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June 03, 2011
By Armine Pillikan Research within the humanities can seem like a daunting task. We’re used to short quarter sessions, where terms and dates fly by in a conceptual whirlwind of midterms and profoundly caffeinated essay writing. In our classes, we might spend one week analyzing a book, two weeks on a social phenomenon, three on an entire epoch. So, how do we escape the curse of the cursory? The Stanford Humanities Center, an intellectual haven stocked with visiting and on-campus professors, international artists, graduate students, researchers and, most importantly, delightful lunches, provides undergraduates with all of the resources and scholarly Sensei they More»
Humanities Center Funds 16 Workshops for 2011-12
June 02, 2011
The Humanities Center is pleased to announce that it will fund 16 Theodore and Frances Geballe Workshop Research Workshops for 2011-12. Of the 16 workshops, 6 are new for this year. The workshops cover a broad range of topics, including “Verbal and Visual Literacies of Ancient Rome,” “Cognition & Language,” and “Visualizing Complexity and Uncertainty,” which focuses on the digital humanities. Chosen by an interdisciplinary Stanford faculty committee, the workshops aim to bring together faculty members and graduate students in cross-disciplinary dialogue. Many workshop meetings are open to the public and will be posted on the calendar as soon as information More»
Jean-Michel Frodon on the New Frontiers of Film Criticism
May 29, 2011
By Armine Pillikan In April, the Stanford Humanities Center welcomed Jean-Michel Frodon as its international Bliss Carnochan Visitor. Frodon is one of the most well-known film critics in the world, and surely the most notable in France. A Man of Many Charming Hats Born Jean-Michel Billard, Frodon chose his pseudonym (a pre-trilogy-release tribute to J.R.R Tolkien’s novel “The Lord of the Rings”) not from any particular identification with the power-hungry, hairy-footed hobbit, but, first of all to distinguish himself from his father, Pierre Billard, a prominent film critic in France, and, secondly because of his genuine love for the stories. Frodon actually possesses More»
Humanities Center to Pilot a Dissertation Writing Group in 2011-12
May 18, 2011
The Humanities Center is seeking graduate students to join a pilot program of a dissertation writing group. This program is meant to foster intensive and supportive exchange across humanistic fields for those in the final stages of dissertation writing. Graduate students from a variety of humanities departments will be able to present and discuss their work in a multidisciplinary context, and faculty fellows in residence at the Humanities Center will participate in workshop meetings as mentors in their areas of expertise. Students whose projects cut across a number of fields may find this forum especially helpful to their scholarship. Eligibility Stanford graduate More»
International Scholars in Residence at the Humanities Center 2011-12
May 06, 2011
The Stanford Humanities Center and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) are pleased to announce that six international scholars have been chosen to come to Stanford in 2011-12 as part of a jointly sponsored international program entering its third 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, targeting scholars More»
Fellows Update Spring 2011
May 03, 2011
Read the latest updates from current and former fellows! Please take a moment to send us news about appointments, prizes, publications, and any other events you would like to share with your fellow fellows: shc-newsletter@stanford.edu. 2010-11 HARRIS FEINSOD will be a College Fellow at Northwestern University next year. Following this postdoc year, he will join Northwestern’s Department of English as an assistant professor, teaching courses on poetry, poetics, and the literature and culture of the Americas in the 20th century. LORI FLORES received a Consortium for Faculty Diversity (CFD) Postdoctoral Fellowship at Bowdoin College and will be teaching courses for the history, More»
Stanford Humanities Center Names 2011-12 Fellows
April 18, 2011
The Stanford Humanities Center has named 26 fellows for the 2011-12 academic year. Chosen from a pool of nearly 400 applicants, the 2011-12 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. Shahzad Bashir, Internal Faculty Fellow Department of Religious Studies, Stanford University Persianate Pasts: Memory, Narration, and Ideology in the Islamic East, 1400-1600 Martin Blumenthal-Barby, External Faculty Fellow Department of German Studies, Rice University The Language of Secularization Luis Cheng-Guajardo, Geballe Dissertation More»
Two Arts Writers/Practitioners to Come to Stanford in 2011-12
April 12, 2011
The Stanford Humanities Center and the Stanford Institute for Creativity and the Arts (SiCa) are pleased to announce that two arts writers/practitioners have been chosen to come to Stanford in 2011-12 as part of a jointly sponsored program entering its second year. Nominated by Stanford departments and research centers, the arts writers/practitioners 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 SiCa. These residencies bring high-profile arts writers/practitioners into the intellectual life of the university, targeting scholars whose arts practice and writing engage More»
International Scholars in Residence 2010-11
April 12, 2011
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 2010-11 as part of a jointly sponsored international program entering its second 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, targeting scholars More»
Fellows Update Winter 2011
March 16, 2011
Publications, promotions, and awards! Here’s what we’ve heard from you since the fall. Please stay in touch, and if you have news to share, send an email to shc-newsletter@stanford.edu. 2009-10 SARAH LOCHLANN JAIN explored the issue of cancer in “A Special Case: The Young Cancer Patient” for the Human Experience series “Thinking Twice.” 2008-09 TERRY CASTLE is featured in The Chronicle of Higher Education article “Terry Castle, Critical Outlaw.” Her recent book The Professor was chosen as one of the Top 10 Books of the year by New York Magazine as well as one of the Favorite Books of 2010 by BookForum; More»
