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Essay
Real Manufactured Crisis
By
Jonathan Atkins

In a brief analysis of the Colloquy's title through the lens of syntax and poetics, Atkins considers the answerability of the crisis at the heart of the discussion.

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Image of East River from the Shelton Hotel by Georgia O’Keeffe’s
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Image of East River from the Shelton Hotel by Georgia O’Keeffe; Graphic Design by Sheena Lai
Intervention
“A Basis of Permanent Peace”: 20th-Century Lessons of Global War and the 21st-Century Promise of Climate Reparations
By
Paul Nauert

Chastened by global war, a group of American foreign policymakers in the mid-1940s turned to ideas of rebalancing transnational patterns of resource use more equally to prevent future world wars. Although this vision was ultimately defeated, their story offers lessons for today amid calls for climate reparations to address global inequality, climate crisis, and militarized geopolitics.

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Book Chapter
Teaching Non-Western History at Stanford
By
Richard Roberts
In this essay, Roberts argues that multiculturalism’s challenge to Western culture for an inclusion of minority representation has been paralleled in the shift from Western civilization to world history in some widely used college textbooks.
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Resource Archive
Stanford Humanities Core: History and Resources
By
Alexander Key
What does it mean to teach a "humanities core" (HumCore) at Stanford today? Over the last few decades, our fields of study have witnessed a growing discomfort with the Western canon. It is no longer tenable to associate humanistic study in California solely with that famous story which starts in Ancient Greece and ends in the United States, stopping along the way in the European Renaissance and Enlightenment. Stanford faculty have been taking part in these field-defining conversations for many years.
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