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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
Tuesday
7:30 pm

Creative Writing at Stanford: A History
With Eavan Boland, Nancy Packer, Philip Levine, and Scott Turow

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:

  • EAVAN BOLAND, Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing, Stanford, author of a dozen volumes of poetry and prose, most recently, the PEN Award-winning A Journey with Two Maps: Becoming a Woman Poet
  • PHILIP LEVINE, Former Stegner Fellow at Stanford, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, and former Poet Laureate of the United States, author most recently of the collection, News of the World
  • SCOTT TUROW, Former Stegner Fellow at Stanford, practicing lawyer, and author of nine novels and two non-fiction books about the law that have sold over 30 million copies.  Four of  his novels have been filmed, including the successful movie Presumed Innocent.
  • NANCY HUDDLESTON PACKER (Moderator): Professor of English (Emerita) and former Director of the Creative Writing Program (also a former Stegner Fellow), author of four collections of short stories, most recently Old Ladies

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
FREE: Open to the public. No registration required

April 8, 2013
Monday
Deadline

2013 Prize for Excellence in Historical Writing - Submission Deadline

Contest Flyer

April 28, 2013

Ninth Annual Historic House & Garden Tour

May 15, 2013
Wednesday
4:00 - 6:00 pm
Reception to Follow

SHS 37th Annual Members Meeting and Reception: History of the Music Department
This program is cosponsored by the Stanford Historical Society and the Stanford Arts Institute

  • John Chowning, Osgood Hooker Professor of Fine Arts and Professor of Music, Emeritus
  • Albert Cohen, William H. Bonsall Professor of Music, Emeritus
  • Steve Sano, Professor Harold C. Schmidt Director in Choral Studies and Professor of Music
  • Stephen Hinton (moderator), the Denning Family Director of the Stanford Arts Institute, and the Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Music.

Members only. RSVP (yes) is requested by May 5.

Location: Bing Concert Hall Studio

Past Programs

 

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