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News on Campus
UNWRAPPING THE HUMANITIES
High-profile visitors will discuss the future of the arts and sciences
By Diane Manuel
cceptance letters have rolled in from around
the world:
Authors Isabel Allende, Svetlana Alpers and Umberto Eco, critics Harold
Bloom and Henry Louis Gates Jr., artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude,
playwrights Hélène Cixous and Wole Soyinka, philosopher
Jacques Derrida and architect Peter Eisenman all have agreed to
participate in the new Stanford Presidential Lectures and Symposia in
the Humanities and Arts.
Invited by President Gerhard Casper and supported by his offices
discretionary funds, the high-profile visitors each will spend two or
three days on campus, giving lectures and participating in discussions
with faculty and students. The campus conversations will ask and
attempt to answer fundamental questions about the state of
humanities today and how various disciplines can best be strengthened in
a university setting.
Related Information:
This is the long-term payoff of a change of culture in the humanities
at Stanford, Hans Gumbrecht, the Albert Guérard Professor of
Literature and
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