Past Events

May
24
Date
Wednesday, May 24, 2023, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Location
Building 120, McClatchy Hall, Main Quad
Building 120, Stanford, CA 94305
101A

Join author Simone Stolzoff (MA '18) in a conversation with Bill Burnett about how work has become so central to Americans' identities and what we can do to separate our self-worth from our…

May
17
Date
Wednesday, May 17, 2023, 5:30pm - 7:00pm
Location
Stanford Humanities Center
424 Santa Teresa Street
Levinthal Hall

The Public Humanities Initiative and McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society invite you to a reading and conversation with author Sheila Heti. 

Sheila Heti is the author of ten books,…

May
4
Date
Thursday, May 4, 2023, 5:30pm - 7:00pm
Location
Tresidder Oak Lounge

498 Santa Teresa St, Stanford, CA 94305

The Public Humanities Initiative, and its flagship "What Is A Public Intellectual Today?" speaker series, invite you to a public interview with acclaimed critic Wesley Morris. One of our country's…

May
1
Date
Monday, May 1, 2023, 5:30pm - 7:00pm
Location
Building 120, McClatchy Hall, Main Quad
Building 120, Stanford, CA 94305
Mendenhall A and B

The Department of English invites you to a reading and conversation with Ava Chin. Chin is the author of the new book Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming,…

February
1
Date
Wednesday, February 1, 2023, 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Location
Dinkelspiel Auditorium
471 Lagunita Drive, Stanford, CA 94305

The Public Humanities Initiative invites you to a lively reading and conversation with author Elif Batuman, PhD '07.  Elif Batuman’s first novel, The Idiot, was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize,…