Publications, promotions, and awards! Here’s what we’ve heard from you since the fall. Please stay in touch, and if you have news to share, send an email to shc-newsletter@stanford.edu.
2009-10
SARAH LOCHLANN JAIN explored the issue of cancer in “A Special Case: The Young Cancer Patient” for the Human Experience series “Thinking Twice.”
2008-09
TERRY CASTLE is featured in The Chronicle of Higher Education article “Terry Castle, Critical Outlaw.” Her recent book The Professor was chosen as one of the Top 10 Books of the year by New York Magazine as well as one of the Favorite Books of 2010 by BookForum; it was also named Editor’s Pick #2 in the top ten books in Gay and Lesbian Studies by Amazon.com.
DONG GUOQING received a promotion to full professorship from Nanjing University. His promotion came on the heels of a number of recent publications: “Local Factionalism in the Cultural Revolution: Nanjing Under Military Control,” Journal of Asian Studies (June 2011); ”Factions in a Bureaucratic Setting: The Origins of Cultural Revolution Conflict in Nanjing,” China Journal (January 2011); ”Nanjing’s failed January Revolution of 1967: The Inner Politics of an Aborted Power Seizure,” China Quarterly (September 2010); and “The First Uprising of the Cultural Revolution at Nanjing University: Dynamics, Nature and Interpretation,” Journal of Cold War Studies (Summer 2010).
2006-07
HANS THOMALLA has won the prestigious Composer’s Prize from the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation. The prize is a great honor for young composers and is awarded with a cash prize and a composition commission.
2005-06
MARGARET COHEN published The Novel and the Sea (Princeton University Press, 2010), a literary history that questions our land-locked assumptions about the novel.
2002-03
ARNOLD RAMPERSAD received the 2010 National Humanities Medal, bestowed by President Obama during a ceremony at the White House on March 2, 2011. Rampersad was honored for his work as a biographer and literary critic.
2001-02
DEBRA SATZ recently published Why Some Things Should Not Be for Sale: The Moral Limits of Markets (Oxford University Press, 2010).
1994-95
LAWRENCE JACKSON published his second book, The Indignant Generation: A Narrative History of African American Writers and Critics, 1934-1960 (Princeton University Press, 2010).
1991-92
DAVID HAHN finished composing “TIC*TAC*TOE” for mandolin, guitar, and electronic sound. The piece was commissioned by the German-based MARE Duo and will be included on their next CD, Sound Design. He is currently working as sound designer for the Seattle Publc Theatre‚ March 2011 production of The Happy Ones, a play by Julie Marie Myatt. He also founded the performing ensemble Concert Imaginaire which performs free improvisations and Eastern European folk music.
His 4-movement piece for mandolin and guitar, “Passionate Isolation,” has been published by Clear Note Publications. The piece won the 2003 Composition Prize from the Classical Mandolin Society of America.
1989-90
RICHARD PRICE published a new book, Rainforest Warriors: Human Rights on Trial (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011). Another of his books, Travels with Tooy: History, Memory, and the African American Imagination (University of Chicago Press, 2008), won the 2008 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing, the 2009 Gordon K. and Sybil Lewis Memorial Award for Caribbean Scholarship, and the 2009 Clifford Geertz Prize in the Anthropology of Religion.
1987-88
BARBARA BABCOCK has a new book out with Stanford University Press titled Woman Lawyer: The Trials of Clara Foltz (2011). The January edition of Rorotoko featured a fascinating interview with Babcock on Clara Foltz’s life and why today we would call her a “public intellectual.” Read More»
1982-83
HERBERT LINDENBERGER published Situating Opera: Period, Genre, Reception (Cambridge University Press, 2010).
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Center Announces International Visitors for 2011-12
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 2011-12 as part of a jointly sponsored international program entering its third year. Nominated by Stanford departments and research centers, the international visitors 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, targeting scholars whose research and writing engage with the missions of both the Humanities Center and FSI.
