Stanford Humanities Center
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Image of East River from the Shelton Hotel by Georgia O’Keeffe; Graphic Design by Sheena Lai
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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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Image by George Overbury Hart; Graphic Design by Sheena Lai
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How does one tell impossible stories or write impossible histories? Scholars who research histories of chattel slavery–and those of dispossessed, minoritized, marginalized, exploited, and silenced people throughout human history–grapple with these questions.
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Image by Byron Browne; Graphic Design by Sheena Lai
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In September 2017, a memorial dedicated to survivors of the "comfort women" system was unveiled in downtown San Francisco. As the largest modern sexual slavery system, the "comfort women" system was created and overseen by the Imperial Japanese Government between 1931 and 1945.
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Image by Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes; Graphic by Sheena Lai
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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?
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Image by Johan Christian Dahl; Graphic design by Sheena Lai
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A UN report ahead of the COP 27 climate summit in Egypt highlights a future in which wildfires and intense heatwaves will become increasingly prevalent. Fire scientists have been issuing warnings of this nature for decades now.
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Image by Daniel Friedman; Graphic Design by Sheena Lai.
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Presumably, it has never been a good time for the Humanities. Perhaps because it is simply in the nature of the discipline to find itself perpetually in crisis, lagging behind the times, dragging its leaden feet made out of indelible words, asking for more and more time in a civilization perpetually in a rush. It is constantly on the edge of a precipice, but we cannot deny that, while it is awkwardly balancing itself on the edge, it does enjoy magnificent views. After all, our field does not thrive on security, on solid facts, on controlled experiments with measurable outcomes.
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