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Fordham Conversations: School Bullying, Human Nature, And...
7.06.13 12:07am
With the school year starting, Fordham Conversations looks at school bullying from an alternative perspective.
WFUV's Claudia Morell talks about school bullying and teen suicide with Loyola High School English and Philosophy teacher Christian Gregory and Fordham University Psychology Professor Doctor Peggy Andover.
Christian Gregory completed a cross-country bike campaign over the summer to raise awareness about school bullying and teen suicide. I first learned about the campaign on Facebook, and later found he had also kept a blog while on the road. In it, he spoke not only about the hardships and experiences associated with cycling 4,000 miles; he also spent a significant amount of time reflecting on the issue of bullying while attempting to connect it to philosophical discussions of human nature. This is followed by an interview with Doctor Peggy Andover who is a cognitive behavioral psychologist and professor at Fordham University. Her research focuses on non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) and attempted suicide. I approached Doctor Andover because I wanted to know how a psychologist viewed the connection between school bullying and suicide. I especially wanted to know if the social settings in schools are strong enough to exacerbate or trigger the emotions, or risk factors, that drive people to harm themselves.


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Dysfunctional Posttraumatic Cognitions, Posttraumatic Stress and Depression in Children and Adolescents Exposed to Trauma: A Network Analysis." J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 2020;61(1):77-87."
Evaluating the Acceptability and Validity of Assessing Pain and Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms in an Adaptable eHealth System for School-Age Children." Clin Pract Pediatr Psychol. 2019;7(1):9-19."
Introduction to the Special Issue: Trauma-informed Care for Children and Families." Psychol Serv. 2019;16(1):1-6."
Opportunities for Nurses to Support Recovery After Pediatric Injury: Relationships Among Posttraumatic Stress, Hope, and Quality of Life." J Spec Pediatr Nurs. 2019:e12234."
A Parent-Led Intervention to Promote Recovery Following Pediatric Injury: Study Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial." Trials. 2019;20(1):137."
The Cellie Coping Kit for Children with Injury: Initial Feasibility, Acceptability, and Outcomes." Child Care Health Dev. 2018."
Posttraumatic Stress in Children After Injury: The Role of Acute Pain and Opioid Medication Use." Pediatr Emerg Care. 2018."
Application of a Framework to Implement Trauma-Informed Care Throughout a Pediatric Health Care Network." J Contin Educ Health Prof. 2017;37(1):55-60."
An Initial Application of a Biopsychosocial Framework to Predict Posttraumatic Stress Following Pediatric Injury." Health Psychol. 2017."
Brief Practical Screeners in English and Spanish for Acute Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms in Children." J Trauma Stress. 2016;29(6):483-490."
A Novel Adaptation of a Parent–Child Observational Assessment Tool for Appraisals and Coping in Children Exposed to Acute Trauma." European Journal of Psychotraumatology. 2016;7."
A Qualitative Analysis of Children's Emotional Reactions During Hospitalization Following Injury." J Trauma Nurs. 2016;23(4):194-201."
Acute Pain and Posttraumatic Stress After Pediatric Injury." Journal of Pediatric Psychology. 2015."
Evaluating predictive screening for children's post-injury mental health: New data and a replication." Eur J Psychotraumatol. 2015;6:29313."
A New Method for Assessing Content Validity in Model-Based Creation and Iteration of eHealth Interventions." J. Med. Internet Res.. 2015;17(4):e95."
Posttraumatic Stress in School-age Children and Adolescents: Medical Providers' Role From Diagnosis to Optimal Management." Pediatric Health, Medicine and Therapeutics. 2015;2015:6(6):167-180."
Systematic, theoretically-grounded development and feasibility testing of an innovative, preventive web-based game for children exposed to acute trauma." Clin Pract Pediatr Psychol. 2015;3(1):12-24."
Traumatic Stress, Depression, and Recovery: Child and Parent Responses After Emergency Medical Care for Unintentional Injury." Pediatr Emerg Care. 2015;31(11):737-42."
Child coping, parent coping assistance, and post-traumatic stress following pediatric physical injury." Child Care Health Dev. 2013;39(2):171-7."
Acceptability and feasibility of family use of The Cellie Cancer Coping Kit." Support Care Cancer. 2012;20(12):3315-24."
Acute stress symptoms in children: results from an international data archive." J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2012;51(8):812-20."

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The Gods of Pegana, by Lord Dunsany, [1905], at sacred-texts.com
When MANA-YOOD-SUSHAI had made the gods and Skarl, Skarl made a drum, and began to beat upon it that he might drum for ever. Then because he was weary after the making of the gods, and because of the drumming of Skarl, did MANA-YOOD-SUSHAI grow drowsy and fall asleep.
And there fell a hush upon the gods when they saw that MANA rested, and there was silence on Pegana save for the drumming of Skarl. Skarl sitteth upon the mist before the feet of MANA-YOOD-SUSHAI, above the gods of Pegana, and there he beateth his drum. Some say that the Worlds and the Suns are but the echoes of the drumming of Skarl, and others say that they be dreams that arise in the mind of MANA because of the drumming of Skarl, as one may dream whose rest is troubled by sound of song, but none knoweth, for who hath heard the voice of MANA-YOOD-SUSHAI, or who hath seen his drummer?
Whether the season be winter or whether it be summer, whether it be morning among the worlds or whether it be night, Skarl still beateth his drum, for the purposes of the gods are not yet fulfilled. Sometimes the arm of Skarl grows weary; but still he beateth his drum, that the gods may do the work of the gods, and the worlds go on, for if he cease for an instant then MANA-YOOD-SUSHAI will start awake, and there will be worlds nor gods no more.
But, when at the last the arm of Skarl shall cease to beat his drum, silence shall startle Pegana like thunder in a cave, and MANA-YOOD-SUSHAI shall cease to rest.
Then shall Skarl put his drum upon his back and walk forth into the void beyond the worlds, because it is THE END, and the work of Skarl is over.
There may arise some other god whom Skarl may serve, or it may be that he shall perish; but to Skarl it shall matter not, for he shall have done the work of Skarl.


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Snowfall and mixed precipitation predicted for Connecticut this weekend
Connecticut could see some snowfall and mixed precipitation this weekend, but estimates vary across the board.
"We're going to start with some wet snow, go over to rain, and finish up with some wet snow," said WTNH meteorologist Gil Simmons in his Friday morning forecast. "Very tough for the specific timing and what kind of precipitation for each point in Connecticut."
Fox CT meteorologist Joe Furey said that southern Connecticut will see a mix of rain and sleet beginning Saturday at 4 p.m., which will change into rain early in the night and end in snow late Saturday night and into Sunday morning. "By Sunday afternoon, it's pretty much moving away."
Furey estimated a coating to 3 inches for the southern half of the state and between 3 and 6 inches for most of northern Connecticut in his Thursday night forecast. Simmons estimated between none and two inches along the shoreline.
Furey noted that any winter storm advisories issued were for parts of Massachusetts and New Hampshire and not Connecticut, making it a "tough call on accumulations." Simmons said that these states are "looking at a foot plus."
"I think you can be happy if you're tired of the snow," said Simmons. "We are not going to get the biggest part of this."
The National Weather Service has also predicted a chance of snow early Saturday morning and possible freezing rain up until 10 a.m., making slippery travel conditions a possibility.


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SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (August 1, 2017) – Festival Mozaic has engaged Onstage Publications to publish its program books beginning in the 2017-2018 season.
Onstage will manage and publish the arts groups' traditional paper program books and also offer its Stageview product, the world's first and only app that allows program books to be viewed by patrons on their mobile device.
Stageview not only changes how patrons view their program books, but also transforms the way performing arts groups and their advertisers are able to interact with those filling the venues' seats. With Stageview, performing arts groups are able to utilize new marketing techniques such as surveying patrons, and tracking which ads they are viewing and how long each held their interest.
