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    Founded in 1980, the Stanford Humanities Center is a multidisciplinary research institute at Stanford University dedicated to advancing knowledge about culture, philosophy, history, and the arts. It is the largest campus-based humanities center in the world.

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Stanford English professor leads a revival of writer John Steinbeck
Stanford team brings medieval texts to a contemporary audience
New Stanford Humanities Institute class examines parallels between ancient Rome and United States
Eunsoo Lee, PhD student in classics, is advancing understanding of visual knowledge by tracing the transmission and translation of diagrams in Euclid’s Elements. Detail of diagrams from a 1482 edition held by Stanford University Libraries.
Humanities Center fellow traces history of ancient geometry diagrams
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