----------------------------Original message---------------------------- 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 --------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------- Peter P. Blank 102 Cummings Art Bldg. Librarian Stanford, CA 94305-2018 Art & Architecture Library (650) 725-1038 Stanford University fax 650-725-0140 [log in to unmask] ----- Stanford Presidential Lectures and Symposia in the Humanities and Arts Web site Co-Editor http://prelectur.stanford.edu --------------------------------------------------------------