Performing arts program books are an integral piece to the overall experience while attending a live performance. However, the program books are a huge cost, and can add a lot of work to a performing arts organization's staff.
"We become an extension of the performing arts organizations' marketing team by taking over the advertising sales, layout and design, and publishing of the program books so they can do what they do best – produce quality performances for their community," said Norman Orlowski, president of Onstage Publications.
Onstage works with nearly 100 performing arts organizations throughout the country. The partnership with Festival Mozaic is one of more than a dozen new clients for Onstage in 2017 that have helped boost its market presence by 20 percent across the nation.
ABOUT ONSTAGE PUBLICATIONS: Onstage Publications is a performing arts program book publisher based out of Dayton, Ohio. Onstage Publications has developed a proven program book publishing system that helps performing arts organizations cut costs, gain more control of their time and improve the quality of their program books. Onstage is also the creator of Stageview, the world's first performing arts program book app, which allows patrons to view their program books on a smart device. Starting with the 2017 performance season, Onstage will provide digital signage to performing arts venues nationwide. The company, which was founded in 2001, employs 14 and serves nearly 100 performing arts organizations throughout the country. For more information on Onstage Publications, visit https://www.onstagepublications.com.
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Any soft spot I had for Family Guy toughened up years ago when the show's shtick wore out its welcome. And yet here I am, enjoying the crap out of this segment.
Why? Not only is it a pitch-perfect Street Fighter nod, they even used E Honda's stage, and got both "combatant's" special moves and jerky animation down pat.
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Local writer Eric Schmiedl will release Realities - a book on good versus evil with spiritual overtones - will have a book signing at Merrifield Book Shop this Saturday from 12 to 2 p.m.
Local author to release new book
A Woodstock author is releasing his debut fantasy novel.
Local writer Eric Schmiedl will release Realities – a novel exploring broad themes of good versus evil with spiritual overtones – during a book signing at Merrifield Book Shop this Saturday from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m.
Schmiedl said the evil in his novel is represented by Illyad – a time-travelling despot on the distant planet Valleria, who doesn't believe he's evil but ruthlessly uses his abilities to try to seize absolute power.
The forces of good rise against the villain at various points in Valleria's history, Schmiedl said.
"I came up with the idea for Realities from a waking dream," said Schmiedl, who also runs Operation Sharing's Writers' Cafe at the Canadian Mental Health Association Oxford and is the organization's director of print media.
Schmiedl has previously written two memoirs, Don Quixote Versus the Devil and South Korean Mania, which dealt with his struggles with bipolar disorder.
He's also a former reporter with the Sentinel-Review.
Schmiedl said Realities is envisioned as the first part of a larger trilogy, with the other two instalments in the saga already in the works.
A portion of the book sales will be donated to Operation Sharing.


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Connecticut bill modifies domestic violence laws
HARTFORD, Conn. -- Connecticut's House of Representatives has passed a bill modifying the state's domestic violence and sexual assault laws.
The bill, which passed Thursday 135-0, would provide additional protections to victims and people who apply for restraining orders.
It allows sexual assault victims to terminate rental agreements without penalty in certain circumstances. It also requests that courthouses provide alleged victims of family violence and their advocates a separate area from defendants.
The legislation would also establish a task force to investigate allowing a sexual assault victim who is not a member of the perpetrator's family to apply for a restraining order.
The bill now passes to the state Senate, which has until the end of the current legislative session on June 5 to take further action.


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I've got a newly installed Logon Activity monitor that sends me an email each morning. From the start there has been MANY logon failures for an admin acct (and there a few users that are having the same issue, I'll stay focused on the admin issue.)
How can I determine where the failed logins are coming from. It shows that the workstation is domain controller server,
Details:Cause: Pre-authentication information was invalid: usually means bad password.
This entry represents 60 matching events occurring within 600 seconds.
It appears there is a program set to activate, but the admin user/pw is invalid, but I can't find where it is coming from.
Is there help out there for me?
TIA, Phil.


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Barracuda Tries to Gobble-Up SourceFire
By Mark Hinkle
Over the last few years there has been a lot of fanfare around open source companies and their liquidation events. Most of the news has been around Sun's billion dollar acquisition of MySQL or the Citrix acquisition of Xen and even Yahoo's acquisition of Zimbra. In contrast there was little attention paid to the SourceFire. Actually if you ask most open source users about SourceFire they would probably answer "SourceWho?"
If you ask open source users if they have heard of ClamAV or Snort they probably would be able to tell you that they are the leading open source software for virus protection and intrusion detection respectively. Recently, SourceFire has been in the news a bit lately as Barracuda Networks has made a bid for their open source competitor.
Founded in 2001 SourceFire (NASDAQ: FIRE) went public in May 2007. The IPO gave Sourcefire a market capitalization of $347 million. In October 2005 the Justice Department blocked the sale of SourceFire to Israeli owned Checkpoint Software for $225 million. Now Barracuda Networks is making an offer for SourceFire for $188 million. Sourcefire's revenue for the first quarter of 2008 was 13.6 million and they lost 29 cents per share. Despite this negative trend I still think SourceFire can turn around their backslide by leveraging some under-utilized assets.
Here's what stuck me as I started poking around, theoretically a Google search will return the most relevant results for a search. For example when I search for intrusion detection the first two results are Wikipedia entries (both which mention Snort) and number three is the Snort.org home page. SourceFire doesn't show up in the first 50 search results for intrusion detection.
What this tells me is that the Snort brand is considerably stronger than the SourceFire brand. In fact as the page says Snort is the de facto standard for intrusion detection/prevention.
I am a strong believer that if you make open source software you lead with your software and follow with your services. What I mean is that you invest in your open source software community, build loyal users, make the software successful then you capitalize in a way that benefits both your users and your company. I don't see evidence that Sourcefire has done that to greatest degree.
Most open source companies benefit by sharing the goodwill they created with their software by sharing their names (i.e. MySQL, Red Hat in the pre-Fedora days, Zimbra, SugarCRM). I also have seen some companies fail to capitalize on their brand (Remember when Novell renamed SUSE to Novell Linux Desktop, a big flop). I am surprised that SourceFire does so little to capitalize on their strong security brand. For example, why not name the company Snort Networks.
I also like to check out user forums in open source projects as a sign of health of a project. I was surprised that I wasn't even allowed to read the forums without registering in detail. Even after I registered I was unable to login and received a must have cookies enabled message (My browser was set to accept cookies but that's not the point.) The barrier to participation was rather high especially for an open source project. On top of that having your content indexed by Google is a huge help in search results. I was shocked that an open source project was so closed to participation.
Another asset is new to the SourceForge family ClamAV. In my opinion the acquisition of ClamAV should have helped them build their brand. ClamAV has been downloaded over 13 million times according to SourceForge.net and distributed various other ways for many years. The ClamAV mailing lists show a fairly good volume of email and show the signs of a vital open source community. The thing that was puzzling to me is that ClamAV website is almost devoid of mentions of the SourceFire sponsorship. I don't think they need to wallpaper the site with the SourceFire logo but surely they should get even some minimum benefit from being a sponsor.
Now why do I focus on the marketing aspect of open source? After taking a look at the SourceFire 2007 Annual report I see some interesting things. According to their financials for last year they had revenue of 42.7 million dollars and sales and marketing costs of 25.8 million. That is 60% of revenue spent adding new customers. In contrast their cost of R&D is 34% of revenue. So controlling costs or at least helping leverage what they are spending should have the biggest impact on their profitability.
As I look at the Barracuda Networks offer, it seems like their play is to take a competitor off the market and convert SourceFire customers to their products. And given what others had been willing to pay for SourceFire in the past they probably would be doing so at a bargain price. I believe that SourceFire needs to take a gutcheck and realize that they have been successful because they simply executed a good software strategy typical of a proprietary software company. They made a good product, they offered a good value, and they had good results. However, there is a lot of competition in enterprise software and I think they have never fully leveraged their open source brand. When times get tough you need to tighten your belt and squeeze out every bit of efficiency. Open source offers a lot of efficiency in distribution, marketing, product management powered by a huge community. Figuring out how to better leverage that community is their best opportunity to reverse their fortunes.
