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Leadership Dinner: Gerald Vizenor

Event Details:

Monday, February 10, 2020
5:30pm PST

This event is open to:

All Graduate Students

Dine with inspiring leaders from various industries and organizations. At Leadership Dinners, you will interact with proven leaders and a small group of graduate students over dinner at the Faculty Club.  

Gerald Vizenor, professor emeritus of American Studies, University of California, Berkeley; 2020 Mimi and Peter E. Haas Distinguished Visitor

Gerald Vizenor is professor emeritus of American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley and a citizen of the White Earth Nation in Minnesota. He has published more than 30 books, novels, critical theory, cultural studies, and poetry collections. Native Provenance: The Betrayal of Cultural Creativity, a collection of essays, and Blue Ravens and Native Tributes, two historical novels about Native Americans who served in World War I in France, are his most recent publications. Vizenor has received many awards, including the American Book Award for Griever: An American Monkey King in China, and the Western Literature Association Distinguished Achievement Award.

Gerald Vizenor is serving as the 2020 Mimi and Peter E. Haas Distinguished Visitor at Stanford University.

Please Note:
Leadership Dinners have limited seating. If you are accepted you must confirm your place by submitting a Student Participation Fee Agreement, which authorizes VPGE to charge $50 to your Stanford bill – only if you do not fully participate in the event.

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