The following four scholars have been selected for the upcoming academic year:
Adams Bodomo (October-November 2011) is the Chair of the Department of Linguistics in the School of Humanities at the University of Hong Kong and the Director of the University’s African Studies Program. A linguist hailing from Ghana, his primary expertise resides in the structure of West-African languages (Akan, Dagaare) and he has recently undertaken research on African diaspora in Asia, conducted fieldwork on Zhuang, a minority language in China. He was nominated by the Department of Linguistics.
Mario Carretero (January 2012) is a Professor of Psychology at Autonoma University of Madrid, and one of the most prominent leaders studying how young people develop historical consciousness and how they understand history. His work has been at the forefront of the “history wars” since the 1990s over what and who should determine the curriculum on the Spanish-speaking world. Carretero’s research, unlike scholars who explore such issues by dissecting textbooks, is unique in its commitment to fieldwork - conducting interviews with adolescents and observing them in real life situations to understand the dynamics of cultural transmission and resistance. He was nominated by the School of Education.
Catherine Gousseff (February 2012) is a world-renowned leading figure in East-Central European history, politics, and society of the twentieth century, as well as of the former Soviet Union. A researcher at the French Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), she is currently affiliated with the Marc Bloch Center in Berlin. While at Stanford, she will share insights into her new research project on collective memories of displacements and diaspora politics in the wartime and post-war eras, notably the Polish-Ukrainian population exchange (1944-1950) based on research in Russian, Ukrainian and Polish archives. She was nominated by the Europe Center.
James Laidlaw (April 2012) is an anthropologist at Cambridge University. Professor Laidlaw is deeply engaged in fieldwork in Asia, researching the Buddhist ethics of self-cultivation, looking at how the traditional means by which Buddhists practice self-cultivation –asceticism, meditation- are undergoing a massive restructuring. Practices once reserved for male monks are now being adopted by women and laity. James Laidlaw has edited seven books, two of which are on cognitive approaches to religion, exploring them from an ethnographic perspective. He is also an expert on Jainism, a tradition of monastic renunciation like Buddhism. He was nominated by the Department of Anthropology.
A major purpose of the residencies is to bring high-profile international scholars into the intellectual life of the university, targeting scholars whose research and writing engage with the missions of both the Humanities Center and FSI.
The following four scholars have been selected for the upcoming academic year:
Adams Bodomo (October-November 2011) is the Chair of the Department of Linguistics in the School of Humanities at the University of Hong Kong and the Director of the University’s African Studies Program. A linguist hailing from Ghana, his primary expertise resides in the structure of West-African languages (Akan, Dagaare) and he has recently undertaken research on African diaspora in Asia, conducted fieldwork on Zhuang, a minority language in China. He was nominated by the Department of Linguistics.
Mario Carretero (January 2012) is a Professor of Psychology at Autonoma University of Madrid, and one of the most prominent leaders studying how young people develop historical consciousness and how they understand history. His work has been at the forefront of the “history wars” since the 1990s over what and who should determine the curriculum on the Spanish-speaking world. Carretero’s research, unlike scholars who explore such issues by dissecting textbooks, is unique in its commitment to fieldwork - conducting interviews with adolescents and observing them in real life situations to understand the dynamics of cultural transmission and resistance. He was nominated by the School of Education.
Catherine Gousseff (February 2012) is a world-renowned leading figure in East-Central European history, politics, and society of the twentieth century, as well as of the former Soviet Union. A researcher at the French Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), she is currently affiliated with the Marc Bloch Center in Berlin. While at Stanford, she will share insights into her new research project on collective memories of displacements and diaspora politics in the wartime and post-war eras, notably the Polish-Ukrainian population exchange (1944-1950) based on research in Russian, Ukrainian and Polish archives. She was nominated by the Europe Center.
