BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Events at Stanford//iCal4j 1.0//EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:Events at Stanford featured events BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080011Z DTSTART:20090916T110000 SUMMARY:From Their Studios UID:events_stanford_edu_19451 DESCRIPTION:The exhibition reflects not only the excellence of current st udio art practice at Stanford but also connotes the exchange of ideas am ong faculty and students and the quality of the art experience on campus . “Stanford's art faculty continues a tradition that began with the foun ding of the university in the late 19th century. Studio artists have flo urished at Stanford\, and today's faculty is particularly strong\,” said Cantor Arts Center's Freidenrich Director Thomas K. Seligman. A series of 12 public lectures by the artists starts September 17 and continues t hrough December 3\, presented in the Cantor Arts Center auditorium at 7 p.m. on Thursdays (excluding November 26) and also on Wednesday\, Octobe r 14. Documentary films will be screened prior to presentations by the f aculty filmmakers. A complete schedule for this series can be found on t he Center's Web site: museum.stanford.edu. URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/194/19451 LOCATION:Cantor Arts Center\, just off Palm Drive\, at Museum Way and Lom ita Drive END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080011Z DTSTART:20091107T200000 SUMMARY:A PORTRAIT OF LEONARD BERNSTEIN UID:events_stanford_edu_19651 DESCRIPTION:Jamie Bernstein\, the eldest daughter of composer Leonard Ber nstein\, celebrates her father’s musical legacy in an evening of song an d storytelling with pianist/conductor Michael Barrett and vocalists from the New York Festival of Song. Bernstein’s narration combines frank and funny anecdotes with plot synopses\, musical insights\, and a glimpse o f the creative process behind some of Bernstein’s most memorable works\, including West Side Story\, Candide\, On the Town\, Wonderful Town\, th e lesser-known Songfest poem cycle and one of the composer’s final works \, Arias and Barcarolles. URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/196/19651 LOCATION:Dinkelspiel Auditorium\, Stanford University END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080011Z DTSTART:20091105T200000 SUMMARY:Bulrusher by Eisa Davis UID:events_stanford_edu_20797 DESCRIPTION:Directed by Isaiah M. Wooden\n\n**Finalist for the 2007 Pulit zer Prize in Drama.** In 1955\, in the redwood country north of San Fra ncisco\, a multiracial girl grows up in a predominantly white town whose residents pepper their speech with the historical dialect of Boontling. Found floating in a basket on the river as an infant\, Bulrusher is an orphan with a gift for clairvoyance that makes her feel like a stranger even amongst the strange: the taciturn schoolteacher who adopted her\, t he madam who runs her brothel with a fierce discipline\, the logger with a zest for horses and women\, and the guitar-slinging boy who is after Bulrusher’s heart. Just when she thought her world might close in on her \, she discovers an entirely new sense of self when a black girl from Al abama comes to town. Passionate\, lyrical\, and chock full of down-home humor\, this play is an unforgettable experience by a new\, thrilling vo ice.\n URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/207/20797 LOCATION:Nitery Theater in the Old Union END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080011Z DTSTART:20091108T140000 SUMMARY:From Their Studios: Artist's Lecture with Matt Kahn UID:events_stanford_edu_20111 DESCRIPTION:The exhibition reflects not only the excellence of current st udio art practice at Stanford but also connotes the exchange of ideas am ong faculty and students and the quality of the art experience on campus . \n\nLecture by artist Matt Kahn begins at 2pm. URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/201/20111 LOCATION:Cantor Arts Center\, just off Palm Drive\, at Museum Way and Lom ita Drive END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080011Z DTSTART:20091004T210000 SUMMARY:Compline -- An Evening Service of Song UID:events_stanford_edu_20583 DESCRIPTION:A reflective 30-minute musical service of hymns\, chant and p salms sung by a variety of Stanford and local choirs in the serene candl e-lit ambiance of Memorial Church. \n\nThis quarter's lineup will includ e:\n\nOctober 4: Palo Alto High School\nOctober 11: Stanford student en semble\nOctober 18: Valley Presbyterian\nOctober 