Film critic and historian Jean-Michel Frodon, editor of Cinema and the Shoah, explains how, from The Great Dictator to Schindler’s List, the extermination of the Jews of Europe has driven the cinema, more than any other form of artistic expression, to question its methods, techniques, and ethics. It is with reference to the Shoah that a decisive part of the thought behind modern cinema has been constructed, and, consciously or not, many of the greatest films of the past sixty years bear the...
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Professor Jan T. Gross studies modern Europe, focusing on comparative politics, totalitarian and authoritarian regimes, Soviet and East European politics, and the Holocaust. He joined the Princeton History Department in 2003 after teaching at New York University, Emory, Yale, and universities in Paris, Vienna, and Krakow. Professor Gross is the Norman B. Tomlinson ‘16 and ‘48 Professor of War and Society. Sponsored by the Center for European Studies.
Lecture by Martha Crenshaw (Senior Fellow, FSI, CISAC). Since their beginnings in the early 1980s, suicide attacks have spread around the world and become alarmingly frequent in conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. The talk will address three questions: why sponsoring organizations would see suicide attacks as legitimate and effective, why publics would support the practice, and why individuals would engage in them. It will examine the role of religion in these three dimensions.
Hagit Halperin is Professor of Hebrew Literature at Tel Aviv University. In Hebrew, "אברהם שלונסקי - סער ופרץ, המרד נגד ביאליק" Hebrew@Stanford.
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Race and Faith Lecture hosted by the Stanford Center for African & African-American Studies
Manolis Andronikos' excavation of the Great Tumulus at Vergina and his identification of the remains in Tomb II as those of Philip II stirred the Greek national imagination. Almost immediately, however, the identification was challenged (one author has even argued that the remains are those of Alexander the Great) and some doubts have been expressed as to whether Vergina is really the ancient Makedonian capital of Aigeai. In the light of continuing hypotheses and analyses, this lecture will...
Part of a larger project on animals in ancient science and medicine, this talk explores some of the strategies adopted by "scientific" writers on animals to respond to the challenge of turning animals into texts.
Presenting at the lunch seminar will be Clayman Faculty Research Fellow, Caroline Winterer, Associate Professor of History, Stanford University. Lunch will be served by 11:45am and we will begin promptly at 12:00pm and end by 1:00pm. An RSVP is required for purposes of catering. You may respond to Ann Enthoven at ann.enthoven@stanford.edu. These seminars are aimed at faculty; all faculty are welcome to attend.