James Laidlaw (April 2012) is an anthropologist at Cambridge University. Professor Laidlaw is deeply engaged in fieldwork in Asia, researching the Buddhist ethics of self-cultivation, looking at how the traditional means by which Buddhists practice self-cultivation –asceticism, meditation- are undergoing a massive restructuring. Practices once reserved for male monks are now being adopted by women and laity. James Laidlaw has edited seven books, two of which are on cognitive approaches to religion, exploring them from an ethnographic perspective. He is also an expert on Jainism, a tradition of monastic renunciation like Buddhism. He was nominated by the Department of Anthropology.
International Visitor Thitinan Pongsudhirak Featured on Forum with Michael Krasny
Humanities Center International Visitor Thitinan Pongsudhirak appeared on Forum with Michael Krasny on March 16, 2010, to discuss the recent political turbulence in Thailand, where the Red-shirted supporters of deposed Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra took to the streets, clashing with riot police. Krasny and Pongsudirak examine what the current political tensions say about Thailand today, and what they mean for the country tomorrow.
Thitinan Pongsudhirak is professor of international political economy in the Faculty of Political Science at Chulalongkorn University in Thailand.
To listen to the conversation, click here.
Thitinan Pongsudhirak is professor of international political economy in the Faculty of Political Science at Chulalongkorn University in Thailand.
To listen to the conversation, click here.
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Former Fellow Hans Thomalla Wins the Ernst von Siemens Composer’s Prize
Former Geballe fellow and composer Hans Thomalla is to receive one of the three prestigious prizes for young composers awarded by the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation. The prize is valued at 40,000 euros and is awarded together with a composition commission.
The award will be presented to Thomalla at a musical ceremony in Munich at the Cuvilliés Theatre on 24 May 2011. The saxophone quartet XASAX will perform his new work for the first time. The board of trustees of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation, which includes the composers Wolfgang Rihm and Helmut Lachenmann, sees Thomalla as being one of the most important up-and-coming young composers.
Hans Thomalla was born in Bonn, Germany in 1975, and studied composition at the Frankfurt Musikhochschule. In 1999 he was appointed first assistant dramaturge, later dramaturge and artistic advisor to the director at the Stuttgart Opera, where he worked on the new productions of Lachenmann’s Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern as well as Schreker’s Gezeichnete among others.
From 2002-2007 he pursued a Doctor of Musical Arts at Stanford University. He was a fellow of the DAAD, the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, and the Stanford Humanities Center during his studies. Hans Thomalla won the Christoph-Delz-Prize in 2006 and the Kranichsteiner Musikpreis in 2004, and he has been a fellow at the MacDowell Colony, and the SWR-Experimentalstudio.
His music has been performed at major Festivals, such as Tanglewood, Donaueschingen, Wien Modern, Witten, Ultraschall Berlin, ECLAT-Festival, Takefu, and Steirischer Herbst. In 2005 the Festival d’Automne à Paris presented a portrait of his music in two concerts with the ensemble recherche. The City of Zurich, Switzerland, featured his music in four concerts at the 2008 Contemporary Music Days. In 2008 a Portrait-CD with Hans Thomalla’s chamber music played by the ensemble recherche and Lucas Fels was released on the Wergo Label. Future projects include an Opera Fremd for the main stage of the Stuttgart Opera, a new piece for the Donaueschingen Festival and a string quartet for the Arditti Quartet.
Hans Thomalla is on the advisory board for the new director of the Darmstadt Summer Courses, and he was on the courses composition faculty in 2010. Since 2007 he has been assistant professor of composition at Northwestern University in Chicago.
Visit the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation for more information about Hans Thomalla.
The award will be presented to Thomalla at a musical ceremony in Munich at the Cuvilliés Theatre on 24 May 2011. The saxophone quartet XASAX will perform his new work for the first time. The board of trustees of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation, which includes the composers Wolfgang Rihm and Helmut Lachenmann, sees Thomalla as being one of the most important up-and-coming young composers.
