditions of equal opportunity and the protection of the needy and the pressures of demographic change and declining public resources, European governments are finally confronting the limits of the welfare.
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3/30/2007
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Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib
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Seymour Hersh is one of the nation's premier investigative journalists. He gained worldwide recognition for his exposure of the My Lai massacre and its cover up during the Vietnam War.
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3/30/2007
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Into the Light of Day: Human Rights after Abu Ghraib
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Mark Danner is a staff writer at The New Yorker and contributor to the New York Review of Books, writing on foreign affairs and American politics. He explores how the Bush administration developed its policies for dealing with prisoners taken in Iraq.
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3/30/2007
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Torture Policy at Abu Ghraib: Military Use of Science for the Control of the Country
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Gerald Gray is the author of Psychology and US Psychologists in Torture and War in the Middle East. In his talk, Gerald Gray stresses the importance of offering appropriate treatment for survivors of torture.
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3/30/2007
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The Poisoned Chalice: Humanity at Nuremberg and Now
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David J. Luban is the Frederick J. Haas Professor of Law and Philosophy at Georgetown Law School and Leah Kaplan Visiting Professor of Human Rights at Stanford Law School. He looks at how Nuremberg shaped the conventions for dealing with prisoners of war.
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3/30/2007
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The Law of Torture
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Jenny S. Martinez is Assistant Professor of Law at Stanford. She explores torture within the context of Western and American legal traditions.
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3/30/2007
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Torture Sexual Politics and the Ethics of Photography
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Judith Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at UC-Berkeley. She discusses the photographs of prisoners abused by at Abu Ghraib, drawing on the work of Susan Sontag and Emmanuel Levinas.
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3/30/2007
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Testing Einstein in Space: The Gravity Probe B Mission
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GP-B has been described as the most elegant spacecraft ever built. Join Professor Francis Everitt for a lively explanation of GP-B's development. No scientific knowledge is necessary—just a keen imagination and the love of a good story.
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3/29/2007
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VideoTesting Einstein in Space: The Gravity Probe B Mission
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GP-B has been described as the most elegant spacecraft ever built. Join Professor Francis Everitt for a lively explanation of GP-B's development. No scientific knowledge is necessary—just a keen imagination and the love of a good story.
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3/29/2007
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Morally Permissible: The Killing of Osama bin Laden - Revenge, Assassination, or Justified Defense?
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Was the killing of Osama bin Laden morally permissible? Many people, including the President of the United States, say "yes," and "justice was done." Others claim that it was an unjustifiable act of vengeance, analogous to a Mafia-style "hit".
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2/13/2014
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Medieval Matters: "We Fight for Liberty Along": Scotland and England in the Middle Ages and the 21st Century
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This lecture by the renowned medievalist Robert Bartlett looks at relations between Scotland and England in the Middle Ages for the light it throws on current debates.
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3/6/2014
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The Ethics of Wealth: "Treasure in Heaven" - The Implications of an Image
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Eminent historian Peter Brown will explore the wider social and imaginative implications, for the Christian churches of late antiquity, of the well known sayings of Christ and His followers should place "treasure in heaven" by giving to the poor.
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3/31/2014
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Petroleum Free for One Year: Practical Sustainability in the Digital Age
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Doug Fine ("America in the Drug Peace Era") describes his decade-long adventure living off the grid on a remote solar-powered ranch in New Mexico.
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3/31/2014
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VideoFreedom Summer
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A program commemorating the 50th anniversary of Freedom Summer in 1964, the major Civil Rights voter registration drive in the South.
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4/29/2014
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Medieval Matters: Why Bones Matter
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Medieval Matters is a series of public lectures co-sponsored by the Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, the Office for Religious Life, the Sarum Seminar, and Stanford Continuing Studies. It explores the relevance of medieval history and culture to understanding the modern world.
