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Humanities Center Funds 16 Workshops for 2012-13
June 22, 2012
The Humanities Center is pleased to announce that it will fund 16 Theodore and Frances Geballe Workshop Research Workshops for 2012-13. Of the 16 workshops, 8 are new for this year. The workshops cover a broad range of topics, including Equality of Educational Opportunity, Cognition & Language, and Visualizing Complexity and Uncertainty, which focuses on the digital humanities. Chosen by an interdisciplinary Stanford faculty committee, the workshops aim to bring together faculty members and graduate students in cross-disciplinary dialogue. Many workshop meetings are open to the public and will be posted on the calendar as soon as information is available. Cities Unbound The More»
Dissertation Writing Group to Continue in 2012-13
May 23, 2012
The Stanford Humanities Center will sponsor a Dissertation Writing Group in 2012-13. This program fosters intensive and supportive exchange across humanistic fields for those in the final stages of dissertation writing. Graduate students from a variety of humanities departments present and discuss their work in a multidisciplinary context. Students whose projects cut across a number of fields may find this forum especially helpful to their scholarship. Eligibility Stanford graduate students from humanities departments who have advanced to the chapter-writing phase of the dissertation. Commitment Meetings will be held at the Humanities Center from 4 to 6 pm on Thursdays every other week. Eligible students may More»
Fellows Spotlight: Johanna Yunker
May 21, 2012
by Brianne Felsher Art cannot be separated from the history and culture that surround and influence it. Johanna Yunker is proving this point in “Socialism and Feminism in East German Opera,” the dissertation she is writing as a graduate student of musicology at Stanford University and a Geballe Dissertation Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center. Her work looks at the careers and works of two East German artists: Ruth Zechlin, composer and musician, and Ruth Berghaus, opera director and choreographer. How were these women’s lives and artistic products influenced by the socialist state? By the avant-garde art community? By East Germany’s More»
FSI-Humanities Center International Visitor Spotlight: Patrick Wolfe
May 18, 2012
By Camryn Douglass Patrick Wolfe is a professor of history at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia and an FSI-Humanities Center International Visitor for 2011-12 in May. We spoke with him a bit about his time at Stanford last week: What are you working on while at Stanford University? What I’m trying to do while I’m here is finish off a large book that tries to put fairly well understood histories of the American West in comparative perspective. I’m organizing established, known material into an understanding that puts settler-colonialism as the primary factor involved in the history of the United States West in More»
Everyday Comedy
May 07, 2012
By Camryn Douglass Scene: After a swim at the beach, a man attempts to dry himself off while standing in front of a light post. He flings the towel around his back, inadvertently wrapping the towel around the post behind him. He pulls the towel back and forth (around the post, not his back) and is confused about why he cannot get dry. The man is frustrated and he goes home dripping wet. The audience shrieks with laughter. This scene from Jacques Tati’s Monsieur Hulots’ Holiday may not be as grand as a house collapsing around Buster Keaton, but it elicits the More»
International Q&A; with SiCa-Humanities Center 2011 Arts Writer/Practitioner M.K Raina
April 30, 2012
By Marie-Pierre Ulloa Why and how did you become a theatre artist? It all started long back, when I was a school kid of seven years. Our school principal, Mr. Deena Nath Nadeem, a legendary poet of the Kashmiri language, wrote a verse play for the children of the school. The play was about birds, animals, humans, and their inter-relationships. It was a futuristic thing dealing with the co-existence between these two worlds–that is the human and the non-human world, nature. It had lovely songs set to folk melodies that we, as children, sang. Later these became big hit songs over the More»
Humanities Center Names 2012-13 Fellows
April 19, 2012
The Stanford Humanities Center has named 28 fellows for the 2012-13 academic year. Chosen from a pool of over 400 applicants, the 2012-13 cohort comprises scholars from other institutions, as well as Stanford faculty and advanced Stanford graduate students. Fellows will pursue individual research and writing for the full academic year while contributing to the Stanford community through their participation in workshops, lectures, and courses. Mark Antliff, Marta Sutton Weeks Fellow Department of Art, Art History and Visual Studies, Duke University Sculpture Against the State: Direct Carving, Gaudier-Brzeska and the Cultural Politics of Anarchism Marcelo Aranda, Geballe Dissertation Prize Fellow Department of History, Stanford University Between More»