25: All Saints Episc opal Church\nNovember 1: Threshold Choir\nNovember 8: Early Music Singer s\nNovember 15: Trinity Lutheran Church URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/205/20583 LOCATION:Stanford Memorial Church END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080011Z DTSTART:20091110T193000 SUMMARY:An Evening with Verlyn Klinkenborg UID:events_stanford_edu_20043 DESCRIPTION:Please join us for an enjoyable evening with Verlyn Klinkenbo rg\, acclaimed author of several books\, and of the much-loved column “T he Rural Life\,” which appears on the The New York Times editoria l page twenty-six times a year. Tom Brokaw has called Klinkenborg “our m odern Thoreau”\; others hear echoes of E. B. White in his voice. Like bo th of them\, Klinkenborg observes the juncture at which our lives and th e natural world intersect\, and finds the luminous details that transfor m everyday experiences into luminous and revitalizing prose.\n\nHis book s include The Rural Life\, Making Hay\, The Last Fine Time\, and Timo thy\; or\, Notes of an Abject Reptile. He has published extensively in The New Yorker\, Harper’s\, Esquire\, National Geographic\, Mother Jones\, and other periodicals.\n\nKlinkenborg was raised on an Iowa farm belonging to his family\, graduated from Pomona College\, received a PhD from Princeton\, teaches creative writing at a number of American universities and colleges\, and lives on a small farm in upstate New Yo rk. In 2007\, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship\, which is funding his current writing project\, The Mermaids of Lapland\, about the 18 th-century English radical and farmer William Cobbett.\n URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/200/20043 LOCATION:Geology Corner (Bldg. 320)\, Room 105 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080011Z DTSTART:20091110T200000 SUMMARY:Michael Chabon in conversation with Professor John Felstiner -- " Notions of Home" -The Jewish Community Endowment Fund Lecture UID:events_stanford_edu_20527 DESCRIPTION:Michael Chabon is a novelist\, screenwriter\, columnist and s hort story writer\, best known for his novel The Amazing Adventures of K avalier & Clay which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2001.\nHe gre w up reading comic books and knew from an early age that he wanted to be a writer. In 1984 he graduated from the University of Pittsburgh with a degree in English. In 1987\, he received a MFA in Creative Writing fr om the University of California at Irvine. His master's thesis was the novel Mysteries of Pittsburgh\, a coming-of-age story about a man caught between romances with a man on one side\, a woman on the other\, and th e shadow of his gangster father over it all.\nIt's well known that Micha el Chabon is a celebrant of genre fiction\, and he has shown no trepidat ion at all in exploring the genres in his work: Kavalier & Clay (2000) i s historical fiction with a comics focus\, Summerland (2002) is a fantas y novel for young readers\; The Final Solution (2004) and The Yiddish Po liceman's Union (2007)\; and Gentlemen of the Road is a swash-buckling a dventure story that was serialized first in The New York Times Magazine. In 2008\, Chabon published a collection of essays entitled Maps and Leg ends in which he writes about the merit of the genres. In his novels\, C habon explores themes of Jewish identity\, family\, and magic.\nThe topi c of his talk at Stanford is Notions of Home.\nPhoto credit: Stephanie R ausser\n URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/205/20527 LOCATION:Hewlett Building- Room 200 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080011Z DTSTART:20091111T073000 SUMMARY:Stanford Breakfast Briefings: Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: Organi zational Rank and Stress UID:events_stanford_edu_21079 DESCRIPTION:Presents: Robert Sapolsky\nProfessor of Neurology\, Stanford University\n\nScience proves that stress is not just a state of mind\, b ut something tangible and measurable. Over the last three decades\, scie nce has been advancing our understanding of stress - how it impacts our bodies and how our social standing can make us more or less susceptible. \n\nThis session will unexpectedly equip leaders to identify stressors a nd mitigate adverse effects of hierarchy\, rank and authority within you r organization.