Building 160, Wallenberg Hall, 433A
450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 160, Stanford, CA 94305
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Event Details:
This talk does what it says on the box: it aims to give students, faculty, and academic administrators useful language for defending the humanities, the idea of a liberal arts education, and the university.
Lunch at 11:45 a.m. for in-person attendees
About the Speaker
Eric Hayot is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and Asian Studies at Penn State University. He is the author of five books, including On Literary Worlds (2012), The Elements of Academic Style (2014), and Humanist Reason (2021). He is the co-creator of the Against AI and Humanities Works websites, the co-translator of Peter Janich’s What Is Information?, and the co-editor of collections on modernism, East/West comparison, and information studies.