Novelist references the Stanford digital humanities project “Mapping Emotions in Victorian London" in a discussion of the purpose and value of fiction.
New software developed at Stanford Libraries is allowing digital archivists to sort through thousands of emails in the electronic collections of prominent literary figures.
Stanford classics scholar Walter Scheidel weighs in on a new DNA-based study of how many ancient Greeks were involved in colonizing Magna Graecia, or what is now Sicily and Italy.
Using a first-ever cultural comparison between Bay Area patients and others from India and Ghana, Stanford anthropology professor explains how voices heard by some schizophrenics show that what we believe shapes what we hear and how we feel.
In an article on cryonics, tech and the quest for eternal youth, Stanford literary scholar Robert Harrison says “There is nothing more deathly, in a spiritual sense, than this war against death itself.”
Stanford classics and political science professor Josiah Ober addresses the current Greek financial crisis by looking to the country's ancient history.
Philosophy Talk was awarded a Finalist Certificate at this year's New York Festivals International Radio Program Competition. The New York Festivals World's Best Radio Programs honors radio programming and promotions in all lengths and formats from radio stations, networks and independent...
On view now at Stanford's Cantor Arts Center, "500 Years of Italian Master Drawings from the Princeton University Art Museum" tracks the development of disegno in Italy from the 16th to the early 20th century
Stanford classics professor Ian Morris writes in the New York Times about finding insights into inequality by looking back to the end of the last Ice Age, 15,000 years ago.
Stanford history professor emeritus David Kennedy defends the portrayal of the the role of slavery in the Civil War in his co-authored textbook American Pageant amidst a debate over new social studies textbooks in Texas public schools.
