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Incoming Mellon Fellow Paul Johnston's first book project argues that we can reach a better understanding of the textual record and cultural history of the ancient Roman world by moving beyond the misleading equation between “Roman” and “Latin” that pervades and structures the study of Roman literature.

🗞 https://stanford.io/3z11aG4

👏 The CESTA-led Senegal Liberations Project has been awarded the very prestigious NEH Collaborative Grant.

NEH Announces $37.5 Million for 240 Humanities Projects Nationwide Press Release NEH Announces $37.5 Million for 240 Humanities Projects Nationwide  Grant awards support the creation of scholarly hubs for AI research, new nonfiction books, documentaries, podcasts, exhibitions, collaborative and individual humanities research, and enrichment programs for educators....

Sun-ha Hong, Assistant Professor of Communication at Simon Fraser University, examines forms of uncertainty, doubt, and (dis)belief around AI and data-driven technologies.

🔗 https://stanford.io/3XkCLVp

Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi is currently working on her second book project, wich connects Asian American studies and Black studies to trace how different meanings of “the south” cohere across the transpacific and transatlantic.

🔗 https://stanford.io/3YWd3aZ

Jon Cooper's dissertation, "Dealing with Money," sheds new light on why a radical new approach to thinking about human sociality and governance developed in early seventeenth-century England.

🗞 https://stanford.io/46SDv7k

Austin Clements' dissertation looks at the relationship between American religions (Catholics, Protestants, Jews, and Mormons) and the far right during the first half of the twentieth century.

🗞 https://stanford.io/4dFtlZO

📣Job alert: Join our digital humanities partner institute at CESTA - Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis.

Center Manager -Hybrid Opportunity in School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford, California, United States Center Manager -Hybrid Opportunity The School of Humanities and Sciences (H&S) is the foundation of a liberal arts education at Stanford. The...

Learn more about Mike Chin, a practicing artist living in the Bay Area. His work crosses genres from the intellectual history of late antiquity, reception of classical texts in modern art and literature, to contemporary puppetry and experimental theater.

🗞 https://stanford.io/3yCrSVo

We're counting down the days to when our new fellows arrive. La Marr Jurelle Bruce is a philosopher, fever dreamer, interdisciplinary humanities scholar, and Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Maryland.

🗞 https://stanford.io/4cqujrN

📣 Applications for faculty and postdoctoral fellowships for 2025–26 are now open. The Center is a world-renowned hub for advanced research, inspiring the work of innovative scholars at all stages in their academic careers. 👇
https://stanford.io/3YzDqRI

"In Search of Epistemic Justice" is a new Colloquy co-curated by former SHC Fellow Victoria Zurita and Arcade Managing Editor Chen Bar Itzhak.

🔗 https://stanford.io/4dAhFYr

🔥 off the press, Stanford history professor (and former SHC director) Aron Rodrigue co-edits "Italian Fascism in Rhodes and the Dodecanese Islands, 1922–44."

Classmates reunited! We were delighted to welcome Richard Saller to the Center this spring to introduce Presidential Lecturer Mary Beard. Thank you, Professor Saller, for your service as Stanford's 12th president.

📸 Steve Castillo

Get to know Tamish Pulappadi, one of the Stanford Humanities Center's event AV support students. 📽

Meet Tamish Pulappadi Tamish Pulappadi, ’26, got his favorite electric guitar as a gift from the American manufacturer Ernie Ball Music Man, which sponsored him when he was just 1...

Designing for the Olympics. Recent Mellon Fellow Seungyeon Gabrielle Jung's book project, “Toward a Utopia Without Revolution,” looks at the political and aesthetic problems that modern design has created in South Korea. One of her chapters dives into the 1988 Seoul games.

Solving the problem of design UCI scholar merges design history with Korean studies

A brilliant exploration of freedom—what it is, how it’s been misunderstood, and why it’s our only chance for survival—by our 2021 Presidential Lecturer Timothy Snyder, author of New York Times bestseller "On Tyranny." Available September 17.