[Disclosure: Michele Perry SourceFire's Chief Marketing Officer is an advisor to my company, Zenoss, though she may not appreciate my commentary on their marketing plan ]
[Barracuda Photo Courtesy of Festeban CC non-commercial license http://www.flickr.com/photos/festeban/9777900/]
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Current Theme Song (aka what's playing on my ipod right now): Journey Through the Desert by Harry Gregson-Williams [Prince of Persia soundtrack].
This may have to be an annual tradition. I put this in last year and I can't help but include it again wafting scent of burning keypads being typed into oblivion fills the air. Yep, for those of you who don't know, it's NaNoWriMo (or NaNoRevisMo) again! National Novel Writing Month where you try to write 50,000 words of a novel in 30 days.
This is perhaps one of the funniest things I have ever found in relation to NaNoWriMo - Author vs. Character by Lazette M. Gifford. Warning: The language borderlines the PG-13 category, just so you know. I know most don't mind, but since I don't use that language here I thought I'd give the heads up. (h***, s***, and d***). You will never look at poodles the same way again, I can promise you that. Enjoy and good luck to all those
crazy incredible enough to do this!
'The night passes quietly. Character sleeps soundly and wakes up at first light. Rooster crows. Climbs down from the hay loft and stretches, pleased to see that the fog of the night before has cleared and he can now see the town -- a couple dozen buildings, including a travelers' inn. He'd found refuge in their stable. Grateful for the chance to sleep so comfortably --'
You know, I've been quiet and gone along with you for the previous four chapters without a complaint, but this is too much. I've spent six days sleeping on leaves, huddled by a tree in the rain, and half-drowned and miserable. And now you think leeping in a hay pile is comfortable! I tossed and turned all night. Hay isn't down feathers, you know -- it's dried twigs. They stab. And what the hell is this? (holds up something between his fingers)
(peers closely) Looks like a needle to me.
Right. What perverted person would put a needle in a pile of hay? It jabbed me.
Did it? (looks hopefully at the needle, then glances at research books) Is it rusty? Tetanus... severe muscle spasms, also called lockjaw... that might be interesting. I hadn't thought of an illness like that, before the shots and everything. Let me see it.
See what?
The needle!
(brushing hands) What needle? There's no needle here. Can't be. This is pre-industrial. No needle... and no tetanus.
(reluctantly puts aside the books) Oh well. Okay, where were we?
New day, no fog, etc.
Right. Okay. 'Character makes his way through the stable yard and past the open door to the inn's kitchen --'
'His stomach growling --'
If you're hungry, eat the journey bread in your pocket.
Are you joking? That stuff's so hard I could chip rocks with it. A caveman with this journey bread could have ruled the world.
'Character walks past the door and out into the street where he sees something that makes him shut up and forget everything else. There, on the hill top overlooking the village, is the black stone castle that has haunted his dreams for the last five years! He anxiously turns that way, heading toward the distant castle gate --'
Are you crazy? Or do you just think I'm stupid?
What's the problem now? That's the castle -- your goal in sight --
Yeah, the castle. Those dreams would be the ones where I wake up in a cold sweat, screaming because the castle sucked me in and buried me alive. And now you expect me to blithely head straight up and walk in? To hell with that. I'm heading the opposite way on this road, just as fast as I can --
Back toward the toll gate and the guards you so carefully avoided last night? Oh, good plan.
Damn. I forgot. What's to the right?
'A fetid swamp still curling with the last tendrils of the fog from the night before. It must once have been part of a lake and port. Character can even make out the masts of ships buried in the muck, vines twining up across tattled sails.... and the bleached bones of men, trapped within those ropes of green, as though the plants had suddenly reached out and grabbed them --'
I get the idea. Thank you so much for another new level of nightmare to add to my others. What's to the left?
'To the east' -- left for Characters not paying attention to where they are --
'he can see a few more buildings, some of them obviously abandoned. Beyond that
are rocky fields and small plots of dying plants. Less than a mile away is the
shadow of the forest --'
Excellent! Oh, and may I say that five chapters is a bit long to be waiting for a name?
I want it to be the right name, the perfect name. I'll know it when I see it.
Fine. Whatever. 'Character casts one worried look at the brooding black castle and sets off on foot past the falling buildings and into the fields --'
'Almost immediately, Character hears the baying of dogs and looks worriedly toward the castle. He can see the pack that is pacing beneath the walls, he thinks waiting for the morning meal. But now they've seen him moving in the empty land below --'
Don't worry. They're only poodles.
A pack of poodles? Toy? Miniature? Standard?
A mix. And actually they're only half poodle.
(eyeing them cautiously and trying to guess if he can reach the forest and get away from them) Half poodle and half what?
(stops and shakes head) Wolves. You crossed poodles and wolves. And the reason was...?
Wild killers, less fur to clean up. 'They have spotted Character, and the woodle pooves bay -- or maybe yip -- again.'
Woodle pooves. I'm getting an image of the dogs here.... oh man, that's just wrong.
Are you trying for the trees or not?
Can I make it?
Probably. They're kind of inbred woodle pooves. Not entirely bright.
Okay then. Better than the castle.
'Character jogs along the broken path between the rocks as the woodle pooves gather at the top of the hill. He's more than halfway to the cursed forest before they --'
(stops) Cursed forest? You didn't say anything about the forest being cursed!
Let's see: Deadly swamp, dying fields, big brooding black castle.... of course the forest is cursed. Duh.
Good point. My mistake. What kind of curse?
(flips through notes) 'A century ago a major battle was fought at the village. A mage-king, seeing all about to be lost, cast a desperate spell to save his throne. He brought not only the plants of the lake but also the trees into the battle. They won, but unfortunately, the trees developed a taste for blood. They on't kill you... well, not right away.' You can escape in a couple years. You won't be sane, of course, but I think you might be an interesting character if you were insane.
I don't need a cursed forest of vampire trees to drive me crazy. I've got you. 'Character, sensing something evil from the forest -- or maybe not wanting to risk his luck with the woodle pooves -- turns around and hurries back to the village.'
'Character soon reaches the street and turns toward the castle.'
What do you mean no? You've found out there is no other direction. Now start up for the castle --
I am not going to that frigging castle!
Do you know how long I've been setting this moment up? That castle has been in your dreams --
Nightmares --
For five years! You've been pursuing it since you came of age!
I had dreams about Daisy from the Bread and Barrel for ten years! Why couldn't I pursue her instead?
This isn't that kind of book!
Like I haven't noticed!
'Character, reluctantly realizing he has no choice, and that this is his destiny, heads for --'
The privy. It has to be around here by the inn somewhere.
You're just putting off the inevitable.
Where is the privy? Or we're going to have something else inevitable happen.
'The privy is at the opposite side of the stable. Character can see the swarms of flies and flinches at the stench as he nears --'
I don't think bulls have anything to do with this problem.
Look, this is stupid. The world has magic. The first thing they're going to use it for is to fix the stink from the outhouse! 'Character heads for the privy, nothing the faint scent of lilacs and roses. Butterflies dance in the air.'
'As he slips in and closes the door --'
A little privacy, if you don't mind. Out.
Character steps back out, looking toward the door to the kitchen again.
Too bad you don't have any money.
Character digs into jacket and pulls out shiny silver coin.
You've been holding out on me.
I got it off one of those five bandits who tried to kill me back in Chapter Three. You know, right before the bridge -- the one that had borne the weight of a thousand peasants and their wagons -- gave way under me for no apparent reason and I nearly drowned.
Yeah, but you lost the bandits who were trying to kill you.
