Workshops: 2009-2010

• About the Workshop [+]
  This workshop seeks to create a bridge between philosophy and literature. Topics addressed include: the relations between particular philosophers and literary works; the use of philosophical frameworks in interpreting literature or works of visual art; and philosophical readings of literature and literary readings of works of philosophy.
• Coordinators [+]
  Faculty Coordinator
  R. Lanier Anderson
  
  Graduate Student Coordinators
  Ben Wolfson
  Lilla Balint
  

• About the Workshop [+]
  This workshop focuses on the ways that scholars and experts are rethinking basic questions and assumptions about capitalism and crisis. It focuses on how the current crisis may be reconfiguring long-standing features of the social world and how crises of various kinds have been central to the history and theory of capitalism.
• Coordinators [+]
  Faculty Coordinators
  Sylvia Yanagisako
  
  Graduate Student Coordinators
  Hannah Appel
  Ramah McKay

• About the Workshop [+]
  How exactly does language work? How does it interact with the other cognitive processes that shape the human experience? The investigation of language and thought is an endeavor that necessarily includes a number of disciplines, including linguistics, philosophy, psychology, anthropology, and computer science. This workshop encourages and facilitates communication among these diverse approaches to the study of the same central question, focusing on particular topics which are at the cutting edge of this broad area of research.
• Coordinators [+]
  Faculty Coordinator
  Stanley Peters
  
  Graduate Student Coordinators
  Alistair Isaac
  Thomas Icard

• About the Workshop [+]
  This workshop advances and enriches the many points of contact between philosophy and theater. Focusing on central issues for the two fields, the workshop deals with theatrical productions and philosophical works that examine three central issues: the concept of freedom, the creation and dissolution of the social body, and the notion of the work of art. Throughout, philosophers grapple with theater as a staged event, and theater-makers are scrutinized with philosophical rigor.
• Coordinators [+]
  Faculty Coordinators
  Alexis Burgess
  Peggy Phelan
  
  Graduate Student Coordinators
  Ljubisa Matic
  Karola Kreitmair

• About the Workshop [+]
  This workshop examines key issues of environmental ethics and policy, including equity (its meaning and measurement), the role of institutions in meeting environmental challenges, and the design of policies aimed at sustainable management of natural resources.
  
  The group examines questions such as: How is the cost of global climate change calculated and distributed? Who will bear the greatest burden of rising sea level? How do we calculate the economic costs and who (internationally and nationally) should pay for mitigation and adaptation? What do we do when equity conflicts with environmental goals?
• Workshop Coordinators [+]
  Faculty Coordinator
  Debra Satz
  
  Graduate Student Coordinator
  Rachael Garrett

• About the Workshop [+]
  This workshop explores the possibilities for reuniting classical and classically-influenced ideas about ethics (especially the ethics of virtue) with political theorizing that is applicable to the modern world, bringing together scholars from different disciplines with interests in ancient and modern moral and political thought.
• Workshop Coordinators [+]
  Faculty Coordinators
  Chris Bobonich
  Josh Ober
  
  Graduate Student Coordinator
  Ben Miller
  

• About the Workshop [+]
  The French Culture Workshop has a national reputation as a forum for the exchange of ideas on all aspects of modern French society. The workshop focuses on the period from 1700 to the present, placing particular emphasis on topics related to the research of current Stanford graduate students, such as political and intellectual history, imperialism and colonialism, gender and women, nationalism and national identity, immigration and minorities, and francophonie.
• Workshop Coordinators [+]
  Faculty Coordinators
  Dan Edelstein
  J.P. Daughton
  
  
  Graduate Student Coordinator
  Melanie Conroy

• About the Workshop [+]
  This workshop examines questions of global justice including: poverty, inequality between nations, oppressive regimes, identity, human rights, and our duties to one another. The workshop brings together faculty and graduate students from across the university to investigate the complexities of these questions and to discuss possible answers.
• Workshop Coordinators [+]
  Faculty Coordinator
  Joshua Cohen
  
  
  Graduate Student Coordinators
  Ruth Kricheli
  Rob Barlow

• About the Workshop [+]
  Study of the medieval and early modern period is by definition interdisciplinary, comprising languages and literatures, history, art history, musicology, philosophy, religion, and other related fields. This workshop brings together faculty and graduate students working on the long and important centuries between the ancient world and the modern era, to share perspectives and enrich each other’s work.
• Workshop Coordinators [+]
  Faculty Coordinators
  Laura Stokes
  Bissera Pentcheva
  
  Graduate Student Coordinators
  Joseph St. Meyer
  Russel Ganzi
  Deborah Tennen

• About the Workshop [+]
  The Enlightenment and Revolution workshop crosses national boundaries and disciplines by bringing together a variety of eighteenth-century scholars with different research interests and methods to investigate an extremely rich historical period, with a focus on the categories of “Enlightenment” and “Revolution.”
• Workshop Coordinators [+]
  Faculty Coordinators
  Denise Gigante
  Caroline Winterer
  
  
  Graduate Student Coordinators
  Marcelo Aranda
  Scott Spillman
  Molly Taylor
  

• About the Workshop [+]
  How do people learn about phenomena they do not see directly? This workshop is an interdisciplinary effort to approach this question from a humanistic, anthropological perspective and an empirical psychological perspective.
• Workshop Coordinators [+]
  Faculty Coordinators
  Tanya Luhrmann
  Lera Boroditsky
  
  Graduate Student Coordinators
  Sarah Gripshover
  Yula Paluy
  

• About the Workshop [+]
  This workshop promotes an interdisciplinary dialogue on the contemporary city through the lens of the postcolonial, broadly conceived. It brings together scholars from the humanities, the social sciences, and the professional disciplines to reexamine notions of urbanism in light of the growing importance of urban spaces throughout the world.
• Workshop Coordinators [+]
  Faculty Coordinator
  Paulla Ebron
  
  
  Graduate Student Coordinators
  Bruce O'Neill
  Nikhil Anand
  

• About the Workshop [+]
  This working group focuses on developing a common methodological paradigm for doing comparative literary scholarship of the Americas. It seeks to move beyond the national (especially U.S.) and regional (especially Latin American) paradigms toward a transnational hemispheric literary and historical discussion.
• Workshop Coordinators [+]
  Faculty Coordinators
  Ramon Saldivar
  Roland Greene
  
  
  Graduate Student Coordinators
  Cristina Jimenez
  Jennifer Vargas

• About the Workshop [+]
  The intention behind this project provides a forum to discuss research on the novel in relation to general theoretical problems surrounding the form. The central focus is the problem of theorizing the novel at a time when novel studies are being rescaled both toward less canonical European and American texts and toward novels outside American and European contexts. The workshop asks how literary aspects of novels are shaped by extra-literary contexts, how to conceptualize the history and geography of the novel, and how novels are related to other genres and media.
• Workshop Coordinators [+]
  Faculty Coordinator
  Alex Woloch
  
  Graduate Student Coordinators
  Kenny Ligda
  Guadalupe Carillo
  Mike Benveniste

• About the Workshop [+]
  The Workshop in Poetics is concerned with the theoretical and practical dimensions of the reading and criticism of poetry. This workshop is especially focused on poetics as an arena for theory and interpretive practice, and historical poetics as a particular set of challenges for the reader and scholar.
• Workshop Coordinators [+]
  Faculty Coordinators
  Roland Greene
  Nicholas Jenkins
  
  Graduate Student Coordinators
  Kathryn Hume
  Harris Feinsod