Workshops: 2010-2011

• About the Workshop [+]
  This workshop is designed to explore key ways in which developments within archaeology connect to and engage with the larger world. The workshop will focus on two research themes: Archaeology and Science, and Archaeology and Heritage. The goal will be to consider both the state of archaeology as a discipline and archaeology’s current role and significance in the world, and to understand how these two aspects are interconnected.
• Coordinators [+]
  Faculty Coordinator
  Lynn Meskell
  Jennifer Trimble
  
  Graduate Student Coordinators
  Adam Nazaroff
  Claudia Liuzza

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  This interdisciplinary 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
  Daniel Armanios

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  This workshop examines key issues of environmental ethics and policy, including equity (its meaning and measurement), the role of institutions (including universities) in meeting environmental challenges, and the design of policies aimed at sustainable management of natural resources. The group will analyze questions such as: How do we understand the costs and benefits of environmental measures including adaptation and mitigation, and who gains or loses? What do we do when equity conflicts with environmental goals? What ethical issues do researchers encounter in their attempts to better understand the environment and to contribute to environmental policy?
• Coordinators [+]
  Faculty Coordinator
  Debra Satz
  
  Graduate Student Coordinators
  Rachelle Gould
  Amanda Cravens

• About the Workshop [+]
  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 are explored within this workshop.
• Coordinators [+]
  Faculty Coordinators
  Chris Bobonich
  Josiah Ober
  
  Graduate Student Coordinator
  Benjamin 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
  Biliana Kassabova

• About the Workshop [+]
  Questions of global justice including: poverty, inequality between nations, oppressive regimes, identity, human rights, and our duties to one another are studied and explored. 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 Coordinators
  Joshua Cohen
  
  Graduate Student Coordinators
  Ruth Kricheli
  Rob Barlow
  

• About the Workshop [+]
  What are the various ways in which discussion of literature enters the public sphere? How do individuals who are not literary practitioners or literary scholars participate in understandings of and discussions about literature? Conversely, how might issues of urgent interest in the public sphere, such as national and global political and economic phenomena, be addressed from the perspective of those with expertise in literature? This workshop will explore these issues, with an eye toward bringing literary discussions into contact with broader conversations.
• Workshop Coordinators [+]
  Faculty Coordinators
  Russell Berman
  Saikat Majumdar
  
  
  Graduate Student Coordinator
  Nikil Saval

• About the Workshop [+]
  The study of the medieval and early modern period is, by definition, interdisciplinary, comprising of 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
  Erin Lichtenstein
  Marco Aresu
  Chris Kark
  

• About the Workshop [+]
  This workshop will bring together scholars from Philosophy, Religious Studies, and other fields to re-examine the role that religion plays and should play in contemporary culture. It will investigate such topics as: a renewed interest in theories of secularization; philosophical work on the normative, ethical, and existential value of religious stances; and the role played by religious ideas and discourse in politics. The terms "mythos" and "logos" will be used a framework to discuss the interplay between faith and reason.
• Workshop Coordinators [+]
  Faculty Coordinators
  Brent Sockness
  Nadeem Hussain
  
  Graduate Student Coordinators
  Peter Woodford
  Noreen Khwaja
  

• About the Workshop [+]
  What was the "Republic of Letters"? Stanford University is an internationally recognized center for the cross-disciplinary study of the Republic of Letters, the community of learned men and women that spanned Europe, the Americas, and parts of Asia from roughly 1400 to 1800 and who set knowledge in motion through the continuous exchange of ideas, information, and opinions in letters. During these centuries learned men and women exchanged news, rumor, books, journals, antiquities, paintings, natural curiosities, exotic objects, scientific instruments, and many other things through letters. Their correspondence linked the vast republic of letters, creating a series of intersecting and capillary networks in time and space. This workshop brings together faculty and graduate students working on any aspect of the Republic of Letters, a subject of broad humanistic interest for understanding the nature of scholarly, merchantile, literary, and artistic communities in the early modern period.
  
  Visit our visualization project at Mapping the Republic of Letters.
• Workshop Coordinators [+]
  Faculty Coordinators
  Caroline Winterer
  Paula Findlen
  
  
  Graduate Student Coordinators
  Marcelo Aranda
  Scott Spillman
  Molly Taylor
  

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  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
  Blair Hoxby
  Heather Hadlock
  
  Graduate Student Coordinators
  Stephen Osadetz
  Jenna Sutton
  

• About the Workshop [+]
  From centuries-old Japanese woodblock prints and political cartoons to manga, superhero serials, comics journalism and webcomics, pictures and words have been brought together by visionary artists who saw the potential to tell stories of human civilization in ways not possible via text or image alone. The Graphic Narrative Project aims to create a collaborative, interdisciplinary and inter-cultural space for the academic study of graphic narratives by organizing colloquia, events and reading groups featuring graduate students, faculty, artists and scholars as guest speakers, and by providing presentation/discussion forums for faculty members and graduate students to share their work and exchange input.
• Workshop Coordinators [+]
  Faculty Coordinators
  Andrea Lunsford
  Scott Bukatman
  Ursula Heise
  
  
  Graduate Student Coordinators
  Angela Becerra Vidergar
  Haerin Shin
  

• 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
  Guadalupe Carillo
  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
  Nancy Ruttenburg
  
  Graduate Student Coordinators
  Lucy Alford
  Mike Benveniste
  Joseph Shapiro

• 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
  Noam Pines