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Everyday Comedy
May 07, 2012
By Camryn Douglass Scene: After a swim at the beach, a man attempts to dry himself off while standing in front of a light post. He flings the towel around his back, inadvertently wrapping the towel around the post behind him. He pulls the towel back and forth (around the post, not his back) and is confused about why he cannot get dry. The man is frustrated and he goes home dripping wet. The audience shrieks with laughter. This scene from Jacques Tati’s Monsieur Hulots’ Holiday may not be as grand as a house collapsing around Buster Keaton, but it elicits the More»
International Q&A with SiCa-Humanities Center 2011 Arts Writer/Practitioner M.K Raina
April 30, 2012
By Marie-Pierre Ulloa Why and how did you become a theatre artist? It all started long back, when I was a school kid of seven years. Our school principal, Mr. Deena Nath Nadeem, a legendary poet of the Kashmiri language, wrote a verse play for the children of the school. The play was about birds, animals, humans, and their inter-relationships. It was a futuristic thing dealing with the co-existence between these two worlds–that is the human and the non-human world, nature. It had lovely songs set to folk melodies that we, as children, sang. Later these became big hit songs over the More»
Humanities Center Names 2012-13 Fellows
April 19, 2012
The Stanford Humanities Center has named 28 fellows for the 2012-13 academic year. Chosen from a pool of over 400 applicants, the 2012-13 cohort comprises scholars from other institutions, as well as Stanford faculty and advanced Stanford graduate students. Fellows will pursue individual research and writing for the full academic year while contributing to the Stanford community through their participation in workshops, lectures, and courses. Mark Antliff, Marta Sutton Weeks Fellow Department of Art, Art History and Visual Studies, Duke University Sculpture Against the State: Direct Carving, Gaudier-Brzeska and the Cultural Politics of Anarchism Marcelo Aranda, Geballe Dissertation Prize Fellow Department of History, Stanford University Between More»
International Scholars in Residence at the Humanities Center 2012-13
April 13, 2012
By Marie-Pierre Ulloa The Stanford Humanities Center and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) are pleased to announce that four international scholars have been chosen to come to Stanford in 2012-13 as part of a jointly sponsored international program entering its fourth year. Nominated by Stanford departments and research centers, the international scholars will be on campus for four-week residencies. They will have offices at the Humanities Center and will be affiliated with their nominating unit, the Humanities Center, and FSI. A major purpose of the residencies is to bring high-profile international scholars into the intellectual life of the university, More»
Globalization and History Education
March 21, 2012
By Chris Williams By now, everyone knows that we live in a globalized world. Case in point: a high school classroom in San Jose, California could contain students from Mexico, Argentina, South Korea, France, Brazil, Canada, and South Africa, to name a few, not to mention those born in the United States. Yet in that San Jose classroom, in classrooms across the country and around the world, history is often presented in a very narrow way, usually focusing only on history as it affects a given nation. Global history, in a truly interconnected format, is almost always left out of the More»
International Q&A with FSI-Humanities Center 2011 Visitor Monica Quijada
March 20, 2012
By Marie-Pierre Ulloa Why did you become a historian? Since I was very young I have been interested in History as a means to understand society and as a place from which to participate actively in society’s concerns. What is the focus of your current research? I generally work on more than one topic, which I find interrelated. At this time I am working on interethnic relations (particularly the interaction of Indians and citizenship in 19th Century Latin America), popular sovereignty in the Spanish world along the centuries, and the management of diversity in Anthropological Museums. What are the three or four seminal books More»
International Q&A with FSI-Humanities Center 2012 Visitor Catherine Gousseff
March 20, 2012
By Marie-Pierre Ulloa Why did you become a historian? Maybe by chance since I wanted to be a philosopher. I think that my origins played a huge role in my choice. My grandparents came from Russia as refugees after the Revolution and I dedicated my work as historian to the history of refugees and displaced persons in the 20th century, having started with a PhD on the Russian Exile. What is the focus of your current research? I am working on the history of population exchange between Ukraine and Poland in order to adjust the new politic borders with the ethnographic ones (1944-1947) What are More»
International Q&A with FSI-Humanities Center Visitor Adams Bodomo
March 15, 2012
by Marie-Pierre Ulloa Why did you become a linguist? I studied linguistics and became a linguist for two reasons. First, I wanted to be a top diplomat for my country, Ghana, which would involve being posted around the world to represent my country. I figured that if I studied linguistics and foreign languages at the University of Ghana that would increase my chances, so I read Linguistics, French, and Swahili. Second, I wanted to help document and preserve my mother-tongue, Dagaare, a small language in northern Ghana. I succeeded in writing the first grammar sketch of the language, published here at Stanford More»
Humanities Center Holds 19th Annual Celebration of Publications
March 07, 2012
On March 6, 2012, the Humanities Center hosted the 19th Annual Celebration of Publications in honor of humanists across the university. 62 authors were honored with 78 print, digital, video, and audio publications displayed for all to enjoy. Click here to view the full list of authors and publications. More»
Humanities Circle Visits Library Special Collections
March 05, 2012
By Chris Williams What do a poster from the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, a “pirated” edition of the Nuremburg Chronicles from 1496, and a 1591 copy of Metamorphosis have in common? They are all available at the Special Collections at Green Library, and all undergraduates can see and touch them. In January, Robert Barrick took the Humanities Circle, an undergraduate group sponsored by the Stanford Humanities Center, on a trip to Special Collections to see what the fuss is all about. “We wanted students to know what is available and how to access it,” Barrick says. To prepare for the visit, More»