International Scholars in Residence at the Humanities Center 2012-13
April 13, 2012
By Marie-Pierre Ulloa The Stanford Humanities Center and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) are pleased to announce that four international scholars have been chosen to come to Stanford in 2012-13 as part of a jointly sponsored international program entering its fourth year. Nominated by Stanford departments and research centers, the international scholars will be on campus for four-week residencies. They will have offices at the Humanities Center and will be affiliated with their nominating unit, the Humanities Center, and FSI. A major purpose of the residencies is to bring high-profile international scholars into the intellectual life of the university, More»
Globalization and History Education
March 21, 2012
By Chris Williams By now, everyone knows that we live in a globalized world. Case in point: a high school classroom in San Jose, California could contain students from Mexico, Argentina, South Korea, France, Brazil, Canada, and South Africa, to name a few, not to mention those born in the United States. Yet in that San Jose classroom, in classrooms across the country and around the world, history is often presented in a very narrow way, usually focusing only on history as it affects a given nation. Global history, in a truly interconnected format, is almost always left out of the More»
International Q&A; with FSI-Humanities Center 2011 Visitor Monica Quijada
March 20, 2012
By Marie-Pierre Ulloa Why did you become a historian? Since I was very young I have been interested in History as a means to understand society and as a place from which to participate actively in society’s concerns. What is the focus of your current research? I generally work on more than one topic, which I find interrelated. At this time I am working on interethnic relations (particularly the interaction of Indians and citizenship in 19th Century Latin America), popular sovereignty in the Spanish world along the centuries, and the management of diversity in Anthropological Museums. What are the three or four seminal books More»
June 22, 2012
The Humanities Center is pleased to announce that it will fund 16 Theodore and Frances Geballe Workshop Research Workshops for 2012-13. Of the 16 workshops, 8 are new for this year. The workshops cover a broad range of topics, including Equality of Educational Opportunity, Cognition & Language, and Visualizing Complexity and Uncertainty, which focuses on the digital humanities. Chosen by an interdisciplinary Stanford faculty committee, the workshops aim to bring together faculty members and graduate students in cross-disciplinary dialogue. Many workshop meetings are open to the public and will be posted on the calendar as soon as information is available. Cities Unbound The More»
Dissertation Writing Group to Continue in 2012-13
May 23, 2012
The Stanford Humanities Center will sponsor a Dissertation Writing Group in 2012-13. This program fosters intensive and supportive exchange across humanistic fields for those in the final stages of dissertation writing. Graduate students from a variety of humanities departments present and discuss their work in a multidisciplinary context. Students whose projects cut across a number of fields may find this forum especially helpful to their scholarship. Eligibility Stanford graduate students from humanities departments who have advanced to the chapter-writing phase of the dissertation. Commitment Meetings will be held at the Humanities Center from 4 to 6 pm on Thursdays every other week. Eligible students may More»
Fellows Spotlight: Johanna Yunker
May 21, 2012
by Brianne Felsher Art cannot be separated from the history and culture that surround and influence it. Johanna Yunker is proving this point in “Socialism and Feminism in East German Opera,” the dissertation she is writing as a graduate student of musicology at Stanford University and a Geballe Dissertation Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center. Her work looks at the careers and works of two East German artists: Ruth Zechlin, composer and musician, and Ruth Berghaus, opera director and choreographer. How were these women’s lives and artistic products influenced by the socialist state? By the avant-garde art community? By East Germany’s More»
FSI-Humanities Center International Visitor Spotlight: Patrick Wolfe
May 18, 2012
