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.

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

For more than 40 years, the Stanford Humanities Center has been the most comprehensive and ambitious university-based institute of its kind. Your support will help us maintain our distinction.

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.