Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Former Fellow Terry Castle Elected to PEN American Center
PEN American Center is the U.S. branch of the world’s oldest international literary and human rights organization. International PEN was founded in 1921 in direct response to the ethnic and national divisions that contributed to the First World War. PEN American Center was founded in 1922 and is the largest of the 144 PEN centers in 101 countries that together compose International PEN. Read the full article»
Friday, October 2, 2009
Carol Shloss Wins Settlement Against James Joyce Estate
Former fellow Carol Shloss (2007-08) has won a breakthrough settlement against the James Joyce Estate, a legal saga that has gone on for the good part of two decades. The scholar’s six-figure settlement gives hope to researchers whose work is threatened by overly aggressive copyright holders. Read the full article»
Fellows Update Fall 2009
Here’s what we’ve heard from you. A full list of fellows’ publications for academic year 2008-09 will be published in the Annual Report. Please stay in touch, and if you have news to share, send an email to shc-newsletter@stanford.edu.
2008-09
DAN EDELSTEIN published The Terror of Natural Right: Republicanism, the Cult of Nature, and the French Revolution with The University of Chicago Press (2009). For information on the book, visit the press web page. Dan is also a founding editor of Republics of Letters, a peer-reviewed, digital journal dedicated to the study of knowledge, politics, and the arts. Its first issue, featuring articles by Anthony Grafton, Margaret Jacob, Josiah Ober, and many others, appeared in September 2009.
2007-08
H. SAMY ALIM received tenure this year and is now an associate professor of anthropology at University of California, Los Angeles.
2006-07
WILLIAM TRONZO published the edited volume The Fragment: An Incomplete History. He also received a grant from the Kress Foundation to fund a workshop he will oversee this fall at Duke University with his colleague Caroline Bruzelius on “Landscape and Architecture in Southern Italy and Sicily in the late Middle Ages.”
2005-06
MARCUS FOLCH is now an assistant professor of classics at Columbia University.
2004-05
JARED FARMER has been honored with the Francis Parkman Prize by The Society of American Historians for his 2008 book On Zion’s Mount: Mormons, Indians, and the American Landscape. For more information, visit: http://harvardpress.typepad.com/hup_publicity/2009/03/on-zions-mount-wins-parkman-prize.html.
CHARLES GRISWOLD has been awarded a senior fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) for the 2009-10 academic year for a book project entitled Self and Other: Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith on Freedom, Authenticity, Sympathy, and Narrative. He also won fellowships, for the same project, from the National Humanities Center and the Cullman Center at the New York Public Library.
2000-01
TOM WASOW received an endowed chair with the title Clarence Irving Lewis Professor of Philosophy.
1997-98
MARTIN JAY was presented with a collection of essays written in his honor by his prior students Warren Breckman, Peter E. Gordon, A. Dirk Moses, Samuel Moyn, and Elliot Neaman, some of the most prominent contemporary scholars in the humanities and social sciences. The book, The Modernist Imagination: Intellectual History and Critical Theory, was published by Berghahn Books in December 2008.
1995-96
GERALDINE HENG would like to announce the formation of a new international consortium, the Global Middle Ages. The Global Middle Ages Project, the Mappamundi cybernetic initiatives, and the Scholarly Community for the Globalization of the Middle Ages together represent a variety of universities, institutes, centers, and scholars who are working toward the goal of transforming how we understand the world across macrohistorical time: a thousand years of history, literature, technology, cultural encounters and crossings, ideas, movement, and change. Read more»
1980s
TOM LUTZ (1983-84; 1984-85) received the 2008 American Book Award of the Before Columbus Foundation for Doing Nothing: A History of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers and Bums in America (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006)
NANCY RUTTENBURG (1982-83; 1983-84) had an exceptional year. Her book, Dostoevsky’s Democracy, was published by Princeton University Press. She was also the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and was offered (and accepted) a position as professor of English, with a courtesy appointment in the departments of comparative literature and Slavic, at Stanford. She is delighted at the prospect of being with her new colleagues in the fall.
ROBERT A. SCHAPIRO (1985-86; 1986-87) published Polyphonic Federalism: Toward the Protection of Fundamental Rights with The University of Chicago Press. Robert credits his graduate fellowship at the Center in 1985-87 with guiding him to the use of polyphony as a trope for federalism and says that the concept of the U.S. Constitution meets Bakhtin would not have been possible without his time at the Center.
2008-09
DAN EDELSTEIN published The Terror of Natural Right: Republicanism, the Cult of Nature, and the French Revolution with The University of Chicago Press (2009). For information on the book, visit the press web page. Dan is also a founding editor of Republics of Letters, a peer-reviewed, digital journal dedicated to the study of knowledge, politics, and the arts. Its first issue, featuring articles by Anthony Grafton, Margaret Jacob, Josiah Ober, and many others, appeared in September 2009.