By Camryn Douglass Patrick Wolfe is a professor of history at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia and an FSI-Humanities Center International Visitor for 2011-12 in May. We spoke with him a bit about his time at Stanford last week: What are you working on while at Stanford University? What I’m trying to do while I’m here is finish off a large book that tries to put fairly well understood histories of the American West in comparative perspective. I’m organizing established, known material into an understanding that puts settler-colonialism as the primary factor involved in the history of the United States West in More»
Everyday Comedy
May 07, 2012
By Camryn Douglass Scene: After a swim at the beach, a man attempts to dry himself off while standing in front of a light post. He flings the towel around his back, inadvertently wrapping the towel around the post behind him. He pulls the towel back and forth (around the post, not his back) and is confused about why he cannot get dry. The man is frustrated and he goes home dripping wet. The audience shrieks with laughter. This scene from Jacques Tati’s Monsieur Hulots’ Holiday may not be as grand as a house collapsing around Buster Keaton, but it elicits the More»
International Q&A; with SiCa-Humanities Center 2011 Arts Writer/Practitioner M.K Raina
April 30, 2012
By Marie-Pierre Ulloa Why and how did you become a theatre artist? It all started long back, when I was a school kid of seven years. Our school principal, Mr. Deena Nath Nadeem, a legendary poet of the Kashmiri language, wrote a verse play for the children of the school. The play was about birds, animals, humans, and their inter-relationships. It was a futuristic thing dealing with the co-existence between these two worlds–that is the human and the non-human world, nature. It had lovely songs set to folk melodies that we, as children, sang. Later these became big hit songs over the More»
Humanities Center Names 2012-13 Fellows
April 19, 2012
The Stanford Humanities Center has named 28 fellows for the 2012-13 academic year. Chosen from a pool of over 400 applicants, the 2012-13 cohort comprises scholars from other institutions, as well as Stanford faculty and advanced Stanford graduate students. Fellows will pursue individual research and writing for the full academic year while contributing to the Stanford community through their participation in workshops, lectures, and courses. Mark Antliff, Marta Sutton Weeks Fellow Department of Art, Art History and Visual Studies, Duke University Sculpture Against the State: Direct Carving, Gaudier-Brzeska and the Cultural Politics of Anarchism Marcelo Aranda, Geballe Dissertation Prize Fellow Department of History, Stanford University Between More»
International Scholars in Residence at the Humanities Center 2012-13
April 13, 2012
By Marie-Pierre Ulloa The Stanford Humanities Center and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) are pleased to announce that four international scholars have been chosen to come to Stanford in 2012-13 as part of a jointly sponsored international program entering its fourth year. Nominated by Stanford departments and research centers, the international scholars will be on campus for four-week residencies. They will have offices at the Humanities Center and will be affiliated with their nominating unit, the Humanities Center, and FSI. A major purpose of the residencies is to bring high-profile international scholars into the intellectual life of the university, More»
Globalization and History Education
March 21, 2012
By Chris Williams By now, everyone knows that we live in a globalized world. Case in point: a high school classroom in San Jose, California could contain students from Mexico, Argentina, South Korea, France, Brazil, Canada, and South Africa, to name a few, not to mention those born in the United States. Yet in that San Jose classroom, in classrooms across the country and around the world, history is often presented in a very narrow way, usually focusing only on history as it affects a given nation. Global history, in a truly interconnected format, is almost always left out of the More»
International Q&A; with FSI-Humanities Center 2011 Visitor Monica Quijada
March 20, 2012
By Marie-Pierre Ulloa Why did you become a historian? Since I was very young I have been interested in History as a means to understand society and as a place from which to participate actively in society’s concerns. What is the focus of your current research? I generally work on more than one topic, which I find interrelated. At this time I am working on interethnic relations (particularly the interaction of Indians and citizenship in 19th Century Latin America), popular sovereignty in the Spanish world along the centuries, and the management of diversity in Anthropological Museums. What are the three or four seminal books More»