\n\nWorld renowned for his studies on stress and human be havior\, and recently featured in National Geographic's documentary "Str ess: Portrait of A Killer"\, Professor Sapolsky delivers an incomparable session on the physiology of stress and human nature revealed by his li felong research of African baboons and observations of fight or flight r esponses in zebras. URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/210/21079 LOCATION:Stanford Faculty Club 439 Lagunita Ave END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080011Z DTSTART:20091111T190000 SUMMARY:"HOW I WRITE" CONVERSATION - Phil Taubman UID:events_stanford_edu_20795 DESCRIPTION:Philip Taubman is author of Secret Empire: Eisenhower\, the C IA\, and the Hidden Story of America's Space Espionage. He is currently working on a book project about nuclear threats and the joint effort of Sid Drell\, Henry Kissinger\, Sam Nunn\, Bill Perry and George Shultz t o reduce nuclear dangers. Professor Taubman worked at the New York Time s as a reporter and editor for nearly 30 years\, specializing in nationa l security issues\, including intelligence and defense policies and oper ations. At the Times\, Taubman served as a Washington correspondent\, M oscow bureau chief\, deputy editorial page editor\, Washington bureau ch ief and associate editor.\nTaubman was a history major at Stanford\, Cla ss of 1970\, and served as editor-in-chief of the Stanford Daily in 1969 . Before joining the New York Times\, he worked as a correspondent for Time magazine and was sports editor of Esquire.\n URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/207/20795 LOCATION:The Terrace Room\, Margaret Jacks Hall\n(building 460\, fourth f loor) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080011Z DTSTART:20091112T193000 SUMMARY:THE PROKOFIEV PROJECT UID:events_stanford_edu_19683 DESCRIPTION:Curator and scholar kicks off Stanford Lively Arts’ four-day -long Prokofiev festival with a free evening of live music\, recordings\ , and discussion. Joined by Stanford pianists Kumaran Arul and George Ba rth\, Alexander Toradze and Horowitz explore Prokofiev\, the man and art ist. URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/196/19683 LOCATION:Campbell Recital Hall END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080011Z DTSTART:20091112T193000 SUMMARY:Interpreting Prokofiev with Joseph Horowitz & Alexander Toradze UID:events_stanford_edu_20045 DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening of music\, recordings\, and discussion hosted and produced by Joseph Horowitz (who The New York Times h as called “a force in classical music today\, a prophet and an agitator” ) and featuring Alexander Toradze (“arguably the greatest living exponen t of Prokofiev’s piano music\,” according to The London Financial Tim es).\n\nWhy did Sergei Prokofiev choose to return to Stalin’s police state in 1935? What were the tradeoffs shaping his singular odyssey? Wh at can be learned from Prokofiev’s own recordings of his piano music— in cluding the Visions Fugitive\, which will also be heard in live performa nce\, and the Piano Concerto No. 3\, of which Toradze’s recording was on ce voted “the best of all time” in International Piano Quarterly? \n\nThis event\, also featuring Stanford pianists George Barth and Kumar an Arul (who performs the Visions Fugitive)\, begins a four-day Prokofie v festival presented by Stanford Lively Arts. Reviewing the Stanford Liv ely Arts Toradze/Horowitz “Interpreting Stravinsky” festival two seasons ago\, Richard Scheinin wrote in the San Jose Mercury News: “It w as a knockout. Here was one of those rare events we crave as listeners: a set of performances that takes the familiar\, confronts it\, and make it not just new\, but more enjoyable than before.”\n\nJOSEPH HOROWITZ\nA uthor\; Classical Music Historian\nThe most recent of Joseph Horowitz’s eight books\, Artists in Exile (named one of the best books of 20 08 by The Economist)\, explores the impact of 20th-century immigr ation and exile on composers\, actors\, and filmmakers fleeing the Russi an Revolution and Hitler. His other books include Classical Music in America: A History\, Wagner Nights: An American History\, and Understand ing Toscanini (named one of the best books of 1987 by the National B ook Critics Circle).\n\nALEXANDER TORADZE\nPianist Alexander Toradze is one of the world’s most eminent concert pianists. His Prokofiev interpre tations have been characterized by The New York Times as “an epic shriek.” Of his performance of Stravinsky’s Capriccio at Stanford two s easons ago\, Scheinin wrote in the Mercury News: “Toradze’s openi ng flourishes were delivered in a pulverizing flash. Why the keyboard di dn’t collapse is anyone’s guess. He also played with the most delicate\, jazzy refinement. But this complete artist has a very personal—and Russ ian—interpretation of the work.” URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/200/20045 LOCATION:PLEASE NOTE VENUE CHANGE!