2007-08
H. SAMY ALIM received tenure this year and is now an associate professor of anthropology at University of California, Los Angeles.
2006-07
WILLIAM TRONZO published the edited volume The Fragment: An Incomplete History. He also received a grant from the Kress Foundation to fund a workshop he will oversee this fall at Duke University with his colleague Caroline Bruzelius on “Landscape and Architecture in Southern Italy and Sicily in the late Middle Ages.”
2005-06
MARCUS FOLCH is now an assistant professor of classics at Columbia University.
2004-05
JARED FARMER has been honored with the Francis Parkman Prize by The Society of American Historians for his 2008 book On Zion’s Mount: Mormons, Indians, and the American Landscape. For more information, visit: http://harvardpress.typepad.com/hup_publicity/2009/03/on-zions-mount-wins-parkman-prize.html.
CHARLES GRISWOLD has been awarded a senior fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) for the 2009-10 academic year for a book project entitled Self and Other: Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith on Freedom, Authenticity, Sympathy, and Narrative. He also won fellowships, for the same project, from the National Humanities Center and the Cullman Center at the New York Public Library.
2000-01
TOM WASOW received an endowed chair with the title Clarence Irving Lewis Professor of Philosophy.
1997-98
MARTIN JAY was presented with a collection of essays written in his honor by his prior students Warren Breckman, Peter E. Gordon, A. Dirk Moses, Samuel Moyn, and Elliot Neaman, some of the most prominent contemporary scholars in the humanities and social sciences. The book, The Modernist Imagination: Intellectual History and Critical Theory, was published by Berghahn Books in December 2008.
1995-96
GERALDINE HENG would like to announce the formation of a new international consortium, the Global Middle Ages. The Global Middle Ages Project, the Mappamundi cybernetic initiatives, and the Scholarly Community for the Globalization of the Middle Ages together represent a variety of universities, institutes, centers, and scholars who are working toward the goal of transforming how we understand the world across macrohistorical time: a thousand years of history, literature, technology, cultural encounters and crossings, ideas, movement, and change. Read more»
1980s
TOM LUTZ (1983-84; 1984-85) received the 2008 American Book Award of the Before Columbus Foundation for Doing Nothing: A History of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers and Bums in America (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006)
NANCY RUTTENBURG (1982-83; 1983-84) had an exceptional year. Her book, Dostoevsky’s Democracy, was published by Princeton University Press. She was also the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and was offered (and accepted) a position as professor of English, with a courtesy appointment in the departments of comparative literature and Slavic, at Stanford. She is delighted at the prospect of being with her new colleagues in the fall.
ROBERT A. SCHAPIRO (1985-86; 1986-87) published Polyphonic Federalism: Toward the Protection of Fundamental Rights with The University of Chicago Press. Robert credits his graduate fellowship at the Center in 1985-87 with guiding him to the use of polyphony as a trope for federalism and says that the concept of the U.S. Constitution meets Bakhtin would not have been possible without his time at the Center.
New Collaboration with Mellon Fellowship Program
The Humanities Center has initiated a new collaboration with the recently renamed Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in the Humanities, a program of postdoctoral fellowships at Stanford. The affiliation aims to bring together two cohorts of fellows in the humanities at Stanford to foster productive intellectual exchange.
The faculty co-directors of the Mellon Fellowship, Lanier Anderson and J. P. Daughton, will continue to oversee the annual selection of new postdoctoral fellows as well as the running of the program, which includes a year-long program of events fostering professional development of the postdocs, as well as a public lecture series featuring distinguished visiting scholars. Postdoctoral fellows will still be affiliated with and housed in individual humanities departments.
As part of the collaboration. the postdoctoral fellows are now invited to participate in all aspects of the intellectual life of the Humanities Center. They are encouraged to attend and propose workshops and to have lunch at the Center throughout the year.
The administrative office of the Mellon Fellowship has also moved to the Humanities Center, and we are delighted to announce the hire of a new program officer, Krista Featherstone. Krista comes to us with experience at the Stanford Law School where she oversaw the administration of their International Graduate Programs. She just completed her MA in Education at Stanford with a specialization in Policy, Organization, and Leadership Studies. Welcome Krista!
The faculty co-directors of the Mellon Fellowship, Lanier Anderson and J. P. Daughton, will continue to oversee the annual selection of new postdoctoral fellows as well as the running of the program, which includes a year-long program of events fostering professional development of the postdocs, as well as a public lecture series featuring distinguished visiting scholars. Postdoctoral fellows will still be affiliated with and housed in individual humanities departments.
As part of the collaboration. the postdoctoral fellows are now invited to participate in all aspects of the intellectual life of the Humanities Center. They are encouraged to attend and propose workshops and to have lunch at the Center throughout the year.
The administrative office of the Mellon Fellowship has also moved to the Humanities Center, and we are delighted to announce the hire of a new program officer, Krista Featherstone. Krista comes to us with experience at the Stanford Law School where she oversaw the administration of their International Graduate Programs. She just completed her MA in Education at Stanford with a specialization in Policy, Organization, and Leadership Studies. Welcome Krista!
