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April 6, 2005

Book festival to celebrate campus authors, others

By Barbara Palmer

More than 20 campus authors will talk about their recently published work during "A Company of Authors," a book festival to be held from 2 to 6 p.m. Saturday, April 16, at the Stanford Humanities Center. Hosted by the Associates of the Stanford University Libraries, the festival also will include appearances by Joseph Kanon, author of the thriller The Good German and the new novel Alibi, and Nathaniel Rich, author of San Francisco Noir.

A reception for authors and festival participants is scheduled for 4 to 4:30 p.m. Books will be available for purchase at the festival at a 10 percent discount, and authors will autograph works at the reception and throughout the event. The festival is free and open to the public.

Panel titles, panelists and their featured books include:

2 - 2:30 p.m.: Exploring New Worlds

George Dekker, the Joseph S. Atha Professor of Humanities, Emeritus, and associate dean of graduate policy, The Fictions of Romantic Tourism: Radcliffe, Scott and Mary Shelley; Edith Gelles, a senior scholar at the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, The Letters of Abigaill Levy Franks; Joseph Manning, associate professor of classics, Egypt from Alexander to the Copts: An Archaeological and Historical Guide; and Solomon Feferman, the Patrick Suppes Family Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences, Emeritus, and Anita Burdman Feferman, Alfred Tarski: Life and Logic.

2:30 - 3 p.m.: The World of Art and Ideas

Hilarie Faberman, curator of modern and contemporary art at the Cantor Arts Center, Picasso to Thiebaud; Caroline Winterer, assistant professor of history, The World of Classicism; Jessica Riskin, assistant professor of history, Science in the Age of Sensibility; and Patrick Hunt, lecturer in classics, Caravaggio.

3 - 3:30 p.m.: Beloved by the New York Times

David Riggs, professor of English, The World of Christopher Marlowe, and Robert Polhemus, the Joseph S. Atha Professor in Humanities, Lot's Daughters.

3:30 - 4 p.m.: Joseph Kanon and Nathaniel Rich4 - 4:30 p.m.: Reception4:30 - 5 p.m.: Near and Far

Ronald N. Bracewell, the Lewis M. Terman Professor, Emeritus, Trees of Stanford and Environs; Kirsten Seaver, Maps, Myths and Men: The Story of the Vinland Map; John Gillis, Islands of the Mind: How the Human Imagination Created the Atlantic World; and Richard W. Cottle, professor emeritus of management science and engineering, Stanford Street Names: A Pocket Guide.

5 - 5:30 p.m.: Other Worlds

Susan Groag Bell, senior scholar at the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, The Lost Tapestries of the City of Ladies; Zephyr Frank, assistant professor of history, Dutra's World: Wealth and Family in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro; and Hilton Obenzinger, lecturer and associate director for honors writing, a*hole and Running Through Fire.

5:30 - 6 p.m.: Other Shores

Paul Robinson, the Richard W. Lyman Professor in the Humanities, Queer Wars: The New Gay Right and Its Critics; Marilyn Yalom, senior scholar at the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Birth of the Chess Queen; and Joshua Landy, associate professor of French and Italian, Philosophy as Fiction: Self, Deception and Knowledge in Proust.

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