The Stanford Humanities Center

09/29/2026

! The Stanford Humanities Center is accepting applications for a new CESTA Programs Manager. Join our internationally renowned center for the digital humanities.

09/24/2026

We have a podcast! Every year, the SHC hosts a wide range prominent thinkers—as fellows, speakers, or visitors—and the conversations among them. This new series, Whole Minds, brings listeners into the room.

🎙https://stanford.io/3V8MQpL

09/11/2026

Should we read “Huck Finn”? The Twain scholar and Stanford professor Shelley Fisher Fishkin weighs in.

🗞 https://stanford.io/4xTkYo4

09/03/2026

Our Executive Director Helen Malko headlines a panel with the Assyrian Studies Association and the Department of Ancient West Asian Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Sept. 16, 6 PM EST / 3 PM PST.
Register 🔗 https://shorturl.at/SDjdO

08/25/2026

Browse the latest books written by H&S faculty, including Rose Salseda, Adrian Daub, and Chang-rae Lee here: https://brnw.ch/21x5aat

08/19/2026

In "Unrest: Art in the Aftermath of the 1992 Los Angeles Riots," art scholar and 2026–27 SHC Fellow Rose Salseda chronicles intergenerational, cross-racial experiences through the prism of art.

In Unrest: Art in the Aftermath of the 1992 Los Angeles Riots, art scholar Rose Salseda chronicles intergenerational, cross-racial experiences through the prism of art.

08/10/2026

📣 Fellowship applications for the 2027–28 academic year are now open. The Center is a world-renowned hub for advanced research, inspiring the work of innovative scholars at all stages in their academic careers. 👇
https://stanford.io/3YzDqRI

08/03/2026

Congratulations to Antonio López (SHC Fellow '26) on his second collection of poetry, "The Right to Remain Violets," which is now available for preorder. 🔗 https://bit.ly/4ySb4UF

07/30/2026

A meditation on a work of sociology from 1989 Croatia discusses different types of intellectuals' silences, the reasoning behind them, and their effect on the societies in which they take place.

07/08/2026

What might it mean, in our respective fields and lines of work, to act as “a catalyst who sets the wheels in motion”? SHC Faculty Fellow Fatoumata Seck discusses a quote by Senegalese writer and filmmaker Ousmane Sembène about the role of the artist or intellectual in times of revolution.

What might it mean, in our respective fields and lines of work, to act as “a catalyst who sets the wheels in motion”? Seck discusses a quote by Senegalese writer and filmmaker Ousmane Sembène about the role of the artist or intellectual in times of revolution.