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January, 2017

Stanford experts on President Trump and the media

January 30, 2017

This close up detail of the sculpture group “Laocoön and His Sons,” to illustrate how visual art uses mimesis to evoke affect.

Stanford Humanities Center fellow Q&A: Music scholar Roger Grant on affect theory

January 30, 2017

Q&A with Pico Iyer at the Stanford Humanities Center

January 27, 2017

Photo of Debra Satz

A philosopher at the helm of Stanford’s Faculty Senate

January 25, 2017

Photo of Alexander Key

Humanities professors featured on Stanford website

January 24, 2017

Widespread violence and disease have been the most successful factors in reducing economic inequality over thousands of years, according to Stanford Professor Walter Scheidel.

Stanford historian uncovers a grim correlation between violence and inequality over the millennia

January 24, 2017

Stanford Humanities Center fellow Q&A: Janet Beizer on the history of leftovers

January 20, 2017

In a forthcoming book, literary scholar Ramón Saldívar explores how contemporary writers are combining representations of race and racial identity with the literary experimentation.

Contemporary writers represent race in new ways, Stanford literary scholar finds

January 17, 2017

Remembering when Martin Luther King spoke at Stanford

January 13, 2017

Carl Weber, Stanford professor emeritus of drama and a protégé of director Bertolt Brecht, dies at 91

January 12, 2017

Harry Elam appointed vice president for the arts and senior vice provost for education

January 10, 2017

New teaching approach brings more students into Stanford’s archives

January 9, 2017

Faculty in the News

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