The Stanford Humanities Center

Kudos to these Stanford scholars, including former Humanities Center fellows R. Lanier Anderson, Vincent Barletta, Lochlann Jain, and Amalia Kessler!

ICYMI: Marci Kwon's just-released book is an innovative and interdisciplinary account that reveals enchantment’s relevance to the history of American modernism. Order : https://press.princeton.edu//ha/9780691181400/enchantments

Join art historian and Humanities Center fellow Marci Kwon on 3/31 at 11AM PDT, as she examines the work of midcentury artist Joseph Cornell. https://shc.stanford.edu/events

Stanford Humanities Center associate director Andrea Davies weighs in on the myth of the "ideal worker."

Join Humanities Center fellow and Stanford University Department of Art & Art History assistant professor Marci Kwon to hear about her new book, "Enchantments: Joseph Cornell and American Modernism."

#TBT to our inaugural 1891 Lecture in the Humanities with Stanford Professor Ato Quayson. Little did we know this would be the last occasion we would convene as a group of humanities scholars in Levinthal, but we'll be back. : Paul Keitz

As we head off for the winter break, we leave you with these book recommendations from our fellows and staff.

ICYMI: Here's anthropologist and 2015-16 fellow Niloofar Haeri speaking about new book, "Say What Your Longing Heart Desires: Women, Prayer, and Poetry in Iran."

Join anthropologist Niloofar Haeri on Zoom tomorrow for our last event of 2020, featuring a discussion of her new book "Say What Your Longing Heart Desires: Women, Prayer, and Poetry in Iran."

Need some holiday reading ideas? Here's a list of 100 book suggestions to get you started.

Here's a #FeelGoodFriday moment from our friends at Stanford Live.

In her new book, anthropologist Niloofar Haeri, a 201516 Humanities Center fellow, offers an elegant ethnography of a group of educated, middle-class women whose voices are often muted in studies of Islam.

For Humanities Center fellow Rhae Lynn Barnes, the question of deleting records is complicated. Part of what it means to take social movements like Black Lives Matter seriously is to sit with the uncomfortable reality that some of the most soothing, beautiful and catchy sounds of the American songbook, from Stephen Foster to folk to country, were born of this struggle.

ICYMI: Philosopher Achille Mbembe joins Humanities Center Director Roland Greene for the 2020 Presidential Lecture.

Join philosopher Achille Mbembe at 10AM today for his talk, "Futures of Life & Futures of Reason." : https://stanford.zoom.us//regist/WN_GnT9SmGDQ7-H8VJcrE2rhA

Join Humanities Center fellow Shailaja Paik today at noon. Register: https://stanford.zoom.us//regist/WN_JPVFhMiXQdiPiq20TS7ZBQ

"When they see us as more than voters, we may give them our votes," writes 2019-20 Humanities Center fellow Geraldo Cadava.

Stanford Law professor and current Humanities Center fellow Bernadette Meyler talks about her new book, Shakespeare and law, and UCI's 2021 Shakespeare Trial.

Stanford anthropology professor and 2013-14 Humanities Center fellow Tanya Luhrmann offers her take on the Supreme Court nominee.

"Futures of Life & Futures of Reason." Join us two weeks from today for the 2020 Presidential Lecture in the Humanities, featuring on online presentation by the philosopher Achille Mbembe. : https://stanford.zoom.us//regist/WN_GnT9SmGDQ7-H8VJcrE2rhA

As part of our new speaker series, "How Change Comes: Knowledge + Justice in 2020," Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra from The University of Texas at Austin, joined us again on Friday for a conversation with Humanities Center Director Roland Greene.

ICYMI: Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra speaks about his research on 16th century social revolutions after conquest. There's one more chance to catch him TODAY AT 11AM. Register: https://stanford.zoom.us//regist/WN_4YsMHTTvQE-ttY5nfdLngQ

Join Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra TODAY AT 11AM (PDT) for his lecture, "Conquest? Collapse and Rise of Ancien Régime in 16th Century Spanish America and the Role of Paper Archives." Register: https://stanford.zoom.us//regist/WN_FGWtKxVtR9W6vnn4hoDdsw

Congratulations to former Humanities Center fellow Nicole Hughes, who is among the 91 new faculty members!

Conversation | "The History of 'Hispanics' in the U.S., from Marginality to More Marginality" As part of our new speaker series, Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra from The University of Texas at Austin joins Humanities Center Director Roland Greene for a conversation, which will be of special interest to graduate students who seek to cultivate careers that make a difference in the world as well as their field.

Lecture | "Conquest? Collapse and Rise of Ancien Régime in 16th Century Spanish America and the Role of Paper Archives" Join Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra from The University of Texas at Austin for the first event in our new series, launching 9/23.