http://news.stanford.edu Latest Humanities news headlines from Stanford University. Copyright (C) Stanford University en-us http://news-service.stanford.edu/images/srdot.gif http://news.stanford.edu http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2008/july9/jazz-070908.html http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2008/july9/jazz-070908.html Pianist Taylor Eigsti and guitarist Julian Lage will perform together Sunday, July 27, at the Stanford Jazz Festival. Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PDT http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2008/july9/irish-070908.html http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2008/july9/irish-070908.html In a small town in rural Ireland, Maire falls in love with George, a shy British soldier enchanted with all things Irish, not just Maire, but also the local pub's fiery poteen, the land, the people and the language—even the place names he has been ordered to wipe off its maps. Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:00:00 PDT http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2008/july9/ho-070908.html http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2008/july9/ho-070908.html The Stanford Center for Buddhist Studies has received a $5 million gift from the Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation. Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:00:00 PDT http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2008/june11/girard-061108.html http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2008/june11/girard-061108.html The story goes like this: In 2004, Jean-Pierre Dupuy, a professor of French at Stanford, is attending a conference in Berlin when he is confronted by a man in a café who asks, "Why did you become a Girardian?" Dupuy replies in a beat: "Because it's cheaper than psychoanalysis." Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:00:00 PDT http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2008/june11/rodriguesr-061108.html http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2008/june11/rodriguesr-061108.html Aron Rodrigue, the Eva Chernov Lokey Professor in Jewish Studies and chair of the Department of History, has been appointed to a five-year term as director of the Stanford Humanities Center. He starts Sept 1. Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:00:00 PDT http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2008/june4/storm-060408.html http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2008/june4/storm-060408.html An exhibition at the Cantor Center for Visual Art, 'Spared from the Storm: Masterworks from the New Orleans Museum of Art', comprises 80 paintings, drawings and sculptures from the European and American portion of the museum, which were rescued in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:00:00 PDT http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2008/may28/innovation-052808.html http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2008/may28/innovation-052808.html The Stanford Institute for Creativity and the Arts (SICA) has awarded 13 grants, totaling $147,000, for its 2008-09 Curricular Innovation in the Arts program. SICA's newest grant program encourages course innovation by supporting faculty efforts to integrate the arts into teaching. Wed, 28 May 2008 00:00:00 PDT http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2008/may28/humgrants-052808.html http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2008/may28/humgrants-052808.html The Presidential Fund for Innovation in the Humanities has announced grant recipients for the second year of this three-year pilot program. Two projects—"Mapping the Republic of Letters" and "Tooling Up for Digital Histories"—each will receive $60,000 a year for three years of research. Wed, 28 May 2008 00:00:00 PDT http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2008/may28/emo-052808.html http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2008/may28/emo-052808.html Why are opera singers' voices so distinctive and powerful? Why can we pick them out, without the help of amplification, against the sound of more than 100 accompanying instruments? Wed, 28 May 2008 00:00:00 PDT http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2008/may21/stoppard-052108.html http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2008/may21/stoppard-052108.html The Humanities Center and the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies has scheduled two days of events this week celebrating and comparing the Broadway and Moscow productions of 'The Coast of Utopia', with staged readings, guest speakers, presentations and panel discussions. All events are free and open to the public. Wed, 21 May 2008 00:00:00 PDT http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2008/may14/harlem-051408.html http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2008/may14/harlem-051408.html If Othello were alive today in North America, who would he be exactly? Suppose he were first married to a black woman? Djanet Sears' award-winning 'Harlem Duet', to be performed by the Stanford Drama Department at 8 p.m. May 15-17 and May 22-24 in Roble Studio Theater, recounts the story of Othello and Billie, his first wife before Desdemona. Wed, 14 May 2008 00:00:00 PDT http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2008/may14/rushtwo-051408.html http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2008/may14/rushtwo-051408.html Some speculated Sir Salman Rushdie wouldn't mention his notorious 'fatwa' at all—he had, after all, expressed a wish to leave behind a life he likened to being "stuck in a bad novel." The shoemaker might stick to his last, discussing, perhaps, the fate of the novel, rather than delving into his own life-in-hiding following the Ayatollah Khomeini's 1989 bounty for his murder. Wed, 14 May 2008 00:00:00 PDT http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2008/may14/newseason-051408.html http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2008/may14/newseason-051408.html Stanford Lively Arts' 2008-09 performing arts season will continue the trend of juggling variety, tradition and edginess. Wed, 14 May 2008 00:00:00 PDT http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2008/may14/friends-051408.html http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2008/may14/friends-051408.html 'Eyes Wide Open', a widely-acclaimed exhibit representing lives lost in the Iraq War, came to Stanford on Friday, May 2. Wed, 14 May 2008 00:00:00 PDT http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2008/may14/gould-051408.html http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2008/may14/gould-051408.html The collection of books, papers and artifacts that helped inform the writing and teaching of renowned Harvard paleontologist and evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould is, for the most part, in the Stanford University Libraries, with the balance expected to arrive soon. Wed, 14 May 2008 00:00:00 PDT