End-of-Year PICNIC 2007
COMMENCEMENT 2007
Stanford Beyond Bars Program April 10, 2007
This event was organized by American Studies major Jacqueline Gauthier,
who is the coordinator of
Stanford Beyond Bars. Since SBB's official inception
in the fall of 2004, they have started a tutoring
program
with the San Francisco County Jails in association with the
Northern California Service League
and volunteered with prison
activist organizations such as the Prison Activist
Resource Center in Oakland.
Mr. Nick Yarris, the exoneree who spoke at the event,
was sent to death row after one of the shortest murder
trials in Pennsylvania history for the kidnapping,
rape, and murder, of a Boothwyn, PA resident. Nick spent
23 years on death row in solitary confinement
and was the first death row inmate in Pennsylvania
exonerated with the use of DNA testing.
MUSEUM EXHIBIT:
American Studies affiliated faculty, Wanda M. Corn,
the Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor in Art History
at Stanford University,
is author of the book and exhibition cocurator,
The Great American Thing: Modern Art and National Identity, 1915-1935
Stanford University's Program in American Studies
Stanford University Office of the President
Office of the Dean of Humanities & Sciences
Department of English
Department of History
Continuing Studies
Program in African and African American Studies
The Humanities Center
The Central Region Hunanities Center (Ohio University)
present
Please view the full program
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American Studies: April 1, 2005
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Stanford University's Program in American Studies
The Institute for Research on Women And Gender
The Program in Feminist Studies
and the Department of Art History
present
an illustrated lecture by
LILLIAN ROBINSON
From Greeks to Geeks:
Feminist Mythologies in the Comics
Friday, April 1st, 2005 at 4:30 pm
The Terrace Room, Margaret Jacks Hall (Bldg. 460)
Lillian Robinson, Principal of the Simone de Beauvoir Institute at Concordia University
in Montreal, is the author of feminist classics including In the CanonŐs Mouth:
Dispatches from the Culture Wars; Sex, Class and Culture; and, most recently
Wonder Women: Feminisms and Superheroes (Routledge, 2004)
Open to the Public Without Charge
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American Studies: February 24, 2005
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The Program in American Studies at Stanford University
and the American Cultures Workshop, the Department of English,
the Taube Center for Jewish Studies, Hillel at Stanford,
English/American Studies 173: American Comedy and Satire,
Undergraduate Research Programs
present
Donald Weber
Mt. Holyoke College
Genealogies of Jewish Stand Up
Thursday, February 24th at 4:15 pm
Stanford Humanities Center, Levinthal Hall
Donald Weber is the Lucia, Ruth, and Elizabeth MacGregor Professor of English and Chair of the
Dept. of English at Mt Holyoke College. He is the author of
Haunted in the New World: Jewish American Culture from Cahan to "The Goldbergs,"
forthcoming in 2005.
Open to the Public Without Charge
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American Studies: May 14, 15, 2004
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The Stanford University Program in American Studies
The Stanford University Office of the Dean of Humanities and Sciences
The Stanford English Department
The Stanford Humanities Center
The UC Santa Cruz Humanities Institute
The UC Santa Cruz Humanities Division
The Delmas Foundation
The UC Santa Cruz Department of Literature
The UC Santa Cruz Department of American Studies
present
Mark Twain at the Turn-of-the-Century -- 1890-1910
A Stanford-UC Santa Cruz Symposium
May 14th-15th, 2004
Friday, May 14th Stanford University
10:00-12:00 Terrace Room, Margaret Jacks Hall, Bldg. 460
Karen Lystra
Professor of English, UC-Fullerton
" 'Telling the Truth is the funniest joke in the world': Reevaluating
the Ashcroft-Lyon Manuscript"
David Lionel Smith
Professor of English, Williams College
"Mark Twain, Pretexts, and Iconoclasm"
Friday, May 14th Stanford University
2:00-4:00 Levinthal Hall, Stanford Humanities Center
John Carlos Rowe
Professor of English and Comparative Literature, UC Irvine
"Mark Twain's Critique of Globalization (Old and New) in 'Following The
Equator: A Journey around the World'"
Forrest G. Robinson
Professor of American Studies and Literature, UC Santa Cruz
"The General and the Maid: Mark Twain on Ulysses S. Grant and Joan of
Arc"
Saturday, May 15th UC Santa Cruz
9:30-12:30 Cowell College Conference Room
Gregg Camfield
Professor of English, University of the Pacific
"In the Mirror of the Imagination: Twain's Kipling"
Shelley Fisher Fishkin
Professor of English and Director of American Studies, Stanford
University
"Mark Twain and the Jews"
Hilton Obenzinger
Associate Director of Honors Writing and Lecturer in English, Stanford
University
"Better Dreams: Political Satire and Twain's Final 'Exploding' Novel"
Saturday, May 15th UC Santa Cruz
2:30-5:30 Cowell College Conference Room
Peter Messent
Professor of American Literature, University of Nottingham, England
"Mark Twain, Manhood, the H.H. Rogers Friendship, and 'Which Was the
Dream?'"
Susan Gillman
Professor of Literature, UC Santa Cruz
"Mark Twain's Occult Time"
Moderator: Edgar A. Dryden
Editor, The Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literatures,
Culture and Theory
The Arizona Quarterly will publish the conference proceedings in a
forthcoming issue.
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC WITHOUT CHARGE
For further information contact
Jan Hafner 650-723-3413
jhafner@stanford.edu
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American Studies: April 15-16, 2004
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The Program in American Studies presents:
Brown v. Board of Education: A Fiftieth Anniversary Symposium
The Program in American Studies at Stanford University will present "Brown v. Board of Education: A Fiftieth Anniversary Symposium" on April 15th-16th 2004.
Distinguished scholars in the fields of law, history, education, and psychology will revisit the landmark Supreme Court decision that made segregation in America's public schools illegal, and will examine the impact of that decision on the nation. The symposium, which will feature a keynote talk Thursday evening, and morning and afternoon panels on Friday, is co-sponsored by Stanford's Program in African and African American Studies, Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, School of Education, Department of English, Department of History, and School of Law. It is open to the public without charge.
Renowned legal scholar and Civil Rights activist Derrick Bell will give a
keynote talk at 5:00 P.M. on Thursday, April 15th in Room 290 of the Stanford School of Law on "Brown v. Board of Ed and the Unfulfilled Hopes for Racial Reform."
A lawyer in the 1960s at the NAACP under Thurgood Marshall, Bell handled hundreds of cases involving Southern school litigation. He went on to be the first black professor at
Harvard University to receive tenure. In 1992, he left his position at Harvard in protest of the absence of women of color on the faculty. Since then he has been a Visiting Professor at
New York University Law School. Bell is the author of many highly-acclaimed books including Race, Racism and American Law; Ethical Ambition: Living a Life of Meaning
and Worth; Confronting Authority: Reflections of an Ardent Protester; And We Are Not Saved: The Elusive Quest for Racial Justice; Gospel Choirs:
Psalms of Survival in an Alien Land Called Home; and Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism. His most recent book is Silent Covenants:
Brown v. Board of Ed and the Unfulfilled Hopes for Racial Reform, which will be published this month.
For further information contact
Jan Hafner 650-723-3413
jhafner@stanford.edu
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American Studies: November 6, 2003
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The Program in American Studies presents:
Homer, Hank & the American Dream: Social & Political Satire on American Television
a conversation with writers for
King of the Hill and The Simpsons
- John collier
- Greg Daniels
- Paul Lieberstein
Friday, November 7, 2003 3:30pm
Psychology Building (Bldg 420) Room 40
The Stanford Daily's front page report highlights the event.
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