Stanford Humanities Center
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Don Quixote and Sancho Pansa by Honore Daumier (Public domain)
Book Chapter
Thomas Pavel examines the question of authorship regarding the 17th-century play, The History of Cardenio, and the 18th-century play The Double Falsehood. Pavel's examination offers reflections on the connections between novellas and plays, as well as the possibilities of authors from the same historical period to demonstrate divergent ideas on shared subjects. This chapter has been slightly revised from its original publication by the author.
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Essay
In Maggie Gyllenhaal's 2021 adaptation of Elena Ferrante's 'The Lost Daughter,' the last sentence of the book ("I am dead, but I'm fine") changes as Leda says, "I'm alive." By changing the death that Leda's experience motherhood entails, Gyllenhaal creates her own Leda, a woman who is different from that in the Ferrante's text.
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Image by Sheena Lai (October 2023)
Intervention
October 23-29, 2023 is International Open Access Week.
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Graphic design by Sheena Lai
Intervention
In 1968 Tatsumi Hijikata, the instigator of the Japanese avant-garde movement form, butoh, engaged in a collaboration with photographer, Eikoh Hosoe. This project, titled Kamaitachi, consisted of a striking set of images created as what Hosoe called a “subjective documentary” of their youth in rural Tohoku in the far north of Japan. In the photographs, published under a book of the same name, the avant-garde Hijikata cavorts with the traditional villagers and landscapes of his home region, a trickster like the “sickle weasel” of the title.
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Intervention
Maligned in popular conceptions of the history of medicine, Afro-American religious healers in early modern Cartagena played a constructive role in the development of an science that privileged empiricism over dogma in Pablo Gómez's new study, The Experiential Caribbean.
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In fall 2020, I set out to document San Francisco’s Mission Street. I saw storefronts doubling as murals, old and new catastrophes, enduring injustices.
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Graphic design by Sheena Lai; image by Wasfi Akab.
Intervention
As we close out this series of reports on the Humanities Core (HumCore) Workshops, it is worth returning to the two questions that have driven every session so far:
1. Can we conceptualize the Global Humanities at all?
2. How have our ideas created teaching structures in California, Karachi, and Singapore?
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