\nNEW LOCATION: CAMPBELL RECITAL HALL - BRAUN MUSIC CENTER END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080011Z DTSTART:20091112T200000 SUMMARY:Tesseract: A Life of Eadweard Muybridge in 8 Stages UID:events_stanford_edu_20803 DESCRIPTION:Guest directors Matthew Goulish and Lin Hixson return to Stan ford Drama after last year's successful collaboration with Drama and SiC a. This original performance piece\, created with students\, is based on the life of the eccentric and fascinating photographer\, Eadweard Muybr idge. Hixson and Goulish\, founders of the Chicago-based performance gro ups "Goat Island" and “Every house has a door\," create project-specific collaborative performances with narrow thematic focus and rigorous pres entation.\n\n"One of the most important and influential [performance] co mpanies working in Chicago" --Peter Taub\, Director of Performance Progr ams at Museum of Contemporary Art\, about Goat Island performance group. \n\nVisit http://drama.stanford.edu for more information.\n URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/208/20803 LOCATION:Pigott Theater in Memorial Hall END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080011Z DTSTART:20091112T200000 SUMMARY:CCRMA Fall Concert 2009 - A Cagian MusicCircus UID:events_stanford_edu_21063 DESCRIPTION:Please join us for an evening of musical performances and sou nd installations by CCRMA users. The concert will feature works of all types staged throughout the building in the character of a John Cage Mus icCircus. Attendees will be encouraged to amble through the building wi th refreshments in hand and enjoy the many colors of CCRMA musicianship. URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/210/21063 LOCATION:The Knoll (CCRMA)\n660 Lomita Court\nStanford\, CA 95305 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080011Z DTSTART:20091113T150000 SUMMARY:A Great American Thing: A Symposium in Honor of Wanda Corn UID:events_stanford_edu_20469 DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a weekend celebrating Wanda Corn\, the Rob ert and Ruth Halperin Professor Emerita in Art History. During her nearl y thirty-year tenure at Stanford\, Professor Corn not only reshaped the field of American art history but served a term as Director of the Stanf ord Humanities Center and another as Acting Director of the Stanford Mus eum (now called the Cantor Arts Center). This free\, two-day symposium\, led by friends and the many art historians she trained\, honors her sch olarship\, her pedagogy and her countless contributions to both art hist ory and the university.\n\n\nAll events are free and open to the public. No registration or tickets are required. For full event schedule\, go t o http://art.stanford.edu
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\n\n\n\nSYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE\n\n Friday\, November 13\, 2009\n\n3 pm - Arrival / Coffee\n4 pm - We lcome\n4:15-6 pm - Session 1\n6 pm - Welcome Reception (Art Lobby)\n\nSaturday\, November 14\, 2009\n\n8:45 am - Coffee & Light Refreshme nts\n9:30-11 am - Session 2\n11-11:15 am - Break\n11:15 am-12:45 pm - Se ssion 3\n12:45-1:45 pm - Lunch Break\n1:45-3:15 pm - Session 4\n3:15-3:3 0 pm - Coffee Break\n3:30-5 pm - Session 5\n5-6:30 pm - Wanda Corn’s Pre sentation
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\n\n\nPRESENTERS\n\nMary Campbell\, Stanford U niversity\nDavid Cateforis\, University of Kansas\nKeith Eggener\, Unive rsity of Missouri-Columbia\nElizabeth Hutchinson – Barnard University\nC aroline Jones\, Massachusetts Institute of Technology\nPatti Junker\, Se attle Art Museum\nCarolyn Kastner\, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum\, Santa Fe\n Tirza Latimer\, California College of the Arts\nDavid Lubin\, Wake Fores t University\nAnnelise Madsen\, Stanford University\nPam McClusky\, Seat tle Art Museum\nKristin Schwain\, University of Missouri\nGwendolyn Dubo is Shaw\, University of Pennsylvania\nLouise Siddons\, Oklahoma State Un iversity\nCherise Smith\, University of Texas at Austin\nEllen Wiley Tod d\, George Mason University\nJason Weems\, University of California\, Ri verside\nCécile Whiting\, University of California\, Irvine
