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Robert Harrison
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Oct 19, 2009 • 0sec
Byrd Hale on Blues – Part 2
Byrd Hale, also known as Byrd of Paradise, has been Blues Director at KZSU 90.1 Stanford radio for fifteen years. For twenty years, Byrd has hosted the blues show “Blues with a Feelin’,” which can be heard live on KZSU 90.1 and at http://kzsu.stanford.edu/ on Saturdays from 9 am to noon. He also hosts a […]

Oct 19, 2009 • 0sec
Byrd Hale on Blues – Part 1
Byrd Hale, also known as Byrd of Paradise, has been Blues Director at KZSU 90.1 Stanford radio for fifteen years. For twenty years, Byrd has hosted the blues show “Blues with a Feelin’,” which can be heard live on KZSU 90.1 and at http://kzsu.stanford.edu/ on Saturdays from 9 am to noon. He also hosts […]

Oct 6, 2009 • 0sec
Dick Gould on Tennis
Dick Gould is currently the John L. Hinds Director of Tennis at Stanford University. From 1966 until his retirement in 2004, he coached the Stanford men's tennis team, during which time he led his teams to 17 NCAA Team Championships (10 NCAA singles champions, 7 NCAA doubles championship teams), and coached 50 All American champions. […]

Sep 29, 2009 • 0sec
Jean-Marie Apostolidès on the Unabomber
Professor Apostolidès was educated in France, where he received a doctorate in literature and the social sciences. He taught psychology in Canada for seven years and sociology in France for three years. In 1980 he came to the United States, teaching at Harvard and then Stanford, primarily French classical literature (the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries) […]

Jun 20, 2009 • 0sec
The Jimi Hendrix Solo Show

Jun 2, 2009 • 0sec
Katie Peterson on Emily Dickinson
KATIE PETERSON was born in Menlo Park, California. She graduated from Stanford in 1996 with a degree in English Literature, and received her doctorate in English and American Literature and Language from Harvard University in 2006. Her thesis, “Supposed Person: Emily Dickinson and the Selflessness of Poetry,” was awarded the Howard Mumford Jones Prize for […]

Jun 2, 2009 • 0sec
Panagiotis Agapitos on Byzantium – Part 2
PANAGIOTIS AGAPITOS (Athens, 1959), Professor of Byzantine Literature and Culture at the University of Cyprus, studied Byzantine History and Literature, History of Byzantine Art and Musicology at the University of Munich (M.A. 1984), and Byzantine Literature at Harvard University (Ph.D 1990). He has published Narrative Structure in the Byzantine Vernacular Romances (Munich 1991), The Study […]

Jun 1, 2009 • 1h
Panagiotis Agapitos on Byzantium- Part 1
PANAGIOTIS AGAPITOS (Athens, 1959), Professor of Byzantine Literature and Culture at the University of Cyprus, studied Byzantine History and Literature, History of Byzantine Art and Musicology at the University of Munich (M.A. 1984), and Byzantine Literature at Harvard University (Ph.D 1990). He has published Narrative Structure in the Byzantine Vernacular Romances (Munich 1991), The Study […]

May 26, 2009 • 0sec
Andrew Mitchell on Friedrich Nietzsche
ANDREW J. MITCHELL is assistant professor of Philosophy at Emory University specializing in the work of Martin Heidegger, Friedrich Nietzsche, and the continental philosophical tradition, as well as the relationships between philosophy and literature. Before joining Emory he was post-doctoral Fellow in the Humanities at Stanford University where he taught in the German Studies and […]

May 19, 2009 • 0sec
Josh Landy with Michael Saler on the Re-enchantment of the World
JOSHUA LANDY is associate professor of French and co-director of the Literature and Philosophy Initiative at Stanford. Professor Landy is the author of Philosophy as Fiction: Self, Deception, and Knowledge in Proust (Oxford University Press, 2004) and the co-editor of two volumes, Thematics: New Approaches (SUNY, 1995, with Claude Bremond and Thomas Pavel) and The […]