Stanford Humanities Center
In part one of his four-part series, Religious Studies professor Gil Anidjar offers an incisive autocritique of the university.
A series of conversations between Stanford Professor Marisa Galvez and Ananya Akkaraju, a senior at Dublin High School about the intersection between medieval poetry and gender studies.
Jim Sykes and Julia Suzanne Byl introduce their study of Indian Ocean musical traditions as a way to understand how music can both constitute and cross communal boundaries.
In this book, David Fedman examines Japanese imperialism through the lens of forest conservation in colonial Korea (1905-1945). Chapter 1 outlines what he calls the "imperialization" of forestry in Mejii Japan, i.e., the transformation of forest management into the building blocks of capitalism, sites of emperor worship, and symbols of national prestige.
We might consider the stories of thousands of people who may find some “insideness,” even in what seem the most outside and distant of places to the rest of us.
Through the lens of Japanese migration to Brazil, this book uses the concept “collaborative settler colonialism” to capture the complex connections between migration and settler colonialism in the modern world.
Perhaps ironically, in being able to identify vanilla as present but absent, it is possible to refuse to accept it as boring, white, or absent.
We all know we can move between ages: the bank manager and the brain surgeon screaming in the members' stand at the football club, the sombre academic taking to ecstatic dance at the post-conference night club, the OAP who falls in love, the police people hiding tats beneath their uniforms. Does this pin-ball capacity to flick between several different ages we carry ready and waiting their turn within ourselves serve any evolutionary purpose?