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\n\ n\nSPECIAL HOTEL RATES FOR THE SYMPOSIUM\n\nStanford Terrace I nn\n531 Stanford Ave.\, Stanford\, CA 94306\n(800) 729-0332\nhttp:// stanfordterraceinn.com\n\nRate: $139/night for single occupancy | $149/n ight for double occupancy\nReference: Wanda Corn Symposium or Group #130 2\nAmenities: complimentary breakfast\, shuttle to and from campus\n\nStanford Guest House\n2575 Sand Hill Road\, Menlo Park\, CA 94025\n (650) 926-2800\nhttp://guesthouse.stanford.edu\n\nRate: $109 for Novembe r 13 / $99 for November 14\nReference: Wanda Corn Symposium\nAmenities: complimentary morning beverages and weekend pastries\, shuttle to and fr om campus
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\n\n\nVISITOR INFORMATION\n\nAnnenberg Auditor ium is located in the basement level of the Nathan Cummings Art Building \, 435 Lasuen Mall\, Stanford\, CA 94305. The Department of Art & Art Hi story main telephone line is (650) 723-3404.\n\nParking – Free from 4 PM on Monday to Friday\, and all day on weekends. \n URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/204/20469 LOCATION:Annenberg Auditorium END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080011Z DTSTART:20091114T084500 SUMMARY:A Great American Thing: A Symposium in Honor of Wanda Corn UID:events_stanford_edu_20471 DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a weekend celebrating Wanda Corn\, the Rob ert and Ruth Halperin Professor Emerita in Art History. During her nearl y thirty-year tenure at Stanford\, Professor Corn not only reshaped the field of American art history but served a term as Director of the Stanf ord Humanities Center and another as Acting Director of the Stanford Mus eum (now called the Cantor Arts Center). This free\, two-day symposium\, led by friends and the many art historians she trained\, honors her sch olarship\, her pedagogy and her countless contributions to both art hist ory and the university.\n\nAll events are free and open to the public. N o registration or tickets are required. For full event schedule\, go to http://art.stanford.edu.
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\n\nSYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE\n\n\n Friday\, November 13\, 2009\n\n3 pm - Arrival / Coffee\n\n4 pm - Wel come\n\n4:15-6 pm - Session 1\n\n6 pm - Welcome Reception (Art Lobby)\n\ n\nSaturday\, November 14\, 2009\n\n8:45 am - Coffee & Light Refr eshments\n\n9:30-11 am - Session 2\n\n11-11:15 am - Break\n\n11:15 am-12 :45 pm - Session 3\n\n12:45-1:45 pm - Lunch Break\n\n1:45-3:15 pm - Sess ion 4\n\n3:15-3:30 pm - Coffee Break\n\n3:30-5 pm - Session 5\n\n5-6:30 pm - Wanda Corn's Presentation
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\n\nPRESENTERS\n\nMary Ca mpbell\, Stanford University\n\nDavid Cateforis\, University of Kansas\n \nKeith Eggener\, University of Missouri-Columbia\n\nElizabeth Hutchinso n — Barnard University\n\nCaroline Jones\, Massachusetts Institute of Te chnology\n\nPatti Junker\, Seattle Art Museum\n\nCarolyn Kastner\, Georg ia O'Keeffe Museum\, Santa Fe\n\nTirza Latimer\, California College of t he Arts\n\nDavid Lubin\, Wake Forest University\n\nAnnelise Madsen\, Sta nford University\n\nPam McClusky\, Seattle Art Museum\n\nKristin Schwain \, University of Missouri\n\nGwendolyn Dubois Shaw\, University of Penns ylvania\n\nLouise Siddons\, Oklahoma State University\n\nCherise Smith\, University of Texas at Austin\n\nEllen Wiley Todd\, George Mason Univer sity\n\nJason Weems\, University of California\, Riverside\n\nCécile Whi ting\, University of California\, Irvine
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\n\n\nSPECIAL HOTEL RATES FOR THE SYMPOSIUM\n\nStanford Terrace Inn\n\n531 Stanf ord Ave.\, Stanford\, CA 94306\n\n(800) 729-0332\n\nwebsite\n\nRate: $13 9/night for single occupancy | $149/night for double occupancy\n\nRefere nce: Wanda Corn Symposium or Group #1302\n\nAmenities: complimentary bre akfast\, shuttle to and from campus\n\nStanford Guest House\n\n25 75 Sand Hill Road\, Menlo Park\, CA 94025\n\n(650) 926-2800\n\nwebsite\n \nRate: $109 for November 13 / $99 for November 14\n\nReference: Wanda C orn Symposium\n\nAmenities: complimentary morning beverages and weekend pastries\, shuttle to and from campus