I'm going for breakfast. Then I'm going to lay low for the rest of the day and escape the way I got in. Don't even bother to say anything. 'Character goes in and orders food, has a quiet leisurely meal, lingering over bread and honey. The local serving wench isn't bad looking, either. She reminds him of Daisy, the girl he left behind. They might have a pleasant day together. He finishes up the food, pushing away the plate --'
'And the guards, having been relieved of their posts at the gate, come in for their own breakfast. They immediately spot Character and know he's a stranger who didn't come through their gate. Worse, though, is that they recognize him.'
What? I've never been here! They can't --
'The guards fall on him, and he's soon beaten to his knees --'
Beaten? But -- but --
Loter, Captain of the Guard:
Another one! You look like your great-grandfather, boy! We're not going to have any more mad mage-kings!
Selis, Another Guard:
I didn't think that dream crap would work, but hell, what is this? Fifteen of them now? Up boy.
'Selis grabs Character by the arm and hoists him to his feet, taking him outside. Captain Loter loops a rope around his arms and ties it to his saddle --'
But --
'Loter kicks his horse into a trot, heading toward the castle gate, and only barely slows when Character stumbles and falls, dragged along the rough road. Bloody, bruised and panting, Character gets back to his feet and tries to jog along behind the horse.'
Look, it doesn't have to be like this --
I gave you the chance to come here quietly. You really shouldn't argue with your author. It just gives me more time to come up with something more interesting to do.
Maybe the woodle pooves wouldn't be so bad --
'The group slips through the gate and into the shadows of a courtyard where it seems the sun never reaches. People scurry for the shadows and hide at their approach. Somewhere a man bellows in rage. Loter doesn't pause, as though the place unsettles him. The three head straight into the building -- cold, damp walls, mold in corners, the sounds of rats running. Salis pushes open a door and the head down the first set of stairs, then another... down and down and farther until it seems...'
'The castle has swallowed him alive.' Yeah, I get it.
'Finally they reach a hall lit by a flickering torch, obviously magically fueled because the cobwebs are so thick that no one could have been down this way in a long time. Salis grimaces and uses his sword to cut through them. Decay and death scent the air, and the only sound is hysterical crying from behind a door they pass. "Can I go home now? Please, can I go home?" Loter stops at another door and nods. Salis pries up the rusted metal bar.'
I hope he gets tetanus.
'The door comes open with a loud wail of unused hinges and Loter shoves Character inside and down to his knees again.'
What's your name, boy? We need it for the records.
Character looks plaintively at author.
Author grabs name books.
Guards, anxious to get out of this hell hole,
look at author.
Yes, fine. Right. Okay! I found the name: Varyn!
(looks back at the guard) My name is Varyn.
We'll write it in the book, Barren --
No, no. Varyn, with a V and a --
'The guards slam the door closed. Varyn can hear the bar dropping into place and the guards hurrying away, and the hysterical whisper of someone else: "Can I go home now? Can I go home now?" Varyn leans back, ignoring blood, scrapes and bruises. He knows -- having seen the cobwebs -- that no one is going to come back for a long, long time.'
(bangs head on door a couple times) This is great. Wonderful. Do you have any clue how you're going to get me back out of here?
Well... Do you still have that journey bread?


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Carolyn Abbate
Carolyn Abbate is among the world's foremost musicologists. A virtuoso practitioner of the field's traditional methodologies, she has also challenged their limits, mobilizing literary theory and philosophy to provoke new ways of thinking about music and understanding its experience. From her earliest essays, she has questioned familiar approaches to well-known works, reaching beyond their printed scores, their composer's intentions, and the technicalities of their performance, to explore the particular, physical impact of the medium upon performer and audience alike. Her May 2005 lecture was called "Overlooking the Ephemeral."
André Aciman
André Aciman is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and as Director of the Writers' Institute at City University of New York's Graduate Center, where he teaches the history of literary theory, the work of Marcel Proust, and the literature of memory and exile. A scholar of Proust and of the history of literary criticism, Aciman is known to a broad readership as the author of a memoir of Alexandria, Out of Egypt; of the novels Call Me by Your Name and Eight White Nights; and of numerous articles in the New York Review of Books and elsewhere. His Stanford Presidential Lecture in October, 2009, was called "Parallax: Exile As Metaphor. "
David Adjaye
Award-winning architect David Adjaye was the lead designer of he new Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC. Adjaye's Stanford Presidential Lecture was titled The Architecture of Civic Space, and it took place at Stanford University's Cubberley Auditorium on December 2, 2014.
Isabel Allende
Isabel Allende is one of Latin America's most visible female writers, author of several best-selling books. Born in Lima, Peru in 1942, Allende currently lives in Northern California. She is the author of La casa de los espíritus (The House of the Spirits), De amor y sombras (Of Love and Shadows), Eva Luna, El plan infinito (The Infinite Plan); and more recently Hija de la fortuna (Daughter of Fortune) and Retrato en Sepia (Portrait in Sepia). Isabel Allende visited Stanford as a Presidential Lecturer in the Humanities and Arts in May of 2004. Her lecture was entitled "A sense of place."
Svetlana Alpers
Svetlana Alpers is an art historian specializing in Baroque painting. She has written controversial books on Rubens, Rembrandt, and Dutch 17th-Century art, and is known for her innovative approaches to theoretical issues of narration and description in the visual arts. Alpers is one of a handful of art historians whose fresh, imaginative methodologies introduced the New Art History to a wider U.S. audience in the 1970s and 1980s. She is professor emerita (History of Art) at the University of California, Berkeley. She gave her lecture at Stanford on November 8, 1999 on "What Are We Looking For? Expectations in Art History."
Kwame Anthony Appiah
Philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah is the Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy, and Professor at the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University. The author of the 1992 "instant classic" In My Father's House, Appiah's principal and abiding concern is how we individually construct ourselves in dialogue with social circumstance, both private and public, past and present. He probes the complexity of this process of personal formation, emphasizing the opportunities as well as the dangers for self-creation in today's ethnically fluid and culturally hybrid world. Appiah spoke at Stanford on "The Ethics of Identity" in November, 2004.
Talal Asad
Talal Asad, the Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center. Asad has been a major force in the field of anthropology for many years, always pushing its boundaries. His recent writings, such as the monographs Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity (2003) and Genealogies of Religion: Discipline and Reasons of power in Christianity and Islam (1993) and have been focused on his investigations into secularism and modernity. Asad's October 2006 Presidential Lecture at Stanford was titled "Thinking About Blasphemy and Secular Criticism."
Pina Bausch
Choreographer and dancer Pina Bausch has directed the Tanztheater (dance theater) Wuppertal in Germany for 25 years. Her company is well known for provocative and innovative performances that combine dance, theater, music, and visual arts. The term dance theater began to be commonly used in the 1970s to describe this new genre that used whatever media is most effective in conveying and portraying what is being expressed. Bausch is often quoted as saying "I'm not interested in how people move, but what moves them." Her works are known for their exploration of relationships between people, particularly men and women, and confront issues of modern life. At times her work has drawn criticism and controversy, particularly in the United States, for its content and graphic depictions. When Bausch first started to choreograph her dance theater pieces, they were something totally different, even radical, and many reacted negatively to them. But they are now widely accepted and dance theater has become one of the major forces in modern dance today, largely due to Bausch. She has received many awards and is considered one of the most influential choreographers of our time. Pina Bausch conducted a public dance rehearsal and gave an onstage interview at Stanford on October 18, 1999.
Seyla Benhabib
Seyla Benhabib, author of Another Cosmopolitanism (2006) and The Rights of Others (2004), is a political philosopher who has worked throughout her academic career to clarify intellectually and critically what philosophy has to say about (and to) politics and social life. She has done that through critical examination of philosophers who speak to the political and social, from Hobbes, Hegel, and Kant to Arendt, Rawls, and Habermas, and by seeking empirically to relate and critique what political philosophers and political theorists of any era, including contemporaries, have to say about real-world issues that are both enduring and timeless. Her October, 2008, Presidential Lecture at Stanford was called "Cosmopolitan Norms, Human Rights & Democratic Iterations."