May 07, 2012
By Camryn Douglass Scene: After a swim at the beach, a man attempts to dry himself off while standing in front of a light post. He flings the towel around his back, inadvertently wrapping the towel around the post behind him. He pulls the towel back and forth (around the post, not his back) and is confused about why he cannot get dry. The man is frustrated and he goes home dripping wet. The audience shrieks with laughter. This scene from Jacques Tati’s Monsieur Hulots’ Holiday may not be as grand as a house collapsing around Buster Keaton, but it elicits the More»
International Q&A with SiCa-Humanities Center 2011 Arts Writer/Practitioner M.K Raina
April 30, 2012
By Marie-Pierre Ulloa Why and how did you become a theatre artist? It all started long back, when I was a school kid of seven years. Our school principal, Mr. Deena Nath Nadeem, a legendary poet of the Kashmiri language, wrote a verse play for the children of the school. The play was about birds, animals, humans, and their inter-relationships. It was a futuristic thing dealing with the co-existence between these two worlds–that is the human and the non-human world, nature. It had lovely songs set to folk melodies that we, as children, sang. Later these became big hit songs over the More»
Humanities Center Names 2012-13 Fellows
April 19, 2012
The Stanford Humanities Center has named 28 fellows for the 2012-13 academic year. Chosen from a pool of over 400 applicants, the 2012-13 cohort comprises scholars from other institutions, as well as Stanford faculty and advanced Stanford graduate students. Fellows will pursue individual research and writing for the full academic year while contributing to the Stanford community through their participation in workshops, lectures, and courses. Mark Antliff, Marta Sutton Weeks Fellow Department of Art, Art History and Visual Studies, Duke University Sculpture Against the State: Direct Carving, Gaudier-Brzeska and the Cultural Politics of Anarchism Marcelo Aranda, Geballe Dissertation Prize Fellow Department of History, Stanford University Between More»
International Scholars in Residence at the Humanities Center 2012-13
April 13, 2012
By Marie-Pierre Ulloa The Stanford Humanities Center and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) are pleased to announce that four international scholars have been chosen to come to Stanford in 2012-13 as part of a jointly sponsored international program entering its fourth year. Nominated by Stanford departments and research centers, the international scholars will be on campus for four-week residencies. They will have offices at the Humanities Center and will be affiliated with their nominating unit, the Humanities Center, and FSI. A major purpose of the residencies is to bring high-profile international scholars into the intellectual life of the university, More»
Globalization and History Education
March 21, 2012
By Chris Williams By now, everyone knows that we live in a globalized world. Case in point: a high school classroom in San Jose, California could contain students from Mexico, Argentina, South Korea, France, Brazil, Canada, and South Africa, to name a few, not to mention those born in the United States. Yet in that San Jose classroom, in classrooms across the country and around the world, history is often presented in a very narrow way, usually focusing only on history as it affects a given nation. Global history, in a truly interconnected format, is almost always left out of the More»
International Q&A with FSI-Humanities Center 2011 Visitor Monica Quijada
March 20, 2012
By Marie-Pierre Ulloa Why did you become a historian? Since I was very young I have been interested in History as a means to understand society and as a place from which to participate actively in society’s concerns. What is the focus of your current research? I generally work on more than one topic, which I find interrelated. At this time I am working on interethnic relations (particularly the interaction of Indians and citizenship in 19th Century Latin America), popular sovereignty in the Spanish world along the centuries, and the management of diversity in Anthropological Museums. What are the three or four seminal books More»
International Q&A with FSI-Humanities Center 2012 Visitor Catherine Gousseff
March 20, 2012
By Marie-Pierre Ulloa Why did you become a historian? Maybe by chance since I wanted to be a philosopher. I think that my origins played a huge role in my choice. My grandparents came from Russia as refugees after the Revolution and I dedicated my work as historian to the history of refugees and displaced persons in the 20th century, having started with a PhD on the Russian Exile. What is the focus of your current research? I am working on the history of population exchange between Ukraine and Poland in order to adjust the new politic borders with the ethnographic ones (1944-1947) What are More»
International Q&A with FSI-Humanities Center Visitor Adams Bodomo
March 15, 2012
by Marie-Pierre Ulloa Why did you become a linguist? I studied linguistics and became a linguist for two reasons. First, I wanted to be a top diplomat for my country, Ghana, which would involve being posted around the world to represent my country. I figured that if I studied linguistics and foreign languages at the University of Ghana that would increase my chances, so I read Linguistics, French, and Swahili. Second, I wanted to help document and preserve my mother-tongue, Dagaare, a small language in northern Ghana. I succeeded in writing the first grammar sketch of the language, published here at Stanford More»
Humanities Center Holds 19th Annual Celebration of Publications
March 07, 2012
On March 6, 2012, the Humanities Center hosted the 19th Annual Celebration of Publications in honor of humanists across the university. 62 authors were honored with 78 print, digital, video, and audio publications displayed for all to enjoy. Click here to view the full list of authors and publications. More»
Humanities Circle Visits Library Special Collections
March 05, 2012
By Chris Williams What do a poster from the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, a “pirated” edition of the Nuremburg Chronicles from 1496, and a 1591 copy of Metamorphosis have in common? They are all available at the Special Collections at Green Library, and all undergraduates can see and touch them. In January, Robert Barrick took the Humanities Circle, an undergraduate group sponsored by the Stanford Humanities Center, on a trip to Special Collections to see what the fuss is all about. “We wanted students to know what is available and how to access it,” Barrick says. To prepare for the visit, More»