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\n\n\nVISITOR INFORMAT ION\n\nAnnenberg Auditorium is located in the basement level of the Nathan Cummings Art Building\, 435 Lasuen Mall\, Stanford\, CA 94305. Th e Department of Art & Art History main telephone line is (650) 723-3404. \n\nParking — Free from 4 PM on Monday to Friday\, and all day on weeken ds. URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/204/20471 LOCATION:Annenberg Auditorium END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080011Z DTSTART:20091119T190000 SUMMARY:My Name is Rachel Corrie UID:events_stanford_edu_20805 DESCRIPTION:The Stanford Department of Drama and the Stanford Theatre Act ivist Mobilization Project (STAMP) are proud to announce a staged readin g - the San Francisco Bay Area premiere - of the thought-provoking play\ , "My Name is Rachel Corrie."\n\nThis show follows one girl’s true story of struggle through adolescence\, self-discovery\, and idealism as she bursts through her familiar world of Olympia\, WA to the conflict-ridden Gaza strip as a volunteer aid worker. Taken from the poetic\, gritty\, and comedic writings of Rachel Corrie\, this one woman show celebrates t he precarious young life an emerging social hero right up until she is k illed by an Israeli Defense Forces bulldozer while working for social ju stice and peace in the Gaza Strip in March 2003\, teaching us all import ant lessons about global conflict\, peace\, and our own responsibility t o advance change in our world. \n\nThe performances feature an impressiv e line-up of post-show discussion speakers including Rabbi Michael Lerne r\, Professor Joel Beinin\, and Professor Tom Sheehan. URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/208/20805 LOCATION:Nitery Theater in the Old Union END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080011Z DTSTART:20091119T193000 SUMMARY:Thanksgiving Harvest Reading with David Mas Masumoto UID:events_stanford_edu_20047 DESCRIPTION:Please join us on the Thursday before Thanksgiving for a read ing by the much-admired writer\, popular columnist\, and organic peach f armer David Mas Masumoto. Masumoto is the award-winning author of nine b ooks including Epitaph for a Peach\, Harvest Son\, Four Seasons in Fi ve Senses\, Letters to the Valley\, and Heirlooms. This Fall he is publishing a memoir entitled Wisdom of the Last Farmer. A t hird-generation farmer\, Masumoto grows certified organic peaches\, nect arines\, grapes\, and raisins. He works with his family on their eighty- acre organic farm south of Fresno\, and is a persuasive advocate for org anic farming\, small farms\, and diversified agriculture. He is also a c olumnist for the Fresno Bee\, and has written for The New York Times Magazine\, USA Today\, and the Los Angeles Times.\n\nHailed by The New York Times as “a poet of farming\,” and b y the Los Angeles Times as a “Rockstar Farmer” who “uses his farm as Thoreau did his Walden Pond\,” Masumoto weaves together stories of f amily and farming\, and life and death\, to reveal age-old wisdom that i s fast disappearing—and urgently needed. Through Masumoto’s quiet eloque nce\, we see how our own destinies are involved in the future of our foo d\, the land\, and the farm.\n\nPlease join us for what promises to be a delightful and memorable evening with one of California’s most inspirin g writers.\n URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/200/20047 LOCATION:Geology Corner (Bldg 320)\, Room 105 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080011Z DTSTART:20091119T200000 SUMMARY:Moshe Halbertal " At the Threshold of Forgiveness: On Law and Nar rative in the Talmud" - The Aaron-Roland Lecture in Jewish Studies UID:events_stanford_edu_21047 DESCRIPTION:Moshe Halbertal is the Gruss Professor at NYU School of Law a nd a professor of Jewish thought and philosophy at Hebrew University. He received his Ph.D. from Hebrew University in 1989\, and from 1988-92 he was a fellow at the Society of Fellows at Harvard University. Moshe Hal bertal has also served as a visiting professor at Harvard Law School\, a nd at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.\nHe is the author of th e books Idolatry (co-authored with Avishai Margalit)\, and People of the Book: Canon\, Meaning\, and Authority\, both published by Harvard Unive rsity Press\, and of Concealment and Revelation published by Princeton U niversity Press. He has also authored two books\, Interpretative Revolut ions in the Making\, and Between Torah and Wisdom: R Menachem ha-Meiri a nd The Maimonidean Halakhists in Provence\, both published in Hebrew by Magnes Press. His latest book in Hebrew is By Way of Truth: Nachmanides and the Creation of Tradition\, published by the Shalom Hartman Institut e.\nMoshe Halbertal is the recipient of the Bruno Award of the Rothschil d Foundation\, and the Goldstein-Goren award for the best book in Jewish thought in the years 1997-2000.