A series of articles in "The Stanford Review"
explores the
state of the humanities at Stanford and talks to current students
about
how they view the humanities.

The Sacramento Bee, January 30, 2011

This article on the Seventh Annual Stanford Pan-Asian Music
Festival
quotes Jindong Cai, director of orchestral studies.

Assistant professor of French and Italian Dan Edelstein discusses the importance of electives.

For some Stanford students, taking a foreign language means more
than
fulfilling a graduation requirement.

Clayborne Carson, professor of history and director of the Martin
Luther
King Jr. Research and Education Institute, comments on schools
bringing
King into the 21st century.

Associate professor of English Michele Elam tackles the topic of
mixed
race.

Times Higher Education, January 13, 2011

Priya Satia, assistant professor of history, spoke on the panel
"The
Public Uses of History and the Global War on Terror" at the
annual
meeting of the American Historical Association."

Discussion of professor of classics Ian Morris' book "Why
the
West Rules—For Now."

Judith Jamison discusses her transition from dance prodigy to
artistic
director at the Presidential Lecture at Stanford Monday.

'The Annotated U.S. Constitution and Declaration of Independence' edited by Jack Rakove, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian from Stanford, is recommended by the New Yorker.

Ramon Saldivar, a literary critic at Stanford, comments on the
multiracial realities of border culture.

PWR lecturer Lee Konstantinou is co-editing a volume on Wallace,
and
English graduate student Ed Finn is mapping Wallace's work
online.

Shelley Fisher Fishkin discusses the release of a new edition of
Huckleberry
Finn that replaces the n-word.

NY Daily News, January 5, 2011