Stanford Humanities Center
Burcu Karahan's recently published collection of short stories features this translator's note. Following the translator's note is "A Lesson of Love," a story Karahan translates in the collection and mentions in her translator's note.
Q: You are widely recognized as one of the foremost Twain scholars in the field, and the trajectory of your career is indelibly entangled with Mark Twain and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in particular. While this expertise is clear in the simultaneous precision and capaciousness of the references in Jim, the book doesn’t explicitly capture your own history with Twain. Could you expand about how you first encountered Twain and why you’ve continued to work on him and Jim since?
Rupert Sparling reviews Timothy Snyder's latest book, On Freedom. How does Snyder conceptualize freedom, and is his framework useful for understanding our contemporary lives and societies? Sparling evaluates Snyder's take on the concept.
On May 30th, 2024, as part of the Mellon-Sawyer Seminar Series, "The Data that Divides Us: Recalibrating Data Methods for New Knowledge Frameworks Across the Humanities", at the Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA) at Stanford University, Chiara Palladino from Furman University, Chris Johanson from University of California, Los Angeles, and Eric Harvey from Stanford University talked about the ways they envision 'Ancient Data' and the challenges they face working with it.
Reflecting on the emotional experience of hearing testimony of ICE deportation, Jennifer R. Nájera asks questions about the role of the anthropologist vis-à-vis the research subject, and the place of vulnerability in a more ethical ethnography.
Giorgi considers the relationship between neoliberalism and precarity in Latin American fiction and documentary film.
This chapter constitutes its own order of archival heterospace, keyed to the ways in which orange, the dispersal strategy of particular genus of plant, by and through its recruitment of human animals, comes to interrupt acts of exchange, inclining them toward an economy of the gift or accusations of theft, and so litters our discourses with errant, erring, fragmented, time-bound polities that unfold by and through orange.
The Victorians have been ridiculed for romantically construing ancient Greece as the sunny childhood of humanity, but doing so made sense to them.
Lee examines examines the music, video, performances, and social media presence of singer-songwriter Mitski, and poet and writer Ocean Vuong, to consider how the act of staying in, rather than going (or coming) out, gives shape to Asian American asociality. Lee responds to the idea of “Asian American asociality” which speaks to how Asian Americans have been racially figured as a problem for and of sociality, as assimilated, yet socially isolated, unrelatable subjects.