Homi Bhabha
Homi K. Bhabha gave a lecture at Stanford on March 6, 2000. Born in Bombay in 1949, Homi Bhabha received his D. Phil. in Oxford. After teaching English at Sussex University from 1978-1994, he began his tenure at the University of Chicago in 1994 where he is now the Chester D. Tripp Professor of Humanities. Widely know for his work in colonial theory, post-colonial theory and cosmopolitism, Bhabha is considered one of the world's foremost authorities on international cultures. Some of his publications are The Location of Culture (Routledge, 1994) and the edited volume Nation and Narration (Routledge, 1990).
Harold Bloom
Harold Bloom, an internationally distinguished literary critic and theorist, is Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale University and Berg Professor of English at New York University. The author of more than twenty books, ranging from early studies of British Romantic poets to recent commentaries on American millennial religion, Bloom is perhaps most familiar to general readers for The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages (1993), his polemical defense of the great writers of the Western tradition against the challenges of such academic fashions as deconstruction, feminism, Marxism, multiculturalism, and New Historicism.
Bloom was on campus from May 18-May 21, 1998. He spoke at Kresge Auditorium on May 18 at 7:00 p.m.
Karl Heinz Bohrer
Karl Heinz Bohrer is Professor for Modern German Literary History at the University of Bielefeld. An accomplished and productive scholar and essayist, he is also editor of the influential journal Merkur, Germany's "journal of European thought" and current affairs. He is one of Germany's leading writers on aesthetics, the aesthetic imagination in literature, and the relationships of literature and culture to the political state. Bohrer was on campus from November 9-10, 1998. He gave a lecture entitled "Without Future: The Meaning of Poetic Nihilism for Interpretation, Theater and State" at Pigott Hall (Bldng. 260) on November 9 at 7:00 p.m.
Leon Botstein
Leon Botstein, President of Bard College, spoke at Stanford University's Cubberley Autiorium on April 26, 2011. In his Presidential Lecture, titled Music between Nature and Architecture, Botstein spoke about the intersections of intellect and emotion delving into his personal experiences as administrator, master builder, conductor, scholar and impresario. There was a subsequent discussion session with Leo Botstein on April 27, at the Stanford Humanities Center.
Peter Brown
Peter Robert Lamont Brown's concept of late antiquity recognizes few academic boundaries or disciplinary barriers. As defined in a recent handbook co-edited by Brown, "Late Antiquity" is a distinctive and decisive period of history between around 250 and 800 C.E., during which the foundations were laid for many of the religious, political and social structures we know today. Brown was honored with the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 2001 Distinguished Achievement Award for scholars in the humanities. He spoke at Stanford as Presidential Lecturer in the Humanities on January 27-28, 2003, on "Scholarship and Imagination: The Study of Late Antiquity."
Hazel Carby
Hazel Carby has redefined African American studies. Born in Britain of Jamaican and Welsh parentage, she has broadened the range of African American scholarship by situating it in the larger context of the international black diaspora. Carby has also introduced to the field her own distinctive style of Marxist feminism. She spoke at Stanford as Presidential Lecturer in the Humanities on Monday, October 27, 2003 at 7:00 p.m. at the Law School. Her lecture was entitled: "Child of Empire: Racializing Subjects in Post World War Two Britain."
Roger Chartier
French historian of written culture Roger Chartier inaugurated the Autumn season of the Stanford Presidential Lectures at Stanford on October 16 of 2000. Roger Chartier is currently Directeur d'Études at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris) as well as Andrew D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University. Since 1969, he has been lecturing and publishing on the relationship between the material history of institutions and the embodied practices which both animate and survive these institutions: in particular, early modern techniques of reading, disseminating and collecting printed information. Roger Chartier presented his lecture entitled "At the Crossroads Between Textual Criticism and Cultural History: The Return to Literature," at the Law School.
Partha Chatterjee
Partha Chatterjee is Director and Professor of Political Science at The Centre for Studies in Social Sciences in Calcutta, and Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University. In addition to a rich bibliography, Chatterjee has led a varied career of academic positions in India and the United States; a wealth of visiting professorships across Europe, Asia and North America; and a dizzying list of invited lectures that span the globe. His work focuses not only on nationalism, colonialism, post-colonialism, modernity, and the idea of the nation-state -- but also (and more radically) strives to think outside these Western categories themselves. Chatterjee's lecture was part of the November, 2007 conference "Ethnicity in Today's Europe."
Christo and Jeanne-Claude
The artistic team of Christo and Jeanne-Claude have produced some of the 20th century's most unique works of art. Their innovative utilization of fabrics in pieces such as the Running Fence (1976 Christo) and most recently the Wrapped Reichstag (1995 Christo) defy traditional approaches to materials and means of artistic production. Requiring collaborative efforts on a scale without precedent in contemporary art their projects engage not only the artists themselves but also their production teams, the workers who construct the final realizations, legislative bodies and planning agencies, and perhaps most importantly, the public. The Christos have redefined the nature of "work" in the "work of art". Christo and Jeanne Claude were on campus from March 2-March 3, 1998. They spoke at the Annenberg Auditorium on March 2, 1998, at 5:00 p.m.
Hélène Cixous
A prolific writer and influential theorist, university professor, novelist, philosopher, playwright, and activist, Hélène Cixous blends multiple roles and vivid creative imagination in a body of work that is both poetic and deeply provocative. Her insights into the effects of difference developed the concept of an écriture féminine that influences all the genres in which she works, including the fiction, literary criticism, drama, essays, lectures, and interviews that have been published in close to 50 books and well over 100 articles. She is currently Professor of Literature at the University of Paris VIII, an institution she helped create after her active participation in the Parisian événements of May 1968, and where she later founded and now directs the doctoral program in the Centre d'Études Féminines. Cixous was on campus from March 16-19, 1998. She spoke in the Moot Court Room at the Law Building on March 16 at 7:00 p.m.
Merce Cunningham
Acclaimed for decades as one of the world's preeminent dancer/choreographers, Merce Cunningham first stepped into tap dancing class in 1932 with Maud Barrett, and began a career that would profoundly change modern dance. His own performance style and the nearly 200 original works he has choreographed since the 1940s have propelled dance through a series of dazzlingly new orbits that have left conventional notions of the art far behind. Cunningham came to Stanford for an extraordinary 2-week residency. For his Presidential Lecture, he appeared in conversation with New York Times dance critic John Rockwell on March 9, 2005.
Bei Dao
The third and final lecturer scheduled to appear in the Fall Quarter series is Bei Dao, considered to be one of China's foremost poets. He is also known as Zhao Zhenkai, but has used the pseudonym Bei Dao since the late 1970s. In 1989, he was accused of helping to incite the protests in Tiananmen Square and consequently forced into exile. He has published numerous volumes of poetry and short stories, several of which have been translated into English. He was also one of the founders of Today (Jiantian), a literary magazine that provided a venue to emerging authors and poets, including Bei Dao himself. Bei Dao, who now lives in the U.S., has been a visiting scholar at the International Institute and the Center for Chinese Studies. He is currently in residence at the University of California Davis, and working on a collection to be entitled "Unlock." Bei Dao, accompanied by his translator, Eliot Weinberger, gave his lecture and a reading in Chinese and English at Stanford on November 29, 1999.
Daniel Dennett
Daniel Dennett is a philosopher of mind, critic of religion, public defender (and, more importantly, dedicated deployer) of Darwinism — and, like Darwin, a developer and distributor of "dangerous" ideas. Dennett is University Professor and Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University, and co-director of the Tufts Center for Cognitive Studies. The title of Dennett's January, 2009, Stanford Presidential Lecture was "The Evolution of 'Why' as the Key to Free Will."