Hans Thomalla was born in Bonn, Germany in 1975, and studied composition at the Frankfurt Musikhochschule. In 1999 he was appointed first assistant dramaturge, later dramaturge and artistic advisor to the director at the Stuttgart Opera, where he worked on the new productions of Lachenmann’s Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern as well as Schreker’s Gezeichnete among others.
From 2002-2007 he pursued a Doctor of Musical Arts at Stanford University. He was a fellow of the DAAD, the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, and the Stanford Humanities Center during his studies. Hans Thomalla won the Christoph-Delz-Prize in 2006 and the Kranichsteiner Musikpreis in 2004, and he has been a fellow at the MacDowell Colony, and the SWR-Experimentalstudio.
His music has been performed at major Festivals, such as Tanglewood, Donaueschingen, Wien Modern, Witten, Ultraschall Berlin, ECLAT-Festival, Takefu, and Steirischer Herbst. In 2005 the Festival d’Automne à Paris presented a portrait of his music in two concerts with the ensemble recherche. The City of Zurich, Switzerland, featured his music in four concerts at the 2008 Contemporary Music Days. In 2008 a Portrait-CD with Hans Thomalla’s chamber music played by the ensemble recherche and Lucas Fels was released on the Wergo Label. Future projects include an Opera Fremd for the main stage of the Stuttgart Opera, a new piece for the Donaueschingen Festival and a string quartet for the Arditti Quartet.
Hans Thomalla is on the advisory board for the new director of the Darmstadt Summer Courses, and he was on the courses composition faculty in 2010. Since 2007 he has been assistant professor of composition at Northwestern University in Chicago.
Visit the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation for more information about Hans Thomalla.
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Former Fellow Arnold Rampersad Awarded the National Humanities Medal
Former fellow and Professor Emeritus of English at Stanford Arnold Rampersad has received the 2010 National Humanities Medal. President Obama bestowed the award to Rampersad and 9 other honorees at a White House ceremony on March 2, 2011. After the ceremony, the medalists and their families and friends joined the President and First Lady Michelle Obama for a reception in their honor.
Rampersad was honored for his work as a biographer and literary critic. His award-winning books have profiled W.E.B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, Jackie Robinson, and Ralph Ellison. He has also edited critical editions of the works of Richard Wright and Langston Hughes (full profile).
The National Humanities Medal is the highest government honor given in recognition of outstanding achievements in history, literature, education, and cultural policy. It honors individuals or groups whose work has deepened the country’s understanding of the humanities, broadened our citizens’ engagement with the humanities, or helped preserve and expand Americans’ access to important resources in the humanities.
Since 1996, when the first National Humanities Medal was given, 125 individuals have been honored, inclusive of this year’s awardees. Nine organizations also received medals. Previous medalists include Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison, novelist John Updike, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel, sociologist Robert Coles, and filmmaker Steven Spielberg.
For more information, see the White House press release. A video and full transcript of the ceremony are also available on the White House website.
Rampersad was honored for his work as a biographer and literary critic. His award-winning books have profiled W.E.B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, Jackie Robinson, and Ralph Ellison. He has also edited critical editions of the works of Richard Wright and Langston Hughes (full profile).
The National Humanities Medal is the highest government honor given in recognition of outstanding achievements in history, literature, education, and cultural policy. It honors individuals or groups whose work has deepened the country’s understanding of the humanities, broadened our citizens’ engagement with the humanities, or helped preserve and expand Americans’ access to important resources in the humanities.
Since 1996, when the first National Humanities Medal was given, 125 individuals have been honored, inclusive of this year’s awardees. Nine organizations also received medals. Previous medalists include Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison, novelist John Updike, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel, sociologist Robert Coles, and filmmaker Steven Spielberg.
For more information, see the White House press release. A video and full transcript of the ceremony are also available on the White House website.
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