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Teaching Non-Western History at Stanford

In this essay, Roberts argues that multiculturalism’s challenge to Western culture for an inclusion of minority representation has been paralleled in the shift from Western civilization to world history in some widely used college textbooks.

Antonin Marto: პუჭურ ჩაიხან Song of 21st Century

Puchur Chaikhan (პუჭურ ჩაიხან) is imprisoned now in Georgia. Many poets and writers and actors and workers and truck drivers and delivery personnel and prime ministers and presidents are also in prison now. Puchur Chaikhan has been writing poems since he was a child. People petition to grant him...

Collage of images. From left to right: an anti-Vietnam War protest, part of the pro-Palestine encampment at Stanford, a nuclear test explosion, the Atomic Bomb Dome Memorial in Hiroshima.

Anti-War Palimpsest in White Plaza: Stanford's Militarized and Carceral Boomerang from Vietnam to Palestine in Times of Ongoing Crisis

Hughes considers anti-Vietnam War protests alongside more recent anti-war protests, both at Stanford University, in her meditation of the role of the intellectual in crisis.

A statue of a face with a finger held before the lips. A stack of books is out of focus in the background.

The Silence of Intellectuals

A meditation on a work of sociology from 1989 Croatia discusses different types of intellectuals' silences, the reasoning behind them, and their effect on the societies in which they take place.

Beyond the Now: On Intellectuals, Revolutions, and Crisis Time

What might it mean, in our respective fields and lines of work, to act as “a catalyst who sets the wheels in motion”? Seck discusses a quote by Senegalese writer and filmmaker Ousmane Sembène about the role of the artist or intellectual in times of revolution.