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Guide to the Stanford Presidential Lectures in the Humanities and Arts Videorecordings
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Call Number: V0251
Creator:
Stanford Presidential Lectures in the Humanities and Arts.
Title: Stanford Presidential Lectures in the Humanities and Arts videorecordings
Dates: 1999-2006
Physical Description:
1.5 Linear feet
Physical Description:
(31 videotapes)
Summary: Lecturers represented in this collection include Svetlana Alpers (art history), Elaine Scarry (human rights and the humanities),
Lynn Hunt (the novel and human rights), Hazel V. Carby (racializing subjects in post-World War II Britain), Wendy Doniger
(self-imitation in ancient India, Shakespeare and Hollywood), Merce Cunningham (in conversation with John Rockwell, dance
critic for the NY Times), and Douglas R. Hofstadter (analogy as the core of cognition).
Language(s): In English.
Repository:
Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives
Stanford University Libraries
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: speccollref@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/spc/spc.html
Access: tapes that are not VHS will need to be reformatted prior to use.
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the
Head of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California 94304-6064. Consent
is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission
from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s) or assigns. See: http://library.stanford.edu/depts/spc/pubserv/permissions.html.
Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research
and educational purposes.
. Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
The Stanford Presidential Lectures in the Humanities and Arts brings the most distinguished scholars, artists, and critics
of our time to the Stanford University campus for lectures, seminars, panel discussions, and a variety of related interactions
with faculty, students, and the community at large.
Lecturers represented in this collection include Svetlana Alpers (art history), Elaine Scarry (human rights and the humanities),
Lynn Hunt (the novel and human rights), Hazel V. Carby (racializing subjects in post-World War II Britain), Wendy Doniger
(self-imitation in ancient India, Shakespeare and Hollywood), Merce Cunningham (in conversation with John Rockwell, dance
critic for the NY Times), and Douglas R. Hofstadter (analogy as the core of cognition).
Alpers, Svetlana.
Carby, Hazel V.
Cunningham, Merce.
Doniger, Wendy.
Hofstadter, Douglas R., 1945-
Hunt, Lynn Avery.
Rockwell, John.
Scarry, Elaine.
Stanford Presidential Lectures in the Humanities and Arts.
Videorecordings.