PFIIS Grant Program Suspended
STANFORD, California – The Presidential Fund for Innovationin International Studies (PFIIS) grant program has been suspended for the 2009-2010 academic year. Check back in September 2010 for information about future application deadlines.
2009 PFIIS Award Recipients Announced!
Judith Paulus, Associate Director for Communications, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI), 650-723-8490, jpaulus@stanford.edu
Catharine Kristian, The Stanford International Initiative, 650-721-4748, ckristian@stanford.edu
Stanford signs teacher-training agreement with Chilean university
On June 13, Stanford signed a teacher-training agreement with the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. The agreement provides an opportunity for faculty from the two universities to collaborate on research and for students at the Chilean university to come to Stanford for teacher training.
Submitted by Whitney Sparks on July 18, 2008 - 13:34.
René Girard: Stanford's provocative immortel is a one-man institution
Cynthia Haven, Stanford Report
The story goes like this: In 2004, Jean-Pierre Dupuy, a professor of French at Stanford, is attending a conference in Berlin when he is confronted by a man in a café who asks, "Why did you become a Girardian?" Dupuy replies in a beat: "Because it's cheaper than psychoanalysis."
Did it really happen? Although the event was witnessed, Dupuy responds with a Gallic shrug and an Italian saying: "Si non e vero e ben trovato." The American equivalent might be Ken Kesey's dictum, "It's the truth even if it didn't happen."
