News & Calendar

Faculty, alumni and students will discuss the program and answer your questions at the upcoming summer information session. RSVP here for the event which will be in-person on the Stanford campus. The next information session will be a Zoom webinar in October. 

AGLSP are hosting a free Zoom event to continue the conversation from the 2022 Conference in San Antonio. Nine students/alumni including Fyza Parviz (MLA '22) and Michael Breger (MLA '22) will share ideas and discuss the latest issues in Graduate Liberal Studies. Register for the event.

RSVP here for an info session on May 16 2023. Information sessions offer an opportunity to learn more about the Master of Liberal Arts program from faculty and current students. The next information session will be in August.

Calling all Stanford MLA Students and Alumni: The journal of the MLA Program at Stanford University, Tangents, is currently soliciting works for publication in the Summer 2023 issue. Deadline for submission is January 12, 2023. Learn more about this call for papers.

The lecture "Reimagining Slavery at the Cape of Good Hope" by Grant Parker hosted 5/25/2022 by the MLA Program and The David Rumsey Map Center is available for viewing.

This lecture will canvas historical maps as sources of insight into lives, both enslaved and slave-holding, at the Cape in the early colonial period. Grant will consider how selected maps tacitly embed narratives on both a large and a small scale and how they reflect both continuity and change. Register and learn more about this event.

View a recording of the 12/2/2020 MLA-hosted talk "How to Repair American Democracy" with Professor Larry Diamond. He spoke about the challenges to democracy that we are now seeing in the U.S.