Jacques Derrida
Jacques Derrida came into prominence in America because of his association with the school of philosophy and literary criticism known as deconstruction, and it is with deconstruction that he is still most closely identified today. Born in Algeria in 1930 of Algerian Jewish parents, Professor Derrida is Director of Studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, and Professor of Humanities at the University of California, Irvine. Derrida visited the Stanford campus April 15-16, 1999. He spoke on " The Future of the Profesion, or the Unconditional University (Thanks to the 'Humanities': What Could Take Place Tomorrow)" at Kresge Auditorium.
Junot Díaz
Junot Díaz, a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer of fiction and a professor of creative writing at MIT, visited Stanford in May, 2017, engaged in a wide-ranging and lively conversation focused particularly on encouraging people of color, undocumented immigrants, and other minority or marginalized people to unite and support each other during turbulent political times.
Wendy Doniger
Wendy Doniger is an author, translator, and editor whose prolific career has seen the publication of almost thirty books in as many years. She has been an unparalleled presence in international religious studies. She holds doctorates from Harvard and Oxford, in Sanskrit and Indian Studies respectively. Doniger visited the Stanford campus on Monday, February 23 of 2004. Her lecture was entitled "Self-Imitation in Ancient India, Shakespeare, and Hollywood."
Peter Eisenman
Peter Eisenman's multi-faceted career includes the roles of architect, theorist, teacher, writer and editor. Founding Director of the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, New York, and editor of its influential journal, Oppositions, Eisenman has often been regarded more an agent provocateur than architect, with his particular practice occurring in the arenas of theory and design. Linked to the post-Functionalist trend in architecture wherein buildings achieve an autonomous and self-referential status, Eisenman is now devoting more of his energies to seeing his designs fulfilled in the built environment. His recent works have included the Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, which signaled and symbolized the deconstructionist movement in architecture, and the Aronoff Center for Design and Art, University of Cincinnati. Eisenman was on campus from March 9-March 12, 1998. He spoke at Kresge Auditorium on March 9 at 7:00 p.m.
Marjorie Garber
Marjorie Garber is one of the rare intellectuals whose work has had a significant resonance in both academic and popular culture. Writing on a wide variety of topics, from Shakespeare to "Charlotte's Web," she has demonstrated both a keen analysis of cultural productions and a flair for the intriguing anecdote. In its wide-ranging breadth, her work is most often concerned with the construction of identity in a particular societal context-particularly by minority groups within a given society whose difference from received norms challenges that society's implicit assumptions about its members' identity. Indeed, she is most well known for her work on gender identity, particularly in her ground-breaking Vested Interests: Cross-dressing and Cultural Anxiety (1992), which examines transvestitism in a number of contexts in Western culture and cultural productions. Here, as elsewhere, the conclusions she draws have consequences that reach beyond the confines of the academy: it is not surprising that her work has found an audience in activists and public intellectuals as well as in scholars. Currently, Garber is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of English and Director of the Center for Literary and Cultural Studies at Harvard University. She spoke at Stanford on Monday, January 11, 2000, at 7 p.m. in the Law School.
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is the W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of Humanities at Harvard University. As one of America's premier scholars on black literature, culture, and history, Gates has championed African-American studies' place in academe. He has been a force in establishing the traditions and cultural context against which black literature should be read and studied. His most recent book, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man, contains essays about and interviews with influential black men in high-profile positions (e.g., Colin Powell, Louis Farrakhan, Harry Belafonte). Gates was on campus from October 12-13, 1998. He spoke on "Race and Class / Race in Class" at Kresge Auditorium on October 12 at 7:00 p.m.
Stephen Jay Gould
At Harvard University, Stephen Jay Gould is Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology, Professor of Geology, adjunct member of the Department of the History of Science, and Curator of Invertebrate Paleontology in the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology. He is president-elect of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and perhaps America's best-known writer in the biological and geological sciences, particularly with regard to the theory of evolution, the interpretation of fossil evidence, and the meaning of diversity and change in biology. His essays in Natural History magazine and his writings on the history of science, particularly The Mismeasure of Man, have been influential and controversial. Gould was on campus from November 4-5, 1998. He lectured on "Interactions of Art and Science, and the Largely Arbitrary Nature of Academic Boundaries" at the SEQ Teaching Center on November 4 at 7:00 p.m.
Lani Guinier
Lani Guinier is Bennett Boskey Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where in 1998 she became the first African-American woman tenured professor in the law school's history. In addition to her scholarly research, specializing in matters of public policy and public conscience, and classroom teaching, she has had a prominent role as a civil rights litigator and public intellectual. Her books and projects include The Miner's Canary: Enlisting Race, Resisting Power, Transforming Democracy (2003), Who's Qualified? (2001), The Tyranny of the Majority: Fundamental Fairness in Representative Democracy (1994), and the Racetalks Initiative, a research and public education project. On October 31, 2004, Guinier spoke at Stanford on "Wealth, Race & Merit in Higher Education."
Amy Gutmann
Amy Gutmann, currently President of the University of Pennsylvania, is a political philosopher whose ideas, featuring ways for opposing groups to achieve political accommodation, have great relevance for the early 21st-century world. She is the author of more than 100 articles and many books, including Why Deliberative Democracy (with Dennis Thompson, 2004), Identity in Democracy (2003), Democratic Education (revised edition, 1999), Democracy and Disagreement (with Dennis Thompson, 1996), Color Conscious: The Political Morality of Race (with Anthony Appiah, 1996), Ethics and Politics (with Dennis Thompson, 1984), and Liberal Equality (1980). She delivered her Stanford Presidential Lecture, "Extremism," on May 24, 2006.
Douglas Hofstadter
Douglas Hofstadter burst onto the stage of public consciousness in 1979 with his Pulitzer Prize-winning first book Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid. Many of his other books have been equally visionary and remarkable, most notably Le Ton beau de Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language; Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern; and a volume co-edited with Daniel Dennett, The Mind's I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul. Currently the College of Arts and Sciences Professor of Cognitive Science, and Director of the Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition at Indiana University, Hofstadter is not only a theorist of topics as diverse as human cognition, artificial intelligence, and poetry translation (to name just a few) — he is also a serious practitioner, having published a novel verse translation of Pushkin's novel in verse Eugene Onegin in 1999. Hofstadter's Stanford Presidential Lecture on February 6, 2006, was called "Analogy as the Core of Cognition."
Lynn Hunt
Lynn Hunt is one of North America's most respected historians. Pre-eminent among historians of the French Revolution, she is also known for her theoretical work in European cultural studies. Currently the Eugen Weber Professor of Modern European History at UCLA, Lynn Hunt has taught and lectured internationally, and her books have been translated into a dozen foreign languages. Her lecture, "The Novel and the Origins of Human Rights: The Intersection of History, Psychology and Literature," was presented by the Stanford Presidential Lectures on April 8 of 2002 at the School of Law.
Michael Ignatieff
Canadian public intellectual and political figure, Michael Ignatieff spoke at the Stanford Humanities Center's Levinthal Hall on Monday, October 15, of 2012. His lecture was titled On Partisanship: Enemies and Adversaries in Politics, in it emphasizing the need to recover civility and compromise in our political discourse.
Wolfgang Iser
Wolfgang Iser is the final lecturer for the series this year. Born in 1926, Iser is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Constance. Iser takes a phenomenological approach to literary theory. An exponent of 'reception-theory', Iser sees the reading process as a synthesis of the literary text and the reader's imagination. Among many works, Iser is perhaps most well known for his work The Act of Reading: A Theory of Aesthetic Response. Wolfgang Iser lectured at Stanford on April 3, 2000 at the School of Law, Room 290.