🔗 https://timothysnyder.org/on-freedom

ICYMI: The Stanford Humanities Center was proud to co-sponsor this evening with prize-winning author Greg Sarris.

Planet Earth Arts Brings Greg Sarris to Stanford On May 21, 2024 Planet Earth Arts brought Greg Sarris, tribal leader, universityprofessor, playwright, producer playwright, producer and award-winning author...

📽 Two of this past year's SHC Fellows, Jaime Marroquín and Ya Zuo, discuss the concept of hope in this short video.

Always Hope, There Is? Stanford Humanities Center Fellows Jaime Marroquín (Western Oregon University) and Ya Zuo (UC Santa Barbara) discuss hope and its role in humanities research.

SHC Affiliate Scholar and lecturer Álvaro Contreras asks what happens when we wait for some end to materialize.

The Project of Waiting | Stanford Humanities Center Contreras asks what happens when we wait for some end to materialize.

Looking for a good book or two to dig into this summer? Here are some Stanford professors’ favorite reads. 📚

Stanford Law School’s 2024 Summer Faculty Reading List | Stanford Law School Looking for a good book or two to dig into this summer? Now in its thirteenth year, the Stanford Law School faculty's Summer Reading List offers

International Visitor Pavlos Kontos, of the University of Patras, Greece, reflects on how humanities disciplines can help teach and cultivate hope. “Are the humanities a necessary and positive component of our lives as a source of hope," Kontos asks.

The Humanities as a Hope Educator | Stanford Humanities Center Kontos reflects on how humanities disciplines can help teach and cultivate hope. “Are the humanities a necessary and positive component of our lives as a source of hope," Kontos asks.

🇺🇸 From the archives: former SHC director Caroline Winterer and fellow historian Jonathan Geinapp on some of the lesser-known facts about Independence Day.

When Americans forgot about the Declaration of Independence Two Stanford historians discuss how the United States’ Declaration of Independence became one of the pillars of American civic life and other lesser-known historical facts about what happened on July 4, 1776.

The Humanities Center was proud to co-sponsor the opening of this exhibit featuring objects from the Stanford University Archaeology Collections. ICYMI: it's on display until April 2025.

Student-curated exhibit reimagines museum practice De la Tierra: Indigenous Ceramics from West Mexico Transcending Time and Space, features objects from the Stanford University Archaeology Collections, with a focus on the communities that created them. The exhibition is on display until April 2025.

As part of our series of essays on hope, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow and lecturer Samia Errazzouki reflects on her personal identity as the Muslim granddaughter of a Jewish grandfather.

So, What's the Deal with Hope? | Stanford Humanities Center Errazzouki reflects on her personal identity as the Muslim granddaughter of a Jewish grandfather.

Reflecting on our 2024 Spring Celebration event, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow Joshua Phillips asks “What sort of thing do we mean when we talk about hope”?

Interpreting ⟦Hope⟧< ᶜ > | Stanford Humanities Center Reflecting on the 2024 Spring Celebration event held at the Stanford Humanities Center, Phillips asks “what sort of thing do we mean when we talk about hope”?

Huge congratulations to Giovanna Ceserani, director of CESTA - Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis, on her new book launched last week on the Stanford University Press digital publishing platform.

🔗 https://aworldmadebytravel.org

While we still have the 2023–24 academic year in our rear-view mirror, here's a look back at some of our event highlights.
📸 Steve Castillo.

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1. Clare A. Lees, School of Advanced Study, University of London
"The Humanities in Practice"

2. David Sterling Brown, Trinity College
"Negotiating Whiteness: Shakespeare Studies, Digital Humanities, and Popular Culture"

3. Kirstin Valdez Quade, Associate Professor of English
"Saints by Half: Retelling Saints' Lives"

4. Presidential Lecturer Mary Beard, University of Cambridge, with SHC Director Roland Greene

5. Patricia Blessing, Associate Professor of Art and Art History
"Spaces of Artifice: Interiors and the Environment in Islamic Architecture"

6 Jo Fox, School of Advanced Study, University of London
"Humanities Futures"