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Undergraduate Communications Assistant Needed
February 17, 2012
The Stanford Humanities Center is seeking a student communications assistant for winter and spring 2012. The Humanities Center, located behind Tresidder Student Union, sponsors advanced research into the historical, philosophical, and cultural dimensions of human experience. During the academic year, the Center brings together scholars and students for public lectures, collaborative research workshops, and residential research fellowships. The student assistant will be assigned a variety of communications tasks, including researching content ideas, conducting interviews with fellows and visitors, and writing features and profiles for the web. Other tasks may include covering Center events, videotaping interviews, and editing video transcripts. Prior experience More»
Workshop Applications Now Open
February 02, 2012
The Humanities Center invites proposals for 2012-13 Workshops. The workshops bring together groups of Stanford faculty and advanced graduate students, as well as visiting scholars and those at other local institutions, to present their current research and otherwise explore topics of common intellectual concern. Workshops meet at least 3 times a quarter. Accepted proposals will be awarded up to $8500 for the academic year. Apply online now. More»
International Visitor Spotlight: Anne Simonin
January 23, 2012
By Marie-Pierre Ulloa French legal historian Anne Simonin has been called a “champion of finesse” – she has an unconventional way of looking at embarrassing moments in French and European history. When she arrived at the Stanford Humanities Center in Winter 2010, Simonin had just completed a major project about the origins and the propagation of “unworthiness.” She traced the concept through the French Republican tradition from Revolution to the aftermath of the Second World War. During her stay at the Center, Simonin spent much of her time researching in the archives at Green Library and the Hoover Institute. There, she uncovered More»
International Visitor Spotlight: Adams Bodomo
October 28, 2011
By Armine Pillikan Adams Bodomo, an FSI- Humanities Center International Visitor in October and November of this year, has been researching a relatively new and unexplored phenomenon: the migration of Africans to China and the type of Sino-African relations emerging from this process. Bodomo is currently African Studies Programme Director at the School of Humanities, University of Hong Kong, as well as Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics. We asked him to tell us about how migrant African populations interact with Chinese civilians on a daily basis, and how this is creating types of cross-cultural and cross-linguistic collaboration. Tell us a bit about More»
Arts Visitor Spotlight: M.K. Raina
October 28, 2011
By Armine Pillikan M.K. Raina, an international visitor and SiCa Arts Writer/Practitioner this October, is known as one of the most prominent theatre artists throughout India and Southeast Asia. He speaks 13-14 different languages, has traveled and taught from Sri Lanka to Bangladesh, and works not only with professional performance artists, but also children who’ve had very little exposure to the arts. Recently, his work has included revitalizing theatre and visual arts in his birthplace, the Kashmir Valley—a place that has suffered from militant terror for many years. During a presentation in the Humanities Center Board Room on October 11, he discussed his More»
Fellows Spotlight: Sarah Carey
October 15, 2011
Sarah Carey, a Stanford alum and former resident of our very own Casa Italiana, has spent the decade since she’s graduated developing a new lens through which to view nineteenth and twentieth-century Italian literature—through the lens of an actual camera. With a PhD from UCLA, she returned to Stanford as a Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow last year. Carey’s work on campus includes developing her new book Envisioning Italy: Photography and the Narrating of a Nation, alongside teaching a class based on the intersections of photography, literature, and cinema in Italian art. She will be introducing and screening Michelangelo Antonioni’s film More»
Remembering Graham Leggat (1960-2011)
September 07, 2011
by Marie-Pierre Ulloa, Stanford Humanities Center Graham Leggat, Stanford alumnus and former executive director of the San Francisco Film Society, transformed the Bay Area film scene. Tobias Wolff, the Ward W. and Priscilla B. Woods Professor of English at Stanford, remembers him with “immense fondness and admiration” as “one of the most interesting students I had.” Visionary executive director of the San Francisco Film Society, Graham Leggat, class of ‘87, died on August 25th at his home in San Francisco after an eighteen-month struggle with cancer. He was 51. In recent years, Leggat collaborated frequently with various Stanford institutions to bring foreign films More»
2012-13 Fellowship Applications Now Open
August 30, 2011
The Stanford Humanities Center is now accepting fellowship applications for the 2012-13 academic year. External Faculty and a new Arts Writer/Practitioner fellowship have a deadline of October 3, 2011. Stanford Faculty and Dissertation Fellows have a deadline of January 11, 2012. The online application portal is now available. For more information, contact Fellowship Program Administrator Robert Barrick. More»
2010-11 Fellow Richard White Featured on NPR-Morning Edition
July 12, 2011
2010-11 Donald Andrews Whittier Fellow Richard White was featured on NPR’s Morning Edition on July 11, 2011. White discussed his new book Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America as the first in a three-part series on 19th Century events that shape the America we live in today. Listen to the story. More»
Call for Nominations for 2012-13 International Visitors
July 06, 2011
Nomination Deadline: November 1, 2011 The Stanford Humanities Center and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) intend to offer up to four short-term residencies to international scholars in academic year 2012-2013. Residencies will be approximately four weeks. Depending on the availability of funds, longer visits of up to eight weeks may be possible. This will be the fourth year of the program; the list of 2011-2012 visiting scholars is available at: http://shc.stanford.edu/people/short-term-visitors/2010-2011/ The purpose of the residencies is to bring next generation leading scholars into the intellectual life of Stanford, targeting those scholars who would be of particular interest to departments More»
