Stanford Humanities Center
In 1891, thirty-five scholars gathered to form a community in a new university. In that spirit, this series, now in its fifth year, welcomes new humanities senior faculty to the Stanford community to present their work.
Pictured: Emily Levine, 2022
I’m a great fan of the 1891 Lectures in the Humanities. Not only does the event provide an opportunity to learn about and welcome a new colleague, but it also jump starts the new appointment’s finding a community at Stanford.
Wanda M. Corn
Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor Emerita in Art History
Anthony P. Meier Director, Stanford Humanities Center 1992-95
2024-2025
Joshua I. Cohen, Associate Professor of Art History
"African Modernism Beyond the Nation-State: Decolonization, Pan-Africanism, and the Cold War"
March 12, 2025
2023-2024
Kirstin Valdez Quade, Associate Professor of English
"Saints by Half: Retelling Saints' Lives"
March 14, 2024
Patricia Blessing, Associate Professor of Art and Art History
"Spaces of Artifice: Interiors and the Environment in Islamic Architecture"
February 29, 2024
2022-2023
Lerone A. Martin, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Martin Luther King Jr. Centennial Chair, and Director of the Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute
"The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover: How the FBI Aided and Abetted the Rise of White Christian Nationalism,"
February 13, 2023
Emily J. Levine, Associate Professor of Education
"A Genealogy of the University,"
November 3, 2022
2021-2022
Leif Wenar, Olive H. Palmer Professor in Humanities and Professor of Philosophy
"The Value of Unity,"
March 17, 2022
2020-2021
Anna Bigelow, Associate Professor of Religious Studies
"Thinking With Islamic Things,"
November 10, 2020
2019-2020
Ato Quayson, Jean G. and Morris M. Doyle Professor in Interdisciplinary Studies and Professor of English
"Interdisciplinarity and Interpretation,"
January 30, 2020
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