[Excerpted from the Stanford Report, 8/23/2006.]
"To the ancients, the art of living was, at heart, a public performance. That conviction is central to Philosophical Stages, an interdisciplinary research project experimenting with using dramatic arts to teach philosophy to Bay Area high school students and Stanford undergraduates. The project, one of more than 20 sponsored by the Stanford Humanities Lab, is directed by James Henderson Collins and Corby Kelly, both advanced doctoral students in the Classics Department.
"Over the past two summers the project has brought dozens of students to campus to take part in a three-week-long workshop that combined instruction in aspects of theater arts by professional actors with the study of classical texts. The workshop culminated in a July 29 performance in Wallenberg Hall, where students combined adaptations of classic Greek plays with staged reflections on their own real-life dilemmas against a backdrop of projected slides."
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"To the ancients, the art of living was, at heart, a public performance. That conviction is central to Philosophical Stages, an interdisciplinary research project experimenting with using dramatic arts to teach philosophy to Bay Area high school students and Stanford undergraduates. The project, one of more than 20 sponsored by the Stanford Humanities Lab, is directed by James Henderson Collins and Corby Kelly, both advanced doctoral students in the Classics Department.
"Over the past two summers the project has brought dozens of students to campus to take part in a three-week-long workshop that combined instruction in aspects of theater arts by professional actors with the study of classical texts. The workshop culminated in a July 29 performance in Wallenberg Hall, where students combined adaptations of classic Greek plays with staged reflections on their own real-life dilemmas against a backdrop of projected slides."
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