Stanford Humanities Center
The 2025 issue includes contributions by six Stanford authors as well as nine fellows and visitors from Austin, Chicago, Washington, Hyderabad, Patras, Tel Aviv, and Turin.
In its new format, our relaunched journal gathers highlights of the previous year’s content from Arcade, the Humanities Center’s digital salon.
We begin with six occasional reflections drafted for our spring celebration of May 2024 titled Hope: The Future of an Idea. The rest of the items in this issue display the character of other Colloquies such as Towards a Blue Art History, which hosted Ambra Zambernardi’s lovely essay on art about tuna fishing, and Arcade’s scholarly journals, which publish arresting articles such as Eduardo Acosta’s comparison of universals between Bengal and Peru or Ariel Stilerman’s memoir about learning to make facsimiles of medieval Asian scrolls and saws.
Our topical blogs, called Interventions, are represented by Jim Reichert’s essay on how Japanese genre fictions of feudal warriors speaks to our present political era as well as two searching interviews with thinkers about the humanities from far (D. Venkat Rao of Hyderabad) and near (Stanford’s Mark Algee-Hewitt).
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