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by Sylvie Greenberg

THE SICK MAN OF EUROPE RISES? ERDAG GOKNAR, Assistant Professor of Turkish Studies at Duke University, will give a lecture examining how Turkish novelist ORHAN PAMUK “Reimagines the Ottoman Empire” tomorrow, Wednesday, May 19, in Encina West, Room 208. His novels include “Snow”, “The White Castle” and “My Name is Red.” SERVICE-LEARNING SALSA Professor Janice Ross [...]

Upcoming Events at Stanford

by Sylvie Greenberg

Dept. of Unpronounceable Geography Presents: Can’t get enough Eyjafjallajokull news? Come hear Darcy Ogden, the George Thompson Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Geophysics in the School of Earth Sciences discuss “Volcanic Ash and the European Air Travel Crisis.” Get into the lava flow of it tomorrow (yeah? yeah!), Monday, April 26  at  12:00 PM [...]

Upcoming Events at Stanford

by Sylvie Greenberg

  Winter Quarter at Stanford gets off to an exciting start with these events: Today at 12:15, Russell Flegal, Professor of Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology at UCSC, will speak on “All the Lead in China.” Pun appreciated. Y2E2 Building, Rm. 111.    The History Department will be screening Ken Burns’s documentary Mark Twain over the coming [...]

Upcoming Events at Stanford

by Sylvie Greenberg

Something for every day of the school week! MONDAY: Chris Anderson, Editor-in-Chief of the techie-cool Wired magazine, will speak tomorrow, March 1, at 7:30 PM in Cubberley Auditorium. Anderson is the author of “The Long Tail” and “FREE”, which advocates for just “giving stuff away” on the internet, like bandwidth and hard drive storage (and facts). [...]

In a Time of War

by Sylvie Greenberg

Oscar season and The Hurt Locker‘s nomination for Best Picture has brought the Iraq war back to forefront of conversation. The war is a far-away phenomenon, sometimes begging for and winning very deserved national attention, but more often existing on a strange plane that seems to neither involve nor concern (whether this is true or not) [...]

An Odd Friendship

by Sylvie Greenberg

Law student Anthony Dick became close friends with the septuagenarian conservative icon.

Upcoming Events at Stanford

by Sylvie Greenberg

Tomorrow, February 4th, Joan Biskupic of Newsweek will give a Hoover Media Fellow talk on her new book, American Original: The Life and Constitution of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. The talk will be at 4 PM in the Lane/Lyons/Lodato Room in Arrillaga Alumni Center. Former FDA Commissioner and food-label revolutionary, David Kessler, will also speak [...]

CitizenTube

by Sylvie Greenberg

Today, President Obama and YouTube banded together for a most attractively named question-and-answer forum: CitizenTube! It’s like Citizen Kane getting stuck in an inner tube. If I were good with Photoshop I’d make an image right now of Orson Wells splashing around in a floatation device. Citizens (and non-citizens. Anyone with internet connectivity was eligible) [...]

Palin Can’t Get No SOTUsfaction

by Sylvie Greenberg

More post-SOTU coverage. Last night, Hannity asked Palin if she saw Justice Alito shake his head and mouth “not true” as he listened to Obama’s critique of the recent Supreme Court decision on political spending by corporations. Did Sarah see it? Oh, Sarah saw it. (Warning: Severe punctuation drought in her statement. Also, I should warn you [...]

John Yoo’s “Secret” Class

by Sylvie Greenberg

John Yoo, professor at University of California Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law, is hiding. Yoo has been a professor at Boalt Hall since 1993, and served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General under George W. Bush. He is best known for his “torture memos” during the Bush presidency, wherein he defended the legality of torture in [...]

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