Their audience included 150 journalism alumni, students and faculty who share an interest in how Stanford can help sustain public affairs reporting in the digital age.
To study the humanities is to acquire or hone valuable skills in thinking, researching and writing, as well as to probe the mysteries and marvels of human experience and aspirations in their diverse forms.
Through interviews coupled with archival research, Stanford’s Jindong Cai researched the history of Beethoven’s popularity in China in hopes of creating cultural connections between China and the West.
Stanford archaeologist John Rick found that the ancient Peruvian site of Chavín de Huántar offers clues about how authoritarianism arose in human civilization. The priesthood at this South American site used elaborate manipulations to demonstrate its seemingly special powers.
Drawing on archives and oral testimony, historian Robert Crews discovers an Afghanistan that hardly fits the forbidding image that has fueled the U.S. military’s disastrous intervention there.
On May 10, the Another Look book club will weigh in on Conrad's "The Shadow-Line," written by one of the darkest and most prophetic voices in English fiction.