February 17, 2012
The Stanford Humanities Center is seeking a student communications assistant for winter and spring 2012. The Humanities Center, located behind Tresidder Student Union, sponsors advanced research into the historical, philosophical, and cultural dimensions of human experience. During the academic year, the Center brings together scholars and students for public lectures, collaborative research workshops, and residential research fellowships. The student assistant will be assigned a variety of communications tasks, including researching content ideas, conducting interviews with fellows and visitors, and writing features and profiles for the web. Other tasks may include covering Center events, videotaping interviews, and editing video transcripts. Prior experience More»
Workshop Applications Now Open
February 02, 2012
The Humanities Center invites proposals for 2012-13 Workshops. The workshops bring together groups of Stanford faculty and advanced graduate students, as well as visiting scholars and those at other local institutions, to present their current research and otherwise explore topics of common intellectual concern. Workshops meet at least 3 times a quarter. Accepted proposals will be awarded up to $8500 for the academic year. Apply online now. More»
International Visitor Spotlight: Anne Simonin
January 23, 2012
By Marie-Pierre Ulloa French legal historian Anne Simonin has been called a “champion of finesse” – she has an unconventional way of looking at embarrassing moments in French and European history. When she arrived at the Stanford Humanities Center in Winter 2010, Simonin had just completed a major project about the origins and the propagation of “unworthiness.” She traced the concept through the French Republican tradition from Revolution to the aftermath of the Second World War. During her stay at the Center, Simonin spent much of her time researching in the archives at Green Library and the Hoover Institute. There, she uncovered More»
International Visitor Spotlight: Adams Bodomo
October 28, 2011
By Armine Pillikan Adams Bodomo, an FSI- Humanities Center International Visitor in October and November of this year, has been researching a relatively new and unexplored phenomenon: the migration of Africans to China and the type of Sino-African relations emerging from this process. Bodomo is currently African Studies Programme Director at the School of Humanities, University of Hong Kong, as well as Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics. We asked him to tell us about how migrant African populations interact with Chinese civilians on a daily basis, and how this is creating types of cross-cultural and cross-linguistic collaboration. Tell us a bit about More»
Arts Visitor Spotlight: M.K. Raina
October 28, 2011
By Armine Pillikan M.K. Raina, an international visitor and SiCa Arts Writer/Practitioner this October, is known as one of the most prominent theatre artists throughout India and Southeast Asia. He speaks 13-14 different languages, has traveled and taught from Sri Lanka to Bangladesh, and works not only with professional performance artists, but also children who’ve had very little exposure to the arts. Recently, his work has included revitalizing theatre and visual arts in his birthplace, the Kashmir Valley—a place that has suffered from militant terror for many years. During a presentation in the Humanities Center Board Room on October 11, he discussed his More»
Fellows Spotlight: Sarah Carey
October 15, 2011
Sarah Carey, a Stanford alum and former resident of our very own Casa Italiana, has spent the decade since she’s graduated developing a new lens through which to view nineteenth and twentieth-century Italian literature—through the lens of an actual camera. With a PhD from UCLA, she returned to Stanford as a Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow last year. Carey’s work on campus includes developing her new book Envisioning Italy: Photography and the Narrating of a Nation, alongside teaching a class based on the intersections of photography, literature, and cinema in Italian art. She will be introducing and screening Michelangelo Antonioni’s film More»
Remembering Graham Leggat (1960-2011)
September 07, 2011
by Marie-Pierre Ulloa, Stanford Humanities Center Graham Leggat, Stanford alumnus and former executive director of the San Francisco Film Society, transformed the Bay Area film scene. Tobias Wolff, the Ward W. and Priscilla B. Woods Professor of English at Stanford, remembers him with “immense fondness and admiration” as “one of the most interesting students I had.” Visionary executive director of the San Francisco Film Society, Graham Leggat, class of ‘87, died on August 25th at his home in San Francisco after an eighteen-month struggle with cancer. He was 51. In recent years, Leggat collaborated frequently with various Stanford institutions to bring foreign films More»
2012-13 Fellowship Applications Now Open
August 30, 2011
The Stanford Humanities Center is now accepting fellowship applications for the 2012-13 academic year. External Faculty and a new Arts Writer/Practitioner fellowship have a deadline of October 3, 2011. Stanford Faculty and Dissertation Fellows have a deadline of January 11, 2012. The online application portal is now available. For more information, contact Fellowship Program Administrator Robert Barrick. More»
2010-11 Fellow Richard White Featured on NPR-Morning Edition
July 12, 2011
2010-11 Donald Andrews Whittier Fellow Richard White was featured on NPR’s Morning Edition on July 11, 2011. White discussed his new book Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America as the first in a three-part series on 19th Century events that shape the America we live in today. Listen to the story. More»
Call for Nominations for 2012-13 International Visitors
July 06, 2011
Nomination Deadline: November 1, 2011 The Stanford Humanities Center and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) intend to offer up to four short-term residencies to international scholars in academic year 2012-2013. Residencies will be approximately four weeks. Depending on the availability of funds, longer visits of up to eight weeks may be possible. This will be the fourth year of the program; the list of 2011-2012 visiting scholars is available at: http://shc.stanford.edu/people/short-term-visitors/2010-2011/ The purpose of the residencies is to bring next generation leading scholars into the intellectual life of Stanford, targeting those scholars who would be of particular interest to departments More»