Stanford Humanities Center
by Stanford University
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Description
Founded in 1980, the Stanford Humanities Center is a multidisciplinary research institute dedicated to advancing knowledge about culture, philosophy, history, and the arts. The Center's fellowships, research workshops, and public events strengthen the intellectual and creative life of the university, foster innovative scholarship and teaching, and enrich our understanding of the human experience.
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| 1 | VideoWallace Stevens as an American Poet | -- | 1/21/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 2 | VideoThe Best Novels You Haven't Read | -- | 11/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 3 | VideoArt of Living: "A Life of Reason? Socrates v. Alcibiades" | -- | 11/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 4 | VideoArt of Living: "What One Should Learn from Artists" | -- | 11/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 5 | VideoArt of Living: "The Narrative Construction of the Self" | -- | 11/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 6 | VideoIn Their Own Words: Edith Sheffer | -- | 11/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 7 | VideoMistaken Identities: How to Identify a Roman Emperor | -- | 10/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 8 | VideoA Company of Authors: "East and West" | -- | 6/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 9 | VideoHow the Right Brain Helped Me Make a Billion, Win a Basketball Game, and Land this Gig | -- | 6/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 10 | VideoSilicon Valley Entry Points for Humanities Ph.D.s: Google | -- | 6/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 11 | VideoWhy You Should Quit Your Technology Job and Get a Humanities Ph.D. | -- | 6/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 12 | VideoThe Story Behind "TED: Ideas Worth Spreading" | -- | 6/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 13 | VideoBringing Humanities Ph.D. Innovation to Silicon Valley: A Case for Rising Principles | -- | 6/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 14 | VideoPolis: The Greek City-State 800 BC-AD 600 | -- | 5/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 15 | VideoMusic Between Nature and Architecture | -- | 5/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 16 | VideoIn Their Own Words: Michele Elam on Mixed Race in Literature and the Arts | -- | 4/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 17 | VideoCan I Get into Biz/Ed/Law/Med School with a Major in the Humanities? | -- | 3/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 18 | VideoA Conversation with Tim O'Brien on "Writing and War" | -- | 2/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 19 | VideoA Conversation with Tim O'Brien on "Writing and War" | -- | 2/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 20 | VideoAn Evening with Judith Jamison | -- | 1/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 21 | VideoRepresentations of Race and Ethnicity in Art & Literature | -- | 11/3/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 22 | VideoThe Exemplary Life of Germaine Tillion | -- | 7/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 23 | VideoReflections on the Fall of the Wall | -- | 7/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 24 | VideoThe Evolution of 'Why' as the Key to Free Will | -- | 7/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 25 | VideoHuman Rights Strategies in the 21st Century | -- | 5/13/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 26 | VideoPoetry Rules | -- | 5/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 27 | VideoLife and Imagination | -- | 5/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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28 |
Imperial Repertories and the Myth of Modern Colonialism | -- | 3/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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29 |
Citizenship Between Empire and Nation: France and French Africa 1945-1960 | -- | 3/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 30 | VideoAndre Aciman on Writing, His Work and Inspirations | -- | 12/9/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 31 | VideoThe Value of the Essay in the 21st Century | -- | 10/13/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 32 | VideoThe Role of Fiction in the Well-Lived Life | -- | 7/22/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 33 | VideoThe Black Death | -- | 7/1/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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34 |
Why Write About Writing?; Or, How Dr. Johnson Can Save Your Life | -- | 6/3/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 35 | VideoBut There Was No Peace: The Aftermath of the Civil War | -- | 5/4/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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36 |
The Invention of Celebrity | -- | 5/4/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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37 |
Holy Pieces: Attitudes Toward Parts and Wholes in Late Medieval Devotion | -- | 4/8/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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38 |
Weeping Statues and Bleeding Bread: Miracles in the Later Middle Ages | -- | 4/7/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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39 |
Verbal Bubblewrap; or, the Contradictions of Art Writing | -- | 4/7/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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40 |
The Art of Judging Music: An Update | -- | 3/23/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 41 | VideoThinking About our Shared Home: Earth | -- | 12/18/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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42 |
Cosmopolitan Norms, Human Rights and Democratic Iterations | -- | 12/17/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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43 |
Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Hitchcock's Vertigo | -- | 12/16/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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44 |
Vertigo: Perfection of Form | -- | 12/16/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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45 |
The Voice of the Toy: Writing Magic and Enchanted States | -- | 5/1/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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46 |
Shaping & Breaking the Politics of Legal History | -- | 5/1/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 47 | VideoReviewing: Is it an Art or a Craft? | -- | 2/26/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 48 | VideoNewton on the Beach: The Information Order of Principia Mathematica (Video) | -- | 1/30/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Newton on the Beach: The Information Order of Principia Mathematica (Audio) | -- | 1/30/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 50 | VideoNewton on the Ganges: The Asiatic Enlightenment of British Astronomy (Video) | -- | 1/30/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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51 |
Newton on the Ganges: The Asiatic Enlightenment of British Astronomy (Audio) | -- | 1/30/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 52 | VideoThe Black Hole of Empire (Video) | -- | 12/3/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 53 | VideoThe Abolition of the Slave Trade Two Hundred Years On - America & Britain: Two Diverging Destinies? (Video) | -- | 12/3/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Abolition of the Slave Trade - America and Britain: Two Diverging Destinies? | -- | 12/3/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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55 |
The Black Hole of Empire | -- | 12/3/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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56 |
Thinking About Blasphemy and Secular Criticism | -- | 4/23/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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57 |
Analogy as the Core of Cognition | -- | 3/30/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 58 | VideoSome Rights Reserved - Creative Commons Copyright | -- | 3/30/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 59 | VideoRethinking Books in the Era of the Network | -- | 3/30/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 60 | VideoWelcome to Convergence Culture - Consumer Participation & Branded Entertainment | -- | 3/30/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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61 |
The First Theorists of History | -- | 3/30/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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62 |
The Life and Death of a Genre | -- | 3/30/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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63 |
Extremism | -- | 3/30/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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64 |
Whitehead's Account of the Sixth Day | -- | 3/30/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 65 | VideoOpen Content: How Online Digital Libraries Will Provide Access to Cultural Information in the 21st Century | -- | 3/29/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 66 | VideoRethinking Books in the Era of the Network | -- | 3/29/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 67 | VideoText Encoding and Future Archives | -- | 3/29/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 67 Episodes |
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