June 03, 2011
By Armine Pillikan Research within the humanities can seem like a daunting task. We’re used to short quarter sessions, where terms and dates fly by in a conceptual whirlwind of midterms and profoundly caffeinated essay writing. In our classes, we might spend one week analyzing a book, two weeks on a social phenomenon, three on an entire epoch. So, how do we escape the curse of the cursory? The Stanford Humanities Center, an intellectual haven stocked with visiting and on-campus professors, international artists, graduate students, researchers and, most importantly, delightful lunches, provides undergraduates with all of the resources and scholarly Sensei they More»
Humanities Center Funds 16 Workshops for 2011-12
June 02, 2011
The Humanities Center is pleased to announce that it will fund 16 Theodore and Frances Geballe Workshop Research Workshops for 2011-12. Of the 16 workshops, 6 are new for this year. The workshops cover a broad range of topics, including “Verbal and Visual Literacies of Ancient Rome,” “Cognition & Language,” and “Visualizing Complexity and Uncertainty,” which focuses on the digital humanities. Chosen by an interdisciplinary Stanford faculty committee, the workshops aim to bring together faculty members and graduate students in cross-disciplinary dialogue. Many workshop meetings are open to the public and will be posted on the calendar as soon as information More»
Jean-Michel Frodon on the New Frontiers of Film Criticism
May 29, 2011
By Armine Pillikan In April, the Stanford Humanities Center welcomed Jean-Michel Frodon as its international Bliss Carnochan Visitor. Frodon is one of the most well-known film critics in the world, and surely the most notable in France. A Man of Many Charming Hats Born Jean-Michel Billard, Frodon chose his pseudonym (a pre-trilogy-release tribute to J.R.R Tolkien’s novel “The Lord of the Rings”) not from any particular identification with the power-hungry, hairy-footed hobbit, but, first of all to distinguish himself from his father, Pierre Billard, a prominent film critic in France, and, secondly because of his genuine love for the stories. Frodon actually possesses More»
Humanities Center to Pilot a Dissertation Writing Group in 2011-12
May 18, 2011
The Humanities Center is seeking graduate students to join a pilot program of a dissertation writing group. This program is meant to foster intensive and supportive exchange across humanistic fields for those in the final stages of dissertation writing. Graduate students from a variety of humanities departments will be able to present and discuss their work in a multidisciplinary context, and faculty fellows in residence at the Humanities Center will participate in workshop meetings as mentors in their areas of expertise. Students whose projects cut across a number of fields may find this forum especially helpful to their scholarship. Eligibility Stanford graduate More»
International Scholars in Residence at the Humanities Center 2011-12
May 06, 2011
The Stanford Humanities Center and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) are pleased to announce that six international scholars have been chosen to come to Stanford in 2011-12 as part of a jointly sponsored international program entering its third 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, targeting scholars More»
Fellows Update Spring 2011
May 03, 2011
Read the latest updates from current and former fellows! Please take a moment to send us news about appointments, prizes, publications, and any other events you would like to share with your fellow fellows: shc-newsletter@stanford.edu. 2010-11 HARRIS FEINSOD will be a College Fellow at Northwestern University next year. Following this postdoc year, he will join Northwestern’s Department of English as an assistant professor, teaching courses on poetry, poetics, and the literature and culture of the Americas in the 20th century. LORI FLORES received a Consortium for Faculty Diversity (CFD) Postdoctoral Fellowship at Bowdoin College and will be teaching courses for the history, More»
Stanford Humanities Center Names 2011-12 Fellows
April 18, 2011
The Stanford Humanities Center has named 26 fellows for the 2011-12 academic year. Chosen from a pool of nearly 400 applicants, the 2011-12 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. Shahzad Bashir, Internal Faculty Fellow Department of Religious Studies, Stanford University Persianate Pasts: Memory, Narration, and Ideology in the Islamic East, 1400-1600 Martin Blumenthal-Barby, External Faculty Fellow Department of German Studies, Rice University The Language of Secularization Luis Cheng-Guajardo, Geballe Dissertation More»
Two Arts Writers/Practitioners to Come to Stanford in 2011-12
April 12, 2011
The Stanford Humanities Center and the Stanford Institute for Creativity and the Arts (SiCa) are pleased to announce that two arts writers/practitioners have been chosen to come to Stanford in 2011-12 as part of a jointly sponsored program entering its second year. Nominated by Stanford departments and research centers, the arts writers/practitioners 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 SiCa. These residencies bring high-profile arts writers/practitioners into the intellectual life of the university, targeting scholars whose arts practice and writing engage More»
International Scholars in Residence 2010-11
April 12, 2011
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 2010-11 as part of a jointly sponsored international program entering its second 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, targeting scholars More»
Fellows Update Winter 2011
March 16, 2011
Publications, promotions, and awards! Here’s what we’ve heard from you since the fall. Please stay in touch, and if you have news to share, send an email to shc-newsletter@stanford.edu. 2009-10 SARAH LOCHLANN JAIN explored the issue of cancer in “A Special Case: The Young Cancer Patient” for the Human Experience series “Thinking Twice.” 2008-09 TERRY CASTLE is featured in The Chronicle of Higher Education article “Terry Castle, Critical Outlaw.” Her recent book The Professor was chosen as one of the Top 10 Books of the year by New York Magazine as well as one of the Favorite Books of 2010 by BookForum; More»