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David Holloway Weighs in on U.S.-Russian Nuclear Treaty
April 05, 2010
With an April 8 date set for the United States and Russia to sign a new nuclear arms reduction treaty, each country is preparing to cut their deployed weapons by about 30 percent. Former Stanford Humanities fellow David Holloway (2005-06) spoke with the Stanford News Service about the latest pact between the United States and Russia, and what the prospects are for further reduction of nuclear weapons. Read the article: ”Stanford’s David Holloway weighs in on U.S.-Russian nuclear treaty to slated for signing this week” More»
Thai Protestors Shed Culture of Restraint
April 02, 2010
Stanford Humanities Center International Visitor Thitinan Pongsudhirak is quoted in the New York Times’ ”Memo from Bangkok,” by Thomas Fuller. Pongsudhirak is professor of international political economy at the Faculty of Science at Chulalongkorn University and a leading scholar on contemporary political, economic, and foreign-policy issues in Thailand. Read the article: “Thai Protestors Shed Culture of Restraint.” More»
Thailand's Battle of Attition
April 02, 2010
Stanford Humanities Center International Visitor Thitinan Pongsudhirak discusses the demonstrations in Thailand in his New York Times op-ed “Thailand’s Battle of Attrition.” Pongsudhirak is professor of international political economy at the Faculty of Science at Chulalongkorn University and a leading scholar on contemporary political, economic, and foreign-policy issues in Thailand. Read the op-ed: “Thailand’s Battle of Attrition.” More»
Fellows Update Winter 2010
February 26, 2010
Here is what we have heard from you since last October. Please stay in touch, and if you have news to share, send an email to shc-newsletter@stanford.edu. 2007-08 H. SAMY ALIM, after completing a wonderful year as a Stanford Humanities Center Fellow in 2007-2008 (and returning from completing a MA and PhD from Stanford), is happy to be back on “the Farm” as an Associate Professor of Education and (by courtesy) Linguistics, as well as an affiliate faculty member of the Center for Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity. The year at the Humanities Center provided a window More»
Former Fellow Terry Castle Elected to PEN American Center
November 17, 2009
PEN American Center is the U.S. branch of the world’s oldest international literary and human rights organization. International PEN was founded in 1921 in direct response to the ethnic and national divisions that contributed to the First World War. PEN American Center was founded in 1922 and is the largest of the 144 PEN centers in 101 countries that together compose International PEN. Read the full article» More»
Carol Shloss Wins Settlement Against James Joyce Estate
October 02, 2009
Former fellow Carol Shloss (2007-08) has won a breakthrough settlement against the James Joyce Estate, a legal saga that has gone on for the good part of two decades. The scholar’s six-figure settlement gives hope to researchers whose work is threatened by overly aggressive copyright holders. Read the full article» More»
Fellows Update Fall 2009
October 02, 2009
Here’s what we’ve heard from you. A full list of fellows’ publications for academic year 2008-09 will be published in the Annual Report. Please stay in touch, and if you have news to share, send an email to shc-newsletter@stanford.edu. 2008-09 DAN EDELSTEIN published The Terror of Natural Right: Republicanism, the Cult of Nature, and the French Revolution with The University of Chicago Press (2009). For information on the book, visit the press web page. Dan is also a founding editor of Republics of Letters, a peer-reviewed, digital journal dedicated to the study of knowledge, politics, and the arts. More»
New Collaboration with Mellon Fellowship Program
October 02, 2009
The Humanities Center has initiated a new collaboration with the recently renamed Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in the Humanities, a program of postdoctoral fellowships at Stanford. The affiliation aims to bring together two cohorts of fellows in the humanities at Stanford to foster productive intellectual exchange. The faculty co-directors of the Mellon Fellowship, Lanier Anderson and J. P. Daughton, will continue to oversee the annual selection of new postdoctoral fellows as well as the running of the program, which includes a year-long program of events fostering professional development of the postdocs, as well as a public lecture series featuring More»
Obama Awards Upcoming Speaker Mary Robinson the 2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom
August 11, 2009
Mary Robinson, 2009-10 Stanford Presidential Lecturer, has been named by US President Barack Obama as one of the recipients of the 2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom. The Medal of Freedom is the highest US civilian honor, awarded to “individuals who make an especially meritorious contribution to the security or national interests of the United States, world peace, cultural or other significant public or private endeavors.” Mary Robinson, the first woman President of Ireland (1990-1997) and former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (1997-2002), is currently the President of Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative. Its mission is to More»
Interview with Former Fellow Jann Pasler on Rorotoko
July 30, 2009
Rorotoko recently published a feature interview with former fellow Jann Pasler on her recent publication Composing the Citizen: Music as Public Utility in Third Republic France (University of California Press, 2009). In the interview, Pasler shares her hope that “reading this story of how music helped forge French citizens under highly contentious but evolving political circumstances will stimulate reflection on some critical issues in our own times. Three ongoing concerns hark back to this period: the desire to assure accessibility to the arts for all citizens, the use of music and musical practices to build community and help people More»
