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2018-2019 Colloquia

The colloquium meets generally three times per quarter on Thursdays at 4:30
in the Lane History Building, Room 307, unless noted below.

Please visit the Green library exhibit entitled, Leonardo's library: The World of a Renaissance Reader which celebrated the 500th anniversary on May 2, 1519 of the death of Leonardo Da Vinci with a opening reception of over 300 guest in the library rotunda, complete with dance, music and book art and art performance. The exhibit will be on display in the Peterson Gallery and Munger Rotunda until October 13, 2019. See the article on the exhibit in the Palo Alto newspaper online, May 29, 2019.

Past Events

May
16
Date
Thursday, May 16, 2019, 4:30pm - 5:30pm
Location:
History Building 200, Room 307
Climate and Animals in late Ottoman Kurdistan
May
14
Date
Tuesday, May 14, 2019, 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Location:
CEMEX Auditorium, Stanford University
The Signs of Time: Leonardo da Vinci's History of the Earth and the Fate of Man
May
10
Date
Friday, May 10, 2019 - Saturday, May 11, 2019, All day
Location:
Cypress Lounge at Tresidder Memorial Union
Speaker
Jeremy Avigad, Philosophy & Mathematics, Carnegie Mellon University, Yacin Hamami, Logic & Philosophy of Science, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Jemma Lorenat, Mathematics, Pitzer College, Ali Raza Malik, Mathematics & Computer Science, Stanford University, Rebecca Morris, Philosophy, Stanford University
Rebecca Lea Morris, organizer See the Website: https://mathematicsinpractice.wordpress.com
May
3
Date
Friday, May 3, 2019, 9:00am - 5:30pm
Location:
Stanford Humanities Center Levinthal Hall
Paula Findlen and Alex Statman, organizers Download the program
May
2
Date
Thursday, May 2, 2019, 4:30pm - 5:30pm
Location:
Bldg 380 Room 380F
Assessing fine-tuning of cosmic inflation
April
30
Date
Tuesday, April 30, 2019, 4:30pm - 5:30pm
Location:
Bldg 200 Room 201
On the mistaken image of the behavioural sciences in policy. Lessons from history and philosophy of behavioural science.
March
14
Date
Thursday, March 14, 2019, 4:30pm - 5:30pm
Location:
Building 200, Room 302
Psychoanalysis and the Imaginary: Translating Freud in Postcolonial Egypt
February
26
Date
Tuesday, February 26, 2019, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Location:
Pigott Hall Building 260, Room 244
Anatomical Collecting in the Age of Politeness: Assembling the Anatomical Museum at the University of Edinburgh, c.1720-1798
February
19
Date
Tuesday, February 19, 2019, 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Location:
Cantor Center Auditorium, Building 260 Room 25
Living with Leonardo: Fifty Years of Sanity and Insanity in the Art World and Beyond: A Book Talk with the Author
February
14
Date
Thursday, February 14, 2019, 9:00am - 5:00pm
Location:
Levinthal Hall, Stanford Humanities Center
This one-day workshop brings together colleagues from the new Stanford Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) initiative, the Humanities, and the Arts to advance new configurations of world-c