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Stanford Humanities Center

Stanford Humanities Center

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Founded in 1980, the Stanford Humanities Center is a multidisciplinary research institute dedicated to advancing knowledge about culture, philosophy, history, and the arts. The Center's fellowships, research workshops, and public events strengthen the intellectual and creative life of the university, foster innovative scholarship and teaching, and enrich our understanding of the human experience.

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Classical Cartography: Asia Minor, the Kieperts, and World War I

Published: April 3, 2017, 4:31 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 22 minutes 11 seconds

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The Antikythera Mechanism: A Shocking Discovery from Ancient Greece.

Published: Jan. 6, 2016, 11:32 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 48 minutes 50 seconds

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The Great War And The Ancient World

Published: Nov. 19, 2014, 6:46 p.m.
Duration: 57 minutes 39 seconds

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Medea's Swerving Flight through Art and Literature

Published: April 23, 2014, 11:13 p.m.
Duration: 58 minutes 16 seconds

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Italy After Berlusconi

Published: March 18, 2014, 8:31 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 59 seconds

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The Stanford Humanities Center: researching the human experience.

Published: Jan. 31, 2014, 10:21 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes

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Stegner Fellows on Writing

Published: Jan. 17, 2014, 10:51 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 42 seconds

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Who Owns Antiquity? Museums, Repatriation, and Armed Conflict

Published: Nov. 24, 2013, 6:34 p.m.
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A Company of Authors: The World as We Imagine It

Published: May 16, 2013, 6:58 p.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 19 seconds

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A Company of Authors: The World and Beyond as It Might Be

Published: May 16, 2013, 6:57 p.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 24 seconds

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History, Memory, and the Novel

Published: March 6, 2013, 8:41 p.m.
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The Embodied Theater: Cognitive Science and Ancient Greek Drama

Published: Nov. 29, 2012, 11:42 a.m.
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Wallace Stevens as an American Poet

Published: Jan. 21, 2012, 6:24 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 22 seconds

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The Best Novels You Haven't Read

Published: Nov. 21, 2011, 2:16 p.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 49 seconds

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Art of Living: "A Life of Reason? Socrates v. Alcibiades"

Published: Nov. 21, 2011, 2:15 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 7 seconds

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Art of Living: "What One Should Learn from Artists"

Published: Nov. 21, 2011, 2:15 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 59 seconds

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Art of Living: "The Narrative Construction of the Self"

Published: Nov. 21, 2011, 2:15 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 10 seconds

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In Their Own Words: Edith Sheffer

Published: Nov. 21, 2011, 2:15 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 21 seconds

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Mistaken Identities: How to Identify a Roman Emperor

Published: Oct. 28, 2011, 9:39 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 6 seconds

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A Company of Authors: "East and West"

Published: June 10, 2011, 6:20 p.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 58 seconds

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How the Right Brain Helped Me Make a Billion, Win a Basketball Game, and Land this Gig

Published: June 6, 2011, 12:34 p.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 44 seconds

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Silicon Valley Entry Points for Humanities Ph.D.s: Google

Published: June 6, 2011, 12:32 p.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 57 seconds

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Why You Should Quit Your Technology Job and Get a Humanities Ph.D.

Published: June 6, 2011, 12:32 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 58 seconds

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The Story Behind "TED: Ideas Worth Spreading"

Published: June 6, 2011, 12:31 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 1 second

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Bringing Humanities Ph.D. Innovation to Silicon Valley: A Case for Rising Principles

Published: June 6, 2011, 12:31 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 4 seconds

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Polis: The Greek City-State 800 BC-AD 600

Published: May 25, 2011, 12:11 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 19 minutes 34 seconds

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Music Between Nature and Architecture

Published: May 25, 2011, 11:55 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes 56 seconds

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In Their Own Words: Michele Elam on Mixed Race in Literature and the Arts

Published: April 29, 2011, 10:11 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 42 seconds

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Can I Get into Biz/Ed/Law/Med School with a Major in the Humanities?

Published: March 22, 2011, 12:23 p.m.
Duration: 56 minutes 29 seconds

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A Conversation with Tim O'Brien on "Writing and War"

Published: Feb. 3, 2011, 8:25 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 26 minutes 39 seconds

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An Evening with Judith Jamison

Published: Jan. 26, 2011, 2:13 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 14 minutes 8 seconds

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Representations of Race and Ethnicity in Art & Literature

Published: Nov. 3, 2010, 9:24 a.m.
Duration: 56 minutes 5 seconds

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The Exemplary Life of Germaine Tillion

Published: July 23, 2010, 11:28 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 24 minutes 54 seconds

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Reflections on the Fall of the Wall

Published: July 23, 2010, 11:28 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 26 minutes 6 seconds

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The Evolution of 'Why' as the Key to Free Will

Published: July 2, 2010, 11:24 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 6 seconds

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Human Rights Strategies in the 21st Century

Published: May 13, 2010, 1:17 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 11 minutes 58 seconds

