Programs
The Society sponsors programs open to the public throughout the year, highlighting a wide range of Stanford topics. Subjects are as diverse as the restoration of Memorial Church, physics at Stanford, Big Game heroes, history of the Medical School, Stanford in Britain, and the archaeology of the Stanford family house on campus. The Society co-sponsors an annual observance of Founders' Day, and also arranges field trips for members.
To find an event location, please consult the current campus map.
2012 - 2013
April 2, 2013 |
Creative Writing
at Stanford: A History The celebrated writer and environmentalist Wallace Stegner founded the Stanford Creative Writing Program in 1946 with the aim of providing young, talented writers the guidance, encouragement, and funding to further their writing knowledge and craft. “Minds grow by contact with other minds,” Stegner wrote. “The bigger the better, as clouds grow toward thunder by rubbing together.” Over the past sixty years the creative writing program has grown in stature so that it is widely recognized, alongside the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, as one of the two best programs in the country. It has trained thousands of undergraduates and hundreds of Stegner Fellows including Wendell Berry, Tillie Olsen, Ernest Gaines, Scott Momaday, Ken Kesey, Larry McMurtry, Raymond Carver, Robert Pinsky, ZZ Packer, and Tobias Wolff. The directors and instructors in the program have been equally distinguished, among them: Wallace Stegner, Yvor Winters, John L’Heureux, Ken Fields, Nancy Packer, Simone DiPiero, Elizabeth Tallent, Tobias Wolff, and Eavan Boland. This evening’s extraordinary program will bring together in conversation:
This program is cosponsored by the Stanford Historical Society and Stanford Continuing Studies and the Stanford Creative Writing Program. Location: Cubberley Auditorium,
School of Education |
April 8, 2013 |
2013 Prize for Excellence in Historical Writing - Submission Deadline Contest Flyer |
April 28, 2013 |
Ninth Annual Historic House & Garden Tour |
May 15, 2013 |
SHS 37th
Annual Members Meeting and Reception: History of the
Music Department
Members only. RSVP (yes) is requested by May 5. Location: Bing Concert Hall Studio |
Past Programs
Many past programs are available on Stanford iTunes or You Tube. Click on any or icons on the Past Programs page to access these files.