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.
Spring 2024
An Evening with Bonnie Garmus
Fall 2022
Margaret Atwood in Conversation
Winter 2020
Native Survivance and the Literature of Engagement with Gerald Vizenor
Spring 2019
Words and Silences: An Evening with Naomi Shihab Nye and Ryushin Paul Haller
Winter 2017
The Beautiful Art of Failure with Anthony Doerr
Fall 2016
Billy Collins and Aimee Mann
Winter 2015
Cheryl Strayed
Spring 2013
Finding Genius: An Evening with Michael Meade
Fall 2023
An Evening with Barbara Kingsolver
Spring 2021
A Night of Storytelling and Song with Sudan Archives
Fall 2019
Harriet Film Screening with Debora Martin Chase
Spring 2019
An Evening with Rebecca Skloot and members of the Henrietta Lacks Family
Fall 2016
The Pilgrim Way: The Contemplative Foundations of a Future Life with David Whyte
Winter 2016
Radiolab's Jad Abumrad
Fall 2014
An Evening with Chris Ware and Marjane Satrapi
Fall 2013
An Afternoon with Ira Glass, Host of This American Life
2023-2024
Stories and Sweets: Live Storytelling Workshops
Winter 2020
An Evening with Sarah Broom
Spring 2019
The Living Odyssey: An Evening with Madeline Miller and Martin Shaw
Fall 2017
Alice Walker – Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart: Noticing Where You Are, and Who or What Is There With You
Fall 2016
Anna Deavere Smith
Winter 2016
Cameron Esposito: Purveyor of Fine Jokes
Spring 2014