\n URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/210/21047 LOCATION:Levinthal Hall-Stanford Humanities Center END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080011Z DTSTART:20091202T190000 SUMMARY:Eudora Welty at 100 UID:events_stanford_edu_20035 DESCRIPTION:This year marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of one of America’s finest prose writers\, the incomparable Eudora Welty\, a nativ e and life-long resident of Jackson\, Mississippi. Welty’s beautifully c rafted\, joyous\, and wise stories\, often set in the South\, cross the lines of color and class\, offering unforgettable portraits of a region and its people. She was the author of ten collections of short stories\, six novels\, and five books of literary criticism. Her many awards incl ude the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1973.\n\nTo celebrate Welty’s 100t h birthday\, Continuing Studies has invited her biographer and friend Su zanne Marrs to talk about Welty and her legacy. Marrs’ 2005 biography\, entitled simply Eudora Welty\, is regarded as the definitive life story\ , and one that the Dallas Morning News said “captures the humorous and u nconventional spirit of one of the South’s greatest writers.”\n\nOur eve ning celebration also features readings of some of Welty’s most popular short stories (“Why I Live at the P.O.\,” “A Worn Path\,” “Old Mr. Marbl ehall”) and a scene from the play based on her novella\, The Ponder Hear t\, which drew critical praise on Broadway in 1956. These performances—b y Courtney Walsh\, Aleta Hayes\, and Rush Rehm—will be supplemented by p rojections of Welty’s extraordinary photographs\, many of them made whil e she worked for the WPA in the 1930s\, bearing clear-eyed witness to th e human and architectural landscape of the South.\n\nSUZANNE MARRS\nProf essor of English\, Millsaps College\nSuzanne Marrs’ research centers on the American South and especially on Eudora Welty. She has lectured wide ly on Welty’s fiction\, serving as consultant for the 1987 BBC documenta ry on the writer. In addition to numerous articles\, Marrs has published The Welty Collection\, Welty and Politics\, One Writer’s Imagination: T he Fiction of Eudora Welty\, and the biography Eudora Welty. Recipient o f the 1998 Phoenix Award for Outstanding Achievement in Eudora Welty Sch olarship\, Professor Marrs is currently Welty Foundation Scholar in Resi dence.\n\nRUSH REHM\nProfessor of Drama and Classics\; Artistic Director \, Stanford Summer Theater (SST)\nRush Rehm has written extensively on G reek tragedy\, including Greek Tragic Theatre\, Marriage to Death\, The Play of Space: Spatial Transformation in Greek Tragedy\, and Radical The atre: Greek Tragedy and the Modern World. Rehm has taught several course s for Continuing Studies and the Master of Liberal Arts program. Last ye ar he directed “The Time of Your Life: A William Saroyan Evening” and th is past Summer he directed The Electra Festival for Stanford Summer Thea ter. URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/200/20035 LOCATION:Cubberley Auditorium\, School of Education END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091107T080011Z DTSTART:20091209T073000 SUMMARY:Stanford Breakfast Briefings: Long Life in the 21st Century UID:events_stanford_edu_21081 DESCRIPTION:Presents: Laura Carstensen\nProfessor of Psychology\, Stanfor d University\n\nWe are approaching a watershed moment in human history. In just a few years\, the number of Americans over 60 will surpass the n umber of children under 15. By the time our children reach old age\, liv ing to 100 will be commonplace.\n\nRather than perceiving this as good n ews\, most people respond to extended longevity with discussions about c oping with or halting the aging process. Yet\, to the extent that people arrive at old age mentally sharp\, physically fit\, and financially sec ure\, long-lived societies will thrive.\n\nProfessor Carstensen argues t hat among the most pressing needs of the modern world is the development of “longevity science.” Science and technology offer alternatives to ca tastrophic predictions about societies that are overburdened by frail el ders. Advances in science can form the basis of a culture in which we im prove quality of life at all ages\, and psychological science must be an essential part of that process. URL:http://events-prod.stanford.edu/events/210/21081 LOCATION:Stanford Faculty Club 439 Lagunita Ave END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR