Stanford University Master of Liberal Arts

Our winter digital catalog is now available! Preview over 130 upcoming courses in liberal arts & sciences, business, creative writing, and more. Courses are available online and on campus! Registration opens December 4.

Explore our winter quarter offerings here: https://stanford.io/3QYs5IW

Join us on a life-changing intellectual journey.

Accepting applications until Jan 24: https://mla.stanford.edu/admissions/how-apply

Current MLA student, Kelly Harrison receiving her Excellence in Interdisciplinary Writing Award for her paper "Colonial Astronomers and the Transit of Venus: An Exemplar of American Enlightened Thinking” AGLSP, Association of Graduate Liberal Studies Programs

Stanford MLA students and alumni out in force at the San Diego AGLSP, Association of Graduate Liberal Studies Programs conference this weekend. Thank you Cheryl Solis, Shaz Sher, Cynthia Newberry, Kelly Harrison, Alice Devine Wilson, Kim Gudmundson, Mike Breger & Gina Haney for your brilliant presentations.

Fresh from studying Mary Shelley's Frankenstein in MLA 102, come see Manual Cinema interpretation of the classic at the Bing Auditorium with Stanford Live on November 4 &5.

The Chicago-based performance collective imaginatively combines shadow puppetry, cinematic techniques, sound effects, and live music in haunting shows like nothing else you’ve ever seen.

Telling Stories As A Leadership Tool For Change: A Workshop On Public Narrative. Workshop this Friday October 20 2-4pm and Sunday October 22 9am-4.30pm. Register using QR code below.

Big Ideas: Join Ran Abramitzky and Nobel Laureate Guido Imbens Thursday 10/12 as they discuss Causal Inference as well as Imben's personal and professional journey. Get more details. https://stanford.io/3rApuuV

"Embodied Knowledge: Women and Science Before Silicon Valley" exhibition now on in the Green Library curated by MLA Faculty Director Paula Findlen with contributions from a diverse group of faculty, curators and graduate students across the institution including the MLA

Last info session before application for next academic year!!

Join us for a webinar on October 9 at 6PM - faculty and students will discuss the program, the application process and answer your questions https://mla.stanford.edu/information-session-rsvp

Info Session tonight people! Hear about the program from students and faculty and have your questions answered.
RSVP https://mla.stanford.edu/information-session-rsvp

Congratulations Kelly Harrison, current MLA student, who is one of the winners of the 2023 Writing Awards at Confluence, the Journal of the AGLSP, Association of Graduate Liberal Studies Programs

She was awarded the prize for Excellence in Interdisciplinary Writing Award for her essay "Colonial Astronomers and the Transit of Venus: An Exemplar of American Enlightened Thinking".

Confluence The Journal of Graduate Liberal Studies

Join us on the Stanford campus for our summer info session. Hear about the program from students and faculty and have your questions answered. Come early for a Quad tour.

RSVP https://mla.stanford.edu/information-session-rsvp

Yin and Yang My learning journey at Stanford continued in the late spring with a class on gender issues in Imperial China. Also: the meaning of time!

MLA 374: Gender and Sexuality in Chinese History

Find out about this class and many more in the highly entertaining blog of rising 4th Year Ramanan Raghavendran.

Yin and Yang My learning journey at Stanford continued in the late spring with a class on gender issues in Imperial China. Also: the meaning of time!

Tangents 2023 is here. Click on the link below and enjoy!

https://mla.stanford.edu/students-alumni/tangents-journal

Join us tonight at 6pm - RSVP for more details: https://mla.stanford.edu/information-session-rsvp

Come to our first ever hybrid info session on Tuesday, May 16 at 6PM https://mla.stanford.edu/information-session-rsvp

Join Us for a Conversation with Colombian President Gustavo Petro April 18, Stanford University

60 Years of Artificial Intelligence at Stanford Stanford has been a leader in AI almost since the day the term was dreamed up by John McCarthy in the 1950s. McCarthy would join the Stanford faculty in 1962 and found the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab (SAIL), initiating a six-decades-plus legacy of innovation. Over the years, the field has g...

Lecture tonight March 9 5.30-7pm in Oshman Hall: AudioVision in the Middle Ages: Sainte-Foy at Conques by Bissera V. Pentcheva

Tickets are on sale now for TAPS's Winter Main Stage "Julius Caesar" — running March 9-11 in Memorial Auditorium. Set five years in the future, the classic text opens up many lenses to our contemporary life and asks timeless questions of power, politics, and betrayal: taps.stanford.edu/caesar

"Modernity and Its Discontents: European Culture from Fin de Siècle to World War II" is the MLA-style Continuing Studies class for Spring Quarter. Register now:

Modernity and Its Discontents: European Thought and Culture from Fin de Siècle to World War II (An MLA-Style Course) ABOUT THIS MLA-STYLE COURSE:Please note: This course is open to students who have not previously enrolled in an MLA-style course through Stanford Continuing Studies.This course aims to introduce those interested in pursuing a degree in the Stanford Master of Liberal Arts program to the kind of semin...

We are live! https://twitter.com/AglspC/status/1621917945730588672?s=20&t=S0OFdH5iD1Lf1opIWa1JDA

Thursday, February 23 at 5:30 p.m. in the Bender Room in Green Library, the British History Lecture Series will present George Orwell and Peter Stansky: Then and Now. Based on Professor Stansky’s work and introducing his newest, The Socialist Patriot (2023), the gathering will give us Professor Stansky’s guidance to a deeper understanding of Orwell’s significance to the history of the 20th century. Register here:

https://events.stanford.edu/event/orwell_stanskyOn

AGLSP Conference Coda is happening this weekend on Zoom. Alums Fyza Parviz (MLA '22) and Michael Breger (MLA '22) will be presenting. Register here:

https://gscs.formstack.com/forms/2023_aglsp_coda_registration

The Labrador Duck, the Great Auk, the Heath Hen, the Carolina Parakeet, and the Passenger Pigeon have arrived on campus. You can come to visit the sculptures any time and there is a screening of the documentary about them on Feb 24:

The Lost Bird Project Film Screening | Stanford Live Fri, Feb 24 • 6:00pm

What a game! Over 50 MLA students, alum, family and friends were there to see it. Go Stanford!

Brink's Blocks, Triple-Double Lead the Way - Stanford University Athletics An historic triple-double from Cameron Brink, featuring 16 points, 11 rebounds and 10 blocks, led No. 3 Stanford past Oregon 62-54 on Sunday afternoon at Maples Pavilion.

For all of you MLA students and alums who read Beowulf in Foundations, there are still two upcoming dates to hear it read in the Old English with Live Harp Accompaniment...plus Mead. What could be better on a chilly winter's eve?

Beowulf, Mead & Music | Department of English January 26: Lines 1-1250 The Mystical Qualities of Mead (by Max Ashton) • Old English Reading with Live Harp Accompaniment • Complimentary Mead from Heidun Meadery (Must be 21+) • Reading of Beowulf's Battle Against Grendel from Seamus Heaney's Translation of Beowulf • Free Copy of Beowulf ....

Come and see Stanford Department of Music's production of Company next weekend at the Dinkelspiel.

Company, Stephen Sondheim’s ground-breaking musical exploration of relationships and identity, comes to Stanford University in January 2023 with a brilliant student cast and full orchestra. This production promises to be one of the Department of Music’s best.

Company, by Stephen Sondheim | Department of Music Company, Stephen Sondheim’s ground-breaking musical exploration of relationships and identity, comes to Stanford University in January 2023 with a brilliant student cast and full orchestra. This production promises to be one of the Department of Music’s best. Company premiered in 1970 and today,...