Fredric Jameson
Fredric Jameson is an internationally renowned Marxist critic. Presently the William A. Lane Professor of Comparative Literature at Duke University, he has long been recognized as a major theorist of modern culture and a master analyst of its relation to socio-economic reality. In recent years Jameson has concentrated on contemporary artistic practices, both popular and elite, and is today best known for the essays collected in Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991), which diagnose late twentieth-century culture as a symptom of the new global economy. Methodologically eclectic, Jameson's critical thought yields unusually subtle studies of aesthetic production, ranging from avant-garde literature and corporate architecture to popular films and video art. Jameson was on campus January 25-26, 1999. He spoke on "Aesthetic Autonomy in the Age of Late Capitalism" at the School of Law, Room 290 on January 25 at 7:00 p.m.
Judith Jamison
There has always been a touch of the divine and the regal in Judith Jamison's illustrious career as a dancer, choreographer, and Artistic Director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, from which she will retire in June, 2011. In January of 2011, Jamison graced Stanford in a public conversation with our own Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education, Harry Elam, Jr., and a dance master class.
Bruno Latour
For nearly a quarter century, Bruno Latour has been a vanguard figure in the eclectic field of "science studies." Indeed, his writings chart the course of this newly emergent discipline. "Science studies" describes research that uses the methods of the social and human sciences (sociology, anthropology, philosophy) to understand how humans go about their scientific and technological pursuits. At the base of this research are questions about how scientific knowledge is created. Latour's Stanford lecture in April, 2003, was entitled "Why has critical spirit run out of steam? About Iconoclash and beyond."
Maya Lin
Maya Lin is an artist who has designed several of the most significant and best-known works of public art of the late 20th century, including the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. Her lecture, which was scheduled for November, 2002, did not take place as scheduled; however, the lecture website prepared for this event is still available here.
Stefan Maul
Stefan Maul is an internationally renowned Assyriologist. His main area of research is Mesopatamian religion in the first millenium B.C., but he is recognized as a very accomplished scholar in many areas of Assyriology and cuneiform culture. In 1997, Professor Maul was awarded the G. W. Leibniz Prize, the most prestigious scientific prize in Germany, which will allow him generous funding for a scientific project undertaken over the next five years. Maul was on campus May 17-18, 1999. He gave a lecture entitled "Constructions of Divinity. The Idea of God in Ancient Near East" at the Cantor Arts Center Auditorium on May 17 at 7:00 p.m. He also presented a seminar on May 18 entitled "The Magician's Archives".
James McPherson
In a career that has spanned four decades and garnered many of the historical profession's top accolades, including a Pulitzer Prize, two Lincoln Prizes, the NEH's Jefferson Lectureship in the Humanities, and a term as the president of the American Historical Association, James M. McPherson is one of the nation's foremost historians of the American Civil War era. In all of his writings, McPherson has consistently sought to bridge the dichotomy that has divided historians writing about the Civil War: those who focus on the "causes and results of the war," and those who study what Walt Whitman called "the real war," the experiences of soldiers in battle and civilians on the home front. He delivered a lecture titled "But There Was No Peace: The Aftermath of the Civil War" on April 13, 2009.
Siddharta Mukherjee
Siddhartha Mukherjee is a physician, researcher, and a scholar. He is one of the most acclaimed science writers of our time. Mukherjee takes on deeply complex challenges in science today, communicating them in a way that is intensely personal and relating stories from his own family, the patients he has treated, and the lives of the scientists and physicians who came before him. He visited Stanford University during the Spring quarter in 2018. The title of his lecture was Notes from the Edge of an Experiment (or Cancer's Anxieties), and it was delivered at the Hauck Auditorium on the evening of May 9.
Alexander Nehamas
Alexander Nehamas, born in Greece, studied at Swarthmore and then Princeton, where he earned a Ph.D. in philosophy in 1971. Currently Edmund N. Carpenter Professor in Humanities, Professor of Philosophy, and Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton, Nehamas is also chair of Princeton's Council of the Humanities. His most recent book is Virtues of Authenticity: Essays on Plato and Socrates (Princeton UP, 1998). Describing how he ended up teaching and writing about philosophy, Nehamas told an interviewer: "My official plan was to go into business and retire at a relatively young age in order to discuss intellectual issues on my yacht. But I never got a yacht, I got tenure instead." Nehamas was on campus March 8-9, 1999. He gave a lecture entitled "The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters" at the School of Law, Room 290 on March 8 at 7:00 p.m.
Robert Putnam
One of the most publicly engaged social scientists of his generation, Robert Putnam has built his career on the rare ability to combine rigorous research methods with an engaging and accessible writing style. His work has consistently focused on exploring important social and political issues, including early research on international conflict resolution, best-selling research on social capital, and his most recent research on the changing role of religion in American life. His 2000 book Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community was a best-seller, as was his follow-up Better Together: Restoring the American Community in 2003. In his Fall 2010 lecture at Stanford, Putnam presented work from his just-released book American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us.
Mary Robinson
Human rights advocate, lawyer, professor and former President of Ireland Mary Robinson spoke at Stanford University's Cubberley Auditorium, at the School of Education, on April 12, 2010. Her lecture was titled Human Rights Strategies in the 21st Century, highlighting her work in the areas of corporate responsibility and the right to health, decent work, and climate justice.
Marilynne Robinson
Pulitzer Prize-winning author and essayist Marilynne Robinson spoke about education as offered and received, drawing from a Ralph Waldo Emerson essay that is known as America's intellectual Declaration of Independence. Her lecture was entitled The American Scholar Now, and it took place at the CEMEX Auditorium, at Stanford University's School of Business, on Thursday, October 29, 2015.
Beatriz Sarlo
Beatriz Sarlo is one of Latin America's most important cultural critics. Her writings examine the work of literary giants (Jorge Luis Borges: A Writer on the Edge, 1993) and with the same ease, she examines Argentina's every day life to address issues of technology, modernity, fiction and mass media (Escenas de la Vida Posmoderna: Intelectuales, Arte y Videocultura en la Argentina, 1994). Her more recent work is La Maquina Cultural: Maestras, Traductores y Vanguardistas, 1998. Since 1978 she has published Punto de Vista, one of Argentina's most important cultural publications. Sarlo is a professor at the Universidad de Buenos Aires and is a frequent contributor to several Latin American newspapers. She has been a Wilson Center and Guggenheim fellow. Sarlo was on campus February 22-23, 1999. She gave lecture entitled "No Future? Literature and Cultural Politics" at Pigott Hall (Building. 260), Room 113 on February 22 at 7:00 p.m.
Elaine Scarry
Literary theorist and cultural critic Elaine Scarry is the Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value for the Department of English at Harvard University. She visited Stanford University on February 25-26 of 2002 as part of the Presidential Lectures. Her lecture, entitled "Nine One One: Citizenship in Emergency," was presented at the School of Law on Monday, February 25th, of 2002.
Simon Schama
Schama, University Professor of Art History and History at Columbia University, is a prolific cultural historian who provides readers compelling narratives of historical events and figures, from the world of the early modern Dutch Republic to the experiences of African-American loyalists during the American Revolution. In addition to his ten published books of history and criticism, and numerous essays accompanying art exhibition catalogs, Schama is also a regular columnist and critic for such publications as The New Republic, The New York Review of Books, The Guardian, and The New Yorker (for which he served as art critic from 1995 to 1998). Schama's ability to tell lively, engaging stories transcends his large corpus of printed work: he is also a writer and presenter of television histories, whose BBC series on British history and the history of Western art have captivated viewers on both sides of the Atlantic. Simon Schama's lecture was presented at Stanford's Cubberley Auditorium on October 29, 2007 under the title "The Abolition of the Slave Trade Two Hundred Years On — America & Britain: Two Diverging Destinies?"
