The Associates of the Stanford University Libraries
presents the third annual gathering of
Stanford Community authors:
A Company of Authors
Saturday, April 22, 2006
1:30 - 6:00
The Stanford Humanities Center
(Old Bowman Alumni Center)
1:30 Patrick Hunt
Welcome
Chair, The Associates of the
Stanford University Libraries
1:35 - 2:15 Chair: Robert M. Polhemus
The World of Poetry.
Seth Lerer, The Yale Companion to Chaucer;
Kenneth Fields, Classic Rough News;
Patrick Hunt, House of the Muse.
2:15 - 3:00 Chair: Keith Baker.
The World of Food and Romance.
Denise Gigante, Taste: A Literary History, and
Gusto: Essential Writings in Nineteenth-Century Gastronomy;
Jeannette Ferrary, Out of the Kitchen: Adventures of a Food Writer;
Christopher Rovee, Imagining the Gallery: The Social Body of British Romanticism.
3:00 - 3:30 Chair: Carolyn Lougee.
The World Beyond the Academy.
Leslie Berlin, The Man Behind the Microchip;
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, In Praise of Athletic Beauty.
3:30 - 4:15 Chair: Susan Bell.
Other Worlds.
Mary Felstiner, Out of Joint;
Willard Wyman, High Country;
Gordon Brotherston, Feather Crown: The Eighteen Feasts
of the Mexica Year.
4:15 - 5:00 Chair: Peter Stansky.
The World of Africa and other Great Ideas.
Richard Roberts, Litigants and Households;
Bertrand M. Patenaude, A Wealth of Ideas;
W. B. Carnochan, The Sad Story of Burton, Speke, and the Nile.
5:00 - 6:00
Joyous Reception for All.
Patio.
Books will be available in the lobby with a 10% reduction
throughout the afternoon as well as at the reception.
The authors will be happy to inscribe their books.
We wish to thank:
The Palo Alto Weekly,
Stanford University Press,
The Stanford Bookstore,
and the
Stanford Humanities Center
for their support.