April 05, 2010
With an April 8 date set for the United States and Russia to sign a new nuclear arms reduction treaty, each country is preparing to cut their deployed weapons by about 30 percent. Former Stanford Humanities fellow David Holloway (2005-06) spoke with the Stanford News Service about the latest pact between the United States and Russia, and what the prospects are for further reduction of nuclear weapons. Read the article: ”Stanford’s David Holloway weighs in on U.S.-Russian nuclear treaty to slated for signing this week” More»
Thai Protestors Shed Culture of Restraint
April 02, 2010
Stanford Humanities Center International Visitor Thitinan Pongsudhirak is quoted in the New York Times’ ”Memo from Bangkok,” by Thomas Fuller. Pongsudhirak is professor of international political economy at the Faculty of Science at Chulalongkorn University and a leading scholar on contemporary political, economic, and foreign-policy issues in Thailand. Read the article: “Thai Protestors Shed Culture of Restraint.” More»
Thailand's Battle of Attition
April 02, 2010
Stanford Humanities Center International Visitor Thitinan Pongsudhirak discusses the demonstrations in Thailand in his New York Times op-ed “Thailand’s Battle of Attrition.” Pongsudhirak is professor of international political economy at the Faculty of Science at Chulalongkorn University and a leading scholar on contemporary political, economic, and foreign-policy issues in Thailand. Read the op-ed: “Thailand’s Battle of Attrition.” More»
Fellows Update Winter 2010
February 26, 2010
Here is what we have heard from you since last October. Please stay in touch, and if you have news to share, send an email to shc-newsletter@stanford.edu. 2007-08 H. SAMY ALIM, after completing a wonderful year as a Stanford Humanities Center Fellow in 2007-2008 (and returning from completing a MA and PhD from Stanford), is happy to be back on “the Farm” as an Associate Professor of Education and (by courtesy) Linguistics, as well as an affiliate faculty member of the Center for Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity. The year at the Humanities Center provided a window More»
Former Fellow Terry Castle Elected to PEN American Center
November 17, 2009
PEN American Center is the U.S. branch of the world’s oldest international literary and human rights organization. International PEN was founded in 1921 in direct response to the ethnic and national divisions that contributed to the First World War. PEN American Center was founded in 1922 and is the largest of the 144 PEN centers in 101 countries that together compose International PEN. Read the full article» More»
Carol Shloss Wins Settlement Against James Joyce Estate
October 02, 2009
Former fellow Carol Shloss (2007-08) has won a breakthrough settlement against the James Joyce Estate, a legal saga that has gone on for the good part of two decades. The scholar’s six-figure settlement gives hope to researchers whose work is threatened by overly aggressive copyright holders. Read the full article» More»
Fellows Update Fall 2009
October 02, 2009
Here’s what we’ve heard from you. A full list of fellows’ publications for academic year 2008-09 will be published in the Annual Report. Please stay in touch, and if you have news to share, send an email to shc-newsletter@stanford.edu. 2008-09 DAN EDELSTEIN published The Terror of Natural Right: Republicanism, the Cult of Nature, and the French Revolution with The University of Chicago Press (2009). For information on the book, visit the press web page. Dan is also a founding editor of Republics of Letters, a peer-reviewed, digital journal dedicated to the study of knowledge, politics, and the arts. More»
New Collaboration with Mellon Fellowship Program
October 02, 2009
The Humanities Center has initiated a new collaboration with the recently renamed Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in the Humanities, a program of postdoctoral fellowships at Stanford. The affiliation aims to bring together two cohorts of fellows in the humanities at Stanford to foster productive intellectual exchange. The faculty co-directors of the Mellon Fellowship, Lanier Anderson and J. P. Daughton, will continue to oversee the annual selection of new postdoctoral fellows as well as the running of the program, which includes a year-long program of events fostering professional development of the postdocs, as well as a public lecture series featuring More»
Obama Awards Upcoming Speaker Mary Robinson the 2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom
August 11, 2009
Mary Robinson, 2009-10 Stanford Presidential Lecturer, has been named by US President Barack Obama as one of the recipients of the 2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom. The Medal of Freedom is the highest US civilian honor, awarded to “individuals who make an especially meritorious contribution to the security or national interests of the United States, world peace, cultural or other significant public or private endeavors.” Mary Robinson, the first woman President of Ireland (1990-1997) and former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (1997-2002), is currently the President of Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative. Its mission is to More»
Interview with Former Fellow Jann Pasler on Rorotoko
July 30, 2009
Rorotoko recently published a feature interview with former fellow Jann Pasler on her recent publication Composing the Citizen: Music as Public Utility in Third Republic France (University of California Press, 2009). In the interview, Pasler shares her hope that “reading this story of how music helped forge French citizens under highly contentious but evolving political circumstances will stimulate reflection on some critical issues in our own times. Three ongoing concerns hark back to this period: the desire to assure accessibility to the arts for all citizens, the use of music and musical practices to build community and help people More»