Stanford Humanities Center

The Humanities Between Historical Complexity and Present-Day Tasks

Considerations of a German Art Historian Starting out from Velázquez’s Meninas 

Join Birgit Ulrike Münch on May 28 for her lecture as part of the series All This Rising: The Humanities in the Next Ten Years.

 

 

Edited image of Goldau by J.M.W. Turner
Hope: The Soundtrack

SHC Faculty Fellow Brent Sockness has curated two playlists around the theme of hope: its absence or presence, its anticipation or fulfillment.

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Roland Greene

Some other disciplines solve problems. We return to the problems that can never be solved but must be addressed again by each intellectual generation in its own ways.

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