Stanford Humanities Center

Reads
Gary Shteyngart in conversation with Mary Apostol

Gary Shteyngart brings Soviet satire and ‘SAP’ pessimism to campus

Angikar Ghosal
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May 21
Speakers & Events
A lecturer stands in front of an audience.

Berkeley philosopher challenges traditional views of love and consciousness

George Porteous
  •  
May 8, 2025
Reads
A speaker is talking in a room of audience with "Stanford Humanities center" written across the walls

Description dances off the page at final Stegner Fellow reading

Cate Burtner
  •  
May 17, 2024
The Grind
Speaker event at the Humanities Center.

A Spectator: To whom it may concern

Benjamin Marra
  •  
March 13, 2024
Reads
An author delivering a talk in the Stanford Humanities Center.

Pulitzer Prize winner reimagines Netanyahu’s trek to America

George Porteous
  •  
Jan. 19, 2024
Reads
Carmen Boullosa reads from her novel to students at the Stanford Humanities Center

Carmen Boullosa reinvents Eve in a frontier-crossing novel

Miriam Awan
  •  
Oct. 9, 2023
News
Ruha Benjamin faces audience at podium

Ruha Benjamin thinks social justice and technology need to come together

Jenna Jokhani and Jena Yue
  •  
Oct. 20, 2022
Culture
The mural in El Centro Chicano y Latino by Alicia. It features a shirtless Yucatán woman writing, scenes of genesis and slavery, and a nopal.

Muralist Juana Alicia speaks on the activism in her work

Ximena Sanchez Martinez
  •  
April 18, 2022
News
Reginald Dwayne Betts discussed his work “Felon: Poems” as well as his journey from prison, then to poetry and finally to the law. (Photo: ELLA BOOKER/Stanford Daily)

Reginald Dwayne Betts talks his journey from prison to poetry, law

Ella Booker
  •  
Feb. 11, 2020
News
(Photo courtesy of Caroline Winterer)

Former director of the Humanities Center Caroline Winterer embarks on new chapter of research

Cooper Veit
  •  
Sept. 24, 2019
Featured
The Daily spoke with Greene about the role of the humanities and SHC at Stanford, as well as his goals as SHC director. (Photo: L.A. CICERO/Stanford News)

Q&A: Incoming Stanford Humanities Center Director, literature professor Roland Greene

Manat Kaur
  •  
Aug. 17, 2019
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Panelists discuss workplace sexual harassment of women in STEM

Julia Kwak
  •  
Oct. 30, 2018
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Panel discusses religious and social implications of AI

Gabriela Romero
  •  
May 22, 2018
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“Speed Dating” book fair engaging Stanford writers, public audiences to be held Saturday

Yasmin Samrai
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April 20, 2018
Caroline Winterer is the director of the Stanford Humanities Center (Courtesy of Stanford News).

Stanford Humanities Center hosts largest program of its kind in the U.S.

Hannah Knowles
  •  
Oct. 24, 2017
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Q&A: Junot Díaz, Pulitzer Prize-winning author

Aparna Verma
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May 25, 2017
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Glam Grads Q&A: Nathaniel Sloan on musicology, producing a music podcast

ZaZu Lippert
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Sept. 6, 2016
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English professor emeritus, David Halliburton, dies at 80

Jacqueline Carr
  •  
July 17, 2014
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Another Look book club explores obscure works of literature

Angelique Dakkak
  •  
Nov. 13, 2013
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Q+A: Caroline Winterer, new Stanford Humanities Center director

Benjamin Pham
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April 23, 2013
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