Joan W. Scott
Joan Wallach Scott is best known for her ground-breaking work in feminist history and gender theory. Much of her work focuses on France, but to describe her as simply a French historian of gender would be inaccurate and insufficient; her writings address universal issues such as how power works, the relation between discourse and experience, and the role and practice of historians. Scott insists on grappling with theory's application not only to history, but also to current events, focusing on how terms are defined and how positions and identities are articulated. Her 2007 monograph, The Politics of the Veil: Banning Islamic Headscarves in French Public Schools, addresses the ongoing discussion in France on the Islamic headscarf and what it symbolizes for religion and women in the public spaces of republican, secular France; this was also the topic of Scott's 2007 Stanford Presidential lecture, "Cover-Up: French Gender Equality and the Islamic Headscarf."
Zadie Smith
British novelist, essayist, and short-story writer Zadie Smith, author of the best-seller White Teeth and other works, was in conversation with Harry Elam, Vice President for the Arts at Stanford University, in March 2019.
Wole Soyinka
Wole Soyinka, the Nobel Laureate for Literature in 1986, is a distinguished dramatist, poet, autobiographer, and cultural critic. Born in Nigeria and educated in both his native country and Britain, Soyinka first came to prominence in the 1960s as a dissident artist-activist, whose plays and improvised street theater attacked the follies and cruelties of Africa's early post-colonial leaders. In the years since, Soyinka's work has continued to act as the outspoken conscience to a succession of oppressive regimes in Nigeria as well as other African states, and he has consequently suffered periods of both political imprisonment and exile. Beyond Soyinka's role as the socially engaged man-of-letters, he is also an influential teacher, having taught at a number of universities in Africa as well as in Britain and the United States. Today Soyinka is the Robert W. Woodruff Professor of the Arts at Emory University in Atlanta. Soyinka was on campus from November 30 through December 1, 1998. His lecture "Contemporary Literature and the Future of the Humanities and Arts" was presented at Stanford's Kresge Auditorium (Stanford School of Law) on November 30, at 7:00 p.m.
Gayatri Spivak
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is one of the leading literary theorists and cultural critics of our times. She was the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh till 1991, and the Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University on 2001. In addition she has taught at Université Paul Valéry, Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, University of British Columbia, Goethe Universität in Frankfurt, Riyadh University, and Stanford University among others. Her lecture, titled "Human Rights and the Humanities," was presented on February 12 of 2001 at the Law School with a subsequent open discussion at the Humanities Center Annex on February 13, 2001.
Richard Taruskin
Among those who write about music today, Richard Taruskin stands out for his keen insight into source material; his rigorous musical analysis; his wide-ranging grasp of the related social, cultural, and political background; his high degree of serendipitous discovery; his gift for looking at the familiar through a new lens; and his use of language, combining both scholarly authority with wit and ease of expression. Taruskin's books, articles, and lectures frequently overturn previously accepted ideas in highly original, perceptive, and often controversial ways that have earned him the respect, admiration, and, sometimes, ire of his colleagues and readers. He has written about the chanson and sacred music of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, issues of musical performance practice, music historiography, the relationship of music and politics, and the music of Russia from the eighteenth century to the present. He is well-known as a reviewer for the New York Times and the New Republic, and for his recent voluminous contribution to the musicological literature, The Oxford History of Western Music. Taruskin's 2008 lecture at Stanford was called "Shall We Change the Subject? A Music Historian Reflects."
Helen Vendler
In her 2012 Presidential Lecture, entitled "Wallace Stevens as an American Poet," Helen Vendler — poetry scholar and critic, and the Arthur Kingsley Porter University Professor in the English Department of Harvard University — reassessed Wallace Stevens' role as an American rather than an international poet, and accordingly argued that American literary history needs to broaden its concept of what counts as American in American poetry.
Marina Warner
Marina Warner is a writer and thinker of such range that her work defies easy categorization. Although one could perhaps list the major topics of her most important works — myths, fairy tales, ghosts, monsters, the supernatural, women, the female form, childhood, children's literature, and the cultural histories of each of these — such a list does not nearly do justice to Warner's range. Warner's immense breadth of knowledge comes not only from her voracious research and writing as an adult scholar: she seems also to have had the enviable sort of pan-European upbringing that prepares one for a life of such scholarship. She read French and Italian at Oxford in the 1960s, then became a freelance writer in London for the Daily Telegraph Magazine, Vogue, and others, completing her first monograph in 1972 (and adding others to that at the rate of at least one every several years) and garnering a number of awards for her work. From the late 1980s through early into the 2000s she lived the life of an independent scholar, with a series of visiting professorships and academic fellowships around the world (including at Stanford, in 2000), all the while lecturing widely, curating museum exhibits, and of course writing. In 2004 she was named a professor in the Department of Literature, Film and Theatre Studies at the University of Essex. Marina Warner's lecture "The Voice of the Toy: Writing Magic and Enchanted States" was presented at Stanford's Law School on Monday, April 14 , 2008 at 7 p.m.
Robert Wilson
Robert Wilson is an acclaimed director, stage designer, performer, writer, furniture designer, draftsman, and educator of international and multidisciplinary scope. An artist of the stage, he has come to that profession by way of business school, architectural training, painting, and chance encounters with uniquely inspirational individuals. Perhaps because of this non-linear trajectory, he has again and again felt cause and had vision to test and question all of the presumed essential elements of the theater: the spectator, the performer, the writer, the stage, the story. His productions, including Einstein on the Beach, Deafman Glance, and the CIVIL warS, are lengthy yet highly controlled, minimalist yet intricately detailed. Wilson's memorable 2008 Presidential Lecture and Performance at Stanford was called "1. HAVE YOU BEEN HERE BEFORE" / "2. NO THIS IS THE FIRST TIME."


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St. Tammany Hospital Foundation's Doctors' Day program provides you the opportunity to make a donation to the Foundation in honor of a physician of your choosing. Your gift is a meaningful way to say "Thank You" for the exceptional, compassionate care provided by your physician. A personal acknowledgment will be sent to your physician(s) informing them of this gift. In addition, their name will be added to our Book of Tributes located in the lobby of St. Tammany Parish Hospital.
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Specific Media aims to finally describe its plans for former social Web star Myspace as part of Advertising Week in New York on Monday. But instead of a press conference or a product launch, the company will be addressing "CMOs and senior marketers" to tell them about advertising opportunities and show off Justin Timberlake.
When Specific Media bought Myspace in June for $35 million and said it had wrangled Timberlake as an investor, the company preannounced a press conference for Aug. 17.
(Kara Swisher had labeled the Timberlake bit as "stunt casting," which is to say, "the worrisome look-at-the-shiny-celebrity approach.")
That press conference date was soon postponed, as the new owners' progress on Myspace was more "incremental" than transformative, according to The Wall Street Journal.
And last week, Specific laid off a small percentage of its staff, as reported by TechCrunch. In an emailed statement, Specific Media COO Chris Vanderhook described the layoffs as part of a streamlining process that reflected "big progress made toward achieving our goals."
As for tonight's "Future of Myspace Talk," Timberlake is set to appear — or at least someone named "Justin" is — according to an agenda sent to us by Myspace PR and printed below. (I removed the locations, as most of the events are private.)
Monday, October 3, 2011
10:00 AM — Reuters Leadership Roundtable. Tim Vanderhook, CEO of Specific Media will participate in a candid discussion on challenges and opportunities in today's disruptive landscape.
8:00 PM — The Future of Myspace Talk: Tim, Chris and Justin host a private reception for 40-55 CMOs and senior marketers to discuss the strategy for Myspace, highlight first-100-day learning and achievements and outline advertising opportunities for brands. Update: A representative for Myspace says this has moved to 5 p.m.
9:00 PM — MySpace AMP'd UP Opening Concert. By invitation only.
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3:30 PM — New York City Game Changer's Panel. Al Dejewski, SVP of Global Marketing for Specific Media will join other top marketers and panel moderator Hon. Katherine Oliver, Commissioner from the NYC Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment, to examine how these dynamic leaders are fostering change and reinventing the industry at "breakneck" speed.
7:30 PM — IAB MIXX Awards Ceremony. Bill Schild, Regional Vice President, East Coast for Specific Media will present the Interactive Video Award.


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