Stanford Humanities Center
Gathering a selection of writing from the SHC’s digital salon Arcade—which includes informal essays, multimedia, and three scholarly journals—the Stanford Humanities Review is now relaunched as an annual publication.
At a time when many journals are moving online, the Stanford Humanities Center is doing the opposite. Its former humanities research journal, Stanford Humanities Review, which ran from 1989 to 2000, is now revived in a new print series. The inaugural issue was given a celebratory launch last month with a reception hosted by Provost Jenny Martinez for the editors, contributors, and other faculty—including three former SHC Directors who were in attendance.
Even now many older journals exist first and foremost in their print identities, maintaining a digital presence only in the second place. In contrast, this new version of the Review brings attention to the intellectual riches of the Humanities Center’s online platform, where the life of the SHC may be experienced by anyone at any time.
All of what appears in the Review is original to Arcade, the SHC’s digital salon. Arcade publishes spontaneous, often experimental writing under the heading Interventions; gatherings of recent work on emergent topics in the feature called Colloquies; and three scholarly journals: Dibur, Occasion, and Republics of Letters.
The contents range from informal to peer-reviewed, embodying Arcade’s focus on “The Humanities in the World.” History, dance, philosophy, literature, law, religion, and art history are represented in the debut issue, along with topical reflections on education, immigration, tech culture, and the challenges of living through ecological crisis.
The Editorial Committee includes one editor from each of Arcade’s features and the Director of Arcade, Rachel Karas, who serves as Managing Editor.
“We hope that every issue of the Review will provide vivid specimens of the conversations that have taken place at the SHC in the preceding year,” writes Humanities Center Director Roland Greene in the introduction to the current issue, “and an invitation to join us now, in real time, in our digital home.”
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