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Obama Awards Upcoming Speaker Mary Robinson the 2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom
Mary Robinson, 2009-10 Stanford Presidential Lecturer, has been named by US President Barack Obama as one of the recipients of the 2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom. The Medal of Freedom is the highest US civilian honor, awarded to “individuals who make an especially meritorious contribution to the security or national interests of the United States, world peace, cultural or other significant public or private endeavors.”
Mary Robinson, the first woman President of Ireland (1990-1997) and former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (1997-2002), is currently the President of Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative. Its mission is to make human rights the compass which charts a course for globalization that is fair, just, and benefits all.
Mary Robinson, the first woman President of Ireland (1990-1997) and former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (1997-2002), is currently the President of Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative. Its mission is to make human rights the compass which charts a course for globalization that is fair, just, and benefits all.
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Interview with Former Fellow Jann Pasler on Rorotoko
Rorotoko recently published a feature interview with former fellow Jann Pasler on her recent publication Composing the Citizen: Music as Public Utility in Third Republic France (University of California Press, 2009).
In the interview, Pasler shares her hope that “reading this story of how music helped forge French citizens under highly contentious but evolving political circumstances will stimulate reflection on some critical issues in our own times. Three ongoing concerns hark back to this period: the desire to assure accessibility to the arts for all citizens, the use of music and musical practices to build community and help people explore what they value as a people, and faith in music’s capacity to revitalize and help us imagine change because we have heard it.”
Read on at http://www.rorotoko.com/index.php/article/jann_pasler_composing_citizen_…
In the interview, Pasler shares her hope that “reading this story of how music helped forge French citizens under highly contentious but evolving political circumstances will stimulate reflection on some critical issues in our own times. Three ongoing concerns hark back to this period: the desire to assure accessibility to the arts for all citizens, the use of music and musical practices to build community and help people explore what they value as a people, and faith in music’s capacity to revitalize and help us imagine change because we have heard it.”
Read on at http://www.rorotoko.com/index.php/article/jann_pasler_composing_citizen_…
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Rene Girard Scrutinizes the Human Condition from Creation to Apocalypse
Emeritus French professor and former fellow René Girard is one of only 40 members, or immortels, of the Académie Francaise, France’s highest intellectual honor.
In this rare interview with Stanford’s Cynthia Haven, he admits that few people here understand quite what he does. Read the article in the Stanford Magazine.
In this rare interview with Stanford’s Cynthia Haven, he admits that few people here understand quite what he does. Read the article in the Stanford Magazine.
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Thitinan Pongsudhirak Comments on U.S. Ties to Southeast Asia in WSJ
Incoming 2009-10 international visitor Thitinan Pongsudhirak commented on America’s ties to Southeast Asian nations in the July 22 edition of the Wall Street Journal. Following Secretary of State Hilary Clinton’s attendance at the summit of the 10-member Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) in Thailand, Pongsudirak said that “America is shaping itself to be a real player in the region again.” Hilary Clinton signed ASEAN’s Treaty of Amity and Cooperation (TAC), opening the door to this important regional forum. Read the full article»
Monday, June 15, 2009
Former Fellows Receive Presidential Fund Grants
Former fellows Yoshiko Matsumoto and Michael Shanks have received 2009 grants from the Presidential Fund for Innovation in the Humanities.
Matsumoto’s project, “Noun-Modifying Constructions in Languages of Eurasia: Reshaping Theoretical and Geographical Boundaries” will bring together experts in Central and East Asian languages to investigate grammar.
Michael Shanks is collaborating with other Stanford scholars on a project called “Evoking Humanity Through Clay: A Replication Experience,” which investigates the development and transmission of pottery technology with a series of events and also an ethnographic study of the learning experience of making pottery.
Read more on the Stanford News Service: http://news.stanford.edu/news/2009/june3/innovate-060309.html
Matsumoto’s project, “Noun-Modifying Constructions in Languages of Eurasia: Reshaping Theoretical and Geographical Boundaries” will bring together experts in Central and East Asian languages to investigate grammar.
Michael Shanks is collaborating with other Stanford scholars on a project called “Evoking Humanity Through Clay: A Replication Experience,” which investigates the development and transmission of pottery technology with a series of events and also an ethnographic study of the learning experience of making pottery.
Read more on the Stanford News Service: http://news.stanford.edu/news/2009/june3/innovate-060309.html
Friday, May 29, 2009
Revisiting Race Reviewed in Science
Revisiting Race in a Genomic Age (Rutgers University Press, 2008), a collection of essays that grew out of a Humanities Center research workshop and collaborative research project, was reviewed in the May edition of Science. The volume was edited by advisory board member and former fellow Barbara Koenig with Sandra Soo-Jin Lee and Sarah Richardson.
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