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Poetry Rules

Published: May 12, 2010, 1:34 p.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 30 seconds

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Life and Imagination

Published: May 12, 2010, 1:34 p.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 55 seconds

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Citizenship Between Empire and Nation: France and French Africa 1945-1960

Published: March 10, 2010, 1:26 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 16 minutes 53 seconds

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Imperial Repertories and the Myth of Modern Colonialism

Published: March 10, 2010, 1:26 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 16 minutes 34 seconds

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Andre Aciman on Writing, His Work and Inspirations

Published: Dec. 9, 2009, 6:55 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 39 seconds

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The Value of the Essay in the 21st Century

Published: Oct. 13, 2009, 1:22 p.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 24 seconds

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The Role of Fiction in the Well-Lived Life

Published: July 22, 2009, 10:57 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 10 seconds

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The Black Death

Published: July 1, 2009, 6:25 p.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 8 seconds

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Why Write About Writing?; Or, How Dr. Johnson Can Save Your Life

Published: June 3, 2009, 12:46 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 11 minutes 44 seconds

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But There Was No Peace: The Aftermath of the Civil War

Published: May 4, 2009, 12:05 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 29 seconds

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The Invention of Celebrity

Published: May 4, 2009, 11:56 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes 42 seconds

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Holy Pieces: Attitudes Toward Parts and Wholes in Late Medieval Devotion

Published: April 8, 2009, 12:06 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 22 minutes 28 seconds

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Weeping Statues and Bleeding Bread: Miracles in the Later Middle Ages

Published: April 7, 2009, 12:28 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 11 minutes 15 seconds

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Verbal Bubblewrap; or, the Contradictions of Art Writing

Published: April 7, 2009, 12:27 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 24 minutes 9 seconds

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The Art of Judging Music: An Update

Published: March 23, 2009, 10:10 a.m.
Duration: 58 minutes 58 seconds

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Thinking About our Shared Home: Earth

Published: Dec. 18, 2008, 10:12 a.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 35 seconds

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Cosmopolitan Norms, Human Rights and Democratic Iterations

Published: Dec. 17, 2008, 12:49 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes 31 seconds

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Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Hitchcock's Vertigo

Published: Dec. 16, 2008, 7:34 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 56 minutes 2 seconds

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Vertigo: Perfection of Form

Published: Dec. 16, 2008, 7:34 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes 40 seconds

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The Voice of the Toy: Writing Magic and Enchanted States

Published: May 1, 2008, 10:05 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes 18 seconds

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Shaping & Breaking the Politics of Legal History

Published: May 1, 2008, 10:04 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 13 minutes 59 seconds

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Reviewing: Is it an Art or a Craft?

Published: Feb. 26, 2008, 8:39 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 29 minutes 28 seconds

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Newton on the Ganges: The Asiatic Enlightenment of British Astronomy (Audio)

Published: Jan. 30, 2008, 7:21 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 26 minutes 48 seconds

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Newton on the Beach: The Information Order of Principia Mathematica (Audio)

Published: Jan. 30, 2008, 9:05 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes 22 seconds

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The Black Hole of Empire (Video)

Published: Dec. 3, 2007, 1:10 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes 22 seconds

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The Abolition of the Slave Trade Two Hundred Years On - America & Britain: Two Diverging Destinies? (Video)

Published: Dec. 3, 2007, 12:56 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes 31 seconds

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The Abolition of the Slave Trade - America and Britain: Two Diverging Destinies?

Published: Dec. 3, 2007, 12:49 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes 31 seconds

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The Black Hole of Empire

Published: Dec. 3, 2007, 12:49 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes 22 seconds

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Thinking About Blasphemy and Secular Criticism

Published: April 23, 2007, 10:56 a.m.
Duration: 56 minutes 30 seconds

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Some Rights Reserved - Creative Commons Copyright

Published: March 30, 2007, 7:18 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 7 seconds

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Welcome to Convergence Culture - Consumer Participation & Branded Entertainment

Published: March 30, 2007, 6:34 p.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 48 seconds

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The First Theorists of History

Published: March 30, 2007, 5:51 p.m.
Duration: 58 minutes 3 seconds

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The Life and Death of a Genre

Published: March 30, 2007, 5:50 p.m.
Duration: 55 minutes 10 seconds

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Extremism

Published: March 30, 2007, 5:29 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 32 seconds

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Whitehead's Account of the Sixth Day

Published: March 30, 2007, 5:21 p.m.
Duration: 2 hours 57 minutes 36 seconds

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Analogy as the Core of Cognition

Published: March 30, 2007, 10:37 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 52 seconds

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Open Content: How Online Digital Libraries Will Provide Access to Cultural Information in the 21st Century

Published: March 29, 2007, 11:12 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 30 seconds

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Rethinking Books in the Era of the Network

Published: March 29, 2007, 11:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 21 seconds

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Text Encoding and Future Archives

Published: March 29, 2007, 11:07 a.m.
Duration: 56 minutes 59 seconds

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