Historians read documents that were written in the past, and interpret them in order to come to grips with what happened, why it happened, and why what happened is important. But some historians, particularly those who work in a very early and poorly documented historical period like early medieval Britain, rely on material evidence to reconstruct the past. One very promising class of evidence is the evidence of human bones—bones excavated by archaeologists. By studying the broad demographic patterns of mortality and morbidity across burial communities, and by examining the stable isotopes trapped in bone and teeth, we can begin to reconstruct the life histories, diets, and movements of people in the past whose lives and deaths were never captured by texts.
Robin Fleming is a recipient of the 2013 MacArthur Fellowship “Genius” award. The award praises her for “changing the way historians view early medieval Britain and providing a framework for incorporating material culture into the writing of history.” Fleming joined the faculty of Boston College in 1989. She teaches courses on late Roman and early medieval history, the Vikings, ancient and medieval historical writing, and material culture. Her books include Kings and Lords in Conquest England; Domesday Book and the Law: Society and Legal Custom in Early Medieval England; and Britain After Rome: The Fall and Rise, 400–1050.
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5/23/2014
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Continuing Studies: How I Write Series
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Harriet Scott Chessman is the author most recently of the acclaimed novel The Beauty of Ordinary Things, the story of the unexpected love between a young Vietnam veteran and a Benedictine nun. Her other books include the novels Someone Not Really Her Mother, Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper, and Ohio Angels as well as The Public Is Invited to Dance, a book about Gertrude Stein. Her fiction has been translated into ten languages. She has taught literature and writing at Yale, the Bread Loaf School of English, and Stanford Continuing Studies. She received a PhD from Yale.
Hilton Obenzinger, an accomplished fiction and nonfiction writer and lecturer in the Stanford Department of English, American Studies Program, and Stanford Continuing Studies engages Harriet Scott Chessman in conversation, focusing on the techniques, quirks, and joys of writing.
This program is co-sponsored by Stanford Continuing Studies and the Hume Center for Writing and Speaking.
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5/23/2014
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Words to End All Wars: Commemorating the Centennial of World War I
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2014 marks the centenary of the outbreak of the Great War, a bloodbath on such a scale as to change the world forever. Part of a campus-wide reflection of this calamitous event, Words to End All Wars brings together reactions from poets and playwrights who grappled with the horror, bravery, sacrifice, and idiocy of the “war to end all wars.”
Co-sponsored by Stanford Continuing Studies, Stanford Repertory Theater, Stanford TAPS, and the Peace + Justice Studies Initiative.
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2/8/2015
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What the FBI Had on Pete Seeger (and Vice Versa)
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In this presentation, David Dunaway will reveal the “secrets” the FBI collected and how American folk singer and social activist Pete Seeger led the way in triumphing over their efforts.
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1/24/2017
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Medieval Matters: Chaucer, Our Contemporary: Poetry and Performance
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In this lecture, David Wallace presents Chaucer as a poet for our time, a brilliant original who reminds us that English, from day to day, from place to place, never ceases to change.
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1/24/2017
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What a Long, Strange Trip It’s Been: Race, Social Movements, and the 2016 Presidential Race
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Without denying the strangeness of the presidential race, Doug McAdam will argue that 2016 represents only the most extreme embodiment of a process of political polarization and racial division that has been going on since the early- to mid-1960s.
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1/25/2017
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The House of Twenty Thousand Books
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"The House of Twenty Thousand Books" is Sasha Abramsky’s memoir of his remarkable grandparents, their political and cultural milieu, and the house, at 5 Hillway, in North London, in which his grandfather, Chimen Abramsky, collected twenty thousand books.
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1/25/2017
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San Francisco Stories: History of Latino San Francisco
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Tomás Summers Sandoval will trace the history of "latinidad," or pan-Latin American identity, that emerged in San Francisco and explore it as a way to illuminate larger histories of empire, migration, and changing categories of race and ethnicity.
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1/25/2017
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What Makes Owls So Special?
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In his fascinating talk about this unique, intelligent bird, acclaimed naturalist Hans Peeters will introduce us to some of the secrets behind the surprising abilities of the owl.
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1/25/2017
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