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Inside a mathematical proof lies literature, says Stanford's Reveil Netz
Like novelists, mathematicians are creative authors. With diagrams, symbolism, metaphor, double entendre and elements of surprise, a good proof reads like a good story.
Reviel Netz, a professor of classics and, by courtesy, of philosophy, is especially interested in exploring the literary dimensions of the textual artifacts left by the likes of Archimedes and Euclid. Netz, one of the world's preeminent experts on the works of Archimedes, sees proofs as narratives that lead the reader turn by turn through an unfolding story that ends with a mathematical solution.
Stanford scholar tracks meditation's migration from ancient Buddhist monastaries to your local yoga class
Stanford Religious Studies Professor Carl Bielefeldt says that the meditation practice that's gained traction in the US strays far from ancient Buddhist techniques.
In fact, what many yoga enthusiasts may not realize is that this athletic practice represents only one of the various ways in which aspects of Buddhism have infiltrated the secular American culture.
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Select PublicationsMichele Elam, English The Souls of Mixed Folk: Race, Politics, and Aesthetics in the New MillenniumStanford University Press
Edith Sheffer, History Burned Bridge: How East and West Germans Made the Iron CurtainOxford University Press
Paul DeMarinis, Art and Art History Buried in NoiseKehrer Verlag
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February 22, 2012 Former Senator Russ Feingold will be a guest at a live taping of “Philosophy Talk" at Stanford University on March 15, 2012.
September 26, 2011 Stanford to Host launch Event for PBS Series "Women, War & Peace"
April 22, 2011 Stanford President John L. Hennessy To Open Pioneering Technology And Humanities Conference
April 18, 2011 Stanford Lively Arts announces 2011-12 season
April 5, 2011 Cantor Arts Center’s Cool Café Launches New Exhibition Space for StudentsJanuary 19, 2011 Kimball Hall, Stanford’s now official Arts Theme House, launches new programs in 2010-2011 and announces RF leadership transition for 2011-2012September 9, 2010 Stanford Scholars Question How We Talk About Race and Ethnicity in America
May 4, 2010 SiCa announces grant recipients in arts, science, and technology & arts and humanities categories for the 2010-2011 year of “Memory.”
April 2, 2010 Four Literary Scholars, Including Two Stanford Professors, Have Released an Album of Songs Inspired by Great Works of Literature.
January 21, 2010 The Department of Art & Art History Presents "Beyond Boundaries"
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July 18, 2011
Humanities scholars discuss their 'shared mental map' for a new age of digital communicationA select group of scholars, publishers, librarians, funders and representatives of scholarly societies gather to talk about 'new-model scholarly communication' and better ways to promote it.
June 15, 2011 The Humanities: Fundamental but utilitarianAfter moderating a briefing on Capitol Hill on the relationship between humanities research and national security, Cornell President David Skorton shares his thoughts in the Huffington Post.
March, 2011 New edition of Journal of Transatlantic American StudiesThe Editors of the Journal of Transnational American Studies, a peer-reviewed online, open-access journal published by the American Cultures and Global Contexts Center at the University of California-Santa Barbara and the Program in American Studies at Stanford University, are pleased to announce the publication of the journal's latest issue.
December 14, 2010 NEH Announces Latest Awards and OffersIn December, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) announced $23 million in grants for 371 humanities projects. This funding will support a variety of projects, including research, fellowships and awards for independent scholars and college and university teachers. Read the article - National Humanities Alliance
December 2, 2010 Groundbreaking journal launches in the UKThe launch of the first British journal to span all disciplines in the arts and the social sciences could herald a new era in open-access and cross-disciplinary publishing in the humanities. Read the article - Times Higher Education
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Stanford Humanities in the NewsGo to Stanford Humanities Archive for more article September 10, 2012 Change habitual delaying now, not later"John Perry, a professor emeritus from Stanford University, thinks people like Caine [who procrastinate] are too hard on themselves." Read the story - Monterey County Herald
September 10, 2012 Jane Austin's Impact on the BrainStanford University researchers are using MRI images to study the brain patterns of literary Ph.D. candidates while they read Jane Austen. Read the story - Inside Higher Ed
September 9, 2012 Obama's EnglishA NYTimes Opinion piece co-authored by H. Samy Alim, the director of the Center for Race, Ethnicity, and Language Read the story - The New York Times
September 6, 2012 Embedded on the Front Lines of the Digital Revolution.A NYTimes blog post on the archive of photographer Doug Menuez now at Stanford University Libraries. Read the story - The New York Times
September 5, 2012 Linden Tree Talk: From Video Games to Novel.An article on local author and Stanford alum Max Doty's work as a creative writer for the Redwood City tech firm, Electronic Arts Read the story - Los Altos Town Crier
September 4, 2012 People Used to Think California Was an Island.An article on Glen McLaughlin's noted map collection that was recently acquired by Stanford University Libraries. Read the story - Business Insider
September 2, 2012 Researchers study Central California dialectsThe project, called Voices of California, started two years ago. Each summer, Stanford linguistics researchers went to a Central California city, conducted one- to two-hour interviews with about 100 residents and analyzed the interviews to find out differences in dialects.Read the story - The Monterey Herald
August 30, 2012 Stanford professor reveals the art of procrastination in new bookThough we try not to, most of us procrastinate at some point in our lives -- if not on a weekly or daily basis. But John Perry, a philosophy professor at Stanford University, assures us that doing so is not unusual. Not only that, Perry says procrastinating isn't nearly as bad as we think. Read the story - Public Radio International
August 30, 2012 Sam Adams' 'Drift' to get West Coast PremiereStanford alum Sam Adams began composing seriously at Stanford, where his time at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics - and his studies with the unbounded jazz pianist and electro-acoustic composer Mark Applebaum." Multi-Media Spotlight Go to Multimedia Archive for more articles Construction didn't stop the Stanford Laptop Orchestra ("SLOrk") from being the first ensemble to play at the Bing Concert Hall, hard hats and all. (YouTube, June 9, 2012) "From Freedom to Freedom Now: African American Hisory 1865-1695" featuring a video lecture by Allyson Hobbs, assistant professor in History, has been airing on C-SPAN (Lectures in History, C-SPAN, July 30, 2011)
"Susan Krieger, Traveling Blind: Adventures in Vision With a Guide Dog By My Side. Interview with Susan Krieger, lecturer in feminist studies about her book (Bay Area Focus, 9 January, 2011)
"Google Book Tool Tracks Cultural Change with Words" Caroline Winterer on Google Books and the Humanities on NPR. (NPR, On All Things Considered, December 16, 2010)
"The West & China: Nobel v. Confucius" Listen to Stanford history professor, Ian Morris Carson on NPR. (NPR, On Point with Tom Ashbrook, December 13, 2010)
"Rallies and Counter-Rallies Compete for King's Legacy" Listen to Stanford history professor and director of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute, Clay Carson on NPR. (NPR, Talk of the Nation, August 26, 2010)
"Mark Twain's autobiography set for unveiling, a century after his death" features an interview with Shelley Fisher Fishkin, professor of English. (The News Hour, PBS, July 7, 2010)
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