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Greetings colleagues,
Please note the following url. I would be very interested to know if any of
your institutions have made a similar resource investment in supporting such
extra-curricular activities. As Co-Editor for the site as a whole, and
Editor/Author for both the Christo and Jeanne-Claude site (now up) and Peter
Eisenman site (up very soon) I would also be very interested in your
comments regarding both the design and the content-rich nature of the
individual sites.
Regards,
Peter Blank
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PRESS RELEASE
http://prelectur.stanford.edu
The Stanford University Libraries have created a web site to support a
new Humanities and Arts initiative at Stanford University, the Stanford
Presidential Lectures and Symposia in the Humanities and Arts (SPLSHA).
Funded by the Office of President Gerhard Casper, SPLSHA will bring several
distinguished scholars, artists, and critics to Stanford for lectures, panel
discussions, and a variety of related interactions with faculty and
students. At this time the participants include Christo and Jeanne-Claude,
Hilhne Cixous, Peter Eisenman, Harold Bloom, Isabel Allende, Svetlana
Alpers, Pina Bausch, Umberto Eco, Jacques Derrida, Henry Louis Gates, Jr.,
Stephen Jay Gould, Fredric Jameson, Stefan Maull, Wole Soyinka, and Jean
Starobinski.
Besides encouraging and mediating debate on the role of the Humanities
and Arts in academia, the web site will also serve a pedagogical mission,
with individual sites on each of the participants providing essential
critical information in the form of essays, texts, interviews, and
bibliographies. The site is managed by the Humanities and Area Studies
Resource Group of Stanford University Libraries with assistance from the
Research and Instructional Technologies Support group and Library Systems
staff. Please visit the site. We welcome your comments.
Regards,
Peter Blank, Site Co-Editor
Adan Griego, Site Co-Editor
Stanford University Libraries
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Peter P. Blank 102 Cummings Art Bldg.
Librarian Stanford, CA 94305-2018
Art & Architecture Library (650) 725-1038
Stanford University fax 650-725-0140
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http://prelectur.stanford.edu
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