Past Events
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Our events connect the Stanford community with storytellers across mediums
We've been putting on major events since 2010 and are in the process of transitioning our website. Our new site does not yet reflect the full archive of our past events.
Over the years, we've had everyone from Neil Gaiman to Cheryl Strayed to Jad Abumrad to Margaret Atwood to Ira Glass come to campus to share their wisdom. Explore some of our past events below.
An Evening with Bonnie Garmus
Spring 2024
Margaret Atwood in Conversation
Fall 2022
Native Survivance and the Literature of Engagement with Gerald Vizenor
Winter 2020
Words and Silences: An Evening with Naomi Shihab Nye and Ryushin Paul Haller
Spring 2019
The Beautiful Art of Failure with Anthony Doerr
Winter 2017
Billy Collins and Aimee Mann
Fall 2016
Cheryl Strayed
Winter 2015
Finding Genius: An Evening with Michael Meade
Spring 2013
An Evening with Barbara Kingsolver
Fall 2023
A Night of Storytelling and Song with Sudan Archives
Spring 2021
Harriet Film Screening with Debora Martin Chase
Fall 2019
An Evening with Rebecca Skloot and members of the Henrietta Lacks Family
Spring 2019
The Pilgrim Way: The Contemplative Foundations of a Future Life with David Whyte
Fall 2016
Radiolab's Jad Abumrad
Winter 2016
An Evening with Chris Ware and Marjane Satrapi
Fall 2014
An Afternoon with Ira Glass, Host of This American Life
Fall 2013
Stories and Sweets: Live Storytelling Workshops
2023-2024
An Evening with Sarah Broom
Winter 2020
The Living Odyssey: An Evening with Madeline Miller and Martin Shaw
Spring 2019
Alice Walker – Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart: Noticing Where You Are, and Who or What Is There With You
Fall 2017
Anna Deavere Smith
Fall 2016
Cameron Esposito: Purveyor of Fine Jokes
Winter 2016
An Evening with Sherman Alexie
Spring 2014